6 papers
Repair Crew Routing for Infrastructure Network Restoration under Incomplete Information
Subhojit Biswas, Bahar Cavdar, Joseph Geunes
This paper considers a disrupted infrastructure network where the repair crew knows the locations of service outages but not the locations of actual faults. Our goal is to determin…
Sensor-Driven Predictive Vehicle Maintenance and Routing Problem with Time Windows
Iman Kazemian, Bahar Cavdar, Murat Yildirim
Advancements in sensor technology offer significant insights into vehicle conditions, unlocking new venues to enhance fleet operations. While current vehicle health management mode…
Analyzing Wage Theft in Day Labor Markets via Principal Agent Models
James P. Bailey, Bahar Cavdar, Yanling Chang
In day labor markets, workers are particularly vulnerable to wage theft. This paper introduces a principal-agent model to analyze the conditions required to mitigate wage theft thr…
Approximate Solutions for Multi-Trip Route Planning in Time-Sensitive Situations
Bahar Cavdar, Joseph Geunes, Xiaofeng Nie +1
We consider emergent situations that require transporting individuals from their locations to a facility using a single capacitated vehicle, where transportation duration has a neg…
A Review on Response Strategies in Infrastructure Network Restoration
Subhojit Biswas, Bahar Cavdar, Joseph Geunes
This paper reviews the literature on response strategies for restoring infrastructure networks in the aftermath of a disaster. Our motivation for this review is twofold. First, the…
Queueing Systems with Preferred Service Delivery Times and Multiple Customer Classes
Melis Boran, Bahar Cavdar, Tugce Isik
Motivated by the operational problems in click and collect systems, such as curbside pickup programs, we study a joint admission control and capacity allocation problem. We conside…