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Systems Modeling and Computational Optimization (SyMCO) Lab
Location:
304 Zachry Engineering Center
Staff:
- Dr. Lewis Ntaimo, Director
- Dr. Eduardo Perez, PostDoctoral Research Associate
- Eric Beier, Ph.D. Student
- Tanisha Cotton, Ph.D. Student
- Julian Gallego Arubla, Ph.D. Student
- Michelle McGaha, Ph.D. Student
Many real life problems are characterized by data
uncertainties, and often, are of a large scale nature. Large-scale problems have
lots of decision variables, data, and constraints, and call for decision making
under uncertainty. The SyMCO lab focuses on modeling, simulation and
optimization research for such real life problems. Inevitably, to effectively
model and develop algorithms to solve decision making problems under
uncertainty, our research calls for a systems modeling and stochastic
optimization approach. Our specific main research areas are:
- Decomposition algorithms for stochastic mixed-integer
programs
- Systems modeling and systems engineering processes
- Discrete event modeling and simulation
The lab is currently involved in research with
applications that include:
- Healthcare:
- Patient service management in hospital nuclear medicine
departments
- Medication reconciliation for patient safety in rural
healthcare settings
- Scheduling cancer treatments
- Optimal Vaccination Strategies for Disease Spread
- Wildfires
- Modeling and simulation of wildfire spread and suppression
- Firefighting resource location/allocation under uncertainty
- Collaborators:
- Xiaolin Hu,
Assistant Professor, Computer Science,
Georgia State University
- Dr. Sorin Popescu
, Assistant Professor,
Spatial Sciences Lab,
Forest Science,
Texas A&M University
- Dr. Jianbang Gan,
Associate Professor,
Forest
Science, Texas A&M University
- T. Spencer, state fire risk assessment coordinator,
Texas Forest Service
- Electrical power generation adequacy planning under
uncertainty
- Stochastic facility and resource location/allocation for
telecommunications
Alumini:
- Eduardo Perez -- Ph.D. Student (Graduated May 2010)
- Matthew Tanner -- Ph.D. Student (Graduated May 2009)
- Ewelina Zwierzykowski -- REU (Graduated May 2007
- Won Ju Lee -- M.S. (Graduated Aug 2006)
Computing Resources:
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- 3 Dell OptPlex GX620, 3.20GZH Dual
Core Processor with 4GB RAM;
- 3 Dell OptPlex GX620 with 512MB RAM);
- 1 Dell Precision 470 Workstation in his campus office
- All the computers have
- LINDO,
AMPLE and ILOG CPLEX 12.0, IBM Rational Data Modeler, DEVSJAVA, and FARSITE.
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