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Danny C. Myers
Professor
Applied Statistics and Operations Research
Bowling Green State University
Office: 355 Business Administration Building
Phone: (419) 372-8381
E-mail:  myers@bgsu.edu

Web: www.cba.bgsu.edu/faculty_staff/myers

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), (Blacksburg, Virginia), 1984.
  • M.S. in Mathematics, Virginia Tech. (Blacksburg, Virginia), 1978.
  • B.A. in Sociology, Averett College, (Danville, Virginia), 1971.
  • A.A. in Pre-Teaching, Danville Community College, (Danville, Virginia), 1970.

Academic Positions

  • Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research, Bowling Green State University, (Bowling Green, Ohio) 1985-present.
  • Instructor of Management Science and Mathematics, Virginia Tech, (Blacksburg, Virginia), 1984-1985.
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Tech, (Blacksburg, Virginia), 1983-1984.
  • Instructor of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, (Blacksburg, Virginia), 1979-1983.
  • Instructor of Mathematics, New River Community College, (Dublin, Virginia), 1978-1979.
  • Teacher of Mathematics and Sociology, Pittsylvania County School Board, (Chatham, Virginia), 1971-1976.

1.Teaching Experience

A.Undergraduate Courses

  • OR 380 Introduction to Management Science
  • STAT 211 Introductory Business Statistics 

B.Undergraduate-Graduate Courses

  • OR 480/570 Linear, Integer, and Goal Programming
  • OR 489/549 Nonlinear and Dynamic Programming
  • OR 487/547 Network Analysis

C.Graduate Courses

  • OR/GBA 669 Cases in Management Science )
  • GBA 560 Introduction to Operations Research (formerly GBA 663)

2. Service

A. Department

  • Acting Chair (1998-present)
  • Graduate Coordinator (1990-present)
  • CS/OR Masters Program Committee (1985-present)
  • Undergraduate Advisor (1985-90)
  • Developed template for adjusting merit evaluations to allow for release time (1998)
  • Merit Committee (1994-95, 1998)

3. Research Interests

  • Integer and combinatorial programming
  • Scheduling
  • Applications of operations research

4. Research Projects and Grants

  • Fulbright Grant for Research/Lecturing in Germany (1996-7 academic year). (DM 26,000)
  • Good International Business Scholar Grant, 1996-7 ($5,000)
  • College of Business Administration Summer Research Grant, 1996 ($2500) (with Grace Montepiedra and Arthur Yeh) "The Application of a Genetic Algorithm to the Construction of Exact D-Optimal Designs"
  • U.S. Navy / American Association for Engineering Education ($12,000) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, (San Diego, CA), 1993 "Class Scheduling for Navy "A" Schools"
  • Faculty Research Grant (Bowling Green State University) ($3000) Summer, 1992, "Accounting for Preferences in Workforce Scheduling."
  • College of Business Administration Summer Research Grant, 1987 ($2500) "Computational Refinements for a Constraint Selection Algorithm for Linear Programming."
  • College of Business Administration Summer Research Grant, 1986 ($2500) (with Wei Shih) "Vehicle Routing Problems: Minimizing the Distance Traveled by Empty Vehicles."

5. Publications

        1. Journal Articles

  • "Generating Correlated Random Variables for a Simulation Model," (written jointly with Arthur Yeh ) forthcoming in Journal of the Operational Research Society.
  • "The Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Construction of Exact T-Optimal Designs," forthcoming in Journal of Applied Statistics (written jointly with Grace Montepiedra and Arthur Yeh).
  • "Scheduling Wagon Maintenance at Deutsche Bahn," (written jointly with L. Suhnl) Operations Research Proceedings 1997: Selected Papers of the Symposium on Operations Research (SOR 97), Jena, Germany, pp 557-562.
  • "Meeting Seasonal Demand for Products with Limited Shelf Lives," Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 44, 1997, pp. 473-483.
  • "Meeting Seasonal Demand in a Dynamic Production Environment," European Journal of Operational Research, 57, 2, 1992, pp. 309-315.
  • "A Dual Simplex Implementation of a Constraint Selection Algorithm for Linear Programming," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume 43, No. 2, 1992, pp. 177-180.
  • "Transportation-Type Heuristics for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem," SCIMA, Volume 18, No. 3, 1989, pp. 123-1-')O.
  • "A Constraint Selection Technique for a Class of Linear Programs" (written jointly with Wei Shih), Operations Research Letters, Volume 7, No. 4, 1988, pp. 191-195.
  • "Dual Formulations and Subgradient Optimization Strategies for Linear Programming, Relaxations of Mixed-Integer Programs" (written jointly with H.D. Sherali), Discrete Applied Mathematics, Volume 20, 1988, pp. 51-68.
  • "The Design of Branch and Bound Algorithms for a Class of Nonlinear Integer Programs" (written jointly with H.D. Sherali), Annals of Operations Research, Volume 5, 1985/6, pp. 463-484.

6. Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

    1. Invited Papers
    • "A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Scheduling Military Training," invited presentation at the 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Aug., 1994.
    2. Refereed Papers
    • "Scheduled Wagon Maintenance at Deutsche Bahn," Symposium ueber Operations Research 1997 Jena, Germany, 1997.
    3. Non-refereed Papers
    • "The Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Construction of Exact D-Optimal Designs," presented at the Joint Internation Meeting of EURO XV/INFORMS XXXIV, Barcelona, Spain, July, 1997.
    • "A Simulated Annealing Approach to the Task Assignment Problem," presented at the INFORMS National Meeting, (New Orleans, Louisiana), October, 1995.
    • "Scheduling Classes for U.S. Navy "A" Schools," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (Boston, Massachusetts), April, 1994.
    • "Meeting Seasonal Demand for Perishable Products," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (San Francisco, California), November, 1992.
    • "Accounting for Preferences in Workforce Scheduling," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (Nashville, Tennessee), May, 1991.
    • "An Implicit Enumeration Algorithm for Personnel Scheduling," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), October, 1990.
    • "Meeting Seasonal Demand in a Dynamic Production Environment," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (Las Vegas, Nevada), May, 1990.
    • "A Dual Simplex Implementation of a Constraint Selection Algorithm for Linear Programming," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), May, 1989.
    • "Computational Refinements for a Constraint Selection Algorithm for Linear Programming," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (Washington, D.C.), April, 1988.
    • "Transportation-Type Heuristics for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (New Orleans, Louisiana), May, 1987.
    • "The Design of Branch and Bound Algorithms for a Class of Nonlinear Integer Programs," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (Los Angeles, California), April, 1986.
    • "Algorithmic Strategies for Using Subgradient Optimization with Lagrangian Relaxation in Solving Mixed-Integer Programming Problems," presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, (Boston, Massachusetts), April, 1985.

7. Research or Professional Consultantships

  • Deutsche Bahn
  • U.S. Navy
  • American Airlines
  • Owens-Illinois
  • Wood County Hospital

Non-Academic Positions

  • U.S. Marines (Vietnam Veteran), 1967-1969.
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