Christopher M. Rump
Assistant Professor
Applied Statistics and Operations Research
Bowling Green State University
Office: 363 Business Administration Building
Phone: (419) 372-8098
e-mail:  cmrump@bgsu.edu

Web: http://cmrump.with.bgsu.edu/

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D. in Operations Research at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995.
• B.S. in Applied Mathematical Sciences at Texas A&M University, 1989.

Teaching Areas

• Operations Research and Management Science
• Probability Modeling for Decision Making
• Stochastic Processes with application to Queueing and Inventory Theory

Research Interests

• Design and control of queueing systems
• Queueing facility location
• Stochastic scheduling and routing
   

Selected Publications

• Rump, C.M. (2008) Data Clustering for Fitting Parameters of a Markov Chain Model of Multi-Game Playoff Series, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports: 4(1), Article 2. (www.bepress.com/jqas/vol4/iss1/2/ )
• Rump, C.M. (2007) Capital Growth and the St. Petersburg Game, The American Statistician, 61(3), 213-217.
• Akgün, V., A. Parekh, R. Batta and C.M. Rump (2007) Routing of a Hazmat Truck in the Presence of Weather Systems, Computers & Operations Research, Special Issue on Hazmat Logistics, 34(5), 1351-1373.
• Sarac, A., R. Batta and C.M. Rump (2006) A Branch-and-Price Approach for Operational Oriented Aircraft Maintenance Routing, European Journal of Operational Research, Special Issue on Rich Models in Discrete Optimization - Formulation and Resolution, 175(3), 1850-1869.
• Rump, C.M. (2006) Andrei Markov in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Chance Magazine, 19(6), 37-42.
• Rump, C.M. (2006) The Effects of Home-Away Sequencing on the Length of Best-of-Seven Game Playoff Series, Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2(1), Article 5. (www.bepress.com/jqas/vol2/iss1/5)
• Wang, S.-J., R. Batta, and C.M. Rump (2005) Stability of a Crime Level Equilibrium, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 39(3), 229-244.
• Ryu, S. and C.M. Rump (2004) Application of a PID Feedback Control Algorithm for Adaptive Queue Management to Support TCP Congestion Control, Journal of Communications & Networks (JCN), 6(2), 133-147.
• Ryu, S., C.M. Rump and C. Qiao (2004) Advances in Active Queue Management (AQM) Based TCP Congestion Control, Telecommunication Systems, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Communications and Internet Technologies, 25(3-4), 317-351.
• Wang, Q., R. Batta, and C.M. Rump (2004) Facility Location Models for Immobile Servers with Stochastic Customer Demand, Naval Research Logistics, 51(1), 137-152.
• Rump, C.M. (2003), The Generalised Consecutive Lottery Number Problem, Mathematical Gazette, 87(510), Nov, 577-581.
• Ryu, S., C.M. Rump and C. Qiao (2003) Advances in Internet Congestion Control, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 5(1). (www.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/public/2003/sep/index.html)
• Wang, Q., R. Batta, J. Bhadury, and C.M. Rump (2003), Budget Constrained Location Problem with Opening and Closing of Facilities, Computers & Operations Research, 30, 2047-2069.
• Wang, Q., R. Batta, and C.M. Rump (2002) Heuristics for a Facility Location Problem with Stochastic Customer Demand and Immobile Servers, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 111: Recent Developments in the Theory and Applications of Location Models, Part II, 17-30.
• D'Amico, S. J., S.-J. Wang, R. Batta, and C.M. Rump (2002) A Simulated Annealing Approach to Police Patrol District Design, Computers & Operations Research, Special Issue on Location Science, 29(6), 667-684.
• Kazan, O., R. Nagi and C.M. Rump (2000) New Lot-Sizing Formulations for Less Nervous Production Schedules, Computers & Operations Research, 27(13), 1325-1345.
• Rump, C.M. and S. Stidham, Jr. (2000) Relaxed Asynchronous Flow-Control Algorithms for Multiclass Service Networks, IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering, Special Issue on Probabilistic Models for Design, Planning, and Control of Production and Service Systems, 32(9), 873-880.
• Mazzola, J. B., A. W. Neebe and C.M. Rump (1998) Multiproduct Production Planning in the Presence of Work-Force Learning, European Journal of Operational Research, Feature issue on Tabu Search Methods for Optimization, Vol. 106, No. 2-3, 336-356.
• Rump, C.M. and S. Stidham, Jr. (1998) Stability and Chaos in Input Pricing for a Service Facility with Adaptive Customer Response to Congestion, Management Science, 44(2), 246-261.

Professional Affiliations

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS)

Other Information

• Member and Vice President/President-Elect of Omega Rho, the international honor society for operations research and the management sciences