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B. Accreditation Summary
Appendix IC. Faculty Vitae
Sigurdur Olafsson
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Industrial Engineering, 1998
M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Industrial Engineering, 1996
B.S. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Mathematics, 1994
Service
ISU Committees
Departmental Seminar Committee, January 1999 - December 1999.
Departmental Graduate Committee, September 1999 - present.
Related Experience
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, 1998 - present
Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January - May 1998
Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1996 - 1998
Principal Publications
Olafsson, S. and L. Shi (1998) "Stopping Criteria for a Simulation-Based Optimization Method," in Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference, 743-750.
Olafsson, S. (1999) "Iterative Ranking-and-Selection for Large-Scale Optimization," in Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulation Conference, 479-485.
Olafsson, S. and L. Shi (1999) "Optimization via Adaptive Sampling and Regenerative Simulation," in Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulation Conference, to 666-672.
Olafsson, S. and L. Shi (2000) "A Method for Scheduling in Parallel Manufacturing Systems with Flexible Resources," IIE Transactions, 32, 135-146.
Shi, L. and Olafsson, S. (2000) "Nested Partitions Method for Global Optimization," Operations Research, 38, to appear.
Shi, L. and Olafsson, S. (2000) "Stopping Rules for the Stochastic Nested Partitions Method," Methodology and Computing on Applied Probability, to appear.
Shi, L., S. Olafsson, and N. Sun (1999) "New Parallel Randomized Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem," Computers and Operations Research, 26, 371-394.
Shi, L., S. Olafsson and Q. Chen (1999) "A New Hybrid Optimization method," Computers and Industrial Engineering, 36, 409-426.
Professional Societies
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Member.
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Member.
Honors and Awards
ISU Foreign Travel Grant, July 1999.
NATO Scientific Fellow, September 1997-August 1998.
Professional Service
Session Chair, INFORMS Fall Conference, Session on Simulation Optimization, October 26-29, 1997.
Journal/Conference Reviewer for Informs Journal on Computing (1999), Operations Research (1998,1999), Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (1997,1998), IIE Transactions (1997,1998), Automatica (1998,1999), Conference on Decision and Control (1998,1999), International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management (1997), Computers and Industrial Engineering (1999).
Professional Development
Presented "Flexible Workforce Scheduling in Parallel Manufacturing Environments," INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Ulm, Germany, July 1999.
Presented "Hybrid Equipartitioning Job Scheduling Policies for Parallel Computer Systems," Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, Florida, December 1998.
Presented "Stopping Criteria for a Simulation-Based Optimization method," Winter Simulation Conference, Washington D.C., December 1998.
Presented "Scheduling on Parallel Machines with Flexible Resources & Stochastic Job Processing Times," INFORMS Fall Conference, Seattle, WA, October 1998.
Presented "Integrated Framework for Deterministic and Stochastic Optimization," Winter Simulation Conference, Atlanta, GA, December 1997.
Presented "Stopping Criterion for the Nested Partitions Method for Stochastic Optimization," INFORMS Fall Conference, Dallas, Texas, October 1997.
Presented "Rapid Iterative Nested Design Optimization," DESTINATION Summer Review Meeting, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Silver Springs, MD, July 1996.
Attended the 1998 NSF Grantees Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, October 13-15, 1998.
Attended the Fourth Midwest Roundtable on Manufacturing and Logistics, Madison, Wisconsin, October 18, 1997.
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