Publications
Book Chapters/Articles (students in bold; students indicated with a *)
- Balasubramanian, H., Denton, B., Lin, M.*, Managing physician panels in primary care", Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems, CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), Editor: Yuehwern Yih, 10-1, 2011.
- Balasubramanian, H., "The resettlement of refugee farmers", OR/MS Today, April 2009, Volume 36, #2 (special issue on international applications of operations research). More details here.
- Balasubramanian, H., Muriel, A., Ozen, A.*, Wang, L.*, Hippchen, J.*, and Gao, X.*, Capacity allocation and exibility in primary care", Springer Book on Healthcare Operations Management, Editor: Brian Denton, forthcoming (pdf)
- Balasubramanian, H., Primary healthcare for poor nations", feature article, OR/MS
Today, April 2011, Volume 38 (2), 30-34. (pdf)
Refereed Journal Publications (under review, published, accepted, or online; students indicated with a *)
- Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., and Keha, A., "The polynomial solvability of selected bicriteria scheduling problems with equal length jobs and release dates on parallel machines", first revision in the Journal of Scheduling. (pdf)
- Zhang, J.*, Denton, B., Balasubramanian, H., Shah, N., and Inman, B., Optimiza tion of PSA-based screening decisions for prostate cancer detection, revision for the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management: Special Healthcare Issue.
- Zhang, J.*, Denton, B., Balasubramanian, H., Shah, N., and Inman, B., Optimization
of PSA screening policies; A comparison of patient and societal perspectives, online
at Medical Decision Making. (pdf)
- Balasubramanian, H., Muriel, A., Wang, L.*, The impact of flexibility and capacity allocation on the performance of primary care practices, online at Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal. (pdf)
- Balasubramanian, H., Banerjee, R., Denton, B., Naessens, J., Wood, D., and Stahl, J., Improving clinical access and continuity using physician panel redesign", Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2010, 25 (10), 1109-15. (pdf)
- Denton, B., Miller, A., Balasubramanian, H., and Huschka, T., Optimal allocation of surgery blocks to operating rooms under uncertainty, Operations Research, 58:802:816, 2010. (pdf)
- Berg,B.*, Nelson, H., Denton,B., Balasubramanian, H., Rahman, A., Bailey, A., and Lindor, K., A discrete event simulation model to evaluate the operational performance of a colonoscopy suite, Medical Decision Making, 30(3), pp 380-387, 2010. (pdf)
- Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., Keha, A. and Pfund, M., Scheduling interfering job sets on parallel machines, European Journal of Operational Research, 2009, 199 (1), pages 55-67 (pdf)
- Pfund, M., Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., Mason, S., and Rose, O., "A multi-criteria approach to scheduling wafer fabrication facilities", Journal of Scheduling, 11 (1), 2008, 29-47 (pdf).
- Mohan, S., Gopalakrishnan, M., Balasubramanian, H., and Chandrashekar, A., "A lognormal approximation of activity duration in PERT using two time estimates", Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol 58, Number 6, 827-831, 2007 (pdf).
- Monch, L., Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., and Pfund, M., "Heuristic scheduling of jobs on parallel batch machines with incompatible job families and unequal ready times", Computers and Operations Research, Vol 32 (11), 2005, 2731-2750 (pdf).
- Balasubramanian, H., Monch, L., Fowler, J.W., and Pfund, M.E., "Genetic Algorithm based scheduling of parallel batch machines with incompatible job families to minimize total weighted tardiness", International Journal of Production Research, Vol 42 (8), 2004 (pdf).
- Ponnambalam, S., Balasubramanian, H., Kataria, M., and Gadicherla, A., "A TSP-GA
multi-objective algorithm for flow-shop scheduling", International Journal of Advanced
Manufacturing Technology, Vol 23, 2004, 909-915.
Refereed Conference Proceedings (students in bold)
1. Beck, E., Balasubramanian, H., Henneman, P., (2009), Resource management and process change in a simplified model of an emergency department. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, to appear.
2. Khowala, K., Fowler, J., Keha, A., (2009) and Balasaubramanian, H., Single machine scheduling with interfering job sets, Proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary Scheduling Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
3. Balasubramanian, H., Banerjee, R., Gregg, M., and Denton, B. (2007), Improving primary care access using simulation optimization. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, Washington DC, pp. 1494-1500 (pdf).
4. Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., and Keha, A., Bicriteria scheduling of equal length jobs with ready times on identical parallel machines, Proceedings of the 2nd Multidisciplinary International conference on Scheduling, Theory and Applications (MISTA 2005), 112-122 (pdf).
5. Monch, L., Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., Pfund, M. Minimizing Total Weighted Tardiness on Parallel Batch Process Machines using Genetic Algorithms, Proceedings of the International Conference of Operations Research, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Sept2-5, 2002, pages 229-234.
6. Mohan, S., Gopalakrishnan, M., Chandrashekar, A., Derryberry, D., and Balasubramanian, H., Esimating PERT activity times with two time estimates, Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute, (DSI 2005), 16951-16956.
7. Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., and Pfund, M., Single machine bicriteria scheduling using the apparent tardiness cost heuristic, Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IIE 2006, Orlando, Florida).
8. Carlyle, W., Fowler, J. , Pfund, M. , Abraham, R. , Balasubramanian, H. and A. Gadkari, Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Subproblem Solution Procedures for the Shifting Bottleneck Heuristic, 12th Annual International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Dresden, Germany, July 15-17, 2002, pp. 1464-1471.
9. Carlyle, W., Fowler, J., Pfund, M., Abraham, R., Balasubramanian, H., Gadkari, A. Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Sub-Problem Solution Procedures for the Shifting Bottleneck Heuristic, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Technical Paper, NF02- 269.
Refereed Posters/Abstracts (students in bold)
1. Zhang, J., Denton, B.T., Balasubramanian, Inman, B., “A Partially Observable Markov Decision Process to Determine Optimal PSA Based Biopsy Thresholds for Prostate Cancer” Medical Decision Making, Philadelphia, PA, October 2008
2. Zhang, J., Denton, B.T., Balasubramanian, Inman, B., “Bayesian Updating based on the Patient PSA History to Optimize Prostate Biopsy Referral Decisions”, Medical Decision Making, Hollywood, CA, October 2009.
3. Egginton JS, Swanson RD, Balasubramanian H, “What is a Medical Home? Implications for Health Systems Engineering”, Mayo Clinic Systems Engineering and Operations Research Conference, September 2008 and August 2009, Rochester, MN.
4. Balasubramanian, H., Stahl, J., Denton, B., Banerjee, R., Improving clinical access and continuity through physician panel redesign, Society of the General Internal Medicine, May 2009, Miami Beach, Florida.