Publications
Book Chapters/Articles (students in bold)
1. Balasubramanian, H., Denton, B., Lin, M., "Managing physician panels in primary care", book chapter forthcoming in the Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems to be published by Taylor and Francis (Editor: Yuehwern Yih). (pdf)
2. 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.
Refereed Journal Publications (published, accepted, or in press; students in bold)
1. Berg, B., Denton, B., Nelson, H., Balasubramanian, H., Rahman, A., Bailey, A., and Lindor, K., "A discrete event simulation model to evaluate the operational performance of a colonoscopy suite", in press in Medical Decision Making. (pdf) In the media: Science Daily; Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News; Medical News Today; RedOrbit;
2. Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., Keha, A., and Pfund, M., "Scheduling interfering jobs sets on parallel machines", in press in the European Journal of Operational Research. (pdf)
3. Denton, B., Miller, A., Balasubramanian, H., and Huschka, T., "Optimal allocation to surgery blocks to operating rooms under uncertainty", accepted in Operations Research. (pdf)
4. 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).
5. 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).
6. 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).
7. 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).
8. 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 Journal Publications (under review)
1. 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)
2. Balasubramanian, H., Banerjee, R., Denton, B., Naessens, J., Wood, D., and Stahl, J., "Improving clinical access and continuity using physician panel redesign", submitted to the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Refereed Journal Publications (in preparation; students in bold)
1. Zhang, J., Balasubramanian, H., Denton, B., Shah, N., and Inman, B., “Optimization of prostate biopsy referral decisions”, for Operations Research
2. Henneman, P., Balasubramanian, H., and Beck. E, Campbell, M. “Using Discrete Event Simulation to Study the Impact of Resources, Process Changes and Task Prioritization on Patient Length of Stay”, for Academic Emergency Medicine
3. Henneman, P., Beck, E., and Balasubramanian, H., “Using discrete event simulation to study the impact of physician profitability on length of stay. for Annals of Emergency Medicine.
4. Hippchen, J., Balasubramanian, H., Muriel, A.,. Physician flexibility in primary care practices, for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
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.