Alan Andrew Scheller-Wolf
Richard M. Cyert Professor of Operations Management
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- Columbia University - Master of Philosophy (Operations Research) - 1996
- Columbia University - Ph D (Operations Research) - 1996
- Columbia University - MS (Operations Research) - 1994
- Stanford University - BA (Art History) - 1989
- Stanford University - BS (Mathematics and Computational Science) - 1989
Research
Discrete Time Inventory Theory: Perishable inventory, spare parts systems, assemble to order systems. Service Systems: Healthcare, call centers. Queueing Theory: Multi-server queues, stability and moment conditions, strategic queueing, closed queueing networks, Markov Decision Processes. Applications: Renewable energy, product portfolio optimization, parking queues.Publications
- A Queueing Model and Analysis for Autonomous Vehicles on Highways
(author(s): Neda Mirzaeian, Soo-Haeng Cho, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Management Science, forthcoming - Technological Unemployment, Meaning in Life, Purpose of Business, and the Future of Stakeholders
(author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Journal of Business Ethics, forthcoming - A Better Model for Job Redundancy: Decoupling Server Slowdown and Job Size
(author(s): Kristen Gardner, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2017 - Product Portfolio Restructuring: Methodology and Application at Caterpillar
(author(s): Masha Shunko, Tallys Yunes, Giulio Fenni, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Valerie Tardif, Sridhar Tayur)
POMS - An Analytical Throughput Approximation for Closed Fork/Join Networks
(author(s): Erkut Sonmez, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nicola Secomandi)
INFORMS Journal of Computing 29(2), 2017; 251-267 - A Better Model for Job Redundancy: Decoupling Server Slowdown and Job Size
(author(s): Kristen Gardner, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
IEEE Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2016), 2016 - Corrigendum to Capacitated Inventory Problems with Fixed Order Costs: Some Optimal Policy Structure
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Guillermo Gallego)
EJOR 253, 2016; 241 - Redundancy-d: The Power of d Choices for Redundancy
(author(s): Kristen Gardner, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Mark Velednitski, Samuel Zbarsky)
Operations Research - The Power of d Choices for Redundancy
(author(s): Kristen Gardner, Samuel Zbarsky, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2016 Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems Poster Paper, 2016 - Understanding Response Time in the Redundancy-d System
(author(s): Kristen Gardner, Samuel Zbarsky, Mark Velednitski, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Workshop on Mathematical Performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2016), 2016 - Introduction to the Special Issue on Practice-Focused Research
(author(s): Jérémie Gallien, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
MSOM 18( 1), 2016; 1-4 - OM Forum: Practice-Based Research in Operations Management: What It Is, Why Do It, Related Challenges and How to Overcome Them
(author(s): Jérémie Gallien, Steve Graves, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
MSOM 18(1), 2016; 5-14 - Robust scheduling with logic-based Benders decomposition
(author(s): Elvin Coban, Aliza Heching, John Hooker, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Operations Research 2014 Proceedings, 2016; 99-105 - Electricity Trading and Negative Prices: Storage vs. Disposal
(author(s): Yangfang Zhou, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nicola Secomandi, Stephen Smith)
Management Science 62(3), 2016; 880-898 - Queueing with redundant requests: Exact analysis
(author(s): Kristen Gardner, Samuel Zbarsky, Sherwin Doroudi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Esa Hyytia, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Queueing Systems 83(3), 2016; 227-259 - Managing nurse lines – practical challenges and the developing theory
(author(s): Xiaofang Wang, Laurens Debo, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
International Journal of Production Research, 2015 - Optimal inventory decisions in a capacitated online retailing system with customer priorities
(author(s): Bisheng Du, Christian Larsen, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 12th International Conference, 2015; 1-6 - The Benefit of Introducing Variability in Single-Server Queues with Application to Quality-Based Service Domains
(author(s): Ying Xu, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Katia Sycara)
Operations Research 63( 1), 2015; 233-246 - M/M/c Queue with Two Priority Classes
(author(s): Jianfu Wang, Opher Baron, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Operations Research 63(3), 2015; 733-749 - Blood Platelet Inventory Management with Protection Levels
(author(s): Ismail Civelik, Itir Karaesmen, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
European Journal of Operations Research 243(3), 2015; 826-838 - Optimization of Industrial-Scale Assemble-To-Order Systems
(author(s): Willem van Jaarsveld, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
INFORMS Journal of Computing, 2015 - Merchant Commodity Storage and Term-Structure Model Error
(author(s): Nicola Secomandi, Guoming Lai, François Margot, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Duane Seppi)
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 17(3), 2015; 302–320 - Optimal inventory decisions in a capacitated online retailing system with customer priorities
(author(s): Bisheng Du, Christian Larsen, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
IEEE International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, 2015; 1-6 - Reducing latency via redundant requests: Exact analysis
(author(s): Kristen Gardner, Samuel Zbarsky, Sherwin Doroudi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Esa Hyytia, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
ACM Sigmetrics Conference, 2015 - Exact Analysis of the M/M/k/setup Class of Markov Chains via Recursive Renewal Reward
(author(s): Anshul Gandhi, Sherwin Doroudi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Queueing Systems -- Selected papers from Sigmetrics 2013 77(2), 2014; 177-209 - Delay Moment Bounds for Multiserver Queues with Infinite Variance Service Times
(author(s): Rein Vesilo, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
INFOR Special Issue on Queueing in Computer and Telecommunication Systems. 51(4), 2014; 161-174 - Inventory Rationing for a System with Heterogeneous Customer Classes
(author(s): Paul Enders, Ivo Adan, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Geert-Jan van Houtum)
Flexible Services and Manufacturing 26, 2014; 344-386 - Optimal Structural Results for Assemble-to-Order Generalized M-Systems
(author(s): Emre Nadar, Mustafa Akan, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Operations Research, 2014 - Optimal Structural Results for Assemble-to-Order M-Systems
(author(s): Emre Nadar, Mustafa Akan, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Operations Research 62(3), 2014; 571-579 - Exact Analysis of the M/M/k/setup Class of Markov Chains via Recursive Renewal Reward
(author(s): Anshul Gandhi, Sherwin Doroudi, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
ACM Sigmetrics Conference, 2013 - Strategic Analysis of Technology and Capacity Investment in the Liquefied Natural Gas Industry
(author(s): Erkut Sonmez, Sunder Kekre, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nicola Secomandi)
European Journal of Operational Research 226(1), 2013; 100-114 - Redundancy Optimization for Critical Components in High-Availability Capital Goods
(author(s): Kurtulus Oner, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Geert-Jan van Houtum)
Operations Research 61(1), 2013; 244-264 - Comparing Markov Chains: Combining Aggregation and Precedence Relations Applied to Sets of States
(author(s): Ana Busic, Ingrid Vliegen, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Mathematics of Operations Research 37(2), 2012; 259-287 - Quality and Staffing Interactions at Diagnostic Service Centers
(author(s): Xiaofang Wang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Laurens Debo)
Naval Research and Logistics 59(8), 2012; 613-625 - A large U.S. retailer selects transportation carriers under diesel price uncertainty
(author(s): John Turner, Ben Peterson, Soo-Haeng Cho, Sunder Kekre, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Interfaces 4(42), 2012; 365-379 - Push or Pull? Auctioning Supply Contracts
(author(s): Cuihong Li, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
POMS 20(1), 2011; 198-213 - Sink or Swim Together: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Finite Moments of Workload Components in FIFO Multiserver Queues
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Rein Vesilo)
Queueing Systems 67(1), 2011; 47-61 - Supply Chain Management of Perishable Goods: A Review
(author(s): Itir Karaesmen, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Borga Deniz)
Handbook of Production Planning, 2011 - Valuation of Storage at a Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal
(author(s): Guoming Lai, Mulan Wang, Sunder Kekre, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nicola Secomandi)
Operations Research 59(3), 2011; 602-616 - Scheduling of Dynamic In-Game Advertising
(author(s): John Turner, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)
Operations Research 59(1), 2011; 1-16 - Design and Analysis of Diagnostic Service Centers
(author(s): Xiaofang Wang, Laurens Debo, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Management Science 56(11), 2010; 1873-1890 - Interaction between Technology and Extraction Scaling Real Options in Natural Gas Production
(author(s): Paul Enders, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nicola Secomandi)
IIE Transactions 42(9), 2010; 643-655 - A Markovian Dual-Source Production-Inventory Model with Order Bands
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)
IJPE 121, 2009; 715-727 - Combinatorial Coalition Formation and Cost Sharing for Group Buying
(author(s): Cuihong Li, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Katia Sycara)
Decision Support Systems 49(1), 2009; 1-13 - Managing Inventories of Perishable Goods: The Effect of Substitution
(author(s): Borga Deniz, Itir Karaesmen, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
M&SOM 12(2), 2009; 319-329 - Surprising Results on Task Assignment in Server Farms with High Variability Workloads
(author(s): Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Andrew Young)
ACM Sigmetrics 2009 Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIgmetrics '09), 2009 - Why Segregating Short Jobs from Long Ones under High Variability is not Always a Win
(author(s): Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Andrew Young)
47th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2009; 121-127 - An Exact and Efficient Algorithm for the Constrained Dynamic Operator Staffing Problem for Call Centers
(author(s): Atul Bhandari, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Mor Harchol-Balter)
Management Science 54(2), 2008; 339-353 - Now or Later: A Simple Policy for Effective Dual Sourcing in Capacitated Systems
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Senthil Veeraraghavan)
Operations Research 56(4), 2008; 850-864 - Assessing the Impact of RFID on Return Center Logistics
(author(s): Sunder Kekre, C. Forman, N. Langar, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Interfaces 37(6), 2007; 501-514 - Building Efficient Product Portfolios at John Deere
(author(s): Tallys Yunes, Dominic Napolitano, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)
Operations Research 55(4), 2007; 617-629 - Building Efficient Product Portfolios at John Deere and Company
(author(s): Tally Yunes, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)
Operations Research, 2007 - Optimal Control of Serial, Multi-Echelon Inventory/Production Systems with Periodic Batch Ordering
(author(s): Geert-Jan van Houtum, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Jinxin Yi)
Operations Research 55(4), 2007; 674-687 - Fundamental Characteristice of Queues with Fluctuating Load
(author(s): Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Uri Yechiali)
Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics 2006 Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics '06), 2006; 203-215 - How Many Servers are Best in a Dual-Priority M/PH/k System?
(author(s): Adam Wierman, Taka Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Performance Evaluation 63(12), 2006; 1253-1272 - Structural Interpretation and Derivation of Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Delay Moments in FIFO Multiserver Queues
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Rein Vesilo)
Queueing Systems 54(3), 2006; 221-232 - Analysis of Cycle-Stealing with Switching Times and Thresholds
(author(s): Taka Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Performance Evaluation 61(4), 2005; 347-369 - Multiserver Queueing Systems with Multiple Priority Classes
(author(s): Mor Harchol-Balter, Taka Osogami, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Adam Wierman)
Queueing Systems 51(3-4), 2005; 331-360 - Exploring Threshold-Based Policies for Load Sharing
(author(s): Taka Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Li Zhang)
Forty-Second Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control , and Computing, 2004; 1012-1021 - Analysis of Cycle Stealing with Switching Cost
(author(s): Taka Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics 2003 Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics '03), 2003; 184-195 - Cycle Stealing under Immediate Dispatch Task Assignment
(author(s): Mor Harchol-Balter, Cuihong Li, Taka Osogami, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Mark Squillante)
Fifteenth ACM Annual Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architecture (SPAA '03), 2003; 274-285 - Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Delay Moments in FIFO Multiserver Queues: Why s Slower Servers are Better than One Fast Server for Heavy-Tailed Systems
Operations Research 51(5), 2003; 748-758
- Task Assignment with Cycle Stealing under Central Queue
(author(s): Mor Harchol-Balter, Cuihong Li, Taka Osogami, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Mark Squillante)
23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '03), 2003; 628-639 - Vehicle Routing with Time Windows and Time-Dependent Rewards: A Problem from The American Red Cross
(author(s): Jinxin Yi, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
M&SOM 5(1), 2003; 74-77 - Design of a Multi-Unit Double Auction E-Market
(author(s): Pu Huang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Katia Sycara)
Computational Intelligence 18(4), 2002; 596-617 - Capacitated Inventory Problems with Fixed Order Costs: Some Optimal Policy Structure
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Guillermo Gallego)
EJOR 126, 2000; 603-613 - Development of a Rapid-Response Supply Chain at Caterpillar
(author(s): U. Rao, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)
Operations Research, 2000 - Development of a Rapid-Response Supply Chain at Caterpillar
(author(s): Uday Rao, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)
Operations Research 28(2), 1999; 189-204 - Further Delay Moment Results for FIFO Multiserver Queues
Queueing Systems 34, 1999; 387-4000
- A Performance Agreement to Align the Operations of a Loading Dock and Fleet
(author(s): Patricio Donoso, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Marcos Singer)
Revista ABANTE 1(2), 1998; 167-188 - Delay Moments for FIFO GI/GI/c Queues
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Karl Sigman)
Queueing Systems 25, 1997; 77-95 - New Bounds for Expected Delay in GI/GI/c Queues
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Karl Sigman)
Queueing Systems 26, 1997; 169-186 - Moments in Tandem Queues
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Karl Sigman)
Operations Research 46, 1996; 378-380
Working Papers
- Dual Sourcing Problem with Stock-out Dependent Substitution
(author(s): Hekimoglu Mustafa, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- Markov Decision Processes
Handbook of Healthcare Analytics - Queues with Redundancy: Is Waiting in Multiple Lines Fair?
(author(s): Leela Nageswaran, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- Technological unemployment, meaning in life and the purpose of future business
(author(s): Tae Wan Kim, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- That's Not Fair: Tariff Structures for Electricity Markets with Rooftop Solar
(author(s): Singh Siddharth, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- Managing Wind-Based Electricity Generation in the Presence of Storage and Transmission Capacity
(author(s): Yangfang Zhou, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nicola Secomandi, Stephen Smith)
- Consistent Staffing for Long-Term Care through On-Call Pools
(author(s): Vince Slaugh, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)
- Green technology development and adoption: competition, regulation, and uncertainty - a global game approach
(author(s): Xin Wang, Soo-Haeng Cho, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- Optimal Portfolio Strategies for New Product Development
(author(s): Emre Nadar, Mustafa Akan, Laurens Debo, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- Staffing of a Service Center with Cross-Trained Agents, Heterogeneous Customers, and Quality Guarantees
(author(s): Elvin Coban, Aliza Heching, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- The Benefits of State Aggregation with Extreme-Point Weighting for Assemble-to-Order Systems
(author(s): Emre Nadar, Alp Ackay, Mustafa Akan, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- Evaluating the First-Mover's Advantage in Announcing Real-Time Delay Information
(author(s): Siddharth Prakash Singh, Mohammad Delasay, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- Optimization of Stock Levels for Service Tools Industry
(author(s): Ingrid Vliegen, Ana Busic, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Geert-Jan van Houtum)
- Robust Project Scheduling at a Large IT Services Delivery Organization
(author(s): Elvin Coban, Aliza Heching, John Hooker, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- Moment Conditions for Multiserver Queues under Integral Load
(author(s): Michele Dufalla, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Rein Vesilo)
- Optimal R&D Portfolio Strategies under Different Information Regimes
(author(s): Emre Nadar, Mustafa Akan, Laurens Debo, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
- Inducing Optimal Scheduling with Selfish Users
(author(s): Paul Enders, Anshul Gandhi, Varun Gupta, Laurens Debo, Mor Harchol-Balter, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
Management Science, 2009 - Inventory Models with Expedited Ordering: Single Index Policies
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Geert-Jan van Houtum, Senthil Veeraraghavan)
2006 - Exact and Efficient SOlution Method for Parameter-Dependent Markov Chain Optimization Problems
(author(s): Atul Bhandari, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Mor Harchol-Balter)
2004 - Managing Supply Chains in Emerging Markets
(author(s): Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)
Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management , 1998; 703-736
Awards and Honors
- Winner, 2020 Best Publication Award in Environment-Sustainability, INFORMS, Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section (September 2020)
- First runner-up, MASCOTS 2016 Best Paper Award: "A Better Model for Job Redundancy: Decoupling Server Slowdown and Job Size", by Kristen Gardner, Mor Harchol-Balter and Alan Scheller-Wolf (2016)
- Canadian Operations Research Society - Winner, CORS Queueing Theory SIG Student Paper Prize (Jianfu Wang) (2016)
- Tepper School of Business - BP Junior Faculty Research Chair (2000)
University Service
- Strategic Research Committee, Committee Chair (2016 - )
- BERKMAN FACULTY GRANT AWARD COMMITTEE, Committee Member (2010 - )
- FACULTY JUDICIAL REVIEW BOARD, Committee Member (2010 - )
Consulting
- Kenneth Flaxman, P.C. (August 2013)
- VERA Institute of Justice (2011 - 2011)
- Massive Incorporated (2007 - 2008)
- Caterpillar Inc. (2006 - 2008)
- Behavior Health Metrix (2006 - 2007)
- John Deere & Company (2006 - 2007)
- SmartOps (2005 - 2006)
- American Red Cross (2002 - 2003)
- Caterpillar Inc. (2002 - 2003)
- Air Products International (2002 - 2002)
Professional Activities
- Board of Advisors, Management and Business Review (March 2016 -)
- Associate Editor, Queueing Systems (2011 -)
- Associate Editor, Management Science (2009 -)
- Member, M&SOM, Editorial Board (2008 -)
- Associate Editor, Operations Research (January 2006 -)
- Member, INFORMS , Nicholson Prize Committee (2016 - 2016)
- Guest Editor-in-Chief, Special Issue on Practice, MSOM (2013 - 2016)
- Member, INFORMS , Nicholson Prize Committee (2015 - 2015)
- Member, INFORMS , Dantzig Prize Committee (2011 - 2011)
- Member, INFORMS , M&SOM Journal Review Committee (2011 - 2011)
- Chairperson, INFORMS , IMPACT Prize Committee (2009 - 2010)
- Committee Chair, Collaborative Research Workshop, TUE/CMU, Organizing Committee (2008 - 2008)
- Member, INFORMS , Applied Probability Council (2008 - 2008)
- Member, INFORMS , IMPACT Prize Committee (2008 - 2008)
- Committee Member, ACM Sigmetrics Conference , Program Committee (2006 - 2007)
- Committee Chair, INFORMS , JFIG Paper Competition (2006 - 2006)
- Committee Chair, Research and Education Collaboration Program, CMU and TUE, Organizing Committee (2004 - 2004)
- Committee Chair, Workshop on Multiserver Scheduling, Organizing Committee (2004 - 2004)