Richard M. Soland , PhD

Professor of Operations Research

Office: 1776 G Street, Suite 101, Room 162

Tel: (202) 994-7531

Fax: (202) 994-0245

Email: soland@gwu.edu

Website: http://www.emse.gwu.edu/people/people.cfm?F_ID=22

Office Hours : Fall 2009: By appointment only

Education

• B.E.E. (Electrical Engineering), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1961.
• Ph.D. (Mathematics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964.

Research Interests

Biography

Dr. Soland has been at GW since 1978 and served as Chair or Acting Chair of the Department of Operations Research during the periods 1989-1992 and 1997-1999. He also served as Associate Dean or Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the School of Engineering and Applied Science during the periods 1992-1995 and Spring 2001.

Before coming to GW, Dr. Soland was Associate Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the School of Business of The University of Texas at Austin and Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. He has held visiting academic positions in Denmark, Finland, France, and Venezuela.

Dr. Soland is registered as a Professional Engineer in the District of Columbia. He was Executive Director and Treasurer of Omega Rho, the operations research/management science honor society, from 1984 until 1998; he was President of Omega Rho during the period 2000 - 2002.

Journal Puplications

1. An improved partial enumeration algorithm for integer programming problems (with M. S. Sabbagh), Annals of Operations Research, 166, 147-161, 2009.
   
   
2. Attrition through a partially coordinated area defense (with D. K. Al-Mutairi), Naval Research Logistics, 52, 74-81, 2005.
   
   
3. Iterative solution methods for obtaining the steady-state probability distributions of Markovian multi-echelon repairable item inventory systems (with D. Gross and B. Gu), Computers and Operations Research, 20, 817-828, 1993.
   
   
4. Optimal strategies for problems of simultaneous attack against an area defense with impact point prediction (with N. T. O'Meara), Naval Research Logistics, 39, 1-28, 1992.
   
   
5. Optimal strategies for problems of simultaneous attack against an area defense without impact point prediction (with N. T. O'Meara), Naval Research Logistics, 38, 289-302, 1991.
   
   
6. Optimal attack against an area defense protecting many targets (with N. T. O'Meara), INFOR, 28, 40-52, 1990.
   
   
7. Optimal provisioning for single-echelon repairable item inventory control in a time-varying environment (with A. R. Balana and D. Gross), IIE Transactions, 21, 202-212, 1989.
   
   
8. Optimal terminal defense tactics when several sequential engagements are possible, Operations Research, 35, 537-542, 1987.
   
   
9. Minimum-cost mixtures of area and point defenses assuming simultaneous attack, Naval Research Logistics, 34, 337-363, 1987.
   
   
10. An interactive branch-and-bound algorithm for multiple criteria optimization (with O. Marcotte), Management Science, 32, 61-75, 1986.