Ghaith Rabadi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

241 Kaufman Hall

Norfolk, VA 23529

Phone: (757) 683-4918

Fax:      (757) 683-5640

Email: grabadi@odu.edu

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REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Rabadi, G., Mollaghasemi, M., and Anagnostopoulos, G., (2004) “A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for the Early/Tardy Machine Scheduling Problem with a Common Due-Date and Sequence-Dependent Setup Time”, Computers & Operations Research Journal, Vol. 31, No. 10, p. 1727-1751

Keating, Rogers, Unal, Dryer, Sousa-Poza, Safford, Peterson, Rabadi (2003), “System of Systems Engineering”, Engineering Management Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, p.36-45, September 2003.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Tsoy, G., Arnaout, J-P, Smith, T., and Rabadi, G. (2004), “A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Surgical Operating Rooms Scheduling Problem, to appear in the Proceeding of the 25^th National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, October 2004

Rabadi, G., Chytka, T. Morris, W.D., White, N., Unal, R., “Architectural Simulation Model for Operations of Future Launch Systems”, to appear in the Proceeding of the 25^th National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, October 2004

Bedoya, L., and Rabadi, G., (2003), “A Multi-agent Approach  for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Earliness and Tardiness”, Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, p 1217-1222, Washington D.C., October 2003.

Bedoya, L., and Rabadi, G., Sousa-Poza, A., Keating, C., Peterson, W. (2003), “A Tabu Search Approach for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Earliness and Tardiness”, Proceeding of the 24^th National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, p420-425, St. Louis, Missouri, October 15-18, 2003.

Keating, C, Peterson, W., and Rabadi, G. (2003), “Framing of Complex System of Systems Engineering Problems”, Proceeding of the 24^th National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, p8-15, St. Louis, Missouri, October 15-18, 2003.

Steele, M. J., Mollaghasemi, M., Rabadi, G., and Cates, G. R. (2002). “Generic Simulation Models of Reusable Launch Vehicles. In E. Yücesan, C.-H. Chen, J. L. Snowdon, and J. M. Charnes (eds.), Proceedings of the 2002, Winter Simulation Conference, 747 - 753

Cates, G. R., Steele, M. J., Mollaghasemi, M., and Rabadi, G. (2002). “Modeling the Space Shuttle”. In E. Yücesan, C.-H. Chen, J. L. Snowdon, and J.M. Charnes (eds.), Proceedings of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference, 754-762

Moraga, and Rabadi, G. (2002) “Application of Simulated Annealing to Parallel Machine Scheduling Problems: A Literature Review”, Proceeding of the Latin-Iberian American Congress of Operations Research (CLAIO), Concepción, Chile, October, 2002.

Sousa-Poza, Keating, Peterson, and Rabadi, G. (2002) “Boundary Setting: Inherent Problems and Solutions for an ISO 9001 Based Quality Management System”, Proceeding of the 23^rd Annual American Society for Engineering Management, Tampa, Florida, pp. 162-168, October 2-5, 2002

Rabadi, G., Anagnostopoulos and Mollaghasemi (2002) “A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for a Scheduling Problem with Setup Times”, Proceeding of Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 19-22, 2002.

Anagnostopoulos and Rabadi, G. (2002)“A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for the Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem”, Proceeding of the World Automation Congress, Orlando, Florida, June 9-13, 2002.

Cates, Mollaghasemi, Rabadi, G., and Steele (2001) “Macro-Level Simulation Model of Space Shuttle Processing”, Military, Government and Aerospace Simulation Proceeding, Sponsored by The Society for Computer Simulation International (SCS)Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 143-148, 2001

Rabadi, G. (2001) “Application of Constraint Programming to a Scheduling Problem with a Common Due Date and Setup Times” Proceeding of the 1^st International Industrial Engineering Conference, Amman, Jordan pp. 275-284, September 2001.

Duwayri, Mollaghasemi, Rabadi, G., and Nazzal (2001) “Scheduling Setups at Bottleneck Facilities at a Semiconductor Fabrication Facility” Proceeding of the 1^st International Industrial Engineering Conference, Amman, Jordan, pp. 233-240, September 2001.

Kaylani and Rabadi, G. (2001) “Application of Industrial Engineering Practices to Software Development Using Database Representation of the Software Process”, Proceeding of the 1^st International Industrial Engineering Conference, Amman, Jordan, pp. 425-432, September 2001.

Mollaghasemi, Rabadi, G., Cates, Correa, Steele, and Shelton (2000) “Simulation Modeling and Analysis of Space Shuttle Flight Hardware Processing”, Proceeding of Harbour, Maritime & Multimodal Logistics Modeling and Simulation Workshop, a publication of the Society for Computer Simulation International (SCS), Portofino, Italy, pp. 59-62, October 2000.

Salem, Anagnostopoulos, and Rabadi, G. (2000) “A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Parallel Machine Scheduling Problems”, Proceeding of Harbour, Maritime & Multimodal Logistics Modeling and Simulation Workshop, a publication of the Society for Computer Simulation International (SCS), Portofino, Italy, pp. 88-93, October 2000.

PAPERS (UNDER REVIEW)

Rabadi, G., Anagnostopoulos, G., and Mollaghasemi, M.,  “A New Heuristic For The Just-In-Time Single Machine Scheduling Problem With Setups: A Comparison With A Simulated Annealing Approach”, A chapter in an edited book published by Springer Verlag through their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Abuhilal, L., Rabadi, G., Sousa-Poza, A., “Supply Chain Inventory Control: A Comparison Among JIT, MRP, and MRP with Information Sharing Using Simulation”, under review, Engineering Management Journal

Duwayri, Mollaghasemi, Nazzal, and Rabadi, G., “Scheduling Setups Changes at Bottleneck Facilities in Semiconductor Manufacturing”, under review, Production Planning and Control Journal.