Michael Ball received his B.E.S. in Engineering Science and M.S.E. in Operations Research from Johns Hopkins University in 1972 and his Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1977.
Dr. Ball joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1979 as an Assistant Professor and in 1984 he became Associate Professor in the College of Business and Management. In 1988, he became a Professor in the College of Business and Management and in 1990 he received a joint appointment with that College and the Systems Research Center. Dr. Ball is a member of the Operations Research Society of America, the Mathematical Programming Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and IEEE. He is area editor for optimization for the journal OPERATIONS RESEARCH and is or has been associate editor for three other journals.
Dr. Ball held several industrial positions from 1973 to 1978, at companies including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Network Analysis Corporation and Bell Laboratories. Since 1979 he has consulted with a variety of private companies and government agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration, Sprint International, CACI, Inc., the United States Postal Service, the Military Airlift Command and United Parcel Service.
PUBLICATIONS MOST RELEVANT TO PROPOSED RESEARCH
1. J. Haritsa, M. Ball, N. Roussopoulos, A. Datta, and J. Baras, "MANDATE: MAnaging Networks using DAtabase TEchnology," to be published in IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Communications.
2. M. O. Ball, J. S. Provan and D. Shier, "Reliability Analysis of Path Covering Systems," Networks, 21, 1991, pp. 345-357.
3. M. O. Ball and M. Magazine, "Sequencing of Insertions in Printed Circuit Board Assembly," Operations Research, 36, 1988, pp. 192-201.
4. M. O. Ball and J. S. Provan, "Disjoint Products and Efficient Computation of Reliability," Operations Research, 5, 1988, pp. 703-715.
5. M. O. Ball, "Computational Complexity of Network Reliability Analysis: An Overview," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, R-35, 1986, pp. 230-239.
OTHER SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH
1. M. O. Ball and F. L. Lin, "A Reliability Model Applied to Emergency Service Vehicle Location," Operations Research, 41, 1993, pp. 18-36.
2. M. O. Ball, , U. Derigs, C. Hilbrand, and A. Metz, "Matching Problems with Generalized Upper Bound Side Constraints," Networks, 20, 1990, pp. 703-721.
3. M. Dror and M. O. Ball, "Inventory Routing: Reduction from an Annual to Short Period Problem," Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 34, 1987, pp. 891-905.
4. M. O. Ball and J. S. Provan, "Bounds on the Reliability Polynomial for Shellable Independence Systems," SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods, 3, 1981, pp. 166-181.
5. M. O. Ball and G. L. Nemhauser, "Matroids and a Reliability Analysis Problem," Mathematics of Operations Research, 4, 1979, pp. 132-143.