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Jeffrey W. Herrmann

Research Objective: My research seeks to improve decision-making through the use of mathematical modeling. This falls generally into the area of operations research. For more general information, see The Science of Better.

A video about my research.

Operations Research and Homeland Security

Handbook of Operations Research for Homeland Security (handbook web page)

Improving Mass Vaccination Clinic Operations (project website)

A video of my ISR Colloquium (Fall, 2010) on Improving Planning for Public Health Emergencies.

Publications: My publications include books, chapters, journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports. Many of these publications are available on-line.

• Publications by subject
• Publications by format and year

Research Collaborations

It is my pleasure to be advising the following students: Dennis Leber and Rob Tamburello and the BIOCOUNTER team (Gemstone Class of 2013). I am also collaborating with Monifa Vaughn-Cooke, Dev Minotra, Isabelle Shuggi, Marius Linguraru, Will Herring, Adam Montjoy, William Rand, Brandon Schein, James Abello, Erica Gralla, David Rizzardo, and Linda Schmidt.

Over the years my students, former students, their families, and I have had various opportunities to gather for fun and food. Please see the photo album for photos of these events.

Spring, 2013, GEMSTONE Thesis Conference: BIOCOUNTER: Sebastian Serrano, Joshua Sloane, Darrell Schaeffer, Kyle Jamolin, Jonathan Saltzman, and Aaron Shim.

Research Lab: I am the director of the Simulation-Based System Design Laboratory. The lab has many faculty, students, and projects on a wide variety of topics related to simulation and system design. (This lab was formerly known as the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Lab.)

Research Areas and Related Projects: The following web sites provide information about the research projects and efforts that we have completed and those that are underway:

• Emergency Preparedness and Health Care Systems
  • Improving Mass Vaccination Clinic Operations
  • Modeling Prepositioning Strategies for Anthrax
  • Improving Medical Disaster Decision-Making
• Decision Making in Product Development
  • PREMISE: Applying Decision Production Systems to Improve Environmentally Responsible Product Development
  • Modeling Bounded Rational Decision-Makers
  • Incorporating Attribute Value Uncertainty into Decision Analysis
  • Improving Liquid Rocket Engine Program Decision-Making
• Process Planning and Design for Manufacturing
  • Design for Production.
  • Design Classification and Hybrid Variant-Generative Process Planning
  • Optimal Selection of Partners in Agile Manufacturing
• Production Planning and Scheduling
  • Aggregation for Cyclic Scheduling
  • Rescheduling Manufacturing Systems
  • Process Planning and Production Scheduling for Affordable Space Systems (also known as IPPS and ASSIST)
  • Input Control for Job Shop Manufacturing
  • Job Shop Scheduling
• Manufacturing System Design
  • Improving Mass Vaccination Clinic Operations
  • Lean Manufacturing Projects at NSWC, Indian Head
  • Facility Design
  • Hybrid Facility Master Planning
  • Simulation Optimization for Manufacturing System Design
• Simulation of Manufacturing Systems
  • A Module for Quickly Modeling Pull Production in Arena
  • Supply Chain Simulation Models
  • Adaptable Simulation Models for Manufacturing
  • Learning Historian for Discrete-Event Simulation
  • Simulation and optimization of production control for lean manufacturing transition
  • Operational Methods for Semiconductor Manufacturing: Integrating Product Dynamics and Process Models
• Manufacturing Operations and Processes
  • Sheet Metal Layout and Operations
  • A work instructions system for flexible assembly lines.

Last updated on April 8, 2013.