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Refereed Articles

• "A Two-stage Vehicle Routing Model for Large-scale Bioterrorism Emergencies," by Z. Shen, M. M. Dessouky, and F. Ordóñez. To appear in Networks.
  • Formerly ``The Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem for Large-scale Emergencies," USC ISE Working paper #2007-02.
• "Wardrop Equilibria with Risk-Averse Users," by F. Ordóñez, and N.E. Stier-Moses. To appear in Transportation Science.
• "Heuristic Approaches for the Inventory-Routing Problem with Backlogging," by T. F. Abdelmaguid, M. M. Dessouky, and F. Ordóñez. Computers & IE, Vol 56, pp. 1519--1534, 2009.
• "A Two-stage Mean-risk Stochastic Programming Model for Transportation Network Protection," by C. Liu, Y. Fan, and F. Ordóñez. To appear in Computers & Operations Research.
• "The Minimum Unmet Demand Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem," by Z. Shen, F. Ordóñez, and M.M. Dessouky, USC ISE Working paper #2006-07. To appear in Springer book series on Optimization and its Applications.
• "Robust Optimization Models for Energy-limited Wireless Sensor Networks under Distance Uncertainty," by W. Ye, and F. Ordóñez. USC ISE Working paper #2006-05. To appear in IEEE Transactions on WirelessCom.
• "A Simulation Study of Demand Responsive Transit System Design," by L. Quadrifoglio, M.M. Dessouky, and F. Ordóñez. USC ISE Working paper #2005-04. To appear in Transp. Research-A.
• "A Robust Optimization Approach for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Demand Uncertainty," by I. Sungur, F. Ordóñez, and M.M. Dessouky. IIE Transactions, Vol 40, No. 5, pp. 509--523, 2008
• "A priori performance measures for arc-based formulations of the Vehicle Routing Problem," by F. Ordóñez, I. Sungur, and M. M. Dessouky.  Transportation Research Record: Journal of the TRB, Vol 2032, pp. 53--62, 2007.
• "Mobility Allowance Shuttle Transit (MAST) Services: MIP formulation and strengthening with logic constraints," by L. Quadrifoglio, M.M. Dessouky, and F. Ordóñez. EJOR. Vol. 185, pp. 481--494, 2008. online.
• "Solution Approaches for Facility Location of Medical Supplies for Large-Scale Emergencies," by H. Jia, F. Ordóñez, and M.M. Dessouky. Computers & IE. Vol. 52, pp. 257--276, 2007. online.
• "Robust Capacity Expansion of Network Flows," by F. Ordóñez and J. Zhao,  Networks, Vol 50, No. 2, pp 136--145, 2007. online .
• "Robust Solutions for Network Design under Transportation Cost and Demand Uncertainty," by S. Mudchanatongsuk, F. Ordóñez, and J. Liu. JORS, Vol 59, pp. 652--662, 2008. online.
• "Behavioral measures and their correlation with IPM iteration counts on Semi-Definite Programming Problems," by R.M. Freund, F. Ordóñez, and K.C. Toh.  Math Programming B. Vol 109, No. 2-3, pp. 445--475, 2007. online .
• "A Modeling Framework for Facility Location of Medical Services for Large-Scale Emergencies," by H. Jia, F. Ordóñez and M. Dessouky,   IIE Transactions. Vol 39, No. 1, pp. 41--55, 2007. link
• "Scaling Laws from Statistical Data and Dimensional Analysis," by P. F. Mendez and F. Ordóñez,  ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics. Vol 72, No. 5, pp. 648--657, 2005.
• "On an Extension of Condition Number Theory to Non-Conic Convex Optimization," by R.M. Freund and F. Ordóñez.  Math of OR. Vol 30, No. 1, pp. 173--194. 2005. (The slightly longer working paper version is available here, -- USC-ISE Working paper #2003-01)
• "Optimal Information Extraction in Energy-Limited Wireless Sensor Networks," by F. Ordóñez and B. Krishnamachari.  IEEE JSAC. Vol 22, No. 6, special issue on Fundamental Performance Limits of Wireless Sensor Networks, pp. 1121--1129, 2004.
• "Computational Experience and the Explanatory Value of Condition Measures for Linear Optimization," by F. Ordóñez and R.M. Freund.  SIAM J. Optim. Vol 14, No. 2, pp. 307--333. 2003.

Refereed Conference Proceedings and Refereed Workshop Papers

• "Playing Games for Security: An Efficient Exact Algorithm for Solving Bayesian Stackelberg Games," by P. Paruchuri, J. Pearce, J. Marecki, M. Tambe, F. Ordóñez, S. Kraus.   Proceedings of the AAMAS-2008 conference. Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.

• "Deployed ARMOR Protection: The Application of a Game Theoretic Model for Security at the Los Angeles International Airport," by J. Pita, M. Jain, J. Marecki, F. Ordóñez, C. Portway, M. Tambe, C. Western, P. Paruchuri, S. Kraus.   Proceedings of the AAMAS-2008 conference, Industry and Applications track. Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.

• "An Efficient Heuristic Approach for Security Against Multiple Adversaries," by P. Paruchuri, J. Pearce, M. Tambe, F. Ordóñez, S. Kraus.   Proceedings of the AAMAS-2007 conference. Honolulu, May 2007.

• "Increasing security through communication and policy randomization in multiagent systems," by P. Paruchuri, M. Tambe, F. Ordóñez, S. Kraus.   MSDM Workshop, AAMAS-2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.

• "Security in multiagent systems by policy randomization," by P. Paruchuri, M. Tambe, F. Ordóñez, S. Kraus.   Proceedings of the AAMAS-2006 conference. Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
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  • "Safety in Multiagent Systems by Policy Randomization," by P. Paruchuri, D. Dini, M. Tambe, F. Ordóñez, S. Kraus.   SASEMAS workshop, AAMAS-2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2005. Received the SASEMAS workshop Best Paper Award.
  • "Intentional Randomization for Single Agents and Agent-teams," by P. Paruchuri, D. Dini, M. Tambe, F. Ordóñez, S. Kraus.   GTDT workshop, IJCAI-2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.
• "A Sub-Gradient Algorithm for Maximal Data Extraction in Energy-limited Wireless Sensor Networks," by W. Ye and F. Ordóñez.   Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks, in IEEE WirelessCom 2005, Maui, June 2005.
• "Toward a Formalization of Teamwork with Resource Constraints," by P. Parchuri, M. Tambe, F. Ordóñez, and S. Kraus.   In proceedings of the AAMAS-2004 conference, New York, July 2004.
• "Analysis of Energy-Efficient, Fair Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks through Non-linear Optimization," by B. Krishnamachari and F. Ordóñez.   Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks, in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Fall, Orlando, Florida, October 2003.
• "Determination of scaling laws from statistical data," by P. F. Mendez and F. Ordóñez,  In Proceedings of Fifth International Workshop on Similarity Methods, University of Stuttgart, November 2002.

Book Chapters

• "Rapid Distribution of Medical Supplies," by M.M. Dessouky, F. Ordóñez, H. Jia, and Z. Shen.   Book chapter in Delay Management in Health Care Systems, R. Hall (ed), Springer, 2006.
• "Fundamental Limits of Networked Sensing," by B. Krishnamachari and F. Ordóñez.   Book chapter in Wireless Sensor Networks, T. Znati, K. Sivalingam and C. S. Raghavendra (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

Working Papers

• "A Model and Algorithm for the Courier Delivery Problem with Uncertainty," by I. Sungur, F. Ordóñez, M.M. Dessouky, Y. Ren, and H. Zhong. USC ISE Working paper #2008-01.
• "Robust Optimization: A Case in Forest Operations Planning," by S. Maturana, F. Ordóñez, A. Perez, and J. Vera, USC ISE Working paper #2007-03.
• "Discounted Robust Stochastic Games and an Application to Queueing Control," by E. Kardes, F. Ordóñez, and R.W. Hall, USC ISE Working paper #2007-01.
• "Confidence Intervals for OD Demand Estimation," by Y. Chen, F. Ordóñez, and K. Palmer. USC ISE Working paper #2006-01.

Other downloadable

• "On the Explanatory Value of Condition Numbers for Convex Optimization: Theoretical Issues and Computational Experience," Ph.D. Thesis, 2002, MIT Operations Research Center.
• "Stochastic Optimization Applied to Investment Decision - Electric Generation Model," Undergraduate Thesis, 1997, Mathematical Engineering Department, University of Chile.  (In spanish).
• SOFTWARE:   SLAW, a package for Scaling LAWs from statistical data, by P. Mendez and F. Ordóñez. 2004.

The documents distributed by this server have been provided by the contributing authors as a means to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work on a noncommercial basis. Copyright and all rights therein are maintained by the authors or by other copyright holders, notwithstanding that they have offered their works here electronically. It is understood that all persons copying this information will adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.