Bio

Yahya Fathi has been a professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at North Carolina State University since 1984. Previously, he was an assistant professor of IE at Georgia Tech and at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dr. Fathi received the NC State University Outstanding Teacher Award in 1999, and he is a member INFORMS, IIE, Omega Rho, and Sigma Xi.

Area(s) of Expertise

Linear and nonlinear programming, integer programming, exact and inexact methods in discrete optimization, with applications in cutting and packing, data mining, cluster analysis, data base management systems, production planning and scheduling, logistics, and quality engineering.

Publications

• Bi-criteria set covering problem with conflict constraints , Computers & Industrial Engineering (2023)
• Set covering problem with conflict constraints , Computers & Operations Research (2022)
• Representative subsets of non-dominated points in the bi-criteria p-median p-dispersion problem , Computers & Industrial Engineering (2020)
• Effective methods for solving the Bi-criteria p-Center and p-Dispersion problem , Computers & Operations Research (2018)
• Valid inequalities for concave piecewise linear regression , Operations Research Letters (2018)
• An integer programming approach for solving the p -dispersion problem , European Journal of Operational Research (2016)
• Determining Query Readiness for Structured Data , Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (2015)
• Determining query readiness for structured data , Big data analytics and knowledge discovery (2015)
• p-Median and p-dispersion problems: A bi-criteria analysis , Computers & Operations Research (2015)
• Branch and Bound Algorithms for Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem Subject to Nonrenewable Resources with Prescheduled Procurement , Mathematical Problems in Engineering (2014)

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