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Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# overview
Dr. Ntaimo's research interests are in stochastic programming, systems modeling and engineering processes, and discrete event modeling and simulation. Applications of interest include wildfire planning, healthcare, wind energy, and homeland security.

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4606 Distributed Computing And Systems Software

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Partially Observed Markov Decision Process

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Partially Observed Markov Decision Process

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University of Arizona - (Tucson, Arizona, United States)

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Systems and Industrial Engineering, minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

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University of Arizona - (Tucson, Arizona, United States)

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University of Arizona - (Tucson, Arizona, United States)

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Marilyn and L. David Black Faculty Fellow in Industrial and Systems Engineering

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Demand Response in Data Centers: Integration of Server Provisioning and Power Procurement

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Optimal Day-Ahead Power Procurement With Renewable Energy and Demand Response

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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SIMULATION OF WIND FARM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

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Integrated Simulation and Optimization for Wildfire Containment

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Stage- and scenario-wise Fenchel decomposition for stochastic mixed 0-1 programs with special structure

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vGrid: A framework for building autonomic applications

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES FOR WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS

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Two-dimensional fire spread decomposition in cellular DEVS models

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Algorithms for a Satellite Constellation Scheduling Problem

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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A two-stage stochastic integer programming model for air traffic flow management

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Forest fire spread and suppression in DEVS

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Computations with disjunctive cuts for two-stage stochastic mixed 0-1 integer programs

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A Stochastic Programming Model for Fuel Treatment Management

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The time slot allocation problem under uncertain capacity

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Optimal Maintenance Strategies for Wind Turbine Systems Under Stochastic Weather Conditions

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Integrating fire suppression into a DEVS cellular forest fire spread model

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Modeling and Simulation of Nuclear Medicine Patient Service Management in DEVS

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Modeling and simulation of oncology clinic operations in discrete event system specification.

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An integrated chance constraints approach for optimal vaccination strategies under uncertainty for COVID-19.

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Chemotherapy appointment scheduling under uncertainty using mean-risk stochastic integer programming.

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A stochastic optimization approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and transportation

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IIS branch-and-cut for joint chance-constrained stochastic programs and application to optimal vaccine allocation

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A hybrid agent-cellular space modeling approach for fire spread and suppression simulation

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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A comparative study of decomposition algorithms for stochastic combinatorial optimization

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What is the optimal cutoff surface for ore bodies with more than one mineral

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Integrating virtualization, speed scaling, and powering on/off servers in data centers for energy efficiency

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Simulation of wind farm operations and maintenance using discrete event system specification

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Computational study of decomposition algorithms for mean-risk stochastic linear programs

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Simulation and Stochastic Integer Programming Approach to Wildfire Initial Attack Planning

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An algorithm for binary linear chance-constrained problems using IIS

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A stochastic DEVS wind turbine component model for wind farm simulation

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Simulation of wind farm operations and maintenance using discrete event system specification

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Community health pathways modeling and scheduling under uncertainty.

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Wildfire initial response planning using probabilistically constrained stochastic integer programming

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BAYESIAN SPLINE METHOD FOR ASSESSING EXTREME LOADS ON WIND TURBINES

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Towards validation of DEVS-FIRE wildfire simulation model

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Dynamic multi-resolution cellular space modeling for forest fire simulation

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Disjunctive Decomposition for Two-Stage Stochastic Mixed-Binary Programs with Random Recourse

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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Distributed computing system for multi-stage stochastic programs

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The million-variable "march" for stochastic combinatorial optimization

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A stochastic mixed-integer programming approach to optimal resource allocation for wildfire containment

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COVID-19 vaccination policies under uncertain transmission characteristics using stochastic programming.

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DEVS-FIRE: design and application of formal discrete event wildfire spread and suppression models

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Patient and resource scheduling of multi-step medical procedures in nuclear medicine

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Modeling and simulation of oncology clinic operations in discrete event system specification

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Stochastic online appointment scheduling of multi-step sequential procedures in nuclear medicine.

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Mixed-integer programming models for optimal constellation scheduling given cloud cover uncertainty

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Balancing Wildfire Risk and Power Outages Through Optimized Power Shut-Offs

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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A Summary and Illustration of Disjunctive Decomposition with Set Convexification

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A stochastic DEVS wind turbine component model for wind farm simulation

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Multi-component wind turbine modeling and simulation for wind farm operations and maintenance

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A branch-and-cut algorithm for two-stage stochastic mixed-binary programs with continuous first-stage variables

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Multi-Period Power System Risk Minimization Under Wildfire Disruptions

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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A stochastic programming standard response model for wildfire initial attack planning

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Sign Constrained Bayesian Inference for Nonstationary Models of Extreme Events

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Reducing pediatric medication errors: A survey and taxonomy

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DEVS-FIRE: Towards an integrated simulation environment for surface wildfire spread and containment

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Nodal decomposition-coordination for stochastic programs with private information restrictions

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Finding optimal vaccination strategies under parameter uncertainty using stochastic programming.

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Adaptive multicut aggregation for two-stage stochastic linear programs with recourse

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Collaborative Research: Fuel Treatment Planning Optimization for Wildfire Management

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Directorate for Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Industrial Engineering; 3131 TAMU

# organizations[]
Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# inTheNews[].label
Fighting Wildfires With Fuel Treatment Strategies

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Gallego Arrubla, Julian Andres (2013-07). Irreducible Infeasible Subsystem Decomposition for Probabilistically Constrained Stochastic Integer Programs. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Venkatachalam, Saravanan (2014-08). Algorithms for Stochastic Integer Programs Using Fenchel Cutting Planes. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Beier, Eric (2012-02). Subgradient-based Decomposition Methods for Stochastic Mixed-integer Programs with Special Structures. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Lee, Won Ju (2009-06). A stochastic mixed integer programming approach to wildfire management systems. Master's Thesis.

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Kabli, Mohannad Reda A (2014-04). Stochastic Programming Model for Fuel Treatment Management. Master's Thesis.

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Cotton, Tanisha Green (2013-05). Computational Study of Mean-Risk Stochastic Programs. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Perez Roman, Eduardo (2011-08). Simulation and Optimization Models for Scheduling Multi-step Sequential Procedures in Nuclear Medicine. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Tanner, Matthew W. (2010-01). New Solution Methods for Joint Chance-Constrained Stochastic Programs with Random Left-Hand Sides. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Alvarado, Michelle (2014-11). Integrated Simulation and Optimization for Decision-Making under Uncertainty with Application to Healthcare. Doctoral Dissertation.