Ben A. Chaouch, Ph.D.
Professor, Management Science
chaouch@uwindsor.ca
519-253-3000 ext. 3149
Office: OB 414
Education
- Ph.D. University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, Management Sciences, 1987.
- M.A. Stanford University, USA, Operations Research, 1978.
- B.A. University of Algiers, Algeria, Mathematics and Statistics, 1975.
Research
- Inventory Management
- Production and Operations Management
- Stochastic Models
- Inventory Management
- Operations Research
- Production and Operations
Selected Publications
- Chaouch, A. (. (2022). Optimal stocking policies for inventory systems with uncertain returns. International Journal of Production Research, 61 (21), 7453-7466. [December], http://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2022.2150906.
- Britt, J.; Baki, F.M., Azab, A., Chaouch, A.B. & Li, X. (2021). A stochastic hierarchical approach for the master surgical scheduling problem. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 158, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107385. [May]
- Li, X., Zhu, L., Baki, F., & Chaouch, A. B. (2018). Tabu search and iterated local search for the cyclic bottleneck assignment problem. Computers & Operations Research, 96, 120-130, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2018.04.004.
- Chaouch, A. B. (2018). Analysis of the stochastic cash balance problem using a level crossing technique. Annals of Operations Research, 271 (2), 429-444, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2822-2.
- Kulkarni, A. J., Baki, M. F., & Chaouch, A. B. (2015). Application of the cohort-intelligence optimization method to three selected combinatorial optimization problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 250 (2), 427-447, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.10.008.
- Li, X., Rafaliya, N., Baki, M. F., & Chaouch, A. B. (2015). Scheduling elective surgeries: The tradeoff among bed capacity, waiting patients and operating room utilization using goal programming. Health Care Management Science, 20 (1), 33-54, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-015-9334-2.
- Baki, M., Chaouch, A., & Abdul-Kader, W. (2014). A heuristic solution procedure for the dynamic lot sizing problem with remanufacturing and product recovery. Computers & Operations Research, 43, 225-236, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2013.10.001.