Research Interests
combinatorial optimization; scheduling theory; game theory (mechanism design)
Teaching in 2016-2017
Research Students
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IB9EG0: Recent Advances in Operational Research
Undergraduate
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IB2070: Mathematical Programming 2
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IB1040: Mathematical Programming I
Biography
Formerly Senior ESRC Management Research Fellow, Visiting Professor in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University, USA, and Chair Professor in Mathematical Sciences and Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University, China. Currently Fellow of the UK's Operational Research Society.
Publications
Journal Articles
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Liu, F., Giulietti, M. and Chen, B. (2016) "Joint optimization of generation and storage in the presence of wind", IET Renewable Power Generation
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Alpern, S. and Chen, B. (2016) "The importance of voting order for decisions by sequential majority voting", European Journal of Operational Research
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Chen, B., Coffman, E., Dereniowski, D. and Kubiak, W. (2015) "Normal-form preemption sequences for an open problem in scheduling
theory
", Journal of Scheduling
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Xia, D., Chen, B. and Zheng, Z. (2015) "Relationships among circumstance pressure, green technology selection and firm performance", Journal of Cleaner Production, 106, 487-496
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Zhou, S., Zhang, X., Chen, B. and Velde, S. v. d. (2014) "Tactical fixed job scheduling with spread-time constraints ", Computers And Operations Research , Volume 47, 53-60
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Wang, C., Doan, X. V. and Chen, B. (2014) "Price of anarchy for non-atomic congestion games with stochastic demands", Transportation Research. Part B: Methodological, Volume 70, 90-111
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Du, D., Chen, B. and Xu, D. (2013) "Quantifying the efficiency of price-only contracts in push supply chains over demand distributions of known supports", Omega-International Journal of Management Science, 42, 1, 98-108
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Chen, B. and Gürel, S. (2012) "Efficiency analysis of load balancing games with and without activation costs", Journal of Scheduling, Vol.15, No.2, 157-164
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Xia, D. and Chen, B. (2011) "A comprehensive decision-making model for risk management of supply chain", Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 38, Number 5, 4957-4966
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Chen, B., Chen, X. and Hu, X. (2010) "The price of atomic selfish ring routing", Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Vol.19, No.3, 258-278
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Bo Chen (2009) "Equilibria in load balancing games", Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, Vol.25, No.4, 723-736
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Chen, X. and Chen, B. (2009) "Cost-effective designs of fault-tolerant access networks in communication systems", Networks, Vol.53, No.4, 382-391
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Chen, X. and Chen, B. (2009) "Approximation algorithms for soft-capacitated facility location in capacitated network design", Algorithmica, Vol.53, No.3, 263-297
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Wang, Z., Xing, W. and Chen, B. (2009) "On-line service scheduling", Journal of Scheduling, Vol.12, No.1, 31-43
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Chen, B. and Lee, C. (2008) "Logistics scheduling with batching and transportation", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.189, No.3, 871-876
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Huang, W. and Chen, B. (2007) "Scheduling of batch plants: constraint-based approach and performance investigation", International Journal of Production Economics, Vol.105, No.2, 425-444
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Chen, B., Ye, Y. and Zhang, J. (2006) "Lot-sizing scheduling with batch setup times", Journal of Scheduling, Vol.9, No.3, 299-310
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Chen, B., Arjen, P. A., Vestjens, A. P. A. and Woeginger, G. J. (1998) "On-line scheduling of two-machine open shops where jobs arrive over time", Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 1, 4, 355-365
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Chen, B. and Vestjens, A. P. A. (1997) "Scheduling on identical machines : How good is LPT in an on-line setting?", Operations Research Letters, 21, 4, 165-169
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Chandrasekaran, R., Chen, B., Galambos, G., Narayanan, P. R., Van Vliet, A. and Woeginger, G. J. (1997) "A note on ''an on-line scheduling heuristic with better worst case ratio than Graham's list scheduling''", SIAM Journal on Computing, 26, 3, 870-872
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Du, D., Han, J. and Chen, B. (1997) "An improved heuristic for one-machine scheduling with delays constraints", Science In China Series A , 40, 7, 680-686
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Chen, B., Glass, C. A., Potts, C. N. and Strusevich, V. A. (1996) "A new heuristic for three-machine flow shop scheduling", Operations Research, 44, 6, 891-898
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Chen, B., van Vliet, A. and Woeginger, G. J. (1995) "An optimal algorithm for preemptive on-line scheduling", Operations Research Letters, 18, 3, 127-131
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Bo Chen (1995) "Analysis of Classes of Heuristics for Scheduling a Two-Stage Flow Shop with Parallel Machines at One Stage", The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 46, 2, 234-244
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Chen, B., van Vliet, A. and Woeginger, G. J. (1994) "A lower bound for randomized on-line scheduling algorithms", Information Processing Letters, 51, 5, 219-222
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Chen, B., van Vliet, A. and Woeginger, G. J. (1994) "New lower and upper bounds for on-line scheduling", Operations Research Letters, 16, 4, 221-230
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Bo Chen (1993) "A note on LPT scheduling", Operations Research Letters, 14, 3, 139-142
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Chen, B. and Strusevich, V. A. (1993) "Worst-case analysis of heuristics for open shops with parallel machines", European Journal of Operational Research, 70, 3, 379-390
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Bo Chen (1993) "A Better Heuristic for Preemptive Parallel Machine Scheduling with Batch Setup Times", SIAM Journal on Computing, 22, 6, 1303-1318
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Chen, B. and Strusevich, V. A. (1993) "Approximation Algorithms for Three-Machine Open Shop Scheduling", ORSA Journal on Computing, 5, 3, 321-326
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Liu, Z., Hu, X., Du, D. and Chen, B. (1992) "A note on Rosens algorithm
", Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 12, 1, 94-96
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Bo Chen (1991) "Parametric bounds for LPT scheduling on uniform processors", Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, 7, 1, 67-73
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Bo Chen (1991) "Tighter bound for MULTIFIT scheduling on uniform processors", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 31, 3, 227-260
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Chen, B., Hu, X. D. and Hwang, F. K. (1990) "Optimal Binomial Group Testing with a Test History", Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 4, 4, 523
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Bo Chen (1989) "Intermatroid : A generalization of the intersection of two matroids
", Applied Mathematics--A Journal of Chinese Universities, 4, 319-326