Bo Chen - Professor of Operational Research and Management Science | Staff Directory

Research Interests

combinatorial optimization; scheduling theory; game theory (mechanism design)

Teaching in 2021-2022

Postgraduate Research Business and Management

IB9GF0: Recent Advances in Operational Research and Operations Management

Undergraduate

IB2070: Mathematical Programming 2
IB1040: Mathematical Programming I

Operations Group

Email: Bo.Chen@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 24755 / Room: 0.212

Biography

Professor Bo Chen has been at the forefront of operational research and management science (ORMS) for over twenty years. He is a specialist in developing successful interfaces between ORMS, economics and computer science.

After gaining his PhD in Operations Research and Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, in 2012 Bo was awarded a Higher Doctorate, a form of "lifetime achievement award", for original and sustained contribution to scholarship at the very highest international level. He has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

Bo has been a Professor of Operational Research & Management Science at WBS since 2005. He was 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.

Publications

Journal Articles

Chen, B. and Hall, N. (2021) "Incentive schemes for resolving Parkinson's Law in project management", European Journal of Operational Research, 288, 2, 666-681
Jiang, Y., Wu, X., Chen, B. and Hu, Q. (2021) "Rawlsian fairness in push and pull supply chains", European Journal of Operational Research, 291, 1, 194-205
Alpern, S., Chen, B. and Ostaszewski, A. J. (2021) "A functional equation of tail-balance for continuous signals in the Condorcet Jury Theorem", Aequationes Mathematicae, 95, 67-74
She, B., Chen, B. and Hall, N. G. (2021) "Buffer sizing in critical chain project management by network decomposition", Omega - International Journal of Management Science, 102, 102382
Cao, Z., Chen, B., Chen, X. and Wang, C. (2021) "Atomic dynamic flow games : adaptive versus nonadaptive agents", Operations Research
Anderson, E., Chen, B. and Shao, L. (2021) "Capacity games with supply function competition", Operations Research
Alpern, S. and Chen, B. (2021) "Optimizing voting order on sequential juries : a median voter theorem and beyond", Social Choice and Welfare
Cao, Z., Chen, B., Chen, X. and Wang, C. (2021) "Bounding residence times for atomic dynamic routings", Mathematics of Operations Research
Wang, C., Doan, X. V. and Chen, B. (2020) "Atomic congestion games with random players : network equilibrium and the price of anarchy", Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
Lusheng, S., Edward, A. and Chen, B. (2020) "Achieving efficiency in capacity procurement", Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information, and Operations Management, 14, 1-2, 138-154
Chen, B. and Zhang, X. (2020) "Scheduling of coupled tasks with exact delays for minimum total job completion time", Journal of Scheduling, 24, 209-221
Chen, B. and Zhang, X. (2019) "Scheduling with time-of-use costs", European Journal of Operational Research, 274, 3, 900-908
Agnetis, A., Chen, B., Nicosia, G. and Pacifici, A. (2019) "Price of fairness in two-agent single-machine scheduling problems", European Journal of Operational Research, 276, 1, 79-87
Noorizadegan, M. and Chen, B. (2018) "Vehicle routing with probabilistic capacity constraints", European Journal of Operational Research, 270, 2, 544-555
Alpern, S. and Chen, B. (2017) "Who should cast the casting vote? Using sequential voting to amalgamate information", Theory and Decision, 83, 2, 259-282
Anderson, E., Chen, B. and Shao, L. (2017) "Supplier competition with option contracts for discrete blocks of capacity", Operations Research, 65, 4, 952-967
Alpern, S. and Chen, B. (2017) "The importance of voting order for decisions by sequential majority voting", European Journal of Operational Research, 258, 3, 1072-1081
Chen, B., Coffman, E., Dereniowski, D. and Kubiak, W. (2016) "Normal-form preemption sequences for an open problem in scheduling theory ", Journal of Scheduling, 19, 6, 701-728
Liu, F., Giulietti, M. and Chen, B. (2016) "Joint optimization of generation and storage in the presence of wind", IET Renewable Power Generation, 10, 10, 1477-1487
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bo Chen (2009) "Equilibria in load balancing games", Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, Vol.25, No.4, 723-736
Chen, X. and Chen, B. (2009) "Cost-effective designs of fault-tolerant access networks in communication systems", Networks, Vol.53, No.4, 382-391
Wang, Z., Xing, W. and Chen, B. (2009) "On-line service scheduling", Journal of Scheduling, Vol.12, No.1, 31-43
Chen, X. and Chen, B. (2009) "Approximation algorithms for soft-capacitated facility location in capacitated network design", Algorithmica, Vol.53, No.3, 263-297
Chen, B. and Lee, C. (2008) "Logistics scheduling with batching and transportation", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.189, No.3, 871-876
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
Chen, B., Ye, Y. and Zhang, J. (2006) "Lot-sizing scheduling with batch setup times", Journal of Scheduling, Vol.9, No.3, 299-310
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bo Chen (1993) "A note on LPT scheduling", Operations Research Letters, 14, 3, 139-142
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
Bo Chen (1993) "A Better Heuristic for Preemptive Parallel Machine Scheduling with Batch Setup Times", SIAM Journal on Computing, 22, 6, 1303-1318
Chen, B. and Strusevich, V. A. (1993) "Approximation Algorithms for Three-Machine Open Shop Scheduling", ORSA Journal on Computing, 5, 3, 321-326
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
Bo Chen (1991) "Parametric bounds for LPT scheduling on uniform processors", Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, 7, 1, 67-73
Bo Chen (1991) "Tighter bound for MULTIFIT scheduling on uniform processors", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 31, 3, 227-260
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
Bo Chen (1989) "Intermatroid : A generalization of the intersection of two matroids ", Applied Mathematics--A Journal of Chinese Universities, 4, 319-326