Research Interests
combinatorial optimization; scheduling theory; game theory (mechanism design)
Teaching in 2020-2021
Postgraduate Research Business and Management
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IB9GF0: Recent Advances in Operational Research and Operations Management
Undergraduate
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IB2070: Mathematical Programming 2
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IB1040: Mathematical Programming I
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
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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
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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
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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
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Alpern, S., Chen, B. and Ostaszewski, A. J. (2020) "A functional equation of tail-balance for continuous signals in the Condorcet Jury Theorem", Aequationes Mathematicae
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Cao, Z., Chen, B., Chen, X. and Wang, C. (2020) "Atomic dynamic flow games : adaptive versus nonadaptive agents", Operations Research
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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
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She, B., Chen, B. and Hall, N. G. (2020) "Buffer sizing in critical chain project management by network decomposition", Omega - International Journal of Management Science, 102382
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Chen, B. and Zhang, X. (2020) "Scheduling of coupled tasks with exact delays for minimum total job completion time", Journal of Scheduling
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Chen, B. and Zhang, X. (2019) "Scheduling with time-of-use costs", European Journal of Operational Research, 274, 3, 900-908
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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
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Noorizadegan, M. and Chen, B. (2018) "Vehicle routing with probabilistic capacity constraints", European Journal of Operational Research, 270, 2, 544-555
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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
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Anderson, E., Chen, B. and Shao, L. (2017) "Supplier competition with option contracts for discrete blocks of capacity", Operations Research, 65, 4, 952-967
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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
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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
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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, 10, 10, 1477-1487
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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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