James E. Falk , PhD

Professor of Operations Research

Office: 1776 G Street, Office 156

Tel: (202) 994-7516

Fax: (202) 994-0245

Email: falk@gwu.edu

Office Hours : By Appointment

Education

• BS. - Electrical Engineering - University of Detroit 1960
• MSc.- Mathematics - University of Michigan 1962
• PhD.- Mathematics - University of Michigan 1965

Research Interests

Current Projects

Journal Puplications

1. "A Method of Euclidean Centers," Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1996 (with James Fagan).
   
   
2. "Surgical Separation of Sets," Journal of Global Optimization, Vol. 11,1997 (with Emma Lopez-Cardona).
   
   
3. "Feasibility of a Nonlinear Parametric System of Inequalities," Proceedings on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies, Yerevan, Armenia, August 1999 (with Katta Murty).
   
   
4. "Minimizing the Mean Damage for Parallel-Series Systems with Two Failure Modes," Journal of Computation Optimization and Applications, Vol 17, pp. 301-328, 2000 (with V. Kirilyuk, Kiev).
   
   
5. "Robust Separation via Quadratics," Computers and Operations Research Vol. 28 No. 6, pp. 537-561, 2001 (with V. Karlov).
   
   
6. "Tactical Optimal Portfolio Selection" - to appear in Computers and Operations Research (with K. Gratcheva).
   
   
7. "Robust Set Separation via Exponentials," Nonlinear Analysis, Volume 47, Part 3 pp. 1845-1856, 2001 (with Yelena Danurova and Lana Yeganova).
   
   
8. "Set Separation Problems and Global Optimization," Nonlinear Analysis, Volume 47, Part 3 pp. 1857-1868, 2001 (with Yelena Danurova and Lana Yeganova).
   
   
9. "Robust Multiple Set Separation," Nonlinear Analysis, Volume 47, Part 3 pp. 1893-1904, 2001 (with Yelena Danurova and Lana Yeganova).
   
   
10. "Optimal Reliability Allocation," SIAM Review, Volume 48, No. 1, pp. 43-65, 2006 (with Nozer Singpurwalla and Yefim Vladimirsky).
    
    
11. The Economics of Administering Import Quotas with Licenses-on-Demand, The American Journal of Agricultural Economics Volume 88 Issue 2, pp. 338-350, 2006 (with Jana Hranaiova and Harry de Gorter).
    
    
12. Constrained Equilibrium in a Bidding Problem, submitted to Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2006, Economics (with Jana Hranaiova and Harry de Gorter.
    
    
13. Relationships Between Borda Voting and Zermelo Ranking to be submitted in 2007(with L. B. Anderson, L. Yeganova and H. Dandurova).