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  1. Emergency Drone Deployment and Disposable Defibrillator Allocation: A Modular Capacitated Maximum Covering Location Model

    Article • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, August 2026, INFORMS

    Professor Bo Chen

  2. Optimal Incentives and the Price of Information in Sequential Production with Private Costs

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  3. Welfare-maximizing Budget-balanced Mechanisms for Public Goods

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  4. A unified and computationally efficient framework for procurement portfolio optimization with option contracts

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  5. Randomized strategyproof mechanisms with best of both worlds fairness and efficiency

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, August 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  6. Interdisciplinary synergy and integration in auction theory and practice

    Article • Scientia Sinica Mathematica, January 2025, Science China Press., Co. Ltd.

    Professor Bo Chen

  7. Stability, Efficiency, and Tractability: Cost-Sharing Trade-offs in Stochastic Congestion Games

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  8. Operational Research: methods and applications

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bo Chen

  9. Fairness criteria for allocating indivisible chores: connections and efficiencies

    Article • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  10. An FPTAS for scheduling with resource constraints

    Article • Operations Research Letters, July 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  11. Equitability and welfare maximization for allocating indivisible items

    Article • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  12. An Improved Approximation Algorithm for Scheduling Monotonic Moldable Tasks

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  13. Bounding Residence Times for Atomic Dynamic Routings

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, February 2022, INFORMS

    Professor Bo Chen

  14. Capacity Games with Supply Function Competition

    Article • Operations Research, February 2022, INFORMS

    Professor Bo Chen

  15. Optimizing voting order on sequential juries: a median voter theorem and beyond

    Article • Social Choice and Welfare, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  16. Atomic Dynamic Flow Games: Adaptive vs. Nonadaptive Agents

    Article • Operations Research, July 2021, INFORMS

    Professor Bo Chen

  17. New progress in combinatorial optimization

    Article • Discrete Applied Mathematics, February 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  18. Preface

    Article • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  19. Optimizing Voting Order on Sequential Juries: A Sealed Card Model

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  20. Buffer sizing in critical chain project management

    Article • Omega, December 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  21. Scheduling coupled tasks with exact delays

    Article • Journal of Scheduling, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  22. Achieving Efficiency in Capacity Procurement

    Article • Foundations and Trends® in Technology Information and Operations Management, October 2020, Emerald

    Professor Bo Chen

  23. A functional equation of tail-balance

    Article • Aequationes Mathematicae, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  24. Rawlsian fairness in supply chains

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  25. Incentive schemes for resolving Parkinson’s Law in project management

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, June 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  26. Atomic congestion games with random players

    Article • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  27. Price of fairness in scheduling

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  28. Scheduling with time-of-use costs

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, November 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  29. Vehicle Routing with Probabilistic Capacity Constraints

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, April 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  30. Supplier Competition with Option Contracts for Discrete Blocks of Capacity

    Article • Operations Research, August 2017, INFORMS

    Professor Bo Chen

  31. A Network Game of Dynamic Traffic

    Article • June 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Bo Chen

  32. Who Should Cast the Casting Vote?

    Article • Theory and Decision, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  33. Combinatorial optimization: theory, computation, and applications

    Article • Discrete Applied Mathematics, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  34. Joint optimization in energy systems

    Article • IET Renewable Power Generation, November 2016, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Fei Liu, Professor Bo Chen

  35. The Importance of Voting Order

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  36. Relationships among circumstance pressure, green technology selection and firm performance

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  37. Normal-form preemption sequences for an open problem in scheduling theory

    Article • Journal of Scheduling, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  38. Price of anarchy for non-atomic congestion games with stochastic demands

    Article • Transportation Research Part B Methodological, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  39. Tactical fixed job scheduling with spread-time constraints

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  40. Strong stability of Nash equilibria in load balancing games

    Article • Science in China Series A Mathematics, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  41. Stability vs. optimality in selfish ring routing

    Article • Acta Mathematica Sinica English Series, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  42. Quantifying the efficiency of price-only contracts in push supply chains over demand distributions of known supports

    Article • Omega, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  43. Efficiency analysis of load balancing games with and without activation costs

    Article • Journal of Scheduling, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  44. A comprehensive decision-making model for risk management of supply chain

    Article • Expert Systems with Applications, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  45. Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  46. Equilibria in load balancing games

    Article • Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica English Series, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  47. Cost-effective designs of fault-tolerant access networks in communication systems

    Article • Networks, July 2009, Wiley

    Professor Bo Chen

  48. Logistics scheduling with batching and transportation

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  49. On-line service scheduling

    Article • Journal of Scheduling, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  50. The price of atomic selfish ring routing

    Article • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  51. Approximation Algorithms for Soft-Capacitated Facility Location in Capacitated Network Design

    Article • Algorithmica, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  52. Scheduling of batch plants: Constraint-based approach and performance investigation

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  53. Combinatorics, Algorithms, Probabilistic and Experimental Methodologies

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  54. Lot-sizing scheduling with batch setup times

    Article • Journal of Scheduling, June 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  55. Book review

    Article • Operations Research Letters, November 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  56. Algorithm for the Capacitated Facility Location Problem

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, May 2005, INFORMS

    Professor Bo Chen

  57. Algorithms for on-line bin-packing problems with cardinality constraints

    Article • Discrete Applied Mathematics, September 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  58. On-Line Scheduling a Batch Processing System to Minimize Total Weighted Job Completion Time

    Article • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  59. Allocation of bandwidth and storage

    Article • IIE Transactions, May 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bo Chen

  60. Article • IIE Transactions, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  61. Optimisation models for re-routing air traffic flows in Europe

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, December 2001, Nature

    Professor Bo Chen

  62. On-line scheduling of small open shops

    Article • Discrete Applied Mathematics, June 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  63. How good is a dense shop schedule?

    Article • Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica English Series, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  64. On-Line Scheduling a Batch Processing System to Minimize Total Weighted Job Completion Time

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  65. On-Line Algorithms for Cardinality Constrained Bin Packing Problems

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  66. Approximation algorithms for two-machine flow shop scheduling with batch setup times

    Article • Mathematical Programming, June 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  67. A Review of Machine Scheduling: Complexity, Algorithms and Approximability

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  68. Article • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  69. Scheduling on identical machines: How good is LPT in an on-line setting?

    Article • Operations Research Letters, November 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  70. An improved heuristic for one-machine scheduling with delays constraints

    Article • Science in China Series A Mathematics, July 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  71. A Note on "An On-Line Scheduling Heuristic with Better Worst Case Ratio than Graham's List Scheduling"

    Article • SIAM Journal on Computing, June 1997, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Professor Bo Chen

  72. Scheduling for Three-Machine Flow Shops

    Article • Operations Research, December 1996, INFORMS

    Professor Bo Chen

  73. An optimal algorithm for preemptive on-line scheduling

    Article • Operations Research Letters, October 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  74. Analysis of Classes of Heuristics for Scheduling a Two-Stage Flow Shop with Parallel Machines at One Stage

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, February 1995, JSTOR

    Professor Bo Chen

  75. Analysis of Classes of Heuristics for Scheduling a Two-Stage Flow Shop with Parallel Machines at One Stage

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, February 1995, Nature

    Professor Bo Chen

  76. Analysis of Classes of Heuristics for Scheduling a Two-Stage Flow Shop with Parallel Machines at One Stage

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, February 1995, Nature

    Professor Bo Chen

  77. A Study of On-Line Scheduling Two-Stage Shops

    Article • January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  78. New lower and upper bounds for on-line scheduling

    Article • Operations Research Letters, November 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  79. A lower bound for randomized on-line scheduling algorithms

    Article • Information Processing Letters, September 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  80. An optimal algorithm for preemptive on-line scheduling

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  81. Scheduling Multiprocessor Flow Shops

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  82. A Better Heuristic for Preemptive Parallel Machine Scheduling with Batch Setup Times

    Article • SIAM Journal on Computing, December 1993, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Professor Bo Chen

  83. Worst-case analysis of heuristics for open shops with parallel machines

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, November 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  84. A note on LPT scheduling

    Article • Operations Research Letters, October 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  85. Approximation Algorithms for Three-Machine Open Shop Scheduling

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Computing, August 1993, INFORMS

    Professor Bo Chen

  86. Tighter bound for MULTIFIT scheduling on uniform processors

    Article • Discrete Applied Mathematics, May 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Bo Chen

  87. Parametric bounds for LPT scheduling on uniform processors

    Article • Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica English Series, January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bo Chen

  88. Optimal Binomial Group Testing with a Test History

    Article • Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, October 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Bo Chen