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  1. Just-in-Time Surgical Case Carts to Improve Operating Room Efficiency

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, April 2026, INFORMS

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  2. LncRNA H19: A Potential Diagnostic and Therapeutic Target for Kidney Diseases

    Article • Cell Biochemistry and Function, April 2026, Wiley

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  3. Channel structure of online retail platforms: impact of asymmetric information and capacity constraints

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  4. Measuring Sustainable Development Using Nonparametric Network Models

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  5. Strategies for units incentivization: Assessing influence by maximizing loss/gain in centrally managed systems

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

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  6. The Flow of Living Kidney Donor Candidates Through the Evaluation Process: A Single-Center Experience in Ontario, Canada

    Article • Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, March 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  7. Current status, opportunities, and challenges of exosomes in diagnosis and treatment of osteoarthritis

    Article • Life Sciences, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  8. Strategies for Units Incentivization: Assessing Influence by Maximizing Loss/Gain in Centrally Managed Systems

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  9. Pareto-optimal peer evaluation in context-dependent DEA

    Article • Operational Research, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  10. Incentivization in centrally managed systems: Inconsistencies resolution

    Article • Omega, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  11. Optimal co-development contracts for companion diagnostics

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  12. COVID-19 Policy Response Analysis: A Canadian Perspective

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  13. Modeling Sales of Multigeneration Technology Products in the Presence of Frequent Repeat Purchases: A Fractional Calculus-Based Approach

    Article • Production and Operations Management, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  14. A forecasting tool for a hospital to plan inbound transfers of COVID-19 patients from other regions

    Article • BMC Public Health, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  15. Intra-provincial benchmark analysis of COVID-19 in Canada

    Article • INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  16. Giveaway Strategies for a New Technology Product

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  17. Reproducibility in Management Science

    Article • Management Science, December 2023, INFORMS

    Christoph Huber, Felix Holzmeister, Dr. Mehmet A. Begen, Tae-Youn Park, Dr Nebojsa Davcik

  18. On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures

    Article • Journal of Productivity Analysis, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  19. Surgery Scheduling and Perioperative Care: Smoothing and Visualizing Elective Surgery and Recovery Patient Flow

    Article • Analytics, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  20. A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of OECD Member Countries’ Health Care Systems: Effects of Data Missingness and Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression on Inference

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  21. Relationship of thrombospondin-1 and thrombospondin-2 with hematological, biochemical and inflammatory markers in COVID-19 patients

    Article • Turkish Journal of Biochemistry, June 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  22. Refined bounds for the non-Archimedeanϵin DEA

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, June 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  23. Integrated Order Acceptance and Resource Decisions Under Uncertainty: Robust and Stochastic Approaches

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  24. A Novel and Efficient Exact Technique for Integrated Staffing, Assignment, Routing, and Scheduling of Home Care Services Under Uncertainty

    Article • Omega, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  25. Meta-Heuristic Algorithms based on Integer Programming for Shelf Space Allocation Problems

    Article • European Journal of Science and Technology, September 2022, European Journal of Science and Technology

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  26. Dynamic Interday and Intraday Scheduling

    Article • Operations Research, August 2022, INFORMS

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  27. LncRNAs in Osteoarthritis

    Article • Clinica Chimica Acta, July 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  28. Relative Efficiency of Radiation Treatment Centers: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

    Article • Healthcare, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  29. Type-2 integrated process-planning and scheduling problem: Reformulation and solution algorithms

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  30. Exact optimization and decomposition approaches for shelf space allocation

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  31. Home Health Care Services Management: Districting Problem Revisited

    Article • August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  32. Appointment scheduling with a quantile objective

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  33. Working from home during the COVID‐19 pandemic, its effects on health, and recommendations: The pandemic and beyond

    Article • Perspectives In Psychiatric Care, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  34. Increased Surgical Capacity without Additional Resources: Generalized Operating Room Planning and Scheduling

    Article • Production and Operations Management, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  35. Association of serum lncRNA H19 expression with inflammatory and oxidative stress markers and routine biochemical parameters in chronic kidney disease

    Article • Clinical and Experimental Nephrology, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  36. miRNAs as attractive diagnostic and therapeutic targets for Familial Mediterranean Fever

    Article • Modern Rheumatology, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  37. Ranking Invariant Efficiency Measures of Healthcare Units

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  38. A Novel and Efficient Exact Technique for Integrated Staffing, Assignment, Routing, and Scheduling of Home Care Services Under Uncertainty

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  39. Exact Optimization and Decomposition Approaches for 2D Shelf Space Allocation

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  40. Intra-Provincial Benchmark Analysis on COVID-19 in Canada

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  41. Evaluating multiple living kidney donor candidates simultaneously is more cost-effective than sequentially

    Article • Kidney International, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  42. Dynamic multi-priority, multi-class patient scheduling with stochastic service times

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

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  43. Dynamic Inter-day and Intra-day Scheduling

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  44. Decomposition algorithms for the integrated process planning and scheduling problem

    Article • Omega, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  45. Development of an operational and tactical decision support tool for a Canadian beverage firm: a case study

    Article • European J of Industrial Engineering, January 2019, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  46. Duration of Living Kidney Transplant Donor Evaluations: Findings From 2 Multicenter Cohort Studies

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  47. Solving the Whistler-Blackcomb Mega Day Challenge

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, August 2018, INFORMS

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  48. Healthcare Costs for the Evaluation, Surgery, and Follow-Up Care of Living Kidney Donors

    Article • Transplantation, August 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  49. Initiating Maintenance Dialysis Before Living Kidney Donor Transplantation When a Donor Candidate Evaluation Is Well Underway

    Article • Transplantation, July 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  50. Potential implications of a more timely living kidney donor evaluation

    Article • American Journal of Transplantation, April 2018, Wiley

    Steven Habbous, Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  51. Variability of waiting times for the 4 most prevalent cancer types in Ontario: a retrospective population-based analysis

    Article • CMAJ Open, April 2018, Canadian Medical Association (CMA)

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  52. Evaluation of a centralised transportation assistance system for passengers with special needs at a Canadian airport

    Article • International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, January 2018, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  53. Reducing Patient Waiting Times for Radiation Therapy and Improving the Treatment Planning Process: a Discrete-event Simulation Model (Radiation Treatment Planning)

    Article • Clinical Oncology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen, Dr Michael Lock

  54. Economic Evaluation of Brentuximab Vedotin for Persistent Hodgkin Lymphoma

    Article • February 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  55. A branch and bound algorithm for scheduling unit size jobs on parallel batching machines to minimize makespan

    Article • International Journal of Production Research, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  56. Supply and demand uncertainty reduction efforts and cost comparison

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, October 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  57. Scheduling Methods for Efficient Stamping Operations at an Automotive Company

    Article • Production and Operations Management, August 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  58. A branch and bound based heuristic for makespan minimization of washing operations in hospital sterilization services

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  59. Writing ORMS/Analytics Cases

    Article • October 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  60. Optimization in Healthcare Delivery Modeling: Methods and Applications

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  61. Improving the Efficiency of Radiation Therapy Delivery by Resource Optimization

    Article • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, November 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Michael Lock, Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  62. Appointmet scheduling when service duration distributions are not known

    Article • Operations Research, June 2012, INFORMS

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen, Maurice Queyranne

  63. Discrete time modeling of and a polynomial time algorithm for appointment scheduling

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, May 2011, INFORMS

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen, Maurice Queyranne

  64. Stochastic Dynamic Programming Models and Applications

    Article • February 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  65. Teaching ORMS/Analytics with Cases

    Article • January 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  66. Appointment Scheduling with Discrete Random Durations

    Article • January 2009, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  67. Surgical block scheduling in a system of hospitals: an application to resource and wait list management in a British Columbia health authority

    Article • Health Care Management Science, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  68. Proxy Selection for Interactive Video

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  69. Predictive Modeling of Video Packet Delay in IP Networks

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  70. Production planning model and decision support tool development for fish catch allocation.

    Article • INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research, August 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  71. Rate-distortion optimized on-demand media streaming with server diversity

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen

  72. Real-time multiple description and layered encoded video streaming with optimal diverse routing

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mehmet A. Begen