My research group is always looking
for talented and energetic graduate students to participate in research.Opportunities currently exist for graduate
students and talented undergraduate students in the areas of port security
and emergency medical services.I am
particularly interested in students who have a background in applied
mathematics, computer science, operations research, and engineering; students
who have taken courses in real analysis, probability, and discrete
mathematics; and students who are interested in applying discrete
optimization and approximation algorithms to problems in homeland security
and emergency response.Students must
be able to program (C, C++, Matlab), and knowledge
of Excel and LaTeX is a plus.
Vaughan,
D. E., S. H. Jacobson, S. N.Hall, and L. A. McLay, 2005.
"Simultaneous Generalized Hill Climbing Algorithms for Addressing Sets
of Discrete Optimization Problems," INFORMS Journal on Computing
17(4) 1 – 12.
Jacobson,
S. H., L. A. McLay, J. E. Kobza,
J. M. Bowman, 2005. “Modeling and Analyzing Multiple Station Baggage
Screening Security System Performance," Naval Research Logistics
52(1), 30 – 45.
McLay, L. A. and D. E. Goldberg, 2005. “Efficient Genetic
Algorithms using Discretization Scheduling,” Evolutionary
Computation 13 (3) 353 – 385.
Jacobson,
S. H., L. A. McLay, S. N. Hall, J. E. Orosz, 2005. “Performance Analysis of Cyclical Simulated
Annealing Algorithms,” Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 7(2)
183 – 201.
Jacobson, S. H., J. L. Virta, L. A. McLay,
J. E. Kobza, 2005. “Integer Program Models for the Deployment of Airport Baggage
Screening Security Devices," Optimization and Engineering 6(3)
339 – 359.
McLay, L. A., S. H. Jacobson, and J. E. Kobza,
2006. “A Multilevel Passenger Prescreening Problem for Aviation Security,”
Naval Research Logistics 53 (3), 183 – 197.
Jacobson,
S. H., S. N. Hall, L. A. McLay, D. Henderson,
D. E. Vaughan, 2006. “Optimal Search
Strategies Using Simultaneous Generalized Hill Climbing Algorithms,” MathematicalandComputerModelling
49(9-10), 1061 – 1073.
McLay, L. A., S. H. Jacobson, and J. E. Kobza,
2007. “Integer Programming Models and Analysis for a Multilevel
Passenger Screening Problem,” IIE Transactions 39(1), 73 – 81.
McLay, L. A., S. H. Jacobson, 2007. “Integer Knapsack
Problems with Set-up Weights,” Computational Optimization and Applications
37(1), 35 – 47.
McLay, L. A., S. H. Jacobson, 2007.
“Algorithms for the Bounded Set-up Knapsack Problem,” Discrete
Optimization 4(2), 206 – 212.
Nikolaev, A. G., S. H. Jacobson, L. A. McLay, 2007.“A Sequential Stochastic Security System Design Problem for Aviation Security,” Transportation Science 41(2), 182 – 194.
Jacobson, S.H., and L.A.McLay, 2008.“Applying Statistical Tests to Empirically Compare Tabu Search Parameters for MAX 3-SATISFIABILITY:A Case Study,” Omega (to appear).
McLay, L. A., S. H. Jacobson and J.E. Kobza, 2008.“The Tradeoff between Technology and Prescreening Intelligence in Checked Baggage Screening for Aviation Security,” Journal of Transportation Security (to appear).
McLay, L. A., S. H. Jacobson, and A. G. Nikolaev, 2008.“A Sequential Stochastic Passenger Screening Problem for Aviation Security,” IIE Transactions (to appear).
·Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO):2002,
2001,
2000
Conference Presentations
Invited
Session (with Jason R.W. Merrick), 2007 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 4-7,
2007, Seattle, WA,
“Modeling
Survivability for Emergency Medical Service Systems.”
Sponsored
Session, 2007 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2007, Seattle, WA,
“OR in the Classroom:Helping the
Homeless.”
Sponsored
Session (with Sheldon H. Jacobson and Adrian J. Lee), 2007 INFORMS Annual
Meeting, November 4-7, 2007, Seattle,
WA, “A Problem to Sequentially
Screen Passengers for Aviation Security.”
Invited
Speaker, SAMSI Perception, Policy & Practice Workshop, October 3-4, 2007,
Research Triangle Park, NC, “Modeling Patient Survivability for Emergency Medical Service Systems.”
Invited
Session (with Sheldon H. Jacobson), 2007 INFORMS International Conference,
July 8-11, 2007, Puerto Rico, “A Sequential
Stochastic Passenger Screening Problem for Aviation Security.”
Invited
Session (with Sheldon H. Jacobson), 2006 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November
5-8, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, “The
Economic Impact of Obesity on Automobile Fuel Consumption.”
Invited Session, 2006 Symposium on
Operations Research and the Criminal Justice System, September 28-29, 2006,
Arlington, VA, “Balancing COMPSTAT and Community
Policing.”
Invited
Session (with Sheldon H. Jacobson and John E. Kobza),
2005 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 13-16, 2005, San Francisco, CA,
“Integer Programming Models and Analysis for a Multilevel Passenger Screening
Problem”
Invited
Session (with Sheldon H. Jacobson), 2004 SIAM
Conference on Discrete Mathematics, June 13-16, 2004, Nashville, TN,
“Integer Knapsack Problem with Set-up Weights.”
Invited
Session (with Sheldon H. Jacobson and John E. Kobza),
2003 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 19-22, 2003, Atlanta, GA,
“Modeling and Analyzing Checked Baggage Screening Systems.”
Invited
Session, The Fourteenth International Summer Symposium on Science and World
Affairs, July 15-21, 2002, Urbana,
IL, “Passenger Profiling Issues
in Aviation Security.”
Other Talks
·GeorgetownUniversity, 2008.
·VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity, Operations Research Applications Speaker Series, 2006
