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Research Interests

• Operations Research; Mathematical programming; Operations Management.
  
  
• Optimization with applications to airline, machine, and sports scheduling.
  
  
• Retail analytics and service/manufacturing planning.

Grants

• 2013-2016: "Analytics for System-Wide Infrastructure and Capacity Planning for Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup." NPRP 6-248-5-023. Role: Lead PI (with Ameer Al-Salem Co-LPI, Qatar University; Ghaith Rabadi Co-PI, Old Dominion University, USA). Award: $530,477.
  
  
• 12/2012-12/2014: "Cutting-Edge Optimization for Modern, Consumer-Focused Retailing." Agency: Qatar National Research Fund, National Priorities Research Program, NPRP 5-591-5-082. Role: Co-PI (with Bacel Maddah LPI, American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Shaligram Pokharel Co-LPI, Qatar University). Award: $511,185.
  
  
• 12/2010-06/2012: "Tactical Optimization Models for the Design of Retail Product Lines." Agency: Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant # P1FRG0000000096, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Award: $9,828.
  
  
• 12/2010-01/2013: "Integrated Modeling and Optimization Approaches for Airport Terminal Area Management." Agency: Qatar National Research Fund, National Priorities Research Program, NPRP09-253-2-103. Role: Lead Principal Investigator (with Ghaith Rabadi Co-PI, Old Dominion University; Ameer Al-Salem Co-LPI, Qatar University). Award: $493,032.
  
  
• 2008-2009: "Optimization of Aircraft Arrival and Departure Schedules in Multiple-Runway Airports." Agency: Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant # P1FRG0000000049, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Award: $6,990.

Journal Papers

1. Flamand, T., Ghoniem, A., Maddah, B. (2015), Promoting impulse buying by allocating retail shelf space to grouped products, Journal of the Operational Research Society, (forthcoming).
   
   
2. Ghoniem, A., Flamand, T., Haouari, M. (2015), Exact solution methods for a generalized assignment problem with location/allocation considerations, INFORMS Journal on Computing, (forthcoming).
   
   
3. Rabadi, G., Khallouli, W., Al-Salem, M., Ghoniem, A. (2015), Planning and management of maga sports events: A survey, International Journal of Planning and Scheduling, 2 (2), 154-178. (link)
   
   
4. Ghoniem, A., Farhadi, F., Reihaneh, M. (2015), An accelerated branch-and-price algorithm for multiple-runway aircraft sequencing problems, European Journal of Operational Research, 246 (1), 34-43. (link)
   
   
5. Ghoniem, A. and Maddah, B. (2015), Integrated assortment, pricing, and inventory decisions: Optimization and Insights, Omega, 55, 38-52. (link)
   
   
6. Ghoniem, A. and Farhadi, F. (2015), A column generation approach for aircraft sequencing problems: A computational study, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 66, 1717-1729. (link)
   
   
7. Ghoniem, A., Maddah, B., and Ibrahim, A. (2014), Optimizing assortment and pricing of multiple retail categories with cross-selling, Journal of Global Optimization, (forthcoming). (link)
   
   
8. Farhadi, F., Ghoniem, A., Al-Salem, A. (2014), Runway capacity management -- an empirical study with application to Doha International Airport, Transportation Research Part E, 68, 53-63. (link)
   
   
9. Ghoniem, A., Sherali, H. D., and Baik, H. (2014), Enhanced models for a mixed arrival-departure aircraft sequencing problem, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 26 (3), 514-530. (link).
   
   
10. Ali, A. I., Ghoniem, A., and Franke, A. (2014), Evaluating capacity management tactics for a legacy manufacturing plant, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 65, 1361-1370. (link).
    
    
11. Solak, S., Scherrer, C. R., and Ghoniem, A. (2014), The stop-and-drop problem in nonprofit food distribution networks, Annals of Operations Research, 221 (1), 407-426. (link)
    
    
12. Ghoniem, A., Scherrer, C. R., and Solak, S. (2013), A specialized column generation approach for a vehicle routing problem with demand allocation, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 64, 114-124. (link)
    
    
13. Ali, F. M., Al-Hamadi, H., Ghoniem, A., and Sherali, H. D. (2012), Hardware-software co-design for reconfigurable field programmable gate arrays using mixed-integer programming, Informatica, 36 (3), 287-295. (link)
    
    
14. Mafakheri, F., Breton, M., and Ghoniem, A. (2011), Supplier selection-order allocation: A two stage multiple criteria dynamic programming approach, International Journal of Production Economics, 132 (1), 52-57. (link)
    
    
15. Ghoniem, A. and Sherali, H. D. (2011), Defeating symmetry in combinatorial optimization via objective perturbations and hierarchical constraints, IIE Transactions, 43 (8), 575-588. Best Paper Prize 2012 (Operations Engineering & Analysis)  (link)
    
    
16. Ghoniem, A. and Sherali, H. D. (2011), Set partitioning and packing versus assignment formulations for subassembly matching problems, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 62, 2023-2033. (link)
    
    
17. Ghoniem, A. and Sherali, H. D. (2010), Models and algorithms for the scheduling of a doubles tennis training tournament, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 61, 723-731. (link)
    
    
18. Ghoniem, A. and Sherali, H. D. (2009), Complementary column generation and bounding approaches for set partitioning formulations, Optimization Letters, 3 (1), 123-136. (link)
    
    
19. Sherali, H. D. and Ghoniem, A. (2009), Joint vehicle assembly-routing problems: An integrated modeling and optimization approach, Networks, 53 (3), 249-265. (link)
    

Submitted/Working Papers

1. Ghoniem, A., Flamand, T., Haouari, M., Optimization-based very large-scale neighborhood search for generalized assignment problems with location/allocation considerations, under 3rd round of review.
   
   
2. Kharbeche, M., Ghoniem, A., Sherali, H. D., and Al-Salem, M., An effective metaheuristic for the mixed-mode aircraft sequencing problem on multiple runways, under revision.
   
   
3. Ghoniem, A. and Reihaneh, M., A branch-and-price algorithm for an integrated vehicle routing with demand allocation problem, under review.
   
   
4. Rabadi, G., Hancerliogullari, G., Kharbeche, M., Ghoniem, A., Al-Salem, M., A mathematical model and heuristic approaches for aircraft reactive scheduling under operations disruptions, under review.
   
   
5. Maddah, B., Kharbeche, M., Pokharel, S., Ghoniem, A., Joint replenishment model for multiple products with substitution, under review.
   

To be Submitted

1. Ghoniem, A., Flamand, T., Maddah, M., Maximizing impulse buying via store-wide shelf space allocation, in preparation.
   
   
2. Ghoniem, A., Ali, A. I., Optimized crew scheduling for tree network restoration, in preparation.
   
   
3. Flamand, T., Ghoniem, A., Haouari, M., An Optimization-based GRASP heuristic for a multiple-knapsack problem with assortment, location, and allocation decisions, in preparation.
   
   
4. Flamand, T., Ghoniem, A., Haouari, M., Maddah, B., Tactical retail shelf space allocation: Maximizing Impulse buying vs. shopping convenience, in preparation.
   
   
5. Reihaneh, M., Ghoniem, A., Exact methods for the generalized vehicle routing problem, in preparation.
   
   
6. Maddah, B., Ghoniem, A., Bou Younes, M., Product line optimization with economies of scale and logistics considerations, in preparation.
   
   
7. Ghoniem, A., Maddah, B., A review of product line optimization: Reservation price estimation, consumder choice models, and optimization approaches, in preparation.
   
   
8. Ghoniem, A., Maddah, B., Product line assortment, pricing and inventory decisions under probabilistic consumer choice models, in preparation.

Conference Papers

1. Ibrahim, A., Ghoniem, A., Maddah, B. (2014), Retail assortment and pricing decisions under a deterministic maximum utility consumer choice model, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2014.
   
   
2. Al-Salem, A., Farhadi, F., Kharbeche, M., and Ghoniem, A. (2012),  Multiple-runway aircraft sequencing problems using mixed-integer programming, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Orlando, FL, May 2012 - Winning 2012 ISERC Paper, OR Track.
   
   
3. Musa, R., Chen F. F., and Ghoniem, A. S. (2006), Dynamic variation reduction technique in assembly lines after batch inspection, IERC, Orlando, FL, May 2006. 

Presentations

1. Layout-based shelf space allocation to maximize impulse buying, EURO-INFORMS, Rome, Italy 2013.
   
2. Defeating symmetry in combinatorial optimization via objective function perturbations and hierarchical constraints, IIE Transactions Best Papers Session, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 18-22, 2013.
3. Multiple-runway aircraft sequencing problems using mixed-integer programming, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Orlando, FL, May 22, 2012 (contributed talk).
4. Managing Variety, Pricing, and Ordering Decisions for Substitutable Retail Products, POMS, Chicago, IL, April 20, 2012 (invited talk).
5. A Vehicle Routing Problem with Location-allocation Considerations, INFORMS Northeast Regional Conference, Amherst, MA, May 7, 2011.
6. A Combined Arrival-departure Runway Scheduling Problem, INFORMS Northeast Regional Conference, Amherst, MA, May 6, 2011.
7. A Consumer-centric Optimization Approach for Structuring Retail Product Lines, POMS, Reno, NV, May 1st, 2011 (contributed talk).
8. A mathematical programming approach for integrated large-scale retail decisions, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 9, 2010 (contributed talk).
9. A column generation approach for joint vehicle assembly-routing problems, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 13, 2009 (invited talk).
10. Joint optimization of aircraft arrival and departure schedules, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 11, 2009 (invited talk). 
11. Joint assortment, pricing, and ordering in retail management, IIE Annual Conference and Expo, Miami, FL, June 2, 2009 (invited talk).
    
12. Joint vehicle assembly-routing problems: an integrated modeling and optimization approach, UMass Amherst  INFORMS Student Chapter, October 24, 2008.
13. Symmetry compatible formulations via objective perturbations and hierarchical constraints, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 13, 2008 (invited talk).
14. Joint vehicle assembly-routing problems: an integrated modeling and optimization approach, Virginia Tech INFORMS Student Chapter, May 2, 2007.

Awards & Honors

• Outstanding Teaching Award, Isenberg School of Management, 2012-2013.
• IIE Transactions Best Paper Prize, 2012.
• ISERC Conference, winning paper in OR Track, 2012.
• Nominated for Outstanding Teaching Award, Isenberg School of Management, 2012.
• 2011-present: Chancellor's Junior Faculty Fellow.
• 2009: Outstanding Faculty Support Award, INFORMS Chapter, UMass Amherst.
  
• Nominated by the Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst, to attend the Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 2008.
  
• Nominated by the ISE Department, Virginia Tech, to attend the Doctoral Colloquium, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.
• 1997-1999: Excellence Scholarship by the French government.

Services to The Profession

• Editorial Board: Advances in Operations Research.
  
• Referee for: European Journal of Operational Research; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; Journal of Global Optimization; Journal of the Operational Research Society.
• 2005-2006 President, INFORMS Student Chapter, Virginia Tech.