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25. Tejada, Jeremy. 2012 (Expected). An Integrated Discrete-Event/Systems Dynamics Simulation Model of Breast
Cancer Screening for Elderly US Women. Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
North Carolina State University. (Cochair with Professor Jule S. Ivy).
26. Liu, Ran. 2013 (Expected). Modeling and simulation of nonstationary non-Poisson arrival processes. Edward
P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University.
27. Thompson, James. 2013 (Expected). Modeling financial markets using fractals and heavy-tailed distributions.
Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University.
Chair, M.S. Thesis/Project Advisory Committees
1. Padilla, J. A. 1980. A simulation-based analysis of stochastic MRP systems. Operations Research Group,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
2. Naylor, C. E. 1980. The application of activity networks for the scheduling of the Space Shuttle project.
Operations Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
3. Martinez, D. C. 1981. Design of a quality control system for direct materials. Operations Research Group,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
4. Khazenie, J.. 1981. Eliminating initialization bias in the simulation of queueing systems. Operations Research
Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
5. Vaughan, D. K. 1983. Predictive models of postweaning cattle growth. Operations Research Group, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
6. Martin, O. J.. 1983. ADSSIM: Aged and disabled services simulation. Operations Research Group, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
7. Venkatraman, S. 1983. Application of the control variate technique to multiple simulation output analysis.
Operations Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
(A paper from this thesis was one of five national winners of the 1986 Omega Rho Student Paper Competition
sponsored by the Operations Research Society of America.)
8. Sullivan, D. W. 1984. A restricted subset selection procedure adapted to discrete-event simulation. Operations
Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
9. Church, T. K. 1984. PEGASUS: A simulation model of ground operations for the Shuttle Transportation
System’s solid rocket booster project. Operations Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
10. Lee, S. 1985. Modeling and simulation of sea-state variables as nonhomogeneous Poisson processes and
bilinear time series. Operations Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of
Texas, Austin, Texas. (Cochair with Professor M. M. Crawford, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The
University of Texas.)
11. Dessouky, M. M. 1987. Minimizing production costs for a robotic assembly system. School of Industrial
Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
12. Avramidis, A. N. 1989. A flexible method for estimating inverse distribution functions in simulation experiments.
School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
13. Humphrey, D. G. 1991. Optimization of a corn-processing simulation model. School of Industrial Engineering,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
14. Manning, S. T. 1993. PROWESS: Probabilistic weighted evaluation simulation software. Department of
Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.