Parallel parametric combinatorial search : its application to runway scheduling
Dionyssios Anastasios Trivizas · 1987
At first I want to express my profound respect and gratitude to the members of my doctoral committee. Despite his many responsibilities as director of the Flight Transportation Laboratory I enjoyed a complete "teacher- student " relationship with my advisor Professor Robert. W. Simpson. Full of "conflicts and resolutions " this relationship was a creative, almost operatic experience. He did not simply guide me in research. He made me communicate it properly. Professor Amedeo R. Odoni is responsible for luring me into the field of Operations Research (OR) and for giving me the opportunity to work and learn at FTL. He went beyond sharpening my powers of analysis in probability and queueing theory. He gave me the model of a sincere and concerned teacher. Professor Stephen C. Graves is the third member of my committee. I thank him for his comments and advice. I should not omit from the list of my teachers professor Tom L. Magnanti of the Sloan School of Management. His network optimization course was a