Professor Stephen R. Lawrence
Research

Current Projects

• Patil, R. and S. Lawrence, Setting Due Dates and Scheduling Jobs to Maximize Customer Satisfaction and Profits

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• Lawrence, S., G. Monahan, and T. Smunt, Market Preferences and Process Selection (MAPPS): The Value of Perfect Flexibility

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• LaGanga, L., and S. Lawrence, Clinical Appointment Scheduling: The Cost of No-Shows and the Value of Overbooking

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• Liang, F, and S. Lawrence, A Goal Programming Approach to the Team Formation Problem

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• S. Lawrence, Estimating Lead Times in Assembly Supply Chains
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• S. Lawrence, "Pollution," entry in the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Robert W. Kolb (ed), Sage Publications, 2007 (forthcoming)

Refereed Journal Publications - contact author for copies of paper(s)

• Connaway, L., and S. Lawrence, “Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library,” D-Lib Magazine 9(12), http://www.DLIB.org, December, 2003

• Lawrence, S., L. Connaway, and K Brigham, “Life Cycle Costs of Library Collections: Creation of Effective Performance and Cost Metrics for Library Collections,” College & Research Libraries, November 2001.

• Lawrence, S.R. and S.E. Sewell, "Heuristic versus Optimal Schedules when Processing Times are Uncertain," Journal of Operations Management 15, 1997, 71 - 82.

• Lawrence, S.R., "Estimating Flowtimes and Setting Due-Dates in Complex Production Environments," IIE Transactions 27(4), 1995, 657 - 668.
• Lawrence, S.R., and A.H. Buss, "Economic Analysis of Production Bottlenecks," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 1995.
• Buss, A.H., and S.R. Lawrence, "Mean Variance Interaction in Process Improvement and Capacity Design," IIE Transactions 27(3), 1995, 339 - 347.
• Lawrence, S.R., "Negotiating Due-Dates between Customers and Producers," International Journal of Production Economics 37(1), 1994, 127 - 138.
• Lawrence, S.R. and A.H. Buss, "Shifting Production Bottlenecks: Causes, Cures, and Conundrums," Production and Operations Management 3(1), Winter 1994, 21 - 37.
• Buss, A.H., S.R. Lawrence, and D.H. Kropp, "Volume and Capacity Interaction in Facility Design," IIE Transactions 26(4), Jul 1994, 36 - 49.
• Lawrence, S.R., and T.E. Morton, "Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling with Tardy Costs," European Journal of Operational Research 64(2), Jan 1993, 168 - 187.
• Lawrence, S.R., and M.J. Rosenblatt, "Introducing International Issues into Operations Management Curricula," Production and Operations Management 1(1), 1992, 103 - 117.
• Lawrence, S.R., "Scheduling A Single Machine to Maximize Net Present Value," International Journal of Production Research 29(6), 1991, 1141 - 1160.
• Morton, T.E., S.R. Lawrence, S. Rajagopolan, and S. Kekre, "Sched-Star: A Price-Based Shop Scheduling Module," Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management 1(2) (now International Journal of Production Economics), 1988, 131 - 181.

Refereed Book Chapters

• Lawrence, S.R. and A.H. Buss, "Excess Capacity and International Production Arbitrage," in Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Strategic Management and Implementation, J. Sarkis (editor), forthcoming.
• Mausser, H.E. and S.R. Lawrence, "Exploiting Block Structure to Improve Resource-Constrained Project Schedules," Metaheuristics 1995: State of the Art, F. Glover, I. Osman, and J. Kelley (editors), Kluwer, Maryland, 1995.
• Bayer, J., S.R. Lawrence, and J. Keon, "PEP: An Expert System for Promotion Marketing," Chapter 9, Applied Expert Systems, E. Turban and P.R. Watkins (eds.), North Holland, New York, 1988, 121 - 141.

Refereed Proceedings

• S.R. Lawrence, "Interaction of Due-Dates and Dispatch Rules in Single-Stage Production Settings," Proceedings of the 1995 Decision Sciences Institute National Conference, Boston MA, November 1995.
• Lawrence, S.R. and S.E. Sewell, "Comparing Heuristic and Optimal Schedules with Stochastic Processing Times," Proceedings of the 1994 Decision Sciences Institute National Conference, Honolulu HI, November 1994.
• Lawrence, S.R., "Critical Factors in the Globalization of Service Operations," in the collected papers of the Symposium on Globalization of Operations Management, Georgetown University, May 1993.
• Lawrence, S.R. and A.H. Buss, "Shifting Bottlenecks: Causes and Cures," Proceedings of the 1992 Decision Sciences Institute National Conference, 1992.
• Lawrence, S.R., "Introducing Global Issues into Operations Strategy Curricula," Papers of the Invited Workshop on Teaching Manufacturing Strategy, 23rd Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, San Francisco CA, Nov 22, 1992.
• Lawrence, S.R. and M.J. Rosenblatt, "Introducing Global Issues into Operations Management Teaching," Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Production Research, Hafai, China, August 1991.
• Prietula, M.J., S.R. Lawrence, and D.P. Greene, "Task-Centered Research: Understanding, Augmenting, and Discovering Managerial Expertise," Proceedings of the 21st Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Science, IEEE Computer Society Press, January 1988. Received award as Best Advanced Applications paper.
• Lawrence, S.R. and T.E. Morton, "Patriarch: A Hierarchical Production Scheduling System," Proceedings of the Symposium on Real Time Optimization in Automated Manufacturing Facilities, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg MD, 1986.

Unpublished Working Papers

• Buss, A.H. and S.R. Lawrence, The Economic Bottleneck in Capacity Management and Improvement, College of Business and Administration, University of Colorado, Boulder CO, 1995.
• Lawrence, S.R. and T.E. Morton, Testing a Generic Procedure for Obtaining Good Job Shop Heuristics, College of Business and Administration, University of Colorado, Boulder CO, 1995.
• A Net Present Value Model for Production Scheduling, Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis MO, 1989.
• Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling: Heuristic vs. Optimal Schedules, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, 1985.
• Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling: An Experimental Investigation of Heuristic Scheduling Techniques, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, 1984.