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Michael O. Ball is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Social Sciences and Engineering, with a particular focus on Transportation and related subfields. The main topics examined in their work include Transportation Planning and Optimization, Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends, and Air Traffic Management and Optimization.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publication venues, notably Transportation Science, where they have two publications. Other frequent venues include Transportation Research Part B Methodological, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematics of Operations Research, and INFORMS Journal on Computing.

Recent published papers authored or co-authored by Michael O. Ball are:

  • Quantity-Contingent Auctions and Allocation of Airport Slots (2020, Transportation Science)
  • Equity and Strength in Stochastic Integer Programming Models for the Dynamic Single Airport Ground-Holding Problem (2020, Transportation Science)
  • Causal analysis of flight en route inefficiency (2021, Transportation Research Part B Methodological)
  • Facets of the Stochastic Network Flow Problem (2020, SIAM Journal on Optimization)
  • Monge Properties, Optimal Greedy Policies, and Policy Improvement for the Dynamic Stochastic Transportation Problem (2020, INFORMS Journal on Computing)

Their collaborative work involves frequent co-authors, including Alexander Estes, Mark Hansen, Yulin Liu, and David J. Lovell.

Michael O. Ball's research addresses a variety of topics in transportation and optimization, extending to auction theory applications and international law in aviation. The cross-disciplinary nature of their work integrates approaches from management science, operations research, and aerospace engineering.

  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
  • Air Traffic Management and Optimization
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • International Law and Aviation
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Traffic Control and Management

  • Quantity-Contingent Auctions and Allocation of Airport Slots
  • Equity and Strength in Stochastic Integer Programming Models for the Dynamic Single Airport Ground-Holding Problem
  • Causal analysis of flight en route inefficiency
  • Facets of the Stochastic Network Flow Problem
  • Monge Properties, Optimal Greedy Policies, and Policy Improvement for the Dynamic Stochastic Transportation Problem

  • Alexander Estes
  • Mark Hansen
  • Yulin Liu
  • David J. Lovell

  • Transportation Science
  • Transportation Research Part B Methodological
  • SIAM Journal on Optimization
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • INFORMS Journal on Computing

Best Publications

  • The Complexity of Counting Cuts and of Computing the Probability that a Graph is Connected

    J. Scott Provan;Michael O. Ball

  • Computational Complexity of Network Reliability Analysis: An Overview

    Michael O. Ball

  • A reliability model applied to emergency service vehicle location

    Michael O. Ball;Feng L. Lin

  • Inventory/routing: Reduction from an annual to a short-period problem

    Moshe Dror;Michael Ball

  • Sequencing of Insertions in Printed Circuit Board Assembly

    Michael O. Ball;Michael J. Magazine

  • Complexity of network reliability computations

    Michael O. Ball

  • A computational comparison of algorithms for the inventory routing problem

    M. Dror;M. Ball;B. Golden

  • Estimating Flight Departure Delay Distributions —A Statistical Approach With Long-term Trend and Short-term Pattern

    Yufeng Tu;Michael O Ball;Wolfgang S Jank

  • Total Delay Impact Study: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Costs and Impacts of Flight Delay in the United States

    Michael Ball;Cynthia Barnhart;Martin Dresner;Mark Hansen

  • Finding the most vital arcs in a network

    Michael O. Ball;Bruce L. Golden;Rakesh V. Vohra

  • THE STATE OF THE ART IN THE ROUTING AND SCHEDULING OF VEHICLES AND CREWS

    L Bodin;B Golden;A Assad;M Ball

  • PLANNING FOR TRUCK FLEET SIZE IN THE PRESENCE OF A COMMON-CARRIER OPTION

    M. O. Ball;B. L. Golden;A. A. Assad;L. D. Bodin

  • A Stochastic Integer Program with Dual Network Structure and Its Application to the Ground-Holding Problem

    Michael O. Ball;Robert Hoffman;Amedeo R. Odoni;Ryan Rifkin

  • Calculating bounds on reachability and connectedness in stochastic networks

    Michael O. Ball;J. Scott Provan

  • Optimization and mediated bartering models for ground delay programs

    Thomas Vossen;Michael Ball

  • A MODEL FOR BATCH ADVANCED AVAILABLE‐TO‐PROMISE

    Chien-Yu Chen;Zhenying Zhao;Michael O. Ball

  • Computing Network Reliability

    Michael O. Ball

  • Air Transportation: Irregular Operations and Control

    Michael O Ball;Cynthia Barnhart;George Nemhauser;Amedeo Odoni

  • Computing Network Reliability in Time Polynomial in the Number of Cuts

    J. Scott Provan;Michael O. Ball

  • Toward Robust Revenue Management: Competitive Analysis of Online Booking

    Michael O. Ball;Maurice Queyranne

  • A Matching Based Heuristic for Scheduling Mass Transit Crews and Vehicles

    Michael Ball;Lawrence Bodin;Robert Dial

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Hansen
Mark Hansen University of California, Berkeley
John S. Baras
John S. Baras University of Maryland, College Park
Dana S. Nau
Dana S. Nau University of Maryland, College Park
Bruce L. Golden
Bruce L. Golden University of Maryland, College Park
Leandros Tassiulas
Leandros Tassiulas Yale University
George L. Nemhauser
George L. Nemhauser Georgia Institute of Technology
Moshe Dror
Moshe Dror University of Arizona

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