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Stephen Pollock

Professor Emeritus
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2117
pollock@umich.edu

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Research

My research centers on models and methods for decision making under uncertainty, and for stochastic modeling of a variety of operational phenomena.

Here is a paper with Robert Smith on foundations of dynamic programming:  Dynamic Programming (PDF File)

If you are interested in applications in sports: Scheduling Swimmers for High School Meets

A recently published paper on the use of Bayesian Analysis in Radiation Oncology

An old but basic working paper (with Jeff Alden) on Machine Monitoring Probability Thresholds 

Teaching

IOE 315 - Intro to Stochastic Processes 

IOE 416 - Queueing Systems

IOE 424 - Practicum in Production and Service Systems (Senior Design Projects)

IOE 640 -- Modeling Studio (Winter 06)

IOE 460 - Decision Analysis

Other Classes Taught:


This page was last modified on May 9, 2006 by pretech. Send questions to pollock@engin.umich.edu