Karla Hoffman
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Systems Engineering and Operations Research Dept.
Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering
Engineering Building, room 2207, Mail Stop 4A6
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
phone: 703-993-1679
fax: 703-993-1521
email: khoffman@gmu.edu

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Some of my publications:

Encyclopedia Articles:

"The Traveling Salesman Problem" with M. Padberg and G. Rinaldi to appear in Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Sciences. Eds. Saul Gass and Michael Fu. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2012.

"Combinatorial Auctions: Theory and Applications" to appear in Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Sciences. Eds. Saul Gass and Michael Fu. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2012.

"The North American Operations Research Societies" Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Ed. James Cochoran. Wiley Publishers. 2012.

"Integer and Combinatorial Optimization" with T. Ralphs to appear in Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Sciences. Eds. Saul Gass and Michael Fu. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2012.

Papers:

"Congestion pricing applications to manage high temporal demand for public services and their relevance to air space management" with Frank Berardino, George Hunter Transport Policy April, 2012.

"Comparison of Efficiency of Slot Allocation by Congestion Pricing and Ration by Schedule" with Saba Neyshaboury, Vivek Kumar, and Lance Sherry. The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Virgina April 24-26, 2012 .

Using an Equilibrium Model to Forecast Airline Behavior in response to Economic or Regulatory Changes" with John Ferguson, Lance Sherry, George Donohue, Abdul Qadar Kara. Proceedings of the 5th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (2011), Dulles, Virginia May 10-12, 2011 .

"A Practical Combinatorial Clock Exchange for Spectrum Licenses" with D. Menon. Decision Analysis, 7(1). 1-21. 2010

"Spectrum Auctions", in Wireless Network Design: Optimization Models and Solution Procedures (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science) eds. Jeffrey Kennington, Eli Olinick and Dinesh Rajan. Fall, 2010. Springer Verlag.

"Estimating Domestic U.S. Airline Cost of Delay Based on a European Model of Airline Costs" with A. Kara, J. Ferguson, and L. Sherry. Proceeding of the ICRAT 4th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation. June 01-04, 2010‚Äö Budapest, Hungary. (A. Kara won Best Student Paper award for this paper and accompanying presentation).

"Airline Response to Changing Economics and Policy" with John Ferguson, Lance Sherry, George Donohue, Abdul Qadar Kara, Rosa Oseguera-Lohr. 2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference. May 11-13, 2010.

"Sensitivity Analysis to the Cost of Delay Model for NextGen Benefits Analysis" with Abdul Qadar Kara, John Ferguson, and Lance Sherry. 2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference. May 11-13, 2010.

Some recent dissertations that I directed:

"Dissertation: A Congestion Pricing Model to Handle Day of Operations Airport Capacity Reductions. Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D.), Director: Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.) Dissertation, Information Technology, George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering.

"A Methodology for Evaluating Economic and Policy Impacts on Airline and Passenger Behavior". John Ferguson (Ph.D.), Director: Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.) Dissertation, May, 2012. Systems Engneering and Operations Research, George Mason University Vogenau School of Engineering.

Some recent reports:

"An Enhancement to the Current Cooperative Decision Making Process for Capacity Allocation: Tradable Permits" with Frank Berardino, GRA Inc, George Hunter, Diego Escala and Huina Gao, Sensis Corp. 2012.

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