Phone: (732)445-5465
E-mail: gursoy@rci.rutgers.edu
Office Location: Busch Campus, CORE Building, Rm 218
Personal Homepage
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~gursoy

Bio

Dr. Melike Baykal-Gursoy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She received her BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Bogozici University and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses in optimization, stochastic processes, queueing theory, inventory control, and time series analysis.

Research Interest

Her research interests are in the areas of stochastic processes, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), Stochastic games, and their application to stochastic modeling and control of networks and production / inventory systems.

Professional Activities

Member of INFORMS
Member of IIE

Representative Publications                                     Top
 
K. M. A. Ozbay, W. Xiao*, G. Jaiswal*, B. Bartin*, P. Kachroo and M. Baykal-Gürsoy, “Evaluation of Incident Management Strategies and Technologies using an Integrated Traffic/Incident Management Simulation,” in press, Int. J. Technology Management, 2008.

M. Baykal-Gürsoy, W. Xiao* and K. M. A. Ozbay, “Modeling Traffic Flow Interrupted by Incidents,” in press, European Journal of Operational Research, 2008, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2008.01.024

M. Baykal-Gursoy and K. Gursoy. “Semi-Markov Decision Processes: Nonstandard Criteria”, to appear in Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 2007.

M. Baykal-Gursoy and Z. Duan, “M/M/C Queues with Markov Modulated Service Processes,” in Proceedings of Valuetools-First International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, Pisa, Oct. 11-13, 2006.

K.Ozbay, W. Xiao, C. Iyigun and M. Baykal-Gursoy, “Probabilistic Programming Models for Response Vehicle Dispatching and Resource Allocation in Traffic Incident Management,” revised on 2005, 2006, I&SE-Working Paper Series 04-014, Rutgers University, (2004).

M. Z. Avsar and M. Baykal-Gursoy, “A Note on Two-Person Zero-Sum Communicating Games,” Operations Research Letters, Vol. 34:4, pp. 412-420, 2006.

T. Nugent, M. Baykal-Gursoy, and K. Gursoy, "Monitoring k-Step-Ahead Controlled Processes," Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 21, pp. 63-80, 2005.

M. Baykal-Gursoy and W. Xiao, “Stochastic Decomposition in M/M/8 Queues with Markov-Modulated Service Rates”, Queueing Systems, Vol. 48, pp.75-88, 2004.

M. Z. Avsar and M. Baykal-Gursoy, “Inventory Control under Substitutable Demand: A Stochastic Game Application,” Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 49, pp. 359-375, 2002.

M. Z. Avsar and M. Baykal-Gursoy, “A Decomposition Approach for Undiscounted Two-Person Zero-Sum Games,” Mathematical Methods in OR., Vol. 49, pp. 483-500, 1999.

M. Baykal-Gursoy and M. Z. Avsar, “Two-Person Zero-Sum Undiscounted Stochastic Games,” Proceeding IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, Arizona, 1999.

T. Altiok, Vu-Duy and M. Baykal-Gursoy, “Two Load-Sharing Processes with Failures,” Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 183-189, 1998.

B. Gaujal, M. Jafari, M. Baykal-Gursoy and G. Alpan*, “Allocation Sequences of Two Processes Sharing a Resource,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 11, pp. 748-753, 1995.

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