Research Interests
Sustainable transportation
- Vehicle routing, vehicle selection and fleet composition for sustainable transportation with alternative-fuel vehicles
- Smoothing electricity demand via vehicle-to-grid and other grid-integrated applications
- Personal and shared mobility solutions via autonomous vehicles
- Last-mile delivery using drones
- The combined car-sequencing and just-in-time level-scheduling problem
- Unrelated parallel machine scheduling with sequence-dependent setup times
- Integrated production and distribution scheduling for just-in-time delivery
- Improving the performance of Branch-and-X family of algorithms via novel branching, node selection, and partial solution specification timing strategies
- Shortening research development time through a unified framework for tree search algorithms and computational experiments
Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (Published or Accepted)
- Yavuz, M, and Capar, I., “Alternative-fuel vehicle adoption in service fleets: Impact evaluation through optimization modeling,” Transportation Science, forthcoming. Data files are available here.
- Yavuz, M., Oztaysi, B., Cevik-Onar, S. and Kahraman, C., “Multi-criteria Evaluation of Alternative-Fuel Vehicles via a Hierarchical Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Model,” Expert Systems with Applications, 42(5), pages 2835-2848.
- Yavuz, M., 2013, “An iterated beam search algorithm for the combined car-sequencing and level-scheduling problem,” International Journal of Production Research, 51(12), pages 3698-3718.
- Yilmaz, M. K., Engin, O., Yavuz, M., Figlali, A., Terzi, U., 2010, “A hybrid parallel kangaroo simulated annealing algorithm for multi-objective flow-shop scheduling,” Journal of Management and Engineering Integration, 3(2), pages 97-105.
- Yavuz, M., 2010, “An iterated beam search algorithm for the multi-level production smoothing problem with workload smoothing goal,” International Journal of Production Research, 48(20), pages 6189-6202.
- Yavuz, M., 2008, “A fast solution to the multi-level production smoothing problem,” Journal of Management and Engineering Integration, 1(2), pages 1-8.
- Kubiak, W. and Yavuz, M., 2008, “Just-In-Time smoothing through batching,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 10(3), pages 506-518.
- Yavuz, M., Inan, U.I. and. Figlali, A., 2008, “Fair referee assignments for professional football leagues,” Computers & Operations Research, 35(9), pages 2937-2951.
- Yavuz, M. and Tufekci, S., 2007, “Analysis and solution to the single-level batch production smoothing problem,” International Journal of Production Research, 45(17), pages 3893-3916.
- Yavuz, M. and Akcali, E., 2007, “Production smoothing in just-in-time manufacturing systems: models and solution approaches,” International Journal of Production Research (special issue “The Toyota production system: Thirty years of research and beyond”), 45(16), pages 3579-3597.
- Yerrick, N., Yavuz, M. and Jeffcoat, D., 2007, “Two sensor motion models for the dynamic sensor coverage problem,” Military Operations Research Journal, 12(2), pages 55-64.
- Yavuz, M., Akcali, E. and Tufekci, S., 2006, “Optimizing production smoothing decisions via batch selection for mixed-model just-in-time manufacturing systems with arbitrary setup and processing times,” International Journal of Production Research, 44(15), pages 3061-3081.
- Yavuz, M., Akcali, E. and Tufekci, S., 2006, “A hybrid meta-heuristic for the batching problem in just-in-time flow-shops,” Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 5(3), pages 371-393.
- Yavuz, M. and Tufekci, S., 2006, “A bounded dynamic programming solution to the batching problem in mixed-model just-in-time manufacturing systems,” International Journal of Production Economics, 103(2), pages 841-862.
- Yavuz, M. and Tufekci, S., 2006, “Dynamic programming solution to the batching problem in just-in-time flow-shops,” Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 51(3), pages 416-432.
- Kahraman, C. and Yavuz, M. (Editors), “Production Engineering and Management under Fuzziness,” Springer-Verlag.
Recent Grants
May-August 2016, "A Branch and Price Algorithm for the Mixed-Fleet Green Vehicle Routing Problem," $20,000, Culverhouse College of C&BA
May-August 2015, "A Fast and Effective Algorithm for the Green Vehicle Routing Problem," $20,000, Culverhouse College of C&BA
May-August 2014, "Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times," $25,000, Kraft Foods, Inc.
May-August 2015, "A Fast and Effective Algorithm for the Green Vehicle Routing Problem," $20,000, Culverhouse College of C&BA
May-August 2014, "Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times," $25,000, Kraft Foods, Inc.