Home  About Us Dr. Bezalel Gavish
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Professor; Eugene J. and Ruth F. Constantin Distinguished Chair in Business
Education
- Ph.D., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- MSc, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- B.Sc., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Courses Taught
- Business to Business Electronic Commerce
- Computers and Telecommunications for Competitive Advantage
- Wireless Communication Systems
- Introduction to Telecommunication Management
- System Analysis for Engineers
- Discrete Event Digital Simulation of Systems
- Overview of Computers and Information Systems
- Ph.D seminar in telecommunications and electronic commerce
- MBA seminar in Computers and Information Systems
- Introduction to Management Science Models
- Design and Analysis of Computer Applications
- Design and Analysis of Computer Networks
- Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
- Routing and Scheduling of Transportation Systems Systems
- Analysis and Design
- MIS to Executives
Consulting Engagements
- Motorola Satellite Business Systems, the Iridium project
- MCI, ATM system configuration
- NTT, Telecommunication systems configuration
- NTT, Telecommunication systems configuration
- IBM Research Division, in the areas of Computer Networking and VLSI Layout
- Gorca Telecomm, ATM Network Design
- Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, Scheduling & Routing
- Bell South, Workforce to Load Management
- AT & T Bell Laboratories, Configuring Distributed Computing Systems to serve large industrial organizations
- BOCES, Rochester, Development of a Computerized Pupil Busing System
- Xerox, Flexible Manufacturing Systems
- Central Transport Inc., in the area of online Dispatching and Scheduling
- National Institute for Scientific Research, Quebec, Canada, Methods for Designing National Fiberoptic Networks
- Eastman Kodak, Routing & Scheduling & Combinatorial Optimization
- GTE Labs, Multi-period local Plant design, and design of the signaling network subject to reliability constraints
- BELLCORE, design & analysis of local access networks, and fiber optics networks
- World Bank, evaluation of China's university system
Coordinated and supervised student projects with Xerox, Eastman Kodak,
Bausch and Lomb, Mobil, Taylor Instruments, BMI, Magnetek, HCA, Itek
Corporation, Regional Transit Authority, Corning Glass, Rochester
Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Gas and Electric, BOCES and Citibank
in the areas of Systems Analysis, Systems Simulation, Production and
Inventory, Marketing, and Distribution Management and Financial
Planning.
Current Research
- Economic models of business-to-business exchanges
- Combinatorial auctions and their pricing
- Economic models and configuration aspects of cellular systems
- Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems and their research issues
- Distributed Group Decision Support Systems, systems that overcome the time and space limitations of traditional GDSS
- Development of a comprehensive economic model of computer
communications, which combines reliability, availability, delays,
network costs and benefits into a unified model
- Allocation of processors, data bases and processes in distributed
systems, configuring distributed computer systems, dynamic data
allocation and file migration. Applications of such models to the
Internet
- Research in the field of computer communication networks (topological design and routing)
- Design and Analysis of Local Access Networks and Outside Plants
- Methods and algorithms for automatic assembly of electronic
components. Management of low-yield multi-stage fabrication processes
- Approximation heuristics with guaranteed error bounds to routing, scheduling, and topological design problems
- Algorithms for solving large-scale transportation scheduling problems and bus scheduling problems
Recent Publications
- Gavish, B., Gerdes J., Sridar S. and Srinivasan, K., "An O ( )
Algorithm for Concurrency Control in Replicated File Systems," INFOR,
Vol. 35, No. 1 (1997) pp. 1-14.
- Gavish, B. and Gerdes, J., "Voting Mechanisms and Their
Implications in a GDSS Environment," Annals of Operations Research, Vol
71, (1997), pp 41-74.
- Gavish, B., "Low Earth Orbit Satellite Based Communication Systems - Research Opportunities," EJOR, Vol. 99, (1997) pp. 166-179.
- Suk-Gwon Chang and Gavish, B., "Lower Bounding Procedures for
Multiperiod Telecommunications Network Expansion Problems," Operations
Research, Vol. 43, No. 1 (1995) pp. 43-57.
Editorial Boards
- Editor in Chief - Telecommunications Systems, 1991 - present
- Editor in Chief Electronic Commerce Research, 1999 - present
- Advisory Board, The Journal of Information Technology & Management, 1997 - present
- Advisory Board, International Journal of Management Science, 1997 - present
- Editorial Board, Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics, 1997 - present
- Editorial Board, Wireless Networks Journal, 1993 - present
- Editorial Board, NOMAD Journal of Special Topics on Mobile Data, Computation and Networking, 1995-present
- Editorial Board, Annals of Information Systems, 1995 - present
- Editorial Board, Combinatorial Optimization; Theory and Practice, 1994 - present
- Editorial Board, Mathematics of Industrial Systems, 1992 - present
Grants, Honors and Awards
- 1996 - Appointed to National Research Council. Computer Science
and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) Committee on Untethered
Communications
- 1996 - President American Telecommunication Systems Management Association
- 1995 - Distinguished senior Professor, NTT Japan
- 1994 - Catolique University of Valaparaiso, Chile, Isabel Caces
de Brown Foundation Award for outstanding contributions to the field of
telecommunications systems
- 1996 - NTT Japan Grant - Support for the Fourth International Conference on Telecommunications Systems
- 1993 - Motorola Inc. Grant - Support for the second Telecommunications Systems Conference
- 1992 - 1997 BellSouth Grant - Support for the first to sixth Telecommunication Systems Conference
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