Dr. Mahmut Parlar

Professor / Distingushed University Professor / Distinguished Business Research Professor

Faculty, Operations Management

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email:

parlar@mcmaster.ca

DSB Office:

DSB 425

RJC Office:

RJC 222

DSB Extension:

905-525-9140 ext: 22858

RJC Extension:

905-525-9140 ext: 20560

Website(s):

Website

BIO

Dr. Mahmut Parlar is a Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Business Research Professor for the DeGroote School of Business and is a Professor of Management Science. Mahmut Parlar's research program is focused in the areas of stochastic modelling, dynamic optimization and game theory applications in supply chain management. His work in these areas has been supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) research grants since 1981 and have appeared in the form of nearly 130 refereed articles published in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, Transportation Science, Applied Mathematical Finance and others. Professor Parlar is the author of a book entitled "Interactive Operations Research with Maple" published in 2000 by Birkhäuser, Boston. Mahmut Parlar was awarded the inaugural DeGroote School of Business Faculty Research Excellence Award presented for the first time in March 2006. On September 6, 2013, Professor Parlar received the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. Professor Parlar was the winner of the Dr. S. J. Basu Teaching Award for exceptional teaching (1st Year MBA-level) at the DeGroote School of Business (November 2014). On June 5, 2018, Professor Parlar received the CORS 2018 Award of Merit. I am listed in the "Stanford's Top 2% Scientists 2023" dataset. This "list is an emerging ranking that identifies scholars who are top-cited in their respective fields." For further details, see Stanford's Top 2% Scientists. I was appointed Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Business, Lingnan University, Hong Kong (2024-09-02 to 2027-09-01). Further information: https://parlar.azurewebsites.net/index.html

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

January 2024

Optimal Pricing And Donation Policy For Fresh Goods

JOURNAL : EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

CONTRIBUTORS: Arma?an Özbilge, Elkafi Hassini, Mahmut Parlar

Dr. Mahmut Parlar

Professor / Distingushed University Professor / Distinguished Business Research Professor

Faculty, Operations Management

BIO

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Optimal Pricing And Donation Policy For Fresh Goods

JOURNAL : EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Who Benefits From Government Tax-subsidies For Corporate Charitable Food Donations?

Perils And Merits Of Cross-channel Returns

JOURNAL : IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Model Development With Maple In Phd-level Management Science Courses: A Personal Account

JOURNAL : OPERATIONS RESEARCH FORUM

A Review Of Bricks-and-clicks Dual-channels Literature: Trends And Opportunities

JOURNAL : INFOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Modeling And Optimization Of Multilevel Marketing Operations

JOURNAL : NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS

Disclosing Delivery Performance Information When Consumers Are Sensitive To Promised Delivery Time, Delivery-time Conformance, And Prices

Surgical Scheduling With Constrained Patient Waiting Times

JOURNAL : PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Feedback Advertising Strategies In A Two-firm Differential Game: A Numerical Investigation

JOURNAL : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE OPERATIONS & LOGISTICS

Optimal Control And Cooperative Game Theory Based Analysis Of A By-product Synergy System

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Is It Fake? Using Potentially Low Quality Suppliers As Back-up When Genuine Suppliers Are Unavailable

JOURNAL : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS

Product Recall Timing Optimization Using Dynamic Programming

JOURNAL : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS

Event?based Allocation Of Airline Check?in Counters: A Simple Dynamic Optimization Method Supported By Empirical Data

JOURNAL : INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Measurement And Optimization Of Responsiveness In Supply Chain Networks With Queueing Structures

JOURNAL : EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Optimal Timing To Initiate Medical Treatment For A Disease Evolving As A Semi-markov Process

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF OPTIMIZATION THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

Optimal Spacing Of “covered” And “exposed” Time Intervals In A Stochastic Process With High Penalty Costs: Applications To Parking And Insurance

JOURNAL : INFOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

A Make-to-stock Mountain-type Inventory Model

JOURNAL : ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Optimal Design Of Multi?server Markovian Queues With Polynomial Waiting And Service Costs

JOURNAL : APPLIED STOCHASTIC MODELS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

Measurement And Optimization Of Supply Chain Responsiveness

JOURNAL : IIE TRANSACTIONS

Cooperative Game Analysis Of Retail Space-exchange Problems

JOURNAL : EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Dynamic Bidding Strategies In Search-based Advertising

JOURNAL : ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Online Retailers’ Promotional Pricing, Free-shipping Threshold, And Inventory Decisions: A Simulation-based Analysis

JOURNAL : EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

On The Allocation Of Exclusive-use Counters For Airport Check-in Queues: Static Vs. Dynamic Policies

JOURNAL : OPSEARCH

The Retail Space?exchange Problem With Pricing And Space Allocation Decisions

JOURNAL : PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Transfer Pricing In A Multidivisional Firm: A Cooperative Game Analysis

JOURNAL : OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS

Modeling Manpower Systems In Two-grade Organizations

JOURNAL : IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS

Analysis Of A Simple Capacity Game

JOURNAL : INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Optimal Keyword Bids In Search-based Advertising With Stochastic Advertisement Positions

JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF OPTIMIZATION THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

Games With Incomplete Information: A Simplified Exposition With Inventory Management Applications

JOURNAL : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS

Fifo Versus Lifo Issuing Policies For Stochastic Perishable Inventory Systems

JOURNAL : METHODOLOGY AND COMPUTING IN APPLIED PROBABILITY

Optimal Inventory And Admission Policies For Drop-shipping Retailers Serving In-store And Online Customers

JOURNAL : IIE TRANSACTIONS

An Efficient Dynamic Optimization Method For Sequential Identification Of Group-testable Items

JOURNAL : IIE TRANSACTIONS

Analytic Solution For The Nucleolus Of A Three?player Cooperative Game

JOURNAL : NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS

Game-theoretic Analyses Of Decentralized Assembly Supply Chains: Non-cooperative Equilibria Vs. Coordination With Cost-sharing Contracts

JOURNAL : EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

A One-time Excess Inventory Disposal Decision Under A Stationary Base-stock Policy

JOURNAL : STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS

A Note On Optimal 'riskless' And 'risk' Prices For The Newsvendor Problem With An Assembly Cost

JOURNAL : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INVENTORY RESEARCH

Lead-time Reduction In A Two-level Supply Chain: Non-cooperative Equilibria Vs. Coordination With A Profit-sharing Contract

JOURNAL : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS

Two-stage Stochastic Integer Programming Model For Multiperiod Sea Cargo Mix Problem In Container Shipping Industry

JOURNAL : IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS SYSTEMS

Allocation Of Cost Savings In A Three-level Supply Chain With Demand Information Sharing: A Cooperative-game Approach