Chun-Hung Chen
Professor of Systems Engineering & Operations Research
Department of Systems
Engineering & Operations Research
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 4A6
Fairfax, VA
22030
USA
Moving: Prof. Chen is on leave from GMU during 2011-12 and is
currently with National Taiwan University's EE Department (ranked as #1 department in science and engineering in the
whole country). You are welcome to visit
Prof. Chen’s web site at
NTU-EE. You are certainly welcome to visit him in Taiwan.
Teaching
- OR 335/SYST 335 Discrete
Systems Simulation Modeling-- Undergraduate-level simulation class
- OR 442/MATH 442 Stochastic
Operations Research -- Introduction to stochastic operations research
methods
- OR 635 Discrete System
Simulation -- Master-level simulation class
- OR 645/STAT 645 Stochastic
Processes -- Graduate class about stochastic processes modeling and
analysis
- OR 647 Queueing Theory --
Graduate class about queueing systems analysis and theory
- OR 735/SYST 735/IT 735 Advanced
Stochastic Simulation -- Ph.D.-level simulation class (also suitable
for Master students with OR 635 background)
Journal Editorial Boards / Conference Organizing
Committees:
Dr.
Chen is serving on the editorial boards and organizing/program committees for
the following journals/conferences:
- IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, a top IEEE journal, (Associate Editor).
- IIE
Transactions, flagship journal for the Institute of Industrial
Engineers, (Departmental Editor for Simulation).
- Journal
of Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, International Journal
of the Federation of European Simulation Societies - EUROSIM, (Area
Editor).
- International
Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling, (Editorial Board).
- The Open
Automation and Control Systems Journal, (Editorial Board).
- Book Series on System Engineering and Operations Research,
World Scientific Publishing Co. (Associate Editor).
- The 20th IASTED
International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Banff,
Alberta, Canada, 2009 (Program Committee).
- 2009 International
Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Identification, Beijing,
China, 2009 (Program Committee).
- 2008 Informs Annual
Meeting, Washington, DC, 2008 (Chair of Contributed Sessions
Committee).
==>>> You are highly encouraged to submit your contributions ~~~~~
Research
Dr. Chen's interests cover a wide range of areas in discrete event systems
modeling and simulation, Monte Carlo
simulation, optimization, network management, risk analysis, and decision
making under uncertainty. Recently, he has been engaged in the development of
very efficient approaches for stochastic simulation and decision problems, and
in their applications to air traffic systems, semiconductor systems, supply
chain management, network design, logistics, missile defense system, and robust
design problems. Dr. Chen is the inventor of the novel simulation idea, called Optimal Computing Budget Allocation
(OCBA), which can dramatically improve simulation efficiency by orders
of magnitude. Sponsored by NAF, NASA and FAA, Dr. Chen has worked on several
critical research issues in the analysis and management of US air traffic
network with the Center for Air
Transportation Systems Research. For
a list of recent funded projects, please click here.
Major
Research Subjects:
Book:
A new book about OCBA will be published in early 2010. The name of the book is “Stochastic
Simulation Optimization: An Optimal Computing Budget Allocation”. This book will give a comprehensive and
extensive coverage on this efficient methodology, from basic idea, formal
development, to the state-of-art. Please
visit OCBA
book web site for details or order it from Amazon.com.
Selected
Recent Journal Publications:
(For more recent and complete list of publications, please click the Full CV.)
- Chen,
C. H., E. Yücesan, L. Dai, and H. C. Chen, "Efficient Computation of
Optimal Budget Allocation for Discrete Event Simulation Experiment,"
to appear in IIE Transactions.
- He,
D., L. H. Lee, C. H. Chen, M. Fu, and S. Wasserkrug, “Simulation
Optimization Using the Cross-Entropy Method with Optimal Computing Budget
Allocation,” to appear in ACM
Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.
- Chen,
C. H., D. He, M. Fu, and L. H. Lee, "Efficient Simulation Budget
Allocation for Selecting an Optimal Subset," Informs Journal on
Computing, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 579-595, 2008.
- Chen,
C. H., M. Fu, and L. Shi, “Simulation and Optimization,” Tutorials in Operations Research,
pp. 247-260, Informs, Hanover, MD, 2008.
- Le,
L., G. L. Donohue, K. Hoffman, and C. H. Chen, "Optimum Airport
Capacity Utilization under Congestion Management at NY LaGuardia
Airport," Transportation
Planning and Technology Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 93-112, 2007.
- Hsieh,
B. W., C. H. Chen, S. C. Chang, "Efficient Simulation-based
Composition of Scheduling Policies by Integrating Ordinal Optimization
with Design of Experiment," IEEE
Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp.
553-568, October 2007.
- He,
D., S. E. Chick, C. H. Chen, "The Opportunity Cost and OCBA Selection
Procedures in Ordinal Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C,
Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 951-961, September 2007.
- Romero,
V. J., and C. H. Chen, "Refinements in a New Adaptive Ordinal
Approach to Continuous-Variable Probabilistic Optimization," AIAA Journal, Vol. 45, No. 7, pp.
1630-1641, July 2007.
- Fu,
M. C., J. Q. Hu, C. H. Chen, and X. Xiong, "Simulation Allocation for
Determining the Best Design in the Presence of Correlated Sampling," Informs
Journal on Computing, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 101–111, 2007.
- Chen,
C. H., D. He, and M. Fu, "Efficient Dynamic Simulation Allocation in
Ordinal Optimization," IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 12, pp. 2005-2009,
December 2006.
- Romero,
V. J., D. V. Ayon, C. H. Chen, "Demonstration of Probabilistic
Ordinal Optimization Concepts to Continuous-Variable Optimization Under
Uncertainty," Optimization and
Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 343-365, September 2006.
Other Useful Links
- Center for Air Transportation Systems
Research at the Department of SEOR, GMU.
- Informs Simulation Society: professional society for simulation.
- Winter Simulation Conference:
one of the most popular conferences in the area of simulation.
- Informs Simulation Society Research
Workshop: a very high quality research conference for simulation.
- The 18th IASTED
International Conference on Modeling and Simulation: a conference
with nice integration of industrial applications and academic research.
- 2009 International
Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Identification, Beijing,
China, 2009. A leading conference exploring new simulation modeling
development in China.
- The 20th IASTED
International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Banff,
Alberta, Canada, 2009. An international conference exploring frontier
simulation modeling technologies. Held in beautiful Rocky Mountains with
spectacular glaciers.
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