John F. Shortle

Research Interests

• Queueing Theory
• Simulation
• Application Areas
• Aviation Safety
• Air Transportation
• Telecommunications

Center Affiliations

• Center for Air Transportation Systems Research (CATSR)
• Center for Network-Based Systems

Courses Recently Taught

• SYST 320. Dynamic Systems II
• OR 645. Stochastic Processes
• OR 647. Queueing Theory

Awards

• Outstanding Teacher, Volgenau School of Information Technology, 2005-2006.
• Winner of Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice, 2000. Optimal Design of a Data Offload Network, with Paul Katz, Dennis Dietz, Craig Williamson, Jim Koehler, Amie Elcan of Qwest Communications.
• Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 2001.

Ph. D. Students

• Wang, J. In progress. Tentative topic: optimal aircraft gate assignment.
• Jeddi, B., 2008. A Statistical Separation Standard and Risk-Throughput Modeling of the Aircraft Landing Process.
• Xie, Y. 2005. Quantitative Analysis of Airport Arrival Capacity and Arrival Safety Using Stochastic Methods.
• Sees, J. 2001. Simulating M/Pareto/1 Queues.