Publications

1.      W. D. Cook, B. Golany, M. Kress, M. Penn, T. Raviv, Optimal Allocation of Proposals to Reviewers to Facilitate Effective RankingManagement Science 51:4, (2005) 655-661.

2.      G. Allon, D.P. Kroese, T. Raviv and R. Y.Rubinstein, Application of the Cross-Entropy Method to the Buffer Allocation Problem in a Simulation-Based Environment, Annals of Operations Research, 134, (2005), pp. 137-151. Source code and test data.

3.      W. D. Cook, B. Golany, M. Penn and T. Raviv. Creating a Consensus Ranking of Proposals from Reviewers' Partial Ordinal Rankings, Computer & Operations Research, 34:4 (2006).

4.      M. Penn and T. Raviv. Optimizing the Quality Control Station Configuration, Naval Research Logistics 54 (2007), pp. 301-314

5.      M. Penn and T. Raviv. A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Solving a Quality Control Station Configuration Problem, Discrete Applied Mathematics 156 (2008) 412 – 419.

6.      M. Penn and T. Raviv, An Algorithm for the Maximum Revenue Jobshop Problem , European Journal of Operational Research 193 (2009), 437-450.

7.      W.D. Cook, T. Raviv, and A.J. RichardsonAggregating Incomplete Lists of Journal Rankings: An Application to Academic Accounting Journals, Accounting Perspectives, 9:3 (2010), 217–235

8.      D. Granot, F. Granot, and T. Raviv, On Competitive Location in a Network. European Journal of Operational Research 205 (2010) 301–312

9.      T. Raviv, and M. Kaspi , The locomotive fleet fueling problem, Operations Research Letters 40:1 (2012) 39–45

·         Benchmark problems

10.  T. Raviv, The Battery Switching Station Scheduling Problem, Operations Research Letters 40:6 (2012) 546–550  (an unabridged working paper)

11.  M. Kaspi, and T.Raviv, Service-Oriented Line Planning and Timetabling for Passenger Trains, Transportation Science, 47:3 (2013) 295-311.

·         Sample Instance

12.  T. Raviv,  An Efficient Algorithm for Maximizing the Expected Profit from a Serial Production Line with Inspection Stations and Rework, OR-Spectrum 35:3 (2013), 609-638

13.  T. Raviv and O. Kolka, Optimal Inventory Management of a Bike-Sharing Station, IIE Transactions 45:10 (2013), 1077-1093

14.  T. Raviv, M. Tzur, and I.A. Forma, The Static Repositioning Problem in a Bike-Sharing System, EURO Journal of Transportation and Logistics 2:3 (2013) 187-229

15.  N. AdlerA.S. Hakkert, J. Kornbluth, T. Raviv, M. Sher, Location-allocation models for traffic police patrol vehicles on an interurban network, Annals of Operations Research 221 (2014), 9-31

16.  M. Kaspi,  T. Raviv, and M. Tzur, Parking reservation policies in one-way vehicle sharing systems, Transportation Research Part B, 62 (2014), 35-50

17.  N. Adler,  A.S. Hakkert, T. Raviv, M. Sher,  The traffic police location and schedule assignment problem, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 21 (2014), 315-333

18.  M. Masin and T. Raviv, Linear Programming Based Approximation Algorithms for the Minimum Makespan Jobshop Problem, Journal of Scheduling, 17, 321-338 (2014)

19. I.A. Forma, T. Raviv, and M. Tzur, A 3-Step Math Heuristic for the Static Repositioning Problem in Bike-Sharing Systems, Transportation Research Part B, 71 (2015), 230-247

·         Sample Instance

20. M. Kaspi, T. Raviv, and M. Tzur, Detection of Unusable Bicycles in Bike-Sharing Systems, Omega, 65 (2016), 10-16

21. M. Kaspi, T. Raviv, M. Tzur and H. Galili, Regulating vehicle sharing systems through parking reservation policies: Analysis and performance bounds, European Journal of Operational Research, 251:33 (2016), 969–987

22. I. Ben-Gal, Z. Postelnicu, T. Raviv, Improving Websites’ Quality of Service by Shortening their Browsing Expected Path Length, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 32 (2016), 2017-2031

23. M. Kaspi, T.Raviv and M. Tzur, Bike Sharing Systems: User Dissatisfaction in the Presence of Unusable Bicycles, IISE Transactions (formerly IIE Transactions), 49:2 (2017), 144-158

24. E. Avraham, T. Raviv, E. Khmelnitsky, The Decentralized Field Service Routing Problem, Transportation Research Part B, 104 (2017) 290–316.

·         Problem instances

25. S. Datner, T. Raviv, M. Tzur, D. Chemla, Setting Inventory Levels in a Bike Sharing Network, Transportation Science, 53 (2019), 62-76

·         Dataset

26. Y. Bukchin, T. Raviv, Constraint Programming for Solving Various Assembly Line Balancing Problems, OMEGA, 78 (2018), 57-68

27. I. Orenstein, T. Raviv, E. Sadan, Flexible parcel delivery to automated parcel lockers: models, solution methods and analysis, EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 8 (2019) 683–711

28.  Y. Bukchin, T. Raviv, I. Zaides, The Consecutive Multiprocessor Job Scheduling Problem,  to appear in European Journal of Operational Research, (2020) 427-438

29.  E. Avraham, T. Raviv, The data-driven time-dependent traveling salesperson problem, to appear in Transportation research part B, January 2020

·         Dataset

30.  Y. Douek-Pinkovich, I. Ben-Gal, and T. Raviv, A Combinatorial Approach for Optimal Sensor Selection, (2021)  372–386

31.  O. Dumbinsky*, J. Mayer, T. Raviv,  Alerting about possible risks vs. blocking risky choices: A quantitative model and its empirical evaluation, Computers & Security Computers & Security (2020), 101944

32.  M. Penn, T. Raviv, Complexity and algorithms for min cost and max profit scheduling under time-of-use electricity tariffs, to appear in Journal of Scheduling, (2021), (24)1, 83-102.

33.  E. Avraham, T. Raviv, The steady-state mobile personnel booking problem, to appear in Transportation Research Part B, 154 (2021), 266-288 

·         Dataset

34.  L. Xing Lu, T. Raviv, L. Sela, Sensor placement for robust burst identification in water systems: Balancing modeling accuracy, parsimony, and uncertainties, Advanced Engineering Informatics, 51, 101484, January 2022

35.  Y. Douek-Pinkovich*, I. Ben-Gal, T. Raviv, “The Stochastic Test Collection Problem: Models, Exact, and Heuristic Solution Approaches”, European Journal of Operational Research, Accepted December 2021

 

 

 Unpublished work and working papers

1.      T. Raviv, A note on the NP Hardness of the maximum profit concurrent open shop problem, March 2014

2.      T.  Raviv, E.Z., Tenzer, Crowd-shipping of small parcels in a physical internet, Working paper, July 2018

 

My Ph.D. dissertation (Advisors: Professor Michal Penn and Professor Shmuel Onn).

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