Vardges Melkonian

     Associate Professor
 

Contact Information

 

Current and recent courses

Math 3050 Applied Discrete Mathematics

Math 4630/5630 Discrete Modeling and Optimization

Math 3200/5200 Applied Linear Algebra

Math 4620/5620 Linear and Nonlinear Optimization

 

 

Research Interests

Applications of Operations Research

Combinatorial Optimization

Mathematical Programming

Approximation Algorithms

 

 

Selected Publications

 

V. Melkonian
”An Integer Programming Approach for Scheduling a Professional Sports League"
      American Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 14(4), 401-423, 2024.

 

V. Melkonian
”Optimization Models for Hybrid Work Scheduling"
      American Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 13(6), 147-176, 2023.

 

V. Melkonian
”Fair Scheduling Models for Doubles Group Competitions"
      American Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 11(6), 338-356, 2021.

 

V. Melkonian
”Mathematical Models for a Social Partitioning Problem"
      American Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 11(1), 1-22, 2021.

 

V. Melkonian
”An Optimization Model for Exercise Scheduling"
      American Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 9(1), 1-14, 2019.

 

V. Melkonian
”On Binary Representation of Integers"
      Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, Vol. 29(5), 474-486, 2019.

 

V. Melkonian
”An Integer Programming Model for the KenKen Problem"
      American Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 6(3), 213-225, 2016.

 

V. Melkonian
”The Paired Assignment Problem "
      Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 4(2), 44-54, 2014.

 

V. Melkonian
”Circuit Integration through Lattice Hyperterms "
      Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, Vol. 3(1), 101-119, 2011.

 

V. Lskavyan and V. Melkonian
“A Computational Model of Politicians–Bureaucracy Relationship in a Competitively Authoritarian Environment”
      Int. J. Computational Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 2(1), 1-23, 2011.

 

V. Melkonian
”LP-based Solution Methods for Asymmetric TSP "
      Information Processing Letters, Vol. 101(6), 233-238, 2007.

 

V. Melkonian
 "New Primal-Dual Algorithms for Steiner Tree Problems"
      Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 34(7), 2147-2167, 2007.

 

V. Melkonian
 " Flows in Dynamic Networks with Aggregate Arc Capacities "
      Information Processing Letters, Vol. 101(1), 30-35, 2007.

 

V. Melkonian and  E . Tardos .
 "Primal-Dual-Based Algorithms for a Directed Network Design Problem"
      INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 17(2), 159-174, 2005.

 

R. Roundy, D. Chen, P. Chen, M. Cakanyildirim, M.B. Freimer, V. Melkonian.
 "Capacity-Driven Acceptance of Customer Orders for a Multi-Stage Batch Manufacturing System: Models and Algorithms"
      IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logisitics, Vol. 37(12), 1093-1105, 2005.

 

V. Melkonian and  E . Tardos .
 "Algorithms for a Network Design Problem with Crossing Supermodular Demands"
           Networks, Vol. 43(4), 256-265, 2004.