Erhun Kundakcioglu's Personal Site

I am the Founder/Managing Director of Datart and an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Ozyegin University. I received my B.S. (2002) from Bilkent University and M.S. (2004) from Sabanci University, both in Industrial Engineering, and Ph.D. (2009) from the University of Florida in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a minor in Computer and Information Science and Engineering. I had worked as an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Houston from 2009 to 2013 and as a Director/Distinguished Scientist at Optym from 2019 to 2021.

My research interests are in business analytics and mathematical optimization, and I had the opportunity to supervise 3 Ph.D. and 11 M.S. students in these areas. I received an Early Career Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, a Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Houston, and a Florida Chapter Scholarship from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Foundation. I serve as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization Letters, SN Operations Research Forum, and the Journal of Biomedical Data Mining.

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Journal Articles

I. E. Sakarya and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "Multi-instance learning by maximizing the area under receiver operating characteristic curve," Journal of Global Optimization, forthcoming.
C. D. C. Bozkir, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and A. C. Henry, "Hospital service levels during drug shortages: Stocking and transshipment policies for pharmaceutical inventory," Journal of Global Optimization, vol. 83, pp. 565-584, 2022.
S. Korkmaz, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and O. Sivrikaya, "A fluid approximation for the single-leg fare allocation problem with nonhomogeneous Poisson demand," Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, vol. 21, pp. 81-96, 2022.
O. Simsek and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "Cost of fairness in agent scheduling for contact centers," Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 873-896, 2022.
S. Azizi, C. D. C. Bozkir, A. C. Trapp, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and A. K. Kurbanzade, "Aid allocation for camp-based and urban refugees with uncertain demand and replenishments," Production and Operations Management, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 4455-4474, 2021.
S. Gozuyilmaz and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "Mathematical optimization for time series decomposition," OR Spectrum, vol. 43, pp. 733-758, 2021.
M. Önal, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and S. Sethi, "An EOQ model with deteriorating items and self-selection constraints," Optimization Letters, vol. 14, pp. 1491–1518, 2020.
T. Yavuz, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and T. Ünlüyurt, "Exact and heuristic approaches to detect failures in failed k-out-of-n systems," Computers and Operations Research, vol. 112, 104752, 2019.
N. R. Barshes, S. Saedi, J. Wrobel, P. Kougias, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and D. G. Armstrong, "A model to estimate cost-savings in diabetic foot ulcer prevention efforts," Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 700–707, 2017.
B. Balcik, C. D. C. Bozkir, and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "A literature review on inventory management in humanitarian supply chains," Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 101–116, 2016.
M. Önal, A. Yenipazarli, and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "A mathematical model for perishable products with price- and stock-dependent demand," Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol. 102, pp. 246–258, 2016.
S. Saedi, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and A. C. Henry, "Mitigating the impact of drug shortages for a healthcare facility: An inventory management approach," European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 251, no. 1, pp. 107–123, 2016.
M. H. Poursaeidi and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "Robust support vector machines for multiple instance classification," Annals of Operations Research, vol. 216, no. 1, pp. 205–227, 2014.
W. van den Heuvel, O. E. Kundakcioglu, J. Geunes, H. E. Romeijn, T. Sharkey, and A. P. M. Wagelmans, "Integrated market selection and production planning: Complexity and solution approaches," Mathematical Programming, vol. 134, no. 2, pp. 395–424, 2012.
G. Pyrgiotakis, O. E. Kundakcioglu, P. M. Pardalos, and B. M. Moudgil, "Raman spectroscopy and support vector machines for quick toxicological evaluation of Titania nanoparticles," Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1222–1231, 2011.
O. E. Kundakcioglu, O. Seref, and P. M. Pardalos, "Multiple instance learning via margin maximization," Applied Numerical Mathematics, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 358–369, 2010.
P. M. Pardalos and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "Classification via mathematical programming," Applied and Computational Mathematics, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 23–35, 2009.
G. Pyrgiotakis, O. E. Kundakcioglu, K. Finton, P. M. Pardalos, K. Powers, and B. M. Moudgil, "Cell death discrimination with Raman spectroscopy and support vector machines," Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1464–1473, 2009.
O. Seref, O. E. Kundakcioglu, O. Prokopyev, and P. M. Pardalos, "Selective support vector machines," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 3–20, 2009.
O. E. Kundakcioglu and T. Ünlüyurt, "Bottom-up construction of minimum-cost AND/OR trees for sequential fault diagnosis," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 621–629, 2007.

Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters

S. Saedi and O. E. Kundakcioglu, Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization, 2nd Ed., P. M. Pardalos, D.-Z. Du, and R. Graham, Eds., Springer, 2013, ch. Combinatorial optimization in data mining, pp. 595–630.
M. H. Poursaeidi, M. Samorani, and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "Offshore Wind Farm Layout Optimization: What is the Hype?," in Proceedings of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, ID: 952, 2013.
A. Viacaba, M. H. Poursaeidi, and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "Natural gas price forecasting via selective support vector regression," in Proceedings of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, ID: 645, 2012.
O. E. Kundakcioglu and P. M. Pardalos, Clustering Challenges in Biological Networks, W. A. Chaovalitwongse, S. Butenko, and P. M. Pardalos, Eds., World Scientific, 2009, ch. The complexity of feature selection for consistent biclustering, pp. 257–266.
O. E. Kundakcioglu and P. M. Pardalos, Lectures on Global Optimization. American Mathematical Society, 2009, Fields Institute Communications Series, P. M. Pardalos and T. F. Coleman, Eds., vol. 55, ch. Optimization in biomedical research, pp. 155–182.
O. E. Kundakcioglu and S. Alizamir, Encyclopedia of Optimization, second edition, C. A. Floudas and P. M. Pardalos, Eds., Springer, 2009, ch. Generalized assignment problem, pp. 1153–1162.
O. Seref, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and M. Bewernitz, Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems, N. Wickramasinghe and E. Geisler, Eds., IDEA Group Inc., 2008, ch. Support vector machines in neuroscience, pp. 1283–1293.
O. Seref and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "Multiple instance classification with relaxed support vector machines," in Proceedings of the 3rd INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics, J. Li, D. Aleman, and R. Sikora, Eds., 2008.
O. E. Kundakcioglu and P. M. Pardalos, "A branch and bound algorithm for multiple instance classification," in Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA), H. R. Arabnia and Y. Mun, Eds., vol. 2, 2008, pp. 865–869.
O. Seref, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and P. M. Pardalos, "Selective linear and nonlinear classification," in Data Mining and Mathematical Programming, ser. CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes, P. M. Pardalos and P. Hansen, Eds., vol. 45, American Mathematical Society, 2008, pp. 211–234.
O. Seref, C. Cifarelli, O. E. Kundakcioglu, P. M. Pardalos, and M. Ding, "Detecting categorical discrimination in a visuomotor task using selective support vector machines," in Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP), H. R. Arabnia, M. Q. Yang, and J. Y. Yang, Eds., vol. 2, 2007, pp. 580–587.
O. E. Kundakcioglu, K. Bulbul, T. Ünlüyurt, K. Kilic, and O. Ercetin, "Minimum power multicasting with delay bound constraints in ad hoc wireless networks," in New Trends in Computer Networks, ser. Advances in Computer Science and Engineering: Reports. Imperial College Press, 2005, pp. 252–263.

Edited Books and Special Issues

H. Yang, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and D. Zeng, "Healthcare data analytics," Information Systems and e-Business Management, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 595–597, 2015.
H. Yang and O. E. Kundakcioglu, "Healthcare intelligence: Turning data into knowledge," IEEE Intelligent Systems, Trends & Controversies, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 54–56, 2014.
H. Yang, D. Zeng, and O. E. Kundakcioglu, Eds. Proceedings of the 7th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics, 2012.
O. E. Kundakcioglu, T. Ünlüyurt, and G. Ulusoy, "Preface," Optimization Letters, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 1035–1037, 2012.
O. E. Kundakcioglu, M. Sanguineti, and T. B. Trafalis, "Guest editorial," Computational Management Science, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1–3, 2009.
O. Seref, O. E. Kundakcioglu, and P. M. Pardalos, Eds., Data mining, systems analysis, and optimization in biomedicine, no. 953, American Institute of Physics, 2008.

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