Selected Papers, and Presentations of Richard Barr
Book
Network Optimization
- Barr, R., F. Glover, and D. Klingman, Enhancements to Spanning Tree Labelling Procedures for Network Optimization, INFOR 17:1 (1979) 16-34 (
PDF).
- Barr, R., and J. S. Turner, Microdata File Merging through Large-Scale Network Technology
Mathematical Programming Study 15 (1981) 1-22
(PDF, 240K).
- Barr, R., K. Farhangian and J. L. Kennington, Networks With Side Constraints: An LU Factorization Update, Annals of the Society of Logistics Engineers 1 (1986) 66-85 (PDF)
- Barr, R. and B. Hickman, Parallel Simplex for Large Pure Network Problems: Computational Testing and Sources of Speedup, which appeared in slightly different form as "Parallelization Strategies for the Network Simplex Algorithm," in Operations Research 42:1 (1994) pp-pp (PDF)
- Barr, R., and M. Lewis,
Minimal Wavelength Assignment in Survivable Mesh Networks,
presentation at 7th INFORMS Computing Society Conference,
Cancun, Mexico, January, 2000.
PDF, 128K)
- Barr, R., B. Hickman, and J. S. Turner,
Optimal Microdata File Merging: A New Model and Network Optimization Algorithm,
presentation at 2000 INFORMS National Conference, San Antonio, TX
(PDF, 296K).
- Barr, R., and R. Patterson,
Grooming Telecommunications Networks,
Optical
Networks 2:3 (2001) 20-23
(PDF).
- Garlick, R., and R. Barr,Dynamic Wavelength Routing in WDM Networks via Ant Colony
Optimization, in
Ant Algorithms (2002) 250-255
(PDF).
- Apte, A., and R. Barr, An Interval-Pivoting Algorithm for the Uniform-Bound Interval-Flow Transportation Problem, Technical Report 04-EMIS-01, May, 2004 (PDF).
Algorithm Experimentation and Reporting
- Barr, R., and B. Hickman, Reporting Computational Experiments
with Parallel Algorithms: Issues, Measures, and Experts' Opinions,
which appeared in slightly different form in
ORSA Journal on Computing 5:1 (1993) 2-18
(PDF, 128K)
- Barr, R., B. Golden, J. Kelly, M. Rescende, and W. Stewart,
Designing and Reporting on Computational Experiments with
Heuristic Methods, which appeared in slightly different form
in Journal of Heuristics 1:1 (1995) 9-32
(Postscript, 290K,
or
PDF, 248K)
Benchmarking with Data Envelopment Analysis
- Barr, R., M. Durchholz, and L. Seiford, Peeling the DEA Onion: Layering and
Rank-Ordering DMUs Using Tiered DEA, Southern Methodist University
technical report, 1994/2000
(gzipped Postscript, 112K,
or
PDF, 296K).
See also (Barr and Seiford, 1996) below.
- Barr, R. and L. Seiford, Benchmarking and Performance Improvement Tools
for Manufacturing and Service Processes, Proceedings of the 1996 National Science
Foundation Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, January, 1996 (HTML)
- Barr, R., L. Seiford, and T. Siems,
Forecasting Bank Failure: A Non-Parametric Frontier Estimation Approach,
which appeared in slightly different form
in Reserches Economiques de Lovain 60:4 (1994) 417-429
(Postscript, 544K,
or
PDF, 75K)
- Barr, R., and T. Siems,
Bank Failure Prediction via Data Envelopment Analysis,
which appeared in slightly different form in
R. Barr, R. Helgason and J. Kennington, eds.,
Interfaces in Computer Science and Operations Research,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (1997) 341-366
(Postscript, 522K,
or
PDF, 288K)
- Barr, R., and M. Durchholz,
Parallel and Hierarchical Decomposition Approaches for Solving Large-Scale
Data Envelopment Analysis Models,
which appeared in slightly different form
in Annals of Operations Research 73 (1997) 339-372
(PDF, 440K)
- Siems, T., and R. Barr,
Benchmarking the Productive Efficiency of U.S. Banks,
Financial Insustry Studies,
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, December, 1998
(PDF version, 320K, or
viewable
online version).
- Richard S. Barr, Kory A. Killgo, Thomas F. Siems and Sheri Zimmel,
Evaluating the Productive Efficiency and Performance of U.S. Commercial
Banks, technical report, December, 1999
(PDF
version ), revised July, 2000
(PDF, 288K, or
Postscript/gzip, 232K), which appeared in slightly different form in Managerial Finance 28:8 (2002) 3-25
- Thomas, R., R. Barr, W. Cron, and J. Slocum, Evaluating Retail Store Efficiency with Data Envelopment Analysis, International Journal of Research in Marketing 15 (1998) 487-503 (PDF)
- Barr, R., DEA Software Tools and Technology: A State-of-the-Art Survey, which appeared in slightly different form in W.W. Cooper, L. M. Seiford, and J. Zhu, eds. Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2004, pp. 539-566
(PDF, 1134K)
Information Engineering
- Barr, R., and J. S. Turner, Microdata File Merging through Large-Scale Network Technology
Mathematical Programming Study 15 (1981) 1-22
(PDF ).
- Barr, R., and J. Turner,Quality Issues and Evidence in Statistical File Merging, in G. Liepins and Uppuluri, eds., Theory and Pragmatics of Data Quality Control, Marcel-Dekker, New York (1990) 245-313 (PDF)
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Last Update: October 13, 2000