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Simon, John

Assistant Professor
Office: G291
Phone: 708.534.4954
Email: jsimon@govst.edu


Education | Publications | Presentations | Research |

Education

  • Ph.D., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 
  • M.S., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 
  • B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India 

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles/ Research Publications

  • Gu, A. Y., and J. T. Simon, (2007), “The September Phenomenon of U.S. Equity Market”, Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, volume 5, pp. 283 – 297.
  • Simon, J. T., (2005), “Competitive Purchasing Policies under Price Volatility”, Advances in Competitiveness Research, volume 13 (1), pp. 95 – 100.
  • Erel, E., J. B. Ghosh, and J. T. Simon, (2003), “New Heuristic for the Dynamic Layout Problem”, Journal of the Operational Research Society, volume 54 (12), pp. 1275 – 1282.
  • Gu, A. Y., and J. T. Simon, (2003), “Declining January Effect – Experience in the United Kingdom”, American Business Review, volume 21 (2), pp. 117 – 121.
  • Simon, J. T., and J. Cook (2002), “The Impact of Internet Commerce and Trade Exchanges On Business Productivity”, Journal of Global Competitiveness, volume 10 (2), pp. 227 – 237.
  • Simon, J. T., and W. J. Hopp (1995), “Throughput and Average Inventory in Discrete Balanced  Assembly Systems”, Institute of Industrial Engineers Transactions, volume 27, pp. 368 – 373.
  • Hopp, W. J., and J. T. Simon (1993), “Estimating Throughput in an Unbalanced Assembly-like Flow System”, International Journal of Production Research, Volume 31, Number 4, pp. 851 – 868.
  • Simon, J. T. and W. J. Hopp (1991), “Availability and Average Inventory of Balanced Assembly-like Flow Systems”, Institute of Industrial Engineers Transactions, Volume 23, Number 2, pp. 161 – 168.
  • Hopp, W. J., and J. T. Simon (1989), “Bounds and Heuristics for Assembly-like Queues”, Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 137 – 156.

Other Refereed Articles

  • Simon, J. T., (2003), “Disaster Readiness and Recovery Planning”, Competition Forum, Vol. 1, Number 1, pp. 85 – 91.
  • Simon, J. T. and Jack Cook (2002), “Trade Exchanges: Creating Competitive Advantages”, Proceedings of the IEMS Conference, 2002. 
  • Simon, J. T. and Jack Cook (2001), “Supply Chain Management in Services”, APICS 2001 International Conference and Exposition Proceedings, J-12, pp 1 – 5.
  • Simon, J. T., (1998), “Easy Simulation on Spreadsheets without Add-Ins”, Decision Line, March 1998, pp. 6 – 8.

Presentations

  • “Supply Chain Intelligence”, presented at the Midwest Business Administration Association Conference, April 2008, Chicago, Illinois.
  • “Spreadsheet Models in Operations Management”, presented at the Midwest Business Administration Association Conference, March 2007, Chicago, Illinois.
  • “Collaborative Synchronous Online Learning Through Discussion”, with Dalsang Chung, presented at the Midwest Business Administration Association Conference, March 2007, Chicago, Illinois.
  • “Creating a Visual Laboratory for Statistics Using Excel”, presented at the ACBSP Great Lakes Region (4) Annual Conference, October 2006, University Park, Illinois.
  • “Spreadsheet Models Illustrating the Bullwhip Effect”, presented at the Midwest Business Administration Association Conference, March 2006, Chicago, Illinois.
  • “Competitive Purchasing Policies under Price Volatility”, presented at the American Society for Competitiveness Conference, October 2003, Falls Church, Virginia.
  • “Disaster Readiness and Recovery Planning”, presented at the American Society for Competitiveness Conference, October 2003, Falls Church, Virginia.
  • “A Heuristic Procedure for the Dynamic Layout Problem”, with Erdal Erel and Jay Ghosh, presented by co-author Erdal Erel at the EURO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, July 2003, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • “Solving Logic Puzzles using Integer Programming”, presented at the Production and Operations Management Society Conference, April 2003, Savannah, Georgia.
  • “The Impact of Internet Commerce And Trade Exchanges On Business Productivity”, with Jack Cook, presented at the American Society for Competitiveness Conference, October 2002, Alexandria, Virginia.
  • “Trade Exchanges: Creating Competitive Advantages”, with Jack Cook, presented at the Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems Conference, March 2002, Cocoa Beach, Florida.
  • “Supply Chain Management in Services”, with Jack Cook, presented at the APICS 2001 International Conference and Exposition, October 2001, San Antonio, Texas.
  • “Use of Spreadsheets and Simulation in Teaching Introductory Statistics”, presented at the Conference on Instructional Technologies, May 2001, Geneseo, New York.
  • “Prescriptions for Better Service, or Better Service for Prescriptions”, presented by co-author Thomas R. Jefferson at the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences Conference, November 2000, San Antonio, Texas.
  • Use of 0-1 Integer Programs in Representing Logical Conditions”, presented at Production and Operations Management Society 1995 Annual meeting at Pittsburgh.
  • “Scheduling a Reservation System”, presented at the Joint National Meeting of the ORSA/TIMS, Detroit, Michigan, October 1994.
  • “Comparison of Two Arithmetic Series”, presented at the Joint National Meeting of TIMS/ORSA, Chicago, Illinois, May 1993.
  • “Performance Analysis of Assembly-like Queueing Systems”, presented in an invited session at the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Chicago, May 1992.
  • “Analysis of an Assembly System with CONWIP Input Lines”, presented at the Production and Operations Management Society Annual Meeting, New York, November 1991.
  • “Approximate Analysis of Multiple Input Assembly-like Systems”, presented at the Joint National Meeting of the ORSA/TIMS, Philadelphia, October 1990.
  • “A Flow-type Assembly System with Unreliable Machines Having Different Processing Rates”, with W. J. Hopp, presented at the Joint National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of American and The Institute of Management Sciences, New York City, October 1989.
  • “Bounds and Heuristics for Assembly-like Queues”, with W. J. Hopp, presented at the Joint National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences, Washington D. C., April 1988.

Research

  • Chung, D., and Simon, J. T. “Impact of Synchronous Online Learning on Learning Outcome and Student Satisfaction”.
  • Simon, J. T. “Annual v Semi-annual Salary Increase”.
  • Simon, J. T. “Geometric Mean of Grouped Data”.
  • Simon, J. T. “Using Logical Conditions in Linear Programming” (submitted to Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education)