Bezalel Gavish Ph.D.

Education
Ph.D., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
MSc, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
B.Sc., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Courses Taught
Business to Business Electronic Commerce
Computers and Telecommunications for Competitive Advantage
Wireless Communication Systems
Introduction to Telecommunication Management
System Analysis for Engineers
Discrete Event Digital Simulation of Systems
Overview of Computers and Information Systems
Ph.D seminar in telecommunications and electronic commerce
MBA seminar in Computers and Information Systems
Introduction to Management Science Models
Design and Analysis of Computer Applications
Design and Analysis of Computer Networks
Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
Routing and Scheduling of Transportation Systems Systems
Analysis and Design
MIS to Executives

Consulting Engagements

Motorola Satellite Business Systems, the Iridium project
MCI, ATM system configuration
NTT, Telecommunication systems configuration
NTT, Telecommunication systems configuration
IBM Research Division, in the areas of Computer Networking and VLSI Layout
Gorca Telecomm, ATM Network Design
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, Scheduling & Routing
Bell South, Workforce to Load Management
AT & T Bell Laboratories, Configuring Distributed Computing Systems to serve large industrial organizations
BOCES, Rochester, Development of a Computerized Pupil Busing System
Xerox, Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Central Transport Inc., in the area of online Dispatching and Scheduling
National Institute for Scientific Research, Quebec, Canada, Methods for Designing National Fiberoptic Networks
Eastman Kodak, Routing & Scheduling & Combinatorial Optimization
GTE Labs, Multi-period local Plant design, and design of the signaling network subject to reliability constraints
BELLCORE, design & analysis of local access networks, and fiber optics networks
World Bank, evaluation of china's university system
Coordinated and supervised student projects with Xerox, Eastman Kodak, Bausch and Lomb, Mobil, Taylor Instruments, BMI, Magnetek, HCA, Itek Corporation, Regional Transit Authority, Corning Glass, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Gas and Electric, BOCES and Citibank in the areas of Systems Analysis, Systems Simulation, Production and Inventory, Marketing, and Distribution Management and Financial Planning.

Current Research
Economic models of business-to-business exchanges

Combinatorial auctions and their pricing

Economic models and configuration aspects of cellular systems

Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems and their research issues

Distributed Group Decision Support Systems, systems that overcome the time and space limitations of traditional GDSS

Development of a comprehensive economic model of computer communications, which combines reliability, availability, delays, network costs and benefits into a unified model

Allocation of processors, data bases and processes in distributed systems, configuring distributed computer systems, dynamic data allocation and file migration. Applications of such models to the Internet

Research in the field of computer communication networks (topological design and routing)

Design and Analysis of Local Access Networks and Outside Plants

Methods and algorithms for automatic assembly of electronic components. Management of low-yield multi-stage fabrication processes

Approximation heuristics with guaranteed error bounds to routing, scheduling, and topological design problems

Algorithms for solving large-scale transportation scheduling problems and bus scheduling problems

Recent Publications
Gavish, B., Gerdes J., Sridar S. and Srinivasan, K., "An O ( ) Algorithm for Concurrency Control in Replicated File Systems," INFOR, Vol. 35, No. 1 (1997) pp. 1-14.

Gavish, B. and Gerdes, J., "Voting Mechanisms and Their Implications in a GDSS Environment," Annals of Operations Research, Vol 71, (1997), pp 41-74.

Gavish, B., "Low Earth Orbit Satellite Based Communication Systems - Research Opportunities," EJOR, Vol. 99, (1997) pp. 166-179.

Suk-Gwon Chang and Gavish, B., "Lower Bounding Procedures for Multiperiod Telecommunications Network Expansion Problems," Operations Research, Vol. 43, No. 1 (1995) pp. 43-57.

Editorial Boards
Editor in Chief - Telecommunications Systems, 1991 - present
Editor in Chief Electronic Commerce Research, 1999 - present
Advisory Board, The Journal of Information Technology & Management, 1997 - present
Advisory Board, International Journal of Management Science, 1997 - present
Editorial Board, Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics, 1997 - present
Editorial Board, Wireless Networks Journal, 1993 - present
Editorial Board, NOMAD Journal of Special Topics on Mobile Data, Computation and Networking, 1995-present
Editorial Board, Annals of Information Systems, 1995 - present
Editorial Board, Combinatorial Optimization; Theory and Practice, 1994 - present
Editorial Board, Mathematics of Industrial Systems, 1992 - present

Grants, Honors and Awards

• 1996 - Appointed to National Research Council. Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) Committee on Untethered Communications
• 1996 - President American Telecommunication Systems Management Association
• 1995 - Distinguished senior Professor, NTT Japan
• 1994 - Catolique University of Valaparaiso, Chile, Isabel Caces de Brown Foundation Award for outstanding contributions to the field of telecommunications systems
• 1996 - NTT Japan Grant - Support for the Fourth International Conference on Telecommunications Systems
• 1993 - Motorola Inc. Grant - Support for the second Telecommunications Systems Conference
• 1992 - 1997 BellSouth Grant - Support for the first to sixth Telecommunication Systems Conference