Ashwin Arulselvan Research Fellow, DIMAP Affiliation: Warwick Business School Office: B2.15 Phone: +44 (0)24 7615 0903 Email: A dot Arulselvan at warwick dot ac dot uk

EDUCATION:

PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, 2009
M.S. (thesis option), Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, 2005
B.E., Major: Mechanical Engineering, Minor: Information Technology, Anna University, 2003

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Integer programming, Network modelling, Data mining

PUBLICATIONS:

REFEREED JOURNALS

• S. Rebennack, A. Arulselvan, L. Elefteriadou, P.M. Pardalos. Complexity Issues of Maximum Flow problems with Arc Reversal. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2008 (accepted).
• A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, L. Elefteriadou, and P.M. Pardalos. Detecting critical nodes in sparse graphs. Computers and Operations Research, 36(7): 2193-2200 (2009).

• A. Arulselvan, G. Baourakis, Boginski, E. Korchinya, P.M. Pardalos. Analysis of Food Industry Market using Network. British Food Journal 110(9), pp. 916-928, 2007.
• A. Arulselvan, V. Boginski, A. Kammerdiner, P.M. Pardalos. Analysis of Stock Market Structure by Identifying Connected Components in the Market Graph. Journal of Financial Decision Making. 1(1), pp. 27-37, 2005.

• A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, and P.M. Pardalos. A hybrid genetic algorithm for the target visitation problem. Public Transports: Planning and Operations, 2009 (submitted).


BOOK CHAPTERS

• Q.P. Zheng, A. Arulselvan, and P.M. Pardalos, Computational Methods in Deterministic Global Optimization. Submitted (2008) to Computational Optimization: New Research and Developments, Frank Columbus (editors), NOVA publisher.

• A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, P.M. Pardalos, and O. Shylo. Managing network risk via critical node identification. Submitted (2009) to Risk Management in Telecommunication Networks, N. Gulpinar and B. Rustem (editors), Springer.

• A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, M.J. Hirsch, and P.M. Pardalos. Communication models for a cooperative network of autonomous agents. Computational Optimization and Logistics Challenges in the Enterprise, W.A. Chaovalitwongse, K.C. Furman, and F. Roberts (editors), pp. 411-431, Springer, 2009.
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A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, and P.M. Pardalos. A random keys based genetic algorithm for the target visitation problem. Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization, M.J. Hirsch, P.M. Pardalos, R.A. Murphey, and D. Grundel (editors), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, pp. 389-397, Springer, 2007.

• Petros Xanthopoulos, Ashwin Arulselvan and Panos Pardalos "A spectral clustering appoach for the modeling of connectivity patterns in electroencephalogram sensor networks" in Sensors: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, V. Boginski, C.W. Commander, P.M. Pardalos, and Y. Ye (eds.) Springer, to appear in 2009

  

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, M.J. Hirsch, P.M. Pardalos, and M.G.C. Resende. Cooperative Communication in Ad-Hoc Networks. Proc. of the National Fire Control Symposium, August 2007.

• P Xanthopoulos, A Arulselvan, V Boginski and PM Pardalos "A retrospective review of social networks", IEEE conference on Advances in Social network analysis and mining ASONAM 2009

• A Arulselvan, P.Mendoza, V Boginski and PM Pardalos "Predicting the Nexus between Post-Secondary Education Affordability and Student Success: An Application of Network-based Approaches " IEEE conference on Advances in Social network analysis and mining, pp 300-305, ASONAM 2009


ABSTRACT IN CONFERENCES

• A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, M.J. Hirsch, and P.M. Pardalos. Cooperative communication of ad-hoc networks. 8th International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, 2008.

• A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, and P.M. Pardalos. Detecting critical nodes in sparse graphs. 9th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, 2008.

• A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, M.J. Hirsch, P.M. Pardalos, and M.G.C. Resende. Cooperative Communication in Ad-Hoc Networks. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. November 4, 2007.

• A. Arulselvan, C.W. Commander, L. Elefteriadou, and P.M. Pardalos. Detecting critical nodes in sparse graphs. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. November 4, 2007.


TECHNICAL REPORTS

• A. Arulselvan, L. Elefteriadou, and P.M. Pardalos. A Review in Evacuation Problems. Center for Multimodal Transportation for Congestion Mitigation, University of Florida, 2008.
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A. Arulselvan, P. Xanthopoulos, P.M. Pardalos. A Novel Social Network Evolution Simulator. Center for Applied Optimization. University of Florida, 2005.


CURRENT RESEARCH

• Q.P. Zheng, A. Arulselvan. Discrete Time Dynamic Traffic Assignment Models and Solution Algorithm for Managed Lanes.
  
• A. Chinchuluun, A. Arulselvan, P. M. Pardalos. Biobjective Steiner Trees.
  
• A. Arulselvan, S. Rebennack, L. Elefteriadou, P.M. Pardalos. Interior Point Stabilization for Branch and Price problems.
• P. Xanthopoulos, A.Arulselvan, V. Boginski, P.M. Pardalos. SDP relaxation of spectral methods for sensor network clustering.
• V. Tomaino, A. Arulselvan, P.M. Pardalos. Studying connectivity properties in gene regulatory networks by identifying critical nodes.
  

TEACHING:
INSTRUCTOR
Spring 2009, Matrix/Numerical Methods, University of Florida

TEACHING ASSISTANT
Fall 2008, Discrete Optimization Theory, University of Florida

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Member of Scientific committee for the Internation Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems, 2010
• Member of Scientific committee for the Internation Conference on the International Conference on Optimization, Simulation and Control, 2010
• Co-Organizer of International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems, 2009
• Member of local committee for the Conference on Power Systems Modelling, 2009
• Co-Organizer of Conference on Cooperative Control Optimization, 2008
• Elected department representative of Graduate Student Council, 2008
• Student member of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), since 2007
• Student member of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), since 2009

REVIEWER:

• Journal of Global Optimization
• Journal of Computational Management Science
• Journal of Optimization Letters
• Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
• Journal of Operations Research: An International Journal
• Book chapters:
  • A. Chinchuluun, A. Migdalas, P.M. Pardalos, and L. Pitsoulis, editors. Pareto Optimality, Game Theory and Equilibria, 2008

  • P. M. Pardalos, O. Seref. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization: Special Issue on Data Mining, Systems Analysis and Optimization in Biomedicine, 2008