RESEARCH

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Supply chain management
• Inventory-production systems
• Revenue management
• Probability & simulation
  

PUBLICATIONS

• "Managing an  Available-to-Promise  Assembly System with  Dynamic Short-Term Pseudo Order Forecast" 
  Long Gao, Susan Xu, Michael Ball. Management Science, forthcoming, 2011.[pdf]

• "Joint Demand and Capacity Management in a Restaurant System”
  Johye Hwang, Long Gao, Wooseung Jang, European Journal of Operations Research, 207,  465-472, 2010. [pdf]

• "The Effects of Sharing Upstream Information on Product Rollover" 
  Zhaolin Li, Long Gao, Production & Operations Management, Vol. 17, 522-531, 2008. [pdf]

• "Service Performance Analysis and Improvement for a Ticket Queue With Balking Customers"
  Susan Xu, Long Gao, Jihong Ou, Management Science, Vol. 53, 971-990, 2007. [pdf]

• "An Architecture Design and Realization of the Industrial CT Visualization System" 
  Long Gao, Zheng Li, Nuclear Electronics & Detection Technology, Vol.23, 124-128, 2003.

• "Radiation Physics and Integrity Design of Large Missile CT Inspection System"
  Long Gao, Zheng Li, Nuclear Electronics & Detection Technology, Vol.22, 68-71, 2002.

WORKING PAPERS

• "Dynamic Load Acceptance Management in Intermodal Freight Transportation" 
  Long Gao, Michael F. Gorman, Zhaolin Li. [abstract]
  
• "Managing Supply Interruptions with Contract Coordination and Information Sharing" 
  Long Gao, Zhaolin Li. [abstract]
  
• "Optimal Inventory Control with Retail Pre-packs" 
  Michael Freimer, Long Gao, Doug Thomas. [abstract]
  
• “Information Acquisition and Voluntary Disclosure in an Export-Processing System”
  Long Gao, Zhaolin Li. [abstract]

PRESENTATIONS

• “Managing Supply Disruptions: Procurement Diversification, Demand Rationing and Dynamic Forecast,”
  with Nan Yang, M&SOM conference, Ann Arbor, June 27, 2011.
  
• “Managing an Available-to-promise Assembly System with Dynamic Short-Term Pseudo order Frecast,”
  with Susan Xu, Michael Ball, The University of Sydney, June 10, 2011.
  
• “Managing Supply Disruptions: Procurement Diversification, Demand Rationing and Dynamic Forecast,”
  with Nan Yang, POMS conference, Reno, April 29, 2011.
  
• ”Why Does Venture Capital Performance Persist Over Time? Evidence From A Dynamic Simulation,”
  with David Porter, Richard Smith, Economics Department, UC Riverside, March 28, 2011. [ppt] 
  
• "Order Processing in an Available-to-Promise System with Pseudo Orders,”
  Statistics Department, UC Riverside, March 10, 2010 .
  
• "Matching Supply and Demand in the Presence of Multiclass Suppliers and Customers”
  with Nan Yang, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, October 14, 2009.
  
• "Optimal Load Tendering and Acceptance Policies for Intermodal Freight Transportation”
  with Michael Gorman, M&SOM Conference, Boston, June 30, 2009.
  
• "Optimal Load Tendering and Acceptance Policies for Intermodal Freight Transportation”
  with Michael Gorman, POMS conference, Orlando, May 3, 2009. [pdf]
  
• "Yield Management in Freight Transportation",
  with Michael Gorman, INFORMS, Washington DC, October, 2008. [pdf]
  
• "An Available-to-Promise Production-Inventory System with Pseudo Orders",
  with Susan Xu, MSOM, University of Maryland, June, 2008. [pdf]
  
• "An Available-to-Promise Production-Inventory System with Pseudo Orders",
  with Susan Xu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 29, 2008.
  
• "An Available-to-Promise Production-Inventory System with Pseudo Orders",
  with Susan Xu, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, November 6, 2007.
  
• "The Effects of Sharing Upstream Information on Product Rollover",
  with Zhaolin Li, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, November 6, 2007. [ppt] 
  
• "Optimal Inventory Control Using Retail Pre-packs"
  with Michael Freimer, Doug Thomas, Purdue University, 2007. [pdf]
  
• "Service Performance Analysis and Improvement for a Ticket Queue With Balking Customers"
  with Susan Xu and Jihong Ou, MSOM Conference, Atlanta, June 19-20, 2006. [pdf]
  
• "Service Performance Analysis and Improvement for a Ticket Queue With Balking Customers"
  with Susan Xu and Jihong Ou, 13th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Ottawa, Canada, July 6-8, 2005.