Jerry R. Weaver

Jerry R. Weaver
Associate Professor of Operations Management
Information Systems, Statistics & Management Science
Office: 348 Alston Hall, 205-348-6520
Specialty Areas:
Locational analysis, transportation research, vehicle routing, generalized median and covering location models, optimal and heuristic solution procedures for integer programming problems.
Education:
The University of Alabama (B.S. and M.A.), University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Ph.D.).
Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:
Dr. Weaver has published articles in such journals as Interfaces, Transportation Science, Transportation Research, and Annals of Operations Research. His research interests include location analysis (generalized median and covering models), transportation research, vehicle routing, and solution procedures (optimal and heuristic) for integer programming problems. His teaching areas include production management, management information systems and database management.

Selected Publications

  • "The Formal and Computational Relationship of the Supporting Median Problem to the P-median," with R. L. Church.? Transportation Research,? 21,? 4, 323-329, 1987.

  • Assessing Highway Field Maintenance Office Locations by the p-Median Model, with D. S. Turner and W. D. Gunther. Transportation Research Record, 1268, 156-163, 1990.

  • The Nested Hierarchical Median Facility Location Model, with R. L. Church.? INFOR, 29,? 2, 100-115, 1991.

  • An Integrated Spatial DSS for Scheduling and Routing Home-Health-Care Nurses, with S. V. Begur and D. M. Miller. INTERFACES, 27, 4, 35-48, 1997.