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1. Lawley, M. and Black, JT., Design of a Self-Propelled Mobile Robot SME Transactions/NAMRC, pp. 299-303, 1989.

2. Albright, T., Ingram, R., and Lawley, M. “The Beville Manufacturing Case: Using Factory Simulation Software to Teach the Concept of Activity Based Costing and Nonfinancial Performance Measures" The Journal of Accounting Education, 10(2), 329-348, 1992.

3. Herman, A., Lawley, M., Lu, S., and Mattox, D. “An Opportunistic Approach to Process Planning within a Concurrent Engineering Environment", Annals of CIRP, 42(1); 545-548, 1993.

4. Lu, S., Smith, K., Herman, A., Mattox, D., Silliman, M., Lucenti, M., Jacobs, J., Chazin, D., Lawley, M., and Case, M. “SWIFT: System Workbench for Facilitating and Integrating Teams”, The International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 3(2); 173-187, 1994.

5. Reveliotis, S., Lawley, M., Ferreira, P. “Polynomial Complexity Deadlock Avoidance Policies for Sequential Resource Allocation Systems” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 42(10); 1344-1357, 1997.

6. Lawley, M., Reveliotis, S., Ferreira, P. “Structural Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems and the Neighborhood Policy: Part 1 Correctness and Scalability” IIE Transactions, 29(10); 877-887, 1997.

7. Lawley, M., Reveliotis, S., Ferreira, P. “Structural Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems and the Neighborhood Policy: Part 2 Generalization, Optimization, and Efficiency” IIE Transactions, 29(10); 888-899, 1997.

8. Lawley, M., Reveliotis, S., Ferreira, P. “Design Guidelines for Developing Deadlock Handling Strategies in Flexible Manufacturing Systems” International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, 9(1); 5-29, 1997.

9. Lawley, M., Reveliotis, S., Ferreira, P. “The Application and Evaluation of Banker’s Algorithm for Deadlock Free Buffer Space Allocation in Flexible Manufacturing Systems” International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, 10(1); 73-100, 1998.

10. Lawley, M., Reveliotis, S., Ferreira, P. “A Correct and Scalable Deadlock Avoidance Policy for Flexible Manufacturing Systems” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 14(5); 796-810, 1998.

11. Lawley, M. “Deadlock Avoidance for Production Systems with Flexible Routing” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 15(3), 497-510, 1999.

12. Lawley, M. and Mittenthal, J. “Order Release and Deadlock Avoidance Interactions in Counterflow System Optimization” International Journal of Production Research, 37(3), 3043-3062, 1999.

13. Lawley, M. “Integrating Routing Flexibility and Algebraic Deadlock Avoidance Policies in Automated Manufacturing Systems” International Journal of Production Research, 38(13); 2931-2950, 2000.

14. Lawley, M. and Reveliotis, S. “Optimal Deadlock Avoidance in Sequential Resource Allocation Systems: Hard and Easy Cases” International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, 13(4); 385-404, 2001.

15. Gebraeel, N. and Lawley, M. “Deadlock Detection, Prevention, and Avoidance for Automated Tool Sharing Systems in Flexible Manufacturing” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 17(3); 342-356, 2001.

16. Sulistyono, W. and Lawley, M. “Deadlock Avoidance for Manufacturing Systems with Partially Ordered Process Plans” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 17(6); 819-832, 2001.

17. Park, J., Reveliotis, S., Lawley, M. and Ferreira, P. “Correction to the RUN DAP for conjunctive RAS” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 46(4), 672, 2001.

18. Mullinax, C. and Lawley, M. “Assigning Patients to Nurses in Neonatal Intensive Care” Journal of the Operational Research Society, 53(1), 25-35, 2002.

19. Lawley, M. and Sulistyono, W. “Robust Supervisory Control Policies for Manufacturing Systems with Unreliable Resources” IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation,, 18(3), 346-359, 2002.

20. Lawley, M. “Control of Deadlock and Blocking in Production Systems with Unreliable Workstations” International Journal of Production Research, 40(17), 4563-4582, 2002.

21. Aytug, H., Barua, A., Lawley, M., and Uzsoy, R. “Observations on the Interactions Among Deadlock Avoidance Policies and Dispatching Rules” International Journal of Production Research, 31(1), 81-95, 2003.

22. Gebraeel, N., Lawley, M., Liu, R. and V. Parmeshwaran, “Residual Life Predictions from Vibration Based Degradation Signals: A Neural Net Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 51(3), pp. 694-700, 2004.

23. Gebraeel, N., Lawley, M., Li, R. and Ryan, J.K., “Residual Life Distributions from Component Degradation Signals: A Bayesian Approach,” IIE Transactions, 37(6), 2005.

24. Aytug, H.*, Lawley, M.*, McKay, K.*, Mohan, S. and Uzsoy, R.^*, “Executing Production Schedules in the Face of Uncertainties: A Review and Some Future Directions,” European Journal of Operational Research, 161, pp. 86-110, 2005.

25. Chew, S. and Lawley, M., “Robust Supervisory Control for Resource Allocation Systems with Multiple Resource Failures,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 3(3), 2006.

26. Jeong, H., Qiao, J., Abraham, D., Lawley, M., Richard, J. P. and Yih, Y., “Minimizing the Consequences of Intentional Attack on Water Infrastructure,” Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 79-92, 2006.

27. Gebraeel, N., Lawley, M., Wu, S. and Yih, Y., “A Neural-Network Integrated Decision Support System for Optimal Predictive Maintenance,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, to appear January 2007.

28. Jeong, H., Qiao, J., Abraham, D., Lawley, M., Richard, J. P. and Yih, Y., “Optimal Allocation of Security Resources in Large Water Networks,” IIE Special Issue on Homeland Security, 38, 1-15, 2007.

29. Gebraeel, N. and Lawley, M, “An Adaptive Neural Network Degradation Model for Computing and Updating Residual Life Distributions,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, accepted for publication.

Refereed Journal Submissions

1. Wang, S., Chew, S., Lawley, M. “Using Shared Resource Capacity for Robust Control of Failure Prone Manufacturing Systems” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, third revision, January 2006.

1. Baumann, J., Lawley, M., Mishra, A., Ryan, J.K., Tew, J., Wu, P., “Evaluating the Performance of Cross-docks: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach” Annals of Operations Research, submitted February 2006.

2. Chew, S., Lawley, M. “Robust Supervision for Product Types with Multiple Unreliable Resources” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, submitted March 2006.

3. Muthuraman, K., Lawley, M “A Probabilistic Overbooking Policy for Open Access Clinical Scheduling” IIE Transactions, submitted March 2006.

4. Delaurentis, P., Kopach, R., Lawley, M., Muthuraman, K., Ozsen, L., Qu, X., Rardin, R., Wan, H.^*, Willis, D. “An Empirical Investigation of the Factors Affecting Open Access Outpatient Scheduling” Health Care Management Science, submitted June 2006.

5. Wang, S., Chew, S., Lawley, M. “Implementation Guidelines for Robust Supervisors in Automated Manufacturing” International Journal of Production Research, submitted July 2006.

6. Turner, J., Qiao, J., Lawley, M., Richard, J.P., Abraham, D., “Configuring Damaged Water Infrastructure for Optimal Distribution with Transportation Costs” Computers and Operations Research, submitted August 2006.

7. Sankaranarayanan, G., Sands, L., Yih, Y., Lawley, M., “Predicting Patient No-show for Medical Appointments” Journal of General Internal Medicine, submitted September 2006.

8. Lawley, M.^*, Doebbling, B., and Pekny, J. “Applying System Engineering Approaches to the Care of Complex Patients” Journal of General Internal Medicine, submitted October 2006.

9. Parmeshwaran, V., Turkcan, A., Lawley, M., Richard, J.P. “A Time-Space Scheduling Model for Optimizing Recurring Bulk Railcar Deliveries”, Transportation Research, Part B, submitted September 2006.

Refereed Journal Papers in Preparation

1. Spry, C., Lawley, M., Lin, F., Coyle-Rogers, P., Yih, Y. “Analysis of Equipment Requirements and Staffing Patterns for Surgical Instrument Sterilization” Journal of Hospital Infection, planned October 2006.

2. Muthuraman, K.^*, Richard, J.P., Lawley, M.^* “A Non-myopic Approach for Sequential Clinical Scheduling with Overbooking” Operations Research, planned November 2006.

3. Chakraborty, S., Gebraeel, N., Lawley, M., Wan, H., “Residual Life Estimation for Components with Non-symmetric Priors” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, planned November 2006.

4. Wang, S., Chew, S., Lawley, M., “Condition-based Control for Manufacturing Systems with Unreliable Resources” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, planned December 2006.

5. Chew, S., Lawley, M., and Reveliotis, S. “Enumerating Process Completing Sequences for Resource Allocation Systems with Process Synchronizations” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, planned November 2006.

6. Atyug, H., Lawley M., Upasani, A., Uzsoy, R. “Integrated Global Scheduling and Deadlock Avoidance for Semi-conductor Manufacturing” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, planned December 2006.

7. Ren, K., Lawley, M., and Thomas, M. “Warranty Planning Considering Customer Cost-Variability Sensitivity in Preventive Maintenance” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, planned November 2006.

8. Ren, K., Lawley, M., and Thomas, M. “Warranty Programs with Incentives for Cooperative Maintenance” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, planned December 2006.

Book Chapters

1. Reveliotis, S., Lawley, M., and Ferreira, P. “Structural Control of Large-Scale Flexibly Automated Manufacturing Systems.” Computer Aided and Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Techniques and Applications, Ed. Cornelius Leondes, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Newark, NJ, 1998.

2. Lawley, M. “Deadlock Analysis and Avoidance for Systems with Flexible Routing submitted for inclusion in Deadlock Resolution in Computer Integrated Systems, IEEE Press Ed. M. Zhou and M. Fanti.

3. Qiao, J., Jeong, J., Lawley, M. and Abraham, D., “Security Issues in Water Infrastructure,” to appear in Advances in Homeland Security, Vol. 1, The Science of Homeland Security, edited by S. Amass, A. Bhunia, A. Chaturvedi, D. Dolk, S. Peeta and M. Atallah.

4. Gebraeel, N., Lawley, M., Liu, R. “Vibration-based Condition Monitoring of Thrust Bearings for Maintenance Management,” appearing in Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks: Volume 12, ASME Press, Ed Cihan H. Dagli, Anna L. Buczak, Joydeep Ghosh, Mark J. Embrechts, Okan Ersoy and Stephen W. Kercel, 2002

Conference Proceedings

1. Matson, J.^*, Webster, D., Dutt, R. and Lawley, M., “Evaluating and Extending the Flexibility of a Cell Layout: A Case Study,” Proceedings of 1990 International Industrial Engineering Conference, pp. 248-253, San Francisco, CA, 1990.

2. Chaudhari, S.^*, Webster, D. and Lawley, M., “Phases of Robotic Cell Design for DeBurring,” Proceedings of International Conference of DeBurring and Surface Conditioning, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1991.

3. Lu, S., Smith, K.^*, Herman, A., Mattox, D., Silliman, M., Lucenti, M., Jacobs, J., Chazin, D., Lawley, M. and Case, M., “SWIFT: System Workbench for Facilitating and Integrating Teams,” Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, IEEE, pp. 48-59, Morgantown, WV, 1993.

4. Lawley, M.^* and Ferreira, P., “An Automaton Based Framework for Analysis and Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” Proceedings of 1994 Mid-America Conference on Intelligent Systems, pp. 144-152, Kansas City, KS, 1994.

5. Wallace, J.^*, Herman, A., Mowbray, D., Burnett, A. and Lawley, M., “A Framework for Flight Vehicle Simulation,” Proceedings of 1994 Object Oriented Simulation Conference, 26(2); pp. 176-182, 1994.

6. Reveliotis, S.*, Lawley, M. and Ferreira, P., “Structural Control Policies for Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” Proceedings of 11^th International Conference on Computer Aided Production Engineering, pp. 255-260, London, England, 1995.

7. Reveliotis, S.*, Lawley, M. and Ferreira, P., “An Analytical Framework for Structural Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” Proceedings of 11^th International Conference on Computer Aided Production Engineering, pp. 249-254, London, England, 1995.

8. Reveliotis, S.^*, Lawley, M. and Ferreira, P., “Deadlock Avoidance Policies for Large-Scale Flexibly Automated Manufacturing Systems,” Proceedings of 1996 Conference on Agile and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Troy, NY, 1996.

9. Lawley, M.^*, Reveliotis, S. and Ferreira, P., “Configurable and Scalable Real Time Control Policies for Deadlock Avoidance in Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” Proceedings of the Sixth International Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, pp. 758-768, Atlanta, GA, 1996.

10. Ferreira, P.^*, Lawley, M., and Reveliotis, S, “Deadlock Avoidance Policies for Resource Allocation Systems with Applications to FMS,” Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, IEEE, Vol.1, pp. 42-48, Kauai, HW, 1996.

11. Reveliotis, S.^*, Lawley, M.^* and Ferreira, P., “On the Complexity of Optimal Deadlock Avoidance in Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, Vol. 2, pp. 1008-1012, Albuquerque, NM, 1997.

12. Reveliotis, S.^* and Lawley, M.^*, “Application of Banker’s Algorithm for Deadlock Avoidance in FMS,” Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, IEEE, pp. 214-220, Los Angeles, CA, 1997.

13. Sahay, R.^*, Matson, J.^*, Miller, D. and Lawley, M., “Single Machine Scheduling with Sequence Dependent Setup Times and Setup Carry-Over,” Proceedings of 1998 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Banff, Canada, 1998.

14. Lawley, M., “Flexible Routing and Deadlock Avoidance in Automated Manufacturing Systems,” Proceedings of 1998 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, Vol. 1, pp. 591-596, Lueven, Belgium, 1998.

15. Lawley, M., “Deadlock Characterization for Manufacturing Systems with Flexible Routing,” Proceedings of 1998 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, pp. 1193-1196, Otsu, Japan, 1998.

16. Lawley, M., “Deadlock Avoidance for Manufacturing Systems with Flexible Routing and Mixed Capacity,” Proceedings of 1998 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE, Vol. 1, pp. 594-599, Los Angeles, CA, 1998.

17. Sulistyono, W.^* and Lawley, M., “Deadlock Avoidance for Manufacturing Systems with Partially Ordered Process Plans,” Proceedings of 2000 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, Vol. 4, pp. 3383-3388, San Francisco, CA, 2000.

18. Sulistyono, W.^* and Lawley, M., “Optimal Deadlock Avoidance in Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Flexible Sequencing,” Proceedings of 2000 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, 2000JUSFA-13127, Ann Arbor, MI, 2000.

19. Gebraeel, N.^* and Lawley, M., “Deadlock Characterization for Automated Tool Sharing Systems,” Proceedings of 2000 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, 2000JUSFA-13152, Ann Arbor, MI, 2000.

20. Roszkowska, E.^* and Lawley, M.^*, “Supervisory Control for Flexible Assembly Systems with AGV Material Handling,” Proceedings of 6^th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, Vol. 2, pp. 853-8, Technical University Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, 2000.

21. Aytug, H.^*, Lawley, M.^*, Mohan, S. and Uzsoy, R.^*, “Executing Production Schedules in the Face of Uncertainties: A Brief Review and Some Future Directions,” International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Production Management Systems, Laval University, Quebec City, 2001.

22. Sulistyono, W.^* and Lawley, M., “Robust Supervisory Control Policies for Manufacturing Systems with Unreliable Resources,” Proceedings of 2002 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, pp. 199-204, Washington, D.C., 2002.

23. Gebraeel, N.^*, Lawley, M. and Liu, C. R., “Vibration Based Condition Monitoring of Thrust Bearings for Maintenance Management,” ANNIE, in association with IEEE Neural Network Council, St. Louis, MO, November 10-13, 2002.

24. Chew, S.^*, Lawley, M. and Reveliotis, S., “Liveness Enforcing Supervision for Resource Allocation Systems with Process Synchronizations,” 42^nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2003.

25. Chew, S.^*, Lawley, M. and Reveliotis, S., “Liveness Enforcing Supervision for Resource Allocation Systems with Complex Workflows,” Proceedings of 9^th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, August 2003.

26. Gebraeel, N.^*, Lawley M. and Parmeshwaran V., "Bearing Life Percentile Prediction for Maintenance Management and Replacement Decisions,” 13th International Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM) Conference, June 2003.

27. Jeong, H.S.^*, Abraham, D. M., Qiao, J.^*, Lawley, M., Richard, J. P. and Yih, Y., “Issues in Risk Management of Water Networks against Intentional Attacks,” ASCE International Pipeline Conference, 2004.

28. Qiao, J.^*, Jeong, J., Lawley, M., Abraham, D., Richard, J. P. and Yih, Y., “A Consequence Mitigation Model for Water Networks Subject to Intentional Physical Attacks,” ASCE International Conference of Computing in Civil Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, July, 2005.

29. Chew, S.^* and Lawley, M., “Robust Supervisory Control for Resource Allocation Systems with Multiple Unreliable Resources,” IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Edmonton, Canada, August, 2005.

30. Wang, S., Chew, S.^* and Lawley, M., “Using Shared Resource Capacity for Robust Control of Failure Prone Manufacturing Systems,” IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Edmonton, Canada, August, 2005.

31. Spry, C.^* and Lawley, M., “Evaluating Hospital Pharmacy Staffing and Work Scheduling Using Simulation,” Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, December 2005.

32. Lee., S.^*, Locker, M.^*, Yih, Y., Lawley, M., Suelzer, C., Thayer, D and Doebbeling, B., “Dynamic Open Access Scheduling for Outpatient Clinics: A Simulation Study,” IERC, Orlando, FL, 2006.

33. Sankaranarayanan, G.^*, Lee, S., Yih, Y., Lawley, M., Suelzer, C., Thayer, D. and Doebbeling, B., “Patient No Show Prediction in Outpatient Clinics in Veterans Administration,” IERC, Orlando, FL, 2006.

34. Qu, X.^*, Rardin, R., Stuart, J., Tieman, L., Wan, H., Lawley, M., Willis, D and Rosenman, M., “A Statistical Model for the Prediction of Patient Non-Attendance in a Primary Care Clinic,” IERC, Orlando, FL, 2006.

35. Qiao, J.^*, Jeong, H., Richard, J. P., Lawley, M., Abraham, D. and Yih, Y., “Consequences Mitigation Strategies for Water Networks against Physical Destruction,” IERC, Orlando, FL, 2006.

36. Lawley, M.^*, Doebbling, B., and Pekny, J. “Applying System Engineering Approaches to the Care of Complex Patients” Department of Veteran’s Affairs State of the Art (SOTA) Conference, Washington D.C., September, 2006.