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Research Interests

Research Interests

  1. Inventory Systems in manufacturing and distribution;
  2. Scheduling in manufacturing sytems;
  3. Queuing systems analysis & control;
  4. Neural networks, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledgebased Systems with applications in manufacturing and robotics.  
  5. Applications of Genetic algorithms and ANT systems in Scheduling problems in Freight Train Scheduling, Routing and Scheduling of Vehicles, Project Scheduling.  

Publications

Publications in refereed journals 

  • "Optimizing loading policies at a bottleneck facility in an assembly line with random rejects," P. G. Awate, Jayan Moorkanat and Narayan Rangaraj, International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 84(2003), pp. 319-334.

  • "Some new heuristic algorithms for dynamic capacitated lotsizing for convergent-divergent production flow networks with setup times," Jayan Moorkanat, Prakash G. Awate and Narayan Rangaraj, OPSEARCH, vol. 40, No.3, 2003, pp. 180-201.

  • "An extension of Modified-Operational-Due-Date Priority Rule incorporating job waiting times and application to Assembly Job Shop," P.G. Awate and P.V. Saraph, Invited Paper, SADHANA - Indian Academy of Sciences' Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Special Issue on Competitive Manufacturing Systems, v.22, 1997, pp. 83-100.

  • "Cyclic machine loading, Product allocation and lot sizing in an asbestos cement sheet factory," P.G. Awate and M.T. Tabucanon, Int. J. Production Economics, v.29, 1993, pp. 1-10.

  • "A case study in Cyclic assembly planning and dynamic coordinated component shops loading in a locks manufacturing plant," P.G. Awate, Engg. Costs and Production Economics, v.19, 1990, pp. 115-123.

  • "Priority Dispatching and Dynamic Machine Loading in multi-stage production in a wire rope factory: A case study," P.G. Awate, D.L. Van Oudheusden, S. Dechawongsuwan and P. Yenradee, Int. J. Operations and Production Management, v.10, 1990, pp. 61-70.

  • "Analysis of propagation of stochastic errors through an MRP system, and an industrial case study," P.G. Awate, Engg. Costs and Prodution Economics, v.15, 1988, pp. 147-150.

  • "Inventories as Work Backlogs - Three case studies in diagnostic analyses using Regressions, Moving-averages and Cum-Sum charts," P. G. Awate, Engg. Costs and Production Economics, v.15, 1988, pp. 151-156.

  • "A Diagnostic study concerning large fluctuations in Load Plans and stocks at Sales-Production Interface in a large switchgear company," P.G. Awate, Engg. Costs and Production Economics, v.15, 1988, pp. 157-161.

  • "Analysis of a Two Station Flow-Line with machine processing subject to inspection and rework," B.L.N. Sastry and P.G. Awate, OPSEARCH, v.25, 1988, pp. 89-97.

  • "Analysis and Decomposition of Transfer and Flow Lines - A Review," P.G. Awate and B.L.N. Sastry, OPSEARCH, v.24, No. 3, 1987, pp. 175-196.

  • "A counter-example to Naidu-Singh's Myopic algorithm for generation of Wagner-Whitin optimal ordering plan," P.G. Awate, Int. J. Production Research, v.25, 1987, pp. 1235-1237.

  • "Multi-Item lot sizing with probabilistic demands by Myopic Gain to Cost ratio criterion," P.G. Awate and R.C. Chaturvedi, Journal of Engg. Production, v.7, 1984, pp. 92-97.

  • "A case study in Economic Quality Assurance in multi-stage production," P.G. Awate and M.N. Gopalan, Journal of Engg. Production, v.7, 1984, pp. 98-103.

  • "A case study in project scheduling with Discrete and Continuous resources," P.G. Awate and S.R. Gandhi, Industrial Engineering Journal, v.10, 1981, pp. 17-18.

  • "A multi-item production scheduling problem in a process industry," P.G. Awate and S.N. Pathak, Chemical Age of India, v.31, 1980, pp. 1073-1076.

  • "A Note on Markovian Decision Models for Reject Allowance Problems," P.G. Awate, Management Science, Series A, v.18, 1972, pp. 329-343. 

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS: CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS

A.I. AND O.R. APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURING, PROJECT SCHEDULING AND POWER PROUREMENT SYSTEMS

  • “A new Genetic Perturbation Operator for GA Based Optimization among Active Schedules in Resource Constrained Project Scheduling,” Satpal Singh and Prakash G. Awate, 4th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence ( ICBAI ), IISc Bangalore, December 2016.

  • “From Forecasting to Scheduling in Short Term Power Procurement using Stochastic Optimization,” Manish Punjabi, Prakash Awate, Rajeev Gajbhiye, S.A. Soman and Krishna Prasad, Paper presented at 5th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (IGST) European 2014 Conference, sponsored by IEEE Power and Energy Society, Istanbul, Oct. 12-15, 2014.

  • “Short Term Portfolio Optimization for Load Serving Entity Considering Multiple Exchanges and Ramping Constraints,” Manish Punjabi, Prakash Awate, Rajeev Gajbhiye, S.A. Soman and Krishna Prasad, Paper presented at 5th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (IGST), Washington D.C., Feb. 19-22, 2014.

  • "Application of Neural Networks in Statistical Control Charts for process Quality Control", Chetan Mahajan and Prakash G.Awate, Proc. 1st IIMA International Conference on Advanced Data analysis, IIM Ahemdabad, June 6-7, 2009.

  • "Neuro-Fuzzy Systems for Mobile Robot Navigation", M.M. Joshi and P.G. Awate, Proceedings of International Conference on Operations Research Applications in Infrastructure Development in Conjunction with the Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India, ICORAID-2005-ORSI, Bangalore, India, December 27-29, 2005.

 

PRODUCTION-INVENTORY PLANNING, CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT

  • "Model Predictive Control Framework for Inventory Management in Multi-echelon networks", N. Kumar and P.G. Awate, Proceedings of INFORMS International Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, November 5-8, 2006. 

  • "Optimizing loading policies at a bottleneck facility in a refrigerator manufacturing plant with random rejects in assembly line: A case study," P.G. Awate, M.Jayan and Narayan Rangaraj, Paper presented at O.R.S.I. Convention, Bombay, Dec. 1996.

  • "Dynamic loading policy at a bottleneck facility for feeding multiple component lines converging at a refrigerator assembly line with random rejects at various points," P.G. Awate, V.D. Paranjape and Narayan Rangaraj, Paper presented at O.R.S.I. Convention, Bombay, Dec. 1996.

  • "Determination of Echelon Safety Stocks in MRP systems under service level constraint using Cyclic Nested Base Stock ordering policies," P.G. Awate and R. Venkatesh, Paper presented at O.R.S.I. Convention, I.I.M., Ahmedabad, Dec. 1992.

  • "On the use of modified Clark-Scarf approximations in planning production and protective stocks in multi-stage systems," P.G. Awate, Proc. National Conference on Stochastic Models in Management Science, I.I.M., Ahmedabad, Jan. 1990.

  • "Hierarchical production planning and Cyclic machine loading in a polyester yarn plant," P.G. Awate, Working Paper No. 205, Asian Institute of Technology, Ind. Engg. & Mgmt. Div., Bangkok, Thailand, April 1989.

  • "A review of convex-cost network flow optimization in lot sizing in acyclic production-distribution networks," P.G. Awate, Proc. UGC sponsored Symposium on Optimization, Design of Experiments and Graph Theory, IIT, Bombay, Dec. 1986.

  • "Queuing control in multi-item inventory replenishment problem on a machine: Optimizing machine time allocation and safety times," P.G. Awate, Proc. 8th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Probability and Statistics, Nov. 1986.

  • "A case study in application of group technology and systematic scheduling in a large press shop," P.G.Awate and A.Y.Divekar, Proc. 17th O.R.S.I. Convention, Ahmedabad, Dec. 1984.

  • "Three case studies in Inventory versus Delay, and Inventory versus Capacity-utilization trade-offs in a light engineering industry," P.G. Awate, Proc. 17th O.R.S.I. Convention, Ahmedabad, Dec. 1984.

  • "A case study in cost-benefit analysis in selection of certain material handling and storage systems in a mini steel plant," P.G. Awate and R.C. Chaturvedi, Proc. All India Convention on Materials Handling Equipment, National Centre for Technical Development, Bombay, Oct. 1984.

  • "Economics of maintaining spare press tools - A case study in a large manufacturing company," Proc. All India Conference on Maintenance of Mechanical Equipment, The Institute of Energy Management, Bombay, Aug. 1984.

  • "A case study in allocation of space for steel scraps at a mini steel making plant," P.G. Awate and R.C. Chaturvedi, Proc. UNESCO sponsored Seminar on Systems and Control, I.I.T., Bombay, 1982.

 

SCHEDULING THEORY AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

  • Some order batching algorithms for automated storage/retrieval systems," P.G. Awate and K.K. Singh, Paper presented at O.R.S.I. Convention, I.I.M., Calcutta, Dec. 1994.

  • "Development of adaptive control strategies for dispatching rules in dedicated Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Random arrivals," P.G. Awate and Neeraj Kumar, Proc. O.R.S.I. Convention, I.I.M., Ahmedabad, Dec. 1992.

  • "A case study in Post-Facto Analysis of a project of plant construction and commissioning," P.G. Awate, V. Eswar and A.Y. Divekar, Poc. 26th IIIE Convention, Bangalore, Jan. 1984.

  • "A case study in production scheduling in a large paints factory," P.G. Awate, P. Sriram and S. Somasundaram, Proc. International Productivity Congress, Bombay, Jan. 1983.

  • "Project simulation and choice of control actions to minimise delays using a new index: Marginal Activity Crashing Index - A case study," P.G. Awate, S. Nandurdikar and P.B. Jambusaria, Proc. International Productivity Congress, Bombay, Jan. 1983.

  • "On a Markovian Decision Process in G/G/1 processor scheduling in case of multiple job classes and free preemption," P.G. Awate and A.D. Datar, Proc. 14th O.R.S.I. Convention, March 1982.

  • "On G/G/1 processor scheduling subject to an independent interruption process and free preemption within jobs," P.G. Awate and A.D. Datar, Proc. 14th O.R.S.I. Convention, Bombay, March 1982.

  • "A case study in project scheduling with limited discrete and continuous resources," P.G. Awate and S.R. Gandhi, Proc. 2nd National Symposium on Project Management, Project Management Association and Ind. Inst. of Public Administration, New Delhi, April 1982.

  • "An implicit enumeration procedure for Job Shop scheduling with Alternative Machine requirements," P.G. Awate, S.N. Pathak and S.R. Gandhi, Annamalai University, Aug. 1978.

  • "Application of Maximal Flow methods to project scheduling with limited resources and to Flow-Shop scheduling with parallel machines," P.G. Awate and S.N. Pathak, Proc. 10th O.R.S.I. Convention, New Delhi, Dec. 1977.

  • An implicit enumeration procedure approach to N/M Job Shop scheduling allowing sequence-dependent set-up times," P.G. Awate and S.R. Pandya, Proc. All India Seminar on Mathematical Methods in Operations Research and Economics, Jadavpur Univ., Oct. 1977.

  • "Computational efficiency of shortest path approach over branch-and-bound approach in assembly line balancing," P.G. Awate and M.D. Phatak, Proc. 9th O.R.S.I. Convention, Madras, Dec. 1976.

 

QUEUING ANALYSIS AND CONTROL IN MANUFACTURING & OTHER SYSTEMS

  • "Analysis of Two Unreliable Machines In Tandem system with two operations at each machine," K.V. Krishna Kumar, P.G. Awate and H.B. Kekre, Paper presented at O.R.S.I. Convention, I.I.Sc., Bangalore, Dec. 1991.

  • "Analysis of a Two-Stage Automatic Transfer Line with rework upon breakdown ," K.V. Krishna Kumar, P.G. Awate and H.B. Kekre, Paper presented at 14th All India Machine Tool & Design Research Conference, Bombay, Dec. 1990.

  • "Efficient Matrix-geometric solution to two-stage automatic transfer line with geometrically distributed service times," P.G. Awate, K,V. Krishna Kumar and H.B. Kekre, Paper presented at the National Conference on Quality and Reliability, Bombay, Dec. 1990.

  • "Non-recursive determination of Matrix-geometric solution in certain flow line models with blocking," P.G. Awate and K.V.Krishna Kumar, Working Paper No. 189, Asian Institute of technology, Ind. Engg. & Management Div., Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 1988.

  • "Decomposition techniques in the analysis of inter-stage buffers in transfer/flow lines and extensions," P.G. Awate and B.L.N. Sastry, Proc. National Conference on Industrial Engg., N.I.T.I.E., Bombay, Feb. 1985.

  • "Use of Martingales in study of Discount-Optimal and Average-Optimal policies in Markov Decision Processes - An application to a processor allocation problem," P.G. Awate and A.D. Datar, Proc. All India Symposium on Optimization, Silver Jubilee Symposia Series of I.I.T. Bombay, Dec. 1983.

  • "An application of Martingales in studying moments of recurrence times of states in a multi-sever multiple queue system," Proc. 2nd Annual Conference of Indian Society for Theory of Probability and Applications, IIT Bombay, Dec. 1980.

  • "On first-passage times in a two dimensional random walk," P.G. Awate and A.D. Dharmadhikari, Proc. National Symposium on Queues, Inventories and Reliability, Annamalai University, Aug. 1978.

  • "Dynamic Programming with positive costs and average cost criterion," P.G. Awate, Proc. 9th O.R.S.I. Convention, IIT Madras, Dec. 1976.

  • "Dynamic Programming with Negative Rewards and average reward criterion," P.G. Awate, Technical report No. 251, School of Operations Research, Cornell University, Sponsored by office of Naval research, Aug. 1975.

  • "On two problems where two queues are attended by a single server," P.G. Awate, Technical Report, Traffic Research Group, A. T. & T. Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, Aug. 1970.

  • "An approximation in the traffic analysis of three 'BELLBOY' TERMINALS sharing a channel," P.G. Awate, A. T. & T. Bell Laboratories, Technical Memorandum No. MM-69-3341-9, Holmdel, N.J., Oct. 1969.

 

QUALITY ASSURANCE, RELIABILITY AND MAINTENANCE

  • "Reliability of production systems - Some case studies," P.G. Awate, Paper presented at D.O.E. Sponsored Seminar on Reliability, Life-testing and Applications, Department of Statistics, University of Poona, Feb. 1991.

  • "A Markov Renewal Theoretic analysis of periodic inspection policy in presence of Delay time for failure," P.G. Awate and O. Fujiwara, Working Paper No. 190, Asian Institute of Technology, Ind. Engg. & Mgmt. Div., Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 1988.

  • "An Optimal Confidence Interval problem in quality assurance in an industrial product," P.G. Awate, Poc. National Conference on Quality and Reliability, IIT Bombay, Nov. 1979.

  • "Validity and Optimality of Confidence Interval for the frequency of particles in size range where no particles are observed," P.G. Awate, Research Memorandum No. 75-8C51-MATECH-M1, Westinghouse Research Labs., Pittsburgh, PA, Sep. 1975.

  • "Fault Tree analysis to estimate probability of failure to attain warranted burnup," P.G. Awate and M.Majumdar, Research Report No. 75- 1C51-NUREL-R1, Westinghouse Research Labs., Pittsburgh, PA, Sep. 1975.

  • "Development of efficient methods for estimating probabilities in nuclear reactor design basis events - State Of The Art report," M. Majumdar, P.G. Awate and J. Marshall, Westinghouse Research Labs. Report for Electric Power Research Institute, USA, Sep. 1975.

  • "A Confidence Bound for the reliability of an Electric Shutdown System," P.G. Awate and M. Majumdar, Research Report No.75-8C51-R1, Westinghouse Research Labs., Pittsburgh, PA, April 1975.