Iqbal Agha, Professor of Operations Management

Iqbal Agha

Professor of Operations Management; Department Chairman

Telephone: 413-545-5622

Email: aiali@som.umass.edu

Office: SOM 315

Personal Web Site: intra.som.umass.edu/agha

Education:

Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, 1980
M.S., Southern Methodist University, 1978
M.A., M.S., Ball State University, 1976
B.Sc., University of Jammu and Kashmir, 1970

Research/Teaching Interests:

Supply-chain management
Performance evaluation
Manpower planning
Efficiency and productivity analysis
Algorithm and system development for business logistics models
Mathematical programming
Integer programming
Production and operations management

Selected Publications:

With Mukesh Bhargava. "Marketing Capability and Performance of Dairy Cooperatives in India." Infor 36, no. 3 (August 1998)

With Tom Blanco and Ben Buclatin. "Goal Network Programs: A Specialized Algorithm and an Application." European Journal of Operational Research 106 (1998): 191-197.

With Catherine S. Lerme. "Comparative Advantage and Disadvantage in DEA." Annals of Operations Research 73 (1997): 215-32.

With Shirley Shmerling. "Incorporating Facet-Inducing Inequalities into Graphical-Construct-Based Lagrangean Relaxation Methodologies." Operations Research Letters 18 (1996): 177-84.

"Computational Aspects of Data Envelopment Analysis." In DEA: Theory, Methodology, and Applications, edited by Charnes et al, (1995): 63-88.