Decision Analytics Lab

Journal Publications:

Robust Causal Inference:

• Md Saiful Islam, M. S. Morshed and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “A Computational Framework for Solving Nonlinear Binary Optimization Problems in Robust Causal Inference”, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2022. (preprint)

• Marco Morucci, Md. Noor-E-Alam and Cynthia Rudin, “A Robust Approach to Quantifying Uncertainty in Matching Problems of Causal Inference”, INFORMS Journal on Data Science, 2022 (preprint).

• Md Saiful Islam and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Feature Selection for Causal Inference from High Dimensional Observational Data with Outcome Adaptive Elastic Net”, working paper, 2021.

• Md Saiful Islam, M. S. Morshed, Gary Young and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Robust policy evaluation from large-scale observational studies”, PLoS ONE 14(10), 2019: e0223360. https:doi.org10.1371journal.pone.0223360

• Md. Noor-E-Alam and Cynthia Rudin, “Robust Nonparametric Testing for Causal Inference in Observational Studies”, working paper, 2015.

• Md. Noor-E-Alam and Cynthia Rudin, “Robust Testing for Causal Inference in Observational Studies”, working paper, 2015.

Addressing Opioid Epidemic:

• Sahil Shikalgar, Scott Weiner, Gary Young and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Self-Help Groups and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: An Investigation Using a Machine Learning-Assisted Robust Causal Inference Framework”, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Published Online 24 June 2024, DOI: doi.org10.1016j.ijmedinf.2024.105530.

• Gary Young, Tianjie Zhu, Md Mahmudul Hasan, Farbod Alinezhad, Leonard Young, Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Patient outcomes following buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder: The influence of patient- and prescriber-level characteristics”, Addiction, 2024.

• Md Mahmudul Hasan, Tasnim Ibn Faiz, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Gary Young, Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Optimizing Return and Secure Disposal of Prescription Opioids to Reduce the Diversion to Secondary Users and Black Market”, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022. (“preprint”).

• Md Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Noor-E-Alam, Jiesheng Shi, Leonard Young, Gary J. Young, “Long-term Patient Outcomes from Buprenorphine/Naloxone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: A Retrospective Analysis for a Commercially Insured Population”, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2022.

• Md Mahmudul Hasan, Gary J. Young, Jiesheng Shi, Prathamesh Mohite, Leonard Young, Scott G. Weiner, Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Predicting Patients Discontinuation from Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: A Two-Stage Clinical Decision Support System Using Machine Learning”, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021.

• Md Mahmudul Hasan, Gary Young, Mehul R. Patel, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Leon Sanchez, Md. Noor-E-Alam, “A Machine Learning Framework to Predict the Risk of Opioid Use Disorder”, Machine Learning with Applications, 2021.

• Md Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Noor-E-Alam, Prathamesh Mohite, Md Saiful Islam, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Alyssa Peckham, Leonard D. Young, and Gary J. Young, “Patterns of Patient Discontinuation from Buprenorphine/Naloxone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: A Study of a Commercially Insured Population in Massachusetts”, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Vol. 131, December 2021, 108416.

• Richard Paulsen, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Md Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Noor-E-Alam, Leonard Young and Gary Young, “Patterns of BuprenorphineNaloxone Prescribing: An Analysis of Claims Data from Massachusetts”, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2019. doi.org10.1080/00952990.2019.1674863

Wind Energy Planning:

• Razan A. H. Al-Lawati, Tasnim Ibn Faiz and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “A Nationwide Multi-Location Multi-Resource Stochastic Programming Based Energy Planning Framework”, Energy, 2024, doi.org10.1016j.energy.2024.130898.

• Razan A. H. Al-Lawati, Jose L. Crespo-Vazquez, Tasnim Ibn Faiz, Xin Fang and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “A Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization Approach to Aid in Decision Making Under Uncertainty for a Variable Resource Generator Participating in a Sequential Energy Market”, Applied Energy, Vol. 252, 15 June 2021, 116882.

• Jose L. Crespo-Vazquez, C. Carrillo, E. Diaz-Dorado, Jose A. Martinez Lorenzo and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “A Machine Learning Based Stochastic Optimization Framework for a Wind and Storage Power Plant Participating in Energy Pool Market”, Applied Energy, Vol. 232, pp. 341-357, 2018.

• Jose L. Crespo-Vazquez, C. Carrillo, E. Lorenzo Diaz-Dorado, Jose A. Martinez and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Evaluation of a Data Driven Stochastic Approach to Optimize the Participation of a Wind and Storage Power Plant in Day-Ahead and Reserve Markets”, Energy, Vol. 156, pp. 278-291, 2018.

Large-Scale Optimization:

• M. S. Morshed, Md Saiful Islam and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Sampling Kaczmarz Motzkin Method for Linear Feasibility Problems: Generalization & Acceleration”, Mathematical Programming, 2021. https:doi.org10.1007s10107-021-01649-8

• M. S. Morshed, Md Saiful Islam and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Accelerated Sampling Kaczmarz Motzkin Algorithm for Linear Feasibility Problem”, Journal of Global Optimization, 2019. doi.org10.1007s10898-019-00850-6

• M. S. Morshed and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Generalized Affine Scaling Algorithms for Linear Programming Problems”, Computers & Operations Research, 2019. doi.org10.1016j.cor.2019.104807

• M. S. Morshed, Chrysafis Vogiatzis and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “A Primal-Dual Interior Point Method for a Novel Type-2 Second Order Cone Optimization Problem”, working paper, 2020.

• M. S. Morshed, Sabbir Ahmad and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Stochastic Steepest Descent Methods for Linear Systems: Greedy Sampling & Momentum”, working paper, 2020.

• M. S. Morshed and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Sketch & Project Methods for Linear Feasibility Problems: Greedy Sampling & Momentum”, working paper, 2020.

• M. S. Morshed and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Heavy Ball Momentum Induced Sampling Kaczmarz Motzkin Methods for Linear Feasibility Problems”, working paper, 2020.

Location Analysis:

• Ruilin Ouyang, Tasnim Ibn Faiz and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Location-Allocation Models for Healthcare Facilities with Long Term Demand”, International Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 38, N3, pp. 395-320, 2020.

• Ruilin Ouyang, Michael Beacher, Dinghao Ma, and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Navigating Concave Regions in Continuous Facility Location Problems”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020, doi.org10.1016j.cie.2020.106385.

• Md. Noor-E-Alam, Brody Todd and John Doucette,“Integer Linear Programming Model for Grid-Based Wireless Transmitter Location Problems”, International Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 4864, 2015.

• Md. Noor-E-Alam and John Doucette, “Solving Large Scale Fixed Cost Integer Linear Pro-gramming Models for Grid-Based Location Problems with Heuristic Techniques”, Engineering Optimization, Vol. 47, No. 8, pp. 1085-1106, 2014.

• Md. Noor-E-Alam, Andrew Ma and John Doucette, “Integer Linear Programming Models for Grid-Based Light Post Location Problem”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 222, pp. 17-30, 2012.

• Md. Noor-E-Alam and John Doucette, “Relax-and-Fix-Based Decomposition Technique for Solving Large Scale GBLPs”, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 63, pp. 1062-1073, 2012.

Intelligent Decision Making (MCDM):

• Dizuo Jiang, Tasnim Ibn Faiz, Md Mahmudul Hasan and Md. Noor-E-Alam,“A Possibility Distribution Based Multi-Criteria Decision Algorithm for Resilient Supplier Selection Problems”, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 2019. DOI:10.1002/mcda.1696

• Md Mahmudul Hasan, Dizuo Jiang, AMM Sharif Ullah and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Resilient Supplier Selection in Logistics 4.0 with Heterogeneous Information”, Expert Systems with Applications, 2019. org10.1016j.eswa.2019.07.016

• AMM Sharif Ullah and Md. Noor-E-Alam,“Big Data Driven Graphical Information Based Multi Criteria Decision Making”, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 63, pp. 23-38, 2018.

• Shahinur, AMM Sharif Ullah, Md. Noor-E-Alam, Hiroyuki Haniu and Akihiko Kubo, “A Decision Model for Making Decisions Under Epistemic Uncertainty and Its Application to Select Materials”, Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Vol. 31, pp. 298-312, 2017.

• Md. Noor-E-Alam, Md. Ahsan Akhtar Hasin, A.M.M. Sharif Ullah, Tahmina Ferdousi Lipi, “Supplier Evaluation with GD based Multi Criteria Decision Making”, International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp.368381, 2008.

• Md. Noor-E-Alam, Tahmina Ferdousi Lipi, Md. Ahsan Akhtar Hasin, A.M.M. Sharif Ullah, “Algorithms for Fuzzy Multi Expert Multi Criteria Decision Making (ME-MCDM)”, Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 367-377, 2011.

Healthcare Analytics:

• Md Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Noor-E-Alam, Xiaoyi Wang, David Zepeda and Gary Young,“Hospital Readmissions to Non-Index Hospitals: Patterns and Determinants Following the Adoption of the Medicare Readmission Reduction Penalty Program”, Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2019. doi: 10.1097/JHQ.0000000000000199

• Hayley D. Germack, Md. Noor-E-Alam, Xiaoyi Wang and Nancy Hanrahan, “Association Between Comorbid Serious Mental Illness Diagnosis and 30-day Medical and Surgical Read-missions”, JAMA Psychiatry, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.

• Md Saiful Islam, Md Mahmudul Hasan, Xiaoyi Wang, Hayley D. Germack, and Md. Noor-E-Alam,“A Systematic Review on Healthcare Analytics: Application and Theoretical Perspective of Data Mining”, Healthcare, Vol. 6, pp. 1-42, 2018.

Supply chain and Logistics:

• Tasnim Ibn Faiz, Chrysafis Vogiatzis and Md. Noor-E-Alam,“A Robust Optimization Framework for Two-Echelon Vehicle and UAV Routing for Post-Disaster Humanitarian Logistics Operations”, Networks, 2024. (Arxiv Preprint)

• Tasnim Ibn Faiz, Chrysafis Vogiatzis and Md. Noor-E-Alam,“Computational Approaches for Solving Two-Echelon Vehicle and UAV Routing Problems for Post-Disaster Humanitarian Operations”, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 237, Part B, 1 March 2024, 121473. (Arxiv Preprint) (Online Data)

• Tasnim Ibn Faiz, Chrysafis Vogiatzis and Md. Noor-E-Alam,“A Column Generation Algorithm for Vehicle Scheduling and Routing Problems”, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 130, pp. 222-236, 2019.

• Tasnim Ibn Faiz and Md. Noor-E-Alam,“Data Center Supply Chain Configuration Design: A Two-Stage Decision Approach”, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, org10.1016j.seps.2018.07.008, 2018.

Maintenance, Scheduling, Network Optimization and Investment Decisions:

• Mengkai Xu, Xiaoning Jin, Sagar Kamarthi and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “A Failure-Dependency Modeling and State Discretization Approach for Condition-Based Maintenance Optimization of Multi-Component Systems”, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 47, pp. 141-152, 2018.

• Md. Noor-E-Alam, Ahmed Zaky Kasem and John Doucette, “ILP Model and Relaxation-Based Decomposition Approach for Incremental Topology Optimization in p-Cycle Networks”, Journal of Computer Networks and Communication, Vol. 2012, pp. 1-10, 2012.

• Md. Noor-E-Alam, John Doucette, “An Application of Infinite Horizon Stochastic Dynamic Programming in Multi Stage Project Investment Decision Making”, International Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 423-438, 2012.

• Tahmina Ferdousi Lipi, Md. Ahsan Akhtar Hasin and Md. Noor-E-Alam, “Reliability Centered Multi Objective Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling”, Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 637-653, 2009