Alain L. Kornhauser*71
Professor of
Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Co-Director, Center for NJ TIDE (Transportation Information & Decision
Engineering)
Director, Transportation Program
Department of
Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Room E-407 Engineering Quad.
Princeton University
GPS:74.651156W; 40.350216N
Phone: 609-258-4657 .... Fax: 609-258-1563 ....
e-mail: alaink@princeton.edu
Teaching
Spring 2008
Orf 401: e Commerce…Syllabus
Monday & Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:20 004 Friend
Electronic
commerce, commonly called eCommerce, is broadly defined as the buying and
selling of goods using electronic transaction processing technologies. Over the
past ten years these approached have gone through a cycle that has extolled
both great promise and bitter disappointments only to be followed by a
substantial rebound and growth to respectability and even dominance. USA Today
Internet 50
In this course we will study the basics fundamentals of both the business
and economic motivations for eCommerce as well as the underlying computation,
information and communication environments that encompass eCommerce
transactions.
We will focus exclusively on those electronic and process technologies that
allow for transactions to be conducted with little or no intervention on the
part of the buyer or the seller. We will characterize the value proposition
afforded by such transactions. Initially we will focus on stationary transactions
using "wired" connections. Later we will investigate mobile, enRoute
Commerce, transactions requiring wireless communications. This will lead us to
look into Android - the open
handset alliance.
The last third of the course will be focused on the design and construction
of eCommerce sites:
Fall
2007/8
Orf 467: Transportation Systems Planning & Analysis Syllabus
M,W 1:30-2:50pm 109 Friend
Course Description: Studied is the transportation sector of
the economy from a systems technology and planning perspective. The focus
is on the modeling and analytical methodologies that support
- regional and national, long and short-range capital and operations planning initiatives,
- real-time operational decision making by transportation companies, and
- the formulation and analysis of long-range public policy initiatives focused on the transportation sector of the economy.
The transportation sector of the economy is one in which a continuing
“tug-of-war’ exists between the private sector and the public
sector that continually seeks a balance between private sector market forces
and broad based public policy initiatives. With shifting national
priorities, the Federal role in transportation is changing significantly.
The move away from strict economic regulation towards privatization while trying
to continually improve a common shared transportation infrastructure creates
special challenges and opportunities for this sector of the economy. The
heightened sensitivity of security creates new challenges. Radical
concepts such as "value" pricing, private toll roads and for-profit
mass transportation are beginning to be seriously considered as elements of a
broad transportation policy. Meanwhile, local issues of traffic congestion,
road construction and transportation-related environmental issues are dominant
themes of grass roots planning and policy analysis. Finally, global
warming, profiteering form Katrina, CAFE standards on SUVs and $80 a barrel oil
may be big enough straw to “finally break our back”. We may
now be prepared to change our view on oil as we’ve changed our views on
tobacco (which took forty years). Investigated will be ways that we can
begin to finally wean ourselves from our addiction to oil.
WWS 527a Transportation Policy Analysis & Systems Planning Syllabus
T, Th 2:30-4:10 010 Robertson Hall
Course Description: Studied is the transportation sector of
the economy from a broad public policy perspective with an emphasis on
technology. The focus is on the modeling and methodologies that underpin
the policy formulation, capital and operations planning, and real-time
operational decision making within the transportation industry. With shifting
national priorities, the Federal role in transportation is changing
significantly. The heightened sensitivity of security creates new
challenges. Social and market forces play a much bigger role in the
transportation sector. Radical concepts such as "value" pricing,
private toll roads and for-profit mass transportation are beginning to be
seriously considered as elements of a broad transportation policy. Finally,
global warming, profiteering form Katrina, CAFE standards on SUVs and $80 a
barrel oil may be big enough straw to “finally break our back”.
We may now be prepared to change our view on oil as we’ve changed our
views on tobacco (which took forty years). Investigated will be ways that
we can begin to finally wean ourselves from our addiction to oil.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
Princeton’s entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge
About
Prospect Ten
Summary Paper
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Princeton’s entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand
Challenge
About Prospect Eleven
Summary Paper ___________________________________________________________________________________
|
|
Timeline of Accomplishments of |
|
||
|
Segment |
Description |
Images |
Videos |
|
|
"Going
Back" |
After completing 9.4 miles in GCE, Prospect Eleven returns
to the desert to "complete" the 2005 and 2004 Grand Challenge
courses |
2004 PGC |
||
|
Return 2 |
||||
|
2005 PGC |
||||
|
Changing "one line" of code |
||||
|
2005 GCE |
DARPA Grand Challenge Event (GCE), 132 mile course in desert around Primm, NV; 23 qualifiers; Prospect Eleven is #10 seed |
|||
|
NQE |
National Qualifying Event (NQE) @ California Speedway,
Fontana, CA |
R#1 Champaign 2mb |
||
|
Run-up to NQE |
Modification and testing after receiving Invitation to NQE as one of three Alternates |
|
||
|
2nd Site Visit |
2nd chance to demonstrate capabilities of Prospect Eleven to DARPA officials @ West Windsor Fields after earning Alternate status |
|||
|
1st Site Visit |
Process used by DARPA to extend 40 invitations to NQE from the 117 bonofied entrants. Prospect Eleven does not receive one of the 40 invitations, but does earn Alternate status |
|
|
|
|
Automation of Prospect Eleven |
Conversion of 2005 |
|
||
|
Application & Preparation |
Putting the team together: planning, organization & literature search |
|
||
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Orf467F05/06 New Jersey State-wide Personal Rapid Transit Study:
·
Link to County Reports
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Applications of Knowing “Where Am I”; Two Examples
· Seminar
at UK National Physical Laboratory, Feb. 2, 2006
Teaching
Spring 2006
Orf 401: e
Commerce…Syllabus
Description: Electronic commerce, commonly called eCommerce, is
broadly defined as the buying and selling of goods using electronic transaction
processing technologies. Over the past few years these approached have gone
through a cycle that has extolled both great promise and bitter disappointments
only to be followed lately by a substantial rebound. USA Today
Internet 50
In this course we will study the basics fundamentals of both the business and
economic motivations for eCommerce as well as the underlying computation,
information and communication environments that encompass eCommerce transactions.
We will focus exclusively on those electronic and process technologies that
allow for transactions to be conducted with little or no intervention on the
part of the buyer or the seller. We will characterize the value proposition
afforded by such transactions. Initially we will focus on stationary
transactions using wired transactions. We will then investigate mobile, enRoute
Commerce, transactions requiring wireless communications. We will study
in-depth and critically evaluate examples of successful as well as unsuccessful
eCommerce initiative. The last third of the course will be focused on the
design and construction of eCommerce sites in the following areas:
- EnRoute Commerce
With the transformation of cell phones into powerful mobile computing devices sporting wireless data communications, sizable memory and a sense of "where am I", they have given rise to a market segment widely known as Location-based Services (LBS). However, when coupled with a knowledge of "where am I going", LBS can be transformed into providing better targeted and valuable services about what can enhance not only where I am currently, but also where I will be. Explored will be the enhanced opportunities of EnRoute Commerce.
- Real-time
Management & Control of
It is suggested that real-time management of mobile assets can BOTH improve the economic efficiency of the nations transportation system and contribute in a very positive manner to enhanced Homeland Security. What kind of eCommerce sites can serve as "Dual Use" sites to provide for both improved transport efficiency and National Security?
- Leveraging Google Maps
The ready availability of high-resolution satellite imagery over the past year has provided a very valuable source of data to a large array of spatially-oriented activities to such an extent that companies are even painting their email address on the the roofs of their buildings. Well focus on applications and services that can be enhanced by the ready availability of these images.
- Augmented Reality
We are all familiar with the first down lines that are drawn on the field and the extent that they improve "reality". This process of superimposing virtual images on real images presents may well present an opportunity to substantially leverage the value of cameras available on GPS-enabled SmartPhones. Explored will be this emerging opportunity.
- Using "SETI" principles to assemble and maintain distributed human knowledge: Alain's Streets
For over 10 years I have been trying to assemble and
maintain a reasonable network (arc and node attributes) database of the
Assignments revolve around the design, construction and evaluation of eCommerce
sites. Through a series of assignments, the first part of the course will focus
on a generic example. The second part of the course will be team
project-oriented. It will focus on developing a more substantive
student-motivated eCommerce initiative. In place of a final exam, the team
Projects will be presented, at a course symposium to be held at the end of
reading period.
Spring 2005
Psy/Orf 322: Human – Machine Interaction…Syllabus
Course Description: This course studies the fundamentals of
human-machine interactions from the human psychology and philosophy side as
well as the machine engineering and design side. This multi-disciplinary approach
will utilize faculty and readings from psychology, philosophy, physical
sciences and engineering. Starting from a framework of the elements of
human-machine interactions, the course focuses on the following specific
issues:
· What are the fundamental
differences between humans and machines, specifically: how can we use machines
to study people, what are the functional elements of sensors, memory, control
and actuators in humans? Views of the brain at work.
· Philosophical aspects of human-machine
interactions. Turing's test for machine intelligence and possible problems with
the test. Searle's Chinese Room Argument.
· Thinking by machines and humans.
Deduction by machines and humans; a taxonomy of thought. Are humans rational? Induction
by machines and humans. Creativity by machines and humans.
· Computers in the social
environment; motivational issues. Individual differences in human-machine
interactions. Issues of gender, age and personality.
· The decisions and control by humans
and machines. The structure of the human and machine vision systems including
approaches to machine vision and image processing. Information content in
images. Application of computer vision to drive an "auto" mobile,
artificial neural networks for massively parallel computing. Concepts of
Decision Engineering, helping individuals make better real-time decisions.
· The role of consciousness in
human-machine interactions: Are the information processing in the human mind
and that in the intelligent machines invariably linearly separable, or are
there possibilities of resonant synergism? Design and implementation of
experiments on the question, including: issues of statistical analysis, scale
of effects, replicability, and protection from artifacts. Theoretical models of
the anomalous interactions, and their implications and applications.
Research
Current Research Projects
NJ Tide (
- In-vehicle Dynamic Route Guidance
- Finding Best Paths Through Networks having Stochastic Travel Times
He, R.R., Kornhauser, A and Ran, B “Essentially best routes in dynamic and stochastic transportation networks” Ont. J. Vehicle Information and Communication Systems, Vol 1, Nos 1/2 , 2005, pp 1, 14
Arroyo, S.,
Kornhauser, A. “Modeling Travel Time Distributions on a Road
network” 05 TRB Annual Conference,
Schrader, C.,
Kornhauser, A., & Friese, L. “Using Historical Travel Information in
Forecasting Travel Times” 04 TRB Annual Conference,
- Moving Beyond “’Just-in-Time” to address both Economic Security and Homeland Security
- enRoute Commerce
- Goods Movement:
Student Research
2007
- Daniel
A.
- Bryan C. Cattle’06 “A frequency-Scanned Millimeter Wave Radar for Autonomous Navigation”, May 2007
2006
- Lucia
de
- Stephen P. Lambe’06 “Can PRT Perform? Surge Management Analysis Applied” , May 1006
- Mathe Y. Mosny'06 “Path Estimation Using Cellular Handover” May 2006
- Gregory
E. Redman’06 “The Client Facing Approach to Mass Transit:
Modelling Reliability on the
2005
- Megan L. Bernard’06 “Traffic Congestion: How Predictable? Discovering Volume Trends Across Time and Confirming Fundamental Speed-Flow Density Relationships” Independent Research, May 2005
- Laura Friese*05 “Updating the Spatial Alignment Attributes of Digital Maps Using GPS Points” MSE Thesis, May 2005
- Mathe Y. Mosny’06 “Decisions Under Stupidity: a study of trip-Planning under insufficient information” Independent Research, May 2005
2004
- Santiage Arroyo “Modeling Travel Time Distributions on a Road network”MSE Thesis, May 2004
- Peter Fabian’04 “The End of Congestion: Developing a Large Scale Floating Car data” System” BSE Thesis, May 2004, Presentation
- Garrett Weston
- Ashirul Amin
- Cyrena Chih’05 “Attracting Exceptional Students Through Financial Methods” Independent Research, May 2004
- Nicholas Kalmbach
- Tony Wu*05 “The Optimizing Simulator For the Military Airlift Problem” PhD Dissertation Oct. 2004
2003
- Chris Schraeder’03 “Reacting in Real Time: Using Historical & Real-Time Information in Forecasting Link Travel Times” BSE Thesis May 2003, Presentation
- John Knorring
- John Cranston’03 “A First Step Toward Map Realignment” BSE Thesis May 2003
- Ryan Goldenberg’03 “Assimilating Distributed Expert Knowledge: The Updateability of Map Information” BSE Thesis, May 2003, Presentation
- Kaytlin Parlin
- Ron Chan
- Laura
Kornhauser’03 “Pop Goes the Market: An Analysis if the
Current Real Estate
2000
- Iris Lin’00 “Analysis of the Sampling Mechanisms for Providing Travel Time Information” BSE Thesis, May 2000, Presentation
Cognitive Science Seminars This Week
Last Updated: Feb 6, 2005