Alain L. Kornhauser*71
Professor of
Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Director, Transportation Program
Faculty Advisor, PAVE
(Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering)
Departmental Representative (Director of
Undergraduate Studies)
Department of
Operations Research & Financial Engineering
229 Sherrerd Hall (ORFE Building).
Princeton University
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e-mail: alaink@princeton.edu
Teaching
Spring 2013
Orf 401:
eCommerce…Syllabus
Monday & Wednesdays 11am- 12:20pm 101 ORFE (Sherrerd Hall) + 50 Minute
Precept Monday or Tuesday 7:30-8:20pm.
Course Overview: 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 lately by a substantial rebound and growth to respectability and
even dominance. With the current world-wide efforts to emerge from the recent
economic downturn, the efficiency, scope and reach of eCommerce continues to be
strong. USA
Today Internet 50
Moreover eCommerce continues to
evolve in both technologically and in the scope of its market reach. Technologically, desktop and laptop/notebook
computers have been the dominant client/user-side technology with the
server-side being either dedicated servers owned/managed by the eCommerce
entity(e.g. the entity providing the goods/services) or an intermediate entity
providing what is termed "cloud computing" resources shared by many
eCommerce companies. More recently, Apple and Google have evolved this paradigm
by creating an environment by which other devices such as an iTouch, iPhone, iPad and
Android-based smartPhones and Tablets are emerging as
serious client-side technologies. The extreme
portability, mobility and place-aware nature of these devices is expanding the fundamental character of the eCommerce
environment. Enabled is on-the-go
eCommerce that is place- and time-aware now, has remembered the past and
continually makes intelligent expectations about the future.
The scope of the eCommerce market
has also evolved beyond the narrow buying and selling of goods to include
services of all kinds including entertainment and communications that is making
eCommerce an integral part of everyone's daily life. It is these fundamental
daily personal services provided by the extended scope of eCommerce that have
the opportunity to substantially enhance the daily lives of all individuals.
In this course we will study
1. the
basics fundamentals of both the business and economic motivations for
eCommerce,
2. the
underlying computation, information and communication environments that
encompass and enable eCommerce transactions, and
3. the evolving
role of new highly portable, place-aware, always-with-you devices in eCommerce.
We will focus exclusively on
those electronic and process technologies that allow for transactions to be
conducted with little or no human 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 traditional stationary transactions
using "wired" connections; however, we will quickly evolve to focus
on transactions that are made while on the go that, out of
necessity, use 2-way wireless communication. This leads us to look into
Navigation-based Commerce (nCommerce) and Navigation-based Entertainment
(nTertainment). We will look at the role and opportunity of extremely mobile,
place aware, communications and computing enabled devices such as smartPhones (iPhone, Android, WinMobile
(?), etc.), and smartPads (iPads,
and the plethora of Android tablets) and Android - the open handset alliance.
A central element that has fueled this nCommerce and nTertainment revolution is
a substantially new intermediary in the eCommece
equation, App Stores. They are a substantially different paradigm that is just
in its infancy. We will attempt to characterize it, analyze it and try to
understand how to best use it.
The last third
and most important part of the course focuses on the design and construction of
eCommerce and nCommerce applications.
Fall 2012/13
Orf 467:
Transportation Systems Planning & Analysis
Class: Mon. & Wed. 1:30-2:50pm; 101 Sherrerd Hall (ORFE
Building) +
Precepts: Tuesdays 7:30-8:20pm & 8:30-9:20pm; 001 Sherrerd
Hall
Course Overview:
Studied is the transportation sector of the
economy from a systems technology and planning perspective. The focus is
on fundamental 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 innovation
and infrastructure investments 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 seeks
a balance between private sector market forces and broad oversight and
infrastructure investments by the public sector. Shifting priorities
especially focused stimulating broad economic recovery and job creation,
provide an opportunity for enhancing mobility through synergistic investments
in transportation by both the public and private sectors of the economy. The development of successful innovative
investments requires a fundamental and thorough understanding of the demand for
mobility by both people and goods as well the physical and operational
characteristics of the supply-side technologies. Transportation must also address many of
society’s concerns. 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, transportation-related
environmental issues and the stagnation of transportation funding sources are
dominant themes of grass roots planning and policy analysis. Finally 1/3
of the energy consumed in the US is consumed by the transportation sector.
Today, essentially all is carbon based.
Will concern about global warming, oil spills, CAFE standards on SUVs,
$147 a barrel oil, hybrids, PEVs, the restructuring of the US auto industry,
autonomous vehicles and/or PRTs change our addiction to 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. The
course focuses on the fundamentals of the demand and supply sides of
transportation as well as an understanding of many of the societal issues
constraining the provision of mobility to people and goods. Finally, automation and information
technology is in the process of radically changing the supply side of
transportation. Computerized fleet
management, electronic tolling, turn-by-turn navigation, electronic ignition,
cruise control, antilock braking, automated people movers are all now
common-place with much more automation just over the horizon. A substantial
part of the course focuses on the emerging complete automation of the
automobile and its implication on public transport systems.
Complete
course description
and syllabus
Spring 2012
Orf 401:
eCommerce…Syllabus
Monday & Wednesdays 11am- 12:20pm 101 ORFE (Sherrerd Hall) + 50 Minute
Precept (tbd).
Course Overview: 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 lately by a substantial rebound and growth to respectability and
even dominance. With the current world-wide efforts to emerge from the recent
economic downturn, the efficiency, scope and reach of eCommerce continues to be
strong. USA
Today Internet 50
Moreover eCommerce continues to
evolve in both technologically and in the scope of its market reach. Technologically, desktop and laptop/notebook
computers have been the dominant client/user-side technology with the
server-side being either dedicated servers owned/managed by the eCommerce
entity(e.g. the entity providing the goods/services) or an intermediate entity
providing what is termed "cloud computing" resources shared by many
eCommerce companies. More recently, Apple and Google have evolved this paradigm
by creating an environment by which other devices such as an iTouch, iPhone, iPad and
Android-based smartPhones and Tablets are emerging as
serious client-side technologies. The extreme
portability, mobility and place-aware nature of these devices is expanding the fundamental character of the eCommerce
environment. Enabled is on-the-go
eCommerce that is place- and time-aware now, has remembered the past and
continually makes intelligent expectations about the future.
The scope of the eCommerce market
has also evolved beyond the narrow buying and selling of goods to include
services of all kinds including entertainment and communications that is making
eCommerce an integral part of everyone's daily life. It is these fundamental
daily personal services provided by the extended scope of eCommerce that have
the opportunity to substantially enhance the daily lives of all individuals.
In this course we will study
1. the
basics fundamentals of both the business and economic motivations for
eCommerce,
2. the
underlying computation, information and communication environments that
encompass and enable eCommerce transactions, and
3. the evolving
role of new highly portable, place-aware, always-with-you devices in eCommerce.
We will focus exclusively on
those electronic and process technologies that allow for transactions to be
conducted with little or no human 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 traditional stationary transactions
using "wired" connections; however, we will quickly evolve to focus
on transactions that are made while on the go that, out of
necessity, use 2-way wireless communication. This leads us to look into
Navigation-based Commerce (nCommerce) and Navigation-based Entertainment
(nTertainment). We will look at the role and opportunity of extremely mobile,
place aware, communications and computing enabled devices such as smartPhones (iPhone, Android, WinMobile
(?), etc.), and smartPads (iPads,
and the plethora of Android tablets) and Android - the open handset alliance.
A central element that has fueled this nCommerce and nTertainment revolution is
a substantially new intermediary in the eCommece
equation, App Stores. They are a substantially different paradigm that is just
in its infancy. We will attempt to characterize it, analyze it and try to
understand how to best use it.
The last third and most important part of the course focuses on the design and construction of eCommerce and nCommerce applications.
Fall
20010/11
WWS 527a Transportation Policy Analysis & Systems Planning Syllabus 20 Robertson Hall (WWS basement), Tuesdays
7-10pm
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, plug-in hybrids and $147 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.
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Recent
Papers and Presentations
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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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
- In-vehicle Dynamic Route Guidance
- Finding Best Paths Through Networks having Stochastic Travel Times
- Moving Beyond “’Just-in-Time” to address both Economic Security and Homeland Security
- enRoute Commerce
- Goods Movement:
- Personal Rapid Transit
- New Jersey State-Wide Personal Rapid Transit Network Design; Orf467F08
- A Concept for a Personal Rapid Transit System in the State of New Jersey; Orf467F07
- Personal Rapid Transit for Counties in New Jersey 2006; Orf 467F05
- Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) for New Jersey; Orf
467F04
- Mobility without Highways in New Jersey, PODCAR Conference Presentation, Ithaca, NY, September 2008
·
Samuel
H Powell’09 “Economics of the Nuclear Renaissance”, May 2009
· Bryan C. Cattle’07 “A frequency-Scanned Millimeter Wave Radar for Autonomous Navigation”, May 2007
· Stephen P. Lambe’06 “Can PRT Perform? Surge Management Analysis Applied” , May 1006
·
Mathe Y. Mosny'06 “Path Estimation Using Cellular
Handover” May 2006
· Megan L. Bernard’06 “Traffic Congestion: How Predictable? Discovering Volume Trends Across Time and Confirming Fundamental Speed-Flow Density Relationships” Independent Research, May 2005http://orfe.princeton.edu/~alaink/Papers/BernardIndependentResearch.pdf
· Santiage Arroyo “Modeling Travel Time Distributions on a Road network”MSE Thesis, May 2004
· Tony Wu*05 “The Optimizing Simulator For the Military Airlift Problem” PhD Dissertation Oct. 2004
· Chris Schraeder’03 “Reacting in Real Time: Using Historical & Real-Time Information in Forecasting Link Travel Times” BSE Thesis, May 2003, Presentation
· John Knorring’03, “Basic Human Decision Making: An Analysis of Route Choice Decisions by Long-Haul Truckers” BSE Thesis, May 2003, Presentation
· 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
· Ron Chan
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