Augustine O. Esogbue

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B.S. Electrical Engineering - University of California-Los Angeles; M.S. Industrial Engineering/Operations Research - Columbia University

Ph.D. (1968) Systems Engineering and Operations Research - University of Southern California

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Dr. Esogbue is a Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology

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Augustine came to Georgia Tech in June 1972 as an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering with joint appointment with the Health Systems Research Center. In June of 1977, he was promoted to Full Professor with tenure. His research interests include dynamic programming, fuzzy sets, decision making and control in a fuzzy environment, and operations research with applications to socio-technical systems such as health care, water resource management and disaster control planning. He is also the Director of the Intelligent Systems and Controls Laboratory which is currently investigating a hybrid approach to intelligent control via fuzzy sets, neural networks, and reinforcement learning theories as well as its application to various large-scale, nonlinear and uncertain dynamical systems.

Formerly, Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Management Sciences, University of California-Berkeley. Adjunct Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Atlanta University, and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine; Assistant Professor of OR, Case Western Reserve University, Research Associate of Engineering and Medicine, University of Southern California, and Development Engineer, Water Resources Center, University of California-Los Angeles. Consultant to various agencies and organizations. Chair, ORSA Health Applications Technical Section, 1990-1992. Former Chair, ORSA/TIMS Visiting Lecturer Program. Author, Dynamic Programming for Optimal Water Resources Systems Analysis. Co-author, Mathematical Aspects of Scheduling and Applications, Decision Criteria and Optimal Inventory Management. (with B. Liu). Panel Member, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.

In addition to his research and professional activities, Dr. Esogbue teaches courses in dynamic programming, stochastic operations research, engineering design, and neuro-fuzzy control. He is also considerably involved in a number of civic activities in Atlanta such as the Atlanta Sister Cities Commission (Vice-Chair), Leadership Atlanta Development Corporation, and the 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc.

RESEARCH

Advisory Editor, International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems; Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

 Books:

  1. Bellman, Richard Ernest; Esogbue, Augustine O.; Nabeshima, Ichirô Mathematical aspects of scheduling and applications. International Series in Modern Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 4. Pergamon Press, Oxford-Elmsford, N.Y., 1982. xiv+329 pp. ISBN: 0-08-026477-8; 0-08-026476-X
  2. Liu, Baoding; Esogbue, Augustine O. Decision criteria and optimal inventory processes. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 20. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1999. xiv+210 pp. ISBN: 0-7923-8468-7
  3. Edited by A. O. Esogbue. The mathematics of systems and computations. Papers from the Second Bellman Continuum held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1986. Comput. Math. Appl. 16 (1988), no. 10-11. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1988. pp. i--iv and 773--981.
  4. Edited by Augustine O. Esogbue. Sixth International Workshop of the Bellman Continuum. Papers from the Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Innovative Computations (6th Bellman Continuum) held at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, August 1--2, 1994. Comput. Math. Appl. 37 (1999), no. 11-12. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1999. pp. ix--xvi and 1--232.

PAPERS

  1. Kacprzyk, Janusz; Esogbue, Augustine O. Fuzzy dynamic programming: basic issues and problem classes. Dynamical aspects in fuzzy decision making, 1--25, Stud. Fuzziness Soft Comput., 73, Physica, Heidelberg, 2001.
  2. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Song, Qiang; Hearnes, Warren E., II Defuzzification filters and applications to power system stabilization problems. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 251 (2000), no. 1, 406--432.
  3. Esogbue, Augustine O. Neuro-fuzzy adaptive control: structure, algorithms, and performance. Applied mathematics reviews, Vol. 1, 175--204, World Sci. Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 2000.
  4. Esogbue, A. O.; Liu, Baoding Cluster validity for fuzzy criterion clustering. Sixth International Workshop of the Bellman Continuum (Hachioji, 1994). Comput. Math. Appl. 37 (1999), no. 11-12, 95--100.
  5. Esogbue, A. O. The computational complexity of some fuzzy dynamic programs. Sixth International Workshop of the Bellman Continuum (Hachioji, 1994). Comput. Math. Appl. 37 (1999), no. 11-12, 47--51.
  6. Esogbue, A. O. In memoriam: George Adomian (1922--1996). Sixth International Workshop of the Bellman Continuum (Hachioji, 1994). Comput. Math. Appl. 37 (1999), no. 11-12, xiii--xiv.
  7. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Hearnes, Warren E., II Maintenance and replacement models under a fuzzy framework. Fuzzy sets in decision analysis, operations research and statistics, 421--447, Handb. Fuzzy Sets Ser., 1, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Boston, MA, 1998.
  8. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Kacprzyk, Janusz Fuzzy dynamic programming. Fuzzy sets in decision analysis, operations research and statistics, 281--307, Handb. Fuzzy Sets Ser., 1, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Boston, MA, 1998.
  9. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Song, Qiang On the decomposition problem of fuzzy sets. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 98 (1998), no. 1, 57--66.
  10. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Kacprzyk, Janusz Fuzzy dynamic programming: a survey of main developments and applications. Arch. Control Sci. 5 (1996), no. 1-2(41), 39--59.
  11. Esogbue, Augustine O. Fuzzy sets modeling and optimization for disaster control systems planning. Fuzzy optimization. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 81 (1996), no. 1, 169--183.
  12. Kacprzyk, Janusz; Esogbue, Augustine O. Fuzzy dynamic programming: main developments and applications. Fuzzy optimization. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 81 (1996), no. 1, 31--45.
  13. Liu, Baoding; Esogbue, Augustine O. Fuzzy criterion set and fuzzy criterion dynamic programming. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 199 (1996), no. 1, 293--311.
  14. Esogbue, A. O.; Murrell, J. A. Advances in fuzzy adaptive control. Comput. Math. Appl. 27 (1994), no. 9-10, 29--35.
  15. Suh, Doug Y.; Esogbue, Augustine O. Transformation of mass function and joint mass function for evidence theory in the continuous domain. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 176 (1993), no. 2, 521--544.
  16. Esogbue, Augustine O. Computational aspects and applications of a branch and bound algorithm for fuzzy multistage decision processes. Fourth International Workshop of the Bellman Continuum (Manhattan, KS, 1990). Comput. Math. Appl. 21 (1991), no. 11-12, 117--127.
  17. Esogbue, A. O.; Ahn, C. W. Computational experiments with a class of dynamic programming algorithms of higher dimensions. Comput. Math. Appl. 19 (1990), no. 11, 3--23.
  18. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Fedrizzi, Mario; Kacprzyk, Janusz Fuzzy dynamic programming with stochastic systems. Combining fuzzy imprecision with probabilistic uncertainty in decision making, 266--285, Lecture Notes in Econom. and Math. Systems, 310, Springer, Berlin, 1988.
  19. Lee, Chae Y.; Esogbue, Augustine O. On the best main serial chain of nonserial loop networks in dynamic programming. Operational research '87 (Buenos Aires, 1987), 890--902, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988.
  20. Ibe, O. C.; Esogbue, A. O. Application of Lagrangian relaxation to computer network control. The mathematics of systems and computations (Atlanta, GA, 1986). Comput. Math. Appl. 16 (1988), no. 10-11, 845--850.
  21. Esogbue, A. O.; Warsi, N. A. A high level dynamic programming algorithm for processing nonserial looped systems. The mathematics of systems and computations (Atlanta, GA, 1986). Comput. Math. Appl. 16 (1988), no. 10-11, 801--813.
  22. Esogbue, A. O. Mathematics, computers and systems: tripartite interconnections. The mathematics of systems and computations (Atlanta, GA, 1986). Comput. Math. Appl. 16 (1988), no. 10-11, 773--777.
  23. Lee, Chae Y.; Esogbue, Augustine O. Optimal procedures for dynamic programs with complex loop structures. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 119 (1986), no. 1-2, 300--339.
  24. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Warsi, Nazir A. A high-level computing algorithm for diverging and converging branch nonserial dynamic programming systems. Comput. Math. Appl. Ser. A 12 (1986), no. 6, 719--732.
  25.  Esogbue, Augustine O.; Warsi, Nazir A. Aspects of a high level algorithm for processing diverging and converging branch nonserial dynamic programming systems. Transactions of the third Army conference on applied mathematics and computing (Atlanta, Ga., 1985), 783--800, ARO Rep., 86-1, U.S. Army Res. Office, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1986.
  26. Esogbue, Augustine O. Professor Richard Bellman: academician, scholar, practitioner and patron of fuzzy sets. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 18 (1986), no. 3, 201--204.
  27. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Bellman, Richard E. Fuzzy dynamic programming and its extensions. Fuzzy sets and decision analysis, 147--167, Stud. Management Sci., 20, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1984.
  28. Esogbue, Augustine O. Dynamic programming, fuzzy sets, and the modeling of R&D management control systems. IEEE Trans. Systems Man Cybernet. 13 (1983), no. 1, 18--30.
  29. Esogbue, Augustine O. Fuzzy sets: theory and applications to sociotechnical systems modeling. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (St. Louis, Mo., 1979), Vol. I, II, pp. 45--63, Univ. Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Mo., 1980.
  30. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Singh, Amar Jit Reduction of dimensionality in dynamic programming revisited: a comparative study and analysis of three algorithms. Opsearch 12 (1975), no. 3-4, 59--79
  31. Morin, Thomas L.; Esogbue, Augustine O. The imbedded state space approach to reducing dimensionality in dynamic programs of higher dimensions. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 48 (1974), 801--810.
  32. Corwin, Burton D.; Esogbue, Augustine O. Two machine flow shop scheduling problems with sequence dependent setup times: a dynamic programming approach. Naval Res. Logist. Quart. 21 (1974), 515--524.
  33. Esogbue, Augustine O.; Marks, Barry Randall The status of nonserial dynamic programming. Management Sci. 19 (1972), no. 3, 350--352.

 

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