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E-mail: tboucher@rci.rutgers.edu
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Bio

Dr. Thomas O. Boucher is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, an MBA from Northwestern University, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University and has previously taught at Cornell University. He is the Author of Computer Automation in Manufacturing, (Chapman-Hall, 1996) and co-author of Design of Industrial Information Systems, (Academic Press, 2006), and Analysis and Control of Production Systems, 2nd Ed., (Prentice-Hall, 1994). His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Logistics Agency, and industry.

Research Interest

His teaching and research interests include engineering economics, manufacturing automation, computer integrated manufacturing, and production planning and control.

Professional Activities

Area Editor, Public Policy Analysis, for The Engineering Economist
Senior Member of IIE
Senior Member of SME
Senior Member of IEEE

Honors & Awards

• 2007 IIE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award
• 2002 Wellington Award, (Institute of Industrial Engineers) for significant contributions to the field of Engineering Economics
• Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
• Member of Sigma Xi
• Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering
• Listed in Who's Who in America
  

Representative Publications                                                   Top

Yalcin, A. T. Tai, and T. O. Boucher, “Deadlock Avoidance in Flexible Manufacturing Systems using Finite Automata and State Space Search,” in Deadlock Resolution in Computer-Integrated Systems (M. Zhao and P. Fanti, eds), Marcel Dekker/CRC Press, 2005.

Yalcin, A. and T. O. Boucher,  “A Continuous-time Algorithm for Disaggregation of Hierarchical Production Plans,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 36, No. 11, 2004.

Farahvash, P. and T. O. Boucher,  “A Multi-agent Architecture for Control of AGV Systems,” Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 20, No. 6, 2004.

Tai, T. and T. O. Boucher, "An Architecture for Scheduling and Control in Flexible Manufacturing Systems using Distributed Objects," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 18, no. 4, 2002.

T. O. Boucher and O. Gogus, "Reliability, Validity, and Imprecision in Fuzzy multicriteria Decision - making," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2002.

Yalcin, A. and T. O. Boucher, "Deadlock Avoidance in Flexible Manufacturing Systems Using Finite Automata," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 16, no. 4, 2000.

Boucher, T. O., A. Yalcin and Tsuta Tai, "Dynamic Routing and the Peformance of Manufacturing Cells," IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing, vol. 32, no. 10, 2000.

Yalcin, A. and T.O. Boucher, "An Architecture for Flexible Manufacturing Cells with Alternate Machining and Alternate Sequencing," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 15, no. 6, 1999.

Boucher, T.O. and M.T. Abdala, "The Research and Experimentation Tax Credit - An Engineering Economist's Perspective", The Engineering Economist, vol. 44, no. 1, 1999.

Pinzon, L.E., H.-M. Hanisch, M.A. Jafari and T.O. Boucher, "A Comparative Study of Synthesis Methods for Discrete Event Controllers," Journal of Formal Methods in System Design," Vol. 15, No. 2, 1999.

Boucher, T.O. and J.T. Luxhoj, "The Influence of Quality Control Policy on the Economics of Technical Choice:  A Case Study," Journal of Engineering Valuation and Cost Analysis, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1999.

Gogus, O., and T.O. Boucher, "Strong Transitivity, Rationality, and Weak Monotonicity in Fuzzy Pairwise Comparisons," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 94, No. 1, 1998.

Gogus, O., and T.O. Boucher, "Fuzzy NCIC," The Engineering Economist, Vol. 43, No. 3, 1998.

Boucher, T.O., O. Gogus and E.M. Wicks, "A Comparison Between Two Multiattribute Decision Methodologies Used in Capital Investment Decision Analysis," The Engineering Economics, Vol. 42, No. 3, 1997.  (Awarded Best Paper of the Year in this journal)

Gogus, O., and T.O. Boucher, "A Consistency Test for Rational Weights in Multi-criteria Decision Analysis with Pairwise Comparisons," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 86, No. 2, 1997.

Books

Boucher, T. O. and A. Yalcin, Design of Industrial Information Systems, Academic Press, 2006.

Boucher, T. O., Computer Automation in Manufacturing, Chapman & Hall, 1996.

Elsayed, E. A. and T. O. Boucher, Analysis and Control of Production Systems, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1994.

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