Borzou Rostami, PhD

Assistant Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Accounting and Business Analytics

Contact

Assistant Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Accounting and Business Analytics
Email
borzou@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-4647
Address
3-40K Business Building
11203 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2R6

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Supply Chain and Retails Analytics Transportation and Logistics Smart Cities Large-scale Optimization Data-driven Decision Making Machine Learning Applied to Real-time Decision Making Integration of Machine Learning and Optimization


About

Borzou Rostami is an assistant professor and the CPA chair of Business Analytics at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta. He is also a member of the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making (CERC DS4DM) at Polytechnique Montreal and Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT). Borzou holds a PhD in Information Technology/Operations Research from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. Before joining the U of A, Borzou was an assistant professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and a postdoctoral researcher at Polytechnique Montreal and TU Dortmund, Germany. Borzou is currently an Associate Editor for INFOR (Information Systems and Operational Research). His research interests focus on developing optimization methods (integrated with machine learning algorithms) for large-scale decision making under data uncertainty that arise in supply chain, retail, health care, and transportation and logistics. 



Courses

OM 488 - Selected Topics in Operations Management

Normally restricted to third- and fourth-year Business students. Prerequisites will depend on topic but may include: MGTSC 312, OM 352 or consent of Department. Additional prerequisites may be required.


OM 686 - Selected Topics in Operations Management

Topics may vary from year to year. Students should check with the MBA Office for pre/corequisites of specific sections.


Browse more courses taught by Borzou Rostami

Publications

Coordinating transportation and pricing policies for perishable products

Author(s): Babaee S., Araghi M., Rostami B.
Publication Date: 8/30/2022
Publication: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2022.08.005

Attractiveness factors in retail category space location-allocation problem

Author(s): Babaee S., Araghi M., Castillo I., Rostami B.
Publication Date: 8/8/2022
Publication: International Journal of Production Research
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2022.2104179

A convex reformulation and an outer approximation for a class of quadratic binary programming

Author(s): Rostami, B., Errico, F. and Lodi, A
Publication Date: 2/22/2022
Publication: Operations Research
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2021.2241

The price of anarchy in freight transportation spot markets

Author(s): Haughton, M., Rostami, B. and Espahbod, S.
Publication Date: 1/24/2022
Publication: EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejtl.2022.100071

Single-allocation hub location with heterogeneous economies of scale

Author(s): Rostami, B., Chitsaz, M., Arslan, O., Laporte, G. and Lodi, A.
Publication Date: 12/28/2021
Publication: Operations Research
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2021.2185

Branch-price-and-cut algorithms for the vehicle routing problem with stochastic and correlated travel times

Author(s): Rostami, B., Desaulniers, G., Errico, F. and Lodi, A.
Publication Date: 2/24/2021
Publication: Operations Research
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2020.2037

Stochastic single-allocation hub location

Author(s): Rostami, B., Kämmerling, N., Naoum-Sawaya, J., Buchheim, C. and Clausen, U.
Publication Date: 8/8/2020
Publication: European Journal of Operational Research
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.07.051

Reliable single allocation hub location problem under hub breakdowns

Author(s): Rostami, B., Kämmerling, N., Buchheim, C. and Clausen, U.
Publication Date: 4/7/2018
Publication: Computers & Operations Research
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2018.04.002

The quadratic shortest path problem: complexity, approximability, and solution methods

Author(s): Rostami, B., Chassein, A., Hopf, M., Frey, D., Buchheim, C., Malucelli, F. and Goerigk, M.
Publication Date: 2/21/2018
Publication: European Journal of Operational Research
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.01.054

A generalized Gilmore-Lawler procedure for the quadratic assignment problem

Author(s): Rostami, B. and Malucelli, F.
Publication Date: 11/17/2016
Publication: Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
DOI: 10.1016/j.endm.2016.10.020

A decomposition approach for single allocation hub location problems with multiple capacity levels

Author(s): Rostami, B., Strothmann, C. and Buchheim, C.
Publication Date: 9/10/2016
Publication: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45587-7_21

Lower bounding procedures for the single allocation hub location problem

Author(s): Rostami, B., Buchheim, C., Meier, J.F. and Clausen, U.
Publication Date: 5/20/2016
Publication: Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
DOI: 10.1016/j.endm.2016.03.010

A compact Linearisation of euclidean single allocation hub location problems

Author(s): Meier, J.F., Clausen, U., Rostami, B. and Buchheim, C.
Publication Date: 5/20/2016
Publication: Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
DOI: 10.1016/j.endm.2016.03.006

Lower bounding procedure for the asymmetric quadratic traveling salesman problem

Author(s): Rostami, B., Malucelli, F., Belotti, P. and Gualandi, S.
Publication Date: 3/25/2016
Publication: European Journal of Operational Research
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.03.031

On the quadratic shortest path problem

Author(s): Rostami, B., Malucelli, F., Frey, D. and Buchheim, C.
Publication Date: 6/20/2015
Publication: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20086-6_29

Lower bounds for the quadratic minimum spanning tree problem based on reduced cost computation

Author(s): Rostami, B. and Malucelli, F.
Publication Date: 6/18/2015
Publication: Computers & Operations Research
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2015.06.005

A revised reformulation-linearization technique for the quadratic assignment problem

Author(s): Rostami, B. and Malucelli, F.
Publication Date: 9/16/2014
Publication: Discrete Optimization
DOI: 10.1016/j.disopt.2014.08.003

A graph optimization approach to item-based collaborative filtering

Author(s): Rostami, B., Cremonesi, P. and Malucelli, F.
Publication Date: 12/1/2013
Publication: Studies in Computational Intelligence
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00410-5_2