Robert Aboolian, Ph.D.

Graduate Teaching

• Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Statistics for Management
• Dynamic Pricing and Revenue Management
• Business Forecasting
• Global Supply Chain Management
• Supply Chain Analytics
• Sustainable Operations Management
• Prescriptive Analytics

Undergraduate Teaching

• Operations Management
• Foundation of Operations Management
• Prescriptive Analytics
• Supply Chain Management
• Pricing and Revenue Management
• Business Statistics
• Project Management

Research Interests

• Location of Competitive Facilities
• Preventive Health Care System Design
• Service System Design
• Reverse Logistics
• Supply Chain Network Design
• Nonlinear Integer Programming
• Production and Inventory Planning
• Web Services Planning
• Online Game System Design

Introduction

Dr. Aboolian is the Department Chair and Professor of Operations, Supply Chain, and Business Analytics. He is also the Faculty Director of the Master of Science Program in Supply Chain Analytics at California State University San Marcos. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto. He teaches Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Pricing and Revenue Management, Business Forecasting, Business Statistics, Project Management, Supply Chain Analytics and Prescriptive Analytics at undergraduate and graduate levels. 

His research interests include Location of Competitive Facilities, Service System Design, Reverse Logistics, Supply Chain Network Design, Nonlinear Integer Programming, Production and Inventory Planning, Web Services Planning, and Online Game System Design and his work has been published in leading journals such as INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, IISE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, Journal of Operational Research Society and Annals of Operations Research. He serves as a reviewer for many top-tier journals and is in the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Management Science and the International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management. 

He is an active member of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) and has extensive industry experience as an industrial engineer. He has also consulted for numerous elite companies and organizations globally. 

Papers in Referred Journals

Aboolian, R., and M. Karimi, “Benefit Maximizing Network Design in the public sector," Computers and Operations Research 178 (2025). 

Aboolian, R., S. Elhedhli, and M. Karimi, “An Efficient Approach for Service System Design Problem with Immobile Servers, Stochastic Demand, Congestion, and Consumer Choice,” Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Management 20(1) (2022), 1-30. Winner of Alan Khade Best Paper Award 

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and M. Karimi, “Probabilistic Set Covering Location Problem in Congested Networks," Transportation Science 56(2) (2022), 265-298. 

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and D. Krass, “Optimizing Facility Location and Design,” European Journal of Operational Research 289(1) (2021), 31-43. 

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and J. Wang, “Responsive Make-to-Order Supply Chain Network Design,” Naval Research Logistics 68(2) (2021), 241-258. 

Aboolian R., E. Carrizosa, V. Guerrero, and J. Wang, “Locating Service Facilities with Concave Variable Costs,” Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Management, 17(1) (2019), 96-110. 

Aboolian R., O. Berman and V. Verter, "Maximal Accessibility Network Design in the Public Sector," Transportation Science 50(1) (2016), 336-347. 

Aboolian R., T. Cui and M. Shen, "An Efficient Approach for Solving Reliable Facility Location Models," INFORMS Journal on Computing 25(4) (2013), 720-729. 

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and D. Krass, "Profit Maximizing Distributed Service System Design with Congestion and Elastic Demand," Transportation Science 46(2) (2012), 247-261. 

Aboolian, R., J. Leu and Y. Sun "Deploying a Zone-Based Massively Multiplayer Online Game on a Congested Network", International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management 5(1) (2012), 38-57. 

Aboolian, R., Y. Sun, and G., J., Koehler, "A Location-Allocation Problem for a Web Service Provider in a Competitive Market", European Journal of Operational Research 194(1) (2009), 64-77. 

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and Z. Drezner, "Multiple Server Center Location Problem", Annals of Operations Research 167 (2009), 337-352.   

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and D. Krass, "Efficient Solution Approaches for Discrete Multi-Facility Competitive Interaction Model", Annals of Operations Research 167 (2009), 297-306. 

Aboolian, R., and S. Lou, "An Efficient Algorithm to Solve Base Station Location and Channel Assignment Problems in a Cellular Network," International Journal of Management and Network Economics 1 (2009), 176-185.   

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and D. Krass, "Optimizing Pricing and Location Decisions for Competitive Service Facilities Charging Uniform Price," Journal of Operational Research Society 59 (2008), 1506-1519. 

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and Z. Drezner, "Location-Allocation of Service Units on a Congested Network," IIE Transactions 40(4) (2008), 422-433. 

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and D. Krass, "Competitive Facility Location and Design Problem," European Journal of Operational Research 182(1) (2007), 40-62. 

Aboolian, R., O. Berman and D. Krass, "Competitive Facility Location Model with Concave Demand," European Journal of Operational Research 181(2) (2007), 598-619. 

Book Chapter

Aboolian, R. and M. Karimi, “Location of Public Facilities Under Congestion,” In: Uncertainty in Facility Location Problems (2023), 251-280, Springer. 

Papers in Conference Proceedings

• Aboolian, R., J. Leu and Y. Sun "On The Study of Establishing a Responsive Infrastructure for a Massively Multiplayer On-Line Game," Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, August 2009.
• Aboolian, R. and S. Lou, "Locating Base Stations in a Cellular Network with Stochastic Service Demand," Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS International Conference on Computing, Athens, Greece, July 2006.
• Aboolian, R., Y. Sun, and G., J., Koehler "Web Service Provider Location, Sever Allocation Problem in a Competitive Environment," Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2005.
• Aboolian, R. and Y. Sun, "Optimum Positioning of Servers of Web Services in a Competitive Environment," Proceedings of the Third Workshop on e-Business of Web2004 Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2004.