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Papers in peer-reviewed journals

  1.  W. D. CookB. GolanyM. KressM. Penn, T. Raviv, Optimal Allocation of Proposals to Reviewers to Facilitate Effective Ranking,  Management Science 51:4, (2005) 655-661.

  2. G. AllonD.P. Kroese, T. Raviv and R. Y.RubinsteinApplication of the Cross-Entropy Method to the Buffer Allocation Problem in a Simulation-Based Environment, Annals of Operations Research, 134, (2005), pp. 137-151. Source code and test data.

  3. W. D. Cook, B. Golany, M. Penn and T. Raviv. Creating a Consensus Ranking of Proposals from Reviewers' Partial Ordinal Rankings, Computer & Operations Research, 34:4 (2006).

  4. M. Penn and T. Raviv. Optimizing the Quality Control Station Configuration, Naval Research Logistics 54 (2007), pp. 301-314

  5. M. Penn and T. Raviv. A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Solving a Quality Control Station Configuration Problem, Discrete Applied Mathematics 156 (2008) 412 – 419.

  6. M. Penn and T. Raviv, An Algorithm for the Maximum Revenue Jobshop Problem , European Journal of Operational Research 193 (2009), 437-450.

  7. W.D. Cook, T. Raviv, and A.J. Richardson,  Aggregating Incomplete Lists of Journal Rankings: An Application to Academic Accounting Journals, Accounting Perspectives, 9:3 (2010), 217–235

  8. D. GranotF. Granot, and T. Raviv, On Competitive Location in a Network. European Journal of Operational Research 205 (2010) 301–312

  9. T. Raviv, and M. Kaspi , The locomotive fleet fueling problem, Operations Research Letters 40:1 (2012) 39–45

  10. T. Raviv, The Battery Switching Station Scheduling Problem, :6 (2012) 546–550  (an unabridged working paper)

  11. Tal Raviv, An Efficient Algorithm for Maximizing the Expected Profit from a Serial Production Line with Inspection Stations and Rework, OR-Spectrum 35 (2013), 609-638

  12.   M. Kaspi, and T.Raviv, Service-Oriented Line Planning and Timetabling for Passenger Trains, Transportation Science, 47:3 (2013) 295-311.

    • Sample Instance

  13.   T. Raviv,  An Efficient Algorithm for Maximizing the Expected Profit from a Serial Production Line with Inspection Stations and Rework, OR-Spectrum 35:3 (2013), 609-638

  14.   T. Raviv and O. Kolka, Optimal Inventory Management of a Bike-Sharing Station, IIE Transactions 45:10 (2013), 1077-1093

  15.  Tal Raviv, Michal Tzur, and Iris Forma*,   “Static Repositioning in a Bike-Sharing System:  Models and Solution Approaches”,  EURO Journal of Transportation and Logistics 2(2013), 187-229 

  16. Michael Masin and Tal Raviv,  “Linear Programming-Based Algorithms for the Minimum Makespan High Multiplicity Jobshop Problem  Journal of Scheduling, 17:4 (2014), 321-338 

  17. Mor Kaspi*, Tal Raviv, Michal Tzur,  “Parking reservation policies in one-way vehicle sharing systems”, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 62 (2014), 35-50  

  18. Nicole Adler, A. Shalom Hakkert, Tal Raviv, and M. Sher*,  “The traffic police location and schedule assignment problem”,  Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 21 (2014), 315–333

  19. Iris Forma*, Tal Raviv, Michal Tzur  A 3-Step Math Heuristic for the Static Repositioning Problem in Bike-Sharing Systems,  Transportation Research Part B, 71 (2015), 230-247  

  20. Mor Kaspi*, Tal Raviv, Michal Tzur,  Detection of Unusable Bicycles in Bike-Sharing Systems Omega, 65 (2016), 10-16

  21. Mor Kaspi*, Tal Raviv, Michal Tzur, Hila Galili*  Regulating vehicle sharing systems through parking reservation policies: Analysis and performance,  European Journal of Operational Research, 251:33 (2016), 969–987 2020 Impact Factor 5.334,

  22. Zohar Postelnicu*, Tal Raviv, Irad Ben-Gal, Improving Websites’ Quality of Service by Shortening their Browsing Expected Path Length Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 32 (2016), 2017-2031

  23. Mor Kaspi*, Tal Raviv, Michal Tzur,  Bike Sharing Systems: User Dissatisfaction in the Presence of Unusable Bicycles, IISE Transactions, 49:2 (2017), 144-158 2020

  24. Edison Avraham*, Tal Raviv, E. Khmelnitsky,  The Decentralized Field Service Routing Problem,  Transportation Research Part B, 104 (2017), 290-316

  25. Yossi Bukchin, Tal Raviv,  “Constraint Programming for Solving Various Assembly Line Balancing Problems”, OMEGA, 78 (2018), 57-68

  26. Sharon Datner*, Tal Raviv, Michal Tzur, and Daniel Chemla* “Setting Inventory Levels in a Bike Sharing Network”, Transportation Science, 53 (2019), 62-76

  27. Ido Orenstein*, Tal Raviv, Elad Sadan* “Delivery Process with Flexibility Using Automated Parcel Locker”,   EURO Journal of transportation and logistics (2019) 8:683-711

  28. Edison Avraham*, Tal Raviv “The data-driven time-dependent traveling salesperson problem”,  Transportation Research Part B (2020) 134:25-40

  29. Yossi Bukchin, Tal Raviv, Ilya Zaides “The Consecutive Multiprocessor Job Scheduling Problem”, European Journal of Operational Research (2020) 427-438

  30. Yifat Douek-Pinkovich*, Irad Ben-Gal, Tal Raviv, “The generalized test collection problem,”  TOP (2021)  372–386

  31. Omer Dumbinsky, Joachim Mayer, Tal Raviv,  “Alerting about possible risks vs. blocking risky choices: A quantitative model and its empirical evaluation,Computers & Security (2020), 101944

  32. Michal Penn, Tal Raviv “Complexity and algorithms for min cost and max profit scheduling under time-of-use electricity tariffs,” Journal of Scheduling (2021), (24)1, 83-102

  33. Edison Avraham*, Tal Raviv “The steady-state mobile personnel booking problem,”  Transportation Research Part B. 154 (2021), 266-288

  34. Lu Xing, Tal Raviv, Lina Sela “Sensor Placement for Robust Burst Identification in Water Systems: Balancing Modeling Accuracy, Parsimony, and Uncertainties,”  Advanced Engineering Informatics,  51 (2022), 101484

  35. Yifat Douek-Pinkovich*, Irad Ben-Gal, Tal Raviv “The Stochastic Test Collection Problem: Models, Exact, and Heuristic Solution Approaches”, European Journal of Operational Research, 299 (2022), 945-959

  36. Mor Kaspi, Tal Raviv, Marlin Ulmer “Directions for future research on urban mobility and city logisticsNetworks, 79:3 (2022), 253-263 18  

  37. Ido Orenstein*, Tal Raviv “Parcel Delivery Using the Hyperconnected Service Network,” Transportation Research Part E,  161(2022), 102716

  38. Tal Raviv, Yossi Bukchin, René de Koster “Optimal retrieval in puzzle-based storage systems using automated mobile robots”,  Transportation Science 57:2 (2023), 424-443

  39. Yossi Bukchin, Tal Raviv “A comprehensive toolbox for load retrieval in puzzle-based storage systems with simultaneous movements”, Transportation Research Part B, 166 (2022) 348-373

  40. Shir Tavor*, Tal Raviv “Anticipatory rebalancing of RoboTaxi systems”, Transportation Research Part C, 153(2023) 104196

  41. Edison Avraham *, Tal Raviv “The data-driven time-dependent orienteering problem with soft time windows”, EURO journal of transportation and logistics, 12(2023) 100112​​

  42. ​Tal Raviv “The service points’ location and capacity problem”, Transportation Research Part E, 176(2023) 103216

  43. Alaa  Ghanaiem*, Evgeny Kagan, Parteek Kumar, Tal Raviv, Peter Glynn, and Irad Ben-Gal.,“ Unsupervised Classification under Uncertainty: The Distance-Based Algorithm,” Mathematics, 11(2023), 4784

  44. Tal Raviv and Margaretha Gansterer, Location, capacity, and layout problems of automated parcel lockers, Reference Module in Social Sciences (2025).  Preprint

  45. Oksana Sabinik Pecherski, Tal Raviv, Hilel Bar-Gera,  Service design of shared first and last mile transit systems, accepted for publication in Public Transit, July 2025

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