Anurag Agarwal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Information Systems/Decision Sciences

Phone 941-359-4522
Fax: 941-359-4367
Office: SMC-C217
Email:  agarwala@sar.usf.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Agarwal's teaching interests lie broadly in the field of Operations Management and Information Systems.  In the last five years, he has taught courses such as Business Statistics, Operations Management, Information Systems in Organizations, Systems Analysis and Design, Database Systems, Programming Languages and Decision Support Systems.His primary research interests are in developing heuristics and metaheuristics for a variety of combinatorial optimization problems.  He also does research in the use of artificial intelligence techniques such as Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and other problems.  (more...)He has published in journals such as INFORMS Journal on Computing, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research and Information Technology and Management.  He serves on the editorial board of Information Technology and Management and Enterprise Information Systems.  He has worked in industry as Systems Analyst and Programmer.  Prior to joining USF, Professor Agarwal served on the faculty of University of Florida. (hide...)

Publications

Agarwal, A., Colak, S. and Erenguc, S.S., “Multi-Mode Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem for Renewable Resource – New Solution Approaches,” Journal of Business and Economics Research, forthcoming, 2013.

Deane, J. and Agarwal, A., “Scheduling Online Advertisements to Maximize Revenue under Non-Linear Pricing,” Journal of Computer Information Systems, forthcoming, 2013.

Deane, J. and Agarwal, A., (2013) “Neural, Genetic and Neurogenetic Approaches For Solving the 0-1 Multidimensional Knapsack Problem,” International Journal of Management Information Systems, 17(1), 43-54.

For additional publications by Dr. Agarwal, please go to the Faculty Publications website.

Teaching

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Courses for Summer 2013
Ref #58232  ISM 3232, Section 521, Business Application Dvlpmnt
        Info: 100% Online.
Ref #51700  ISM 6021, Section 521,  Management Information Systems, S 8:30am-12:30pm
        Prof MBA; Meets: 5/11-6/22

Courses for Spring 2013
Ref # 22911  ISM 6930, Section: 521 Selected Topics in MIS: "Management Decision Analysis", S 09:00am-12:30pm   (combined with QMB 6305)
     Meets 1/05-2/23 - Hospitality Graduate Majors only
Ref # 17895  QMB 6305, Section: 521 Management Decision Analysis, S    9:00am-12:30pm
   Professional MBA - Session 1: Meets 01/05-02/23.                
Ref # 15032  QMB 6603, Section: 521  Oper Manage & Quality Enhanc, S  9:00am-12:30pm
      Professional MBA - Session 2: Meets 03/02-04/27. [Spring Break 03/16]

Courses for Fall 2012
Ref # 91356  ISM 3431 Section: 521, Operations & Supply Chain Proc
  Info: 100% OnLine Course. Also Counts as Management elective course.
Ref # 85360  ISM 4480 Section: 521, Electronic Commerce Systems
  Info 100% Online class via Elluminate.