Prof. Shoshana Anily

A full professor in Operations Research/Management Science at the Coller School of Management of Tel Aviv University. Holding a Ph.D. from the Graduate  School of Business of Columbia University since 1987. ​

Full CV

Cooperative game theory, logistics, routing and combinatorial optimization problems. ​

• The basic core of a parallel machine scheduling problem, Alon, T. and S. Anily (2023),  Manufacturing & Scheduling Operations Management, Vol. 25 pp. 2233—2248

• Stable matching of student groups to dormitories, Perach, N. and S. Anily (2022), European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 302 pp 50-61
   
• The price of anarchy in loss systems, Anily, S. and M. Haviv (2022), Naval Research Logistics 69, pp. 689-701.
  
  Ticket queues with regular and strategic customers.  Hanukov, G, S. Anily and U. Yechiali (2020),Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications. Springer 95(1), pp. 145-171.
   
• Full characterization of the nonnegative core of some cooperative games. Anily, S. (2018), Naval Research Logistics 65, pp. 303-316.
   
• Line Balancing in Parallel M/M/1 Lines and Loss Systems as Cooperative Games, Anily, S. and M. Haviv (2017), Production and Operations Management, Vol. 26 , pp. 1568-1584.
   
• "Sub-additive and homogenous of degree one games are totally balanced ", Anily, S. and M. Haviv (2014), Operations Research, Vol. 62, pp. 788-793
   
• "Pricing, replenishment, and timing of selling in a market with heterogeneous customers", Anily S., Refael Hassin (2013) ,International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 145, pp. 672-682
   
• "The uncapacitated swapping problem on a line and on a circle", Anily S. and R. Pfeffer (2013), Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 161, pp. 454-465 
   
• "The preemptive swapping problem on a tree", Anily S., M. Gendreau and G. Laporte (2011), Networks,Vol 58, pp. 83-94.
   
• "Cooperation in service systems", Anily S. and M. Haviv (2010), Operations Research, Vol. 58, pp. 660-673.
   
• "Multi-item lot-sizing with a joint set-up cost ", Anily S, M. Tzur and L.A. Wolsey (2009), Mathematical Programming, Vol. 119 (1), pp. 79-94.
   
• "Comments on: static pickup and delivery problems: a classification scheme and survey,", Anily, S. (2007), TOP, An Official Journal of the Spanish society ofStatistics and Operations Research, Vol. 15, pp. 32-34.
   
• "The cost allocation problem for the First Order Interaction Joint Replenishment Model ", Anily S. and M. Haviv (2007), Operations Research, Vol. 55, pp. 292-302.
   
• "Lot-sizing two echelon assembly systems with random yields and rigid demand ", Grosfeld-Nir, A., S. Anily and T. Ben-Zvi (2006), European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 173, pp. 600-616.
   
• "An optimal lot sizing and off-line inspection policy in the case of non-rigid demand ", Anily S. and A. Grosfeld-Nir (2006), Operations Research, Vol. 54, pp. 311-323.
   
• "Algorithms for the Multi-item Multi-vehicles Dynamic Lot Sizing Problem ", Anily S. and M. Tzur (2006), Naval Research Logistics,Vol. 53, pp. 157- 169.
   
• "Shipping multi-items by capacitated vehicles - an optimal dynamic programming approach ", Anily S. and M. Tzur (2005), Transportation Science,Vol. 39, pp. 233-248.
   
• "A probabilistic analysis of a  fixed partition policy for the inventory-routing problem ", Anily S. and J. Bramel (2004),Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 51, pp. 925-948.
   
• "An asymptotic 98.5% - effective lower bound on fixed partition policies for the inventory-routing problem ", Anily S. and J. Bramel (2004), the GO IV Special Issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 145, pp.22-39.
   
• "Optimal lot sizes with geometric production yield and rigid demand ", Anily S., A. Beja and A. Mendel (2002), Operations Research, Vol. 50, pp. 424-432.
   
• "Periodic scheduling with service constraints ", Anily S. and J. Bramel (2000), Operations Research, Vol. 48, pp. 635-645.
   
• "A 5/3-approximation algorithm for the clustered traveling salesman tour and path problems ", Anily S., J. Bramel and A. Hertz (1999), Operations Research Letters, vol. 24, pp. 29-35.
   
• "Optimal sequencing of tasks on a tree shaped structure", Anily S., M. Gendreau and G. Laporte (1999), RicercaOperativa, Vol. 29, pp. 3-14.
   
• "Approximation algorithms for the capacitated traveling salesman problem with pick-ups and deliveries ", Anily S. and J. Bramel (1999), Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 46, pp. 654-670.
   
• "The swapping problem on a line ", Anily S., M. Gendreau and G. Laporte (1999), SIAM Journal on Computing., Vol. 29, pp. 327-335.
   
• "Inferring the distribution of households' duration of residence from data on current residence time ", Anily S., J. Hornik and M. Israeli (1999), Journal of Business & Economic Statistics,Vol. 17, pp. 373-381.
   
• "Scheduling of maintenance services to three machines ", Anily S., C.A. Glass and R. Hassin (1999), Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 86, pp. 375-391.
   
• "The scheduling of maintenance service ", Anily S., C.A. Glass and R. Hassin (1998), Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 82, pp. 27-42.
   
• "The Vehicle Routing Problem with delivery and backhauls ", Anily S. (1996), Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 43, pp. 415-434.
   
• "The Traveling Salesman Problem with delivery and backhauls ", Anily S. and G. Mosheiov (1994), Operations Research Letters, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 11-18. 
   
• "Single machine lot-sizing with uniform yields and rigid demands: robustness of the optimal solution ", Anily S. (1995), IIE Transactions, Vol. 27, pp. 625-633.
   
• "Two echelon distribution systems with vehicle routing costs and central inventories ", Anily S. and A. Federgruen (1993), Special Issue on Stochastic and Dynamic Models in Transportation, edited by M. Dror, Operations
  Research, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 37-47.
   
• "Worst case analysis of heuristics for the bin packing problem with general cost structures ", Anily S., J. Bramel and D. Simchi Levi (1994), Operations Research, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 287-298.
   
• "The general multi retailer EOQ problem with vehicle routing costs ", Anily S. (1994),European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 69-91.
   
• "The swapping problem ", Anily S. and R. Hassin (1992), Networks, Vol. 22, pp. 419-433.
   
• "Rejoinder to comments on one warehouse multiple retailer systems with vehicle routing costs ", Anily S. and A. Federgruen (1991), Management Science, Vol. 37, No. 11, pp. 1496-1499.
   
• "Multi item replenishment and storage problem (MIRSP): Heuristics and bounds ", Anily S. (1991), Operations Research, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 233-243.
   
• "Capacitated two stage multi item production/inventory model with joint setup cost ", Anily S. and A. Federgruen (1991), Operations Research, Vol 39, No. 3, pp. 443-455.
   
• "Structured partitioning problems ", Anily S. and A. Federgruen, (1991), Operations Research, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 130-149.
   
• "One warehouse multiple retailer inventory systems with vehicle routing costs ", Anily S. and A. Federgruen (1990), Management Science, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 92-114.
   
• "A class of Euclidean routing problems with general cost functions ", Anily S. and A. Federgruen (1990), Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 15, 268-285.
   
• "Ranking the best binary trees ", Anily S. and R. Hassin (1989), SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 882-892.
   
• "Ergodicity in parametric non stationary Markov chains: An application to simulated annealing methods ", Anily, S. and A. Federgruen (1987), Operations Research, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 867-874.
   
• "Simulated Annealing method with general acceptance probabilities ", Anily S. and A. Federgruen (1987), Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 657-667. 

Chapters in Books

• “Vehicle Routing and Supply Chain”, (1998) Anily S. and J. Bramel, in Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management edited by S. Tayur, M. Magazine and R.1111222 Ganeshan, KLUWER

Full list of publications

• 1975- 1978 Dean's List, Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
   
• 1978 - 1983 Tel Aviv University fellowship and scholarship.
   
• 1984 Dean's List, Business School, Columbia University.
   
• 1983 - 1986 Columbia University fellowship and scholarship.
   
• 1986 Commended paper in the 1986 Nicholson Prize competition.
   
• 1987 First prize in the dissertation competition of the Transportation Science Section of ORSA.
   
• 1987 First prize in the dissertation competition of the Decision Sciences Institute.
   
• 1987 Three-year grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada - NSERC.
   
• 1990 Oded Levin Prize for the paper "Multi-Item Replenishment and Storage Problem (MIRSP):  Heuristics and Bounds", given by ORSIS - Operations Research Society in Israel.
   
• 1996-1997,2001 Operations Research Meritorious Service Award, granted by the editorial board  of Operations Research Journal of INFORMS.
   
• 2008-2011  The Israel Science Foundation (ISF), PI with Moshe Haviv for "Cooperative Production, Inventory and Queuing Games". 112K NIS per year.
   
• 2012-2015 The Israel Science Foundation (ISF), PI for "Cooperative Games and Line Balancing Issues in Production and Service Systems". 93K NIS per year.
   
• 2015-2018  The Israel Science Foundation (ISF), PI for "Applications of solvable 3-D assignment problems and polynomial algorithms to cooperative queuing games". 130K NIS per year.