Assistant Professor
Management

Contact Information

CBA 264
P.O. Box 880491
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491
Phone: +1-402-472-0935
Fax: +1-402-472-5855
dbatur@unl.edu

Joined the college in August 2011.

Expertise

• Operations Management
• Decision Science
• Supply Chain Integration and Management
• Systems Simulation and Analysis

Education

• Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006
• M.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003
• B.S., Industrial Engineering, Marmara University, 2001

Refereed Publications

• Stochastic Dominance Based Comparison for System Selection, D. Batur and F. Choobineh, to appear in European Journal of Operational Research, 2012.
• A Quantile-Based Approach to System Selection, D. Batur and F. Choobineh, European Journal of Operational Research, 202(3):764-772, 2010.
• Finding Feasible Systems in the Presence of Constraints on Multiple Performance Measures, D. Batur and S.-H. Kim, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 20(3), 2010.
• An Improved Standardized Time Series Durbin–Watson Variance Estimator for Steady-State Simulation, D. Batur, D. Goldsman, and S.-H. Kim, Operations Research Letters, 37:285-289, 2009.
• Fully Sequential Selection Procedures with Parabolic Boundary, D. Batur and S.-H. Kim, IIE Transactions, 38:749-764, 2006.

• Mean-Variance Based Ranking and Selection, D. Batur and F. Choobineh, in Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 1160-1166, Baltimore, MD, 2010.
• Do Mean-Based Ranking and Selection Procedures Consider Systems’ Risk?, D. Batur and F. Choobineh, in Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 423-433, Austin, TX, 2009.
• Procedures for Feasibility Detection in the Presence of Multiple Constraints, D. Batur and S.-H. Kim, in Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 692-698, Orlando, FL, 2005.
• Performance of Variance Updating Ranking and Selection Procedures, G. Malone, S.-H. Kim, D. Goldsman, and D. Batur, in Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 825-832, Orlando, FL, 2005.

Additional Information

• Optimization-via-Simulation with Stochastic Dominance, Constance Miriam and Ethel Corrine Syford Memorial Fund, Research Council, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011 (with F. Choobineh).
• Optimizing Ethanol Trucking Costs, Aurora Cooperative, 2010-2011 (with E. Jones).
• Cost-Effective Optimal Deployment Techniques for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks, Maude Hammond Fling Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship, Research Council, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2010 (with M.C. Vuran and F. Choobineh).

• Lecturer, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009-2011.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008-2009.
• Associate Consultant, TransSolutions, Fort Worth, TX, 2006-2007.

• MNGT 245: Elementary Quantitative Methods
• MNGT 331: Operations and Supply Chain Management
• MNGT 437/837: Computer-aided Analysis in Decision Making

Documents & Links

• A Quantile-Based Approach to System Selection
• An Improved Standardized Time Series Durbin–Watson Variance Estimator for Steady-State Simulation
• Finding Feasible Systems in the Presence of Constraints on Multiple Performance Measures
• Fully Sequential Selection Procedures with Parabolic Boundary