P.C. (Peter) Bell

Office/Building #: 3R08A - Ivey
Phone Number: (519) 661-3288
E-mail: pbell@ivey.uwo.ca
Professor
BA (Hons.), MA (Oxford); MBA, PhD (Chicago)

 

Selected Works on Strategic MS/OR

• “Strategic Operations Research and the Edelman Prize Finalist Applications 1989-1998”, (with C K Anderson and S. P. Kaiser) Operations Research 51 1 January-February, 2003..

• “In Search of Strategic Management Science/Operations Research”, (with C.K. Anderson) Interfaces 32, 2, March-April 2002.

• “Algorithms:  The Intellectual Capital of the Internet”, Ivey Business Journal, July/August 2001.

• “Is there life after Edelman?” (with C. Anderson and S. Kaiser), OR/MS Today, June 2001.

• "Management Science: Thinking and Managing for Competitive Advantage", Ivey Business Journal, May/June 1999.
  
• Management Science/Operations Research: A Strategic Perspective, SouthWestern Publishing, Cincinnati, Ohio 1999.
  
• "Strategic OR/MS", OR/MS Today, December 1998.
  
• "Strategic Operational Research", Journal of the Operational Research Society, 49, 4, April 1998, 381-391.
  
• "Optimum Dynamic Pricing: Changing the Face of Competition", (with S. Staples) Business Quarterly, 61, 1, autumn 1996, 40-47.

Translated and reprinted as: "Vernietigend concurreren dynamische prijsstelling",Marketing Wise Internationale vakontwikkelingen, (The Netherlands) Number 1, 1997

also reprinted as "Product prices that change daily are upon us", Globe and Mail, December 4, 1997

and "The Evolution of Optimum Dynamic Pricing", Managing for Success, Harper Business, 1999

Selected Articles on Visualization, Graphics, and Visual Interactive Modelling

• "Decision-Maker’s Perceptions of the Value and Impact of Visual Interactive Modelling" (with C.K. Anderson, D.S. Staples, and M. Elder), Omega: The International Journal of Management Science: 27, 2, 155-165.
  
• "An Experimental Investigation into the Efficacy of Visual Interactive Simulation" (with R. O'Keefe), Management Science, 41, 6, 1018-1038.
  
• "A Visual Interactive Decision Support System to Assist the Design of a New Production Unit" (with Patrick Chau), INFOR, 34, 2, 118-132.
  
• "Decision Support for the Design of a New Production Plant using Visual Interactive Simulation" (with Patrick Chau), Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45, 11, 1273-1284.
  
• "Visualization and Optimization: The Future Lies Together", ORSA Journal on Computing, 6, 3, 258-260.
  
• "Designing Effective Simulation-Based Decision Support Systems: An Empirical Assessment of Three Types of Decision Support System" (with Patrick Chau), Journal of the Operational Research Society, 46, 3, 315-331.
  
• "Visual Interactive Simulation: A Methodological Perspective" (with Robert O'Keefe), Annals of Operations Research, 53, Volume on Simulation and Modeling, (Osman Balci, ed.), 1994, 321-342.
  
• "Stochastic Visual Interactive Simulation Models" Journal of the Operational Research Society, 40, 7, 615-624.
  
• "Visual AID: Interactive graphics come of age in OR/MS", OR/MS Today, August 1992.
  
• "Simulation Modelling: A Comparison of Visual Interactive and Traditional Approaches" (with P. Kirkpatrick) European Journal of Operational Research, 39, 2, March 1989, 138-149.
  
• "Visual Interactive Modelling: The Methodological Issues", in Operational Research'87 (G. Rand, Ed.) North Holland, Amsterdam, 1988, 97-110.
  
• "Visual Interactive Simulation - History, Recent Developments, and Major Issues" (with R.M. O'Keefe) Simulation, 49, 3, September 1987, 109-116.
  
• "Visual Interactive Modelling in Industry: Results from a Survey of Visual Interactive Model Builders" (with P. Kirkpatrick) Interfaces, 19, 5, September-October 1989, 71-79.
  
• "Visual Interactive Modelling: the Past, the Present, and the Prospects", European Journal of Operational Research, 54, 274-286.

• “Teaching Objectives: The value of using cases in teaching operational research”, (with C. Haehling von Lanzenauer) Journal of the Operational Research Society: 51, 12, 2000, 1367-1377
   
• "Teaching Business Statistics using Excel", Electronic Transactions in OR/MS Education, 1, July 2000
   
• "Forecasting Demand Variation when there are Stockouts", Journal of the Operational Research Society : 51, 3, March 2000, 358-363.
   
• "Decision Support Systems: Past, Present and Prospects", Revue des systèms de décision, 1, 2-3, 123-137.
   
• "The Practice of Management Science in Canada" (with P.N. Belshaw) Omega, 16, 3, May 1988, 207-214.
   
• "Managing Inventories through Difficult Economic Times: A Simple Model" (with Hamid Noori) Interfaces, 15, 5, September-October 1985, 39-45.
   
• "Foreign Currency Inventory Management in a Branch Bank" (with A. Hamidi-Noori) Journal of the Operational Research Society, 35, 6, June 1984, 513-525.
   
• "The Effect of Restricted Access to Intermediate Product Inventory in Two-Stage Production Lines", International Journal of Production Research, 21, 1, January 1983, 75-85.
   
• "The Use of Decomposition Techniques for the Analysis of Open Restricted Queuing Networks", Operations Research Letters, 1, 6, December 1982, 230-235.
   
• "A One-Period Stochastic Inventory Problem with a Lump-Sum Penalty Cost" (with A. Hamidi-Noori) Decision Sciences, 13, 3, July 1982, 440-449.
   
• "Analysis of Strategies in the Canadian Football League", INFOR, 20, 2, May 1982, 116-125.
   
• "Adaptive Sales Forecasting with Many Stockouts", Journal of the Operational Research Society, 32, 10, October 1981, 865-873.
   
• "A Decoupling Inventory Problem with Storage Capacity Constraints", Operations Research, 28, 3, May-June, 1980, 476-488.
   
• "A New Procedure for the Distribution of Periodicals", Journal of the Operational Research Society, 29, 5, May 1978, pp.427-434.