My present research is focused on developing efficient and near optimal algorithms for combinatorial and non-linear problems, especially those that arise in the context of scheduling and service operations.
Papers
Working Papers
- Shashi Mittal and Sebastian Stiller (2011). Robust Appointment Scheduling. Working paper, Operations Research Center, MIT. [PDF] [Presentation]
- Shashi Mittal and Andreas S. Schulz (2011). A General Framework for Designing Approximation Schemes for Combinatorial Optimization Problems with Many Objectives Combined into One. Submitted to Operations Research. [PDF]
Journal papers
- Shashi Mittal and Andreas S. Schulz (2012). An FPTAS for Optimizing a Class of Low-Rank Functions Over a Polytope. To appear in Mathematical Programming. [Link] [PDF] [Presentation]
- Shashi Mittal and Kalyanmoy Deb (2009). Optimal Strategies of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Problem for Multiple Conflicting Objectives. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 13, 554-565. [Link] [PDF - Conference version] [Poster]
Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Shashi Mittal and Andreas S. Schulz (2008). A General Framework for Designing Approximation Schemes for Combinatorial Optimization Problems with Many Objectives Combined into One. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Approximation and Randomized Algorithms (APPROX-RANDOM 2008). [PDF] [Presentation]
- Shashi Mittal and Kalyanmoy Deb (2007). Three-Dimensional Offline Path Planning for UAVs Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Singapore, pp. 3195-3202. [PDF] [Poster]
Thesis
- Shashi Mittal (2011). Algorithms for Discrete, Non-linear and Robust Optimization Problems with Applications in Scheduling and Service Operations. PhD thesis, submitted to the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PDF] [Presentation] [Details]
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