Information and Decision Sciences

Jane Hagstrom

Professor Emeritus
Department of Information and Decision Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
2416 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street, MC 294
Chicago, IL 60607-7124
Phone: (312) 996-0779
Email: hagstrom@uic.edu

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1980

Jane Hagstrom holds a PhD in Operations Research. Her research interests center on combinatorial reliability, network models, and optimization. She teaches Statistics, Programming and Program Design, and Management Science.

Current Research :
Redundancy, substitutes, and complements in system reliability. Tech report available on request.
Component state dependence and error in reliability computation. Tech report available on request.
A note on function inversion for the algorithm of Bertsekas, Polymenakos, and Tseng for network flow problems with convex, separable costs. Available in its tech-report version, postscript format.

Computing tolls and checking equilibrium for traffic flows. Available in its tech-report version, postscript format.

Braess's paradox when travel demand is large, with Robert Abrams. Submitted to Transportation Science. Tech report available on request.

Traffic equilibrium: Link Flows, Path Flows and Strongly/Weakly Acyclic Solutions, with Paul Tseng. Submitted to Transportation Research B. Available in its tech-report version, postscript format.

Characterizing Braess's paradox, with Robert Abrams.

Algorithms for solving traffic equilibrium models.

Home Page: http://www.uic.edu/~hagstrom