Publications

Refereed Journal Articles:

Bolded are names of Texas State students or alumni. Abbreviations: UGST=undergraduate student, GST = graduate student, DST = doctoral student;

  1. Lin, H. (GST), Jin, T., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2023). Facility and Microgrid Location-Allocation for Integrated Supply Chain and Transactive Energy Operations. Applied Mathematical Modeling, 119, 119–136.
  2. Islam, S. R. (GST), Novoa, C. M., & Jin, T. (2022). Multi-Facility Aggregate Production Planning with Prosumer Microgrid: A Two-Stage Stochastic Program. Journal of Cleaner Production, 367, 1-13. Published. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132911
  3. Anandhan, V. (GST), Perez, E., & Novoa, C. M. (2020). A Simulation based Planning Methodology for Decreasing Patient Waiting Times in Pure Walk-in Clinics. International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS), 12(3) 34-54.
  4. Subramanayan, V. (GST), Jin, T., & Novoa, C. M. (2020). Sizing a Renewable Microgrid for Flow Shop Manufacturing using Climate Analytics. Journal of Cleaner Production, 252, 1–15.
  5. Ortiz, A. M., Sriraman, V., & Novoa, C. M. (2019).  A Collective Impact Model towards Increasing STEM Major Student Retention. Journal of College Academic Support Programs (J-CASP), 2(2), 21-30.
  6. Pham, A. (GST), Jin, T., Novoa, C. M., & Qin, J. 2019. A Multi-Site Production and Microgrid Planning Model for Net-Zero Energy Operations. International Journal of Production Economics, 218, 260–274.
  7. Jin, T., Pham, A. (GST), Novoa, C., & Temponi, C. 2017. A Zero-Carbon Supply Chain Model: Minimising Levelised Cost of Onsite Renewable Generation. Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 18(2), 49–59.
  8. Beauchamp, H. (GST), Novoa, C., Ameri, F., 2015. Supplier Selection and Order Allocation Based on Integer Programming. International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS) 6(3), 60-79.
  9. Rashid, H. (GST), Novoa, C., McKenney, M., Qasem, A., 2012. Efficient Parallel Solutions to the Integral Knapsack Problem on Current Chip-multiprocessor Systems. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 27(1), 19-44.
  10. Novoa, C., Jin, T., 2011. Reliability Centered Planning for Distributed Generation Considering Wind Power Volatility, Electric Power Systems Research 81(8), 1654-1661.
  11. Novoa, C., Storer, R., 2009. An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands. European Journal of Operational Research 196(2), 509-515.
  12. Novoa, C., Mendez, F., 2009. Bootstrap Methods for Analyzing Time Studies and Input Data for Simulations. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (IJPPM) 58(5), 460-479.
  13. Novoa, C., Artiles-Leon, N., 2009. On the Distribution of the Usual Estimator of Cpk and Some Applications in Statistical Process Control (SPC). Quality Engineering 21(1), 24-33.
  14. Asiabanpour, B., Vejandla, D.T (GST), Jimenez, J., Novoa, C., 2009. Optimizing the Automated Plasma Cutting Process by Design of Experiments. International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing 1(1), 19-40.

Technical Report:

Conference Proceedings:

Bolded are names of Texas State students or alumni

Abbreviations: UGST=undergraduate student, GST = graduate student, DST = doctoral student

  1. Hassan, J., & Novoa Ramirez, C. M. (2023). A Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Model to Plan for the Central Texas Food Bank’s Inventory Management after COVID-19. In 54th Decision Science Institute Annual Conference.
  2. Islam, Md. F. (GST), Novoa, C.M., & Mendez Mediavilla, F. (In-Press). Planning Distributed Generation Systems Powered with Wind Turbines using a Stochastic Programming Model. In Proceedings of the 2023 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo (pp. 1-6).
  3. Islam, S. R. (GST), Novoa, C., & Jin, T. (2021). A two-stage stochastic aggregate production planning model with renewable energy prosumers. In Proceedings of the 2021 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Virtual Conference (pp. 1–6).
  4. Novoa, C., Spencer, B. J., Hazlewood, L. C., & Ortiz, A. M. (2020). Spatial Visualization Skills Training at Texas State University to Enhance STEM Students Academic Success. In Proceedings of the 2020 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Virtual Conference. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/35200  
  5. Runsewe, T.(GST), Novoa, C., Jin, T. (2019). Stochastic Model for Planning Distributed Wind Generation using Climate Analytics. In Proceedings of the 2019 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Research Conference (pp. 1–6).
  6. Novoa, C., Flores, A (UGST). (2019) Optimizing the Tensile Strength for 3D Printed PLA Parts. Proceedings of the Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (pp. 745-765)
  7. Pham, A. (GST), Jin, T., Novoa, C., & Temponi, C. C. 2018. A Prosumerism Approach to Production-Inventory Planning under Bi-directional Energy Flow. In International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS 2018) (pp. 1–8).
  8. Novoa, C., Siddique, K. (GST), Guirguis, M. S., & Tahsini, A. (GST). 2018. A Game-Theoretic Two-Stage Stochastic Programing Model to Protect CPS against Attacks. In IEEE 16th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp. 15–22).
  9. Guirguis, M. S., Tahsini, A. (GST), Siddique, K. (GST), Novoa, C., Moore, J., Julien, C., & Dunstatter, N (UGST). 2018. BLOC: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Orchestrate CPS against Cyber Attacks. In IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) (pp. 1-8).
  10. Reese, H. (UGST), Anandhan, V. (GST), Perez, E., & Novoa, C. M. 2017. Improving Patient Waiting Time at a Pure Walk-In Clinic. In Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 2764–2773). Las Vegas, NV.
  11. Jin, T., Pham, A. (GST), Novoa, C., Temponi, C., 2016. A Net-Zero Carbon Supply Chain Model: Minimizing Cost of Onsite Renewable Energy. Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS 2016) Conference, June 1-4, 1-8.
  12. Talley, K. G., Ortiz, A. M., Novoa, C. M., & Sriraman, V. (2016). Integrating an Introduction to Engineering Experience into a University Seminar Course. In Proceedings of the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/25784
  13. Romanella, S., Novoa, C., 2016. Keeping the “SPARK” Alive – Investigating Effective Practices in the Retention of Female Undergraduates in Engineering and Computer Science. American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference 2016, June 26-29, 1-16. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/25514
  14. Novoa, C., Ortiz, A., Talley, K., 2016. Multi-Disciplinary Summer Orientation Sessions for First-Year Students in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Physics, and Computer Science. Proceedings of the 2016 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, June 26-29, 1-13. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/25760
  15. Novoa, C., Qasem A., Chaparala, A (GST), 2015. A SIMD Tabu Search Implementation for Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem with GPU Acceleration. Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE ’15), July 26-30, 1-8. Paper available to purchase at the ACM library http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2792745.2792758
  16. Qasem, A., Novoa, C., Chaparala, A (GST), Rishu, N. (GST), 2015. Autotuning GPU-accelerated Quadratic Assignment Problems (QAP) Solvers for Power and Performance. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), August 24-26, 1-6.
  17. Chaparala, A. (GST), Novoa, C., Qasem A., 2014. A SIMD Solution for the Quadratic Assignment Problem with GPU Acceleration. Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE ’14), July 13-18, 1-8. Paper also available to purchase at the ACM digital library http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2616498.2616521
  18. Novoa, C., Pasham, S (GST), 2013. “Application for Scheduling Course Load for Current and Transfer Students at Texas State University”. Decision Sciences Institute 44th Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 671910-1-20.
  19. Novoa, C., Mai, N. (UGST), 2013. Facilities Layout at Micropower. Decision Sciences Institute 44th Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 671963-1-14.
  20. Novoa, C., Mai, N. (UGST), 2012. Facility Layout at McNeil Warehouse Goodwill Industries. Decision Sciences Institute 43rd Annual Meeting, 37501-37514. Paper got Honorable Mention in the 2012 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) annual meeting Best Application Paper Award competition.
  21. Jin, T., Tian, Z., Novoa, C., 2011. Managing Performance Based Logistics by Balancing Reliability and Spare Parts Stocking. Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance and Safety Engineering (ICQR2MSE), 1-6. Paper 0217.
  22. Rashid, H. (GST),  Novoa, C., Qasem, A., 2010. An Evaluation of Parallel Knapsack Algorithms on Multicore Architectures. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC’10), 230-235.
  23. Tamir, D., Novoa, C., Lowell, D (GST), 2010. Time Space Tradeoffs in Genetic Algorithm (GA) Based Feature Selection for Workload Characterization. Twenty Third international Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2010), 643-652.
  24. Novoa, C., Tamir, D., Lowell, D (GST), 2010. Tuning up the ISODATA Algorithm using Response Surface Methodology. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR), 262-269.
  25. Asiabanpour, B., Vejandla, D.T. (GST), Novoa, C., Jimenez, J., Fisher, R. (UGST), 2009. Optimizing the Quality of Parts Manufactured by the Automated Plasma Cutting Process using Response Surface Methodology. Proceedings of the 2009 International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium, 47-60.
  26. Lowell, D (GST), Lababidi, B., Novoa, C., Tamir D., 2009. The Locality of Reference of Genetic Algorithms and Probabilistic Reasoning. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR), 221-228.
  27. Dozier, S (UGST),  Novoa, C., Preece, J. (UGST), Bubble, C. (UGST),  2008. An Optimization Study of the Laundry Services at the Central Texas Medical Center, Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), 475-480.
  28. Novoa C., Storer R., 2006. The Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands Combining Static and Dynamic Approaches. Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Paper 1525, 1-6.

 Refereed Conference Proceedings before Joining Texas State:

  1. Novoa, C., Buechter, H., 2003. Sequencing Traversing Cars in a Warehouse using Ant-Colony Systems. Proceedings of The Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Paper 2025, 1-6.
  2. Artiles, N., Novoa, C., Domenech, C. (GST), 1995. Improving Fabric Finishing through Experimental Design. Transactions, 49th Annual Quality Congress, Boston, MA, 952-961
  3. Toro-Ramos, Z., Bartolomei, S., Novoa, C (GST), 1991. A Decomposition Approach for the Design of Manufacturing Systems with Centralized Work-In-Process Storage and Limited Buffers. Proceedings of the 1991 NSF Design and Manufacturing Systems, Austin, TX, 745-753.

Abstracts:

  • Bolded are names of Texas State students or alumni
  • Abbreviations: UGST=undergraduate student, GST = graduate student, DST = doctoral student
  1. Qasem, A. M., Novoa, C. M., Kolla, C. S. (GST), & Coyle, S. (UGST). (2018). High-Accuracy Scalable Solutions to the Dynamic Facility Layout Problem. Super Computing (SC 18) – The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis Proceedings, 1–2. Retrieved from https://sc18.supercomputing.org/proceedings/tech_poster/poster_files/post169s2-file3.pdf
  2. Rashid, H., Novoa, C. M., Hay, R.(UGST), & Qasem, A. M. (2013). Algorithmic Choice in Optimization Problems: A Performance Study. Super Computing (SC13) – The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis Proceedings, 1. Retrieved from http://sc13.supercomputing.org/sites/default/files/PostersArchive/tech_posters/post133s2-file3.pdf
  3. Hickman, M., 2007. TSL Dissertation Abstracts 2006 Transportation Science and Logistics Society Dissertation Prize Competition. Transportation Science 41(3), 415-429. Article posted dissertation abstracts for the 26 award nominees including Novoa, C., “Static and Dynamic Approaches for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands”.