Current Projects

• LaGanga, L.R. and S.R. Lawrence,  “Appointment Overbooking in Health Care Clinics to Improve Patient Service and Clinic Performance,” in third review at Production and Operations Management, 2011.
• Ganguly, S., and S. Lawrence, Emergency room staff scheduling to improve service while reducing costs, work-in-progress, 2011.
• Johnson, R., S. Ganguly, S. Lawrence, and P. Komor, “Carbon and Cost Implications of Smart Grid Deployment,” working paper, 2011.
• LaGanga, L.R. and S.R. Lawrence, “Walk-in and Open Access versus Traditional Appointment Scheduling in Health Care Clinics,” in progress, 2011.

Refereed Journal Publications

• Laganga, L. and S. Lawrence, “Clinic Overbooking to Improve Patient Access and Increase Provider Productivity,” Decision Sciences 38(2), May 2007, 251–276.
  • Recipient of 2007 Best Paper Award from the Decision Sciences editorial staff
• Connaway, L., and S. Lawrence, “Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library,” D-Lib Magazine 9(12), http://www.DLIB.org, December, 2003
• Lawrence, S., L. Connaway, and K Brigham, “Life Cycle Costs of Library Collections: Creation of Effective Performance and Cost Metrics for Library Collections, ”College & Research Libraries, November 2001.
• Lawrence, S.R. and S.E. Sewell, “Heuristic versus Optimal Schedules when Processing Times are Uncertain,” Journal of Operations Management 15, 1997, 71 – 82.
• Lawrence, S.R., “Estimating Flowtimes and Setting Due-Dates in Complex Production Environments,” IIE Transactions 27(4), 1995, 657 – 668.
• Lawrence, S.R., and A.H. Buss, “Economic Analysis of Production Bottlenecks,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 1995.
• Buss, A.H., and S.R. Lawrence, “Mean Variance Interaction in Process Improvement and Capacity Design,” IIE Transactions 27(3), 1995, 339 – 347.
• Lawrence, S.R., “Negotiating Due-Dates between Customers and Producers,” International Journal of Production Economics 37(1), 1994, 127 – 138.
• Lawrence, S.R. and A.H. Buss, “Shifting Production Bottlenecks: Causes, Cures, and Conundrums,” Production and Operations Management 3(1), Winter 1994, 21 – 37.
• Buss, A.H., S.R. Lawrence, and D.H. Kropp, “Volume and Capacity Interaction in Facility Design,” IIE Transactions 26(4), Jul 1994, 36 – 49.
• Lawrence, S.R., and T.E. Morton, “Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling with Tardy Costs,” European Journal of Operational Research 64(2), Jan 1993, 168 – 187.
• Lawrence, S.R., and M.J. Rosenblatt, “Introducing International Issues into Operations Management Curricula,” Production and Operations Management 1(1), 1992, 103 – 117.
• Lawrence, S.R., “Scheduling A Single Machine to Maximize Net Present Value,” International Journal of Production Research 29(6), 1991, 1141 – 1160.
• Morton, T.E., S.R. Lawrence, S. Rajagopolan, and S. Kekre, “Sched-Star: A Price-Based Shop Scheduling Module,” Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management 1(2) (now International Journal of Production Economics), 1988, 131 – 181.

Refereed Book Chapters

• Lawrence, S.R., “Retail pricing structures,” Chapter 9 in Smart Grid Deployment in Colorado: Challenges and Opportunities, Doran, Barnes, & Pasrich, eds. Colorado Governor’s Energy Office, June 2010.
• Lawrence, S.R., “Workforce development,” Chapter 10 in Smart Grid Deployment in Colorado: Challenges and Opportunities, Doran, Barnes, & Pasrich, eds. Colorado Governor’s Energy Office, June 2010.
• Lawrence, S.R., “Pollution,” in Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, R. Kolb (editor), Sage
  Publishing, 2007.
• Lawrence, S.R. and A.H. Buss, “Excess Capacity and International Production Arbitrage,” in Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Strategic Management and Implementation, J. Sarkis (editor), 1999.
• Mausser, H.E. and S.R. Lawrence, “Exploiting Block Structure to Improve Resource-Constrained Project Schedules,” Metaheuristics 1995: State of the Art, F. Glover, I. Osman, and J. Kelley (editors), Kluwer, Maryland, 1995.
• Bayer, J., S.R. Lawrence, and J. Keon, “PEP: An Expert System for Promotion Marketing,” Chapter 9, Applied Expert Systems, E. Turban and P.R. Watkins (eds.), North Holland, New York, 1988, 121 – 141.