 Visit of Professor
Dietrich Braess to the Isenberg School of Management,
The visit
of Professor Braess was part of the UMass - Amherst INFORMS
Student Chapter Seminar Series. Support for this
series is provided by the Isenberg School of Management,
the Department
of Finance and Operations Management, INFORMS, and
the John F. Smith
Memorial Fund. the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter, and the Virtual Center for Supernetworks April 5-8, 2006
In 1968, Professor
Dietrich Braess developed the now named Braess
Paradox that states that adding a link in a transportation
network may make every user worse off! This work was published in
German. In 2005, Professor Braess asked the Center Director, Professor
Nagurney, and Center Associate, Ms. Tina Wakolbinger, to assist him in
translating the paper into English. Through the efforts for Professor
Hani S. Mahmassani, the Editor of Transportation
Science, the translation and an accompanying essay by Professor
Nagurney and Professor David Boyce appeared in the November 2005 issue
of Transportation Science.
Translation
in Transportation Science 39: (2005)
pp 446-450
Original Article in German Preface to On a Paradox of Traffic Planning by Professors Boyce and Nagurney Transportation Science 39: (2005) pp 443-445 Professor Braess' Homepage at Ruhr University Link to the Informs Seminar Series Last update: April 8, 2006 |
