ProfessorMarston 111B 111B Marston Hall University of Massachusetts 160 Governors Drive Amherst, MA 01003-2210 jmsmith@ecs.umass.edu(413) 545-4542(413) 545-1027Personal HomepageHorizontal TabsEducation B.Arch., University of California at Berkeley, 1968; M.Arch., University of California at Berkeley, 1969; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978 Research Topological network design; facility layout and location; stochastic network design and analysis Program Area: Industrial EngineeringResearch Area: Advanced Design and ManufacturingSystems Engineering Publications Facilities Planning and Design. Pearson Prentice-Hall: New Jersey, 2008, ISBN 0-13-148191-6. with Alberto Garcia-Diaz. Steiner Minimal Trees, Twist Angles, and the Protein Folding Problem. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 66. 889-902 (2007). with Yunho Jang and Moon Kim. Optimal Buffer Allocation in Finite Closed Networks with Multiple Servers. Computers and Operations Research. Volume 35, Issue 8, August 2008, Pages 2579-2598, with Mustafa Yuzukirmizi. Approximate Analysis of M/G/c/c State Dependent Queueing Networks.Computers and Operations Research 34. 2332-2344 (2007), with Frederico Cruz. A Customer Threshold Property for Closed Finite Queueing Networks. Performance Evaluation Vol. 63, Númbers. 4-5 (2006), 463-492. with Mustafa Yuzukirmizi. Honors IE Professor of the Year Award 2005,2006,2007 Best Paper Award, IIE Transactions on Manufacturing Systems (2004-2005) with Frederico Cruz