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Diplomas / Degrees

Ph.D., University of British Columbia (1989)
M. Sc., University of Zagreb (1983)
B. Sc., University of Zagreb (1978)

Recent Courses

Computer Applications
Information Technology And Applications

Teaching Specializations / Interests

Operations Management, Management Science, Management Information Systems

Research Interests

Communication, financial and transportation networks. Optimization and cost allocation.

Grants / Sponsored Research

• Excellence in Faculty Scholarship and Creative Work Award, Adelphi University, 2008-2009.

• Bender Research Fellowship Award (body of work), 2006-2008.

• Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology, research project # 0145011 entitled "On the Design of Optical Telecommunication Networks", 2003-2006.

• Presidents Faculty Development Award, Adelphi University, 2001-2002.

• Presidents Faculty Development Award, Adelphi University, 2000-2001.

• Presidents Faculty Development Award, Adelphi University, 1999-2000.

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, Decision, Risk and Management Science/ Production Systems and Operations Research/NSFNET), Principal Investigator, 1996-1997.

• Fulbright Scholar Award (lecturing/research under the program with Croatia), 1996-1997.

• Fellowship for a research visit to Center for Economic Research (CentER), Tilburg University and to University of Twente, The Netherlands, 1997.

• Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology (Consultant on the project: Models and Methods in Operations Research), 1997-2005

• Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology (Consultant on the project: Development of the Istrian regional information system), 1997-2003.

• Industrial support for Telecommunication Telemedicine Project involving University Medical Center at Stony Brook, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport, Long Island, and NYNEX, 1996.

• Travel Award for research visit to ALIO/EURO workshop on practical combinatorial optimization, Catholic University, Valparaiso, Chile, 1996.

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, (Mathematics/Geography), Principal Investigator, 1992-1995.

• Stony Brook PDQWL Term Faculty Development Award (NY State UUP), 1993.

• Term Faculty Development Award (NY State UUP), 1992.

• New Faculty Development Award (NY State UUP), 1991.

• SUNY Non-tenured Faculty Travel Grant, 1989.

• University of British Columbia Summer Graduate Fellowship, 1988.

• University of British Columbia Student Travel Grant, 1988.

• Leslie G.J. Wong Memorial Fellowship, 1986-1987.

• Dean Early D. MacPhee Memorial Fellowship in Commerce and Business Administration, 1984-1985.

Selected Dissertations Chaired

Kathryn Kent (1997). Monotonic Cost Allocation Schemes Arising in the Design of Telecommunication Networks.SUNY at Stony Brook
Hector Fernando Beltran (1994). On Some Design and Cost Allocation Problems in Telecommunication Networks.SUNY at Stony Brook

Other Scholarly / Artistic Work

BOOKS

• J. Skorin-Kapov and D. Skorin-Kapov, Optical Networks: Trends, Issues and Management, a chapter in Handbook of Research on Telecommunications Planning and Management for Business, In Lee (editor), pp 941-956, Advances in E-Business Research (AEBR) Book Series, ISBN: 978-1-60566-194-0; ©2009 Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference Global).

• D. Skorin-Kapov, J. Skorin-Kapov and V. Boljuncic, Network Location Problems in Telecommunications, a chapter in Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications, P.M. Pardalos and M.G.C. Resende (eds.), pp 517- 544, ISBN 0-38-730662-5, ©2006 Springer Science + Business Media.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On Cost Allocation in Steiner Tree Networks, a chapter in STEINER TREES IN INDUSTRIES, D. -Z. Du and X. Cheng (Eds.), Combinatorial Optimization Vol. 11, ISBN 1-4020-0099-5, ©2001 Kluwer Academics Publishers.


REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• J. Skorin-Kapov, D. Skorin-Kapov, "MILP Formulations and Quantitative Analysis for the Core Node Location Problem", International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management. Volume 14, Number 1,
(2008), 17-27.

• J. Skorin-Kapov, D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Boljuncic, “On Management of Optical Networks: Utilization versus Cost”, Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol. 7 (2) (2007), 58-70.

• D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, Threshold Based Discounting Network: The Cost Allocation Provided by the Nucleolus, European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 166, Issue 1 (2005), 154-159.

• V. Boljuncic, D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, A Tabu Search Approach Towards Congestion and Total Flow Minimization in Optical Networks, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, Vol 13, No. 2 (2004), 180-201.

• H. Podnar, J. Skorin-Kapov and D. Skorin-Kapov, Network Cost Optimization Using Threshold Based Discounting, European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 137, Issue 2 (2002), 371-386.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Network Cost Allocation Games Based on Threshold Discounting, Mathematical Communications, Vol. 6 (2002), 1-14.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On Cost Allocation in Hub-Like Networks, Annals of Operations Research, 106 (2001), 63-78.

• V. Boljuncic, D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, On Delay versus Congestion in Designing Rearrangeable Multihop Lightwave Networks, Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2001), 213-218.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On Cost Allocation in Networks with Threshold Based Discounting, Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2000), 311-317.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Hub Network Games, Networks 31 (1998), 293-302.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On Some Cost Allocation Problems in Communication Networks, Mathematical Communications 3 (1998), 85-94.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, J. Skorin-Kapov and M. O'Kelly, Tight Linear Programming Relaxations of Uncapacitated p-Hub Median Problems, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 94 (1996), 582-593.

• M. O'Kelly, D. Bryan, D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, "Hub network Design with Single and Multiple Allocation: A Computational Study of the Role of the Interhub Discount Factor," Location Science, Vol. 4 (3), (1996), 125-138.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On the Core of the Minimum Cost Steiner Tree Games, Annals of Operations Research, 57 (1995) 233-249.

• M. O'Kelly, D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, Lower Bounds for the Hub Location Problem, Management Science, Vol. 41, No. 4 (1995), 713-728.

• D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, On Hub Location Problems, Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1995), 183-192.

• D. Skorin-Kapov and H.F. Beltran, An Efficient Characterization of Cost Allocation Solutions Associated With Capacitated Network Design Problems, Telecommunication Systems, Vol., 3 No. 1 (1994), 91-107.

• D. Granot and D. Skorin-Kapov, On Some Optimization Problems on k-Trees and Partial k-Trees, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 48 (1994), 129-145.

• D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, On Tabu Search for the Location of Interacting Hub Facilities, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 73, Issue 3 (1994), 501-508.

• D. Skorin-Kapov and H.F. Beltran, On a Cost Allocation Problem Arising From a Star-Star Capacitated Concentrator Location Problem, Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1994), 1-8.

• H.F. Beltran and D. Skorin-Kapov, On Minimum Cost Isolated Failure Immune Networks, Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1994), 183-200.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On a Cost Allocation Problem Arising From a Capacitated Concentrator Covering Problem, Operations Research Letters, Vol. 13, No. 5 (1993), 315-323.

• D. Granot and D. Skorin-Kapov, NC Algorithms for the Recognition of Partial 2-Trees and Partial k-Trees, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1991), 342-354.

INDUSTRIAL TECHNICAL REPORTS

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Real-time, Automated Management Platform for Financial Business Events, (Fulton/City Hall Technologies), Technical paper, Financial Technologies International, March 1999.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Valuation, Exposures, Value at Risk (VaR) for Fixed Income Securities: Consolidation of Market and Model Data, Technical paper, Financial Technologies International, November 1998.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Swap Data Model and Risk Management Analysis, Technical paper, Financial Technologies International, June 1998.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Enterprise-wide risk management systems: Industry Needs, Methods and Trends, Technical paper, Financial Technologies International, April 1998.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Methodology and Data Model for Computing Interest Bearing Fixed Income Securities, Technical paper, Financial Technologies International, February 1998.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Valuation of some Derivatives, Methodology and Computation, Technical paper, Financial Technologies International, December 1997.


ARTICLES IN REFEREED PROCEEDINGS

• D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, “A Cost Allocation Scheme for Multicasting”, Proceedings of the 2007 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2007), Riva del Garda, Italy (2007), 1-8.

• J. Skorin-Kapov, D. Skorin-Kapov and V. Boljuncic, “On Management of Optical Networks: Utilization versus Cost”, Electronic Proceedings of the 6th National Business and Economic Society Conference, NBES’2007, Puerto Rico (2007).

• D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, On the Nucleolus of the Threshold Based Discounting Network (TBDN) Game, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI'2003, Cavtat, Croatia (2003), 525-530.

• D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, “On Economies of Scale and Cooperation in Threshold Based Discounting Networks”, Electronic Proceedings of the 4th National Business and Economic Society Conference, NBES’2003, St. Thomas, US Virgin Island (2003).

• V. Boljuncic, D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, “Some Efficiency Issues in the Design of Optical Network, Proceedings of the 3rd National Business and Economic Society Conference, NBES’2002, Hawaii , USA(2002), 1-10.

• V. Boljuncic, D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, A Design of Rearrangeable Multihop Lightwave Networks: A Multicriteria Approach", Proceedings of the 4th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2001), Porto, Portugal (2001), 23-29.

• V. Boljuncic, D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, On Delay versus Congestion in Designing Rearrangeable Multihop Lightwave Networks, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI’2001, Pula, Croatia (2001), 297-303.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Population Monotonic Cost Allocation Scheme for the Multicast Routing in Networks, Extended Abstracts of The XIV Italian Meeting on Game Theory and Applications, Ischia., Italy (2001).

• D. Skorin-Kapov, H. Podnar, J. Skorin-Kapov, Cost Optimization of Networks with Threshold Based Discounting, Proceedings of the INFORMS-KORMS, Seoul 2000 Conference, Information and Knowledge Management in the 21st Century, Seoul, South Korea (2000), 453-459.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On Cost Allocation in Networks With Threshold Based Discounting, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, ITI'2000, Pula, Croatia (2000) 409-414.

• K. Kent, D. Skorin-Kapov, Distance Monotonic Stable Cost Allocation Scheme for the Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Network, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference "Information Technology Interfaces," ITI'97, Pula, Croatia (1997) 463-468.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On Some Cost Allocation Issues in Hub Networks, Proceedings of the Broadband and Multimedia Workshop, B&MW, Zagreb, Croatia (1996), 79-95.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, The Role of Economies of Scale in the Hub Networks Cost Allocation Problem, Proceedings of II ALIO/EURO Workshop on Practical Combinatorial Optimization, Valparaiso, Chile (1996) 73-89.

• K. Kent and D. Skorin-Kapov, "Population Monotonic Cost Allocation on MST's," Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Operational Research, KOI'96, CORS, Rovinj, Croatia (1996) 43-48.

• D. Skorin-Kapov and J. Skorin-Kapov, On Hub Location Models, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference "Information Technology Interfaces," ITI'95, Pula, Croatia (1995) 49-61.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On Cost Allocation Problems in Telecommunication Networks, Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Operational Research, KOI'94, CORS, Rab, Croatia (1994) 10-22.

• H.F. Beltran and D. Skorin-Kapov, On Isolated Failure Immune Networks, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis, Nashville TN, USA (1994) 444-453.

• D. Skorin-Kapov and H.F. Beltran, On Unifying Efficient Characterization of Cost Allocation Solutions Associated With CND Problems, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis, Nashville TN, USA (1994) 397-407.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, On the Core of the Minimum Cost Steiner Tree Games, Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Mathematical Programming and Modeling APMOD'93, Budapest, Hungary (1993) 529-536.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, A Fixed Cost Spanning Forest Problem on Series-Parallel Graphs, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Operational Research, KOI'92, CORS, Rovinj, Croatia (1992) 85-94.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, The Model for Reduction of Rain, JDH, Yugoslav Hydrological Society, Split, Croatia (1984) 73-84.

• D. Skorin-Kapov and V. Buselic, Hypso Package for Computing Watershed Characteristics From Topological Maps, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium, "Computer at the University," Cavtat, Croatia (1984) 284-293.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, Program Package for Digitalization of Lymnigraphs and Thermographs as Groundwork for Hydrological Data Base, Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of Informatics, Jahorina, Bosnia and Hercegovina (1983) 157-163.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, The Model and the Program for Average Rain Around its Center, Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of Informatics, Jahorina, Bosnia and Hercegovina (1983) 223-234.

• D. Skorin-Kapov, The Digital Model and the Program for Determining the Time of Concentration and the Isochrones of Watersheds, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium, "Computer at the University," Cavtat, Croatia (1983) 89-101.

Professional Activities

Recent KEY-NOTE PRESENTATION

• Plenary speaker, On Cost Allocation Schemes in Networks: Cooperative Game Theory and Combinatorial Models, ECCO XXI- 2008, 21th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization, Dubrovnik, May 2008.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

•Editor, Special Issue on Combinatorial Optimization of Algorithmic Operations Research.

• Member of the Editorial Review Board and Associate Editor of Electronic Commerce Research.

• Review Editor of the Editorial of International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management.

• Member of the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Computing and Information Technology.

• Member of the Editorial Review Board of Mathematical Communications.

• Member of the Editorial Review Board and Associate Editor of Telecommunication Systems.


• Member, Scientific Program Committee for the ECCO 2008, XXI meeting of the European Chapter on Combinatorial ptimization, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2008.

• Member, Program Committee for The 2007 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference, October, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 18-21, 2007.

• Member, Program Committee for The 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research, June 9-12, 2005, at GAMMARTH, Tunis, Tunisia.

• Member, Program Committee for The Annual International Conference on Operational Research KOI; Sponsored by CORS (the 5th KOI Conference, Rab, October 1994; Rab, the 6th KOI Conference, October 1995; the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th 12th KOI Conference, Rovinj, October 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).

• Member, Program Committee for The Annual International Conference "Information Technology Interfaces," ITI'94, organized by the University of Zagreb Computing Center under the auspices of Croatian Academy of Science and Arts (the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th), ITI Conference, some held in Pula some in Cavtat, June 1994; 1995; 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 , 2004, 2005 and 2006).

REFEREEING ACTIVITIES

Reviewing articles for a number of journals including:
European Journal of Operational Research
Annals of Operations Research
International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management
International Journal Computers and Mathematics with Applications
International Transactions in Operations Research
Journal of Computing and Information Technology
Journal of Game Theory
Location Science
Management Science
Mathematical Programming
Mathematics of Operations Research
Mathematics of Social Sciences
Matematicki Glasnik
Networks
Telecommunication Systems
Top.

Reviewing textbooks in Management Science and MIS, Prentice Hall.

Reviewing textbooks in Management Information Systems, McGraw Hill.

Reviewing books for Kluwer Academics Publisher, Springer.


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS),

Croatian Operational Research Society (CRORS).

Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

National Business and Economic Society (NBES).