Current and recent courses
Math 3050 Applied Discrete
Mathematics
Math 3200/5200 Applied
Linear Algebra
Math 4630/5630 Discrete
Modeling and Optimization
Math 4620/5620 Linear and
Nonlinear Optimization
Applications of Operations Research
Combinatorial Optimization
Mathematical Programming
Approximation Algorithms
Selected Publications
V. Melkonian 
”An
Integer Programming Approach for Scheduling a Professional Sports League"
      American
Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 14(4), 401-423, 2024.
V. Melkonian 
”Optimization
Models for Hybrid Work Scheduling" 
      American
Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 13(6), 147-176, 2023.
V. Melkonian 
”Fair
Scheduling Models for Doubles Group Competitions" 
      American
Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 11(6), 338-356, 2021.
V. Melkonian 
”Mathematical
Models for a Social Partitioning Problem" 
      American
Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 11(1), 1-22, 2021.
V. Melkonian 
”An Optimization Model
for Exercise Scheduling" 
      American
Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 9(1), 1-14, 2019.
V. Melkonian 
”On
Binary Representation of Integers" 
      Problems,
Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, Vol. 29(5),
474-486, 2019.
V. Melkonian 
”An
Integer Programming Model for the KenKen Problem" 
      American
Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 6(3), 213-225, 2016.
V. Melkonian 
”The
Paired Assignment Problem " 
      Open
Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 4(2), 44-54, 2014.
V. Melkonian 
”Circuit
Integration through Lattice Hyperterms " 
      Discrete
Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications, Vol. 3(1), 101-119, 2011.
V. Lskavyan and V. Melkonian 
“A
Computational Model of Politicians–Bureaucracy Relationship in a Competitively
Authoritarian Environment”
      Int.
J. Computational Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 2(1), 1-23, 2011.
V. Melkonian 
”LP-based Solution
Methods for Asymmetric TSP " 
      Information
Processing Letters, Vol. 101(6), 233-238, 2007.
V. Melkonian 
 "New
Primal-Dual Algorithms for Steiner Tree Problems" 
      Computers
and Operations Research, Vol. 34(7), 2147-2167, 2007.
V. Melkonian 
 " Flows in Dynamic Networks with
Aggregate Arc Capacities " 
      Information
Processing Letters, Vol. 101(1), 30-35, 2007.
V. Melkonian and  E . Tardos . 
 "Primal-Dual-Based
Algorithms for a Directed Network Design Problem" 
      INFORMS
Journal on Computing, Vol. 17(2), 159-174, 2005.
R. Roundy, D. Chen, P. Chen, M. Cakanyildirim,
M.B. Freimer, V. Melkonian. 
 "Capacity-Driven
Acceptance of Customer Orders for a Multi-Stage Batch Manufacturing
System: Models and Algorithms" 
      IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logisitics, Vol. 37(12), 1093-1105, 2005. 
V. Melkonian and  E . Tardos . 
 "Algorithms
for a Network Design Problem with Crossing Supermodular
Demands"
           Networks, Vol. 43(4), 256-265, 2004.