Michael
Monticino
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I
am Dean of the Toulouse School of Graduate Studies at the University of North
Texas, and Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Institute for Applied
Science. The Graduate School plays a
leading role in supporting the goals of UNT as an emerging national research
university.
My
research and consulting
expertise includes statistical analysis, probability models, operations
research (resource allocation, forecasting, inventory control, retention
analysis, staffing), and environmental modeling.
I
have worked with many organizations, including the U.S. Navy, ABC TV, ARGO Data
Resources, the Institute for Defense Analysis, and IBM, to solve a variety of
operational and management problems.
To
learn a more about my professional experiences, visit my Career Profile at the
Mathematical Association of America's website.
Professional Activities
I
was Founding President of the Mathematical Association of America Special
Interest Group for Business Industry and Government. This "SIGMAA" of the MAA serves as
a unifying link between business, industry and government mathematicians,
academic mathematicians and mathematics students.
Current
research activities include:
- Developing and analyzing interacting models that couple ecosystem dynamics to
human land-use/land change decision-making. One focus of the work is to develop
models that represent values of homeowners, residential developers,
and other stakeholders who affect the environment through development
decisions, and how the environmental consequences of these decisions may
affect changes in human values.
- Determining optimal multiple stopping
strategies - buy/sell rules - for correlated random walks.
Correlated random walks provide an elementary model for processes that
demonstrate directional reinforcement behavior. Thus, the work has
applications for optimal trading of commodities whose prices exhibit
momentum. n multi-agent models of land-use changeCurrently, I
am investigating several statistical and data analysis questions which
have applications to data mining. These questions involve development of
real-time techniques for dynamically customizing advertisements and
content on websites.
- Addressing how ideas from complex system
theory can be applied to improve physiological research, including
choosing experimental models, guiding data collections, improving data
interpretations and constructing more rigorous system models.
- Other research interests include
generation of random probability measures and their applications.
Administrative Address:
College of
Arts and Sciences
Ph: 940 565 2497
Math Address:
Department of
Mathematics
Phone: 940 565 2155
monticino@unt.edu
Last
update 1-15-08