Michael
Monticino
Welcome!
I am a Professor
in the Department of Mathematics and Institute for Applied Science and the Dean
of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Texas.
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.
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.
My
CV provides more detail on my professional
experience.
My
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