Dr. Celik Parkan is Kaufman Professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University (LIU) in New York. He received his M.S and Ph.D. degrees in management science from the Wharton School and University of British Columbia, Canada, respectively. Dr. Parkan was an operations research analyst at British Coal, London, and held tenured full professor positions at the University of Calgary, Canada and City University of Hong Kong. Over the years his research involved the theories of consumption and production, analysis of service systems, simulation modeling, location logistics and analysis, decision analysis, and productivity and performance measurement. He has published more than fifty peer-reviewed papers and made presentations at numerous academic conferences. Dr. Parkan's current research and teaching interests are on operational issues with particular emphasis on the measurement and analysis of the performance of operating systems. He is director of the Center for Supply Chain Leadership at C.W. Post.

Dr. Parkan's research deals with comparative performance analysis. His most recent work focuses on the performance of supply chains.

MBA 624
MBA 820

Dr. Parkan's most recent work includes:
• C. Parkan (2007), Verifying OCRA’s economic sense: Response to Agrell and West (2001). Forthcoming in the International Journal of Production Economics.
• Ying-Ming Wang and C. Parkan (2007), Optimal aggregation of fuzzy preference relations with an application to broadband internet choice. Forthcoming in the European Journal of Operational Research.
• Ying-Ming Wang and C. Parkan (2007), A preemptive goal programming method for aggregating OWA operator weights in group decision making. Forthcoming in Information Systems.
• C. Parkan (2007), A further clarification of the OCRA procedure and its properties. Forthcoming in Managerial and Decision Economics.
• C. Parkan and Jiamin Wang (2007), Gauging the performance of a supply chain. Forthcoming in International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2(2). (February 2007)
• Ying-Ming Wang and C. Parkan (2006), Two New Approaches for Assessing the Weights of Fuzzy Opinions in Group Decision Analysis. Information Science, 176(23), 3538-3555. (December 2006).
• Ying-Ming Wang and C. Parkan (2006), A general multiple attribute decision-making approach for integrating subjective preferences and objective information. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 157(10), 1333-1345. (October 2006)
• C. Parkan (2006), On OCRA: Response to comments by Wang and Wang (2005). Journal of the Operational Research Society, 57(6), 750-754. (June 2006)
• C. Parkan (2006), On OCRA: Response to comments by Wang (2004). European Journal of Operational Research 169(1), 332-337. (January 2006)
• C. Parkan (2006), An Alternative Derivation of the Basic DEA Models for Measuring the Productive Performances of Operating Entities. International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 1(3), 253 -272. (March 2006)
• C. Parkan (2005), Benchmarking operational performance: The case of two hotels. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 54(8), 679-696. (August 2005)
• Ying-Ming Wang and C. Parkan (2005), Multiple attribute decision making based on fuzzy preference information on alternatives: Ranking and weighting. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 153(3), 331-346. (March 2005)
• Ying-Ming Wang and C. Parkan (2005), A minimax disparity approach for obtaining OWA operator weights. Information Science 175(1-2), 20-29. (February 2005)

Recently Dr. Parkan presented two papers at the Western Decision Sciences meeting in Hawaii in April 2006 (one of the papers was co-authored with Dr. Jiamin Wang) and a paper co-authored with Dr. Wang at the International Logistics Seminar in Lyon in May 2006.

Dr. Parkan serves as the chair of the Scholarly Activities and Service Committee. He also chaired the Faculty Awards and Recognition Committee in 2005-6.

Dr. Parkan received the Faculty Research Award in 2002.