Curriculum Vitae
Walid Nasrallah
walid@alum.mit.edu
Position
Associate Professor, Engineering Management Program, American University of Beirut.
Academic Degrees
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 2000. Doctor of Philosophy in Construction
Engineering and Management, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with
Ph.D. minor in Computer Science.
DISSERTATION: “INTERACTION VALUE ANALYSIS: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOR.”
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1996. Engineer Degree in Construction
Engineering and Management, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
THESIS: “TOWARDS A FORMAL ONTOLOGY OF TASK/METHOD/PRODUCT RELATIONSHIPS.”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989. Master of
Science in Constructed Facilities, Department of Civil Engineering,
THESIS: “ISSUES IN MESSAGE-PASSING-STYLE CRITICAL PATH SCHEDULING.”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, Bachelor of
Science in Civil Engineering, and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with Computing.
Publications in Refereed Journals
First Author
Nasrallah, W.F. and S.J. Al-Qawasmeh, (2009). “Comparing N-dimensional Contingency Fit
to Financial Performance of Organizations.” European Journal of Operations Research
194(3):911-921. (April) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2008.01.011.
Nasrallah, W.F., (2009) “How Pre-emptive Priority Affects Completion Rate in an M/M/1
queue with Poisson Reneging.” European Journal of Operations Research. 193(1):317-320
(February). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.11.055.
Nasrallah, W.F. and R.S. Bou-Matar, (2008). “Exponential, Gamma and Power Law
Distributions in Information Flow on a Construction Site.” ASCE Journal of Construction
and Engineering Management. 134(6):442-450 (June).
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2008)134:6(442)
Nasrallah, W.F. (2006) “When does management matter in a dog-eat-dog world: An
Interaction Value Analysis of the effects of Organizational Climate.” Computational and
Mathematical Organization Theory. 12(4):339-359.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10588-006-6684-9.
Nasrallah, W.F., R.E. Levitt and P. Glynn, (2003). “Interaction Value Analysis: When
structured communication benefits Organizations.” Organization Science. 14(5):541-557.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.14.5.541.16764.
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Nasrallah, W.F. and R.E. Levitt, (2001). “An Interaction Value Perspective on Firms of
Differing Size.” Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 7(2):113-144.
Nasrallah, W.F., R.E. Levitt and P. Glynn, (1998). “Diversity and Popularity in Organizations
and Communities.” Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 4(4):347-372.
Co-author
Mezher, T., Nasrallah, W. and Alameddine, A., (2008). “Management of Technological
Innovation in the Lebanese Industry”, International Journal of Arab Culture, Management
and Sustainable Development. (IJCMSD). 1(1):5-22.
El-Saouda, R., Mezher, T., Nasrallah, W. and Ajam, M., (2008). “Entrepreneurship in
Lebanon: A Model for Successes and Failure”, International Journal of Arab Culture,
Management and Sustainable Development. (IJCMSD). 1(1):34-52.
Book Chapter
“Management at the Flat End of the Learning Curve: An Overview of Interaction Value
Analysis”, chapter in Learning Curves: Theory, Models and Applications, M.Y. Jaber (ed.),
to be published in 2011.
Conference Papers
“A framework for evolving complexity in Iterated Prisoners Dilemma (IPD)” Walid
Nasrallah, UIUC Complex Systems Conference, May 14-17,2007, University of Illinois in
Urbana-Champaign.
“Management of Technological Innovation in the Lebanese Industry” Toufic Mezher, Walid
Nasrallah, Aref Alameddine; PICMET '06 Conference on "Technology
Management for the Global Future," July 9 - 13, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey,
1063-1073.
“Entrepreneurship in Lebanon: A Model for Successes and Failures”, Rony El-Saouda, Toufic
Mezher, Walid Nasrallah, M. Ajam; PICMET '06 Conference on
"Technology Management for the Global Future," July 9 - 13, 2006, Istanbul,
Turkey, pp. 1093-1101.
“Evolutionary paths to a corrupt society of artificial agents”; Walid Nasrallah, Paper at the
New England Complex Systems Institute’s International Conference on Complex Systems
(NECSI ICCS), Quincy, Massachusetts, USA, 25-30 June 2006.
“Corruption and cooperation in an Iterated Prisoners’ Dilemma Agent-Based Model”; Walid
Nasrallah, Paper at Annual Conference of the North American Association for Computational
Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS), Indiana, USA, 22-24 June 2006.
“Solving the Interaction Value Analysis Equations”; Walid Nasrallah, Talk at INFORMS
annual meeting in San Francisco, USA, November 2005.
“Interaction Value Analysis: Past Present and Future”; Walid Nasrallah, Annual Conference
of the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science
(NAACSOS), Indiana, USA, June 2005.
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“Validating the Interaction Value Analysis Framework for Organizational Assessment against
Financial Performance Data”; Walid Nasrallah, 10th Annual Workshop on Economic
Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA 2005), Essex, UK June2005.
“Replicative Generation of Critical Path Schedules for Projects with Linear Segments”; Walid
Nasrallah, Civil Engineering Infrastructure Systems (CEIS 2005), Beirut, Lebanon.
Conference Scheduled for June 2005 at AUB, now postponed to June 2006.
“Interaction Value Analysis: Selecting Organizational Structure by Optimizing a Queue of
Business Communications”; Walid Nasrallah, Poster presentation at INFORMS annual
meeting in Atlanta, Georgia; October 2003.
“Interaction Value Analysis: a Model for Assessing Organizations with Different Climates”; Walid
Nasrallah, Talk at INFORMS annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia; October 2003.
“Modeling Reciprocity in Political Organizations with the Interactions Value Analysis
Framework”; Walid Nasrallah, 2nd Human Complex Systems conference at Lake Arrowhead
UCLA center, March 2003.
“Interaction Value Analysis for Organizations with Reciprocal Cooperation”; Walid
Nasrallah, Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), June 2123, 2002, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (Accepted)
Courses Taught
Graduate
1. “Custom Project Information Systems” – new graduate elective covering basic
software engineering concepts as they relate to a project manager who needs an
information processing system for his work needs.
2. “Organization Analysis and Design” – new graduate elective offering different
opinions on organizations and the feasibility of using an engineering design approach
to improve organizational performance.
3. “Special Topics in Construction Management” – new graduate elective combining
directed reading in the research literature and practical exercises based on industry best
practices.
4. “Decision Analysis” – core course for Master of Engineering Management students
introducing the theory and application of decision analysis.
5. “Management Theory” – core course for Master of Engineering Management
students covering a range of non-quantitative management concepts, techniques and
skills. I emphasize development of skills through group exercises.
Undergraduate
1. “Engineering Ethics” – undergraduate course required as of 2006 (or equivalent) for
engineering students. Principles, distinctions and case studies.
2. “Engineering Management I” – undergraduate senior elective covering linear
programming, network optimization, deterministic dynamic programming
3. “Engineering Management II” – undergraduate senior elective covering stochastic
and deterministic inventory management, queuing theory, game theory.
Academic Service
Served as blind peer reviewer of one or more academic papers for the following journals:
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European Journal of Operations Research
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
ASCE Journal of Construction and Engineering Management
Construction Management and Economics
Industry Experience
Software
 Oracle Corporation: Three years as “Principal Member of Technical Staff” at Oracle
Headquarters in Redwood Shores from 1998 to 2001.
 Software Manufacturing International: Two years as co-founder and Vice President
of a start-up that grew to 10 people and launched one product from 1993 to 1995.
Construction
 Turner International Industries: Two different assignments as an office engineer in
a multi-national construction management firm from 1988 to 1991.
 Fawzi Nasrallah Contractors: Two different assignments as a site engineer at a
family-owned subcontractor from 1989 to 1992.
Research in Progress
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“Visualizing Advance Material Planning with n-Dimensional CAD.” Walid Nasrtallah and
Majd Khalaf, Submitted to ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.
“Generating and Solving Parameterized CPM Schedules Using a Topologically Ordered
Spreadsheet” Walid Nasrallah, and Charbel Harbieh, 90% complete, to be submitted to
Decision Support Systems.
“XDT: A Hybrid Simulation-Queuing Model of a Project Organization”; Walid Nasrallah,
80% complete, to be submitted to Simulation Journal.
“The role of interaction length, density and mobility in the evolution of corrupt societies.”
Walid Nasrallah and Youssef .G. Saad, 70% complete, to be submitted to the Journal of
Artificial Societies and Social Science (JASSS)
“A lateral density model for traffic behavior in high-density driving conditions”; Walid
Nasrallah and Essam Radwan, 50% complete.
“Factors for success in night-shift construction work”; Walid Nasrallah, Faysal Jaroudi
and Asem Abdel Malak, 40% complete, to be submitted to the ASCE Journal of
Construction Engineering and Management.
“A Framework for evolving complexity in mobile social agents”; Walid Nasrallah, 20%
complete, to be submitted to Complexity Journal.
Paper on the role of emotional intelligence in management success (New project.)
“The Dynamics of Institutional Economics” (New Project.)
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