Education   :: NEXTOR Graduates :: Student Awards :: Thesis Reports :: Short Courses	Education: Thesis Reports   More than 100 graduate students have participated in NEXTOR research programs since the organization's formation in 1996.  The following are some of the thesis reports from NEXTOR graduates: Date Title Author March 1998 Models for the Stochastic Ground-Holding Problem R.M. Rifkin December 1997 Integer Programming Models for Ground-Holding in Air Traffic Flow Management R. Hoffman, M. Ball September 1998 Optimization Model with Fairness Objective for Air Traffic Management T. Butler, M. Ball July 2000 Stochastic Models for the Estimation of Airport Arrival Capacity Distributions T. Inniss August 2002 Fair Allocation Concepts in Air Traffic Management T. Vossen August 2002 Implementing and Evaluating Alternative Airspace Rationing Methods J. Burke August 2002 Predicting Airspace Congestion using Approximate Queueing Models B. Chandran December 2004 Impact Assessment Of Dynamic Slot Exchange in Air Traffic Management R. Sankararaman May 2005 Order Assignment and Resource Reservation: An Optimization Model and Policy Analysis J. McNeil August 2005 Relations among Enroute Traffic, Controller Staffing and System Performance S. Kamble November 2006 Air Transportation System Performance: Estimation and Comparative Analysis of Departure Delays Y. Tu May 2007 Determining the Number of Slots to Submit to a Market Mechanism at a Single Airport A. Churchill