Publications:

R. D. Foley and D. R. McDonald,
Constructing a harmonic function for an irreducible nonnegative matrix with convergence parameter R > 1
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, to appear in 2012

I. Adan, R. D. Foley, and D. R. McDonald,
Exact asymptotics for the stationary distribution of a Markov chain: a production model
Queueing Systems, Volume 62, pp. 311---344, 2009.

S. Ziya, H. Ayhan, and R. D. Foley,
A Note on Optimal Pricing for Finite Capacity Queueing Systems with Multiple Customer Classes
Naval Research Logistics, Volume 55, pp. 412---418, 2008.

I. Maoui, H. Ayhan and R. D. Foley
Optimal Static Pricing for a Service Facility with Holding Costs
European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 197, pp. 912---923, 2008.

I. Maoui, H. Ayhan and R. D. Foley
Congestion Dependent Pricing in a Stochastic Service System
Advances in Applied Probability, Volume 39, pp. 898---921, 2007.

S. Ziya, H. Ayhan, R. D. Foley, and E. Pek\"{o}z
A monotonicity result for the blocking probability in a G/GI/c/m queueing system
Journal of Applied Probability, Volume 43, pp. 1201---1205, 2006.

S. Ziya, H. Ayhan and R. D. Foley
Optimal Prices for Finite Capacity Queueing Systems
Operations Research Letters, Volume 34, pp. 214---218, 2006.

Byung Chun Park, Robert D. Foley, Edward H. Frazelle
Performance of Miniload Systems with Two-Class Storage
European Journal of Operations Research, Volume 170, Issue 1, April 2006, pp. 144---155.

R. D. Foley and D. R. McDonald
Large Deviations of a Modified Jackson Network: Stability and Rough Asymptotics
Annals of Applied Probability, Volume 15, pp. 519--541, 2005.

R. D. Foley and D. R. McDonald
Bridges and Networks: Exact Asymptotics
Annals of Applied Probability, Volume 15, pp. 542--586, 2005.

S. Ziya, H. Ayhan and R. D. Foley
Relationships Among Three Assumptions in Revenue Management
Operations Research, Volume 52, pp. 804---809, 2004.

Robert D. Foley, Steven T. Hackman, and Byung Chun Park
Back-of-the-Envelope Miniload Throughput Bounds and Approximations
IIE Transactions, Volume 36, 279---285, 2004.

B. C. Park, R. D. Foley, E. Frazelle, and J. White
Dual Command Travel Times and Miniload System Throughput with Turnover Based Storage
IIE Transactions, Volume 35, pp. 343--355, April 2003.

J. Y. Park, B. C. Park, and R. D. Foley
Carousel System Performance
Journal of Applied Probability, Volume 40, pp. 602--612, September 2003.

Mark E. Lewis, Hayriye Ayhan, and Robert D. Foley
Bias Optimal Admission Policies for a Nonstationary Multi-Class Queueing System
Journal of Applied Probability, Volume 39, pp. 20--37, March 2002.

Robert D. Foley and Byung Chun Park
Optimal Allocation of Buffers and Customers in a Two-Node Cyclic Network with Multiple Servers
Operations Research Letters, Volume 30, pp. 19--24, February 2002.

Robert D. Foley, Edward H. Frazelle, and Byung Chun Park
Throughput bounds for miniload automated storage/retrieval systems
IIE Transactions, Volume 34, pp. 915--920, October 2002.

John J. Bartholdi, III, Donald D. Eisenstein, and Robert D. Foley
Performance of Bucket Brigades when Work is Stochastic
Operations Research, Volume 49, 2001.

R. D. Foley and D. R. McDonald
Join the Shortest Queue: Stability and Exact Asymptotics
Annals of Applied Probability, Volume 11, pp. 569--607, 2001.

Robert D. Foley and David Goldsman
Confidence Intervals Using Orthonormally Weighted Standardized Time Series
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Volume 9, pp. 297---325, 1999.

M. Lewis, H. Ayhan and R. D. Foley
Bias Optimality in a Queue with Admission Control
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, Volume 13, pp. 309---327, 1999.

D. J. Daley, R. D. Foley, and T. Rolski
A note on convergence rates in the strong law for strong mixing sequences
Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Volume 16, pp. 19---28, 1996.

Daryl J. Daley, Robert D. Foley, and Tomasz Rolski
Conditions for finite moments of waiting times in $G/G/1$ queues
Queueing Systems, Volume 17, pp. 89---106, 1994.

R. D. Foley, Georgia-Ann Klutke and Dieter Koenig
Stationary increments of accumulation processes in queues and generalized semi-Markov schemes
Journal of Applied Probabilty, Volume 28, pp. 864---872, 1991.

R. D. Foley and E. H. Frazelle
Analytical Results for Miniload Throughput and the Distribution of Dual Command Travel Times
IIE Transactions, Volume 23, pp. 273---281, 1991.

R. D. Foley, T. Hill and M. C. Spruill
Linear search with bounded resources
Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Volume 38, pp. 555---565, 1991.

R. D. Foley, T. Hill and M. C. Spruill
A generalization of Lévy's concentration-variance inequality
Probability theory and related fields, Volume 86, pp. 53---62, 1990.

R. D. Foley and Georgia-Ann Klutke
Stationary increments in the accumulated work process in processor-sharing queues
Journal of Applied Probability, Volume 26, pp. 671---677, 1989.

Robert D. Foley and Peter C. Kiessler
Positive correlations in a three-node Jackson queueing network
Advances in Applied Probability, Volume 21, pp. 241---242, 1989.

P. C. Kiessler, B. Melamed, M. Yadin and R. D. Foley
Analysis of a three-node queueing network
Queueing Systems, Volume 3, pp. 53---72, 1988.

R. D. Foley and S. Suresh
Avionics Reliability Analysis
Annals of Operations Research, Volume 9, pp. 589---611, 1987.

R. D. Foley and S. Suresh
Scheduling $n$ nonoverlapping jobs and two stochastic jobs in a flow shop
Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Volume 33, pp. 123---128, 1986.

R. D. Foley
Stationary Poisson departure processes from non-stationary queues
Journal of Applied Probability, volume 23, pp. 256---260, 1986.

D.A. Dawson, K. Fleischmann, R.D. Foley & L.A. Peletier
A critical measure-valued branching process with infinite mean
Stochastic Analysis and Applications, Volume 4, pp. 117---129, 1986.

S. Suresh, R. D. Foley and S. Elizabeth Dickey
On Pinedo's conjecture for scheduling in a stochastic flow shop
Operations Research, Volume 33, pp. 1146---1153, 1985.

R. D. Foley and S. Suresh
Minimizing the Expected Flowtime in Stochastic Flow Shops
IIE Transactions, Volume 16, pp. 391---395, 1984.

Chandramohan, Jagadeesh; Foley, R. D.; and Disney, Ralph L.
Thinning of point processes---covariance analyses
Advances in Applied Probability, Volume 17, pp. 127---146, 1985.

R. D. Foley and S. Suresh
Stochastically minimizing the makespan in flow shops
Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Volume 31, pp. 551---557, 1984.

A. L. Soyster, R. D. Foley, and F. H. Murphy
A class of stochastic mathematical programs with correlated scale parameters in the objective and right-hand side
Operations Research, Volume 32, pp. 945---951, 1984.

R. D. Foley and R. L. Disney
Queues with delayed feedback
Advances in Applied Probability, Volume 15, pp. 162---182, 1983.

R. D. Foley and M. Yadin
On the moments of the cumulative idle time in an $M/D/\infty$ queue
Journal of Applied Probability, Volume 20, pp. 445---447, 1983.

R. D. Foley
The nonhomogeneous $M/G/\infty$ queue
Opsearch, Volume 19, pp. 40---48, 1982.

B. Simon and R. D. Foley
Some results on sojourn times in acyclic Jackson networks
Management Science, Volume 25, pp. 1027---1034, 1979.

R. D. Foley
A Coin Tossing Problem (Danny Newman)
SIAM Review, Volume 20, pp. 597---598, 1978.


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