Books and Book Chapters

Ph.D. Dissertation

Stochastic Optimization with Applications to Discrete Event Systems.
Department of Operations Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1990.

Book

Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference.
Available in hard-copy format, on CD-ROM, and on the internet.
Edited by S. Andradóttir, K. J. Healy, D. H. Withers, and B. L. Nelson, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1997.

Book Chapters

• Simulation Optimization. Handbook of Simulation: Principles, Methodology, Advances, Applications, and Practice (edited by J. Banks), Chapter 9, 307-333, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1998.
• An Overview of Simulation Optimization via Random Search. Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science: Volume 13, Simulation (edited by S. G. Henderson and B. L. Nelson), Chapter 20, 617-631, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2006.
• Partial Pooling in Tandem Lines with Cooperation and Blocking (with Nilay Tanik Argon). Workforce Cross Training (edited by D. A. Nemhard), Chapter 9, 241-277, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2007. Most of the material in this book chapter was published originally in Queueing Systems (2006).
• A Review of Random Search Methods. Invited contribution to the Handbook on Simulation Optimization, edited by Michael C. Fu.