Conference Proceedings Publications

• A New Algorithm for Stochastic Optimization. Proceedings of the 1990 Winter Simulation Conference, 1990, 364-366.
• A Projected Stochastic Approximation Algorithm. Proceedings of the 1991 Winter Simulation Conference, 1991, 954-957.
• Discrete Optimization in Simulation: A Method and Applications. Proceedings of the 1992 Winter Simulation Conference, 1992, 483-486.
• An Empirical Comparison of Stochastic Approximation Methods for Simulation Optimization (with Gul Gurkan). Proceedings of the First Industrial Engineering Research Conference, 1992, 471-475.
• Smoothing Methods for Variance Reduction in Simulation of Markov Chains (with Daniel P. Heyman and Teunis J. Ott). Proceedings of the 1992 Winter Simulation Conference, 1992, 453-457.
• Unconstrained Optimization in Discrete Event Simulation. Proceedings of the 1994 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, 1994, 229-230.
• Increasing the Frequency of Regeneration for Markov Processes (with James M. Calvin and Peter W. Glynn). Proceedings of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference, 1994, 320-323.
• Optimization and Variance Reduction in Discrete Event Simulation. Proceedings of the 1995 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, 1995, 167-168.
• A New Search Algorithm for Discrete Stochastic Optimization (with Mahmoud H. Alrefaei). Proceedings of the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, 1995, 236-241.
• Analysis of Stochastic Systems through Efficient Simulation. Proceedings of the 1996 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, 1996, 483-484.
• Parallel Simulation by Time Segmentation: Methodology and Applications (with Mehdi Hoseyni-Nasab). Proceedings of the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference, 1996, 376-381.
• Discrete Stochastic Optimization Via a Modification of the Stochastic Ruler Method (with Mahmoud H. Alrefaei). Proceedings of the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference, 1996, 406--411.
• Optimization and Analysis of Discrete Event Systems. Proceedings of the 1997 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, 1997, 431-432.
• Efficiency of Time Segmentation Parallel Simulation of Queueing Networks as a Function of the Size of the Network (with Mehdi Hoseyni-Nasab). Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference, 1997, 181-186.
• Accelerating the Convergence of the Stochastic Ruler Method for Discrete Stochastic Optimization (with Mahmoud H. Alrefaei). Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference, 1997, 352-357.
• A Review of Simulation Optimization Techniques. Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference, 1998, 151-158.
• Time Segmentation Parallel Simulation of Tandem Queues with Manufacturing Blocking (with Mehdi Hoseyni-Nasab). Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference, 1998, 1487-1492.
• Time-Segmentation Parallel Simulation of Queueing Systems. Proceedings of the 1999 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, 1999.
• Integrating Optimization and Simulation: Research and Practice (with Michael C. Fu, John S. Carson, Fred Glover, Charles R. Harrell, Yu-Chi Ho, James P. Kelly, and Stephen M. Robinson). Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, 2000, 610-616.
• Maximizing the Throughput of Finite Queues in Tandem Using Cross-Trained Servers (with Hayriye Ayhan and Douglas G. Down). Proceedings of the 2001 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2001.
• Variance Estimation Using Replicated Batch Means (with Nilay Tanik Argon). Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference, 2001, 338-343.
• An Overview of the Time Segmentation Parallel Simulation Method. Proceedings of the 2002 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2002.
• A Framework for Effective Optimization via Simulation (with Barry L. Nelson). Proceedings of the 2003 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2003.
• Dynamic Allocation of Servers to Tasks for Queueing Systems with Infinite Buffers (with Hayriye Ayhan and Douglas G. Down). Proceedings of the 2003 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2003.
• Selection Error Control and Statistical Inference for Simulation Optimization (with Barry L. Nelson). Proceedings of the 2004 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2004.
• Server Assignment Policies for Queueing Systems with Two Stations in Tandem (with Hayriye Ayhan). Proceedings of the 2004 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2004.
• Simulation Optimization Using Balanced Explorative and Exploitative Search (with Andrei A. Prudius). Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, 2004, 545-549.
• Algorithms for Effective Optimization via Simulation (with Barry L. Nelson). Proceedings of the 2005 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2005.
• Partial Pooling for Improving the Performance of Tandem Queues (with Nilay Tanik Argon). Proceedings of the 2005 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2005.
• GOALI: Efficient Simulation Techniques for Comparing Constrained Systems (with Seong-Hee Kim, Bob Diamond, and David Goldsman). Proceedings of the 2005 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2005.
• Finding the Best in the Presence of a Stochastic Constraint (with David Goldsman and Seong-Hee Kim). Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, 2005, 732-738.
• Analysis Methodology: Are We Done? (with David Goldsman, Bruce W. Schmeiser, Lee W. Schruben, and Enver Yucesan). Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, 2005, 790-796.
• Two Simulated Annealing Algorithms for Noisy Objective Functions (with Andrei A. Prudius). Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, 2005, 797-802.
• Effective Optimization via Simulation: Algorithms, Convergence, and Statistical Guarantees (with Barry L. Nelson). Proceedings of the 2006 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2006.
• Statistical Selection Procedures for Finding the Best in the Presence of a Stochastic Constraint (with Seong-Hee Kim, Bob Diamond, and David Goldsman). Proceedings of the 2006 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, 2006.
• Replicated Batch Means for Steady-state Simulations with Initial Transients (with Christos Alexopoulos, Nilay Tanik Argon, and David Goldsman). Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, 2007, 308-312.
• Improving Efficiency of Selection Procedures (with Bob Diamond, David Goldsman, and Seong-Hee Kim). Proceedings of the 2008 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, 2008.
• A Minimal Switching Procedure for Constrained Ranking and Selection (with Christopher M. Healey and Seong-Hee Kim). Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, 2010, 1145-1151.
• Simulation of Strategies for Containing Pandemic Influenza (with Wenchi Chiu, David M. Goldsman, Mi Lim Lee, Kwok-Leung Tsui, Beate Sander, David N. Fisman, and Azhar Nizam). Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, 2010, 2221-2229.
• Effective Flexibility Structures for Production and Service Systems (with Hayriye Ayhan and Douglas G. Down). Proceedings of the 2011 NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, 2011.