Wednesday, September 5: No Class

Monday, September 10: First Class, 644 Mudd

Wednesday, September 12, and Monday, September 17: Austin Palmer

• Robust Queueing Approximations for non-Markov Closed Queueing Networks

• Notes on CTMC's for IEOR 3106 and 6711. See Chapter 8.

• Lecture notes for September 17.

Wednesday, September 19, and Monday, September 24: Wei You

• A Robust Queueing Network Analyzer Based on Indices of Dispersion

• Lecture notes for September 19 and 24.

Wednesday September 26, and Monday, October 1: Xu Sun

• Delay-Based Service Differentiation with Many Servers and Time-Varying Arrival Rates

• Lecture notes for September 26.

• Lecture notes for October 1

Wednesday October 3 and Monday, October 8: Jinsheng Chen

• The Advantage of a Little Sharing in Multi-Server Service Systems: Heavy-Traffic Limits for M Models (with Jing Dong)

• A Staffing Algorithm for Call Centers with Skill-Based Routing. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), vol. 7, 2005, pp. 276-294 (with Rodney B. Wallace).

Wednesday October 10 : Yue Hu (with Carri Chan and Jing Dong)

• Proactive Healthcare with Degrading Class Types

• Lecture notes for September 26.

Monday October 15 and Wednesday, October 17: Yan Chen

• Extremal GI/GI/1 Queues Given Two Moments

• Extremal GI/GI/1 Queues Given Two Moments Operations Research, under review.

• Algorithms for the Upper Bound Mean Waiting Time in the GI/GI/1 Queue INFORMS Journal on Computing.

Monday October 22: NO CLASS, available for private meetings

Wednesday October 24: Xu Sun and Wei You, INFORMS talks

• Optimal Battery Purchasing and Charging at an Electric Vehicle Battery Swap Station, by Bo Sun, Xu Sun, Danny Tsang and Ward Whitt.

• A Robust Queueing Network Analyzer Based on Indices of Dispersion

Monday October 29: Xiaopei Zhang and Yue Hu, INFORMS talks

• Predicting Future Arrivals and Occupancy Levels in an Emergency Department, Xiaopei Zhang

• Optimal Control of Polling Systems with large Switchover Times, Yue Hu in joint work with Jing Dong and Ohad Perry

Wednesday, October 31: NO CLASS, available for private meetings

Monday November 5 and Wednesday, November 7: No meetings: INFORMS annual meeting in Phoenix

TWO WEEKS, Monday November 12 through Wednesday, November 21: NO CLASS, available for private meetings

Monday November 26 and Wednesday, November 28: Ni Ma and Austin Palmer

Monday, November 26: Ni Ma, Preparation for Thesis Defense

• A Rare-Event Simulation Algorithm for Periodic Single-Server Queues INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 30, No. 1, Winter 2018, pp. 71-89.

• Minimizing the Maximum Expected Waiting Time in a Periodic Single-Server Queue with a Service-Rate Control, Stochastic Systems, forthcoming.

• Efficient Simulation of Non-Poisson Non-Stationary Point Processes to Study Queueing Approximations, Statistics and Probability Letters, vol. 102, 2016, pp. 202-207.

• Using Simulation to Study Service-Rate Controls to Stabilize Performance in a Single-Server Queue with Time-Varying Arrival Rate , Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, Huntington Beach, CA, December 6-9, 2015, L. Yilmaz, W. K. V. Chan, I. Moon, T. M. K. Roeder, C. Macal, and M. D. Rossetti, eds

Wednesday, November 28: Austin Palmer: More on Robust Queueing for Closed Queueing Networks

Monday, December 3 and Wednesday, December 5: Jacob Bergquist and Yue Hu

• paper

• paper

Monday, December 10, and Wednesday, December 12

Monday, December 10: (Last Day of Classes)