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1.) “Examining Costs in Solid Waste Disposal,” Public Works, October 1967.

2.) “A System Approach to Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Problems in India,” Advancing Frontiers in Operational Research, Hindustan Publishing Corporation, India, 1969.

3.) “Randomized Binary Search Techniques,” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 12, No. 2, February 1969. 

4.) “The Sequencing Problem,” Management Science, December 1969.

5.) “Acquisition of Library Materials-A Quantitative Approach, ”Proceedings of the American Society for Information Sciences, Vol. 6, October 1969.

6.) “Computer-Maker Upgrades Inventory System,” Journal of Industrial Engineering, June 1969.

7.) “A Note on Optimal Maintenance Policy and Sale Date of a Machine,” Management Science, Vol. 17, No. 3, November 1970.

8.) “A Multi-Stage E.O.Q. Model,” Proceedings of the American Institute of Industrial Engineering, May 1970.

9.) “Optimal Sizing of a Multi-Level Memory System,” Proceedings SIAM Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, October 1970.

10.) “Optimal Capacity Decisions for Production Facilities,” AIIE Transactions, December 1970.

11.) “Note on the Linear Decision Rule,” Journal of Water Resources Research, December 1970.

12.) “The Optimal Organization of Multi-Programmed Multi-Level Memory,” Proceedings of the ACM-SIGOPS Workshop on Systems Performance Evaluation, April 1971.

13.) “DRUM Queuing Model,” Proceedings AFIPS-Spring Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 28, May 1971.

14.) “Optimal Sizing, Loading, and Reloading in a Multi-Level Memory Hierarchy Systems,” Proceedings of the AFIPS-Spring Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 38, May 1971.

15.) “Optimal Capacities for a Multi-Reservoir System Using the Linear Decision Rule,” Journal of Water Resources Research, Vol. 7, No. 3, June 1971.

16.) “Recycling of Paper Products,” Proceedings of the Fifth Mid-Atlantic Industrial Waster Conference, November 1971.

17.) “Statistical Quantification of Instruction and Operant Traces,” Proceedings of the Conference on Statistical Method for the Evaluation of Computer Systems Performance, November 1971.

18.) “Cyclic Queuing Model to Measure Computer Performance in Multi-Programming Environment,” Proceedings ACM-MAC Conference, Boston, MA, May 1971.

19.) “Integrated Approach Eliminates Waste,” Hospitals and Environments, Vol. 46, October 1972.

20.) “Statistical Quantification of Instruction and Operant Traces,” Statistical Computer Performance Evaluation, Edited by W. Freyberger, Academic Press, New York, NY, 1972, pp. 227-240.

21.) “Optimization of Static Loading and Sizing of Multi-Level Memory Systems,” Journal of ACM, April 1973.

22.) “Study of Inter-Relationships Between Transport Activities and G.N.P. for Various Countries,” Proceedings of IFAC/IFORS, Symposium held in Algeria, May 1973, Sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control and International Federation of Operations Research Societies (IFAC and IFORS).

23.) “Optimal Design Concepts for Hospital Solid Waste Handling Systems,” Proceedings Third Annual Environment Engineering and Science Conference, Louisville, KY, March 1973.

24.) “Study of Economics of Hospital Solid Waste Systems,” Report Issued by the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, January 1973, under the Research Grant Number EP-0048-02 from the Solid Waste Research Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

25.) “Capacity Decisions in Multi-Purpose Reservoir System,” WaterResources Research, Vol. 9, No. 5, October 1973.

26.) “Identification and Estimation of Parameters of Trip Density for an Urban Area,” Proceedings International Conference on Systems and Controls, India, August-September 1973.

27.) “Predicting Cities of Tomorrow,” Proceedings International Symposium in Applications of Computer and Operations Research Problems of World Concern, organized by U.S. Office of Naval Research, Washington,D.C., August 1973.

28.) “Linear Decision Rule-A Note on Control Volume Being Constant,” Vol.10, No. 4, August 1974.

29.) “Optimization of Parameters in a Virtual Memory System,” Proceedings 1975 National Computer Conference, Anaheim, CA, May 1975.

30.) “Configurational Optimization in the Design of Computer Systems,” Proceedings Second USA/Japan Computer, June 1975.

31.) “The Synthesis of Multi-Communication Nets-Findings One or All, Solutions,” IIE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 23, No. 3, March 1976.

32.) “Optimal Design of Single Reservoir System Using 8 Release Policy,” Water Resources Research, Vol. 12, No. 4, August 1976.

33.) “Multi-Terminal Truck Dispatching Problem with Pickup and Delivery Points,” Paper presented at CORS-TIMS-ORSA Joint National Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 1981.

34.) “Algorithm for Dispatching Trucks for a Common Carrier Truck Company,” Proceedings of Fourth and First International Conference for Computers and Industrial Engineering, Orlando, FL, March 1982.

35.) “An Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Pickup and Delivery Customers,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 22, 1985.

36.) “Tax Increment Financing–Some Key Issues,” Midwestern Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1987.

37.) “Heuristic Decision Framework for Upgrading Highway Weight Limits,” Transportation Research Record 1156, 1987.

38.) “A Heuristic Approach to Managing Multi-Item Common Vendo Inventory Problem,” Submitted to The Journal of Operational Research Quarterly.

39.) “Customer Service Effects in Parts Distribution System Design,” Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1990.

40.) “Optimal Ordering Policy for a Multi-Item Single Supplier System with Constant Demand Rates,” The Journal of Operational Research Society, Vol. 41, No. 4, 1990.

41.) “EDI a Significant Valid Step Towards Achieving JIT,” EDI Forum-The Journal for Data Interchange, Vol. 3, 1990.

42.) “Classification and Coding Problems in Implementing Group Technology,” Management Memo, Vol. 22, January 1990. Page 8

43.) “A Formulation of Diagnostic System for Fault Localization,” Submitted to Journal of Artificial Intelligence.

44.) “Knowledge Bases as a Tool for Improving Manufacturing Operations,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Expert Systems in Production and Operations Management, SC, May 1990, Co-author Charu Chandra.

45.) “Information Technologies as Tools for Upgrading the Manufacturing Sector,” Proceedings of the North Central Deming Management Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 1990, Co-author Shen Hongru.

46.) “Customer Service Effects in Parts Distribution Systems Design,” International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1990, Co-author Sameer Kumar.

47.) “Intelligent Diagnosis for Continuous Improvements of Productivity and Quality,” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Productivity Research, Miami, FL, February 1991, Co-author Shen Hongru.

48.) “Some Essential Ingredients of a Continuous Improvement Program,” Proceedings of the Second Annual North Central Deming Management Forum Continual Improvement Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 1991, Co-author Shen Hongru.

49.) “Development of Internal Audit and Cycle Counting Procedures for Reducing Inventory Miscounts,” International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1992, Co-author Sameer Kumar.

50.) “Upgrading Product and Process Design Development Tools,” ASQC Annual Transactions, May 1992, Co-author Shen Hongru.

51.) “Quality Improvements in Newspaper Publishing Operations following Deming's Principles,” Proceedings of the Third Annual North Central Deming Management Forum Continual Improvement Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 1992, pp. 210-221, Co-author Sameer Kumar.

52.) “Effect of Inventory Miscount and Effect of Ignoring Lead Time Variability on Inventory System Performance,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 24, No. 2, May 1992, Co-author Sameer Kumar.

53.) “Role of Flow Sensors in Reducing Waster Newspaper,” Omega International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 20, No. 5 & 6, May 1993, Co-author Sameer Kumar.

54.) “Designing Bank Warning System Based on Logit Model Fitted to Multi- Period Performance Data,” Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of Midwest SAS Users Group, Indianapolis, IN, September 1993.

55.) “Implementing TQM in Newspaper Publishing,” The Journal of Quality Assurance, UK Quality World, Technical Supplement, March 1994, pp. 21-27, Co-author Sameer Kumar.

56.) “Improved Man Power Utilization in Live-run Shift of Printing Operations for Forecasting the Size of a Daily Newspaper,” IIE Transactions, March 1994, pp. 62-75, Co-author Sameer Kumar.

57.) “A Model for Risk Classification of Banks,” The International Journal of Research and Progress in Management, Vol. 16, March-April 1995, pp. 145-165, Co-author Sameer Kumar.

58.) “Efficient Workforce Scheduling for a Serial Processing Equipment: A Case Study at Minneapolis Star Tribune,” Omega Journal of Management Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 1, December 1998, pp. 115-25, Co-author Sameer Kumar.

59.) “Re-engineering: Focus Towards Enterprise Integration,” accepted by Interfaces, Vol 30, No 5, September-October 2000, pp. 54-71.

60) “Variable-Rate Variable-Power Non-Coherent M-FSK Scheme for Power Limited Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6(6), P. 1306-1312, June 2006, co-authors F.F. Digham, M. Slim Alouini.

61) “Allocation of transmission charges for real-power transactions using Markov chains,” IET Generation, Transmission, Distribution, 2007, Vol. 1,(4). Pp. 655-66, E Bustamante-Cedeno and S.Arora

62) “Stochastic and minimum regret formulations for transmission network expansion planning under uncertainties,” Journal of Operational Research Society advance online publication, 2007, pp 1-10