Published Papers:
- R. Randhawa and S. Kumar: “Multi-Server Loss
Systems with Subscribers,” forthcoming in Mathematics of Operations Research, 2008.
- A. Bassamboo, S. Kumar and R. Randhawa: “Dynamics
of New Product Introduction in Closed Rental Systems,” forthcoming in Operations
Research, 2008.
- R. Randhawa and S. Kumar: “Usage
Restriction and Subscription Services: Operational Benefits with Rational
Customers,” forthcoming in Manufacturing and Service Operations
Management, 2008.
- A. Ward and S. Kumar: “Asymptotically Optimal Admission
Control of a Queue with Impatient Customers,” Mathematics of Operations
Research, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 167–202, 2008.
- G. Shrimali and S. Kumar: “Bill-and-Keep Peering,” Telecommunications
Policy, vol. 32, pp. 19–32, 2008.
- S. Kumar and L. Massoulie: “Integrating Streaming and
File-transfer Internet Traffic: Fluid and Diffusion Approximations,” Queueing Systems, vol. 55, no. 4, pp.
195-205, 2007.
- J. Bendor, S. Kumar and D. A. Siegel. “Rational Parties
and Retrospective Voters,” forthcoming in Topics in Analytical
Political Economy, edited by William Barnett and Melvin J. Hinich, Vol. 15, Oxford, UK: Elsevier. 2006.
- K. Muthuraman and S. Kumar: “Multidimensional Portfolio
Optimization with Proportional Transaction Costs,” Mathematical Finance,
16(2), pp.301-335, 2006.
- B. Ata and S. Kumar: " Heavy Traffic Analysis of
Open Processing Networks with Complete Resource Pooling: Asymptotic
Optimality of Discrete Review Policies," Annals of Applied
Probability, 15(1A), pp.331-391, 2005.
- J. Bendor and S. Kumar: "The perfect is the enemy
of the good: Adaptive versus optimal organizational reliability." Journal
of Theoretical Politics, 17(1), pp.5-39, 2005.
- S. Kumar and M. Muthuraman: " A
Numerical Method for Solving Singular Stochastic Control
Problems," Operations Research, 52(4), pp.563-582, 2004.
- A. Parlakturk and S. Kumar:
" Self-Interested Routing in Queueing
Networks," Management Science, Vol. 50, No. 7, pp. 949-967,
July 2004.
- S. Kumar and J. Swaminathan: "Diffusion of
Innovations under Supply Constraints," Operations Research,
51(6), pp. 866-879, 2003.
- E. Plambeck, S. Kumar and J. M. Harrison: "A
Multiclass Queue in Heavy Traffic with Throughput Time Constraints:
Asymptotically Optimal Dynamic Controls," Queueing
Systems, 39, pp. 23-54, 2001.
- S. Kumar and P.R. Kumar: "Queueing
Network Models in the Design and Analysis of Semiconductor Wafer Fabs," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and
Automation, 17(5), pp.548-561, 2001.
- S. Kumar: "Two-server closed networks in heavy
traffic: diffusion limits and asymptotic optimality," Annals of
Applied Probability, 10(3), pp. 930-961, 2000.
- P.R. Kumar and S. Kumar: "Semiconductor
Manufacturing Scheduling," Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical
Engineering, pp.110-119, 1999.
- S. Kumar, R. Srikant, and P.R. Kumar: "Bounding
blocking probabilities and throughput in queueing
networks with buffer capacity constraints," Queueing
Systems, 28, pp.55-77, 1998.
- S. Kumar and P.R. Kumar: "Closed queueing networks in heavy traffic: fluid limits and
efficiency," in Stochastic Networks, Eds. P. Glasserman, K.
Sigman, and D. Yao, Springer Lecture Notes in Statistics 117, 1996.
- S. Kumar and P.R. Kumar: "Fluctuation smoothing
policies are stable for stochastic reentrant lines," Discrete
Event Dynamic Systems, 6, pp.361-370, 1996.
- S. Kumar and P.R. Kumar: "Performance bounds for queueing networks and scheduling policies," IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, 39(8), pp. 1600-1611, 1994.
- M. Desai, S. Kumar, and P.R. Kumar:
"Quasi-statically cooled Markov chains," Probability in the
Engineering and Informational Sciences, 8, pp. 1-19, 1994.
- V. Borkar and S. Kumar: "On extremal
solutions to nonlinear filtering equations," SIAM J. Control and
Optimization, 33(3), pp. 718-724, 1995.