SURESH P. SETHI

Eugene McDermott Chair of Operations Management

Director, Center of Intelligent Supply Networks (C4iSN)

Naveen Jindal School of Management, Mail Station SM30

The University of Texas at Dallas

800 W. Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX 75080-3021

Phone 972-***-**** Fax 972-***-****

Email: abqnja@r.postjobfree.com Homepage: http://www.utdallas.edu/~sethi

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suresh_P._Sethi

I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

a. Education Degree Date

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (1969-1971) Ph.D. 5/15/1972

Graduate School of Industrial Administration M.S.I.A. 5/17/1971

Major: Operations Research; Minor: Industrial Administration

Dissertation: Applications of Optimal Control Theory in Management Science and Economics

Cumulative GPA 4.0/4.0

Washington State University, Pullman, WA (1967-1969) M.B.A. 6/8/1969

School of Business Administration

Major: Production Management

Cumulative GPA 4.0/4.0

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (1962-1967) B. Tech. 8/24/1967

Major: Mechanical Engineering; Minor: Industrial Engineering

Graduated with Honors

b. Honors and Awards

2012 President, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), a leading international

society in the area with over 2000 members.

INFORMS Financial Services Section Best Student Research Paper Award (Second Place),

at the 2012 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ (October 14-17)

2011 President Elect, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)

2009 Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Citation: For contributions in optimal control applied to the management sciences and economics.

Best Paper Award at the 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in

Manufacturing, Moscow, Russia (June 3-5)

2008 Outstanding Student Paper Award Nominating Professor, Portland International Center for

Management of Engineering and Technology 2008 Conference(PICMET), Cape Town, South

Africa (July 27-31)

Citation: PICMET is pleased to award this certificate to Professor Suresh Sethi in recognition of

outstanding student mentoring for the paper Cooperative Advertising and Pricing in a Dynamic

Stochastic Supply Chain: Feedback Stackelberg Strategies by Xiuli He.

Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Citation: Presented to Dr. Suresh Pal Sethi in recognition of his extraordinary accomplishments

in Optimal Control Theory and its Applications in Operations Research and Management

Science. (March 10)

2006 International Conference on Management Sciences: Optimization Models and Applications

in Honor of Professor Suresh Sethi, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (May 20-22)

Stochastic Processes, Optimization, and Control Theory: Applications in Financial Engineering,

Queueing Networks, and Manufacturing Systems/ A Volume in Honor of Suresh Sethi; Series:

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International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Vol. 94, H. Yan, G. Yin,

and Q. Zhang (Eds.), Springer, 2006. (360 pages ISBN: 978-0-387-33770-8)

2005 Fellow, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games: Workshop in Honor of Suresh Sethi, Aix en

Provence, France, (June 2-6) resulting in publication of Optimal Control and Dynamic Games,

Applications in Finance, Management Science and Economics, Series: Advances in

Computational Management Science, Vol. 7, C. Deissenberg and R.F. Hartl (Eds.), Springer,

Netherlands, 2005. (344 pages ISBN: 978-0-387-25804-1)

Wickham-Skinner Best Paper Award at The 2nd World Conference on POM, 15th Annual

2004

Production and Operations Management Conference, Cancun, Mexico, (April 30 May 3)

2003 Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Citation: Suresh Sethi is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management at the

University of Texas at Dallas. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Intelligent Supply

Networks, and has founded doctoral programs in Operations Management, both at the University

of Texas at Dallas and at the University of Toronto. He is an important contributor in the fields

of operations management, finance, marketing, industrial engineering, operations research, and

optimal control.

Dr. Sethi is a very prolific researcher, with some three hundred published papers. In addition, he

has authored and co-authored several books. One of these, co-authored with Gerald Thompson,

the textbook Optimal Control Theory; Applications to Management Science and Economics is

particularly important.

Dr. Sethi has chaired, co-chaired, or cluster chaired at many TIMS/ORSA/INFORMS meetings.

Most recently, he was the Cluster Co-Chair for the Stochastic Models Area for INFORMS

Istanbul. He was also a member of the INFORMS 2000 Colloquium in San Antonio. In addition

to chairing meetings, Dr. Sethi has also served in an editorial capacity, as associate editor of

Operations Research from 1994-1996. He became Senior Editor of Manufacturing & Service

Operations Management in 2001.

Dr. Sethi has been honored by his selection in 1994 as Fellow of The Academies of Arts,

Humanities and Sciences of Canada, and as Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences in

1999. Last year, he was named IEEE Fellow for extraordinary accomplishments in optimal

control."

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Citation: For distinguished contributions to hierarchical decisions in manufacturing,

investment/consumption problems with bankruptcy, forecast horizons in dynamic optimization,

and optimal control applications to management problems.

2002 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Citation: For contributions to control and optimization of management and economic systems.

2001 Outstanding Contribution in Education Award, Greater Dallas Indo-

American Chamber of Commerce

Senior Member, Operational Research Society of India (ORSI)

First listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World

First listed in Marquis Who's Who in the America

Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute

2000

1999 Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences

Citation: "Dr. Sethi has made fundamental contributions in a variety of research areas. He has

published more than 250 research papers applying quantitative methods to the fields of

manufacturing and operations management, finance and economics, marketing, and optimization

theory. Several of his books are considered international classics in their fields, including

Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and Hierarchical Decision-making

in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems. His most recent book, Optimal Consumption and

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Investment with Bankruptcy, has a foreword by Nobel prize-winner in Economics, Harry

Markowitz, who places Dr. Sethi 'among the leaders in financial theory,' a field that Dr. Sethi

actually considers only a side interest.

Dr. Sethi is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has held distinguished visiting positions

in Canada, France, New Zealand, and China. He received a doctorate in Operations Research

from Carnegie Mellon University in 1972 after completing engineering studies in Bombay,

India."

1998 C.Y.O Connor Fellow, Curtin University, Perth, Australia (June-July)

1997 First listed in Canadian Who's Who, University of Toronto Press

Honorary Professor, Patel Institute of Management and Information Technology, Bishanpura,

Sector-58, Noida-201301, India.

1996 Award of Merit of Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS)

Citation: Suresh P. Sethi is Professor of Operations Management and Director of the Laboratory

for Manufacturing Research in the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto. He has a B.

Tech. (Hons.) from IIT Bombay, an MBA from Washington State and MSIA and Ph.D. degrees

from Carnegie Mellon. He joined U. of T. in 1973 as an Assistant Professor. Five years later, at

the age of 32, he was promoted to full Professor, and in 1994 he became a Fellow of the Royal

Society of Canada. Professor Sethi has made fundamental contributions in a variety of research

areas such as management applications of optimal control theory, decision and forecast horizons

in dynamic optimization problems, optimal consumption/investment problems, scheduling and

computational complexity, and hierarchical decision making in stochastic manufacturing systems.

His publications include over 200 scholarly articles in a variety of fields and journals, of which

over 40 are in operational research, as well as two books.

In summary, Professor Sethi is one of our most distinguished members. The breadth and depth of

his work form a remarkable combination richly deserving of recognition by a CORS Award of

Merit.

Honorary Professor, Zhejiang Univ. of Technology, Hangzhou, China

1995 Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

1994 Fellow, The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (FRSC) - (also known as

the Royal Society of Canada)

Citation: Suresh Sethi is internationally recognized for his work in operations research/operations

management. He has led the development and use of optimal control theory to resolve important

issues in production, finance and marketing. He has made fundamental contributions to the field

of decision and forecast horizons in dynamic optimization, and his recent work on the

development of the theory of hierarchical controls in stochastic manufacturing systems is path

breaking. His publications include over 120 articles in leading academic journals.

1992 Best Paper Award at POM-92 (second prize), The 3rd Annual Meeting of Production and

Operations Management Society, Orlando, FL

Citation: Presented to S. Sethi, M. Taksar, and Q. Zhang for their paper Capacity and Production

Decisions in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems; An Asymptotic Optimal Hierarchical Approach,

which develops a new paradigm for linking the strategic capacity decision and operational

decisions.

1991 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, (Feb. March)

1990 Full Member, Operations Research Society of America (ORSA)

1984-85 Connaught Senior Research Fellow, University of Toronto

1971 Phi Kappa Phi (National Honor Society in all fields)

1969 Beta Gamma Sigma (National Honor Society in Business Administration)

1969-72 GSIA and Mellon Fellowships

1967-69 Teaching Assistantships

1961-67 Merit Scholarships

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II. TEACHING INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE

a. Teaching Interests

Supply Chain Management

Optimal Control Theory and Applications

Management Science/Operations Research

b. Teaching Experience

2011-present Eugene McDermott Professor of Operations Management, Naveen Jindal School of

Management, University of Texas at Dallas

2006-2011 Charles & Nancy Davidson Distinguished Professor, School of Management,

University of Texas at Dallas

1997-2006 Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management, School of Management,

University of Texas at Dallas

1992-1997 Professor of Operations Management/Director of Laboratory for Manufacturing

Research, University of Toronto

1988-1992 General Motors Research Professor of Operations Management, Faculty of

Management, University of Toronto

1978-1988 Professor of Operations Management, Faculty of Mgmt., Univ. of Toronto

1974-1977 Associate Professor (with Tenure), Faculty of Management, Univ. of Toronto

1973-1974 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mgmt., Univ. of Toronto

1977-1978 Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Industrial Administration,

(Spring/Summer) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

1972-1973 Assistant Professor of Management Science, Department of Economics and

Accounting, Rice University, Houston, TX

1969-1970 Instructor in Finance, Administration and Management Science Program,

(2 semesters) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

1969 (Spring) Instructor in Statistics, School of Economics and Business,

Washington State University, Pullman, WA

c. Graduate Courses Taught (1997-present)

MAS8V25 Research Seminar on Optimal Control Applications

OPRE6363 Inventory Control

OPRE7320 Optimal Control Theory

OPRE7351 Seminar in Operations Management

d. Research Experience

June, 2005 Visiting Professor, GREQAM, University of de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France

June-July, 2003 Visiting Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

June-July, 2002 Visiting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration,

Helsinki, Finland

July, 2001 Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University

of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

June-July, 2000 Visiting Professor, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

June, 1999 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Production Mgmt., Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

June-July, 1998 Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

July, 1997 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Systems Engineering, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

April, 1996 Guest Professor, Dept. of Production Mgmt., University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

May/June, 1995 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dept. of Systems Engineering Chinese University

of Hong Kong

April-June, 1994 Municipal Chair Professor, University of Lyon, Lyon, France

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Feb-March, 1991 Erskine Fellow, Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

April-June, 1987 On Sabbatical Leave, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en

Automatique, Nancy, France

1984-1985 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Australian National University,

Canberra, Australia; Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics (Research),

Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown Univ., Providence, RI

1981, 1984 Guest Professor, Institute of Operations Research, Technical University,

(Summers) Vienna, Austria

1979-1980 On Sabbatical Leave, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna,

Austria; Science Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany; University of Arizona, Tucson,

Arizona; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

Aug. 1978 Visiting Mathematician, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

June-July, 1977 Research Collaborator, Applied Mathematics (Research in Large Scale Systems ),

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

Aug. 1974 Special Summer Program in Strategic Planning in Energy Sector, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Jan-July, 1972 Research Associate, Dept. of Operations Research, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

e. Work Experience

Summer 1970 Financial Analyst, Weyerhaeuser Company, Tacoma, Washington

Summer 1969 Financial Analyst, Weyerhaeuser Company, Tacoma, Washington

Summer 1968 Quality Control Analyst, Omark Industries, Portland, Oregon

Summer 1966 Engineer Trainee, Hindustan Motors, Calcutta, India

Summer 1965 Engineer Trainee, Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai, India

III. RESEARCH INTERESTS AND PUBLICATIONS

a. Current and Future Research Interests

Supply Chain Management; Partially Observed Inventory Models; Hierarchical Decisions in Dynamic

Stochastic Manufacturing Systems; Dynamic and Stochastic Advertising Models; Optimal Pricing,

Development and Maintenance of Software; Decision, Forecast, and Rolling Horizons in Dynamic

Optimization Problems; Scheduling and Sequencing of Robotic Cells; Mathematical Finance;

Genuine Savings and Value of Population

b. Books and Monographs (published)

1. Sethi, S.P. and Thompson, G.L., Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science,

Martinus Nijhoff, Boston, 1981 (481 pages); reviewed by D. Luenberger in Interfaces, June 1982; R.

Neck in European Journal of Operational Research, Sept. 1982, W. Davis in J.A.S.A., Sept.1984; R.

Vickson in INFOR, May 1985, and others.

2. Sethi, S.P. and Thompson, G.L., Solutions Manual for Optimal Control Theory: Applications to

Management Science, Martinus Nijhoff, Boston, 1981 (135 pages).

3. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems, in

series Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications, Birkh user Boston, Cambridge, MA,

1994 (419 pages ISBN 0-8176-3755-4); reviews in Mathematical Reviews, 1995; Short Book

Reviews, Aug. 1995; Control Engineering Practice, Aug. 1995; J. of Economic Literature, Sept.

1995; Computing Reviews, Nov. 1995; Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications,

July 1996; Interfaces, July-Aug. 1996; Optimization, 1996; IEEE-AC, June 1997, Journal of

Economic Dynamics & Control, Vol. 21, 1997, and others.

4. Sethi, S.P., Optimal Consumption and Investment with Bankruptcy, (with a Foreword by Harry M.

Markowitz, 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1997.

(428 pages ISBN 0-7923-9755-X)

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5. Sethi, S.P. and Thompson, G.L., Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and

Economics, Second Edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2000 (505 pages ISBN 0-7923-

8608-6); reviewed by C. Gaimon in Interfaces, November-December 2002.

6. Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Average-Cost Control of Stochastic Manufacturing Systems, in

series: Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability, Springer, New York, NY, 2005.(345 pages -

ISBN 0-387-21947-1)

7. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., and Zhang, H., Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Forecast

Updates, in series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Springer,

New York, NY, 2005. (310 pages ISBN 1-4020-8123-5)

8. Dawande, M.W., Geismar, H.N., Sethi, S.P., and Sriskandarajah, C., Throughput Optimization in

Robotic Cells, in series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science,

Springer, New York, NY, 2007. (430 pages ISBN 978-0-387-70987-1); reviewed by B. Lev in

Interfaces, Jan.-Feb. 2009.

9. Beyer, D., Cheng, F., Sethi, S.P., and Taksar, M.I., Markovian Demand Inventory Models, in series:

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, Springer, New York, NY,

2010. (253 pages ISBN 978-0-387-71603-9)

10. Bogataj, M., Ros-McDonnell, L., and Sethi, S.P., Industrial Engineering: Innovative Networks,

Annals of Industrial Engineering 2011, Springer, New York, NY, 2012. (396 pages ISBN 978-1-

4471-2320-0)

c. Books and Monographs (forthcoming)

1. Sethi, S.P. and Thompson, G.L., Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and

Economics, Third Edition, Springer.

2. Sethi, S.P. and Thompson, G.L., Solution Manual for Optimal Control Theory: Applications to

Management Science and Economics, Third Edition, Springer.

3. Prasad, A. and Sethi, S.P., Dynamic Advertising, Springer.

4. Bensoussan, A. akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., Inventory Control with Partial Observations,

SIAM.

d. Professional Journal Articles - Categorized in four areas:

i) Operations Management

ii) Finance and Economics

iii) Marketing

iv) Optimization Theory and Miscellaneous Applications

i) Operations Management

1. Li, T. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, J., "Supply Diversification with Responsive Pricing," Production and

Operations Management, 2012, forthcoming.

2. Bardhan, A.K., Dawande, M., Gavirneni, S., Mu, Y., and Sethi, S.P., Forecast and Rolling

Horizons under Demand Substitution and Production Changeovers: Analysis and Insights, IIE

Transactions, 2012, forthcoming.

3. Alsuwinea, A., Benkherouf, L., and Sethi, S.P., Optimal Batch Ordering over a Finite Horizon,

International Journal of Operational Research, 2012, forthcoming.

4. Haruvy, E., Li, T., and Sethi, S.P., Two-Stage Pricing for Custom-Made Products, European

Journal of Operational Research, 2012, forthcoming.

5. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., Li, M., and Sethi, S.P., Optimal Inventory Control with

Shrinkage and Observed Sales, Stochastics, 2012, forthcoming.

6. Rajamani. D. and Sethi, S.P., The Product View and its Impact on Supply Chain Excellence,

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Best Practices in Supply Chain Management,

Bhubaneswar, India, November 22-23, 2012, 655-657.

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7. Bensoussan, A., Feng, Q., and Sethi, S.P., Evaluating Long-Term Service Performance under

Short-Term Forecast Updates, Proceedings of the 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control

Problems in Manufacturing, Bucharest, Romania, May 23-25, 2012, CD, paper #84.

8. akanyildirim, M., Feng, Q., Gan, X., and Sethi, S.P., "Contracting and Coordination under

Asymmetric Production Cost Information," Production and Operations Management, 21(2), 2012,

345 360.

9. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., Sethi, S.P., Wang, M., and Zhang, H., Average Cost

Optimality in Inventory Models with Dynamic Information Delays, IEEE Transactions on

Automatic Control, 56(12), 2011, 2869-2882.

10. Gan, X., Sethi, S.P., and Yan, H., "Coordination of a Supply Chain with Risk-Averse Agents," with

addendum, Innovative Schemes for Supply Chain Coordination Under Uncertainty, T.-M. Choi and

T.C. Edwin Cheng (Eds.), Springer, 2011, 3-37.

11. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., Sethi, S.P., and Shi, R., Computation of Approximate Optimal

Policies in Partially Observed Inventory Model with Rain Checks, Automatica, 47, 2011, 1589-

1604.

12. Bensoussan, A., Feng, Q., and Sethi, S.P., Achieving a Long-Term Service Target with Short-

Term Demand Signals: A Newsvendor Framework, Manufacturing & Service Operations

Management, 13(1), 2011, 73-88.

13. Khmelnitsky, E., Presman, E., and Sethi, S.P., Optimal Production Control of a Failure-Prone

Machine," Annals of Operations Research, 182(1), 2010, 67-86.

14. Sethi, S.P., i3: Incomplete Information Inventory Models, Decision Line, October 2010, 16-19;

reprinted in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Best Practices in Supply Chain

Management, Bhubaneswar, India, November 22-23, 2012, 658-662.

15. Dawande, M., Gavirneni, S., Mu, Y., and Sethi, S.P., On the Interaction between Demand

Substitution and Production Changeovers, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management,

12(4), 2010, 682-691.

16. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., Minj rez-Sosa, J.A., Sethi, S.P., and Shi, R., An Incomplete

Information Inventory Model with Presence of Inventories or Backorders as Only Observations,

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 146(3), 2010, 544-580.

17. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., Filtering for Discrete-Time Markov Processes

and Applications to Inventory Control with Incomplete Information, The Oxford Handbook on

Nonlinear Filtering, D. Crisan and B. Rozovskii (Eds.), Oxford University Press, 2010, 500-525.

18. Choi, T.-M. and Sethi, S.P., Innovative Quick Response Programs: A Review, International

Journal of Production Economics, 127(1), 2010, 1-12.

19. Chen, H., Chen, Y., Chiu, C.-H., Choi, T.-M., and Sethi, S.P., Coordination Mechanism for the

Supply Chain with Leadtime Consideration and Price-Dependent Demand, European Journal of

Operational Research, 203(1), 2010, 70-80.

20. Feng, Q. and Sethi, S.P., Procurement Flexibility under Price Uncertainty, in Innovative Quick

Response Programs in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, International Handbooks on

Information Systems Series, T. C. Edwin Cheng and Tsan-Ming Choi, (Eds.), Springer, 2010, 63-

90.

21. Benkherouf, L. and Sethi, S.P., Optimality of (s,S) Policies for a Stochastic Inventory Model with

Proportional and Lump-sum Shortage Costs, Operations Research Letters, 38, 2010, 252-255.

22. Gan, X., Sethi, S.P., and Zhou, J., "Commitment-Penalty Contracts in Drop-shipping Supply Chains

with Asymmetric Demand Information," European Journal of Operational Research, 204, 2010,

449-462.

23. Bensoussan, A. akanyildirim, M., Royal, A., and Sethi, S.P., Bayesian and Adaptive Controls for

a Newsvendor Facing Exponential Demand, Risk and Decision Analysis, 1(4), 2009, 197-210.

24. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., Feng, Q., and Sethi, S.P., Optimal Ordering Policies for

Stochastic Inventory Problems with Observed Information Delays, Production and Operations

Management, 18(5), 2009, 546-559.

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25. Dawande, M., Gavirneni, S., Naranpanawe, S., and Sethi, S.P., Discrete Forecast Horizons for

Two-Product Variants of the Dynamic Lot-Size Problem, International Journal of Production

Economics, 120, 2009, 430-436.

26. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., A Note on The Censored Newsvendor and

the Optimal Acquisition of Information, Operations Research, 57(3), May-June 2009, 791-794.

27. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., Censored Newsvendor Model Revisited with

Unnormalized Probabilities, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO), 5(2),

May 2009, 391-402.

28. He, X., Prasad, A., and Sethi, S.P., Cooperative Advertising and Pricing in a Stochastic Supply

Chain: Feedback Stackelberg Strategies, Production and Operations Management, 18(1), 2009,

78-94.

29. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., Minj rez-Sosa, J. A., Sethi, S.P., and Shi, R., Partially

Observed Inventory Systems: The Case of Rain Checks, SIAM Journal of Control and

Optimization, 47(5), 2008, 2490-2519.

30. Sethi, S.P., Yeh, D.H.M., Zhang, R., and Jardine, A., Optimal Maintenance and Replacement of

Extraction Machinery, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, 17(4), 2008, 416-

431.

31. He, X. and Sethi, S.P., Dynamic Slotting and Pricing Decisions in a Durable Product Supply

Chain, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 137(2), 2008, 363-379.

32. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., Minj rez-Sosa, J.A., Royal, A., and Sethi, S.P., Inventory

Problems with Partially Observed Demands and Lost Sales, Journal of Optimization Theory and

Applications, 136(3), 2008, 321-340.

33. Bensoussan, A. and Sethi, S.P., The Machine Maintenance and Sale Age Model of Kamien and

Schwartz Revisited, Management Science, 53(12), December 2007, 1964-1976.

34. He, X., Prasad, A., Sethi, S.P., and Gutierrez, G.J., A Survey of Stackelberg Differential Game

Models in Supply and Marketing Channels, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering

(JSSSE), 16(4) December 2007, 385-413; Erratum, 17(2), 255, 2008.

35. Chand, S., Hsu, V.N., Sethi, S.P., and Deshpande, V., "A Dynamic Lot Size Problem with Multiple

Customers: Customer-Specific Shipping and Backlogging Costs," IIE Transactions, 39(11),

November 2007, 1059-1069.

36. Dawande, M., Gavirneni, S., Naranpanawe, S., and Sethi, S.P., Forecast Horizons for a Class of

Dynamic Lot-Size Problems under Discrete Future Demand, Operations Research, 55(4), July-

Aug. 2007, 688-702.

37. He, X., Gutierrez, G. and Sethi, S.P., A Review of Stackelberg Differential Game Models in

Supply Chain Management, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Service

Systems and Service Management, Chengdu, China, June 9-11, 2007.

38. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., Economic Evaluation of Systems that

Expedite Inventory Information, Production and Operations Management, 16(3), May-June 2007,

360-368.

39. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., Zhang, H., and Zhou, J., A Supply Chain with a Service Requirement for

Each Market Signal, Production and Operations Management, 16(3), May-June 2007, 322-342.

40. Chen, Y., Sethi, S.P., and Zhang, H., A Production-Inventory Problem for an Energy Buy-Back

Program, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 4(3), July 2007, 395-406.

41. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., Optimal Ordering Policies for Inventory

Problems with Dynamic Information Delays, Production and Operations Management, 16(2),

March-April 2007, 241-256.

42. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., A Multiperiod Newsvendor Problem with

Partially Observed Demand, Mathematics of Operations Research, 32(2), May 2007, 322-344.

43. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., "Partially Observed Inventory Systems: The

Case of Zero-Balance Walk," SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization, 46(1), 2007, 176-209.

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44. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., Optimality of Base Stock and (s,S) Policies

for Inventory Problems with Information Delays, Journal of Optimization Theory and

Applications, 130(2), August 2006, 153-172.

45. Feng, Q., Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., and Zhang, H. "Are Base-stock Policies Optimal in Inventory

Problems with Multiple Delivery Modes?" Operations Research, 54(4), 2006, 801-807.

46. Presman, E. and Sethi, S.P., "Inventory Models with Continuous and Poisson Demands and

Discounted and Average Costs," Production and Operations Management, 15(2), Summer 2006,

279-293.

47. Hou, Y., Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., "Asymptotically Optimal Production Policies in

Dynamic Stochastic Jobshops with Limited Buffers," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and

Applications, 317, 2006, 398-428.

48. Feng, Q., Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., and Zhang, H. "Optimality and Nonoptimality of the Base-stock

Policy in Inventory Problems with Multiple Delivery Modes," Journal of Industrial and

Management Optimization, 2(1), 2006, 19-42.

49. Drobouchevitch, I.G., Sethi, S.P., and Sriskandarajah, C., Scheduling Dual Gripper Robotic Cells:

One-unit Cycles, European Journal of Operational Research, 171, 2006, 598-631.

50. Bensoussan, A., Liu, R.H., and Sethi, S.P., "Optimality of an (s,S) Policy with Compound Poisson

and Diffusion Demands: A Quasi-variational Inequalities Approach, SIAM Journal on Control

and Optimization, 44(5), 2005, 1650-1676.

51. Geismar, H.N., Sethi, S.P., Sidney, J.B., and Sriskandarajah, C., A Note on Productivity Gains in

Flexible Robotic Cells, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, 17, 2005, 5-21.

Gallego, G. and Sethi, S.P., K-Convexity in Rn, Journal of Optimization Theory and

52.

Applications, 127(1), October 2005, 71-88.

53. Bensoussan, A., Feng, Q., and Sethi, S.P., Optimal Ordering Policies for a Two-Stage Newsvendor

Problem with a Service Constraint, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the

Decision Sciences Institute, Barcelona, Spain, July 3-6, 2005, CD.

54. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., Partially Observed Inventory Systems,

Proceedings of 44th IEEE CDC and ECC, Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, 2005.

55. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., Optimality of Standard Inventory Policies

with Information Delays, Proceedings of 6th APIEMS 2005, Manila, Philippines, Dec. 4-7, 2005,

CD Article #1221.

56. Bensoussan, A., akanyildirim, M., and Sethi, S.P., On the Optimal Control of Partially Observed

Inventory Systems, Comptes Rendus de l Academi des Sciences Paris, Ser. I 341, 2005, 419-426.

57. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., Yan, J.H.Z., and Zhang, H., "An Analysis of Staged Purchases in Deregulated

Time-Sequential Electricity Markets," Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, 1(4),

November 2005, 443-463.

58. Dawande, M.W., Geismar, H.N., and Sethi, S.P., "Dominance of Cyclic Solutions and Challenges

in the Scheduling of Robotic Cells," SIAM Review, 47(4), 2005, 709-721.

59. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., Zhang, H., and Zhou, J., "Information Updated Supply Chain with Service-

Level Constraints," Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, 1(4), November 2005,

513-531.

60. Beyer, D. and Sethi, S.P., Average-Cost Optimality in Inventory Models with Markovian

Demands and Lost Sales, in Analysis, Control and Optimization of Complex Dynamic Systems,

E.K. Boukas and R.P. Malham, (Eds.), Springer, 2005, 3-23.

61. Huang, H., Yan, H., and Sethi, S.P., Purchase Contract Management with Demand Forecast

Updates, IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, 37(8), August 2005, 775-785.

62. Dawande, M., Geismar, H. N., Sethi, S.P., and Sriskandarajah, C., "Sequencing and Scheduling in

Robotics Cells: Recent Developments," Journal of Scheduling, 8, 2005, 387-426.

63. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., and Zhang, H., "Analysis of a Duopoly Supply Chain and its Application in

Electricity Spot Markets," Annals of Operations Research, 135(1), 2005, 239-259.

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64. Gan, X., Sethi, S.P., and Yan, H., "Channel Coordination with a Risk-Neutral Supplier and a

Downside-Risk-Averse Retailer," Production and Operations Management, 14(1), 2005, 80-89.

65. Drobouchevitch, I.G., Sethi, S.P., Sidney, J.B., and Sriskandarajah, C., Scheduling Multiple Parts

in Two-Machine Dual Gripper Robot Cells: Heuristic Algorithm and Performance Guarantee,

International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, 10(4), 2004, 297-314.

66. Feng, Q., Gallego, G., Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., and Zhang, H., Periodic-Review Inventory Model with

Three Consecutive Delivery Modes and Forecast Updates, Journal of Optimization Theory and

Applications, 124(1), January 2005, 137-155.

67. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., and Zhang, H., "Quantity Flexible Contracts: Optimal Decisions with

Information Updates," Decision Sciences, 35(4), Fall 2004, 691-712.

68. Gan, X., Sethi, S.P., and Yan, H., "Coordination of a Supply Chain with Risk-Averse Agents,"

Production and Operations Management, 13(2), 2004, 135-149; Identified as part of a knowledge

cluster (Fig. 7, p. 196) in The Evolution of the Intellectual Structure of Operations Management

1980-2006: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis, Journal of Operations Management, 27, 2009, 185-

202; to be re-printed with addendum in Innovative Schemes for Supply Chain Coordination Under

Uncertainty, T.-M. Choi and T.C. Edwin Cheng (Eds.), Springer, 2010.

69. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Problem 4.3 Feedback Control in Flowshops, in Unsolved Problems in

Mathematical Systems and Control Theory, V. D. Blondel and A. Megretski (Eds.), Princeton

University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004, 140-143.

70. Sriskandarajah, C., Drobouchevitch, I.G., Sethi, S.P., and Chandrasekaran, R., Scheduling

Multiple Parts in a Robotic Cell Served by a Dual-Gripper Robot, Operations Research, 52(1),

Jan-Feb 2004, 65-82.

71. Sethi, S.P., Sidney, J.B., and Sriskandarajah, C., Throughput Comparison of Robotic Flowshops

Versus Robotic Openshops, in Operational Research and its Applications: Recent Trends, M.R.

Rao and M.C. Puri (Eds.), Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, India, Proceedings of the

Sixth International Conference of the Association of Asia-Pacific Operational Research Societies

(APORS), Dec. 8-10, 2003, New Delhi, India, Vol. I, 10-18.

72. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., and Zhang, H., Inventory Models with Fixed Costs, Forecast Updates, and

Two Delivery Modes, Operations Research, 51(2), March-April 2003, 321-328.

73. Dawande, M., Sriskandarajah, C., and Sethi, S.P., On Throughput Maximization in Constant

Travel-Time Robotic Cells, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 4(4), Fall 2002,

296-312.

74. Yan, H., Sriskandarajah, C., Sethi, S.P., and Yue, X., Supply-Chain Redesign to Reduce Safety

Stock Levels: Sequencing and Merging Operations, IEEE Transactions on Engineering

Management: Special Issue on Supply Chain Management, 49(3), Aug. 2002, 243-257.

75. Presman, E., Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., On Optimality of Stochastic N-Machine

Flowshop with Long-Run Average Cost, in Stochastic Theory and Control, B. Pasik-Duncan (Ed.),

Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 280, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002, 399-

417.

76. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Optimal and Hierarchical Controls in Dynamic

Stochastic Manufacturing Systems: A Survey, Manufacturing & Service Operations

Management, 4(2), Spring 2002, 133-170.

77. Chand, S., Hsu, V.N., and Sethi, S.P., Forecast, Solution and Rolling Horizons in Operations

Management Problems: A Classified Bibliography, Manufacturing & Service Operations

Management, 4, 1, Winter 2002, 25-43.

78. Beyer, D., Sethi, S.P., and Sridhar, R., Stochastic Multiproduct Inventory Models with Limited

Storage, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 111(3), Dec. 2001, 553-588.

79. Yeh, D.H.M., Sethi, A., Sethi, S.P., and Sriskandarajah, C., Scheduling of the Injection Process for

a Golf Club Head Fabrication Line, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative

Management, 7(3), Sept. 2001, 149-164.

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80. Beyer, D., Sethi, S.P., and Sridhar, R., Average-Cost Optimality of a Base-Stock Policy for a

Multi-Product Inventory Model with Limited Storage, Proceedings of the International Workshop

on Decision and Control in Management Sciences in honor of Professor Alain Haurie, Montreal,

Quebec, Canada, Oct. 19-20, 2000, Decision and Control in Management Science, Essays in Honor

of Alain Haurie, G. Zaccour (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2002, 241-260.

81. Presman, E., Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Bisi, A., Average Cost Optimal Policy for a Stochastic

Two-Machine Flowshop with Limited Work-In-Process, Proceedings of the Third World Congress

of Nonlinear Analysts, Catania, Sicily, July 19-26, 2001; Nonlinear Analysis, 47, 2001, 5671-5678.

82. Sethi, S.P., Sidney, J.B., and Sriskandarajah, C., Scheduling in Dual Gripper Robotic Cells for

Productivity Gains, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 17(3), June 2001, 324-341.

83. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Turnpike Set Analysis in Stochastic Manufacturing

Systems with Long-Run Average Cost, in Optimal Control and Partial Differential Equations in

Honour of Professor Alain Bensoussan s 60th Birthday, J.L. Menaldi, E. Rofman, and A. Sulem

(Eds.), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2001, 414-423.

84. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., and Zhang, H., Peeling Layers of an Onion: Inventory Model with Multiple

Delivery Modes and Forecast Updates, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 108(2),

Feb. 2001, 253-281.

85. Presman E., Sethi, S.P., Zhang H., and Bisi, Arnab, Average Cost Optimality for an Unreliable

Two-Machine Flowshop with Limited Internal Buffer, in Optimization Theory and Its Application,

Annals of Operations Research, L. Caccetta and K.L. Teo (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers,

The Netherlands, 98, Dec. 2000, 333-351.

86. Presman E., Sethi, S.P., Zhang H., and Zhang Q., Optimal Production Planning in a Stochastic N-

Machine Flowshop with Long-Run Average Cost, in Mathematics and Its Applications to

Industry, S. K. Malik (Ed.), Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India, 2000, 121-140.

87. Sethi, S.P., Sorger, G., and Zhou, X.Y., Stability of Real-Time Lot-Scheduling Policies and

Machine Replacement Policies with Quality Levels, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,

45(11), Nov. 2000, 2193-2196.

88. Huang, H., Yan, H., and Sethi, S.P., Purchase Contract Management with Demand Forecast

Updates, Proceedings of the Second West Lake International Conference on Small & Medium

Business, Oct. 16-18, 2000, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China, 161-167.

Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Optimal and Hierarchical Controls in Dynamic

89.

Stochastic Manufacturing Systems: A Review, ITORMS (Interactive Transactions of OR/MS),

3(2), 2000, archived version available at http://itorms.iris.okstate.edu/volumes/vol3/Papers/sethi/index.html

Updated version available at http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~factor/itom3/

90. Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Production Control in a Stochastic N-Machine

Flowshop with Long-Run Average Cost, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications,

251(1), 2000, 285-309.

91. Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Production Control in Dynamic Stochastic

Jobshops with Long-Run Average Cost, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 106(2),

Aug. 2000, 231-264.

92. Presman, E., Sethi, S.P., and Zhang, H., Optimal Production Planning in Stochastic Jobshops with

Long-Run Average Cost, in Optimization, Dynamics, and Economic Analysis, Essays in Honor of

Gustav Feichtinger, E.J. Dockner, R.F. Hartl, M. Lupta ik, and G. Sorger (Eds.), Physica-Verlag,

Heidelberg, 2000, 259-274.

93. Yan, H., Lou, S., and Sethi, S.P., Robustness of Various Production Control Policies in

Semiconductor Manufacturing, Production and Operations Management, 9(2), Summer, 2000,

171-183.

94. Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Optimal Production Rates in a Deterministic Two-Product

Manufacturing System, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 21(3), May-June, 2000, 125-

135.

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95. Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Production Control in a Stochastic N-Machine

Flowshop with Limited Buffers, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 246(1),

2000, 28-57.

96. Sethi, S.P., Sriskandarajah, C., Chu, K.F., and Yan, H., Efficient Setup/Dispatching Policies in a

Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility, Proceedings of 38th IEEE CDC, Phoenix, Arizona, Dec. 7-

10, 1999, 1368-1372.

97. Cheng, F. and Sethi, S.P., A Periodic Review Inventory Model with Demand Influenced by

Promotion Decisions, Management Science, 45(11), 1999, 1510-1523.

98. Beyer, D. and Sethi, S.P., The Classical Average-Cost Inventory Models of Iglehart and Veinott-

Wagner Revisited, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 101(3), 1999, 523-555.

99. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, H., Average-Cost Optimal Policies for a Unreliable Flexible Multiproduct

Machine, The International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, 11, 1999, 147-157.

100. Yang, J., Yan, H., and Sethi, S.P., Optimal Production Planning in Pull Flow Lines with

Multiple Products, European Journal of Operational Research, 119(3), 1999, 583-604.

101. Cheng, F.M. and Sethi, S.P., Optimality of State-Dependent(s,S) Policies in Inventory Models

with Markov-Modulated Demand and Lost Sales, Production and Operations Management, 8(2),

Summer, 1999, 183-192.

102. Sethi, S.P., Sriskandarajah, C., Van de Velde, S., Wang, M.Y., and Hoogeveen, H., Minimizing

Makespan in a Pallet-Constrained Flowshop, Journal of Scheduling, 2(3), May-June, 1999, 115-

133.

103. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, H., Hierarchical Production Controls for a Stochastic Manufacturing

System with Long-Run Average Cost: Asymptotic Optimality, in Stochastic Analysis, Control,

Optimization and Applications: A Volume in Honor of W.H. Fleming, W.M. McEneaney, G. Yin,

and Q. Zhang (Eds.). Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications, Birkh user, Boston, 1999,

621-637.

104. Presman, E., Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Optimality of Zero-Inventory Policies for an

Unreliable Manufacturing System Producing Two Part Types," Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete

and Impulsive Systems, 4, 1998, 485-496.

105. Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Minimum Average-Cost Production Planning in Stochastic

Manufacturing Systems," Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 8(7), 1998,

1251-1276.

106. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Asymptotic Optimality of Hierarchical Controls in Stochastic

Manufacturing Systems: A Review, Proceedings of the Conference in Honor of Prof. Gerald L.

Thompson on his 70th Birthday, Pittsburgh, PA. Oct. 17-18, 1993, Operations Research: Methods,

Models, and Applications, J.E. Aronson and S. Zionts (Eds.), Quoram Books, Westport, CT, 1998,

267-294.

107. Presman, E., Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Analysis of Average Cost Optimality for an

Unreliable Two-Machine Flowshop, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on

Optimization Techniques and Applications, July 1-3, 1998, Curtin University of Technology, Perth,

Australia, 1998, 94-112.

108. Beyer, D. and Sethi, S.P., A Proof of the EOQ Formula Using Quasi-Variational Inequalities,

International Journal of Systems Science, 29(11), 1998, 1295-1299.

109. Sethi, S.P., Suo, W., Taksar, M.I., and Yan, H., Optimal Production Planning in a Multi-Product

Stochastic Manufacturing System with Long-Run Average Cost, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems:

Theory and Applications, 8, 1998, 37-54.

110. Presman E., Sethi S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang Q., Optimal Production Planning in a Stochastic N-

Machine Flowshop with Long-Run Average Cost (abridged version), Proceedings of the Second

International Conference on the Applications of Mathematics to Science and Engineering

(CIAMASI '98), Oct. 27-29, 1998, Universit Hassan II A n Chock, Casablanca, Morocco, 704-711.

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111. Beyer, D., Sethi, S.P., and Taksar, M.I., Inventory Models with Markovian Demands and Cost

Functions of Polynomial Growth, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 98(2), 1998,

281-323.

112. Jennings, L.S., Sethi, S.P., and Teo, K.L., Computation of Optimal Production Plans for

Manufacturing Systems, Proceedings of the Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts,

Athens, Greece, July 16-17, 1996; Nonlinear Analysis, 30(7), 1997, 4329-4338.

113. Yeh, D.H.M., Sethi, S.P., and Sriskandarajah, C. Scheduling of the Injection Process for Golf Club

Head Fabrication Lines, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers and

Industrial Engineering, Cairo, Egypt, December 20-22, 1997, 172-175.

114. Wang, Y., Sethi, S.P., Sriskandarajah, C., and Van de Velde, S.L., Minimizing Makespan in

Flowshops with Pallet Requirements: Computational Complexity, INFOR, 35(4), 1997, 277-285.

115. Presman, E., Sethi, S.P., and Suo, W., Optimal Feedback Controls in Dynamic Stochastic

Jobshops, in Mathematics of Stochastic Manufacturing Systems, G. Yin and Q. Zhang (Eds.),

Lectures in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 33, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997,

235-252.

116. Presman, E., Sethi, S.P., and Suo, W., Existence of Optimal Feedback Production Plans in

Stochastic Flowshops with Limited Buffers, Automatica, 33(10), 1997, 1899-1903.

117. Sethi, S.P., Zhang, H., and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Production Control in a Stochastic

Manufacturing System with Long-Run Average Cost, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and

Applications, 214(1), 1997, 151-172.

118. Beyer, D. and Sethi, S.P., Average Cost Optimality in Inventory Models with Markovian

Demands, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 92(3), 1997, 497-526.

119. Samaratunga, C., Sethi, S.P., and Zhou, X., Computational Evaluation of Hierarchical Production

Control Policies for Stochastic Manufacturing Systems, Operations Research, 45(2), 1997, 258-

274.

120. Sethi, S.P., Suo, W., Taksar, M.I., and Zhang, Q., Optimal Production Planning in a Stochastic

Manufacturing System with Long-Run Average Cost, Journal of Optimization Theory and

Applications, 92(1), 1997, 161-188.

121. Sethi, S.P., Zhang, Q., and Zhou, X., Hierarchical Production Controls in a Stochastic Two-

Machine Flowshop with a Finite Internal Buffer, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation,

13(1), 1997, 1-13.

122. Wang, Y., Sethi, S.P., and Van de Velde, S., Minimizing Makespan in a Class of Reentrant

Shops, Operations Research, 45(5), 1997, 702-712.

123. Sethi, S.P. and Cheng, F., Optimality of (s,S) Policies in Inventory Models with Markovian

Demand, Operations Research, 45(6), 1997, 931-939.

124. Sethi, S.P., Some Insights into Near-Optimal Plans for Stochastic Manufacturing Systems,"

Mathematics of Stochastic Manufacturing Systems, G. Yin and Q. Zhang (Eds.); Lectures in

Applied Mathematics, Vol. 33, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997, 287-315.

125. Yang, J., Yan, H., and Sethi, S.P., Optimal Production Control for Pull Flow Lines with Multiple

Part Types," Proceedings of the 35th IEEE CDC, Kobe, Japan, 1996, 3847-3848.

126. Sethi, S.P., Suo, W., Taksar, M.I., and Yan, H., Minimum Average-Cost Production Plan in a

Multi-Product Stochastic Manufacturing System," Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Conference on

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Kauai,HI, November 18-21, 1996, 361-365.

127. Sethi, S.P., Taksar, M.I., and Zhang Q., A Hierarchical Decomposition of Capacity and Production

Decisions in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems: Summary of Results," in Proceedings: Workshop

on Hierarchical Approaches in Forest Management in Public and Private Organizations, Toronto,

Canada, May 25-29, 1992; D. Martell, L. Davis and A. Weintraub (Eds.), Petawawa National

Forestry Institute Information Report PI-X0124, Canadian Forest Service, 1996, 155-163.

128. Sethi, S.P., Suo, W., Taksar, M.I., and Zhang, Q., Producing in a Manufacturing System with

Minimum Average Cost," Proceedings of the Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts,

Athens, Greece, July 16-17, 1996; Nonlinear Analysis, 30(7), 1997, 4357-4363.

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129. Yan, H., Lou, S., Sethi, S.P., Gardel, A., and Deosthali, P., Testing the Robustness of Two-

Boundary Control Policies in Semiconductor Manufacturing, IEEE Transactions on

Semiconductor Manufacturing, 9(2), 1996, 285-288.

130. Beyer, D. and Sethi, S.P., Average Cost Optimality in Inventory Models with Markovian

Demands: A Summary, 1996 M&SOM Conference Proceedings, Hanover, NH, June 24-25, 1996,

40-45.

131. Sethi, S.P. and Zhou, X., Optimal Feedback Controls in Deterministic Dynamic Two-Machine

Flowshops, Operations Research Letters, 19(5), 1996, 225-235.

132. Sethi, S.P. and Zhou, X., Asymptotic Optimal Feedback Controls in Stochastic Dynamic Two-

Machine Flowshops, in Recent Advances in Control and Optimization of Manufacturing Systems,

G. Yin and Q. Zhang (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 214, Springer-

Verlag, New York, 1996, 147-180.

133. Presman, E., Sethi, S.P., and Zhang, Q., Optimal Feedback Production Planning in a Stochastic N-

Machine Flowshop, Automatica, 31(9), 1995, 1325-1332.

134. Kubiak, W., Sethi, S.P., and Sriskandarajah, C., An Efficient Algorithm for a Job Shop Problem,

Annals of Operations Research, 57, 1995, 203-216.

135. Krichagina, E., Lou, S., Sethi, S.P., and Taksar, M.I., Diffusion Approximation for a Controlled

Stochastic Manufacturing System with Average Cost Minimization, Mathematics of Operations

Research, 20(4), 1995, 895-922.

136. Chu, C., Proth, J.M., and Sethi, S.P., Heuristic Procedures for Minimizing Makespan and the

Number of Required Pallets, European Journal of Operational Research, 86(3), 1995, 491-502.

137. Wang, Y., Sethi, S.P., Sriskandarajah, C., and Van de Velde, S.L., Minimizing Makespan in

Flowshops with Pallet Requirements: Computational Complexity, Proceedings of the

International Workshop on Intelligent Scheduling of Robots and Flexible Manufacturing Systems,

Holon, Israel, July 2, 1995, 105-114.

138. Sethi, S.P., Taksar, M.I., and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Capacity Expansion and Production

Planning Decisions in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems, Journal of Operations Management,

Special Issue on Economics of Operations Management, 12, 1995, 331-352.

139. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Production and Setup Scheduling in Stochastic

Manufacturing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 40(5), 1995, 924-930.

140. Cheng, F. and Sethi, S.P., Periodic Review Inventory Models with Markovian Demands,

Proceedings of the Instrument Society of America Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 25-

27, 1995, 95-104.

141. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Multilevel Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Marketing -

Production Systems, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 33(2), 1995, 528-553.

142. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Asymptotic Optimal Controls in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems

with Machine Failures Dependent on Production Rates, Stochastics and Stochastics Reports, 48,

1994, 97-121.

143. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Multilevel Hierarchical Open-Loop and Feedback Controls in

Stochastic Marketing-Production Systems, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 10(6),

1994, 831-839.

144. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Production and Setup Scheduling in Stochastic

Manufacturing Systems, Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE-CDC, Lake Buena Vista, FL, Dec. 14-16,

Vol. 2 of 4, 1994, 1571-1576.

145. Sethi, S.P. and Zhou, X., Stochastic Dynamic Job Shops and Hierarchical Production Planning,

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 39(10), 1994, 2061-2076.

146. Sethi, S.P., Taksar, M.I., and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Decomposition of Capacity Expansion and

Production Scheduling Decision over Time under Uncertainty, Proceedings of the 1994 Meeting of

the Slovenian Informatika Society, Portoroz, Slovena, September 13-15, 1994, 43-53.

147. Sethi, S.P., Taksar, M.I., and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Decomposition of Production and Capacity

Investment Decisions in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems, Canadian National Contribution at

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IFORS 93, July 12-16, 1993, Lisbon, Portugal, International Transactions of Operational

Research, 1(4), 1994, 435-451.

148. Lou, S., Sethi, S.P., and Zhang, Q., Optimal Feedback Production Planning in a Stochastic Two-

Machine Flowshop, European Journal of Operational Research, 73(2), 1994, 331-345.

149. Kubiak, W. and Sethi, S.P., Optimal Just-in-Time Schedules for Flexible Transfer Lines,

International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, 6(2), 1994, 137-154.

150. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Production Planning in Dynamic Stochastic Manufacturing

Systems: Asymptotic Optimality and Error Bounds, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and

Applications, 181(2), 1994, 285-319.

151. Sethi, S.P. and Zhang, Q., Hierarchical Controls in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems, SIAG/CST

Newsletter, 2(1), 1994, 1-5.

152. Zhou, X. and Sethi, S.P., A Sufficient Condition for Near Optimal Stochastic Controls and Its

Application to Manufacturing Systems, Applied Mathematics & Optimization, 29, 1994, 67-92.

153. Sethi, S.P., Zhang, Q., and Zhou, X., Hierarchical Controls in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems

with Convex Costs, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 80(2), Feb. 1994, 303-321.

154. Krichagina, E., Lou, S., Sethi, S.P., and Taksar, M.I., Diffusion Approximation for a

Manufacturing System with Average Cost Minimization, Proceedings 12th IFAC World Congress,

Sydney, Australia, 1993.

155. Presman, E., Sethi, S.P., and Zhang, Q., Optimal Feedback Production Planning in a Stochastic N-

machine Flowshop, Proceedings of 12th World Congress of International Federation of Automatic

Control, Sydney, Australia, July 18-23, 4, 1993, 505-508.

156. Sethi, S.P., Yan, H., Zhang, Q., and Zhou, X., Feedback Production Planning in a Stochastic Two-

Machine Flowshop: Asymptotic Analysis and Computational Results, International Journal Of

Production Economics, 30-31, 1993, 79-93.

157. Krichagina, E., Lou, S., Sethi, S.P., and Taksar, M.I., Production Control in a Failure-Prone

Manufacturing System: Diffusion Approximation and Asymptotic Optimality, The Annals of

Applied Probability, 3(2), 1993, 421-453.

158. Lou, S., Sethi, S.P., and Sorger, G., Stability of Real-Time Lot Scheduling Policies for

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