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Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research

Research Interests: Mathematics for operational research and systems, models in telecommunications and operations management, control of queues, stochastic networks, on-line bin-packing, ergodicity of markov processes, optimal search, stochastic scheduling, dynamic resource allocation, financial mathematics

Publications

Markov chains, computer proofs, and average-case analysis of best fit bin packing.
EGC Jr, DS Johnson, PW Shor, RR Weber
– STOC
(1993)
412
On the Gittins index for multiarmed bandits
R Weber
– The Annals of Applied Probability
(1992)
2,
1024
ADAPTIVE-CONTROL OF ADMISSIONS AND ROUTING IN AN ATM NETWORK
C COURCOUBETIS, G KESIDIS, A RIDDER, J WALRAND, R WEBER
– LECTURE NOTES IN CONTROL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
(1992)
184,
121
Fundamental Discrepancies between Average-Case Analyses under Discrete and Continuous Distributions: A Bin Packing Case Study
EGC Jr, C Courcoubetis, MR Garey, DS Johnson, LA McGeoch, PW Shor, RR Weber, M Yannakakis
– STOC
(1991)
230
Stabilizing an uncertain production system
C Courcoubetis, P Konstantopoulos, J Walrand, RR Weber
– Queueing Systems
(1989)
5,
37
Monotonic and Insensitive Optimal Policies for Control of Queues with Undiscounted Costs
S Stidham, RR Weber
– Operations Research
(1989)
37,
611
Stochastic scheduling on parallel processors and minimization of concave functions of completion times
RR Weber
(1988)
10,
601
Technical Note—A Note on Waiting Times in Single Server Queues
RR Weber
– Operations Research
(1983)
31,
950
Scheduling stochastic jobs on parallel machines to minimize makespan or flowtime
RR Weber
(1982)
3,
327
Dominant strategies in stochastic allocation and scheduling problems
P Nash, RR Weber
(1982)
84,
343
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Research Groups

DPMMS retired
Statistical Laboratory
Statistics