Nilay TANIK ARGON Assistant Professor Department of Statistics and Operations Research University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• "Analysis of an Inventory System under Backorder-Correlated Demand and Geometric Supply Process," International Journal of Production Economics 71 (2001), 247-254 (with Refik Güllü and Nesim Erkip).
• "Partial Pooling in Tandem Lines with Cooperation and Blocking,” Queueing Systems 52 (2006), No. 1, 5-30 (with Sigrún Andradóttir).
• "Replicated Batch Means for Steady-State Simulations," Naval Research Logistics 53 (2006), No. 6, 508-524 (with Sigrún Andradóttir).
• "Replicated Batch Means Variance Estimators in the Presence of an Initial Transience," ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 16 (2006), No. 4, 317-328 (with Christos Alexopoulos, Sigrún Andradóttir, and David Goldsman).
• "Exact Expected Values of Variance Estimators in Steady-State Computer Simulation," Naval Research Logistics 54 (2007), No. 4, 397-410 (with Tuba Aktaran-Kalayci, Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman, and James R. Wilson).
• "Overlapping Variance Estimators for Simulations - Implementation and Evaluation," INFORMS Journal on Computing 19 (2007), 314-327 (with Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman, Natalie Steiger, Gamze Tokol, and James R. Wilson).
• "Overlapping Variance Estimators for Simulations," Operations Research 55 (2007), No. 6, 1090-1103 (with Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman, Gamze Tokol, and James R. Wilson).
• "Dynamic Server Assignment Policies for Assembly-type Queues with Flexible Servers," Naval Research Logistics 55 (2008), No. 3, 234-251 (with Yi-Chun Tsai).
• "Scheduling Impatient Jobs in a Clearing System with Insights on Patient Triage in Mass-casualty Incidents," Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 22 (2008), No. 3, 301-332 (with Serhan Ziya and Rhonda Righter).
• "Dynamic Routing of Customers with General Delay Costs," to appear in Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (with Li Ding, Kevin D. Glazebrook, and Serhan Ziya).
• "Priority Assignment under Imperfect Information on Customer Type Identities," to appear in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (with Serhan Ziya).

Book Chapters:

• "Partial Pooling in Tandem Lines with Cooperation and Blocking,” Chapter 9 in The Handbook of Workforce Cross-training, D. Nembhard (Editor), CRC Press, 2007 (with Sigrún Andradóttir).

Publications in Refereed Conference Proceedings:

• "Variance Estimation Using Replicated Batch Means," Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference, B. A. Peters, J. S. Smith, D. J. Medeiros, and M. W. Rohrer (Editors), December 2001, 338-343 (with Sigrún Andradóttir).
• "Overlapping Variance Estimators for Simulations," Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rosetti, J. S. Smith, and B. A. Peters (Editors), December 2004, 737-745 (with Christos Alexopoulos, David Goldsman, and Gamze Tokol).
• “Identifying the Critical Patient: Finding the Balance between Undertriage and Overtriage,” (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of the 2007 M&SOM Conference, June 2007 (with Serhan Ziya).
• "Replicated Batch Means for Steady-State Simulations with Initial Transients," Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, S. G. Henderson, B. Biller, M.-H., Hsieh, J. Shortle, J. D. Tew, and R. R. Barton (Editors), December 2007, 308-312 (with Christos Alexopoulos, Sigrún Andradóttir, and David Goldsman).
• "Fortieth Anniversary Special Panel: Landmark Papers," Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, S. G. Henderson, B. Biller, M.-H., Hsieh, J. Shortle, J. D. Tew, and R. R. Barton (Editors), December 2007, 1-12 (with David Goldsman, James Henriksen, Pierre L’Ecuyer, Barry Nelson, and David Withers).
• "Priority Assignment under Imperfect Information on Customer Type Identities," Proceedings of the 2008 Service Operations Management Conference, June 2008 (with Serhan Ziya).

Publications in Non-Refereed Conference Proceedings:

• "Partial Pooling for Improving the Performance of Tandem Queues," Proceedings of the 2005 NSF DMII Grantees Conference (with Sigrún Andradóttir).
• "Dynamic Programming Approach for Patient Triage in Mass-Casualty Incidents," Proceedings of the 2008 NSF CMMI Grantees Conference (with James Winslow and Serhan Ziya).

Theses:

• "Analysis of a Production/Inventory System under Backorder-Correlated Demand," M.S. Thesis in Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1998.
• "Performance Enhancements in Tandem Queueing Networks and Confidence Interval Estimation in Steady-State Simulations," Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2002.