Refereed Publications

Refereed Conference Publications

C. Shu, F. Martinelli, and J. R. Perkins, "Optimal myopic production controls for manufacturing systems," Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, pp. 2892--2896, June 2000.

J. R. Perkins and R. Srikant, "The role of queue length information in congestion control and resource pricing," Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, AZ, pp. 2703--2708, December 1999.

C. Shu and J. R. Perkins, "Optimal PHP control of multiple part-types on a failure-prone machine with quadratic buffer costs," Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Decision and Control, Tampa, FL, pp. 2149--2154, December 1998.

F.-X. Wu and J. R. Perkins, "Control of unreliable manufacturing systems: A mesh of analytical and numerical techniques," Proceedings of the 1996 Japan-U.S.A. Symposium on Flexible Automation, vol. 2, Boston, MA, pp. 1283--1286, July 1996.

J. R. Perkins and R. Srikant, "Hedging policies for failure-prone manufacturing systems: Optimality of JIT policies and bounds on buffer levels," Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, pp. 3144--49, December 1995.

J. R. Perkins and R. Srikant, "Scheduling multiple part-types in an unreliable single machine manufacturing system," Proceedings of the 1995 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, pp. 3627--3631, June 1995.

J. R. Perkins and R. Srikant, "Linear switching curve control of unreliable manufacturing systems," Proceedings of the 32nd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 404--413, September 1994.

J. R. Perkins and P. R. Kumar, "Optimal control of pull manufacturing systems," Proceedings of the 1994 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp. 3588--3592, June 1994.

J. R. Perkins and P. R. Kumar, "Buffer level control of unreliable manufacturing systems," Proceedings of the 1992 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, pp. 826--27, June 1992.

J. R. Perkins and P. R. Kumar, "Stable distributed real-time scheduling of flexible manufacturing/assembly/disassembly systems," Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, Texas, pp. 1863--65, December 1988.

Refereed Book Chapters

J. R. Perkins and R. Srikant, "Optimal control of manufacturing systems with buffer holding costs," in Recent Advances in Manufacturing Systems, Edited by G. Yin and Q. Zhang, Notes in Control and Information, Springer-Verlag, pp. 61--96, 1996.

J. R. Perkins and R. Srikant, "Failure-prone production systems with uncertain demand," in System Modelling and Optimization, Edited by M. P. Polis, A. L. Dontchev, P. Kall, I. Lasiecka and A. W. Olbrot, Chapman and Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics, pp. 289--297, 1999.

Archived Journal Publications

Y. Wang, J. R. Perkins, P. Vakili, and A. Khurana, "Optimal resource allocation in new product development projects: A control-theoretic approach." Working paper, Boston University, 2001. To be submitted in January 2001.

Y. Wang, P. Vakili, J. R. Perkins, and A. Khurana, "Dynamic management of R&D projects: A modeling framework." Working paper, Boston University, 2001. To be submitted in January 2001.

K. Kogan, C. Shu, and J. R. Perkins, "Optimal control in a defect-prone environment." Working paper, Boston University, 2001. To be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

K. Kogan and J. R. Perkins, "Infinite horizon production planning: A numerical approach and solvable cases." Submitted to IIE Transactions, 2000.

K. Kogan, Y.-Y. Leu, and J. R. Perkins, "Parallel-machine, multiple-product-type, continuous-time scheduling: Decomposable cases." To appear in IIE Transactions, 2001.

F. Martinelli, C. Shu, and J. R. Perkins, "On the optimality of myopic production controls for manufacturing systems." To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2001.

C. Shu and J. R. Perkins, "Optimal PHP production of multiple part-types on a failure-prone machine with quadratic buffer costs." To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, April 2001.

J. R. Perkins and R. Srikant, "Failure-prone production systems with uncertain demand." To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, March 2001.

J. R. Perkins and R. Srikant, "Hedging policies for failure-prone manufacturing systems: Optimality of JIT policies and bounds on buffer levels," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. AC-43, pp. 953--957, July 1998

J. R. Perkins and R. Srikant, "Scheduling multiple part-types in an unreliable single machine manufacturing system," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. AC-42, pp. 364--377, March 1997.

J. R. Perkins and P. R. Kumar, "Optimal control of pull manufacturing systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. AC-40, pp. 2040--2051, December 1995.

J. R. Perkins, C. Humes, Jr., and P. R. Kumar, "Distributed scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems: stability and performance," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation: Special Section on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 133--141, April 1994.

J. R. Perkins and P. R. Kumar, "Stable distributed real-time scheduling of flexible manufacturing/assembly/disassembly systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. AC-34, pp. 139--48, February 1989.

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