Publications and Seminars

Journal Papers

S. D. Patek, "On Terminating Markov Decision Processes with a Risk Averse Objective Function," submitted to Automatica, February 2000.

S. D. Patek, " On Partially Observed Stochastic Shortest Path Problems," submitted to Mathematics of Operations Research, September 1999.
 

Conference Papers

S. D. Patek, R. Venkateswaran, and J. Liebeherr, "Enhancing Aggregate QoS through Alternate Routing", submitted to GLOBECOM 2000. Click here for an expanded version with extra simulation results.

J. Liebeherr, S. D. Patek, and E. Yilmaz, "Tradeoffs in Networks with End-to-End Statistical QoS Guarantees", accepted for IWQOS 2000. Click here for presentation slides.

S. D. Patek and E. Campos-Nanez, "Pricing of Dialup Services: an Example of Congestion-Dependent Pricing in the Internet", submitted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC 2000. (Note: this is a slightly revised version of the paper with a small discrepancy in Section 2 fixed.)

 

Theses and other Technical Reports

David Sanders, Revenue Improvement Through Demand-dependent Pricing of Network Services, Masters Thesis, University of Virginia, May 2000.

Seminars and Technical Discussions

Dynamic Pricing of Network Services: Pricing of Dialup Services
Invited presentation, CCSP Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, April 2000.
 
Dynamic Pricing Models for Internet Services
Invited presentation at INFORMS General Meeting, Philadelphia, November1999.
 
Introduction to Risk Averse Stochastic Shortest Path Problems
Seminar on terminating Markov decision processes with a risk averse objective function, given to the Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, UVA, 4/30/99.