Natarajan Gautam
Associate Professor and Jill and Charles F. Milstead ‘60 Faculty Fellow in Industrial and Systems Engineering
(with joint appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering),
4012 ETED Bldg., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3131.
Phone: (979) 458-2345
See CV for items not included here.
Research Domains
- Energy Conservation and Efficiency (GREEN)
- Computer, Communication and Information Networks (COMP)
- Biological Systems: Dynamics and Interactions (BIO)
Methodological Focus
- Stochastic systems and applied probability
- Control, performance analysis and optimization
- Queues and networks
Book
Gautam, N. (2012) Analysis of Queues: Methods and Applications, 802 pages, CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), Boca Raton, FL. Click Energy Conservation and Efficiency, click here for more information.
Publications
The publications are presented
such that each article is listed under its most appropriate category.
Since there is sufficient overlap, it may be a good idea to check in all applicable categories.
Postscript or PDF versions of many of the papers are included. Any
questions please send.
- Energy Conservation and Efficiency, click here
- Computer, Communication and Information Networks, click here for current and previous projects
- Biological Systems: Dynamics and Interactions, click here
- Purely Analytical and Other Domains, click here
Ph.D. Students (Texas A&M)
- Current
- Arupa Mohapatra
- Samyukta Sethuraman - Co-advisor
- Soongeol Kwon
- Graduated
- Ezgi Can Eren (Spring 12) - PROS Pricing
- Young Myoung Ko (Spring 11) - POSTECH Univ.
- Cesar Rincon Mateus (Fall 08) - Delta Airlines
- Piyush Goel (Summer 09) - American Airlines
Ph.D. Students (Penn State)
- Graduated
- Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh (Spring 01) - University of Pittsburgh
- H. Cenk Ozmutlu (Summer 01) - Co-advisor - Uludag University
- Seokcheon Lee (Fall 05) - Co-advisor - Purdue University
- Sai Rajesh Mahabhashyam (Summer 06) - Serus Corp.
- Yiyu Chen (Fall 06) - IBM
Paradoxes and Counter Intuitive Results
One of the first things we learn in a class on probability is that everything is not necessarily intuitive. There is a
list of paradoxes
in Wikipedia which has some good ones on probability (including the Monty
Hall problem and the three cards problem). Interestingly,
there is a slightly different
list of paradoxes in another Wikipedia site. But none of them are related to queueing theory.
In that light, here is a small
collection
of paradoxes, counter intuitive results and just plain whacky stuff in analysis of queues. The description is somewhat technical and would
require elementary background in queueing theory.
Courses at Texas A&M
- ISEN 314: Statistical Control of
Quality (Undergraduate course on quality control).
Offered during Fall 07, Fall 08.
- ISEN 316: Production Systems Operations
(Undergraduate Course on Stochastic Models in Production).
Offered during Summer 06 (team taught), Summer 10, Spring 12.
- ISEN 421: Operations Research II
(Undergraduate Course on Stochastic OR).
Offered during Fall 05, Fall 09.
- ISEN 424: Systems Simulation
(Undergraduate Course on simulation).
Offered during Spring 11, Summer 12, Fall 12.
- ISEN 602: Applications of Random
Processes (Graduate Course on measure-theoretic probability).
Offered during Spring 08, Spring 11.
- ISEN 609 (formerly ISEN 689): Probability for Engineering
Decisions (Graduate Course on Probability and Stochastic Processes).
Offered during Spring 07, Spring 09, Summer 09, Spring 10, Summer 11, Fall 11, Spring 13.
- ISEN 618: Stochastic Processes
(Graduate Course on Advanced Stochastic Processes).
Offered during Fall 08, Fall 11.
- ISEN 624: Applied Distribution and
Queueing Theory (Graduate Course on Queueing Theory).
Offered during Spring 06, Summer 08, Fall 10.
- ISEN 659: Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems
(Graduate Course on Queueing Network Applications in Manufacturing).
Offered during Spring 10.
- ISEN 681: ISE Colloquium
(Graduate Seminar).
Offered during Fall 07, Spring 08.
- ISEN 689: Operations Research Models
for Computer-Communication Networks (Graduate Course on Performance Models).
Offered during Fall 06.
Some useful links
Professional Societies
Applied probability, queueing and stochastic processes
- INFORMS Applied Probability Society
Website
-
Ward Whitt's web page
-
Hlynka's Queueing Theory page
-
Center for Applied Probability Home page
-
Probability and statistics link
-
Text on Prob and Stat link
-
Notes on Measure Theory Home Page
Networking & Telecommunications
Reference Material
This page modified March 12,
2013.