Working with researchers from other fields and industry practitioners, I use the toolbox from AI/ML, operations research, and economics to study the pricing, resource allocation, and scheduling problems found in the operations of cyber-physical systems. Cloud Computing • Wang, H., Shen, H., Liu, Q., Zheng, K. and Xu, J., 2020, August. A Reinforcement Learning Based System for Minimizing Cloud Storage Service Cost. In 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing-ICPP (pp. 1-10). • Zhu, C., Shen, H. and Xu, J., 2019, July. An Economic Analysis of Cloud Computing Service Using Reclaimed Resources. In 2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) (pp. 50-57). IEEE. • Xu, J. and Zhu, C., 2015, September. Optimal pricing and capacity planning of a new economy cloud computing service class. In 2015 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (pp. 149-157). IEEE. • Liu, L., Xu, J., Yu, H. and Wei, X., 2015, June. Joint admission control and provisioning for virtual machines. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (pp. 332-337). IEEE. • Liu, L., J. Xu, C. Qiao, H. Yu, L. Li. 2015. VMSA: A Performance Preserving Online VM Splitting and Placement Algorithm in Dynamic Cloud Environments. Journal of Supercomputing, published online, 72 3169-3193. Download • Liu, L., Xu, J., Qiao, C., Yu, H., and Li, L. 2014. A Novel Performance Preserving VM Splitting and Assignment Scheme. Proc. of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 4215-4220, Sydney, Australia, 2014. Manufacturing • Zhang, F., Song, J., Dai, Y. and Xu, J., 2020. Semiconductor wafer fabrication production planning using multi-fidelity simulation optimisation. International Journal of Production Research, 58(21), pp.6585-6600. Download • Song, J., Qiu, Y., Xu, J. and Yang, F., 2019. Multi-fidelity sampling for efficient simulation-based decision making in manufacturing management. IISE Transactions, 51(7), pp.792-805. Honorable Mention for the Best Paper in the 2020 IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Design and Manufacturing from all papers published from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020, issues 51:7 through 52:6. Download • Li, M., F. Yang, R. Uzsoy, and J. Xu. 2016. A metamodel-based Monte Carlo simulation approach for responsive production planning of manufacturing systems. Journal of Manufacturing Systems 38, 114-133. Download • Li, M., Yang, F., and Xu, J. 2014. A Metamodeling-based Approach for Production Planning. In Proc. of 2014 Winter Simulation Conference. Health Care • Koohi, A., Homayoun, H., Xu, J. and Orooji, M., 2016, February. Co-clustering of diseases, genes, and drugs for identification of their related gene modules. In 2016 Eighth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI) (pp. 407-411). IEEE. • Xu, R., Xu, J., Wunsch, D.C. 2009. MicroRNA expression profile based cancer classification using Default ARTMAP, Neural Networks 22(5) 774-780. Download • Xu, R., Xu, J., Wunsch, D.C. 2009. Using default ARTMAP for cancer classification with MicroRNA expression signatures, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Atlanta, GA. Business Analytics • Yu, M., Xu, J. and Tang J. 2023. Managing Customer Contact Centers with Delay Announcements and Automated Service. IISE Transactions, accepted. Download computer codes for experiments reported in the paper • Malthouse, E., Qiu, D., and Xu, J. 2012. Optimal Selection of Media Vehicles using Customer Databases. Expert Systems with Applications, 39:13035-13045. Download • Subramanian, D., Huang, P., Pulavarthi, C., Xu, J., Sekhar, H., Zhan, S., Tripathi, S. and Kumar, S. 2010. Risk-adjusted approach to optimize investments in product development portfolios, IBM Journal of Research & Development, 54(3). Download |
