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INVITED TALKS

  1. “Procurement Auctions with Supply Constraints”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 13, 2005


  2. “Decomposition Technique to Solve Constrained Auctions”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 14, 2005 (with A. Pani)


  3. “Auctions with Budget Constraints”, Johnson School of Business, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 22, 2005


  4. “Fighting Information Goods Piracy with Versioning”, School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, April 15, 2005


  5. “Technology Trends and the CIO Mindshare”, Society of Information Management, Washington DC, April 12, 2005


  6. “Combinatorial Auctions for Telecommunications Bandwidth Pricing”,

  7. INFORMS National Conference, Denver, CO, 26 October 2004
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  8. “Revenue Management in Telecommunications”, Invited Workshop, INFORMS Conference on Telecommunications, Boca Raton, FL, March 2004


  9. “Combinatorial Auction Mechanisms for Telecommunications Network Pricing”, Smeal School of Business, Pennsylvania State University, November 17, 2003


  10. “Fighting Information Goods Piracy with Versioning”, Marshall School of Business, Southern Methodist University, October 31, 2003


  11. “Using Vickrey Share Auctions for Allocating Spectrum”, INFORMS National meeting, San Jose, CA, November 18, 2002.


  12. “Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions”, Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, May 18, 2001


  13. “A Model for Auctioning Multiple Services in Telecommunications Networks with Guaranteed Quality of Service”, Lucent Bell Labs, Murray Hill, May 11, 2001


  14. “Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions”, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington DC, April 27, 2001.


  15. “Pricing of Multiple Services in Telecommunications Networks with Quality of Service Guarantees”, Conference on “Mathematics of the Internet: e-Auctions and Markets”, Institute for Mathematical Analysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, December 3-5, 2000.


  16. “Auction Algorithms for Telecommunications Pricing”, Electronic Markets Workshop, University of Maryland, September 21, 2000.


  17. “Information and Network Economics”, Workshop on Network Economics, Operational Research Society of India, August 23, 2000.


  18. "Congestion Avoidance in Telecommunication Networks Using Price Discounts," INFORMS Fall Conference, Philadelphia PA, November 8, 1999 (with Neil Keon).


  19. Keynote Speaker, “Internet Economics”, at the Operational Research Society of India Conference on “The Impact of Information Technology on Management Science”, Bangalore, India, July 28, 1999.


  20. 19. “Real-Time Pricing in Telecommunications Networks”, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, April 1, 1999.


  21. “Pricing of Multiple Services in Telecommunications Networks”, Department of Systems Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 5, 1999.


  22. “Pricing of Multiple Services in Telecommunications Networks”, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, February 12, 1999


  23. “Pricing Infrastructure Services”, International Seminar on Financing and Pricing of Urban Infrastructure, New Delhi, India, February 9, 1999.


  24. ``Pricing of Multiple Services in Telecommunications Networks", Decision Sciences Department, London Business School, May 22, 1998.


  25. 'Design of Telecommunications Networks', Department of Computer, Information and Systems Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, May 1, 1998.


  26. 'Privatization and Liberalization of Global Telecommunications', Three Invited Lectures, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India, October 7-21, 1997.


  27. 'The Internet Revolution: Or How Networking Technology is Changing the Way We Work, Live, and Play', National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India, July 25, 1997.


  28. “Pricing Multimedia Services', Workshop on Network Games and Pricing, Columbia University, March 27, 1997.


  29. 'Convergence of Computer, Communications and Entertainment' International Conference on Infrastructure Management, Bangalore India, November 26-30, 1996.


  30. 'Global Trends in Data Networking', Churchill Lecture, Infosys Technologies, Bangalore, India, October 17, 1996.


  31. “Design of Large Scale Telecommunications Networks', Helsinki University of Technology, 3-day lectures, Helsinki, May 27-29, 1996.


  32. 'Telecommunications Sector Reform: India in a Global Perspective', Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi, March 30, 1996.


  33. “Global Telecommunications: Technology Trends and Industry Initiatives', National University of Singapore, February 29, 1996.


  34. “Liberalization and Privatization of Telecommunications', Special Lecture to Indian Administrative Service Officials, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, February 14 & March 5, 1996.


  35. 'Heuristics for Designing Telecommunications Networks', INFORMS Conference on the Interface of Computers and Operations Research, Dallas, January 8, 1996.


  36. 'Discrete Bi-Level Programming and the Analysis of Conflict and Cooperation in International Telecommunications Networks', Workshop on Bi-Level Programming, Linkoping, Sweden, November 19-24, 1995.


  37. 'Heuristics for Designing Large Scale Telecommunications Networks: Do Sophisticated Models Buy One Anything?” Dept of Systems Engineering, University of Virginia, October 13, 1995.


  38. 'New Approaches for Designing Large Scale Telecommunications Networks', A T & T Bell Laboratories, September 19, 1995.


  39. 'Design of Survivable International Telecommunications Networks', TIMS 33rd International Conference, Singapore, June 27, 1995.


  40. 'The Design of Heterogeneous Telecommunications Networks: To Anneal or Not to Anneal', Dept of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton University, March 9, 1995.


  41. 'Global Communications: Present Status and Future Trends', Computer Society of India, Bangalore, India, August 3, 1993.


  42. 'Global Telecommunications Revolution: Challenges for Management Science', Institution of Engineers (India) and the Operational Research Society of India, Bangalore, India, May 5, 1993; also at the Rotary Club of India, July 21, 1993.


  43. 'A Penalty Method Approach to Alternative Pairwise Comparisons in ISMAUT', EURO XIITIMS XXI Conf, Helsinki, Finland, June 30, 1992 (with C. C. White III).


  44. 'Issues in Water Resource Allocation and Pricing Under Uncertainty', EURO XII-TIMS XXI Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 29-July 1, 1992 (with R. Bhatia and P. Maheshwari).


  45. 'Engineer Education Programs and Issues in the Management of Interfaces', Production and Operations Management Society Conference, New York, November 10, 1991.


  46. 'Game Theoretic Analysis of International Telecommunications Network Design', Pennsylvania State University, March 29, 1991.


  47. 'Multi-Criteria Decision Model for Selection of Hazardous Waste Removal System', presented at the ORSA/TIMS meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 1990, (with Wen K. Shieh).


  48. “Design of Survivable Heterogeneous Networks', presented at the ORSA/TIMS meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 1990, (with Lloyd Clarke).


  49. 'Recent Developments in the Application of Simulated Annealing to Network Facility Location Models', presented at the ORSA/TIMS meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 1990 (with T. L. Friesz, N. Mehta, K. Nam, and R. L. Tobin).


  50. 'Optimal Design of Interconnected Heterogeneous Networks', presented at the ORSA/TIMS meeting, Las Vegas, NV, May 7-9, 1990, with Peter Fetterolf.


  51. 'Penalty Function Approaches for Solving Bi-Level and Bi-Linear Programming', presented at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, November 8, 1989.


  52. 'A Hierarchical Risk-Based Methodology for Design of Nuclear Repositories', presented at the Engineering Foundation Conference on Risk-Based Decisionmaking, Santa Barbara, CA, October 15-20, 1989.


  53. 'Design of Heterogeneous Networks', presented at the ORSA/TIMS meeting, New York, NY, October 16-18, 1989, (with Peter Fetterolf).


  54. 'Optimal Resource Allocation in Distributed Computer Networks', presented at the ORSA/TIMS meeting, New York, NY, October 16-18, 1989 (with Nelson Dorny and Ashok Vernekar).


  55. 'Optimal Design of Heterogeneous Data Networks', Department of Operations Research and Applied Statistics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, September 29, 1989.


  56. 'A Systems Analysis of Demographic Impacts of Power Plant Projects', United Nations regional seminar/workshop on demographic effects of development projects, Havana, Cuba, July 4-14, 1989 (with Judith Zubieta Garcia).


  57. 'Combination and Selection of Binary Forecasts', presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Forecasting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 18-21, 1989, (with Lian Chen).


  58. 'Optimization of Resource Location in Hierarchical Computer Networks', presented at a joint seminar of the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering and the Manufacturing Engineering Departments, Boston University, April 6, 1989.


  59. 'AI Based Approaches for Solving Bi-Level Mathematical Programs', presented at the ORSA/TIMS meeting, Denver, CO, October 27, 1988.


  60. 'Optimization of Resource Location in Hierarchical Computer Networks', Decision Sciences Workshop, The Wharton School, September 28, 1988.


  61. 'A Penalty Function Approach for Solving Bi-Level Linear Programming Problems', presented at the ORSA/TIMS meeting, Washington D. C., April 26, 1988, with D. J. White.


  62. 'An Expert System for Regulating Hazardous Waste', presented at the Division of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, April 11, 1988.


  63. 'Multi-Level Programming and Conflict Resolution in International River Management', presented at College of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, March 21, 1988.


  64. 'An Expert System for Screening Industrial Waste', presented at Department of Nuclear Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, February 12, 1988.


  65. 'A Penalty Function Approach for Bi-Level Linear Programming', at Department of Industrial Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Nov 13, 1987.


  66. 'Forecast Combination with Multiple Objectives and Uncertainty', presented at the School of Business Administration, Georgetown University, February 25, 1987.


  67. 'Capital Rationing and Factor Substitutability in Manufacturing', presented at the Department of Economics, Boston University, February 25, 1985, with N. Kulatilaka.


  68. 'Strategic Planning, Energy Conservation, and Uncertainty', presented at the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, August 1985, Cambridge, MA.


  69. 'Energy Conservation in Asia', presented at the New York Conference of the American Association of Asian Studies, October 1984, Cortland, NY.


  70. 'Optimal Timing of Investments Using Dynamic Programming', presented at Bell Communications Research, March 1984.


  71. 'Optimal Control of Multi-Sector Economies in the Presence of Large Projects', presented at the Department of Civil Engineering, Princeton University, March 1980.

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