Publications

Refereed Journals

• A. Chande, S. Dhekane, N. Hemachandra and N. Rangaraj, "Perishable Inventory Management and Dynamic Pricing using RFID Technology" Sadhana, Special Issue on e-Commerce, vol. 30. Parts 2 & 3, pp. 445-462, 2005.

• Rahul Tandra, N. Hemachandra and D. Manjunath, "Join Minimum Cost Queue: Stability and Performance Bounds", Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol. 18, pp. 445-472, 2004.

• Rahul Tandra, N. Hemachandra and D. Manjunath, "DiffServ Node with Join Minimum Cost Queue Policy and Multiclass Traffic. '', Performance Evaluation, vol. 55, pp. 69-91, 2004.

• N Hemachandra and Sarat Kumar Eedupuganti, "Performance Analysis and Buffer Allocations in Some Open Assembly Systems", Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 30, pp. 695-704, 2003.

• N Hemachandra and Y Narahari, "A Mathematical Programming Approach to Optimal Markovian Switching of Poisson Arrival Streams to Queueing Systems", Queueing systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 36, 2001, pp. 443-461.

• Y Narahari, N Hemachandra and M S Gaur, "Transient Analysis of Multiclass Manufacturing Systems with Priority Scheduling", Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 24, 1997, pp. 387-398.

• Y Narahari and N Hemachandra, "On the Optimality of Exhaustive Service Policies in Multiclass Systems with Modulated Arrivals and Switchovers", Sadhana, Vol. 22, Part 1, 1997, pp. 69-82.

Communicated

• J. Balaji, and N. Hemachandra, "Multiple Optima and Sensitivity Analysis of (s, S) policies" (Under Revision)

• M.S.Gharote, N. Hemachandra and Narayan Rangaraj "Periodic Review for Reverse Logistics with Remanufacturing, Stocking and Disposal"

• R. Krishnamurthy and N. Hemachandra "Sensitivity analysis and optimal ultimately stationary policies in some constrained discounted cost models"

Technical Reports

• N. Hemachandra, and V. Cheriyan, "Bounds for Covariances and Variances of Truncated Random Variables" http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212006

• A Chande, N. Hemachandra, and N. Rangaraj, "Fixed Life Perishable Inventory Problem and Approximation under Price Promotion" (PDF Link)

Conference Proceedings

• Y. Narahari, N. Hemachandra and M. S. Gaur "Transient analysis of a multi-class production facility with priority scheduling" Proceedings of the SME International Conference on Computer Intergrated Manufacturing, Singapore, June, 1995.

• Y. Narahari and N. Hemachandra, "Non-stationary models of manufacturing systems: Relevance and analysis" Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Monterey, USA, August, 1996.

• N. Hemachandra and Y. Narahari, "A linear programming approach to optimal scheduling in a stochastic manufacturing system", Proceedings of the International Conference on Agile Manufacturing, Bangalore, Febraury, 1996.

• D. Manjunath, A. Goel and N. Hemachandra, "DiffServ Node with Join Minimum Cost queue policy: Analysis with multiclass traffic" IEEE GLOBECOM 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, November, 2002

• V. Mariappan, N. Hemachandra and A Subash Babu, "Optimal preventive maintenance oplicy using GRG algorithm" International Conference on Operations Research for Development, ICCORD, Chennai, 27-30 December 2002.

• N Hemachandra and Balaji J, "Robustness of (s,S) Policies in Inventory Systems ", Invited talk at Proceedings of IT-MLS 2003, IISc Bangalore, December 2003.

• K Chandrasekhar, Nitish Dave, N Hemachandra, Narayan Rangaraj, "Timing of Discount Offers for Perishable Inventories", Sixth Asia Pacific Operations Research Society, Delhi, December 2003.

• M.S.Gharote, N.Hemachandra and Narayan Rangaraj, "Periodic Review Inventory Policies for a Hybrid Production System with Stocking and Disposal Options", ISL-2004 (International Symposium on Logistics) at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, July 2004.

• A. Chande, S. Dekhane, N. Hemachandra and Narayan Rangarj, "Perishable inventory management and RFID technology", Supply Chain Management in Global Enterprise, Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, Mumbai, December 2004.

• K. Raghupati, Narayan Rangaraj and N. Hemachandra, "Bid Estimation in Combinatorial Auctions", Supply Chain Management in Global Enterprise, Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, Mumbai, December 2004.

• Sudhir K. Sinha, N. Rangaraj and N. Hemachandra, "Study of a two-way transportation contract", Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Operations Research for Development ICORD-V, Jamshedpur, India, December 2005.

Other Presentations at Conferences

• A. Mittal and N. Hemachandra, "Learning Algorithms for Finite Horizon Constrained Markov Decision Processes", International Conference on Operations Research Applications in Infrastructure Development in Conjuction with the 2005 Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India, ICORAID-2005-ORSI, Bangalore, December 2005

• S. Dekhane, Narayan Rangaraj, N. Hemachandra, M. Patil and M. Padalkar, "The Counter Bid Problem", International Conference on Operations Research Applications in Infrastructure Development in Conjuction with the 2005 Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India, ICORAID-2005-ORSI, Bangalore, December 2005

• A. Sarkar, N. Hemachandra and K. Suresh Kumar, "An Approach to Pricing of Bonds", 37th Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India, January, 2005, Ahemadabad.

• Kartikeya S. Puranam and N. Hemachandra, "Sensitivity Analysis of the Control Limit with respect to the Cost Parameters in an M/M/1 Queue", 37th Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India, January, 2005, Ahemadabad.