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  1. Age of Information Cost Minimization with No Buffers, Random Arrivals and Unreliable Channels: A PCL-Indexability Analysis

    Article • Mathematics, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  2. Markovian Restless Bandits and Index Policies: A Review

    Article • Mathematics, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  3. Multi-Gear Bandits, Partial Conservation Laws, and Indexability

    Article • Mathematics, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  4. Solving Poisson’s equation for birth–death chains: Structure, instability, and accurate approximation

    Article • Performance Evaluation, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  5. Fast Two-Stage Computation of an Index Policy for Multi-Armed Bandits with Setup Delays

    Article • Mathematics, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  6. A Fast-Pivoting Algorithm for Whittle’s Restless Bandit Index

    Article • Mathematics, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  7. A Verification Theorem for Threshold-Indexability of Real-State Discounted Restless Bandits

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, October 2019, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  8. Resource allocation and routing in parallel multi-server queues with abandonments for cloud profit maximization

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, March 2019, Elsevier

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  9. Whittle’s Index Policy for Multi-Target Tracking with Jamming and Nondetections

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  10. A Dynamic Page-Refresh Index Policy for Web Crawlers

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  11. Admission and routing of soft real-time jobs to multiclusters: Design and comparison of index policies

    Article • Computers & Operations Research, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  12. Towards minimum loss job routing to parallel heterogeneous multiserver queues via index policies

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, August 2012, Elsevier

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  13. Index-Based Admission Control and Load Balancing of Firm Real-Time Jobs in Multi-clusters

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  14. Computing a Classic Index for Finite-Horizon Bandits

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Computing, May 2011, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  15. Klimov's Model

    Article • January 2011, Wiley

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  16. Conservation Laws and Related Applications

    Article • January 2011, Wiley

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  17. Index policies for admission and routing of soft real-time traffic to parallel queues

    Article • ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, October 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  18. Multitarget tracking via restless bandit marginal productivity indices and Kalman filter in discrete time

    Article • December 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  19. A Restless Bandit Marginal Productivity Index for Opportunistic Spectrum Access with Sensing Errors

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  20. A Faster Index Algorithm and a Computational Study for Bandits with Switching Costs

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Computing, May 2008, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  21. An Index Policy for Dynamic Fading-Channel Allocation to Heterogeneous Mobile Users with Partial Observations

    Article • April 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  22. Computing an Index Policy for Multiarmed Bandits with Deadlines

    Article • January 2008, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  23. An Index Policy for Multiarmed Multimode Restless Bandits

    Article • January 2008, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  24. Admission Control and Routing to Parallel Queues with Delayed Information via Marginal Productivity Indices

    Article • January 2008, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Professor José Niño-Mora, Peter Jacko

  25. A (2/3)n3Fast-Pivoting Algorithm for the Gittins Index and Optimal Stopping of a Markov Chain

    Article • INFORMS Journal on Computing, November 2007, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  26. Dynamic priority allocation via restless bandit marginal productivity indices

    Article • Top, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  27. Rejoinder on: Dynamic priority allocation via restless bandit marginal productivity indices

    Article • Top, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  28. Marginal Productivity Index Policies for Scheduling Multiclass Delay-/Loss-Sensitive Traffic with Delayed State Observation

    Article • May 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  29. Time-Constrained Restless Bandits and the Knapsack Problem for Perishable Items (Extended Abstract)

    Article • Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor José Niño-Mora, Peter Jacko

  30. Computing an Index Policy for Bandits with Switching Penalties

    Article • January 2007, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  31. Characterization and Computation of Restless Bandit Marginal Productivity Indices

    Article • January 2007, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  32. Marginal productivity index policies for scheduling a multiclass delay-/loss-sensitive queue

    Article • Queueing Systems, December 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  33. Restless Bandit Marginal Productivity Indices, Diminishing Returns, and Optimal Control of Make-to-Order/Make-to-StockM/G/1Queues

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, February 2006, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  34. Marginal productivity index policies for scheduling multiclass delay-/loss-sensitive traffic

    Article • January 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  35. Whittle's index policy for a multi-class queueing system with convex holding costs

    Article • Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, April 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  36. Index policies for a class of discounted restless bandits

    Article • Advances in Applied Probability, December 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  37. Dynamic allocation indices for restless projects and queueing admission control: a polyhedral approach

    Article • Mathematical Programming, December 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  38. Parallel Scheduling of MulticlassM/M/mQueues: Approximate and Heavy-Traffic Optimization of Achievable Performance

    Article • Operations Research, August 2001, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  39. Restless bandits, partial conservation laws and indexability

    Article • March 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  40. Restless bandits, partial conservation laws and indexability

    Article • Advances in Applied Probability, March 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  41. Assessing an intuitive condition for stability under a range of traffic conditions via a generalised Lu-Kumar network

    Article • September 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  42. Assessing an intuitive condition for stability under a range of traffic conditions via a generalised Lu-Kumar network

    Article • Journal of Applied Probability, September 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  43. Restless Bandits, Linear Programming Relaxations, and a Primal-Dual Index Heuristic

    Article • Operations Research, February 2000, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  44. The achievable region approach to the optimal control of stochastic systems

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B Statistical Methodology, November 1999, Wiley

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  45. A Semidefinite Programming Approach to the Optimal Control of a Single Server Queueing System with Imposed Second Moment Constraints

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, July 1999, JSTOR

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  46. A semidefinite programming approach to the optimal control of a single server queueing system with imposed second moment constraints

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, July 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  47. Optimization of Multiclass Queueing Networks with Changeover Times Via the Achievable Region Approach: Part I, The Single-Station Case

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, May 1999, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  48. Optimization of Multiclass Queueing Networks with Changeover Times Via the Achievable Region Approach: Part II, The Multi-Station Case

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, May 1999, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  49. Scheduling multiclass queueing networks on parallel servers: Approximate and heavy-traffic optimality of Klimov's priority rule

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  50. Conservation Laws, Extended Polymatroids and Multiarmed Bandit Problems; A Polyhedral Approach to Indexable Systems

    Article • Mathematics of Operations Research, May 1996, INFORMS

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  51. Stochastic Scheduling

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  52. Stochastic Scheduling

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  53. A Marginal Productivity Index Rule for Scheduling Multiclass Queues with Setups

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  54. A Marginal Productivity Index Policy for the Finite-Horizon Multiarmed Bandit Problem

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  55. Marginal productivity index policies for scheduling multiclass wireless transmissions

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor José Niño-Mora

  56. Marginal Productivity Index Policies for Admission Control and Routing to Parallel Multi-server Loss Queues with Reneging

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Niño-Mora