Publications

Publications in Refeered Scientific Journals

Printed or Accepted

1.       Wang, L., M. Mazumdar, M. Bailey, and J. Valenzuela, 2007, “Oligopoly Models for Market Price of Electricity under Demand Uncertainty and Unit Reliability,” European Journal on Operations Research, Vol. 181, pp. 1309-1321.

2.       Valenzuela, J., G. Ramasamy, and H. Ramaswamy, 2007, “A Feeder Replenishment Policy for a Turret-Head Placement Machine,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 45, No. 8, 1861-1879.

3.       Kaymaz P., J. Valenzuela, C. Park, 2007, "Transmission Congestion and Competition in Power Generation Expansion," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 22, pp. 156-163.

4.       Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2007, "Cournot Prices Considering Generator Availability and Demand Uncertainty," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 22, pp. 116-125.

5.       Ramasamy, G. and J. Valenzuela, 2006, "A 2-OPT Procedure to Reduce Total Inspection Time in a Serial Inspection Process," International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 99-119.

6.       Sisworahardjo, S., A. El-Keib, J. Valenzuela, R. Brooks, J. Choi, and I. El-Ajtal, 2006, "A Stochastic Electricity Load Model," Electric Power Systems Research Journal, Vol. 76, pp. 500-508.

7.       Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2005, "A Probability Model for the Electricity Price Duration Curve under an Oligopoly Market," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 1250-1256.

8.       Valenzuela, J., 2005, "An Analytical Approximation to the Probability Distribution of Electricity Marginal Production Costs," Journal of Energy Engineering, Vol. 131, No. 2, pp. 157-171.

9.       Valenzuela, J., H. Balci, and T. McDonald, 2005, "A Transportation-Scheduling System for Managing Silvicultural Projects," Journal of Forest Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 65-75.

10.       Kakade, V., J. Valenzuela, and J. Smith, 2004,"An Optimization Model for Selective Inspection in Serial Production Systems," International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 42, No. 18, pp. 3891-3909.

11.       Valenzuela, J., J. Smith,and J. Evans, 2004, "Allocating Solder-Paste Printing Inspection in High Volume Electronics Manufacturing," IIE Transactions, Vol. 36, No. 12, pp. 1171-1181.

12.       Balci, H. and J. Valenzuela, 2004, "Scheduling Electric Power Generators using Particle Swarm Optimization Combined with the Lagrangian Relaxation Method," International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 411-421.

13.       Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2003, "Commitment of Electric Power Generators under Stochastic Market Prices," Operations Research, Vol 51, No 6., pp. 880-893.

14.       Valenzuela, J. and A. Smith, 2002,"A Seeded Memetic Algorithm for Large Unit Commitment Problems," Journal of Heuristics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 173-195

15.       Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2001, "Stochastic Monte Carlo Computation of Power Generation Production Costs under Operating Constraints," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 16(4), 671-677.

16.       Valenzuela, J., M. Mazumdar, and A. Kapoor, 2000,"Influence of Temperature and Load Forecast Uncertainty on Estimates of Power Generation Production Costs," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 15(2), 668-674.

17.       Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2000, "Statistical Analysis of Electric Power Production Costs," IIE Transactions, Vol. 32, 1139-1148.

18.       Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2001,"Probabilistic Unit Commitment under a Deregulated Market," a chapter for the book on "The Next Generation of Unit Commitment Models", Kluwer Academic Publisher, Co-sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), pp. 139-152.

19.       Motavalli, S. and J. Valenzuela, 1998,"A System for Reverse Engineering of Prismatic Parts using Orthographic Images," International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 11(2), 103-110.

20.       Motavalli, S. and J. Valenzuela, 1998,"Automatic Generation of Dimensionally Accurate 3-D CAD Models for Reverse Engineering," Engineering Design and Automation, 4(2). 

Publications in Conference Proceedings

Refereed (Full Paper)

1.       Valenzuela, J., J. Smith, and J. Evans, 2003, "Allocation of Inspection in Serial PCB Assembly," Proceedings of Apex 2003, Anehaim, CA.

2.       Mcdonald, T. and J. Valenzuela, 2002, "Optimizing Log Transport in the US South," Proceedings of The International Information Technology, Helsinki, Finland.

3.       J. Valenzuela, H. Balci, and T. Mcdonald, 2002, "A Simulation-based Optimization Model for Planning Forest Operations," Proceedings of  the International Conference on Forestry Engineering, Auburn, Alabama.

4.      Mcdonald, T., S. Taylor, R. Rummer, and J. Valenzuela, 2001, "Information Needs for Increasing Log Transport Efficiency," Proceedings of the First International Precision Forestry Cooperative Symposium, Seattle, Washington, pp.181-184.

5.       Mcdonald, T., R. Rummer , S. Taylor, and J. Valenzuela, 2001, "Potential for shared log transport services", Proceedings of the 24^th Annual Council on Forest Engineering Meeting, Snowshoe Mountain, West Virginia, pp. 115-120.

6.      Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2001, "Making Unit Commitment Decisions when Electricity is Traded at Spot Market Prices", IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 3, pp. 1509 -1512.

7.       Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2001, "Stochastic Unit Commitment based on Market-Clearing Prices in the Electric Power Industry", Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meeting, International Indian Statistics Association, January 2,2001, Delhi, India.

8.       Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2001,  "On the Computation of the Probability Distribution of the Spot Market Price in a Deregulated Electricity Market", PICA 2001 Innovative Computing for Power - Electric Energy Meets the Market. The 22nd International Conference on Power Industry Computer Applications, 268 -271.

9.       Valenzuela, J. and M. Mazumdar, 2000, "Sample Size Reduction in Monte Carlo Computation of Power Generation Production Cost under Unit Commitment Constraints," Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, Singapore.

10.    M. Mazumdar & J. Valenzuela (2000), "The Influence of Generator Reliability on Electric Power Production Costs," Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Bordeaux, France, 756-759.

11.    Mazumdar, M and J. Valenzuela, 1999, "A Large Deviation Approximation for the Mean and Variance of Hourly Marginal Costs of Power Generation Systems," Proceedings of the International Conference on Delivering Service Quality: Managerial Challenges for the 21^st Century, jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Management and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 205-213.

12.    Motavalli, S. and J. Valenzuela, 1995, “Building a 3D Wire-frame CAD Model for an Existing Prismatic Part,” Proceedings of Videometrics IV, SPIE Vol. 2598.