Steven L. Bell

Research

My research interests include metabolic networks, applied probability, scheduling in queueing networks , stochastic optimization, and quantitative equity trading strategies

Expa: a Program for Calculating Extreme Pathways in Biochemical Reaction Networks, S.L. Bell and B.O. Palsson, Bioinformatics, 21(8):1739-1740 (2005).

Phenotype Phase Plane Analysis Using Interior Point Methods, [110K pdf] S.L. Bell and B.O. Palsson, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 29(3):481-486 (2005).

Dynamic Scheduling of a Parallel Server System in Heavy Traffic with Complete Resource Pooling: Asymptotic Optimality of a Threshold Policy S.L. Bell and R.J. Williams, Electronic J. of Probability, 10 (2005), 1044-1115

Dynamic Scheduling of a Parallel Server System in Heavy Traffic with Complete Resource Pooling: Asymptotic Optimality of a Threshold Policy, [1M pdf] S.L. Bell, University of California, San Diego, PhD Thesis, 2003.

Dynamic Scheduling of a System with Two Parallel Servers: Asymptotic Optimality of a Continuous Review Threshold Policy in Heavy Traffic, 38th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Session: WeP02- Scheduling, Phoenix 1999, S.L. Bell and R.J. Williams.

Dynamic Scheduling of a System with Two Parallel Servers in Heavy Traffic with Complete Resource Pooling: Asymptotic Optimality of a Continuous Review Threshold Policy in Heavy Traffic, S.L. Bell and R.J. Williams, Annals of Applied Probability, 11 (2001), 608-649.

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Talks

Here are the slides to my thesis presentation, San Diego, CA. March 2003.

RECOMB, San Diego, Ca., March 2004.

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, Az., December 1999.

INFORMS Spring 2000 Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2000.

5TH World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Guanajuato, Mexico, May 2000.

Programs

Here is a C++ simulation program for simulating parallel networks as defined in my thesis above.

Here is a C program (2004) to compute extreme pathways.

Courses

Math 180B Stochastic Processes

Math 150 CALCULUS I, San Diego State University

Math 180A Introduction to Probability

Math 180C Stochastic Processes

Last modified: January 27, 2011.