SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Atkinson M. P., Kress M., and Szechtman R., "When a Bit More is
Too Much: The Cascading Effect of Insurgency Actions on Popular Attitudes,"
INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego. (October 2009, invited.)
Atkinson M. P., Kress M., and Szechtman R., "When a Bit More is Too Much: The
Cascading Effect of Insurgency Actions on Popular Attitudes," Office of the
Secretary of Defense's Human Social Cultural Behavior Modeling Program Technical
Exchange Meeting, Washington. (August 2009, invited.)
Royset J., and Szechtman R., "A New Perspective on Computing Budget Allocation
for Sample Average Approximation," 15th INFORMS Applied Probability Society
Conference, Ithaca. (July 2009.)
Kress M., and Szechtman R., "Insurgency Dynamics," Urban Operations Summit VIII,
Monterey. (October 2008, invited.)
Szechtman R., and Yucesan E., "A New Perspective On Feasibility Determination,"
Winter Simulation Conference, Miami. (December 2008, invited.)
Kress M., and Szechtman R., "Why Defeating Insurgencies Is Hard: The Effect Of
Intelligence In Counterinsurgency Operations � A Best Case Scenario," INSEAD,
France. (October 2008, invited.)
Royset J., and Szechtman R., "Asymptotic Analysis of Sample Allocation in
Stochastic Optimization," INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington. (October 2008,
invited.)
Kaplan E., Kress M., and Szechtman R., "Confronting Elusive Insurgents," INFORMS
Annual Meeting, Washington. (October 2008, invited.)
Kress M., and Szechtman R., "Why Defeating Insurgencies Is Hard: The Effect Of
Intelligence In Counterinsurgency Operations � A Best Case Scenario," INFORMS
Annual Meeting, Washington. (October 2008, invited.)
Kress M., and Szechtman R., "Efficient Employment of Reactive and Non-Reactive
Sensors," INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington. (October 2008, invited.)
Carlyle W. M., Henderson S. G., and Szechtman R., "Attacking Parallel Queues,"
CNO Distinguished Fellows Workshop on Critical Infrastructure, Monterey. (August
2008, invited.)
Kress M., and Szechtman R., "Why Defeating Insurgencies Is Hard: The Effect Of
Intelligence In Counterinsurgency Operations � A Best Case Scenario,"
Intelligence Summit, Monterey. (August 2008, invited.)
Lee S-H, Glynn P. W., and Szechtman R., "Monte Carlo Estimation of the
Distribution Function of Conditional Expectations: Continuous Conditioning
Spaces," Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo Methods, Montreal. (July 2008,
invited.)
Kress M., and Szechtman R., "Why Defeating Insurgencies Is Hard: The Effect Of
Intelligence In Counterinsurgency Operations � A Best Case Scenario," Technion,
Israel. (July 2008, invited.)
Royset J. O., Kress M., Lin K., Szechtman R., and Ewing P. L., "Route
Optimization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," 74th Military Operations Research
Society Symposium, Colorado Springs. (June 2006.)
Gunes E., and Szechtman R., "A Simulation Model Of A Helicopter Ambulance
Service," Winter Simulation Conference, Orlando. (December 2005, invited.)
Szechtman R., "Feasibility Detection From A Large Deviations Perspective,"
INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco. (October 2005, invited.)
Lin K., Kress M., and Szechtman R., "Scheduling Policies For A Sensor To Guard A
Perimeter," INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco. (October 2005.)
Szechtman R., "Variance Reduction From A Projection Standpoint," 43th Annual
Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing. Monticello,
Illinois. (September 2005, invited.)
Szechtman R., "Control Variates Techniques For Monte Carlo Simulation," Winter
Simulation Conference, New Orleans. (December 2003, invited.)
Desai P., and Szechtman R., " Importance Sampling And Control Variates For
Extreme Quantile Estimation," INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta. (October 2003.)
Szechtman R., and Glynn P. W., "Rare-Even Simulation For Infinite Server
Queues," Winter Simulation Conference, San Diego. (December 2002, invited.)
Szechtman R., and Glynn P. W., "Rare Event Simulation For Loss Probabilities For
Many-Server Queues," European Meeting of Statisticians, Prague. (August 2002,
invited.)
Szechtman R., and Glynn P. W., "Constrained Monte Carlo And The Method Of
Control Variates," Winter Simulation Conference, Washington. (December 2001,
invited.)