PAPERS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Sanchez, S. M., T. W. Lucas, P. J. Sanchez, C. J. Nannini, and H. Wan, 2012, “Designing large scale simulation experiments, with applications to defense and homeland security.” Chapter 12 in Design and Analysis of Experiments, Vol. 3: Special Designs and Applications, ed. K. Hinkelmann. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Vieira Jr., H., S. Sanchez, K. H. Kienitz, and M. C. N. Belderrain, 2011, “Generating and improving orthogonal designs by using mixed integer programming,” European Journal of Operational Research 215: 629-638.
Shen, H., H. Wan, and S. M. Sanchez, 2010, “A hybrid method for simulation factor screening,” Naval Research Logistics 57(1): 45-57.
Oh, R. P. T., S. M. Sanchez, H. Wan, M. E. Nissen, and T. W. Lucas, 2009, “Efficient experimental design tools for exploring large simulation models,” Computational & Mathematical Organizational Theory 15(3): 237-257.
Sanchez, S. M., H. Wan, and T. W. Lucas, 2009, “A two-phase factor screening procedure for simulation experiments,” ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 19(2): Article 7.
Sanchez, S. M., 2008, “Design of experiments (DOE) appendix” for the Joint Test & Evaluation Methodology (JTEM) Joint Mission Effectiveness (JMe) Analysis Handbook, 42 pages.
Sanchez, S. M., F. Moeeni, and P. J. Sanchez, 2006, “So many factors, so little time...simulation experiments in the frequency domain,” International Journal of Production Economics, 103(1): 149-165. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M. and P. J. Sanchez. 2005. Very large fractional factorials and central composite designs, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 15(4): 362-377.
Kleijnen, J. P. C., S. M. Sanchez, T. W. Lucas and T. M. Cioppa, “A user's guide to the brave new world of designing simulation experiments,” INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2005, pp. 263-289, with 5 page Online Supplement. [abstract]
Smith, L. D. and S. M. Sanchez, “Assessment of business potential at retail sites: Empirical findings from a U.S. supermarket chain,” The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2003, pp. 37-58. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M. and P. Konana, “Efficient data allocation for frequency domain experiments,” Operations Research Letters, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2000, pp. 81-89. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M., P. J. Sanchez, and J. S. Ramberg, “A simulation framework for robust system design,” Chapter 12 in Concurrent Design of Products, Manufacturing Processes and Systems, ed. B. Wang, Gordon and Breach, NY, 1998, pp. 279-314.
Moeeni, F., S. M. Sanchez and A. J. Vakharia, “A robust design methodology for kanban system design,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 35, No. 10, 1997, pp. 2821-2838. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M., P. J. Sanchez, J. S. Ramberg and F. Moeeni, “Effective engineering design through simulation,” International Transactions on Operational Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1996, pp. 169-185. [abstract]
Smith, L. D., S. M. Sanchez and E. Lawrence, “A comprehensive model for managing credit risk and forecasting losses on home mortgage portfolios,” Decision Sciences, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1996, pp. 291-317. [abstract]
Vakharia, A. J., D. Parmenter and S. M. Sanchez, “The operating impact of parts commonality,” The Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 14, 1996, pp. 3-18. [abstract]
Kannan, P. K. and S. M. Sanchez, “Competitive Market Structures: A Subset Selection Analysis,” Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 11, 1994, pp. 1484-1499. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M., J. S. Ramberg, J. Fiero, and J. J. Pignatiello, Jr., “Quality by design,” Chapter 10 in Concurrent Engineering: Automation, Tools, and Techniques, ed. A. Kusiak, John Wiley and Sons: NY, 1993, pp. 235-286.
Wholey, D. R., J. B. Christianson, and S. M. Sanchez, “Organizational size and failure among health maintenance organizations,” American Sociological Review, Vol. 57, 1992, pp. 1-14. [abstract]
Wholey, D. R., J. B. Christianson, and S. M. Sanchez, “The effect of physician and corporate interests in the formation of HMOs,” American Journal of Sociology , Vol. 99, No. 1, 1993, pp. 164-200.
Wholey, D. R., J. B. Christianson, S. M. Sanchez, R. F. Feldman, and M. Peterson, “The voluntary dissemination of performance information by health care organizations,” lead paper in Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Vol. 13, 1992, pp. 1-26. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M. and J. L. Higle, “Observational studies of rare events: A subset selection approach,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 87, No. 149, 1992, pp. 878-883. [abstract]
Wholey, D. R., J. B. Christianson and S. M. Sanchez, “The effect of state regulation on development of HMO markets,” in Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, ed. Gary Libecap, JAI Press: Greenwich, CT, 1990, Chapter 8, pp. 181-206.
Christianson, J. B., D. R. Wholey and S. M. Sanchez, “State responses to HMO failures,” Health Affairs, special issue on managed care, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1991, pp. 78-92. [abstract]
Wholey, D. R. and S. M. Sanchez, “The effects of regulatory tools on organizational populations,” Academy of Management Review, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1991, pp. 743-767. [abstract]
Sanchez, P. J. and S. M. Sanchez, “Design of frequency domain experiments for discrete-valued factors,” Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1991, pp. 1-21. [abstract]
Christianson, J. B., S. M. Sanchez, D. R. Wholey, and M. Shadle, “The HMO industry: Evolution in population demographics and market structure,” Medical Care Review, Vol. 48, No. 1, 1991, pp. 3-46. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M., “Unbiased estimation following selection for Bernoulli populations,” Communications in Statistics---Theory and Methods, Vol. 18, No. 11, 1989, pp. 4275-4301. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M., “A modified least-failures sampling procedure for Bernoulli subset selection,” Communications in Statistics---Theory and Methods, Vol. 16, No. 12, 1987, pp. 3609-3629. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M., “Small-sample performance of a modified least-failures sampling procedure for Bernoulli subset selection,” Communications in Statistics---Simulation and Computation, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1987, pp. 1051-1065. [abstract]
REFEREED PROCEEDINGS
Vieira Jr., H., S.M. Sanchez, K.H. Kienitz, and M.C.N. Belderrain. 2011. Improved efficient, nearly orthogonal, nearly balanced mixed designs. Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference, 3605-3616.
Sanchez, S.M. and H. Wan. 2009. Better than a petaflop: The power of efficient experimental design. Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, 60-74. (An earlier version appeared in 2008).
Oh, R., S. M. Sanchez, T. W. Lucas, and H. Wan, 2008, “Efficient experimental design tools for exploring command and control organizational structures, 13th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium. Finalist for “Best Student Paper” award.
Ahner, D. K., J. K. Alt, F. R. Baez, T. Seitz, and S. M. Sanchez. 2008. "Incorporating information networks into military simulations. Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. S. J. Mason, R. R. Hill, L. Monch, and O. Rose. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 133–144.
Sanchez, S. M. and Wood, R. K., 2006, “The ‘BEST’ Algorithm for Solving Stochastic Mixed Integer Programs,” Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference, L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wieland, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, and R. M. Fujimoto, eds., pp. 765-773.
Kang, K., K. H. Doerr, and S. M. Sanchez. 2006. "A design of experiments approach to readiness risk analysis," Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference, 1332-1339.
Lucas, T.W., S.M. Sanchez, F. Martinez, J.W. Roginski, L.R. Sickinger. 2007. Defense and homeland security applications of multi-agent simulations. Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, 138-149.
Sanchez, S. M. 2006. "Work smarter, not harder: Guidelines for designing simulation experiments," Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wieland, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, and R. M. Fujimoto, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, pp. 47-57. (An earlier version appeared in 2005.)
Sanchez, S. M., H. Wan, and T. W. Lucas, “A two-phase screening procedure for simulation experiments,” Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. M. E. Kuhl, N. M. Steiger, F. B. Armstrong, and J. A. Joines, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 2005, pp.223-230.
Cioppa, T. M., T. W. Lucas, and S. M. Sanchez, “Military applications of agent-based simulations,” Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, and B. A. Peters, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 2004, pp. 171-180.
Allen, T. E., A. H. Buss and Sanchez, S. M., “Assessing obstacle location accuracy in the REMUS unmanned underwater vehicle,” Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. R. G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, and B. A. Peters, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 2004, pp. 940-948.
Sanchez, S. M. and H.-F. Wu, “Frequency-based designs for terminating simulation experiments: A Peace-enforcement Example,” Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. D. Ferrin, D. J. Morrice, P. J. Sanchez, and S. Chick, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 2003, pp. 952-959.
Sanchez, S. M. and T. W. Lucas, “Exploring the world of agent-based simulations: simple models, complex analyses,” Proceedings of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. J. L. Snowdon, J. Charnes, C.-H. Chen, and E. Yucesan, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 2002, pp. 116-126.
Smith, L. D. and S. M. Sanchez, “Estimating business potential for supermarkets: a statistical approach for site selection and performance review,” DSI Conference Proceedings, November 2002, pp. 1458-1462.
Sanchez, S. M., “ABC’s of output analysis,” Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. B. A. Peters, J. S. Smith, D. J. Medeiros, and M. W. Rohrer, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 2001, pp. 30-39.
Sanchez, S. M., D. Ferrin, T. Ogazon, J. Sepulveda, and T. Ward, “Emerging issues in healthcare simulation,” Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. J. Joines, R. Barton, and K. Kang, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 2000, pp. 1993-2003.
Sanchez, S. M., “Robust design: seeking the best of all possible worlds,” Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. J. Joines, R. Barton, and K. Kang, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 2000, pp. 69-76.
Sanchez, S. M., “ABC's of output analysis,” Proceedings of the 1999 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. D. Sturrock, P. A. Fishwick, P. A. Farrington, and H. B. Nembhard, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 1999, pp. 24-32.
Sanchez, S. M., “It is a far, far better mean I find...,” Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. S. Andradottir, K. Healy, D. H. Withers and B. L. Nelson, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 1997, pp. 31-38.
Sanchez, S. M., L. D. Smith, and E. C. Lawrence, “Sensitivity and scenario analysis for simulation metamodels,” Proceedings of the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. J. M. Charnes, D. J. Morrice, D. T., Brunner, and J. J. Swain, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 1996, pp. 1440-1447. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M., “Experimental designs for system assessment and improvement when noise factors are correlated,,” Proceedings of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. J. Tew, M. Mannivannan, D. Sadowski, and A. Seila, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 1994, pp. 290-296.
Sanchez, S. M., “A robust design tutorial,” Proceedings of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. J. Tew, M. Mannivannan, D. Sadowski, and A. Seila, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 1994, pp. 106-113. [abstract]
Smith, L. D., S. M. Sanchez, and E. C. Lawrence, “A comprehensive model for managing credit risk and forecasting losses,” DSI Proceedings, November 1994, pp. 1160-1162. [abstract] (Winner: Best Application Paper)
Moeeni, F., S. M. Sanchez, and A. J. Vakharia, “Implementing JIT in uncertain manufacturing environments,” DSI Proceedings, November 1994, pp. 1494-1496. [abstract]
Sanchez, S. M., F. Moeeni, and P. J. Sanchez, “Assessing the impact of uncertainty on kanban system performance: A Frequency Domain Approach,” DSI Proceedings, November 1994, pp. 1782-1784.
Parmenter, D.A., A. J. Vakharia, and S. M. Sanchez, “Assessing the operating impact of parts commonality: A simulation study,” 1993 DSI Proceedings, November 1993, pp. 1334-1336. [abstract]
Moeeni, F., S. Replogle, and S. M. Sanchez, “A framework for kanban systems design,” 1993 DSI Proceedings, November 1993, pp. 1617-1619.
Schruben, L. W., S. M. Sanchez, P. J. Sanchez, and V. A. Czitrom, “Variance reallocation in Taguchi's robust design framework,” Proceedings of the 1992 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. J. J. Swain, D. Goldsman, R. C. Crain, and J. R. Wilson, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 1992, pp. 548-556. [abstract]
Ramberg, J. S., Pignatiello, J. J., Jr., and Sanchez, S. M., “A critique and enhancement of the Taguchi method,” ASQC Quality Congress Transactions, May 1992, pp. 491-498. [abstract]
Ramberg, J. S., Sanchez, S. M., Sanchez, P. J., and Hollick, L.J., “Designing simulation experiments: Taguchi methods and response surface metamodels,” Proceedings of the 1991 Winter Simulation Conference, eds. B. L. Nelson, W. D. Kelton, and G. M. Clark, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers: Piscataway, NJ, 1991, pp. 167-176. [abstract]