Reuven Y. Rubinstein

18.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
69 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Reuven Y. Rubinstein is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Management Information Systems and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Reuven Y. Rubinstein has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 20 papers in Management Information Systems and 20 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Reuven Y. Rubinstein's work include Simulation Techniques and Applications (24 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (19 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (18 papers). Reuven Y. Rubinstein is often cited by papers focused on Simulation Techniques and Applications (24 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (19 papers) and Probability and Risk Models (18 papers). Reuven Y. Rubinstein collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Australia. Reuven Y. Rubinstein's co-authors include Dirk P. Kroese, Shie Mannor, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Andrew F. Seila, Benjamin Melamed, Dori Peleg, Peter Lynn, Ruth Marcus, Søren Asmussen and J.P.C. Kleijnen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics and Management Science.

In The Last Decade

Reuven Y. Rubinstein

66 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

A Tutorial on the Cross-Entropy Method 1981 2026 1996 2011 2005 2007 1981 2016 2004 500 1000 1.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Tutorial on the Cross-Entropy Method
    2005 2.0k citations Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Dirk P. Kroese et al. Annals of Operations Research profile →
  2. Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method
    2007 1.7k citations Reuven Y. Rubinstein, Dirk P. Kroese Wiley series in probability and statistics profile →
  3. Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method
    1981 1.6k citations Reuven Y. Rubinstein Wiley series in probability and statistics profile →
  4. Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method
    2016 1000 citations Reuven Y. Rubinstein, Dirk P. Kroese Wiley series in probability and statistics profile →
  5. The Cross-Entropy Method: A Unified Approach to Combinatorial Optimization, Monte-Carlo Simulation and Machine Learning
    2004 738 citations Reuven Y. Rubinstein, Dirk P. Kroese Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) profile →
  6. The Cross-Entropy Method for Combinatorial and Continuous Optimization
    1999 595 citations Reuven Y. Rubinstein Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Reuven Y. Rubinstein Israel 29 2.3k 2.0k 1.6k 1.4k 1.2k 69 10.8k
Dirk P. Kroese Australia 33 1.9k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 889 0.8× 125 9.7k
Sheldon M. Ross United States 39 1.6k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 2.0k 1.3× 1.9k 1.4× 348 0.3× 212 13.0k
J. E. Dennis United States 40 3.0k 1.3× 1.6k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 1.6k 1.2× 1.2k 1.0× 86 18.0k
Emanuel Parzen United States 40 3.7k 1.6× 1.2k 0.6× 2.1k 1.4× 1.0k 0.7× 628 0.5× 114 15.8k
Toby J. Mitchell United States 29 1.7k 0.8× 3.4k 1.7× 3.4k 2.2× 569 0.4× 909 0.8× 74 12.1k
George C. Runger United States 48 1.5k 0.7× 4.4k 2.2× 952 0.6× 555 0.4× 537 0.5× 183 10.7k
Carl Edward Rasmussen United Kingdom 36 9.2k 4.1× 1.8k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 1.8k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 85 21.1k
Nando de Freitas Canada 32 7.5k 3.3× 577 0.3× 945 0.6× 1.9k 1.4× 733 0.6× 102 15.2k
Maxwell B. Stinchcombe United States 16 6.6k 2.9× 422 0.2× 1.5k 1.0× 2.3k 1.7× 1.0k 0.9× 48 17.9k
Enrique Castillo Spain 45 1.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 513 0.3× 631 0.5× 1.2k 1.0× 245 7.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y., et al.. (2013). Fast Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Counting and Optimization. Wiley series in probability and statistics. 31 indexed citations
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y. & Dirk P. Kroese. (2012). Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method, Student Solutions Manual. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y.. (2011). Stochastic Enumeration Method for Counting NP-Hard Problems. Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability. 15(2). 249–291. 7 indexed citations
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y.. (2008). Semi-Iterative Minimum Cross-Entropy Algorithms for Rare-Events, Counting, Combinatorial and Integer Programming. Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability. 10(2). 121–178. 11 indexed citations
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Kroese, Dirk P., Reuven Y. Rubinstein, & Thomas Taimre. (2006). Application of the cross-entropy method to clustering and vector quantization. Journal of Global Optimization. 37(1). 137–157. 31 indexed citations
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Boer, Pieter-Tjerk de, Dirk P. Kroese, Shie Mannor, & Reuven Y. Rubinstein. (2005). A Tutorial on the Cross-Entropy Method. Annals of Operations Research. 134(1). 19–67. 1991 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y. & Dirk P. Kroese. (2004). The Cross Entropy Method: A Unified Approach To Combinatorial Optimization, Monte-carlo Simulation (Information Science and Statistics). Springer eBooks. 194 indexed citations
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y. & Dirk P. Kroese. (2004). The Cross-Entropy Method: A Unified Approach to Combinatorial Optimization, Monte-Carlo Simulation and Machine Learning. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 738 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mannor, Shie, et al.. (2003). The cross entropy method for fast policy search. International Conference on Machine Learning. 512–519. 77 indexed citations
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Homem‐de‐Mello, Tito & Reuven Y. Rubinstein. (2002). Rare event simulation and combinatorial optimization using cross entropy: estimation of rare event probabilities using cross-entropy. Winter Simulation Conference. 310–319. 4 indexed citations
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Boer, Pieter-Tjerk de, Victor F. Nicola, & Reuven Y. Rubinstein. (2000). Techniques for simulating difficutl queueing problems: adaptive importance sampling simulation of queueing networks. Winter Simulation Conference. 646–655. 8 indexed citations
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y.. (1999). The Cross-Entropy Method for Combinatorial and Continuous Optimization. Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability. 1(2). 127–190. 595 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dussault, Jean-Pièrre, et al.. (1997). . Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. 7(1). 5–28. 1 indexed citations
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Landsberger, Michael, Reuven Y. Rubinstein, Elmar G. Wolfstetter, & Shmuel Zamir. (1997). First-Price Auctions when the Ranking of Valuations is Common Knowledge. SSRN Electronic Journal. 19 indexed citations
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Kleijnen, J.P.C. & Reuven Y. Rubinstein. (1996). Optimization and sensitivity analysis of computer simulation models by the score function method. European Journal of Operational Research. 88(3). 413–427. 47 indexed citations
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y., et al.. (1995). Polynomial Time Algorithms for Estimation of Rare Events in Queueing Models. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 421–448. 2 indexed citations
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y.. (1993). Discrete event systems. 59 indexed citations
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y., et al.. (1988). A batch acceptance complement method for generating random variables. European Journal of Operational Research. 35(2). 278–285.
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y. & Ferenc Szidarovszky. (1988). Convergence of perturbation analysis estimates for discontinuous sample functions: a general approach. Advances in Applied Probability. 20(1). 59–78. 1 indexed citations
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Rubinstein, Reuven Y.. (1981). Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method. Wiley series in probability and statistics. 1600 indexed citations breakdown →

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