Richard Weber

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
110 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Richard Weber is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Management Science and Operations Research and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Weber has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 32 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 27 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Richard Weber's work include Optimization and Search Problems (27 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (22 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (16 papers). Richard Weber is often cited by papers focused on Optimization and Search Problems (27 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (22 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (16 papers). Richard Weber collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Greece. Richard Weber's co-authors include Costas Courcoubetis, Shaler Stidham, Gideon Weiss, John Gittins, K. D. Glazebrook, Edward Anderson, E. G. Coffman, C. J. Fuller, David A. McEntire and Chad W. Johnston and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Management Science and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Richard Weber

108 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Richard Weber
Bruce Hajek United States
John N. Tsitsiklis United States
Linus Schrage United States
François Baccelli France
Constantine Caramanis United States
Sheldon M. Ross
John Zahorjan United States
Edward D. Lazowska United States
Benjamin Van Roy United States
Yu‐Chi Ho United States
Bruce Hajek United States
Richard Weber
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Countries citing papers authored by Richard Weber

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Weber

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Weber

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Weber. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Weber based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Richard Weber. Richard Weber is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Weber, Richard, et al.. (2024). Low-complexity algorithm for restless bandits with imperfect observations. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research. 100(2). 467–508. 2 indexed citations
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Weber, Richard, et al.. (2021). Statistical Evaluation and Synthetic Generation of Ultra-Wideband Distance Measurements for Indoor Positioning Systems. IEEE Sensors Journal. 22(6). 4836–4843. 5 indexed citations
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Courcoubetis, Costas, et al.. (2016). Pricing the fast-lanes: A qualitative study on the implications of paid peering agreements. 1–6. 6 indexed citations
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Weber, Richard, et al.. (2013). Communication and Localization in Urban Traffic Environments using IEEE 802.15.4-based WSN. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Keqin, Richard Weber, & Qing Zhao. (2011). Indexability and whittle index for restless bandit problems involving reset processes. 7690–7696. 13 indexed citations
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Mundinger, Jochen & Richard Weber. (2006). Efficient Content Distribution Using Peer-to-Peer Technology. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2 indexed citations
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Antoniadis, Panayotis, Costas Courcoubetis, & Richard Weber. (2004). An Asymptotically Optimal Scheme for P2P File Sharing. 23(12). 545–52. 10 indexed citations
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Courcoubetis, Costas & Richard Weber. (2003). Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling (Wiley Interscience Series in Systems and Optimization). John Wiley & Sons eBooks. 30 indexed citations
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Weber, Richard & Gideon Weiss. (1991). Addendum to ‘On an index policy for restless bandits'. Advances in Applied Probability. 23(2). 429–430. 2 indexed citations
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Anderson, Edward & Richard Weber. (1990). The rendezvous problem on discrete locations. Journal of Applied Probability. 27(4). 839–851. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Susan H., et al.. (1990). Stochastic dispatching of multi-priority jobs to heterogeneous processors. Journal of Applied Probability. 27(4). 852–861. 7 indexed citations
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Stidham, Shaler & Richard Weber. (1989). Monotonic and Insensitive Optimal Policies for Control of Queues with Undiscounted Costs. Operations Research. 37(4). 611–625. 89 indexed citations
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Courcoubetis, Costas & Richard Weber. (1986). Necessary and sufficient conditions for stability of a bin-packing system. Journal of Applied Probability. 23(4). 989–999. 10 indexed citations
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Weber, Richard. (1985). On-Line Box-Complex Optimization. American Control Conference. 226–230. 1 indexed citations
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Weber, Richard. (1982). Scheduling jobs by stochastic processing requirements on parallel machines to minimize makespan or flowtime. Journal of Applied Probability. 19(1). 167–182.
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Anderson, Edward, P. Nash, & Richard Weber. (1982). A counterexample to a conjecture on optimal list ordering. Journal of Applied Probability. 19(3). 730–732. 13 indexed citations
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Weber, Richard. (1980). Note—On the Marginal Benefit of Adding Servers to G/GI/m Queues. Management Science. 26(9). 946–951. 37 indexed citations
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Weber, Richard. (1979). The interchangeability of ·/M/1 queues in series. Journal of Applied Probability. 16(3). 690–695. 31 indexed citations
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Alexander, J. K., et al.. (1974). Scientific instrumentation of the Radio-Astronomy-Explorer-2 satellite. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 40(4). 18284–371. 45 indexed citations
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Weber, Richard, et al.. (1962). An optimization of the phase-plane-delta method for the solution of non-linear differential equations. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 20(1). 67–77. 1 indexed citations

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