Sridhar Seshadri

Securitization and Real Investment in Incomplete Markets (2009)

Subrahmanyam, Marti, Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar

We study the impact of financial innovations on real investment decisions within the framework of an incomplete market economy comprised of fi rms, investors, and an intermediary. The fi rms face...

Forecasting and Information Sharing in Supply Chains Under Quasi-ARMA Demand (2009)

Giloni, Avi, Hurvich, Clifford, Seshadri, Sridhar

In this paper, we revisit the problem of demand propagation in a multi-stage supply chain in which the retailer observes ARMA demand. In contrast to previous work, we show how each player constructs...

A Componentwise Index of Service Measurement in Multi-Component Systems (2008)

Sridhar Seshadri, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan

Abstract: In this paper we present a componentwise delay measure for estimating and improving the expected delays experienced by customers in a multi-component inventory/ assembly system. We show...

Robust Analysis of Variance: Process Design and Quality Improvement (2008)

Avi Giloni, Sridhar Seshadri, Jeffrey S. Simonoff

New York University. His areas of research are optimization, robust forecasting, stochastic system design and their applications to supply chain management. He has published several papers in top...

HITTING TIME IN AN ERLANG (2008)

Loss System, Sheldon M. Ross, Sridhar Seshadri

In this article, we develop methods for estimating the expected time to the first loss in an Erlang loss system+ We are primarily interested in estimating this quantity under light traffic...

Web Based Capacity Allocation Strategies for Customers with Heterogeneous Preferences (2008)

Sridhar Seshadri

We study different mechanisms for the pricing and allocation of capacity to customers with heterogeneous and unknown preferences. The mechanisms we study include posting of prices, auctions, with and...

© 2005 INFORMS Information Sharing in a Supply Chain Under ARMA Demand (2008)

Vishal Gaur, Avi Giloni, Sridhar Seshadri

In this paper we study how the time-series structure of the demand process affects the value of information sharing in a supply chain. We consider a two-stage supply chain model in which a retailer...

Distribution free bounds for service constrained (Q, r) inventory systems (2008)

Vipul Agrawal, Sridhar Seshadri

Abstract: A classical and important problem in stochastic inventory theory is to determine the order quantity (Q) and the reorder level (r) to minimize inventory holding and backorder costs subject...

Monotone Forecasts (2008)

Ça ˘grı Haksöz, Sridhar Seshadri

informs ® doi 10.1287/opre.1030.0097 © 2004 INFORMS In this paper we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the distribution of demand in the future to be stochastically increasing in the...

JOT (2008)

Ling Tony Chen, Doron Rotem, Sridhar Seshadri

Declustering is a well known strategy to achieve maximum I/O parallelism in multi-disk systems. Many declustering methods have been proposed for symmetrical disk sys-tems, i.e, multi-disk systems in...

Chunking of Large Multidimensional Arrays (2007)

Rotem, Doron, Otoo, Ekow J., Seshadri, Sridhar

Data intensive scientific computations as well on-line analytical processing applications as are done on very large datasets that are modeled as k-dimensional arrays. The storage organization of such...

Securitization and Real Investment in Incomplete Markets ∗ (2007)

Vishal Gaur, Sridhar Seshadri, Marti G. Subrahmanyam

We study the impact of financial innovations on real investment decisions within the framework of an incomplete market economy comprised of firms, investors, and an intermediary. The firms face...

Optimal Timing of Inventory Decisions with Price Uncertainty (2007)

Vishal Gaur, Sridhar Seshadri, Marti G. Subrahmanyam

What is the optimal timing of inventory investment for a firm when its forecasts of demand and price improve with time but are correlated with the prices of traded assets in the financial markets? We...

Intermediation and Value Creation in an Incomplete Market: Implications for Securitization (2005)

Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar, SUBRAHMANYAM, MARTI G.

This paper studies the impact of financial innovations on real investment decisions. We model an incomplete market economy comprised of firms, investors and an intermediary. The firms face unique...

Intermediation and Value Creation in an Incomplete Market: Implications for Securitization (2005)

Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar, SUBRAHMANYAM, MARTI G.

This paper studies the impact of financial innovations on real investment decisions. We model an incomplete market economy comprised of firms, investors and an intermediary. The firms face unique...

Intermediation and Value Creation in an Incomplete Market: Implications for Securitization (2005)

Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar, Subrahmanyam, Marti G.

This paper studies the impact of financial innovations on real investment decisions. We model an incomplete market economy comprised of firms, investors and an intermediary. The firms face unique...

Intermediation and Value Creation in an Incomplete Market: Implications for Securitization (2005)

Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar, Subrahmanyam, Marti G.

This paper studies the impact of financial innovations on real investment decisions. We model an incomplete market economy comprised of firms, investors and an intermediary. The firms face unique...

Robust Analysis of Variance: Process Design and Quality Improvement (2005)

Giloni, Avi, Seshadri, Sridhar, Simonoff, Jeffrey S.

We discuss the use of robust analysis of variance (ANOVA) techniques as applied to quality engineering. ANOVA is the cornerstone for uncovering the effects of design factors on performance. Our goal...

Robust Analysis of Variance: Process Design and Quality Improvement (2005)

Giloni, Avi, Seshadri, Sridhar, Simonoff, Jeffrey S.

We discuss the use of robust analysis of variance (ANOVA) techniques as applied to quality engineering. ANOVA is the cornerstone for uncovering the effects of design factors on performance. Our goal...

Convexity Properties and Comparative Statics for M/M/S Queues with Balking and Reneging (2005)

Armony, Mor, Plambeck, Erica, Seshadri, Sridhar

We use sample path arguments to derive convexity properties of an M/M/S queue with impatient customers that balk and renege. First, assuming that the balking probability and reneging rate are...

Convexity Properties and Comparative Statics for M/M/S Queues with Balking and Reneging (2005)

Armony, Mor, Plambeck, Erica, Seshadri, Sridhar

We use sample path arguments to derive convexity properties of an M/M/S queue with impatient customers that balk and renege. First, assuming that the balking probability and reneging rate are...

Convexity Properties and Comparative Statics for M/M/S Queues with Balking and Reneging (2005)

Armony, Mor, Plambeck, Erica, Seshadri, Sridhar

We use sample path arguments to derive convexity properties of an M/M/S queue with impatient customers that balk and renege. First, assuming that the balking probability and reneging rate are...

Convexity Properties and Comparative Statics for M/M/S Queues with Balking and Reneging (2005)

Armony, Mor, Plambeck, Erica, Seshadri, Sridhar

We use sample path arguments to derive convexity properties of an M/M/S queue with impatient customers that balk and renege. First, assuming that the balking probability and reneging rate are...

Supply chain structure and demand risk � (2005)

Ying-ju Chen, Sridhar Seshadri

V. Agrawal and S. Seshadri (2000) [Risk intermediation in supply chains. IIE Transactions, 32, 819–831] considered a problem in which a single risk neutral distributor supplies a short-lifecycle,...

Intermediation and Value Creation in an Incomplete Market: Implications for Securitization. Working Paper, NYU Stern School of Business (2005)

Vishal Gaur, Sridhar Seshadri, Marti G. Subrahmanyam

This paper studies the impact of financial innovations on real investment decisions. We model an incomplete market economy comprised of firms, investors and an intermediary. The firms face unique...

File caching in data intensive scientific applications (2004)

Otoo, Ekow, Rotem, Doron, Romosan, Alexandru, Seshadri, Sridhar

We present some theoretical and experimental results of an important caching problem that arises frequently in data intensive scientific applications. In such applications, jobs need to process...

Efficient algorithms for multi-file caching (2004)

Otoo, Ekow J., Rotem, Doron, Seshadri, Sridhar

Multi-File Caching issues arise in applications where a set of jobs are processed and each job requests one or more input files. A given job can only be started if all its input files are preloaded...

Efficient algorithms for multi-file caching (2004)

Ekow J. Otoo, Doron Rotem, Sridhar Seshadri

Abstract. Multi-File Caching issues arise in applications where a set of jobs are processed and each job requests one or more input files. A given job can only be started if all its input files are...

Market Incompleteness and Super Value Additivity: Implications for Securitization (2003)

Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar, Subrahmanyam, Marti

In an incomplete market economy, all claims cannot be priced uniquely based on arbitrage. The prices of attainable claims (those that are spanned by traded claims) can be determined uniquely, whereas...

Market Incompleteness and Super Value Additivity: Implications for Securitization (2003)

Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar, Subrahmanyam, Marti

In an incomplete market economy, all claims cannot be priced uniquely based on arbitrage. The prices of attainable claims (those that are spanned by traded claims) can be determined uniquely, whereas...

Market Incompleteness and Super Value Additivity: Implications for Securitization (2003)

Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar, Subrahmanyam, Marti

In an incomplete market economy, all claims cannot be priced uniquely based on arbitrage. The prices of attainable claims (those that are spanned by traded claims) can be determined uniquely, whereas...

Market Incompleteness and Super Value Additivity: Implications for Securitization (2003)

Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar, Subrahmanyam, Marti

In an incomplete market economy, all claims cannot be priced uniquely based on arbitrage. The prices of attainable claims (those that are spanned by traded claims) can be determined uniquely, whereas...

Market Incompleteness and Super Value Additivity: Implications for Securitization (2003)

Gaur, Vishal, Seshadri, Sridhar, Subrahmanyam, Marti

In an incomplete market economy, all claims cannot be priced uniquely based on arbitrage. The prices of attainable claims (those that are spanned by traded claims) can be determined uniquely, whereas...

The flow of ideas and timing of evaluation as determinants of knowledge creation (2003)

Seshadri, Sridhar, Shapira, Zur

There are different perspectives on the study of knowledge in organizations, developed in economics, sociology, anthropology and organization theory. Several authors followed Schumpeter's idea that...

Managerial allocation of time and effort: The effects of interruptions (2001)

Sridhar Seshadri, Zur Shapira

Time is one of the more salient constraints on managerial behavior. This constraint may be very taxing in high-velocity environments where managers have to attend to many tasks simultaneously....

Impact of Uncertainty and Risk Aversion on Price and Quantity (2000)

Vipul Agrawal, Sridhar Seshadri

We consider a single-period inventory model in which a risk-averse retailer faces uncertain customer demand and makes a purchasing-order-quantity and a selling-price decisionwith the objective of...

Risk intermediation in supply chains (2000)

Vipul Agrawal, Sridhar Seshadri

This paper demonstrates that an important role of intermediaries in supply chains is to reduce the financial risk faced by retailers. It is well known that risk averse retailers when faced by the...

Hitting time in an M/G/1 queue (1999)

Ross, Sheldon M., Seshadri, Sridhar

We study the expected time for the work in an M/G/1 system to exceed the level x, given that it started out initially empty, and show that it can be expressed solely in terms of the Poisson arrival...

IIE Transactions (2000) 32, 245±262 Policy mechanisms for supply chain coordination (1998)

Michael Moses, Sridhar Seshadri

The problem is to determine a review period and stocking policy that are mutually bene®cial to a producer and a retailer. In our model, the retailer uses a periodic review, base stock policy for...

IIE Transactions (1999) 31, 195±206 Optimal allocation of resources in a job shop environment (1997)

Sridhar Seshadri, Michael Pinedo

In this paper we study the allocation of production services (e.g., maintenance) to machining centers in a job shop when there is a limited amount of resources for such services. Di€erent classes...

The Two Headed Disk: Stochastic Dominance of the Greedy Policy (1995)

Seshadri, Sridhar, Rotem, Doron

In his paper "Should the two-headed disk be greedy? - Yes, it should" Hofri defined a "greedy policy" as follows. Assuming that the range of disk addresses is [0,1], a request at location x is served...

The Two Headed Disk: Stochastic Dominance of the Greedy Policy (1995)

Seshadri, Sridhar, Rotem, Doron

In his paper "Should the two-headed disk be greedy? - Yes, it should" Hofri defined a "greedy policy" as follows. Assuming that the range of disk addresses is [0,1], a request at location x is served...

The Two Headed Disk: Stochastic Dominance of the Greedy Policy (1995)

Seshadri, Sridhar, Rotem, Doron

In his paper "Should the two-headed disk be greedy? - Yes, it should" Hofri defined a "greedy policy" as follows. Assuming that the range of disk addresses is [0,1], a request at location x is served...

The Two Headed Disk: Stochastic Dominance of the Greedy Policy (1995)

Seshadri, Sridhar, Rotem, Doron

In his paper "Should the two-headed disk be greedy? - Yes, it should" Hofri defined a "greedy policy" as follows. Assuming that the range of disk addresses is [0,1], a request at location x is served...

Pathwise Optimum Policies for ATM Cell Scheduling and Rejection (1994)

Erol Gelenbe, Vijay Srinivasan, Sridhar Seshadri, Sridhar Seshadri

This paper addresses the following questions related to buffer management schemes for high speed integrated services networks: (i) given the pattern of cell arrivals from different classes of...

On Characterizing Optimal Buffer Control Policies in ATM Nodes (1994)

Sridhar Seshadri, Sridhar Seshadri, Vijay Srinivasan, Vijay Srinivasan

This paper attempts to answer the following questions related to buffer management schemes for high speed integrated services networks: (i) given the pattern of cell arrivals from different classes...

Stochastic models of semiconductor fabs /--by Sridhar Seshadri. (1993)

Seshadri, Sridhar.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Business Administration)--University of California, Berkeley, Dec. 1993.

Optimal Arrangements of Cartridges In Carousel Type Mass Storage Systems (1993)

Seshadri, Sridhar, Rotem, Doron, Segev, Arie

Optimal arrangements of cartridges and file partitioning schemes are examined in carousel type mass storage systems using Markov decision theory. It is shown that the Organ-Pipe Arrangement is...

Optimal Arrangements of Cartridges In Carousel Type Mass Storage Systems (1993)

Seshadri, Sridhar, Rotem, Doron, Segev, Arie

Optimal arrangements of cartridges and file partitioning schemes are examined in carousel type mass storage systems using Markov decision theory. It is shown that the Organ-Pipe Arrangement is...

Optimal Arrangements of Cartridges In Carousel Type Mass Storage Systems (1993)

Seshadri, Sridhar, Rotem, Doron, Segev, Arie

Optimal arrangements of cartridges and file partitioning schemes are examined in carousel type mass storage systems using Markov decision theory. It is shown that the Organ-Pipe Arrangement is...

Optimal Arrangements of Cartridges In Carousel Type Mass Storage Systems (1993)

Seshadri, Sridhar, Rotem, Doron, Segev, Arie

Optimal arrangements of cartridges and file partitioning schemes are examined in carousel type mass storage systems using Markov decision theory. It is shown that the Organ-Pipe Arrangement is...

Optimal capacity in a coordinated supply chain

Chao, Xiuli, Seshadri, Sridhar, Pinedo, Michael

We consider a supply chain in which a retailer faces a stochastic demand, incurs backorder and inventory holding costs and uses a periodic review system to place orders from a manufacturer. The...

The flow of ideas and timing of evaluation as determinants of knowledge creation

Sridhar Seshadri, Zur Shapira

There are different perspectives on the study of knowledge in organizations, developed in economics, sociology, anthropology and organization theory. Several authors followed Schumpeter's idea that...