Associate Professor Yoni Nazarathy
Associate Professor
Mathematics
+61 7 334 69032
Priestley Building (67), Room 545
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Teaching and learning
Dr Nazarathy teaches 2nd year statistics and postgraduate mathematics for data science. He also coordinates the School's industry placement scheme.
Book Chapter
Kuhn, Julia and Nazarathy, Yoni (2017). Wireless channel selection with restless bandits. Markov decision processes in practice. (pp. 463-485) edited by Richard J. Boucherie and Nico M. van Dijk. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47766-4_18
Journal Articles
Asanjarani, Azam and Nazarathy, Yoni (2022). Stationary Markovian arrival processes: results and open problems. The ANZIAM Journal, 1-15. doi: 10.1017/s1446181122000013
McVinish, Ross, Nazarathy, Yoni and Nguyen, Giang (2022). Modern trends in applied probability closing a special issue of overview papers. Queueing Systems, 100 (1-2), 93-94. doi: 10.1007/s11134-021-09735-6
Dandekar, Raj, Henderson, Shane G., Jansen, Hermanus M., McDonald, Joshua, Moka, Sarat, Nazarathy, Yoni, Rackauckas, Christopher, Taylor, Peter G. and Vuorinen, Aapeli (2021). Safe Blues: The case for virtual safe virus spread in the long-term fight against epidemics. Patterns, 2 (3) 100220, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2021.100220
Asanjarani, Azam, Nazarathy, Yoni and Taylor, Peter (2021). A survey of parameter and state estimation in queues. Queueing Systems, 97 (1-2), 39-80. doi: 10.1007/s11134-021-09688-w
Asanjarani, Azam, Liquet, Benoit and Nazarathy, Yoni (2021). Estimation of semi-Markov multi-state models: a comparison of the sojourn times and transition intensities approaches. International Journal of Biostatistics. doi: 10.1515/ijb-2020-0083
Dandekar, Raj Abhijit, Henderson, Shane G., Jansen, Marijn, Moka, Sarat, Nazarathy, Yoni, Rackauckas, Christopher, Taylor, Peter G. and Vuorinen, Aapeli (2020). Safe blues: a method for estimation and control in the fight against COVID-19. medRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.05.04.20090258
McVinish, Ross, Nazarathy, Yoni and Nguyen, Giang (2020). Modern trends in applied probability: part 1: a collection of two overview papers. Queueing Systems, 96 (1-2), 1-2. doi: 10.1007/s11134-020-09670-y
Thomas, Ebby, Sharma, Rahul and Nazarathy, Yoni (2019). Towards demand side management control using household specific Markovian models. Automatica, 101, 450-457. doi: 10.1016/j.automatica.2018.11.057
Asanjarani, Azam and Nazarathy, Yoni (2019). The role of information in system stability with partially observable servers. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 22 (3), 949-968. doi: 10.1007/s11009-019-09750-4
Ravner, Liron and Nazarathy, Yoni (2017). Scheduling for a processor sharing system with linear slowdown. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 86 (1), 1-32. doi: 10.1007/s00186-017-0583-3
Liquet, Benoit and Nazarathy, Yoni (2015). A dynamic view to moment matching of truncated distributions. Statistics and Probability Letters, 104, 87-93. doi: 10.1016/j.spl.2015.05.006
Patch, Brendan, Nazarathy, Yoni and Taimre, Thomas (2015). A correction term for the covariance of renewal-reward processes with multivariate rewards. Statistics and Probability Letters, 102, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.spl.2015.03.005
Hautphenne, Sophie, Kerner, Yoav, Nazarathy, Yoni and Taylor, Peter (2015). The intercept term of the asymptotic variance curve for some queueing output processes. European Journal of Operational Research, 242 (2), 455-464. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.10.051
Daley, D. J., van Leeuwaarden, Johan S. H. and Nazarathy, Yoni (2015). BRAVO for many-server QED systems with finite buffers. Advances in Applied Probability, 47 (1), 231-250. doi: 10.1017/s0001867800007783
Dinh, Tuan V., Andrew, Lachlan L. H. and Nazarathy, Yoni (2014). Architecture and robustness tradeoffs in speed-scaled queues with application to energy management. International Journal of Systems Science, 45 (8), 1728-1739. doi: 10.1080/00207721.2012.749435
Guo, Yongjiang, Lefeber, Erjen, Nazarathy, Yoni, Weiss, Gideon and Zhang, Hanqin (2014). Stability of multi-class queueing networks with infinite virtual queues. Queueing Systems, 76 (3), 309-342. doi: 10.1007/s11134-013-9362-x
Le, Tung, Vu, Hai L., Nazarathy, Yoni, Vo, Quoc Bao and Hoogendoorn, Serge (2013). Linear-quadratic model predictive control for urban traffic networks. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 36, 498-512. doi: 10.1016/j.trc.2013.06.021
Nazarathy, Yoni, Rojas-Nandayapa, Leonardo and Salisbury, Thomas S. (2013). Non-existence of stabilizing policies for the critical push-pull network and generalizations. Operations Research Letters, 41 (3), 265-270. doi: 10.1016/j.orl.2013.01.013
Dong, Wei, Vu, Hai L., Nazarathy, Yoni, Vo, Bao Quoc, Li, Minyi and Hoogendoorn, Serge Paul (2013). Shortest paths in stochastic time-dependent networks with link travel time correlation. Transportation Research Record, 2338 (2338), 58-64. doi: 10.3141/2338-07
Nazarathy, Yoni (2011). The variance of departure processes: Puzzling behavior and open problems. Queueing Systems, 68 (3), 385-394. doi: 10.1007/s11134-011-9249-7
Al Hanbali, A., Mandjes, M., Nazarathy, Y. and Whitt, W. (2011). The asymptotic variance of departures in critically loaded queues. Advances In Applied Probability, 43 (1), 243-263. doi: 10.1239/aap/1300198521
Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2010). A fluid approach to large volume job shop scheduling. Journal of Scheduling, 13 (5), 509-529. doi: 10.1007/s10951-010-0174-0
Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2010). Positive Harris recurrence and diffusion scale analysis of a push pull queueing network. Performance Evaluation, 67 (4), 201-217. doi: 10.1016/j.peva.2009.09.010
Kopzon, Anat, Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2009). A push-pull system with infinite supply of work. Queueing Systems, 62 (1-2), 75-111. doi: 10.1007/s11134-009-9121-1
Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2008). The asymptotic variance rate of the output process of finite capacity birth-death queues. Queueing Systems, 59 (2), 135-156. doi: 10.1007/s11134-008-9079-4
Conference Papers
Gibson, Lachlan J., Jacko, Peter and Nazarathy, Yoni (2021). A novel implementation of Q-learning for the Whittle index. 14th EAI International Conference, VALUETOOLS 2021, Virtual, 30-31 October 2021. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92511-6_10
Fu, Jing, Nazarathy, Yoni, Moka, Sarat and Taylor, Peter G. (2019). Towards Q-learning the whittle index for restless bandits. 2019 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC), Auckland, New Zealand, 27-29 November 2019. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/ANZCC47194.2019.8945748
Bogomolov, T., Filar, J. A., Luscombe, R., Nazarathy, Y., Qin, S., Swierkowski, P. and Wood, I. (2017). Size does matter: A simulation study of hospital size and operational efficiency. 22nd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Hobart, TAS Australia, 3 - 8 December 2017. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. (MSSANZ).
Thomas, Ebby, Sharma, Rahul and Nazarathy, Yoni (2017). Implementation of energy storage Systems for solar PV ramp stabilization. Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Melbourne, Australia, 19 - 22 November 2017. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/AUPEC.2017.8282422
Diao, Jiahao, Nazarathy, Yoni , Taimre, Thomas and Filar, Jerzy A. (2017). To fish or cut bait?. 2017 11th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 17 - 20 December 2017. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ASCC.2017.8287563
Asanjarani, Azam and Nazarathy, Yoni (2016). A queueing approximation of MMPP/PH/1. 10th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications (QTNA 2015), Ha Noi and Ha Long, Vietnam, 17-20 August 2015. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22267-7_4
Nazarathy, Yoni, Taimre, Thomas, Asanjarani, Azam, Kuhn, Julia, Patch, Brendan and Vuorinen, Aapeli (2015). The challenge of stabilizing control for queueing systems with unobservable server states. Australian Control Conference (AUCC), Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 5-6 November 2015. Barton, ACT, Australia: Institution of Engineers Australia.
Patch, Brendan, Taimre, Thomas and Nazarathy, Yoni (2015). Performance of faulty loss systems with persistent connections. 33rd International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement, and Evaluation, IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2015, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 19 - 21 October 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2825236.2825242
Kuhn, Julia, Mandjes, Michel and Nazarathy, Yoni (2014). Exploration vs exploitation with partially observable Gaussian autoregressive arms. Valuetools, Bratislava, Slovakia, 9-11 December 2014. Brussels, Belgium: ICST. doi: 10.4108/icst.valuetools.2014.258207
Dong, Wei, Vu, Hai L., Nazarathy, Yoni, Vo, Bao Quoc, Li, Minyi and Hoogendoorn, Serge Paul (2013). Shortest paths in stochastic time-dependent networks with link travel time correlation. Transportation Research Board (TRB) 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, United States, 13-17 January 2013. Washington, United States: Transportation Research Board of the National Academics.
Selen, Jori, Nazarathy, Yoni, Andrew, Lachlan L. H. and Vu, Hai L. (2013). The age of information in gossip networks. 20th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications, ASMTA 2013, Ghent, Belgium, 8 - 10 July 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39408-9_26
Calabretta, Nicola, Di Lucente, Stefano, Nazarathy, Yoni, Raz, Oded and Dorren, Harmen (2011). Scalable optical packet switch architecture for low latency and high load computer communication networks. 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2011), Stockholm, Sweden, 26-30 June 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971139
Di Lucente, S., Nazarathy, Y., Calabretta, N., Raz, O. and Dorren, H. (2011). Thousand-port optical packet switch architecture with highly distributed control. European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (37th, ECOC, 2011), Geneva, Switzerland, 18-22 September 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE.
Dorren, H. J. S., Di Lucente, S., Raz, O., Calabretta, N. and Nazarathy, Y. (2011). Scaling photonic packet switches to a large number of ports. ICO International Conference on Information Photonics (IP 2011), Ottawa, Canada, 18-20 May 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICO-IP.2011.5953706
van Leeuwaarden, Johan S. H., Lefeber, Erjen, Nazarathy, Yoni and Rooda, Jacobus E. (2010). Model predictive control for the acquisition queue and related queueing networks. 5th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications (QTNA 2010), Beijing, China, 24-26 July 2010. New York, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/1837856.1837884
Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2009). Near optimal control of queueing networks over a finite time horizon. Secaucus, NJ, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/s10479-008-0443-x
Hoekstra, Gerard, van der Mei, Rob, Nazarathy, Yoni and Zwart, Bert (2009). Optimal file splitting for wireless networks with concurrent access. 3rd Euro-NF Conference on Network Control and Optimization, NET-COOP 2009, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 23-25 November 2009. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-10406-0_13
Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2008). Positive harris recurrence and diffusion scale analysis of a push pull queueing network. ICST. doi: 10.4108/ICST.VALUETOOLS2008.4355