Refereed Archival Journals

Zinner, R. G., B. L. Barrett, E. Popova, P. Damien, A. Y. Volgin, J. G. Gelovani, R. Lotan, H. T. Tran, C. Pisano, S. M. Lippman, G. B. Mills,  L. Mao, and J. H. Miller, “Algorithmic guided screening of drug combinations of arbitrary size for activity against cancer cells”, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 8, 3, pp. 521 - 532, 2009.

Balestrassi, P. P.,  E. Popova, A. P. Paiva, and J.W. Marangon, “Design of experiments on neural network’s simulation for nonlinear time series forecasting”,  Neurocomputing, 72, pp. 1160-1178, 2009.

Dimova, B., J. W. Barnes, E. Popova, and B. Colletti, “Some additional properties of elementary landscapes”, Applied Mathematics Letters, 22, 2, pp. 232-235, 2009.

Popova, I., E. Popova, and E. George, “Bayesian forecasting of prepayment rates for individual pools of mortgages”, Bayesian Analysis, 3, 2, pp. 393-426, 2008.

Popova, I., D. Morton, E. Popova, and J. Yao, “Optimizing benchmark-based portfolios with hedge funds”, Journal of Alternative Investments, 10, 1, pp. 35-55, 2007.

Damien, P., A. Galenko, E. Popova, and T. Hanson, “Bayesian semiparametric analysis for a single item maintenance optimization”, European Journal of Operational Research, 182, pp. 794-805, 2007.

Popova, E., W. Yu, E. Kee, A. Sun, D. Richards, and R. Grantom , “Basic factors to forecast maintenance cost and failure processes for nuclear power plants”, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 236, pp. 1641-1647, 2006.

Dimova, B., J. W. Barnes, and E. Popova, “The characteristic landscape equation for an AR(2) landscape”, Applied Mathematics Letters, 19, pp. 260-266, 2006.

Morton, D., E. Popova, and I. Popova, “Efficient fund of hedge funds construction under downside risk measures”, Journal of Banking and Finance, 30, pp. 503-518, 2006.

Dimova, B., J. W. Barnes, and E. Popova, “Arbitrary elementary landscapes and AR(1) processes”, Applied Mathematics Letters, 18,  pp. 287-292, 2005.

Popova, E., “Basic optimality results for Bayesian group replacement policies”, Operations Research Letters, 32, pp. 283 – 288, 2004.

Morton, D., and E. Popova, “A Bayesian stochastic programming approach to an employee scheduling problem”, IIE Transactions of Operations Engineering, 36, pp. 155 – 167, 2004.

Morton, D., E. Popova, I. Popova, and M. Zhong, “Optimizing benchmark-based utility functions”, Bulletin of the Czech Econometric Society, 10, 18, pp. 1-18, 2003.

Chen, T., and E. Popova, “Response to the letter written by N. Jack, D.N.P. Murthy, and B. P. Iskandar”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 82, 111, 2003.

Chen, T., and E. Popova, “Maintenance policies with two – dimensional warranty”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 77, pp. 61 – 69, 2002.

Chen, T., and E. Popova, “Bayesian maintenance policies during a warranty period”, Communications in Statistics: Stochastic Models, 16, 1, pp. 121 – 142, 2000.

Popova, E., and J. G. Wilson, “Adaptive time dynamic model for production volume prediction”, International Journal for Production Research, 38, 13, pp. 3111 – 3130, 2000.

Popova, E., and J. G. Wilson, “Group replacement policies for parallel systems whose components have phase distributed failure times”, Annals of Operations Research, Volume on Reliability and Maintenance in Production Control, Sinuani – Stern (eds.), 91, pp. 163 – 189, 1999.

Popova, E., and H. – C. Wu, “Renewal reward processes with fuzzy rewards and their applications to T– age replacement policies”, European Journal of Operational Research, 117, 3, pp. 606 – 617, 1999.

Wu, D. – Y, R. D. Matthews, E. Popova, and C. Mock, “The Texas project part 4 –  final results: emissions and fuel economy of CNG and LPG conversions of light– duty vehicles”, Journal of Fuels and Lubricants, Section 4, 107, pp. 928 – 950, 1998.

Wilson, J. G., and E. Popova, “Adaptive replacement policies for a system of parallel machines”, N. P. Jewell et. al. (eds.), Lifetime Data: Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 371 – 375, 1996.

 

Book Chapters

Popova, E., D. Morton, P. Damien, and T. Hanson, “Bayesian analysis and decisions in nuclear power plant maintenance”, in The Oxford Handbook of Applied Bayesian Analysis, Tony O’Hagan & Mike West (eds.), Oxford University Press, to appear March 2010.

Popova, E., and I. Popova, “Replacement strategies”, in Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability,  Ruggeri F., Faltin F., Kenett R. (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK, pp. 1647-1653, 2008.

Morton, D. and E. Popova, “Monte Carlo simulations for stochastic optimization”, in Encyclopedia of Optimization, C. A. Floudas and P. M. Pardalos (eds.), III, pp. 439 – 447, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

 

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Belyi, D., P. Damien, D. Morton, and E. Popova, “Bayesian non-parametric simulation of hazard functions”,  Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, M. D. Rossetti, R. R. Hill, B. Johansson, A. Dunkin, and R. G. Ingalls (eds.), December, 2009.

Galenko, A., D. Morton, E. Popova, and I. Popova, “Simulating cointegrated time series”, Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, M. D. Rossetti, R. R. Hill, B. Johansson, A. Dunkin, and R. G. Ingalls (eds.), December, 2009.

Belyi, D., P. Damien, D. Morton, and E. Popova, “Bayesian nonparametric analysis of single item preventive maintenance strategies”, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, July 2009.

Morton, D., N. Dimitrov, M. A. Gonzalez, D. P. Michalopoulos, M. Nehme, E. Popova, E. Schneider, and G. Thoreson, “Interdiction modeling for smuggled nuclear material”, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, July 2008.

Singh, I., E. Popova, and E. Kee, “Optimal preventive maintenance policy under a budget constraint”, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, May 2008.

Koc, A., D. Morton, E. Popova, S. Hess, E. Kee, and D. Richards, “Optimizing project prioritization under budget uncertainty”, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, May 2008.

Galenko, A., E. Popova, and I. Popova, “Trading in the presence of cointegration”, Proceedings of the Southwestern Finance Association Meeting, March 2007.

Koc, A., D. Morton, E. Popova, E. Kee, D. Richards, A. Sun, and S. Hess, “Project prioritization via optimization”, Proceedings of PVP 2007/CREEP 8 ASME PVP 2007/CREEP 8 Conference, July 2007.

Kee , E., V. Moiseytseva, A. Galenko, D. Morton, and E. Popova, “Incorporation of unit 1 inspection results on the STP reactor vessel head nuclear asset management analysis”, Proceedings of PVP 2007/CREEP 8 ASME PVP 2007/CREEP 8 Conference, July 2007.

Kee, E., N. Corrick, D. Klockentager, E.  Popova, and J. Howell, “Accumulator flow rate using accumulator gas pressure for non-intrusive discharge check valve full open exercise stroke testing”,  Ninth NRC/ASME Symposium on Valves, Pumps, and in-service Testing, Washington, DC, published by NRC, NUREG/CP-0512, vol. 6, July 2006,

Galenko, A., E. Popova, E. Kee, and R. Grantom, “Optimal preventive maintenance under decision dependent uncertainty”, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, July 2006.

Kee, E., A. Sun, S. Rogers, E. Popova, P. Nelson, V. Moiseytseva, and E. Wang, “A method to quantify plant availability and initiating event frequency using a large event tree, small fault tree model”, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, July 2006.

Sun, A., E. Kee, W. Yu, E. Popova, R. Grantom, and D.Richards, “Application of CROW-AMSAA analysis to nuclear power plant equipment performance”, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, May 2005.

Yu, W., E. Popova, E. Kee, A. Sun, and R. Grantom, “Basic factors to forecast maintenance cost for nuclear power plants”, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, May, 2005.

Galenko, A., D. Morton, E. Popova, E. Kee, R. Grantom,  and A. Sun, “Operational level models and methods for risk informed nuclear asset management”, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment, November 2005.

Yu, W., E. Popova, E. Kee, and A. Sun, “Equipment data development case study - Bayesian Weibull analysis”, Proceedings of the South Central SAS Users Group 14th Annual Conference, Editor: Thomas J. Winn, Jr., , p. 408-450, November 2004.

Popova, E. and D. Morton, “Adaptive stochastic manpower scheduling”, Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference, D. J. Medeiros et al. (eds.), pp. 661 – 668, 1998.

Wilson, J. G. and E. Popova, “Bayesian approaches to maintenance intervention”, Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Science of the American Statistical Association, pp. 244 – 248, 1996.

Popova, E. and J. G. Wilson, “Selecting and Implementing the Best Group Replacement Policy for a Non Markovian System”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, Crete, 1996, Carlo Cacciabue et al. (eds.), Springer– Verlag, vol. 1, pp. 58 – 63, 1996.

Popova, E. and J. G. Wilson, “Minimum Cost Maintenance Policies For Parallel Machines Each With Different Failure Time Distributions And Cost Parameters”, Proceedings of the Information Systems and Quantitative Methods, 30th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Business Administration Association, Chicago, pp. 214 – 223, 1994.

 

Non-refereed Conference Proceedings

Landsberger, S., S. Biegalski, E. Popova, and K. Foltz-Biegalski, “New nuclear and radiation engineering undergraduate certificate for industry and nuclear regulatory commission educational training”, Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Nuclear Training and Education (CONTE), February 2009.

Galenko, A., E. Popova, D. Morton, P. Damien, and E. Kee, “Reducing cost and increasing reliability at nuclear power plants”, NSF-CMMI Grantees Conference, January 2008.

Galenko, A., E. Popova, D. Morton, P. Damien, and E. Kee, “Optimal replacement schedule for a system of N items under finite horizon and stochastic dependencies”, NSF-DMII Grantees Conference, July 2006.

Morton, D., F. Pan, D. Papageorgiou, and E. Popova, "Stochastic network interdiction of nuclear material smuggling", NSF-DMII Grantees Conference, 2005.

 

Papers under review

Wang, F., R. B. Machemehl , and E. Popova, “Towards Monte Carlo simulation based mechanistic-empirical prediction of asphalt pavement performance”, Journal of Transportation Engineering, conditionally accepted.

Balestrassi, P., A. Paiva, E. Popova, A. C. Z. Souza, and J. Turrioni, “A multivariate descriptor method for change point detection in nonlinear time series”, Journal of Applied Statistics, conditionally accepted.

Amaral, M.R.S., M. Lima, and E. Popova, “Semi-parametric estimation of cointegrated VARMAX models: a combined maximum likelihood and subspace methods approach”, Journal of Time Series Analysis, under first revision, 2009.

Dimitrov, N., D. P. Michalopoulos, D.  P. Morton, M. V. Nehme, F. Pan, E. Popova, E. A. Schneider, and G. G. Thoreson, “Network deployment of radiation detectors with physics-based detection probability calculations”, Annals of Operations Research, under first revision, 2009.

Koc, A., D. Morton , E. Popova, S. Hess, E. Kee, and D. Richards, “Prioritizing project selection”, Engineering Economist, under first revision, 2009.

Popova, I. and E. Popova, “Estimation of performance and execution time effect on high frequency statistical arbitrage strategies”,  Journal of Portfolio Management, submitted, 2009.

Nanzer J., E. Popova, and R. Rogers, “Real time detection of self-luminous objects using total power and correlation radiometry”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, submitted 2009.

 

Papers in preparation

Galenko, A., E. Popova, I.  Popova, and J. Yao, “Investment decisions in the presence of long term dependencies”, Journal of Alternative Investments.

Galenko, A., E. Popova, I. Popova, and D. Morton, “Optimal index tracking using cointegrated sample paths”, Operations Research.

Popova, E., T. Hanson, and P. Damien, “Decision-dependent stochastic processes”, Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Belyi, D., E. Popova, P. Damien,  and D. Morton, “Bayesian nonparametric analysis for maintenance optimization”, Operations Research.