White Papers, Publications and Articles:

Over the past twenty years, Cox Associates professionals have published dozens of industry whitepapers, articles and publications on various topics:

Demand Forecasting    Network Optimization    Customer Data Mining    Health Risk Analysis

Demand Forecasting and Capacity Planning:

Cox, LA, Jr., and Popken, D.A., 2002. A hybrid system-identification method for forecasting telecommunications product demands. International Journal of Forecasting.

Cox, L.A., Jr. "Using classification trees to improve causal inferences in observational studies". Preliminary Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 1997.

Cox, LA, Jr., "Using causal knowledge to learn more useful decision rules from data," Chapter 2 in D. Fisher and H.-J. Lenz (eds), Learning from Data: AI and Statistics V. Springer-Verlag, 1996.

Cox, LA, Jr., G. Bell, and F. Glover, "A new learning approach to process improvement in a telecommunications company." Production and Operations Management, 4, 3, 217-227, 1995.

Cox, LA, Jr., "Combining the probability judgments of experts: Statistical and artificial intelligence approaches", Chapter 26 in D.J. Hand (Ed), Artificial Intelligence Frontiers in Statistics. Chapman and Hall, 1993.

Cox, LA, Jr., Y. Qiu, and L. Davis, "Guess-and-verify heuristics for reducing uncertainties in expert classification systems," in D. Dubois et al (eds), Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1992.

Cox, LA, Jr., "Pragmatic information-seeking strategies in expert classification systems," in D. Brown and C. White (eds), Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence: The Integration of Problem-Solving Strategies. Kluwer, New York, 1990.

Cox, LA, Jr., "Incorporating statistical information into expert classification systems to reduce classification costs," Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2, 93-108, 1990.

Cox, LA, Jr., "Managing uncertain risks through 'intelligent' classification: A combined artificial intelligence/ decision analysis approach," pp 473-482 in J.J. Bonin and D.E. Stevenson (eds), Risk Assessment in Setting National Priorities. Plenum Press, New York, 1989.

Cox, LA, Jr., Y. Qiu, and W. Kuehner, "Heuristic least-cost computation of discrete classification functions with uncertain argument values," Annals of Operations Research, 21, 1-30, 1989.

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Network Optimization and Design:

Cox, LA, Jr., J.R. Sanchez, and Lu, L., 2001. Cost savings from optimized packing and grooming of optical circuits: Mesh vs. ring comparisons. Optical Networks Magazine, May-June, 72-90.

Cox, LA, Jr., J. Sanchez "Cost Savings from Network Optimization of DWDM Facilities and Optical Switches."

Cox, LA, Jr., G. Fischer"Optical Network Design Tools: Optimization Software to Support Migrating to All-Optical Networks."

Cox, LA, Jr., and J.R. Sanchez, 2000. Designing least-cost survivable wireless backhaul networks. Journal of Heuristics, 6, 525-540.

Cox, LA, Jr., J. Sanchez "Reducing Cost of Backhaul Networks for PCS Traffic Using Genetic Algorithms."

Cox, LA, Jr., W. Kuehner "Dynamic Hierarchical Packing of Wireless Switches Using a Seed, Repair and Replace Genetic Algorithm."

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Customer Data Mining and Modeling:

Cox, LA Jr., 2002. Data mining and causal modeling of customer behaviors. Forthcoming in Telecommunications Systems.

Cox, LA, Jr., and Popken, D.A., 2002. A hybrid system-identification method for forecasting telecommunications product demands. International Journal of Forecasting.

Cox, LA Jr., 2001. Forecasting demand for telecommunications products from cross-sectional data. Telecommunications Systems, 16:3, 439-456.

Cox, LA Jr., 2001. Predicting and Optimizing Customer Behaviors.

Cox, LA Jr., 2000. Data Mining and Causal Modeling of Customer Behaviors.

Lu, L., SY Chiu, and LA Cox, Jr. 1999. Optimal project selection: Stochastic knapsack with finite time horizon". Journal of the Operational Research Society. 50, 645-650.

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Health Risk Analysis:

Cox, LA, and Popken, DA, 2002. A simulation model of human health risks from chicken-borne Campylobacter Jejuni. Technology (forthcoming)

Byrd DM, Cox, JA, Jr., Wilson, JM, 2001. Tracking antibiotics up the food chain. Letter to the Editor, Science, 291, 30 March, 2001, p. 2550.

Cox, LA, Jr., 2000. A biomathematical model of cyclophosphamide hematotoxicity. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 61:5-6, 501-510 (pp. 501-552 with discussions). November, 2000.

Cox, LA, Jr., Chiu, W.A., Hassenzahl, D.M., Kammen, DM, 2000. Low dose responses: Response to Wilson. Risk Analysis, 20, 3, June, 2000.

Cox, LA, Jr., 1999. A biomathematical model of hematotoxicity. Environment International, 23, 6/7.

Cox, LA, Jr., 1999. Internal dose, uncertainty analysis, and complexity of risk models. Environment International, 25, 6/7, September, 841-852.

Cox, LA, Jr., 1999. Adaptive spatial sampling of contaminated soil. Risk Analysis, 19, 6, 1059-1069.

Cox, LA, Jr., K. Paige, D. Popken, 1999. Software review of Analytica 1.2. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 5, 2, 305-316.

Chiu, S.Y., LA Cox, Jr., X. Sun, 1999. Optimal sequential inspections of reliability systems subject to parallel-chain precedence constraints. Discrete Applied Mathematics Vol. 96-97 (1-3), pp. 327-336.

Cox, LA, Jr., 1997. Does diesel exhaust cause human lung cancer? Risk Analysis, 17, 6, 807-829.

Cox, LA, Jr., 1996. Reassessing benzene risks using internal doses and Monte-Carlo uncertainty analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives, 104, Supplement 6, 1413-1429.

Cox, LA, Jr., 1996. More accurate estimates of dose-response functions using Monte-Carlo uncertainty analysis: The Data Cube approach." Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 2, 1, 146-170.

Cox, LA, Jr., M.G. Bird, and L. Griffis, 1996. "Isoprene cancer risk and the time pattern of dose administration." Toxicology, 113, 263-272.

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Cox, LA, Jr., S. Chiu, and X. Sun, 1996. "Least-cost failure diagnosis in uncertain reliability systems". Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 54, 2-3, 203-316.

Placke, M.E., L. Griffis, M. Bird, J. Bus, R.L. Persing, LA Cox, Jr., 1996. "Chronic inhalation oncogenicity study of isoprene in B6C3F1 mice." Toxicology, 110, 253-262.

Schnatter, A.R., M.G. Bird, LA Cox, Jr., and R.F. Herrick, 1996. "Defining optimal exposure assessment methods and metrics for epidemiologic studies exposures of petroleum distribution workers to benzene." Occupational Hygiene, 155-160.

Cox, LA, Jr., 1995. "Simple relations between administered and internal doses in compartmental flow models," Risk Analysis, 15, 2, 197-204.

Cox, LA, Jr., 1995. "An exact analysis of the multistage model explaining dose-response concavity," Risk Analysis, 15, 3, 359-368.

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Grover, R.W., and LA Cox, Jr., 1995. "Dynamic site portfolio remediation optimization model," Hazardous Waste Strategies Update, 6, 4, 31 - 39.

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