Douglas Down

Douglas Down

McMaster University

H-index: 31

North America-Canada

About Douglas Down

Douglas Down, With an exceptional h-index of 31 and a recent h-index of 19 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at McMaster University, specializes in the field of Performance Evaluation, Queueing.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Demand forecasting for platelet usage: From univariate time series to multivariable models

Optimal Ordering Policy for Perishable Products by Incorporating Demand Forecasts

Seh: Size estimate hedging scheduling of queues

Linearized Data Center Workload and Cooling Management

Overview of Caching Mechanisms to Improve Hadoop Performance

Deep learning for platelet transfusion

Hadoop-Oriented SVM-LRU (H-SVM-LRU): An Intelligent Cache Replacement Algorithm to Improve MapReduce Performance

Equitable Allocation of Scarce Resources During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study for Convalescent Plasma Distribution

Douglas Down Information

University

Position

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Citations(all)

3016

Citations(since 2020)

1120

Cited By

2382

hIndex(all)

31

hIndex(since 2020)

19

i10Index(all)

67

i10Index(since 2020)

40

Email

University Profile Page

McMaster University

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Douglas Down Skills & Research Interests

Performance Evaluation

Queueing

Top articles of Douglas Down

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Demand forecasting for platelet usage: From univariate time series to multivariable models

Plos one

Maryam Motamedi

Jessica Dawson

Na Li

Douglas G Down

Nancy M Heddle

2024/4/23

Optimal Ordering Policy for Perishable Products by Incorporating Demand Forecasts

Available at SSRN 4807963

Maryam Motamedi

Douglas G Down

Na Li

2024/4/25

Seh: Size estimate hedging scheduling of queues

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Maryam Akbari-Moghaddam

Douglas G Down

2023/10/26

Linearized Data Center Workload and Cooling Management

arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04731

Somayye Rostami

Douglas G Down

George Karakostas

2023/4/10

Overview of Caching Mechanisms to Improve Hadoop Performance

arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.14951

Rana Ghazali

Douglas G Down

2023/10/23

Deep learning for platelet transfusion

Blood

Na Li

Douglas G Down

2023/12/28

Hadoop-Oriented SVM-LRU (H-SVM-LRU): An Intelligent Cache Replacement Algorithm to Improve MapReduce Performance

arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16471

Rana Ghazali

Sahar Adabi

Ali Rezaee

Douglas G Down

Ali Movaghar

2023/9/28

Equitable Allocation of Scarce Resources During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study for Convalescent Plasma Distribution

Jasdeep Dhahan

Alexander Rutherford

Andrew Shih

Na Li

Douglas Down

2023/12/10

Thermal-aware Workload Distribution for Data Centers with Demand Variations

arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12559

Somayye Rostami

Douglas G Down

George Karakostas

2023/8/24

An unsupervised learning approach to identify immunoglobulin utilization patterns using electronic health records

Transfusion

Kiarash Riazi

Mark Ly

Rebecca Barty

Jeannie Callum

Donald M Arnold

...

2023/12

Data-driven fair resource allocation for novel emerging epidemics: a COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma case study

INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research

Maryam Akbari-Moghaddam

Na Li

Douglas G Down

Donald M Arnold

Jeannie Callum

...

2023/11/1

Smart Data Prefetching Using KNN to Improve Hadoop Performance

Rana Ghazali

Douglas G Down

2023/8/4

Difference equations approach for multi-server queueing models with removable servers

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability

James J Kim

Douglas G Down

Mohan Chaudhry

Abhijit Datta Banik

2022/9

Optimal control of energy-aware queueing systems

Queueing Systems

Douglas G Down

2022/4

A data‐informed system to manage scarce blood product allocation in a randomized controlled trial of convalescent plasma

Transfusion

Na Li

Michelle P Zeller

Andrew W Shih

Nancy M Heddle

Melanie St. John

...

2022/12

Dynamically scheduling and maintaining a flexible server

Naval Research Logistics (NRL)

Jefferson Huang

Douglas G Down

Mark E Lewis

Cheng‐Hung Wu

2022/3

Synchronous resource allocation: modeling, capacity, and optimization

OR Spectrum

Sigrún Andradóttir

Hayriye Ayhan

Douglas G Down

2022/12

From demand forecasting to inventory ordering decisions for red blood cells through integrating machine learning, statistical modeling, and inventory optimization

Transfusion

Na Li

Donald M Arnold

Douglas G Down

Rebecca Barty

John Blake

...

2022/1

CLQLMRS: improving cache locality in MapReduce job scheduling using Q-learning

Journal of Cloud Computing

Rana Ghazali

Sahar Adabi

Ali Rezaee

Douglas G Down

Ali Movaghar

2022/9/19

Delay-Join the Shortest Queue Routing for a Parallel Queueing System with Removable Servers

Stochastic Systems

Pamela Badian-Pessot

Douglas G Down

Mark E Lewis

2022/9

See List of Professors in Douglas Down University(McMaster University)

Co-Authors

H-index: 57
Onno Boxma

Onno Boxma

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

H-index: 47
Ger Koole

Ger Koole

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

H-index: 43
Ivo Adan

Ivo Adan

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

H-index: 43
J. Christopher Beck

J. Christopher Beck

University of Toronto

H-index: 29
Ted Szymanski

Ted Szymanski

McMaster University

H-index: 26
George Karakostas

George Karakostas

McMaster University

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