List of Publications and Conference presentations

Publications in refereed journals

• R. Gopalakrishnan and Narayan Rangaraj, "Capacity Management on Long-Distance Passenger Trains of Indian Railways", to appear in Interfaces

• Sudhir Sinha, N. Rangaraj and N.Hemachandra, "Pricing surplus server capacity for mean waiting time sensitive customers", to appear in European Journal of Operational Research

• Sajeev A. George and Narayan Rangaraj, "A performance benchmarking study of Indian Railway zones", Benchmarking : An international journal, v.15, Issue 5, pp. 599-617, (2008)

• Rohit Bharill and Narayan Rangaraj, "Revenue management in railway operations: A study of the Rajdhani Express, Indian Railways", Transport. Res. Part A (2008), doi:10.1016/j.tra.2008.03.007

• Sajeev A. George and Narayan Rangaraj, "New organisational competences for supply chain management: a study in the Indian context", International Journal of Value Chain Management, Vol.1, No.3, pp. 205-222. (2007)

• M.S.Gharote, N.Hemachandra and Narayan Rangaraj, "Periodic Review for Reverse Logistics with Remanufacturing, Stocking and Disposal", Technology, Operations and Management", v.1, pp. 30-44, 2007

• Narayan Rangaraj, Milind Sohoni, Prashant Puniya and Jugal Garg, "Rake Linking for Suburban Train Services", Opsearch, v. 43, no. 2, 2006

• A. Chande, S. Dhekane, N. Hemachandra and N. Rangaraj, "Perishable Inventory Management and Dynamic Pricing using RFID", Sadhana, v.30, Part 2 and 3, April-June, 2005

• Jayan Moorkanat, P. G. Awate and N. Rangaraj, "Some new heuristic algorithms for dynamic capacitated lotsizing for convergent-divergent production flow networks with setup times", Opsearch, v. 40, no. 3, 2003

• Jayan Moorkanat, P. G. Awate and N. Rangaraj, "Optimizing loading policies at a bottleneck facility in a refrigerator manufacturing plant with random rejects in assembly line", International Journal of Production Economics, vol 84, 2003, pp. 319-334

• M. M. Akarte, N. V. Surendra, B. Ravi and N. Rangaraj, "Web based Casting Supplier Evaluation using Analytic Hierarchy Process", Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 52, 2001

• G. Raghuram and N. Rangaraj, "Logistics to Supply Chain Management: The Imperative Evolution", Asian Journal of Transport, Annual Number, December 1999

• N. Rangaraj and M. V. Kamath, "Dynamic operational policies for the Bombay suburban rail transportation system", Journal of Transport Management, vol 20, no 2, 1996

• U. Subba Raju, A. W. Date and N. Rangaraj, "Choice of technology and development perspectives", Technology Forecasting and Social Change, 1995

• N. Rangaraj and J. R. Suresh, "Decision support for crew scheduling in urban transport", Journal of Transport Management, vol 18, no 3, March 1994

• N. Rangaraj, G. Raghuram and M. V. Kamath, "Are passengers on Indian Railways paying their way? Parts I and II", Railway Fare and Freight Committee (Seminars and studies), Ministry of Railways, Govt of India, 1993

• N. Rangaraj, J. S. Pang and S. P. Han, "Globally convergent Newton methods for nonsmooth equation", Mathematics of Operations Research, vol-17, 1992

• N. Rangaraj, J. S. Pang and S. P. Han, "Minimization of locally Lipschitzian functions", SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol-1, 1991

Other publications

• Narayan Rangaraj, "Performance measures and the role of contracts in logistics and supply chain management", I-SCAN - Indian Supply Chain Analytic Network, v.1, Publication of the CII Institute of Logistics, Chennai, 2005 (PDF Link)

• Narayan Rangaraj, "An analysis of cyclic timetables for suburban railway services", Abhivyakti, Journal of the Railway Staff College, Vadodara, Jan-March 2005. (PDF Link)

• Narayan Rangaraj and G. Raghuram, "Viability of Inland Water Transport in India", presented at the Policy Retreat and Dissemination Workshop on Strengthening Policy Reforms for Transport Development in India, sponsored by Asian Development Bank and Dept of Economic Affairs, Delhi, September 2005. (PDF link)

• G. Raghuram and Narayan Rangaraj, "Synthesis paper on Strengthening Policy Reforms for Transport Development in India", presented at the Policy Retreat and Dissemination Workshop, sponsored by Asian Development Bank and Dept of Economic Affairs, Delhi, September 2005

Papers submitted to journals

• Sudhir Sinha, Narayan Rangaraj and N.Hemachandra, "Logistics Contracts to Increase Supply Chain Effectiveness - An Illustration of a Two-Way Penalty Contract", accepted for publication in International Journal for Logistics Systems and Management

• Sajeev A. George and Narayan Rangaraj, "New Organizational Competences for Supply Chain Management: A Study in the Indian Context", accepted for publication in International Journal of Value Chain Management.

• S. Banerjee, Subir K Bhattacharyya, Sanak Mishra, S R Mediratta, Sudhaker Jha and Narayan Rangaraj, "Performance of an R & D Organization: RDCIS, SAIL", submitted to Sloan Management Review

Papers published in refereed conference proceedings

• Pulkit Jain, Narayan Rangaraj, Rahul Pandey, Hesham Rafi and M.Ravibabu, "Route generation for multi-modal Traffic Assignment using k-shortest paths", XIII Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management (ACSOM2009-OM13), IIT Madras, December 2009.

• N.Rangaraj and G.Raghuram, "Systems perspectives on Inland Water Transport", Proceedings of VISION 2020, The Strategic Role of Operational Research, 37th Annual Convention of the O.R.Society of India, Ahmedabad, January 2005 (Allied Publishers, New Delhi)

• Sudhir K. Sinha, N. Rangaraj and N. Hemachandra, "Study of a two-way transportation contract", Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Operations Research for Development ICORD-V, Jamshedpur, India, 228-233, December 2005

• A. Chande, S. Dhekane, N. Hemachandra and N. Rangaraj, "Perishable Inventory Management and RFID Technology", in "Supply Chain Management in Global Enterprises", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, NITIE, Mumbai, edited by Sushil Kumar, December 2004

• Kartik Raghupati, N. Rangaraj and N. Hemachandra, "Bid Estimation in Combinatorial Auctions", in "Supply Chain Management in Global Enterprises", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, NITIE, Mumbai, edited by Sushil Kumar, December 2004

• M. S. Gharote, N. Hemachandra and Narayan Rangaraj, "Periodic Review Inventory Policies for a Hybrid Production System with Stocking and Disposal Options", ISL-2004 (International Symposium on Logistics) at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, July 2004.

• K. Chandrasekhar, Nitish Dave, N. Hemachandra and Narayan Rangaraj " Timing of Discount Offers for Perishable Inventories" Sixth Asia Pacific Operations Research Society, Delhi, December 2003. (PDF Link)

• N. Rangaraj, A. Ranade, K. Moudgalya, C. Konda, M. Johri and R. Naik "Simulator for Line Capacity Planning" Sixth Asia Pacific Operations Research Society, Delhi, December 2003. (PDF Link)

• N. Rangaraj and N. Viswanadham, "An example of a supply chain involving multimodal containerised transport", National Conference on Transportation Systems, Delhi, 2002. (PDF Link)

• N. Rangaraj and A. K. Srivastava, "Some IT imperatives for Indian Railways in a supply chain management environment", National Connectivity Vision: Surface Transportation and Communication, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Hyderabad, 2001

• N. Rangaraj and A. K. Srivastava, "Network capacity planning and operational control in Indian Railways", National Connectivity Vision: Surface Transportation and Communication, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Hyderabad, 2001

• G. Raghuram, N. Rangaraj and M. V. Kamath, "Network based pricing for passenger services on Indian Railways", Refereed Proceedings of the National Conference on Transportation Systems and Studies, and Railway Fare and Freight Committee (Seminars and studies), Ministry of Railways, Govt of India, 1993

Papers presented at conferences

• L.Sundaravalli, Narayan Rangaraj and J. Venkateswaran, "SPARReS: Sequence Preserving Algorithm for Railway Rescheduling", 2nd International Conference in Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM - 08), Dubai, UAE, March 2008.

• N. Rangaraj, N. Hemachandra, A. Saroop, S. Sehgal and K.Ravikumar, "Product Variety Management" 10th Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management, IIM-Ahmedabad, December 2006

• Gaurav Singla and N. Rangaraj, "Supply Chain Decisions and Double Marginalization" 10th Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management, IIM-Ahmedabad, December 2006

• Ravindra Gokhale, N. Rangaraj and N.Hemachandra, "Impact of Signal Failures on Capacity and Timetabling in Suburban Operations Management" INFORMS-2006, Hong Kong, June 2006

• Chetan Desai and N. Rangaraj, "Dynamic Balancing of Inventories in Retail Supply Chains", INFORMS-2006, Hong Kong, June 2006

• S. Dekhane, N. Rangaraj, N. Hemachandra, M. Patil and M. Padalkar, "The Counter Bid Problem, "International Conference on Operations Research Applications in Infrastructure Development in Conjunction with the 2005 Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India, ICORAID-2005-ORSI, Bangalore, December 2005

• A. Chande, S. Dhekane and N. Hemachandra and N.Rangaraj, "Inventory Control of Perishable Items using RFID Technology" 8th Annual international conference of the Society of Operations Management, NITIE, Mumbai, December 2004

• Kartik Raghupati, N. Rangaraj and N.Hemachandra, "Bid estimation in Combinatorial Auctions", 8th Annual international conference of the Society of Operations Management, NITIE, Mumbai, December 2004

• N. Rangaraj,"Quantitative models for capacity planning in transport systems, ORSI Annual Convention, Ahmedabad, 2000

• N. Rangaraj, M. Shenoy and M. V. Kamath, "Application of Constraint Logic Programming to Commuter Train Timetabling", presented at the Australian Workshop on Constraints, held in conjunction with the Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 1998

• V. Paranjpe, P. G. Awate and N. Rangaraj, "Dynamic loading policy at a bottleneck facility feeding multiple component lines converging at a refrigerator assembly line, with random rejections at various points", ORSI Annual Convention, Mumbai, 1996

• N. Rangaraj, "Timetabling strategies for suburban railway operations", at IT Tracks for IR (seminar organised jointly by IIT Bombay and Tata Unisys Ltd), April 1996

• Jayan Moorkanat, P. G. Awate and N. Rangaraj, "Optimizing loading policies at a bottleneck facility in a refrigerator manufacturing plant with random rejects in assembly line", ORSI Annual Convention, Mumbai, 1996

• N. Rangaraj and E. Paes, "Applications of simulated annealing to media planning", ORSI Annual Convention, New Delhi, 1995

• N. Rangaraj and B. C. S. Krishnamohan, A systematic and quantitative view of capacity estimation and enhancement of the Indian Railway network", ORSI Annual Convention, Bhubhaneswar, 1993

• N. Rangaraj and J. R. Suresh, "Crew Scheduling for urban bus operations", ORSI Annual Convention, Ahmedabad, 1992

Invited Papers at conferences

• Narayan Rangaraj , "Modelling in e-Business and Supply Chain Management", Workshop on Frontiers of e-Business, organised by GM India Science Labs, held in Bangalore, December 8-9, 2005. (PDF Link)

• Narayan Rangaraj , "An analysis of Operations, Mode Choice, Pricing and Network Economics of Container Movement", International Workshop on IT-Enabled Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management held in Bangalore during December 15-16, 2003. (PDF Link)

• N. Rangaraj and B. N. Vishnu, "Node capacity and terminal management on Indian Railways", Vision 2025, Railway Staff College, Vadodara, 2002 (PDF Link)

Technical reports and notes

• N. Rangaraj, "Implication of the Zonal and Divisional Jurisdictions of the Indian Railway organization on their Operations", Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, IIT Bombay, 2006

• Vishnu Narayanan and Narayan Rangaraj, "A network-based representation of track layouts in railway stations", Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, IIT Bombay, 2005 ( PDF link)

• N. Rangaraj and M. Sohoni,"Meeting transport demands on a network: costs of loaded and empty movements and of waiting", Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, IIT Bombay (2001), also technical report at The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore

• N. Rangaraj and N. Viswanadham, "Multimodal containerised transport for export and import through Western India - a supply chain perspective", Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, IIT Bombay, 2001, also technical report at The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore (PDF link)

• N. Rangaraj,"A note on section scheduling", Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, IIT Bombay, 1997 (PDF Link)

• N. Rangaraj and J. Mrug, "A decision support system for rake linking and related operational decisions", Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, IIT Bombay, 1997

• N. Rangaraj and M. V. Kamath,"Demand-sensitive schedule generation for an urban mass transportation system", Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, IIT Bombay, 1995

Refereed case studies

• Konkan Railway Corporation Limited [with B. Banerjee and G. Raghuram], Vikalpa v. 25, no. 1 (2000).

• National Automobiles Company (2000) [with Rahul Pandey and Amit Khare], Asian Case Research Journal, v.4, 207-224, (2000)

Other case studies

• Super Gauge Limited [with Rahul Pandey and Rahul Patil] (2000)

• Girish Harnesses Limited [with Rahul Pandey] (1999)

• White Line Limited (1999)

• Indian Electrical Motors Limited (1998) (PDF Link)

• Quality Confectionery Limited [with D. Jakate] (1998)