Non-Proceeding Conferences

• Rakas, J. and Allen Yao, " Impact of Convective Weather on Outages of NAS Equipment," the INFORMS Conference, Washington, DC, October 2008.
• Yenson, S., J. Rakas and M. Hansen, " Investigating the Relationship between Datalink, Controller Workload, and Vectoring Efficiency," the INFORMS Conference, Washington, DC, October 2008.
• Rakas, J. and Z. Zorham, "Nested Queuing Models for En Route Traffic and Controller-pilot Communication Messages," the INFORMS Conference, Washington, DC, October 2008.
• Rakas, J., V. Calloud and A. Boubert, " Airlines On-Time Performance and Airport Gate Policy Modeling," the INFORMS Conference, Seattle, WA, November 2007.
• Rakas, J and B. Oskoorouchi, " Airport Service Availability Meets Capacity to Yield Airport Effectiveness," the INFORMS Conference, Seattle, WA, November 2007.
• Rakas, J. and C. W. Wang, " New Approach to the Maintenance of Long Range Radars," the INFORMS Conference, Seattle, WA, November 2007.
• Rakas, J. and Y. Zhang, " Transient States and Dynamics of Airport Runway Configurations," the INFORMS Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006.
• Rakas, J., Y. Zhang and H. Hansen, " Airport Capacity: Aggregate vs. Disaggregate Modeling," the INFORMS Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006.
• Rakas, J., G. Gupta and M. Hansen, " Un-Staffed Facilities in the National Airspace System: Current Status and Future Work," the INFORMS Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006.
• Rakas, J., M. Benett and D. Knorr, "The Effect of Controller-pilot Data Link Communications on En-route Sector Routing Efficiency," the INFORMS Conference, San Francisco (New Orleans), November 2005.
• Handal, J. and J. Rakas, " Balancing Service Quality, Value, and Cost in the National Airspace System," the INFORMS Conference, San Francisco (New Orleans), November 2005.
• Rakas, J., G. Gupta and J. Norrell, " Optimal Sequencing of Un-staffed Facility Inspection Sites in the National Airspace System," the INFORMS Conference, San Francisco (New Orleans), November 2005.
• Rakas, J., "Future Vision for Air Navigation System Maintenance", 50^th Annual ATCA Conference and Exposition, Texas, October-November 2005.
• Rakas, J., "Optimization Models for the NAS Infrastructure Management," presentation at the 84^rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 2005.
• Rakas, J. and F. Yin, " National Airspace System Equipment Replacement Modeling: Obsolescence Problems and New-Technology," the INFORMS Conference, Denver, CO, October 2004.
• Bolic, T., J. Rakas and M. Hansen, "Controller-Pilot Radio Channel Utilization and Cognitive Issues," The EURO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2003.
• Rakas, J. and D. Teodorovic, " Issues in Multi-objective Modeling for Determining Location of Undesirable Facilities," the INFORMS Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2003.

Talks (selected)

• "Impact of Lightning Strikes on Navigational Equipment Outages"
  Federal Aviation Administration, ATO, Washington, DC, August 2008.
• "Models for the National Airspace System Availability and Effectiveness"
  Department of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, IEOR Seminars, UC Berkeley April, 2008.
• "Workload and Cognitive Issues in the Data Link Environment"
  Virgin America Airlines, Burlingame, March 2008.
• "NEXTOR Research Infrastructure"
  Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, Air Traffic Management, Seattle, August 2007.
• "Technology Integration and Benefits to NAS Performance: Data Link and URET"
  Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, April, 2007.
• "Airport Availability Modeling: A Different Perspective"
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Reliability Seminar, 721A Davis Hall, UC Berkeley, April 2007.
• "Evolution or Revolution? Exploring Options for Future of National Airspace System Infrastructure"
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, April 2006.
• "User Request Evaluation Tool (URET) and Controller-Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) Integration Benefits"
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, February 2003.
• "User Request Evaluation Tool (URET) and Controller-Pilot Data link Communications (CPDLC) Integration Benefits Assessment"
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, England, February 2003.
• "Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Applications at USA Airports"
  Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, March 2001.
• "Models for the National Airspace System (NAS) Performance during Equipment Outages"
  Department of Business Administration, Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University, July 2000.