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IEOR presentations in ACSOM 2009 - OM 13
Prof. Narayan Rangaraj presented a paper "Route generation for multi-modal Traffic Assignment using k-shortest paths", which was co-authored with Pulkit Jain, Rahul Pandey, Hesham Rafi and M.Ravibabu at the XIII Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management (ACSOM2009-OM13) held at IIT Madras from 20-22 December 2009. He also chaired a session in the conference.
Recent IEOR M.Tech alumnus Vinaykumar Kalakbandi presented a paper "Optimization of Two Sided Assembly Line with Sequence Based Task Times using Genetic Algorithms" co-authored with Prof A.Subash Babu.
Professor Jayendran Venkateswaran also attended the conference and recent M.Tech alumnus A. Prateep Kumar presented a paper in the conference.
Dr. Jayendran attends COSMA-2009 at NITC
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a paper "Web Services based Distributed Simulation for Supply Chain Analysis", co-authored with Abhishek Maheswari at the International Conference on Latest Trends in Simulation Modeling and Analysis (COSMA 2009) held at NITC Calicut from 17th-19th December 2009.
D. Bijulal, Research Scholar, IE&OR presented a paper titled "Stability Analysis of Closed-loop Supply Chains", co-authored with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran and Prof. N. Hemachandra, in the 8th Triennial Conference of Association of Asia Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS 09), being held at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur, during 6-9 December, 2009.
Prof. N. Hemachandra and D. Bijulal attend the Fifth IEEE CASE 09
Prof. N. Hemachandra and IEOR research scholar D. Bijulal attended the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, held from 22-25 August, 2009, at Bangalore. D. Bijulal presented a paper titled "Stability Considerations and Service Level Measures in Production-Inventory Systems: A Simulation Study", co-authored with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran and Prof. N. Hemachandra.
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attends 2009 INFORMS-SS workshop
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attended the 2009 INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop held at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, U.K. from 25th to 27th June 2009. He presented the paper on "Analysis of Output Data in Distributed Simulation", co-authored with Mr. Vinod Kumar Reddy, a graduate student.
Prof. Vishnu Narayanan attends MIP 2009 at UC Berkeley
Prof. Vishnu Narayanan attended the Mixed Integer Programming workshop 2009, held at the University of California, Berkeley. from 8th to 11th June, 2009. He presented a paper titled "The Submodular Knapsack Polytope," co-authored with Alper Atamturk.
Journal paper by Dr. Sajeev George and Prof. Rangaraj awarded Outstanding Paper Award
The paper "A performance benchmarking study of Indian Railway zones" authored by Dr. Sajeev Abraham George and Prof. Narayan Rangaraj, in the journal "Benchmarking" (2008, Vol 15, Issue 5, pg 599-617) has been awarded the Outstanding paper award. Dr. Sajeev A. George obtained his Ph.D. from IEOR in 2007-08 and is currently employed as Assistant Professor at SPJIMR, Mumbai.
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran and Mr. Vignesh attends ISDSI-09 conference at IITB
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran, Mr. B. Vignesh attended the 2nd International Conference of Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI 2009) at IIT Bombay 3rd - 5th January 2009. Mr. B. Vignesh presented a paper on "Manpower planning in ITES Supply Chains", co-authored with Dr. Jayendran, Dr. Milind Patil and Mr. Milind Padalkar (Patni Computer Systems). Dr. Jayendran also chaired a session on 'System Dynamics and Simulation'.
IEOR faculty and students attend AICSOM-08 conference at IITK
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran, Mr. Ankur Singh and Mr. Vivek Sharma attended the 12th Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM) at IIT Kanpur 19th - 21st December 2008. Mr. Vivek Sharma (DD CIM student) presented a paper on "Production planning approach in finite capacity environment" (co-authored with Dr. Jayendran). Vivek received the "best student paper" award for the work. Mr. Ankur Singh (MTech IEOR) presented a paper on "Measure of bullwhip effect in case of generalized demand process modeled as moving average MA(q) time series" (co-authored with Dr. Jayendran). Dr. Jayendran also chaired a session at the conference.
Research Scholar D. Bijulal has attended the 26th International Conference ICSDS 2008
Research Scholar D. Bijulal has attended the 26th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society during 20-24, July, 2008 at Athens, Greece. He presented a paper titled 'Closed-loop supply chain stability under different production-inventory policies', co-authored with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran.
Prof. N. Hemachandra has attended MCDES 2008
Prof. N. Hemachandra has attended Managing Complexity in a Distributed World 2008 (MCDES 2008), an IISc Centenary Conference of the Division of Electrical Sciences, during May 27-31, 2008. He presented a paper `A core and Shapley value analysis of cooperative bidding in sponsored search auctions' that was co-authored with Santosh Srinivas and Y. Narahari.
Pratap D. attends the National Conference ORSI-08
Pratap.D, a second year Master's student of the programme, attended the 3rd national conference on Management Science and practice, Operations research society of India held at Ahmedabad, from 22nd to 24th March 2008. He presented the paper, “Application of simulation in performance analysis of Cellular Manufacturing”, co-authored with Prof.Jayendran Venkateswaran.
L. Sundaravalli attends the International Conference ICISTM-08
L. Sundaravalli attended the 2nd International Conference in Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM - 08) held at Dubai, UAE from 6th to 8th March 2008. She presented the paper, "SPARReS: Sequence Preserving Algorithm for Railway Rescheduling", co-authored with Prof Narayan Rangaraj and Prof Jayendran Venkateswaran. She also chaired a session on "Algorithms" in the Information Technology track.
Sudhir K. Sinha attends the International Conference ICOTSS-2008
Research Scholar Sudhir K. Sinha attended the International Conference on Transportation System Studies (ICOTSS-2008) held at University of Mumbai, Mumbai, from 10th to 12th January 2008. He presented the paper titled "A model for service level based pricing of shared resources at container depots" (co-authored with Prof. N. Rangaraj and Prof. N. Hemachandra).
Prof. Jayendran attends international conference IEEM07
Prof Jayendran Venkateswaran attended the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) held at Singapore from 3rd to 5th December 2007. He presented the paper "Advanced Look-ahead Based Approach (ALBA) for Distributed Simulation of Supply Chains" (co-authored with Mr. Satish Tammineni). He also chaired a session on 'Systems modeling and simulation'.
Symposium on Optimization in Supply Chains conducted
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, organized one day symposium on "Optimization in Supply Chains," on Saturday, 27th October 2007 at the Electrical Engineering Seminar Hall. The proceedings were inaugurated by Prof. Krithivasan Ramamritham, Dean (R&D), IIT Bombay. A spectrum of talks was hosted on different aspects of supply chain, such as global manufacturing, forecasting, capacity planning, logistics, chain formation, closed-loop behavior, pricing decisions, quality of service and co-ordination of decisions. The focus of the talks were on the quantitative techniques employed, such as non-linear programming, mixed integer models, network flow models, simulation and mechanism design, in tackling the different issues. Speakers were drawn from Dell, Patni Computer Systems, Tata Consultancy Services and IIT Bombay; with a total of 8 talks. Participants included students and faculty from NITIE, Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, SNDT University, Mumbai University, MNIT Jaipur and IIT Bombay; and professionals from TCS, Patni, Oracle India Ltd, and Parle Sales. The symposium was supported by IRCC, IIT Bombay.
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Dr. Hemachandra attends International Conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications at IISc
Prof N. Hemachandra gave an invited talk "Sensitivity analysis and related results for some dynamic decision models" on 20th July 2007 at International Conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications. The conference was organized by IISc Mathematics Initiative (IMI).
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran of IEOR attended the 2007 National Conference on System Dynamics (NCSD) at Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh, India from 28th-29th June 2007. He presented the paper "System Dynamics Modelling of Rural Region in India: Evaluation of Technology Alternatives" (co-authored with Subba Raju, Aditya Chaoji, Vipin K. Singh, and Prof. A. W. Date). The conference was jointly organized by the System Dynamics Society of India (SDSI) and Institute of Public Enterprise, Osmania University Campus.
Dr. Tapan Bagchi attends 2007 POMS International Conference
Dr. Tapan P. Bagchi of IEOR attended the 2007 Production and Operations Management (POMS) International conference at Dallas, Texas, USA from 4th to 7th May 2007. He presented two papers: "Modeling and Results of Satellite Ground Support Optimization" (co-authored with Dr. Sanjay Kumar, UT Dallas) and "Harnessing Taguchi Methods in Software Development" (co-authored with Mr. R.K.Gupta)
IEOR faculty and students attend SOM conference at IIM-A
Dr. Narayan Rangaraj, Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran, Mr. Prashant Mittal, Mr. Gaurav Singla and Ms. Charru Hasti attended the 10th Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management at IIM-Ahmedabad from 20th - 23rd December 2006.
Dr. Narayan Rangaraj presented a paper on "Product Variety Management" (co-authored with Prof. N. Hemachandra). He also chaired a session on Operations Strategy.
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a paper on "Stability Of Production-Inventory Control Systems Considering Inventory Shortages" (co-authored with Ms. Charru Hasti).
Mr. Gaurav Singla (DD CIM student) presented a paper on "Supply Chain Decisions and Double Marginalization" (co-authored with Dr. Narayan).
Mr. Prashant Mittal (DD CIM student) presented a paper on "Life Period Based Collection And Inspection Model In Closed Loop Supply Chains" (co-authored with Dr. Jayendran).
Dr. Narayan Rangaraj attends 2006 INFORMS International Conference
Dr. Narayan Rangaraj of IEOR attended the 2006 INFORMS International conference at Hong Kong from 25th to 28th June. He chaired a session on Land Transportation and gave a talk on "Impact of Signal Failures on Capacity and Timetabling in Suburban Operations Management", a paper co-authored with Ravindra Gokhale and N.Hemachandra. He also presented an invited paper in the Logistics Cluster on "Dynamic Balancing of Inventories in Retail Supply Chains", a paper co-authored with Chetan Desai and N.Hemachandra.
Mr. Sudhir Sinha and Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attend 2006 IIE Annual Conference
Mr. Sudhir Sinha and Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran of IEOR attended the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Annual Convention at Orlando, Florida, USA from 20th to 24th May. Mr. Sudhir Sinha presented paper on "Analysis of a Transportation Contract in a Supply Chain"(co-authored with Dr. Narayan Rangaraj and Dr. N. Hemchandra ,IEOR).
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented papers on "Fuzzy-Periodic Review Policy for Inventory Management in Supply Chains" (co-authored with Mr. Vinay Pydah, IEOR and Dr. Rahul Caprihan, Agra University), and "Effects of Information Synchronization Frequency on the Stability of Supply Chains" (co-authored with Dr. Son, Univ of Arizona). Dr. Jayendran also chaired a session on 'Extended Enterprise Modeling and Analysis' in the Modeling & Simulation Track.
Nivesh Kumar and Prof P.G. Awate's paper presented at INFORMS, Pittsburgh, USA.
Nivesh Kumar, IEOR, M.Tech 2006 presented a paper (co-authored with Prof P.G. Awate) titled "Model Predictive Control Framework for Inventory Management in Multi-echelon networks", at the INFORMS International Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, in November, 2006. He also chaired a session at the conference.
Dr. N. Hemachandra attends 2005 ORSI annual convention
Dr. N. Hemachandra of IEOR attended the 38th Annual convention of Operation Research Society of India (ORSI) at Bangalore from 27th to 29th December. He presented paper on "Learning Algorithms for Finite Horizon Constrained Markov Decision Processes" and "The Counter-bin Problem".
Mr. Sudhir Sinha and Mr. Vinay Pydah attend 2005 ICORD
Mr. Sudhir Sinha and Mr. Vinay Pydah of IEOR attended the Fifth International Conference on Operational Research for Development (ICORD) at Jamshedpur from 19th to 21st December 2005. Mr. Sudhir Sinha, a 3rd year doctoral student, presented his paper, the "Study of a Two-way Transportation Contract". Mr. Vinay Pydah, a 1st year M.Tech. student, presented his paper on "Performance Optimization of Supply Chains using a Fuzzy Set Theoretic Approach".
IEOR Symposium (2005) was conducted
IEOR organized a day long Symposium on the "Current Trends in Operations Research [in memory of George Dantzig and Leonid Khachiyan]," on Saturday, 12th November 2005 at the Electrical Engineering Seminar Hall. The proceedings were inaugurated by Prof. Ghosh, Deputy Director, IIT Bombay. The symposium hosted a spectrum of talks, some of which were overviews of established areas in OR, and and others reported ongoing work. Speakers were drawn from TIFR, NITIE, Tata InfoTech, IGIDR and IIT Bombay; with a total of 10 talks. Participants included students and faculty from NITIE, TIFR, IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Delhi, Tolani Maritime Institute, JVPD(Mumbai), VJTI(Mumbai), Goa Engineering College, ICFAI Business School(Mumbai), University of Mumbai, MICMAR(Pune), JDIET(Yavatmal), MIT School of Management(Pune), Jawaharlal Darda Institute of Engineering and IIT Bombay; and professionals from Patni Computer Systems Ltd., Siemens Information Systems Ltd., TRDDC, Tata InfoTech and BARC. The Symposium was supported by IRCC, IIT Bombay.
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