Conference

IEOR faculty and students attended International Conference on Optimization Modelling and Applications (OPTIMA 2012) organised at Delhi University on Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2012. 

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a paper on "Managing Impact of Epidemics: Epidemic Preparedness and Volunteer Staff Hiring", a joint work with John Joy.

Sweety Hansuwa, a research scholar presented on "Some Practical Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem", a joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj and Rahul Pandey.

IEOR faculty and students attended 4th IBM Collaborative Academia Research Exchange (I-CARE 2012) organised at IBM-IRL Bangalore and IISc Bangalore on Oct 18-20, 2012. 

Vikas Vikram Singh, Alok Patel, Manu Gupta and Anu Thomas attended the winter school on Analytics & Optimization and I-CARE 2012.

Two of the faculty members from IEOR, Prof. Vishnu Narayanan and Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan attended the 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming.

Prof. Vishnu Narayanan presented a talk on "Some properties of integer hulls of convex sets". 

Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan presented a talk on "Algorithms for solving convex MINLPs with MINOTAUR".

Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attended the International Conference on Advances in Supply Chain and Manufacturing Management (ICASCMM 2011) held during Dec 16th - 18th 2011, at IIT Kharagpur, India.  The conference was organized by Dept. of Industrial Engg. and Management of IIT Kgp. He presented the paper on "Impact of Control Parameters on Bullwhip Measure of Production-Inventory Systems", co-authored with Dr. Bijulal (College of Engg., Trivandrum) and Dr. N. Hemachandra (IIT Bombay).

IEOR, IITB is hosting the first ISCI 2012, International Simulation Conference of India 2012.

Venue: VMCC, IITB

Date: Feb 2-4, 2012

The following papers from IEOR are presented in ISCI2012.

• Stochastic Job Shop Scheduling using Hybrid Simulation and Optimization Approaches
  Ketki Kulkarni and Jayendran Venkateswaran
• Simulation of multiple line rail sections
  Devendra Shelar, Priya Agrawal, Narayan Rangaraj and Abhiram Ranade

Prof N. Hemachandra has presented an invited paper `Performance analysis of a delay dependent priority queue arising from a joint pricing and queue management model' at International Conference on Advances in Modeling, Optimization and Computing, AMOC-2011, conducted by Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee, 5--7 December, 2011. This is a joint work with Bharat Singh Raghav. He also chaired a session.

Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attended the 2nd International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets (ICSEM 2011) held during Sept 29th - Oct 1st 2011, at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.  The conference was organized by Services Research & Innovation Institute (SRII) and SJM School of Management, IIT Bombay.  He presented the paper on "Collaborative Services Provision in Production-Logistics Scheduling: A Coal Industry Example", co-authored with Mr. Anu Thomas, Dr. Gaurav Singh (CSIRO, Australia) and Dr.

Tilak Raj Singh, PhD student attended the OR 2011 Conference held at Zurich between August 30 and September 2, 2011.  He gave a presentation on "Calculation of constructible set of configurations for product variety management". This is a joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj, Andreas Schuette (DIAMLER AG, Germany) and Christian Schlange (DIAMLER AG, Germany).

Dr. Jayendran Venkaetswaran attended the 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society held during July 24th - 29th 2011, at Washington, DC, USA .  He presented the paper on "Simulation based Analysis of Service Levels in Stable Production-Inventory Systems", co-authored with Mr. Kaushik Margabandu, Dr. Bijulal and Prof. N. Hemachandra.