Conference

IEOR students attended XVI Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM) organized at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi on December 21-23, 2012.

Tilak Raj Singh, a research scholar presented a paper on "Calculation of products virtual configurations sets for variety management", a joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj, Dr. Andreas Schuette and Dr. Christian Schlange.

Dileep Damayyawar, M.Tech-2011, presented a paper on “Inventory Planning and Management of a Cold Storage Facility for Grapes”, a joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj.

Tilak Raj Singh, PhD student attended the Third Biennial Supply Chain Management Conference held at IIM Bangalore between December 14-15, 2012. He gave a presentation on "Managing product variety through customer choice modelling", a joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj.

IEOR research scholars attended International Conference on Optimization, Computing and Business Analytics ICOCBA 2012, organised by Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) on Dec 20 -22, 2012 as part of their 45th annual convention.

Niraj Ramesh Dayama presented a paper titled "Algorithms and solution techniques for multiple cranes’ scheduling problem at cargo container trans-shipment terminals".

Anu Thomas presented "A Single Machine Scheduling Problem with Partial Information Sharing".

IEOR faculty and students attended "Lectures on Probability and Stochastic Processes VII" (LPS) organised at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre on Nov 30 - Dec 4, 2012. 

Dr. Veeraruna Kavitha presented on "Analysis of Hybrid Polling Systems via Discretization".

Anirban Ghatak, a research scholar presented poster on "Spatial Games and Evolutionary Stability against Multiple Mutations". 

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