Program

Tuesday January 13, 2004
10.30	Registration
11.10	Opening
11.15 - 12.00	Peter Taylor: Some intersting new perspectives on tandem Jackson networks
12.15 - 13.00	Vidyadhar Kulkarni: Fluid model with jumps
13.00	Lunch
14.30 - 16.00	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.15 - 17.00	Martin Skutella: Flow over time: algorithms and complexity
17.15 - 17.25	Dick den Hertog: In Memoriam Jos Sturm
17.30 - 18.15	John Dennis: The algorithmic infrastructure for the surrogate management framework
18.45	Dinner
20.30	Meeting members LNMB

Wednesday January 14, 2004
09.00 - 09.45	Kirk Pruhs: Resource augmentation analysis of scheduling problems
10.00 - 10.45	Vidyadhar Kulkarni: Managing warranty reserves
11.15 - 12.00	John Dennis: Optimization using surrogates for engineering design, and some thoughts on working with industry
12.15 - 13.00	Martin Skutella: On the k-splittable flow problem
13.00	Lunch
14.30 - 16.00	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.15 - 17.00	Peter Taylor: Capacity reconfiguration in logically fully-connected networks
17.15 - 18.00	Kirk Pruhs: Scheduling to minimize energy usage and heat
18.45	Dinner
20.30	Meeting PhD students LNMB

Thursday January 15, 2004 Seminar "On-line methods: Challenges for OR in a real-time world"
09.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.15	Welcome by chairman Jo van Nunen
10.15 - 11.00	Joaquim Gromicho (ORTEC, Gouda) An overview of real-time online decision making in practice
11.15 - 12.00	Bo Chen (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK) On-line algorithms and competitive analysis
12.00 - 13.15	Lunch
13.15 - 14.00	Peter van Tooren (Almende, Rotterdam) In theory, practice and theory are the same, in practice however
14.15 - 15.00	Klaas Jan van der Bent (ANWB/Ordina, The Hague) On-line methods for dispatching service vehicles at ANWB
15.15 - 16.00	Ana Isabel Barros and Peter van Scheepstal (TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory, The Hague) On-line decision making at TNO-FEL
16.00 - 16.30	Panel discussion
16.30 - 17.30	Drinks