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Address INRIA Sophia-Antipolis & Department of Informatics, University of Montpellier II 161 Rue ADA F-34392 Montpellier France ajm@lirmm.fr http://www.lirmm.fr/~ajm Lectures On overloaded queues (Tuesday 11.15 - 12.00) Click here for pdf file of the abstract Click here for pdf-file of the lecture Markov-modulated arrival processes in queueing theory (Wednesday 11.15 - 12.00) Click here for pdf file of the abstract Click here for pdf-file of the lecture Short Bio Alain Jean-Marie received his PhD degree from the University of Paris XI at Orsay in 1987. Since then, he has been a member of the Performance Evaluation group at INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France. From 1999 to 2003, he was professor of Informatics at the University of Montpellier. His research interests include stochastic modeling and performance evaluation for real-time systems and communication networks as well as control theory and game theory. He is co-author of a monograph on Conjectural Variations Equilibria. He is a member of the editorial board of RAIRO/Operations Research.
MARK SQUILLANTE Address
Parallel-server systems with dynamic affinity scheduling and load balancing (Tuesday 16.15 - 17.00) Click here for pdf file of the abstract Click here for pdf-file of the lecture Decentralized optimization, stochastic-process limits, and system dynamics (Wednesday 12.15 - 13.00) Click here for pdf file of the abstract Click here for pdf-file of the lecture Short Bio Mark S. Squillante received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, in 1990. He has been a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, since 1990, where he currently is a member of the Mathematical Sciences Department. He has been an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, New York, NY, from 1991 through 1996, and a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1982 to 1985. His research interests concern the mathematical analysis, modeling and optimization of the design and control of stochastic systems, with applications in the areas of computer, business, call center, finance, manufacturing and communication systems and services. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and a member of ACM, AMS, IFIP W.G. 7.3, INFORMS and SIAM. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Operations Research and Performance Evaluation.
RAKESH VOHRA Address
Linear inequalities and mechanism design 1 (Tuesday 12.15 - 13.00) Click here for pdf file of the abstract Linear inequalities and mechanism design 2 (Wednesday 10.00 - 10.45) Click here for pdf file of the abstract Short Bio
DAVID YAO Address
Stochastic knapsacks and dynamic pricing (Tuesday 17.15 - 18.00) Click here for pdf file of the abstract Click here for pdf-file of the lecture Stochastic networks with concurrent resource occupancy (Wednesday 16.15 - 17.00) Click here for pdf file of the abstract Click here for pdf-file of the lecture A stochastic control approach to financial tracking problems (Thursday 10.10 - 10.50) Short Bio David Yao received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1983, and started his academic career at Columbia University, where he became a full professor in 1988. In addition, he is the founding and current director of the Center for the Advancement of E-Commerce Technologies (AECT) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has done extensive research and consulting work in stochastic networks, semiconductor manufacturing, and supply chain management. He is author/co-author of over 160 refereed publications, three books and five edited volumes. He is a recipient of numerous honors and awards, an IEEE Fellow, and a holder of four U.S. patents in manufacturing operations and supply-chain logistics. He is the Stochastic Models Area Editor of Operations Research, and Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Stochastic Systems.
YINYU YE Address
Theory and computation of semidefinite programming for sensor network localization and other distance geometry problems (Wednesday 09.00 - 09.45) Click here for pdf-file of the lecture Click here for pdf file of the paper A strongly polynomial-time algorithm for solving the Markov decision problem with fixed discount factor (Wednesday 17.15 - 18.00) Click here for pdf-file of the lecture Click here for pdf file of the paper Short Bio
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