DIMACS/CCICADA Workshop on Stochastic Networks: Reliability, Resiliency, and Optimization

October 12 - 13, 2011
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Endre Boros, RUTCOR, endre.boros at rutcor.rutgers.edu

Andras Prekopa, RUTCOR, prekopa at rutcor.rutgers.edu

Michael Tortorella, RUTCOR, mtortore at rutcor.rutgers.edu

Workshop Program:

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

 8:00 -  9:00  Registration & breakfast

 9:00 -  9:10  Opening remarks - Michael Tortorella, RUTCOR

 9:10 -  9:20  Opening remarks - Fred Roberts, DIMACS

 9:20 -  9:30  Opening remarks - Andras Prekopa, RUTCOR

 9:30 - 10:10  Single Commodity Stochastic Network Design under Probabilistic Constraints with Discrete Random Variables
               András Prékopa and Merve Ünüvar, RUTCOR	

10:10 - 10:50  Performance Analysis and Design of Tandem Queues with Blocking
               Amir Ghafoori, Rutgers University 

10:50 - 11:10  Break

11:10 - 11:50  Title: TBA
               Sonny Fanelli, First Energy Corp

11:50 -  1:00  Lunch

 1:00 -  1:40  Stochastic Consideration in Systems Resilience Engineering
               Jose Ramirez-Marquez, Stevens
 
 1:40 -  2:20  Single Commodity Stochastic Network Design under Probabilistic Constraint with Continuously Distributed Random Variables
               András Prékopa and Olga Myndyuk, RUTCOR

 2:20 -  3:00  Performance Analysis on a Shoestring
               Michael Tortorella, RUTCOR

 3:00 -  3:20  Break

 3:20 -  4:00  Carol Davids, Illinois Institute of Technology

 4:00 -  5:00  Discussion


Thursday, October 13, 2011

 9:00 -  9:30  Registration & breakfast	

 9:30 - 10:10  Stationary distribution of large-scale queueing systems in Halfin-Whitt regime: Exponential bounds	
               Aleksandr Stolyar, Bell Labs, D. Gamarnik, MIT and E. Yudovina, Cambridge

10:10 - 10:50  Gordon-Loeb model of IT security investment and the (1/e)-rule
               Yuliy Baryshnikov, University of Illinois

10:50 - 11:10  Break

11:10 - 11:50  A Stochastic Programming Based Approach to Assemble-to-Order Inventory Systems
               Marty Reiman, Bell Laboratories
 
11:50 -  1:00  Lunch

 1:00 -  1:40  Fair Scheduling for Dynamic Rate, Weighted Processor Sharing Queues
               Bill Massey, Princeton University

 1:40 -  2:20  Heterogeneous models for nonlinear flows on networks
               Benedetto Piccoli, Rutgers University	

 2:20 -  3:00  Queues in Random Environment and Some Probabilistic Programming Models for Incident Management
               Melike Gürsoy and Kaan Ozbay, Rutgers University	

 3:00 -  3:20  Break

 3:20 -  4:00  Dynamical Analysis of Networks: How to Identify Important Nodes with Application to Protein Engineering
	       Yi Mao, University of Tennessee

 4:00 -  5:00  Discussion

 5:00 -  7:30  Working Dinner (tentative speaker: E. Boros)

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