February 10
Yale T. Herer Department of Industrial Engineering Tel Aviv University
Economic Optimization of Off-Line Inspection
February 17
David Gamarnik Research Staff Member T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
On Deciding Stability of Scheduling Policies in Queueing Systems
February 24
John Rust Professor of Economics Yale University
The Optimality of (S,s) Trading Rules in a class of Commodity Price Speculation Problems
March 2
Leonid Khachiyan Professor of Computer Science Rutgers University
Generating Partial and Multiple Transversals
March 9
Edward H. Kaplan Professor of Management Science and Public Health Yale School of Management
March Madness and the Office Pool
March 16
Tom Cook Senior Counselor McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Creating Competitive Advantage Using Model-Driven Support Systems
March 30
Jim Dai Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia IInstitute of Technology
Efficient Scheduling of Multiclass Queueing Networks
April 6
Dick Larson Professor of Electrical Engineering Director, Center for Advanced Educational Services MIT
Deliveries in an Inventory/Routing Problem Using Stochastic Dynamic Programming
April 13
Tom Luo Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University
Linear Matrix Inequality Formulation of Special Mask Constraints
April 27
Dimitris Bertsimas Boeing Professor of Operations Research Sloan School of Management MIT
Towards a Tractable and Practical Theory of Dynamic Optimization
May 4
Jaime Barcelo Professor, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Heuristic Dynamic Assignment Based on Microsimulation and Some Related Issues
