{"454111":{"#nid":"454111","#data":{"type":"event","title":"2015 Health \u0026 Humanitarian Logistics Conference (South Africa)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe 7th annual \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2015\/\u0022\u003EConference on Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Logistics\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E will take place \u003Cstrong\u003ENovember 18-20th\u003C\/strong\u003E at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022gibs.za.co\u0022\u003EGordon Institute\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(GIBS) in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference draws practitioners from private industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government, and military, who are active participants or interested in health and humanitarian operations,\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E*If you are interested in presenting a\u0026nbsp;poster\u0026nbsp;at the conference,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eplease upload your submission online\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2015\/posters\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;as soon as possible or email\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:msmithgall@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emsmithgall@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Models by definition ignore, at least to some degree, and, in almost all cases, simplify the physical processes that govern the reality of interest, thereby introducing additional uncertainty in model predictions that cannot be captured as input parameter uncertainty. Quantification of this type of uncertainty (which we will refer to as model form uncertainty) is a necessary step toward the complete UQ of model predictions. In the third chapter, we introduce a general framework for model form UQ and shows its application to the widely used sky irradiation model developed by Perez (1990), which computes solar diffuse irradiation on inclined surfaces. We collect a dataset of one-year measurements of solar irradiation at one location in the United States. The measurements were done at surfaces with different tilt angles and orientations, for a wide spectrum of sky conditions. 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While continuous optimization approaches has had a significant impact in statistics, discrete optimization has played a very limited role, primarily based on the belief that mixed integer optimization models are computationally intractable.\u0026nbsp;While such beliefs were accurate two decades ago, the field of discrete optimization has made very substantial progress. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Bertsimas will discuss how to apply modern first order optimization methods to find feasible solutions for classical problems in statistics, and mixed integer optimization to improve the solutions and to prove optimality by finding matching lower bounds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpecifically, he will report results for\u0026nbsp;the classical variable selection problem in regression currently solved by LASSO heuristically, least quantile regression, and factor analysis. \u0026nbsp;He will also present an approach to build regression models based on mixed integer optimization. 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Similar situation occurs in many other applications including posted-price based revenue management, worker-task allocation problem in crowdsourcing, machine scheduling, sensor network management etc. Modeling this problem as a combination of the classic multi-armed bandit problem and online stochastic convex programming, we design algorithms that balance the inherent exploration-exploitation (i.e., learning vs. optimization) tradeoff to achieve asymptotically optimal decision policies. Our results significantly improve upon several known results in online linear programming, blind network revenue management and multi-armed bandits literature, and reveal many interesting connections between convex optimization algorithms, Fenchel duality, multi-armed bandits and online learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk is based on joint work with Nikhil R. 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These countably infinite linear programs (CILPs) arise in several applications including countable state Markov decision processes (MDPs), infinite-stage minimum cost network flow problems, and non-stationary infinite-horizon planning problems. Standard results, intuition, and interpretations from finite-dimensional LPs may not extend to CILPs. For example, weak and strong duality may not hold, extreme points may not be equivalent to basic feasible solutions, dual variables may not have a shadow price interpretation, and a finitely implementable Simplex algorithm is not known. In this talk, we will explore sufficient conditions under which such theoretical results and algorithms can be developed for CILPs. Several examples and counterexamples will be discussed to explain key ideas. Non-stationary infinite-horizon MDPs will be employed as a flagship example where everything works out nicely. Time permitting, an inverse optimization framework and a robust optimization approach for CILPs will be presented briefly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker bio: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EArchis Ghate is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research focuses on stochastic and dynamic optimization. Archis received a PhD from the University of Michigan in 2006, an MS from Stanford University in 2003, and completed his undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2001. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the award for Excellence in Teaching OR from the Institute of Industrial Engineers. His doctoral students have won the Dantzig dissertation award and the Bonder scholarship from INFORMS, as well as other competitive awards from the University of Washington.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-02-18 09:10:04","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:02","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-02-27T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-02-27T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-02-27T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-02-27 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-02-27 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-02-27 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"379451":{"#nid":"379451","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Residual Life Prediction and Degradation-Based Control of Multi-Component Systems\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESTUDENT:\u0026nbsp; Li Hao\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe condition monitoring of multi-component systems utilizes multiple sensors to capture the functional condition of the systems, and allows the sensor information to be used to reason about the health information of the systems or components. This thesis focuses on modeling the relationship between multi-sensor information and component-level degradation, so as to prediction both system-level and component-level lifetimes. In addition, this thesis also investigates the dynamic control of component-level degradation so as to control the failure times of individual components based on real-time degradation monitoring.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe research topic that Chapter 3 focuses on is identifying component degradation signals from mixed sensor signals in order to predict component-level residual lives. Specifically, we are interested in modeling the degradation of systems that consist of two or more identical components operating under similar conditions. The key challenge here is that a defect in any of the components will excite the same defective frequency, which prevents an effective separation of the degradation signals of defective and non-defective components. To the best of our knowledge, no existing methodologies have investigated this research topic. In Chapter 3, we propose a two-stage vibration-based prognostic methodology for modeling the degradation processes of components with identical defective frequencies. The first stage incorporates the independent component analysis (ICA) to identify component vibration signals and reverse their original amplitude. The second stage consists of an adaptive prognostics method to predict component residual lives. In the simulated case study, we investigate the performance of the signal separation stage and that of the final residual-life prediction under different conditions. The simulation results show reasonable robustness of the methodology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Chapter 4, we focus on characterizing the interactive relationship between product quality degradation and tool wear in multistage manufacturing processes\u0026nbsp;(MMPs), in which machine tools are considered as components and the product quality measurements are considered as condition monitoring information. Due to the sequential structure of MMPs, the degradation status of a tool affects the product quality current stage, which, on the other hand, may affect the degradation of tools at subsequent stages. To the best of our knowledge, although existing literature has modeled the impact of product quality on the tooling catastrophic failure, no published work has targeted on the impact of product quality on the actual process of tool wear. To address this research topic, we propose an high-dimensional stochastic differential equation model to capture the interaction relationship between the process of tool wear and product quality. We then leverage real-time quality measurements to on-line predict the residual life of the MMP as a system. In the simulation study, we conclude that our methodology consistently performs better than a benchmark methodology that does not consider the impact of product quality on the process of tool wear or utilize real-time quality measurements.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChapter 5 explores a new research direction, which is the dynamic control of component-level degradation in the parallel multi-component system, in which each component operates simultaneously to achieve an engineering objective. This parallel configuration is usually designed with some level of redundancy, which means when a small portion of components fails to operate, the remaining components can still achieve the engineering objective by increasing their workloads up to the designed capacities. Consequently, if the component degradation can be controlled, we can achieve better utilization of the redundancy to ensure consistent system performance. To do this, Chapter 5 assumes that the degradation rate of a component is directly related to its workload and develops a strategy of dynamic workload adjustment in order to on-line control the degradation processes of individual components, and thus to control their failure times. The criterion of selecting the optimal workloads is to prevent the overlap of component failures. We conduct a simulated case study to evaluate the performance of our proposed methodology under different conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-02-18 12:39:51","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:02","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-05T09:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-05T09:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-05T09:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-05 14:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-05 14:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-05 14:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"380131":{"#nid":"380131","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: When Data Analytics Meets Promotion Planning\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER:\u0026nbsp; Georgia Perakis\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;In many important settings, promotions are a key instrument for driving sales and profits. Important examples include promotions in grocery retail among others. The Promotion Optimization Problem (POP) is a challenging problem as the retailer needs to decide which products to promote, what is the depth of price discounts, when to schedule the promotions and how to promote the product. In this talk we discuss our ongoing collaboration over the past few years with Oracle RGBU where we introduce and discuss how optimization can play a key role in determining promotion planning and capture several important business requirements for grocery retail.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn important consumer behavior that is a direct consequence of promotions in\u0026nbsp;grocery retail is that consumers stockpile the products on promotion and then\u0026nbsp;experience promotion fatigue after the promotion ends. Therefore, as a first step, we propose and study two general classes of demand functions that capture this effect and can be directly estimated from data. Using these demand functions, we model and study the promotion planning problem. Unfortunately, the underlying formulation even for a single product is NP-hard and highly nonlinear (with neither a concave nor a convex objective). We propose a linear approximation and by showing the integrality of the feasible region in the formulation, we are able to solve the problem efficiently as a linear programming (LP) problem. For the classes of demand we introduce, we develop analytical bounds on the accuracy of the LP relative to the optimal (but intractable) POP solution. We also consider a graphical representation of the problem which allows us to employ a Dynamic Programming (DP) solution approach as an alternative. We discuss the tradeoffs between the two approaches (LP vs DP).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFurthermore, we illustrate how our approach generalizes to consider multiple products within a category that are substitutes and\/or complementary. We discuss the tradeoffs when there are cross product effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Together with our industry collaborators from Oracle Retail, our framework allows us to develop a tool which can help supermarket managers to better understand promotions by testing various strategies and business constraints. We show that the formulation we propose solves fast in practice using actual data from a grocery retailer and that the accuracy is high. We calibrate our models using actual data and determine that they can improve profits by 3% just by optimizing the promotion schedule and up to 5% by slightly modifying some business requirements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoint work with Lennart Baardman (ORC PhD student), Maxime Cohen, (ORC PhD student), Swati Gupta (ORC PhD student), Jeremy Kalas (EECS Undergraduate),\u0026nbsp;Zachary Leung (recently graduated ORC PhD student),\u0026nbsp;Danny Segev (Visiting Scholar ORC\/MIT Sloan from U. Haifa) as well as Kiran Panchamgam (Oracle RGBU)\u0026nbsp;and Anthony Smith (formerly from Oracle RGBU) \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO: Georgia Perakis is the William F. Pounds Professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT since 1998. She received an M.S. degree and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a BA from the University of Athens in Greece. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Georgia Perakis\u0027 research interests include the role of operations \u0026nbsp;in many areas such as\u0026nbsp;pricing, energy, supply chain management and transportation among others. She has widely published in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, POM, Mathematics of Operations Research and Mathematical Programming among others. She has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and subsequently, the PECASE award from the office of the President on Science and Technology awarded to the 50 top scientists and engineers in the nation. She has also received an honorable mention in the TSL Best Paper Award, the second prize in 2011 and the first prize in 2012 in the Best Paper competition of the Informs Service Science Section for two of her papers, the Graduate Student Council Teaching Award\u0026nbsp; as well as the Jamieson Prize for excellence in teaching and the Samuel M. Seegal prize for \u201cinspiring students to pursue and achieve excellence\u201d. Perakis was the recepient of the Sloan Career Development Chair and subsequently of the J. Spencer Standish Career Development Chair. In 2009, Perakis received the William F. Pounds chair that she currently holds. Perakis has passion supervising her students and builds lifelong relationships with them. So far she has graduated sixteen PhD and twenty two Masters students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerakis is currently serving as the co-director from the MIT Sloan School side for the Leaders for Global Operations (former LFM) program. She is also currently the group head of the Operations Management Group at MIT Sloan. She serves as an Associate Editor for the journals Management Science, Operations Research and Naval Logistics Research and a senior editor for POM. Perakis has served as a member of the INFORMS Council. She served as the chair of the Pricing and Revenue Management Section of INFORMS and in 2009-2010 as the VP for Meetings of the MSOM Society of INFORMS. She has co-organized the MSOM 2009 conference and served in the organizing committee of the 2010 MSOM conference. She has also been the co-chair and co-organizer of the Annual Conference of the INFORMS Section on Pricing and Revenue Management for several years and the chair of the cluster on the same topics for the annual INFORMS and ISMP conferences for several years.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-02-19 14:22:04","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:00","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-06T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-06T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-06T10:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-06 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-06 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-06 15:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnton Kleywegt\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:anton@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eanton@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"380321":{"#nid":"380321","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Pricing non-convexities in an electricity pool: An non-orthodox primal-dual approach\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Antonio Conejo\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElectricity pools are generally cleared through auctions that are conveniently formulated as mixed-integer linear programming problems. Since a mixed-integer linear programming problem is non-continuous and non-convex, marginal prices cannot be easily derived. However, to trade electricity, prices are needed. Thus, a relevant question arises: how to generate appropriate prices? This paper addresses this important issue and proposes a primal-dual approach to derive efficient revenue adequate uniform prices that guarantee that dispatched producers are willing to remain in the market. Such prices may not significantly deviate from the marginal prices obtained if integrality conditions are relaxed in the original mixed-integer linear programming problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker bio\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;Antonio J. Conejo, professor at The Ohio State University, OH, US, received the M.S. from MIT and the Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has published over 150 papers in SCI journals and is the author or coauthor of books published by Springer, John Wiley, McGraw-Hill and CRC. He has been the principal investigator of many research projects financed by public agencies and the power industry and has supervised 18 PhD theses. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and an IEEE Fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-02-20 09:51:19","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:59","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-02-26T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-02-26T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-02-26T10:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-02-26 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-02-26 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-02-26 15:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAndy Sun\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:andy.sun@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eandy.sun@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"380341":{"#nid":"380341","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Propensity Score Estimation with Boosted Regression\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER:\u0026nbsp; Beth Ann Griffin\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe theory of propensity score analysis (PSA) is elegant. Provided strong ignorability holds, the single propensity score is all that is required to control for pretreatment differences between two treatment groups or a treatment and a control group. In practice, use of propensity scores is more complicated because the propensity score function and its functional form are unknown and must be estimated from the data. Logistic regression has been the standard approach to estimating propensity scores. In this talk, I will demonstrate the use of the generalized boosting model (GBM) as an alternative to logistic regression for estimating propensity scores. GBM is a machine learning approach used primarily for predicting dichotomous outcomes. It combines many simple regression trees to provide a smooth and flexible propensity score model. It automatically conducts variable and feature selection as part of its iterative estimation procedure. Tools for implementing these methods are available in R, SAS, and Stata. I will also summarize recent comparisons of GBM to alternative methods for propensity score estimation, namely the covariate balance propensity scores (CBPS) estimation methods of Imai and Ratkovic (2014). I will contrast the methods in terms of covariate balance, and the bias and mean squared error of the treatment effects estimated by propensity score weighting. CBPS generally outperforms GBM in terms of covariate balance and bias in the absence of the need of non-linear transformation of the covariates. However, we find that in terms of mean squared error, GBM appears to be advantageous in the commonly encountered situation of propensity score model building in the presence of many candidate confounders, some of which may not actually be related to the outcomes of interest.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-02-20 10:33:16","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:59","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-02-25T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-02-25T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-02-25T10:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-02-25 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-02-25 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-02-25 15:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBen Haaland\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bhaaland3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebhaaland3@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"381361":{"#nid":"381361","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: A Modeling Framework for Analyzing the Education System as a Complex System\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESTUDENT: Pratik Mital\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this thesis, the Education System Intervention Modeling Framework (ESIM Framework), is introduced for analyzing interventions in the K-12 education system. This framework is the first of its kind to model interventions in the K-12 school system in the United States. Techniques from systems engineering and operations research, such as agent-based modeling and social network analysis, are used to model the bottom-up mechanisms of intervention implementation in schools. By applying the ESIM framework, an intervention can be better analyzed in terms of the barriers and enablers to intervention implementation and sustainability. \u0026nbsp;The risk of failure of future interventions is thereby reduced through improved allocation of resources towards the system agents and attributes which play key roles in the sustainability of the intervention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the first part of this thesis, a case study is modeled which helped in the development of the framework. This case study was of an extracurricular school intervention, an Engineers Without Borders chapter, implemented in a magnet school setting through a partnership with Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (Georgia Tech) as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) GK-12 grant. This case study is ideal for the development of the framework and as its first application because it had two different outcomes over two different years, which helped in developing insights about the success of this intervention. Also, the scale of this intervention was small enough to test the development and application of the framework. With the help of this case study, a more generalized framework is developed which is applicable across a broad range of education system interventions.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the second part of this thesis, the ESIM framework is developed. The framework developed is divided into four phases: model definition, model design, model analysis, and model validation. In the model definition phase, the overview of the problem to be modeled is documented. Then, detailed descriptions about the agents, attributes, and the environment being modeled are provided. Other modeling decisions, such as scale and time horizons, are also made in this phase. Finally, the criteria for a sustainable intervention is defined along with a method to analyze the risk of implementing this intervention in the particular school system. In the model design phase, the conceptual model is built using agent-based modeling, social network analysis, and discrete-time Markov chains. Then, the conceptual model is validated with the help of subject matter experts (SMEs) using Pace\u2019s 4C\u2019s framework for conceptual model validation. After that, the computer simulation model is implemented and verified. In the model analysis phase, simulation results are generated and analyzed. While simulating outcomes that are consistent with reality is helpful, the real contributions of this framework are two-fold: the sensitivity analysis of the model, and the determination of factors that are likely to affect the intervention outcomes. \u0026nbsp;The latter is accomplished using the Method of Morris, a factorial sampling technique. Finally, in the model validation phase, verification and validation techniques are applied. This step is critical in developing confidence in the model amongst its users.\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the third part of this thesis, the ESIM framework is applied to a case study of a curriculum intervention, Science Learning: Integrating Design, Engineering and Robotics, involving the design and implementation of an 8th-grade, inquiry-based physical science curriculum across three demographically varying schools. This intervention was also implemented in collaboration with Georgia Tech as part of an NSF DRK-12 grant. This was a five year intervention from Sep, 2009 to Oct, 2014. This case study provides a good comparison of the implementation of the intervention across different school settings because of the varied outcomes at the three schools.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-02-24 09:51:23","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:58","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-09T09:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-09T09:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-09T09:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-09 13:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-09 13:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-09 13:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"381941":{"#nid":"381941","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DOS Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022gmail_default\u0022\u003ETitle: A Polynomial Time Algorithm to Solve a Class of Optimization Problems with a Multi-linear Objective Function and Affine Constraints\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpeaker: Hadi Charkhgard\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbstract:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022gmail_default\u0022\u003EIn this talk, I will present the first polynomial-time linear programming based algorithm for a class of optimization problems with a multi-linear objective function and affine constraints. This class of optimization problems arises naturally in a number of settings in game theory, such as the bargaining problem, linear Fisher markets, and Kelly capacity allocation markets, but has applications in other fields of study as well. 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This method is an ideal way for someone who doesn\u2019t have any formal material handling training to get up to speed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoin Lee Hales as he touches upon the below issues:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFundamental material handling principles and concepts\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClassifications of material handling equipment\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESystematic Handling Analysis (SHA)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMaterial handling evaluations, selections, and continuous improvements.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is your opportunity to get introduced to the basics!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAttendees will receive a discount* to the course, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/mh101\u0022\u003EMaterial Handling 101: Fundamentals, Analysis and Selection\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d\u0026nbsp;April 8-9, 2015 in Atlanta. 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As a materials and distribution manager, Mr. Hales planned, set up and managed a network of distribution facilities in the oil field equipment industry and as a consultant, Mr. Hales has assisted on a wide range of projects in the US, Asia, Europe, and South America.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAttend this free webinar and be\u0026nbsp;introduced to a unique, step-by-step, systematic approach to making material handling decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Attend this free webinar and receive a discount to our upcoming April 8-9 Material Handling 101 course"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2015-03-02 18:23:09","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:53","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-12T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-12T15:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-12T15:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-12 18:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-12 19:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-12 19:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"383521":{"id":"383521","type":"image","title":"FREE Material Handling 101 webinar, Thursday, March 12 1:30 - 2:30 pm EDT!","body":null,"created":"1449246246","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:06","changed":"1475894393","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:53","alt":"FREE Material Handling 101 webinar, Thursday, March 12 1:30 - 2:30 pm EDT!","file":{"fid":"75338","name":"webinar-hg_media_banner_400by400px_new_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/webinar-hg_media_banner_400by400px_new_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/webinar-hg_media_banner_400by400px_new_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":48989,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/webinar-hg_media_banner_400by400px_new_0.jpg?itok=8HWLyuw3"}}},"media_ids":["383521"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bit.ly\/mh101webinar","title":"Register Online to Attend"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/mh101","title":"Material Handling 101: Fundamentals, Analysis and Selection (MODEX)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1676","name":"lean"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"},{"id":"168","name":"Transportation"},{"id":"6140","name":"warehousing"},{"id":"4092","name":"waste"},{"id":"634","name":"webinar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:webinar@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewebinar@scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"384871":{"#nid":"384871","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense - Rodrigue Ngueyep","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Model Selection and Estimation in High Dimensional Settings\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESTUDENT:\u0026nbsp; Rodrigue Ngueyep Tzoumpe\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESeveral statistical problems can be described as estimation problem, where the goal is to learn a set of parameters, from some data, by maximizing a criterion. These type of problems are typically encountered in a supervised learning setting, where we want to relate an output (or many outputs) to multiple inputs. The relationship between these outputs and these inputs can be complex, and this complexity can be attributed to the high dimensionality of the space containing the inputs and the outputs; the existence of a structural prior knowledge within the inputs or the outputs that if ignored may lead to inefficient estimates of the parameters; and the presence of a non-trivial noise structure in the data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Chapter 2, we study one of the most commonly used multivariate time series model, the Vector Autoregressive Model (VAR). VAR is generally used to identify lead, lag and contemporaneous relationships describing Granger causality within and between time series. In this chapter, we investigate VAR methodology for analyzing data consisting of multi-layer time series which are spatially interdependent. 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We also apply the proposed methodology to a large number of state-level US economic time series.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the third chapter, we propose a new methodology to tackle the problem of high-dimensional nonparametric learning in the multi-responses or multitask learning setting. We impose sparsity constraints that allow the recovery of the additive functions that are the most influential accross tasks and responses. The methodology applies a functional L1\\L2 norm to each group of additive functions. Each group contains all the additive functions associated with a specific predictor. We derive a novel thresholding condition for the union support recovery in the nonparametric setting. A new functional block coordinate descent algorithm is developed to solve for all the additive functions. By applying the methodology to a benchmark cancer data set, we are able to perfectly classify 83 cancer patients to 4 distinct cancer categories by using only 12 out of 2308 genes. 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However, the general perception is that kernel methods are not scalable, and neural networks are the methods of choice for large scale nonlinear learning problems. Or we simply have not tried hard enough for kernel methods? Here we propose an approach that scales up kernel methods using a novel concept called \u0022doubly stochastic functional gradients\u0022. Our approach relies on the fact that many kernel methods can be expressed as convex optimization problems, and we solve the problems by making two unbiased stochastic approximations to the functional gradient, one using random training points and another using random functions associated with a positive definite kernel function, and then descending using this noisy functional gradient. We show that a function estimated by this procedure after t iterations converges to the optimal function in rate O(t^-1), and achieves a generalization guarantee of O(t^-1\/2). This doubly stochasticity also allows us to avoid keeping the support vectors and to implement the algorithm in a small memory footprint, which is linear in number of iterations and independent of data dimension. Our approach can readily scale kernel methods up to the regimes which are dominated by neural networks. We show that our method can achieve competitive performance to neural networks in problems such as classifying 8 million handwritten digits from MNIST, regressing 2.3 million energy materials from MolecularSpace, and categorizing 1 million photos from ImageNet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Short Bio:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Le Song is an assistant professor in the Department of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Sydney and NICTA in 2008, and then conducted his post-doctoral research in the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, between 2008 and 2011. Before he joined Georgia Institute of Technology, he worked briefly as a research scientist at Google. His principal research interests lie in nonparametric and kernel methods, probabilistic graphical models, spatial\/temporal dynamics of networked processes, and the applications of machine learning to interdisciplinary problems. 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Emulators avoid the repeated use of a stochastic simulation by performing a designed experiment on the computer simulation and developing a predictive distribution.\u0026nbsp; Random field models are considered the standard in analysis of computer experiments, but the current framework fails in high dimensional scenarios because of the cost of inference. The third chapter of this thesis shows by using a class of experimental designs, the computational cost of inference from random fields scales significantly better in high dimensions. Exact prediction and likelihood evaluation with close to half a million design points is possible in seconds using only a laptop computer. Compared to the more common space-filling designs, the proposed designs are shown to be competitive in terms of prediction accuracy through simulation and analytic results.\u0026nbsp;The fourth chapter of this thesis proposes a method to construct an emulator for a stochastic simulation. 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The operational decisions identify the optimal commitment and dispatch to satisfy demand and transmission constraints. Maintenance decisions focus on arriving at an optimal condition based maintenance (CBM) schedule that accounts for optimal asset-specific CBM schedules driven by the condition monitoring data. We propose new mixed-integer optimization models and efficient algorithms that exploit the special structure of the proposed formulation. We present extensive computational experiment results to show proposed models achieve significant improvements in cost and reliability. 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The resulting stochastic optimization problems are in general more difficult to solve than their deterministic counterparts, because the objective function cannot be evaluated exactly and\/or because there is no explicit relation between the objective function and the corresponding decision variables. This thesis develops random search algorithms for solving optimization problems with continuous decision variables when the objective function values can be estimated with some noise via simulation. Our algorithms will maintain a set of sampled solutions, and use simulation results at these solutions to guide the search for better solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the first part of the thesis, we propose an Adaptive Search with Resampling and Discarding (ASRD) approach for solving continuous stochastic optimization problems. Our ASRD approach is a framework for designing provably convergent algorithms that are adaptive both in seeking new solutions and in keeping or discarding already sampled solutions. The framework is an improvement over the Adaptive Search with Resampling (ASR) method of Andradottir and Prudius in that it spends less effort on inferior solutions (the ASR method does not discard already sampled solutions). We present conditions under which the ASRD method is convergent almost surely and carry out numerical studies aimed at comparing the algorithms. Moreover, we show that whether it is beneficial to resample or not depends on the problem, and analyze when resampling is desirable. Our numerical results show that the ASRD approach makes substantial improvements on ASR, especially for difficult problems with large numbers of local optima.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn traditional simulation optimization problems, noise is only involved in the objective functions. However, many real world problems involve stochastic constraints. Such problems are more difficult to solve because of the added uncertainty about feasibility. The second part of the thesis presents an Adaptive Search with Discarding and Penalization (ASDP) method for solving continuous simulation optimization problems involving stochastic constraints. Rather than addressing feasibility separately, ASDP utilizes the penalty function method from deterministic optimization to convert the original problem into a series of simulation optimization problems without stochastic constraints. We present conditions under which the ASDP algorithm converges almost surely from inside feasible region, and under which it converges to the optimal solution but without feasibility guarantee. We also conduct numerical studies aimed at assessing the efficiency and tradeoff under the two different convergence modes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, in the third part of the thesis, we propose a random search method named Gaussian Search with Resampling and Discarding (GSRD) for solving simulation optimization problems with continuous decision spaces. The method combines the ASRD framework with a sampling distribution based on a Gaussian process that not only utilizes the current best estimate of the optimal solution but also learns from past sampled solutions and their objective function observations. We prove that our GSRD algorithm converges almost surely, and carry out numerical studies aimed at studying the effects of utilizing the Gaussian sampling strategy. Our numerical results show that the GSRD framework performs well when the underlying objective function is multi-modal. However, it takes much longer to sample solutions, especially in higher dimensions.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Liujia Hu"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-23 08:46:00","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:42","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-27T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-27T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-27T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-27 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-27 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-27 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"390181":{"#nid":"390181","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense - Cristobal Guzman","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Information, Complexity and Structure in Convex Optimization\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis thesis is focused on the limits of performance of large-scale convex optimization algorithms. Classical theory of oracle complexity, first proposed by Nemirovski and Yudin in 1983, successfully established the worst-case behavior of methods based on local oracles (a generalization of first-order oracle for smooth functions) for nonsmooth convex minimization, both in the large-scale and low-scale regimes; and the complexity of approximately solving linear systems of equations (equivalent to convex quadratic minimization) over Euclidean balls, under a matrix-vector multiplication oracle. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOur work extends the applicability of lower bounds in two directions: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorst-Case Complexity of Large-Scale Smooth Convex Optimization: We generalize lower bounds on the complexity of first-order methods for convex optimization, considering classes of convex functions with Holder continuous gradients. Our technique relies on the existence of a smoothing kernel, which defines a smooth approximation for any convex function via infimal convolution. As a consequence, we derive lower bounds for ell_p\/ell_q-setups, where 1 \u0026lt;= p,q \u0026lt;= \\infty, and extend to its matrix analogue: Smooth (w.r.t. Schatten q-norm) convex minimization over matrices with bounded Schatten p-norm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe major consequences of this result are the near-optimality of the Conditional Gradient method over box-type domains (p=q=\\infty), and the near-optimality of Nesterov\u0027s accelerated method over the cross-polytope (p=q=1). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe thesis is available for public inspection in the School of\u003Cbr \/\u003EMathematics lounge (Skiles 236), the ARC lounge (Klaus 2222), the ISyE\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhD student lounge, and at the URL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aco.gatech.edu\/dissert\/guzman.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.aco.gatech.edu\/dissert\/guzman.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Cristobal Guzman"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-24 15:22:12","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:41","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-30T10:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-30T10:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-30T10:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-30 14:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-30 14:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-30 14:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"390191":{"#nid":"390191","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Huseyin Topaloglu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Revenue Management Under Markov Chain Choice Model\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA recent choice model is based on modeling the customer choice process through a Markov chain. In this choice model, a customer arrives into the system with the intention of purchasing a particular product. If this product is available for purchase, then the customer purchases it and leaves the system. Otherwise, the customer transitions to another product according to a Markov chain and considers purchasing the other product. In this way, the customer transitions between the products until she reaches a product that is available for purchase or she decides to leave the system without purchasing anything. In this talk, we consider revenue management problems when customers choose according to the Markov chain choice model. For single-leg revenue management, we study the dynamic programming formulation of the problem. We show that the efficient offer sets are nested and the optimal policy can be characterized by nested protection levels. For network revenue management, we study a deterministic linear program that offers each subset of products with a certain probability. In the deterministic linear program, there is one decision variable for each subset of products. Thus, the number of decision variables grows exponentially fast with the number of products, and it is common to solve the deterministic linear program through column generation. We show that if the customers choose according to the Markov chain choice model, then the deterministic linear program can immediately be reduced to an equivalent one whose numbers of decision variables and constraints grow only linearly with the number of products. (This work is joint with Jacob Feldman.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Huseyin Topaloglu"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-24 15:24:46","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:41","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-31T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-31T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-31T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-31 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-31 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-31 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlejandro Toriello\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:atoriello@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eatoriello@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"390601":{"#nid":"390601","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Tara Javidi","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Size-dependent Noisy Search as a Problem of Information Acquisition\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInformation acquisition problems form a class of stochastic decision problems in which a decision maker, by carefully controlling a sequence of actions with uncertain outcomes, dynamically refines the belief about a time-varying (Markov) parameter of interest. Examples arise in patient care, computer vision, spectrum utilization, and joint source--channel coding. In the first part of the talk, we consider this generalization of hidden Markov models (HMMs), the corresponding dynamic program, and provide some structural results.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;In the second part of the talk, as a special case of information acquisition, we consider the problem of noisy search with size-dependent noise. We connect De Groot\u0027s \u0022information utility\u0022 framework with the Shannon theoretic concept of \u0022uncertainty reduction\u0022 to introduce a symmetrized divergence measure: Extrinsic Jensen-Shannon (EJS) divergence. \u0026nbsp;We use this divergence to provide (tight) lower and upper bounds on the optimal performance and \u0026nbsp;strengthen Chernoff\u0027s analysis to account for the resolution of the search. These bounds, as a corollary, provide the (asymptotic) performance gain of adaptive search strategies over the non-adaptive (open loop) and non-sequential ones.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This is joint work with Anusha Lalitha, Mohammad Naghshvar, Yonatan Kaspi, and Ofer Shayevitz.\u0026nbsp;Bio: Tara Javidi studied electrical engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran from 1992 to 1996. She received her MS degrees in electrical engineering (systems), and in applied mathematics (stochastics) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1998 and 1999, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002. From 2002 to 2004, she was an assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle. She joined University of California, San Diego, in 2005, where she is currently an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Tara Javidi"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-25 11:54:35","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:39","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-26T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-26T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-26T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-26 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-26 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-26 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"390821":{"#nid":"390821","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Jun Zhang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Bayesian Change-Detection with Identification: Sequential Algorithm and Neuronal Evidence\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow do animal and people combine prior knowledge with evidence gathered\u0026nbsp;on a moment-to-moment evidence for decision-making has been well-studied in psychology using choice-reaction time paradigm. Here, we consider the problem of change detection along with identification in multi-hypotheses setting, assuming a known prior. A Bayesian sequential\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E updating algorithm is proposed, along with the threshold-crossing stopping rule common in sequential analysis. The value of an absorbing boundary is shown to exactly equal the hit rate of a decision-maker conditioned on that response. Computer simulation reveals that the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E algorithm shares many similarities with human performance in stimulus detection\/identification experiments. Given recent evidence from neuroscience in support of sequential analysis algorithm, we report a re-analysis of\u0026nbsp; the neuronal data recorded by Roitman and Shadlen (2002) in the monkey\u2019s lateral intraparietal cortex (LIP). Results show that neuronal activity accumulates during each trial up until monkey\u2019s behavioral response, that the accumulation (\u201cbuildup\u201d) rate is monotonically related to the strength of the stimulus, and that buildup activities encode intended movement rather than sensory information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShort Bio:\u003Cbr \/\u003E Dr. Jun Zhang is a Professor of Psychology and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received the B.Sc. degree in Theoretical Physics from Fudan University in 1985, and Ph.D. degree in Neurobiology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Melbourne, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E University of Waterloo, and RIKEN Brain Science Institute. During 2007-2010, he worked as the Program Manager for the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in charge of the basic research portfolio for Cognition and Decision in the Directorate of Mathematics,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Information, and Life Sciences. Dr. Zhang served as the President for the Society for Mathematical Psychology (SMP) and serves on the Federation of Associations in Brain and Behavioral Sciences (FABBS). He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematical Psychology, and a Fellow of the Association for Psychology Sciences (APS). Dr. Zhang\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E publications span the fields of vision, mathematical psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, game theory, machine learning, information geometry, etc. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office for Scientific Research (AFOSR), and Army Research Office (ARO).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Jun Zhang"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-26 10:31:23","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:39","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-04-02T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-04-02T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-04-02T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-04-02 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-04-02 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-04-02 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"391021":{"#nid":"391021","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense - Sue Reynolds","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Statistical Estimation and Changepoint Detection Methods in Public Health Surveillance\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis thesis focuses on assessing and improving statistical methods implemented in two areas of public health research.\u0026nbsp; The first topic involves estimation of national influenza-associated mortality rates via mathematical modeling.\u0026nbsp; The second topic involves the timely detection of infectious disease outbreaks using statistical process control monitoring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor over fifty years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been estimating annual rates of U.S. deaths attributable to influenza.\u0026nbsp; These estimates have been used to determine costs and benefits associated with influenza prevention and control strategies.\u0026nbsp; Quantifying the effect of influenza on mortality, however, can be challenging since influenza infections typically are not confirmed virologically nor specified on death certificates.\u0026nbsp; Consequently, a wide range of ecologically based, mathematical modeling approaches have been applied to specify the association between influenza and mortality.\u0026nbsp; To date, all influenza-associated death estimates have been based on mortality data first aggregated at the national level and then modeled.\u0026nbsp; Unfortunately, there are a number of local-level seasonal factors that may confound the association between influenza and mortality thus suggesting that data be modeled at the local level and then pooled to make national estimates of death.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first component of the thesis topic involving mortality estimation addresses this issue by introducing and implementing a two-stage hierarchical Bayesian modeling approach.\u0026nbsp; In the first stage, city-level data with varying trends in mortality and weather were modeled using semi-parametric, generalized additive models.\u0026nbsp; In the second stage, the log-relative risk estimates calculated for each city in stage 1 represented the \u201coutcome\u201d variable, and were modeled two ways: (1) assuming spatial independence across cities using a Bayesian generalized linear model, and (2) assuming correlation among cities using a Bayesian spatial correlation model.\u0026nbsp; Results from these models were compared to those from a more-conventional approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second component of this topic examines the extent to which seasonal confounding and collinearity affect the relationship between influenza and mortality at the local (city) level.\u0026nbsp; Disentangling the effects of temperature, humidity, and other seasonal confounders on the association between influenza and mortality is challenging since these covariates are often temporally collinear with influenza activity.\u0026nbsp; Three modeling strategies with varying representations of background seasonality were compared.\u0026nbsp; Seasonal covariates entered into the model may have been measured (e.g., ambient temperature) or unmeasured (e.g., time-based smoothing splines or Fourier terms).\u0026nbsp; An advantage of modeling background seasonality via time splines is that the amount of seasonal curvature can be controlled by the number of degrees of freedom specified for the spline.\u0026nbsp; A comparison of the effects of influenza activity on mortality based on these varying representations of seasonal confounding is assessed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe third component of this topic explores the relationship between mortality rates and influenza activity using a flexible, natural cubic spline function to model the influenza term.\u0026nbsp; The conventional approach of fitting influenza-activity terms linearly in regression was found to be too constraining.\u0026nbsp; Results show that the association is best represented nonlinearly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second area of focus in this thesis involves infectious disease outbreak detection.\u0026nbsp; A fundamental goal of public health surveillance, particularly syndromic surveillance, is the timely detection of increases in the rate of unusual events.\u0026nbsp; In syndromic surveillance, a significant increase in the incidence of monitored disease outcomes would trigger an alert, possibly prompting the implementation of an intervention strategy.\u0026nbsp; Public health surveillance generally monitors count data (e.g., counts of influenza-like illness, sales of over-the-counter remedies, and number of visits to outpatient clinics).\u0026nbsp; Statistical process control charts, designed for quality control monitoring in industry, have been widely adapted for use in disease and syndromic surveillance.\u0026nbsp; The behavior of these detection methods on discrete distributions, however, has not been explored in detail. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor this component of the thesis, a simulation study was conducted to compare the CuSum and EWMA methods for detection of increases in negative binomial rates with varying amounts of dispersion.\u0026nbsp; The goal of each method is to detect an increase in the mean number of cases as soon as possible after an upward rate shift has occurred.\u0026nbsp; The performance of the CuSum and EWMA detection methods is evaluated using the conditional expected delay criterion, which is a measure of the detection delay, i.e., the time between the occurrence of a shift and when that shift is detected.\u0026nbsp; Detection capabilities were explored under varying shift sizes and times at which the shifts occurred.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Sue Reynolds"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-26 14:38:31","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:38","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-04-01T10:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-04-01T10:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-04-01T10:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-04-01 14:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-04-01 14:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-04-01 14:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"391181":{"#nid":"391181","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Douglas M. 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This support is essential to the rapid delivery of critical technologies to our Warfighters.\u0026nbsp; ARDEC\u0027s Statistics Group\u0027s applied statisticians provide project consultation and support on test design and statistical analysis to ARDEC\u0027s nearly 3,000 engineers and scientists.\u0026nbsp; Much of this support focuses on systematically designed experiments (DOE).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArmy technologies deal with a lot of destructive testing with binary response data, where efficient test methods are required.\u0026nbsp; There are a variety of test approaches tailored to these test problems and their unique test requirements.\u0026nbsp; One of the test approaches often used by the Statistics Group is fully adaptive sensitivity test methods, including the 3pod (three phase optimal design) recently developed by C. F. Jeff Wu.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis presentation will focus on the unique needs inherent to destructive sensitivity test using a number of ARDEC technology case-studies as a backdrop.\u0026nbsp; We will discuss approaches being used in test design, statistical analysis of the test data, and resulting reliability, safety, and performance predictions.\u0026nbsp; We will also highlight the need for future research in the area of sensitivity test methods to support DoD test activities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Douglas M. Ray"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-27 10:57:06","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:38","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-03-31T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-03-31T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-03-31T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-03-31 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-03-31 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-03-31 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"391401":{"#nid":"391401","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The Physical Internet - GT Savannah Learning Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch3\u003ESustainability Challenges and Solutions for Port Regions\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding Momentum toward a Smart Interconnected Era of Efficient and Sustainable Logistics, Supply Chains and Transportation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA lecture and discussion seeking to convey\u0026nbsp;an understanding\u0026nbsp;of Port Regions\u2019 challenges with sustainability and other supply chain components in the face of continued growth, inadequate infrastructure and unsustainable inefficiencies. The Physical Internet concept is introduced as an emerging long-term solution to achieving a more sustainable global supply chain. The Physical Internet is an open global-logistics system founded on physical, digital and operational interconnectivity, through encapsulation, interfaces and protocols. The Physical Internet is intended to replace current logistical models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EWho Should Attend\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESupply chain and logistics executives, managers\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGovernment managers\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERegional planners\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPort operations managers\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EManufacturers\/retailers\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELogistics service providers\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EHow You Will Benefit\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUnderstand the challenges of maintaining a sustainable global supply chain in light of inadequate infrastructure and continued growth\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELearn how the Savannah region will be impacted by sustainability challenges\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGain an understanding of the concept of the Physical Internet and what it implies for global trade and Port regions\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EKnow the current state of global implementation of the Physical Internet\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGain an understanding of the components of the Physical Internet through visual simulation scenarios\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EConvey an understanding of how PI will impact ocean, road, and rail transportation and distribution center operations\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Instructor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/benoit-montreuil\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Benoit Montreuil\u003C\/a\u003E, Professor and Coca-Cola Material Handling \u0026amp; Distribution Chair\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the PI Initiative\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Physical Internet Initiative aims at transforming the way physical objects \u003Cbr \/\u003Eare moved, stored, realized, supplied and used; enabling economic, environmental and societal efficiency and sustainability breakthroughs by applying the Internet metaphor to the real world.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA lecture and discussion seeking to convey\u0026nbsp;an understanding\u0026nbsp;of Port Regions\u2019 challenges with sustainability and other supply chain components in the face of continued growth, inadequate infrastructure and unsustainable inefficiencies.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sustainability Challenges  and Solutions for Port Regions"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2015-03-30 04:12:51","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:38","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-06-04T09:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-06-04T10:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-06-04T10:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-06-04 13:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-06-04 14:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-06-04 14:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"391381":{"id":"391381","type":"image","title":"The Physical Internet - GT Savannah Learning Series","body":null,"created":"1449246312","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:12","changed":"1475894403","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:03","alt":"The Physical Internet - GT Savannah Learning Series","file":{"fid":"75553","name":"hg-physicalinternet.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hg-physicalinternet.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hg-physicalinternet.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":100487,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hg-physicalinternet.jpg?itok=uaxOPoQv"}}},"media_ids":["391381"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/courses\/learning-series-physical-internet-sustainability-challenges-and-solutions-for-port-regions","title":"Register Online to Attend"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"233","name":"Logistics"},{"id":"122741","name":"physical internet"},{"id":"1250","name":"Port"},{"id":"167277","name":"Savannah"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:info@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Einfo@scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"392161":{"#nid":"392161","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Sanjay Mehrotra","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Optimizing Healthcare and Using Healthcare to Motivate Optimization Methods\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHealthcare, particularly in US, is a large and complex system.\u0026nbsp; Policies are determined based on legislated priorities, and decisions are often made based on suboptimal algorithms.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; There is a growing interest in optimal resource utilization, while preserving the ethical equipoise between equity, justice and utility in healthcare.\u0026nbsp; Solutions require a trans-disciplinary collaborative approach, where industrial and systems engineers, operations researchers, and management scientists can make significant contributions by developing realistic data-driven and model based approaches to promote evidence based decision making and informing policy changes.\u0026nbsp; The need to bring greater realism to the decision models also motivates new methodological developments that can then benefit application in areas other than health.\u0026nbsp; The central consideration in developing innovative strategies to improve the health system is to save patients\u2019 lives and to improve their quality of life. This must be balanced against risks and cost to individuals and society. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This leads to problems with multiple objectives, and input from multiple experts weighing in on these objectives. The parameters of the functions modeling the objectives and constraints are uncertain as model recommendations have implications on an unknown future.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this presentation we will focus on a few specific examples from our research illustrating how work in healthcare has provided insights towards developing concepts of robust Pareto optimality in multi-objective decision making; generation of parametric inequalities to significantly reduce the complexity of two-stage stochastic programs; and the need to consider out-of-sample error minimization towards developing a distributionally robust support vector machine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrief Biography:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESanjay Mehrotra\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is the director of Center for Engineering at Health at Northwestern University.\u0026nbsp; He received his PhD in Operations Research from Columbia University.\u0026nbsp; Mehrotra is widely known for his methodology research in optimization that has spanned from linear, convex, mixed integer, stochastic, multi-objective, distributionally robust, and risk adjusted optimization.\u0026nbsp; His healthcare research includes topics in predictive modeling, budgeting, hospital operations, and policy modeling using modern operations research tools.\u0026nbsp; He is the immediate past chair of the INFORMS Optimization Society.\u0026nbsp; He has also been a INFORMS vice-president of (Chapter\/Fora) and the chair of the INFORMS subdivision council.\u0026nbsp; He is the current Health Department editor of Institute for Industrial Engineering journal IIE-Transactions, and also held the role of Optimization Department editor for the same journal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Sanjay Mehrotra"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-31 15:10:30","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:37","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-04-09T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-04-09T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-04-09T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-04-09 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-04-09 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-04-09 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"392201":{"#nid":"392201","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Seminar - Dr. Larry Burns","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Making Value: The Future of Manufacturing, Technology and Work\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe scope of manufacturing has expanded beyond the factory floor.\u0026nbsp; In addition to \u201cmaking things,\u201d leading companies are focused on \u201cmaking value.\u201d This entails providing compelling and consistently positive customer experiences by integrating innovation, design, engineering and production throughout the entire value chain. Such experiences have proven to be key to building brand equity and realizing superior financial returns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis presentation frames the future of manufacturing in terms of \u201cmaking value.\u201d\u0026nbsp; It first views manufacturing as an integrated system that turns resources into compelling customer experiences.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It then looks at how emerging technology (e.g., math-based design and engineering, intelligent machine-to-machine systems, additive manufacturing, nano-technology, the materials \u201cgenome\u201d, advanced robotics, and business analytics) is combining with new business models (e.g., selling integrated products and services) to transform how companies compete to make value.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe presentation concludes by summarizing the findings and recommendations of a recently released National Academy of Engineering report focused on \u201cMaking Value for America.\u201d\u0026nbsp; This report emphasizes that\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEmerging technologies, increased globalization and novel business models are creating new opportunities for U.S. manufacturing\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDemand in developing countries is projected to grow from $12 trillion today to $30 trillion by 2025\u2026. a major opportunity for U.S. exports\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUnfortunately, these developments are also creating challenges for many middle class workers\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMiddle class wages and employment opportunities have declined\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlmost 50 percent of U.S. jobs could be disrupted by automation in the coming decades\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch1\u003EThe best way to help people being left behind is to advance their skills and create an environment for innovation in the U.S. that continually attracts and creates skilled jobs\u003C\/h1\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seminar - Dr. Larry Burns"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-31 15:18:15","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:37","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-04-07T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-04-07T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-04-07T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-04-07 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-04-07 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-04-07 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"392151":{"#nid":"392151","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense - Linwei Xin","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: New approaches to inventory control: algorithms, asymptotics and robustness\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fundamental problem of managing an inventory over time in the presence of stochastic demand is one of the core problems of operations research. This thesis is motivated by the need (in both government and industry) to understand such complex inventory systems used to model many of society\u0027s most important problems. In particular, we investigate simple, efficient and robust inventory policies for several fundamental models commonly used in the study of stochastic inventory systems. Some of these policies have been already implemented in practice and we provide theoretic support for their practical utilization in industry. Furthermore, the results on the performance of these policies often yield a rule-of-thumb that is applicable in a variety of settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are four main chapters in this thesis. In the second chapter, we study lost sales inventory model with positive lead time. Although such a model has been studied for over fifty years, the structure of the optimal policy remains poorly understood. Furthermore, it is notoriously difficult to solve the dynamic program especially when the lead time is large due to the curse of dimensionality. Recently, \\cite{Goldberg12} proved that a simple constant-order policy (proposed earlier by \\cite{Reiman04}) is asymptotically optimal as the lead time grows large. However, the bound proven there is impractical. Numerical experiments of \\cite{Zipkin08b} suggested the good performance of constant-order policies even for small lead times, and there remains a huge gap between the existing theoretical bound and the actual performance of constant-order policies. In this chapter, we significantly improve the bound. In particular, we prove that the same constant-order policy actually conver ges exponentially fast to optimality as the lead time grows. In addition, our bound is simple and explicit, demonstrating good performance of constant-order policies for realistic lead time values. Our results provide theoretical justification for the good performance of such simple policies, and open the window to making the results and methodology practical.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the third chapter, we investigate dual-sourcing inventory systems, which arise naturally in many real-world supply chains (cf. \\cite{Allon10}). These systems are notoriously difficult to optimize due to the complex structure of the optimal solution and the curse of dimensionality. Recently, so-called Tailored Base-Surge (TBS) policies have been proposed as a heuristic for the dual-sourcing problem, and analyzed in \\cite{Allon10} and \\cite{Janakiraman14a}. Under such a policy, a constant order is placed at the regular source in each period, while the order placed at the express source follows a simple order-up-to rule. Numerical experiments by several authors have suggested that such policies perform well as the lead time difference between the two sources grows large, which is exactly the setting in which the curse of dimensionality leads to the problem becoming intractable. However, providing a theoretical foundation for this phenomenon has remained a major open probl em. In this chapter, we provide such a theoretical foundation by proving that a simple TBS policy is indeed asymptotically optimal as the lead time of the regular source grows large, with the lead time of the express source held fixed. Interestingly, the simple TBS policy performs nearly optimally exactly when standard DP-based methodologies become intractable due to the aforementioned ``curse of dimensionality\u0022. Furthermore, as the ``best\u0022 TBS policy can be computed by solving a convex program that does not depend on the lead time of the regular source, our results lead directly to very efficient algorithms (with complexity independent of the lead time of the regular source) with asymptotically optimal performance guarantees. Perhaps most importantly, since many companies are already implementing such TBS policies (cf. \\cite{Allon10}), our results provide strong theoretical support for the widespread use of TBS policies in practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the fourth chapter, we explore the concept of time consistency in the context of distributionally robust inventory models with second moment constraints. Recently, several communities have observed that a subtle phenomena known as time inconsistency, which never happen in the classic (non-robust) setting, can arise in the framework of distributionally robust optimization. In particular, there have been two fundamentally different approaches taken in the literature regarding the specification of uncertainty in the underlying joint distribution, depending on whether the underlying optimization model is static or dynamic in nature. In a multistage static formulation, one specifies a family of joint distributions for demand over time, typically by fixing means, covariances, and supports (or some generalization thereof), and then solves an associated global minimax optimization problem. Such static formulations generally cannot be decomposed and solved by dynamic programming an d are generally referred to as time-inconsistent in the literature. Alternatively, in a multistage dynamic formulation, the underlying family of potential joint distributions must implicitly satisfy certain conditional independence properties, and thus allow for a resolution by dynamic programming. The existence of such a decomposition is generally referred to as the rectangularity property (cf. \\cite{Iyengar05}, \\cite{Nilim05}). In this chapter, we provide several illustrative examples showing that here the question of time consistency can be quite subtle and complement these observations by providing simple sufficient conditions for time consistency. We also prove that, although the multistage-dynamic formulation always has an optimal policy of base-stock form, there may be no such optimal policy for the multistage-static formulation. Interestingly, our results show that time consistency may hold even when rectangularity does not.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the fifth chapter, we study distributionally robust inventory control with martingale demand. Many inventory models assume perfect knowledge of the demand distribution. However, exact knowledge of such distributions is rarely available in practice, and there has been a growing interest in developing inventory control policies which are robust to model misspecification. In the context of distributionally robust inventory control which was initiated in \\cite{Scarf58}, one assumes that the joint distribution of future demand belongs to some set of joint distributions, and solves the min-max problem of computing the control policy which is optimal against a worst-case distribution belonging to this set. Although such models have been analyzed previously, the cost and policy implications of positing different dependency structures remains poorly understood (cf. \\cite{Agrawal12}). In this chapter, we combine the framework of distributionally robust optimization with the theory o f martingales, and study a novel distributionally robust model in which the sequence of future demands is assumed to belong to a family of martingales. We explicitly compute the optimal policy and shed light on the interplay between the optimal policy and worst-case distribution. In particular, we show that at optimality, in each period the adversary always selects a demand distribution with two-point support, with one of these points equal to zero. Combined with the martingale property, this implies that at optimality, the worst-case demand distribution corresponds to the setting in which demand may become obsolete at a random time, a scenario of practical interest which has been studied previously in the literature (cf. \\cite{Song96}). We also compare to the analogous setting in which demand is independent across periods (previously studied in \\cite{Shapiro12}). Interestingly, we find the ratio of the optimal cost under the martingale and independent models to be exactly 1 \/2 in the perfectly symmetric case. Our results shed light on several intriguing phenomena regarding the impact of correlations on distributionally robust models, and provide a first step towards developing a conditional-expectation based theory of dynamic distributionally robust forecasting.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Linwei Xin"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-03-31 15:06:04","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:19:37","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-04-13T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-04-13T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-04-13T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-04-13 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-04-13 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-04-13 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"394111":{"#nid":"394111","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DOS Seminar - Burak Kocuk","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Strong SOCP Relaxations for Optimal Power Flow Problem\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022gmail_default\u0022\u003EOptimal Power Flow is a fundamental optimization problem in electrical power systems analysis. Although local optimal solution methods are generally successful, they do not provide guarantees on the quality. Recently, much research has focused on Semidefinite Programming (SDP) relaxations to obtain strong lower bounds. In this work, we instead utilize Second Order Cone Programming (SOCP) relaxations due to their superior computational power. However, since SOCPs are weaker than their SDP counterparts, we propose three improvements to strengthen SOCP relaxation and show that two of them are incomparable to SDP relaxation. Finally, we present extensive computational experiments with standard benchmark instances from literature to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of SOCP-based methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022gmail_default\u0022\u003EThis is joint work with Santanu S. Dey and X. 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To achieve this promise, the understanding, interpretation and analysis of complex multimodal data produced by such devices becomes crucial. The first part of my talk will provide an overview of the instruments that are available for real-time measurement of physical activity as well as a quick review of the strengths and limitations of current methods for measuring physical activity. In the second part, I will talk about analysis of data collected on 700+ subjects wearing an Actiheart device that collects minute-by-minute activity counts and heart rate for one week as a part of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. 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The sudden success of accelerometers in these studies is due to the fact that they are cheap, easy to wear, collect millions of data points at high frequency (10-100Hz or more), store\u0026nbsp;months worth of data, and can be paired with other devices, such as heart, gps, or skin temperature sensors. I will discuss the multi-resolution structure of the data and will introduce methods for movement recognition both for in-the-lab and in-the-wild data using second- and sub-second level data. I will introduce\u0026nbsp;movelets, a powerful dictionary learning approach, designed for quick identification of movement patterns. At the minute level I will describe activity intensity measures (activity counts, vector magnitude, and activity intensity) and introduce functional data approaches for characterizing the circadian rhythm of activity and its association with health. The natural data structure induced by such observational studies is that of multilevel functional data (activity intensity measured at every minute for multiple days observed within each subject.) I will\u0026nbsp;introduce fast functional data analysis approaches that can deal with the data complexity, describe its structure and its association with health outcomes. In particular, I will discuss results from a motivating study of\u0026nbsp;the association between age, body mass index (BMI) and the circadian rhythm of activity. I will also explain why you should not trust your calorie counter.\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrief\u0026nbsp;Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003ECiprian\u0026nbsp;obtained his PhD at Cornell University in 2003 and moved to Johns Hopkins University, where he is now Professor of Biostatistics. 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However, the exact computation of dynamic programming can be intractable in large-scale problems due to the \u0022curse of dimensionality\u0022. Various approximation methods have been proposed to address this issue and often generate suboptimal policies, though it is generally difficult to tell how far these policies are from optimal. This thesis concerns with studying the stochastic control problems from a duality perspective and generating upper bounds on maximal expected rewards, which complements the lower bounds associated with suboptimal policies. If the gap between the lower and upper bounds is small, it implies that a suboptimal policy must be close to optimal. The approach considered in this thesis is called \u0022information relaxation\u0022, that is, it relaxes the non-anticipativity constraint that requires the decisions to depend only on the information available to the decision maker and imposes a penalty that punishes such a violation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the first part of the thesis, we study the interaction of Lagrangian relaxation and information relaxation in weakly coupled dynamic programs. A commonly studied approach builds on the property that this high-dimensional problem can be decoupled by dualizing the resource constraints via Lagrangian relaxation. We generalize the information relaxation approach to improve upon the Lagrangian bound in an infinite-horizon setting. 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The first chapter contains theoretical background on scaling and wavelets, which supports the work in chapters two and three.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the second chapter, we outline a methodology for representing sequences of DNA nucleotides as numeric matrices in order to analytically investigate important structural characteristics of DNA. This methodology involves assigning unit vectors to nucleotides, placing the vectors into columns of a matrix, and accumulating across the rows of this matrix. Transcribing the DNA in this way allows us to compute the 2-D wavelet transformation and assess regularity characteristics of the sequence via the slope of the wavelet spectra. In addition to computing a global slope measure for a sequence, we can apply our methodology for overlapping sections of nucleotides to obtain an evolutionary slope.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the third chapter, we describe various ways wavelet-based scaling may be used for cancer diagnostics. 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To address these issues, progressive supply chain leaders are taking advantage of the best-of-industry practices and advanced technologies for better end-to-end visibility and improved \u003Cstrong\u003ESupply and Demand Planning\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E There are three cornerstones for effective Supply and Demand Planning. 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The first topic involves the proof and the calculation of the optimal drift control policy in foreign exchange reserve management. The second topic involves the fast computing algorithm of partial distance covariance statistics with its application in feature screening in high dimensional data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the first part of the dissertation, we study the problem of optimally controlling the level of foreign exchange reserve held by a country. When a reserve authority accumulates foreign exchange reserves to meet changing economic conditions, he faces the challenge of finding the right balance between the holding costs and the operational costs involved in adjusting the reserve size. We consider a foreign exchange reserve whose inventory fluctuation is modeled by a Brownian motion with drift, and at any moment the reserve manager can adjust the inventory level by varying the drift rate at which the reserve accumulates or depletes, but incurs a cost satisfies triangle inequality. When the reserve is accumulating or depleting, it also incurs a maintaining cost related with the current drift rate. The inventory level must be nonnegative at all times and continuously incurs a linear holding cost. The manager\u0027s problem is to decide when and how to change the drift rate so that the long run expected discounted cost of maintaining the foreign exchange reserve is minimized. We show that, under certain conditions, the control band policies are optimal for the discounted cost drift control problem and explicitly calculate the parameters of the optimal control band policy. In the two drift case, this form of policy is described by two parameters $\\{L, U\\}$, $0 \u0026lt; L \u0026lt; U$. When the inventory falls to $L$ (rises to $U$), the controller switch the drift rate to depletion (accumulation). We also extend the result to the multiple drift case and develop an algorithm to calculate the optimal thresholds of the optimal control band policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the second part of the dissertation we study the problem of fast computing algorithm of partial distance covariance. If the computation of partial distance covariance is implemented directly accordingly to its definition then its computational complexity is $O(n\u003Csup class=\u0022moz-txt-sup\u0022\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E)$ which may hinder the application of an algorithm. To illustrate it, if $n$ is equal to $10\u003Csup class=\u0022moz-txt-sup\u0022\u003E^6\u003C\/sup\u003E$, an $O(n\u003Csup class=\u0022moz-txt-sup\u0022\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E)$ algorithm will need $10^{12}$ numerical operations, which is impossible even for modern computers. In comparison, an $O(n \\log n)$ algorithm will only require around $10\u003Csup class=\u0022moz-txt-sup\u0022\u003E6\u003C\/sup\u003E$ numerical operations, which is doable. In this part of the thesis, we show that an $O(n \\log n)$ algorithm for a version of the partial distance covariance exits. The derivation of the fast algorithm involves significant reformulation from the original version of partial distance covariance. We also demonstrate its application in feature screening in high dimensional data in the following part of the thesis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the final part of the thesis we further study the feature screening problem in high dimensional data. We propose an iterative feature screening procedure based on the partial distance covariance. This procedure can simultaneously address the two issue when using sure independence screening (SIS) procedure. First, an important predictor that is marginally uncorrelated but jointly correlated with the response cannot be picked by SIS and thus will not enter the estimation model. Second, SIS works only for linear models, and performance is very unstable in other nonlinear models. 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We have also extended these techniques to estimate higher moments of the Asians averages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the second part, we then use these estimated moments to efficiently implement Gram-Charlier based estimators for probability distribution functions of Asian averages and options.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, in the third part, we investigate a ranking and selection application that uses post hoc analysis to determine how the circumstances of procedure termination affect the probability of correct selection.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Josh McDonald"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-08-03 10:54:30","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:59","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-08-11T10:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-08-11T10:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-08-11T10:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-08-11 14:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-08-11 14:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-08-11 14:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"434301":{"#nid":"434301","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense - Isil Alev","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Operational Perspectives on Extended Producer Responsibility for Durable and Consumable Products\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrowing post-consumer waste and associated environmental and public health concerns have resulted in more regulated waste management. In this context, \u003Cem\u003EExtended Producer Responsibility (EPR)\u003C\/em\u003E has emerged as an environmental policy concept that focuses on the \u201cpolluter pays\u201d principle. This principle shifts the economic burden of waste management on producers by imposing collection and recycling obligations. Over the last two decades, EPR has gained momentum all around the world for several product categories including batteries, carpet, leftover paint, pharmaceuticals, and electronics. This thesis consists of three essays that contribute to the understanding of the economic implications of EPR from an operational perspective by analyzing how EPR affects the markets for certain durable (such as electronics) and consumable (such as pharmaceuticals) products. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the first essay \u201cExtended Producer Responsibility and Secondary Markets\u201d, we investigate the effect of EPR-based policy on a durable good producer\u0027s secondary market strategy. We consider incentives of durable good producers to recover used products from the secondary markets and discard them. We base our analysis on a discrete-time, sequential, producer-consumer game over an infinite time horizon, where the producer offers a buy-back program that pays consumers a fair market value for the return of their used products (e.g. Dell, HP, Fujitsu, Apple). \u0026nbsp;We completely characterize the secondary market strategy of the producer at Markov-perfect, stationary equilibrium. We find that secondary market interference through buying back may deteriorate environmental outcomes by increasing new production and reducing reuse levels. We provide insights into how to set EPR obligations to avoid these adverse outcomes. Furthermore, we validate our results by calibrating with real-life data and considering a number of extensions that represent different operational environments. Our analysis collectively uncovers possible strategic approach of durable good producers to EPR obligations and suggests that EPR obligations may result in unintended outcomes in a durable setting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the second essay \u201cA Market-Based Extended Producer Responsibility Implementation - The Case of Minnesota Electronics Recycling Act\u201d, we investigate the operational implementation details of EPR-based policy on the ground. In the implementation of EPR-based policies, ``market-based\u0022 approach has recently become the mostly advocated approach. Its main premises are to promote cost efficiency and to achieve better environmental outcomes by adopting free market principle and setting desirable targets for collection with broad flexibilities. In this essay, we analyze whether these premises hold by focusing on the Minnesota Electronics Recycling Act, a prevailing example of marked-based EPR policy implementation in the US. Based on publicly available reports and our interviews with the stakeholders, we explore its implementation rules, stakeholder perspectives, and resulting outcomes together with underlying dynamics. We find that the Minnesota Act appears to achieve the premises of the market-based approach, but this possibly occurs at the expense of several environmental disadvantages. Our analysis suggests that these disadvantages arise from market dynamics at the implementation stage and associated stakeholder interactions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the third essay \u201cExtended Producer Responsibility for Pharmaceuticals\u201d, we focus on EPR-based policies for unused pharmaceuticals, a category of products with a consumable nature. EPR-based policies have recently gained popularity for pharmaceuticals to address their recently recognized environmental and public health externalities (e.g. EU, British Columbia, Alameda and King Counties in the US). However, little is known regarding the effectiveness of these policies for pharmaceuticals and little guidance can be obtained from EPR implementations for durable products, because product characteristics demand structures and market dynamics are very different. Motivated by this, we analyze how the EPR concept can be effectively operationalized for pharmaceuticals by analyzing the interactions in the pharmaceutical chain as they relate to EPR. We build a game-theoretical model that focuses on major stakeholders (pharmaceutical producers, doctors, patients, the environment and public health) and their unique and complex interactions as well as moderating factors for these interactions (pharmaceutical promotions, mediated demand structure due to doctor-patient interaction). With this framework, we investigate the effectiveness of EPR-based policies and demonstrate that the preferred policy from the welfare perspective depends on the healthcare and externality characteristics of the medicine together with collection-related requirements in place. 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In particular, if the set of alternative models consists of all models within a certain \u201cdistance\u201d of a baseline model, then the potential effect of model risk can be estimated at low cost within a simulation of the baseline model. I will illustrate this approach to making Monte Carlo robust with examples from finance, where concerns about model risk have received heightened attention. The problem of bounding \u201cwrong-way risk\u201d in\u0026nbsp; counterparty risk presents a related question in which model uncertainty is limited to the nature of the dependence between two otherwise certain marginal models for market and credit risk.\u0026nbsp; The effect of uncertain dependence can be bounded through convenient combinations of simulation with linear programming and\/or convex optimization. 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We do this first when some (path dependent) European options are available for static hedging. We then analyze what happens when some American options are added to the mix of options that are available for hedging.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Erhan Bayraktar is a full professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he has been since 2004. He is the holder of the Susan M. Smith Chair since 2010 and also is the co-director of the Quantitative Finance and Risk Management Masters Program. Professor Bayraktar\u2019s research is in stochastic analysis, control, applied probability and mathematical finance. He has over 90 publications in prestigious journals in these areas. He is in the editorial boards of Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Finance and the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. His research has been continually funded by the National Science Foundation. In particular, he received a CAREER grant in 2010. He received the inaugural junior scientist prize of the SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering in 2010. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor Bayraktar received his Bachelor\u2019s degree (a double major in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics) from Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2000. 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In their seminal work, Jordan and Graves proposed an important\u0026nbsp;flexibility\u0026nbsp;concept, called the long chain design, and studied its empirical performance.\u0026nbsp;In this talk, we summarize\u0026nbsp;recent\u0026nbsp;theoretical developments in understanding the effectiveness of the long chain design as well as other sparse\u0026nbsp;flexibility\u0026nbsp;structures.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJiawei\u0026nbsp;Zhang is Professor of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and Harold MacDowell Faculty Fellow at the Stern School of Business,\u0026nbsp;New York University. He\u0026nbsp;holds a PhD from\u0026nbsp;Stanford University\u0026nbsp;and a\u0026nbsp;B.S. degree\u0026nbsp;and an M.S. degree from Tsinghua University.\u0026nbsp; Professor Zhang\u0027s\u0026nbsp;research interests include business analytics and optimization.\u0026nbsp;His work has appeared in \u003Cem\u003EManagement Science\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EManufacturing and Service Operations\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMathematical Programming,\u0026nbsp;Mathematics of Operations Research\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EOperations Research\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESIAM Journal on Computing\u003C\/em\u003E, etc.\u0026nbsp;Professor Zhang was a recipient of the\u0026nbsp;INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers in 2004. He currently\u0026nbsp;serves as Associate Editor for several journals including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EOperations Research\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(2006-),\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMathematics\u0026nbsp;of Operations Research\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(2009-), and\u003Cem\u003E Management Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(2014-).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar Series - Jiawei Zhang"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-08-17 15:50:16","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:48","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-14T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-14T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-14T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-14 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-14 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-14 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"435321":{"#nid":"435321","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar Series - Retsef Levi","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Exploration vs. Exploitation: Reducing Uncertainty in Operational Problems\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMotivated by several core operational applications, we introduce a new class of multistage stochastic optimization models that capture a fundamental tradeoff between performing work and making decisions under uncertainty (exploitation) and investing capacity (and time) to reduce the uncertainty in the decision making (exploration\/testing). Unlike existing models, in which the exploration-exploitation tradeoffs typically relate to learning the underlying distributions, the models we introduce assume a known probabilistic characterization of the uncertainty, and focus on the tradeoff of learning (or partially learning) the exact realizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFocusing on core scheduling models, we derive insightful structural results on the optimal policies that lead to: (i) Low dimensional dynamic programming formulations; (ii) quantification of the value of learning; (iii) surprising results on the optimality of local (myopic) decision rules for when it is optimal to explore (learn). We then generalize some of the results to a general class of stochastic combinatorial optimization models defined over contra-polymatroids.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe talk is based on several papers that are joint work with Chen Atias, Robi Krauthgamer, Tom Magnanti and Yaron Shaposhnik.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Bio: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERetsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the Operations Management Group at MIT Sloan and affiliated with the Operations Research Center and the Computational for Design and Optimization Program. Prior to joining MIT in 2006, he spent a year as a Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.\u0026nbsp; He received a Bachelor\u0027s degree in Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University in 2001, and a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University in 2005. He spent more than 11 years in the Israeli Defense Forces as an Office in the Intelligence Wing. Levi\u0027s current research is focused on the design of analytical data-driven decision support models and tools addressing complex business and system design decisions under uncertainty in areas, such as health and healthcare management, supply chain, procurement and inventory management, revenue management, pricing optimization and logistics. He is interested in the theory underlying these models and algorithms, as well as their computational and organizational applicability in practical settings. Levi is leading several industry-based collaborative research efforts with some of the major academic hospitals in the Boston area, such as Mass General Hospital (MGH), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Children\u2019s Hospital, and across the US (e.g., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC Prebyterian Hospital System and the American Association of Medical Colleges). Levi is the lead PI on an MIT contract with the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to develop systematic risk management approach to address risk related to economically motivated adulterations of food and drug products manufactured in China. Levi received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development award, the 2008 INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers and the 2013 Daniel H. 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It is estimated that half of all patients at risk of cardiovascular disease are not fully adherent to their prescribed medications. One mechanism for improving patient adherence to guidelines is to tailor coinsurance rates for prescription medications to patient characteristics. For patients insured by Medicare, we seek to find coinsurance rates which maximize the welfare of the heterogeneous patient population at risk for cardiovascular disease. We analyze the problem as a bilevel optimization model where the lower optimization problem has the structure of a Markov decision process which determines the optimal hypertension treatment plan for each patient class. The upper optimization problem is a nonlinear resource allocation problem with constraints on total expenditures and coinsurance inequality. The models are parameterized using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). We find that optimizing coinsurance rates can be a cost-effective intervention for improving patient adherence and health outcomes, particularly for those patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease. This research is done in collaboration with Greggory J. Schell (former PhD student) as well as University of Michigan and U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs clinicians: Rodney A. Hayward, and Jeremy B. Sussman.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mariel Lavieri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan.\u0026nbsp; She has bachelor\u0027s degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Statistics and a minor in String Bass Performance from the University of Florida. She holds a Masters and PhD in Management Science from the University of British Columbia. In her work, she applies operations research to healthcare topics. Her most recent research develops dynamic programming, stochastic control, and continuous, partially observable state space models to guide screening, monitoring and treatment decisions of chronic disease patients. She has also developed models for health workforce planning which take into account training requirements, workforce attrition, capacity planning, promotion rules and learning. Dr. Lavieri is the recipient of the Bonder Scholarship, and an honorary mention in the George B. Dantzig Dissertation award. She received the 2009 Pierskalla Award for the best paper presented in the Health Applications Society at INFORMS and mentored students who won the 2012 Doing Good with Good OR, the 2013 Society for Medical Decision Making Lee Lusted Award for Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Developments and the 2015 IBM Research Service Science Best Student Paper Award (hosted by the INFORMS Service Science Section). Dr. Lavieri was named the 2013 Young Participant with Most Practical Impact by the International Conference on Operations Research.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar Series - Mariel Lavieri"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-08-17 15:53:59","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:48","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-11-11T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-11-11T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-11-11T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-11-11 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-11-11 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-11-11 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"435351":{"#nid":"435351","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar Series - Dan Bienstock","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Recent results on polynomial optimization problems\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPolynomial optimization problems, as the name suggests, are optimization problem where the objective function as well as the constraints are described by polynomials. \u0026nbsp;Such problems have acquired increased interest to some degree because of applications in engineering and science, where constraints arise because of physics, and also because of increased theoretical understanding. \u0026nbsp;In this talk I will focus on two topics where I am working, the CDT (Celis Dennis Tapia) problem, which concerns the solution of a system of quadratic inequalities over R^n, and mixed-integer polynomial optimization problems over graphs with structural sparsity, i.e. low treewidth. \u0026nbsp;We will describe our results, but also we will discuss how these problems relate to classical problems in various branches of mathematics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Bienstock is a professor at the departments of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, where he has been since 1989. \u0026nbsp; He received the PhD from MIT in Operations Research. His research focuses on discrete and nonconvex optimization, from both a theoretical and a computational standpoint, and applications, such as the mathematics of power grids. \u0026nbsp;He was plenary speaker at the 2005 SIAM Conference on Optimization, semi-plenary speaker at the 2006 ISMP meeting, became an INFORMS fellow in 2013, and is editor-in-chief of Mathematical Programming C.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar Series - Dan Bienstock"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-08-17 15:55:40","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:48","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-11-18T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-11-18T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-11-18T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-11-18 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-11-18 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-11-18 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"435371":{"#nid":"435371","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar Series - Alfred Hero","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Graph continuum limits in data science\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany problems in data science fields including data mining, computer vision, and machine learning involve combinatorial optimization over a graphs, e.g., minimal spanning trees, traveling salesman tours, or k-point minimal graphs over a feature space.\u0026nbsp; Certain properties of minimal graphs like their length, minimal paths, or span have continuum limits\u0026nbsp; as the number of nodes approaches infinity. These include problems\u0026nbsp; arising in spectral clustering, statistical classification, multi-objective learning, and anomaly detection. In some cases these continuum limits lead to analytical approximations that can\u0026nbsp; break the combinatorial bottleneck.\u0026nbsp; In this talk, I will present an overview of some of the remarkable theory of graph continuum limits and illustrate with data science applications.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Bio: \u003Cbr \/\u003E Alfred O. Hero III received the B.S. (summa cum laude) from Boston University (1980) and the Ph.D from Princeton University (1984), both in Electrical Engineering. Since 1984 he has been with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering and co-director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) . His primary appointment is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and he also has appointments, by courtesy, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Statistics. From 2008 to 2013 he held the Digiteo Chaire d\u0027Excellence, sponsored by Digiteo Research Park in Paris, located at the Ecole Superieure d\u0027Electricite, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. He has held other visiting positions at LIDS Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006), Boston University (2006), I3S University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, France (2001), Ecole Normale Sup\\\u0027erieure de Lyon (1999), Ecole Nationale Sup\\\u0027erieure des T\\\u0027el\\\u0027ecommunications, Paris (1999), Lucent Bell Laboratories (1999), Scientific Research Labs of the Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan (1993), Ecole Nationale Superieure des Techniques Avancees (ENSTA), Ecole Superieure d\u0027Electricite, Paris (1990), and M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory (1987 - 1989).\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Alfred Hero is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He received the University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (2011). He has been plenary and keynote speaker at several workshops and conferences. He has received several best paper awards including: an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1998), a Best Original Paper Award from the Journal of Flow Cytometry (2008), a Best Magazine Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2010), a SPIE Best Student Paper Award (2011), an IEEE ICASSP Best Student Paper Award (2011), an AISTATS Notable Paper Award (2013), and an IEEE ICIP Best Paper Award (2013). He received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (1998), an IEEE Third Millenium Medal (2000), an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturership (2002), and a IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (2014).\u0026nbsp; In 2015 he received the Society Award, which is the highest award bestowed by \u003Cbr \/\u003E the IEEE Signal Processing Society. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Al Hero was President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2006-2007). He was a member of the IEEE TAB Society Review Committee (2009), the IEEE Awards Committee (2010-2011), and served on the Board of Directors of the IEEE (2009-2011) as Director of Division IX (Signals and Applications). He served on the IEEE TAB Nominations and Appointments Committee (2012-2014). Alfred Hero is currently a member of the Big Data Special Interest Group (SIG) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) of the US National Academies of Science.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Alfred Hero\u0027s recent research interests are in the data science of high dimensional spatio-temporal data, statistical signal processing, and machine learning. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial Engineering (ISyE), Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), Georgia Tech IIE, IIE Atlanta Chapter, and GT Supply Chain Network (GTSCN) will be co-hosting an Open House and Homecoming Meet \u0026amp; Greet Tailgate\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join us October 23 for an Open House and October 24 for a Meet \u0026 Greet Tailgate"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2015-09-18 19:15:20","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:13","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-23T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-24T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-24T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-23 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-24 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-24 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"449851":{"id":"449851","type":"image","title":"ISyE \u0026 IIE Homecoming Kickoff Activities","body":null,"created":"1449256264","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:04","changed":"1475895192","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:12","alt":"ISyE \u0026 IIE Homecoming Kickoff Activities","file":{"fid":"203307","name":"hc2015_carousel_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hc2015_carousel_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hc2015_carousel_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":77220,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hc2015_carousel_0_0.jpg?itok=tyLPsR9o"}}},"media_ids":["449851"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bit.ly\/isye-hc2015","title":"More information and to RSVP online"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"142021","name":"homecoming 2015"},{"id":"142031","name":"Openhouse"},{"id":"36011","name":"Tailgate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"},{"id":"1793","name":"Sports\/Athletics"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:event@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eevent@scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"449871":{"#nid":"449871","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DOS Seminar - Merve Bodur","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Cutting Planes from Extended LP Formulations\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003EFor mixed-integer sets, we study extended formulations of their LP relaxations and study the effect of adding cutting planes in the extended space. In terms of optimization, extended LP formulations do not lead to better bounds as their projection onto the original space is precisely the original LP relaxation. However, we show that applying split cuts to such extended formulations can be more effective than applying split cuts to the original formulation. For any 0-1 mixed-integer set with n integer and k continuous variables, we construct an extended formulation with 2n+k-1 variables whose elementary split closure is integral. We extend this idea to general mixed-integer sets and construct the best extended formulation with respect to split cuts.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is joint work with Sanjeeb Dash and Oktay Gunluk.","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"DOS Seminar - Merve Bodur"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-09-21 07:39:26","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:13","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-09-23T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-09-23T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-09-23T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-09-23 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-09-23 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-09-23 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"449881":{"#nid":"449881","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar Series - Jeff Wu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; From real world problems to esoteric research:\u0026nbsp; examples and personal experience\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYoung (and some not-so-young) researchers often wonder how to extract good research ideas and develop useful methodologies from solving real world problems. The path is rarely straightforward and its success depends on the circumstances, tenacity and luck. I will use three examples to illustrate how I trod the path. The first involved an attempt to find optimal growth conditions for nano structures. It led to the development of a new method \u201csequential minimum energy design (smed)\u201d, which exploits an analogy to potential energy of charged particles. After a few years of frustrated efforts and relentless pursuit, we realized that smed is more suitable for generating samples adaptively to mimic an arbitrary distribution rather than for optimization. The main objective of the second example was to build an efficient statistical emulator based on finite element simulation results with two mesh densities in cast foundry operations. It eventually led to the development of a class of nonstationary Gaussian process models that can be used to \u003Cem\u003Econnect\u003C\/em\u003E simulation data of different precisions and speeds. The third example is about sequential design that works well for \u003Cem\u003Esmall\u003C\/em\u003E samples in sensitivity testing. I will describe three major papers in a span of 30 years and how each paper had one new idea that inspired the next paper. In each example, the developed methodology has broader applications beyond the original problem. 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Alongside the growth of these data banks, a new field of study, data science, has emerged. The central role of data science is to infer knowledge on the data in the form of models and estimates employing methods at the intersection of computer science, data mining, mathematics, and statistics. In this thesis we provide statistical and model-based data mining methods for pattern detection with applications to biomedical and healthcare data sets. In particular, we examine applications in costly acute or chronic disease management. Health data are extremely varied: at the macro-level, one can examine the healthcare utilization of millions of patients in the insurance systems like Medicare and Medicaid, while at the micro-level, a single snapshot from a medical imaging device may be used to diagnose cancerous cells in the body. In all, statisticians can contribute methods that extract structure from large, noisy data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Chapter II, we consider NMR experiments in which we seek to locate and de-mix smooth, yet highly localized components in a noisy two-dimensional signal. By using wavelet-based methods we are able to separate components from the noisy background, as well as from other neighboring components. In Chapter III, we pilot methods for identifying profiles of patient utilization of the healthcare system from large, highly-sensitive, patient-level data. We combine model-based data mining methods with clustering analysis in order to extract longitudinal utilization profiles. We transform these profiles into simple visual displays that can inform policy decisions and quantify the potential cost savings of interventions that improve adherence to recommended care guidelines. In Chapter IV, we propose new methods integrating survival analysis models and clustering analysis to profile patient-level utilization behaviors while controlling for variations in the population\u2019s demographic and healthcare characteristics and explaining variations in utilization due to different state-based Medicaid programs, as well as access and urbanicity measures.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Ross Hilton"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-09-21 07:45:44","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:13","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-07T11:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-07T11:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-07T11:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-07 15:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-07 15:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-07 15:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"451151":{"#nid":"451151","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Richard Peng","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; L_p Row Sampling by Lewis Weights\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe give an algorithm that efficiently samples the rows of a matrix while preserving the L_1-norm of its product with vectors. Given an n-by-d matrix A, we find with high probability and in input sparsity time A\u0027 consisting of about dlogd rescaled rows of A such that |Ax|_1\u003Cbr \/\u003E is close to |A\u2019x|_1 for all vectors x. We also show similar results giving nearly optimal sample bounds for all L_p-norms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOur results are based on sampling by ``Lewis weights\u0027\u0027, which can be viewed as generalizations of statistical leverage scores to non-linear settings. 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This talk will investigate a robust framework to quantify these model errors, by positing worst-case optimizations over the input probability distributions subject to the modeler\u0027s partial, nonparametric information. We illustrate these optimization formulations in several stylized contexts in stochastic modeling, describe their computational challenges, and present some simulation-based machinery in approximating their solutions. 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The design of strategies for branching in Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) is guided by cycles of parameter tuning and offline experimentation on an extremely heterogeneous testbed, using the average performance. Once devised, these strategies (and the values of their parameters) are essentially input-agnostic. To address these issues, we develop a novel framework for data-driven, on-the-fly design of variable selection strategies. By leveraging recent advances in supervised ranking, we aim to produce strategies that gather the best of all properties: 1) using a small number of search nodes approaching the good performance of SB, 2) maintaining a low computation footprint as in PC, and 3) selecting variables adaptively based on the properties of the given instance. 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Although submodular functions have been explored plentiful with respect to set function optimization, understanding of level sets of these set functions is still underdeveloped. The results with respect to submodular optimization cannot be translated as such when optimizing over the level sets of submodular functions. In particular, even though the convex hull of convex lower envelope of a general submodular function f can be completely characterized, the convex hull description of the lower level set of f is unknown even in the special case when f is monotone. 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The complexity in how firms form relationship with each other perplexes the decision-making processes for individual players when they explore the technological search space in order to achieve breakthrough innovation. Building upon the extant literature on business ecosystem, interfirm alliance, new product development, and technology management, this dissertation explores the interplay between technological innovation and interfirm relationship as well as the alliance formation patterns in the business ecosystem context. In Chapter 2, We begin with providing a macroscopic perspective on the information and communication technology ecosystem, followed by in-depth empirical investigations in the mobile handset industry. We employ network visualization, sequence clustering, and organizational simulation methodologies for the macroscopic analysis. Our microscopic analyses presented in Chapters 3 through 5 borrow methodologies from econometrics including regression analysis, difference-in-differences estimation, and event study. Our results propose an effective way to visualize the whole industrial ecosystem and show how the enterprise system has transformed over time. The results from the microscopic analysis show how interfirm relationship shapes technological innovation and how technological innovation is materialized in firm value. Lastly in Chapter 6, we present an integrated computation framework to infer alliance formation strategy. We contribute to the literature by providing generative methods and empirical evidences that accommodate a more complete view on the innovation process in the business ecosystem setting. 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Therefore, we need to be able to answer the question \u0022How does Lean apply to the supply chain?\u0022 Connecting Lean to supply chain management is the core purpose of Module 2. Students will build upon their knowledge in module one and learn how to apply Lean principles and problem solving to supply chain functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe overarching theme for module 2 is \u0022systems thinking,\u0022 where we understand how \u0022pull and one piece flow\u0022 will lead to reductions to \u0022total cost\u0022 of the supply chain. Students will once again be challenged to questions mental models such as economies of scale and replace them with mental models such as economies of time. Having completed module 2, students will not only be Lean problem solvers, they will understand how to connect lean and waste reduction to supply chain functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-attendees gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003EWho Should Attend\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupply chain professionals, logistics professionals, material managers, production control managers, transportation managers, warehousing managers and purchasing managers\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-benefits gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003EHow You Will Benefit\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce total cost of ownership\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce inventory levels\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce logistics costs\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce space requirements\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce lead time\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIncrease fill rates\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EImprove supplier performance and accountability\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EImprove customer satisfaction and customer relationships\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce overall organizational and operational waste\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-agenda gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003EWhat Is Covered\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Ch6 class=\u0022gt-ed-blue\u0022\u003EDay 1 - Setting the Corporate Stage\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGetting Organized\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Chain Guiding Principles\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EValue Steam Mapping - Supply Chain Current State\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Logistics Network Design\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMoving from Push to Pull\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch6 class=\u0022gt-ed-blue\u0022\u003EDay 2- Tactical Implementation\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECustomer Focus - Takt Time and SKU Stability\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Outbound Logistics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESupermarket - Push Pull Kanban\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EShipping - Receiving - Yard Management\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMaterial and Parts Ordering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Inbound Logistics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Supplier Management \u0026amp; Collaboration\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch6 class=\u0022gt-ed-blue\u0022\u003EDay 3 - Learning from Case Studies\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECase Study - Lean Transportation\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECase Study - Lean Distribution\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECase Study - Lean Supplier Management\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne of the most misunderstood elements of lean thinking is that lean is primarily about effective supply chain management. Therefore, we need to be able to answer the question, \u0022How does lean apply to the supply chain?\u0022 Connecting lean to supply chain management is the core purpose of this second course in a 3-course series on becoming a Lean Supply Chain professional. 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The solutions of such models can provide guidance as to how decision-makers should select actions, based on currently available data, in order to achieve their objectives. This dissertation models and analyzes a sequential stochastic game involving two intelligent and adaptive decision-makers.\u0026nbsp; Each of these decision-makers partially observes the other decision-maker\u0027s state at each decision epoch.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Chapter II presents a model of and analyzes a leader-follower, multi-objective partially observed infinite horizon Markov game, where it is assumed that the follower selects its policy with complete knowledge of the policy selected by the leader. We show how the results of this POMG can be used to support decision-making involving a leader having multiple objectives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChapter III considers the single objective version of the problem considered in Chapter II and investigates the impact of how accurately the leader observes the follower\u0027s state on the performance of the leader, thus representing an analysis of the value of information for this class of POMGs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChapter IV applies the results of the first two chapters in order to quantify the risk of a food production facility to an intelligent and adaptive adversary intent on delivering a chemical or biological toxin to the general population through use of the food supply chain. The goal of this chapter is to develop a new model of dynamic risk analysis that can explicitly describe the strategic interaction between two intelligent and adaptive agents with different objectives, and to provide decision support to the defender as to when and what action should be taken in order to achieve the defender\u0027s (possibly multiple) objectives.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Yanling Chang"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-10-06 11:15:48","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:02","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-22T10:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-22T10:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-22T10:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-22 14:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-22 14:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-22 14:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"456191":{"#nid":"456191","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DOS Seminar - Sheldon Jacobson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Balance Optimization Subset Selection (BOSS): An Alternative Approach for Casual Inference with Observational Data\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers in medicine and the social sciences attempt to identify and document causal relationships. Those not fortunate enough to be able to design and implement randomized control trials must resort to observational studies.\u0026nbsp; To preserve the ability to make causal inferences outside the experimental realm, researchers attempt to post-process observational data to draw meaningful insights and conclusions.\u0026nbsp; Finding the subset of data that most closely resembles experimental data is a challenging, complex problem. However, the rise in computational power and discrete optimization algorithmic advances suggests an operations research solution as an alternative to methods currently being employed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoint work with Jason J. Sauppe (University of Wisconsin - Lacrosse)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBiography:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESheldon H. Jacobson is a Professor and Director of the Simulation and Optimization Laboratory at the University of Illinois.\u0026nbsp; He has a broad set of basic and applied research interests, including problems related to optimal decision-making, national security, and public health. His research has been disseminated in numerous archival journals, including Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, among others.\u0026nbsp; His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.\u0026nbsp; He is a Fellow of INFORMS and IIE.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"DOS Seminar - Sheldon Jacobson"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-10-06 11:19:01","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:18:02","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-08T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-08T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-08T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-08 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-08 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-08 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"457291":{"#nid":"457291","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Lifeng Lai","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Distributed Statistical Inference with Compressed Data\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022xmsonormal\u0022\u003EIn the classic statistical inference problems, all data is available at a centralized location. With the explosion of the size of data set, it is increasingly common that data is stored in multiple terminals connected by links with a limited communication capacity. In this scenario, terminals have to exchange compressed data and perform statistical inference using the compressed data. In this talk, we will discuss our recent work that addressed the following two questions: 1) Suppose we would like to achieve the same optimal inference as that of the centralized case, how much data compression can be performed?; and 2) Suppose we compress the data extremely (zero-rate compression), what is the optimal inference performance?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022xmsonormal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022xmsonormal\u0022\u003ELifeng Lai received the B.E. and M. E. degrees from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2001 and 2004 respectively, and the PhD degree from The Ohio State University at Columbus, OH, in 2007. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University from 2007 to 2009. He is now an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Lai\u2019s research interests include information theory, stochastic signal processing and their applications in wireless communications, security and other related areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022xmsonormal\u0022\u003EDr. Lai is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award from IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) in 2008, the Best Paper Award from IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC) in 2011 and the Best Paper Award from IEEE Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) in 2012. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2011, and Northrop Young Researcher Award in 2012. He served as a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Physical Layer Security. He is currently serving as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Lifeng Lai"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-10-08 14:40:53","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:59","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-15T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-15T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-15T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-15 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-15 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-15 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"458051":{"#nid":"458051","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DOS Seminar - Liron Yedidsion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: A Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme (PTSA) for the bi-scenario sum of completion times problem\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn influential aspect of any scheduling problem is the processing time of a tasks (job), which typically can be deterministic, stochastic or even uncertain. Scheduling according to unique and known processing times (a.k.a. Nominal) may be na\u00c3\u00afve, since real production systems are usually subject to inherent uncertainty. Moreover, typically, there are several objectives that the decision-maker seeks to satisfy. We offer a novel approach in the context of deterministic scheduling, borrowed from scenario-based optimization. The new approach copes with uncertainty by simultaneously optimizing a the sum of completion times criterion under two different instances of the processing times. We term the new problem a bi-scenario trade-off problem. We develop a PTAS that approximates the Pareto-optimal set of solutions and show that it is tight. Then we introduce a Branch-and-Bound based algorithm that solves the problem optimally.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"DOS Seminar - Liron Yedidsion"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-10-12 10:09:02","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:58","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-15T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-15T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-15T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-15 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-15 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-15 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"458061":{"#nid":"458061","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DOS Seminar - Juan Pablo Vielma","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Embedding Formulations and Complexity for Unions of Polyhedra\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe consider a systematic procedure to construct small but strong Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulations for unions of polyhedra. A key of the procedure is the flexible use of 0-1 variables that signal the selection among the polyhedra. This flexibility is achieved by considering several possible embeddings of the polyhedra in a higher dimensional space. An important characteristic of these formulations is that they do not use auxiliary variables other than the 0-1 variables strictly needed to construct a formulation (in contrast to \u0022extended\u0022 formulations, which are allowed to use any number of auxiliary variables). Nonetheless, the formulations obtained through this embedding procedure can be smaller that the smallest known alternative formulation (extended or not). Furthermore, the Linear Programming (LP) relaxation of these formulations often have extreme points that naturally satisfy the appropriate integrality constraints (such formulations are usually denoted \u0022ideal\u0022). These characteristics allow some versions of these formulations to provide a significant computational advantage over alternative formulations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe embedding formulation approach leads to two notions of complexity for unions of polyhedra: 1) the size of the smallest non-extended formulation, and 2) the size of the smallest ideal non-extended formulations. We give upper and lower bounds for these complexity measures for several classes of polyhedra. We also study how the embedding selection affects the sizes of the associated formulations. 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The 3-hour session will host supply chain representatives from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\u0022\u003EAmazon\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.americold.com\u0022\u003EAmericold\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cisco.com\u0022\u003ECisco\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.deloitte.com\u0022\u003EDeloitte\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\u0022\u003EThe Home Depot\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/searsholdings.com\/\u0022\u003ESears Holdings Corporation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;who will be on campus to educate ISyE students about their organizations and available employment opportunities.\u0026nbsp;Plus, enjoy a free pizza lunch!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022article-title\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEVENT DETAILS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/about\/maps-directions\/isye-building-complex\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE Main Bldg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, 2nd Floor Atrium\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhen\u003C\/strong\u003E: Wednesday, Nov 4, 10AM-1PM\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u003C\/strong\u003E: The session will include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPresentations by supply chain professionals\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENetworking opportunities in the ISyE atrium\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFood and refreshments\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPlease plan on staying for the duration of the event and bring copies of your resume and business cards\u003C\/strong\u003E. 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To this end, the dissertation is dedicated to two important subjects -- i) Large-scale Convex Composite Optimization and ii) Error-in-Measurement Optimization. In spite of the different natures of these two topics, the common denominator, to be presented, lies in their accommodation for systematic use of saddle point techniques for mathematical modeling and numerical processing. The main body can be split into three parts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;In the first part, we consider a broad class of variational inequalities with composite structures, allowing to cover the saddle point\/variational analogies of the classical convex composite minimization (i.e. summation of a smooth convex function and a simple nonsmooth convex function). We develop novel composite versions of the state-of-the-art Mirror Descent and Mirror Prox algorithms aimed at solving such type of problems. We demonstrate that the algorithms inherit the favorable efficiency estimate of their prototypes when solving structured variational inequalities. Moreover, we develop several variants of the composite Mirror Prox algorithm along with their corresponding complexity bounds, allowing the algorithm to handle the case of imprecise prox mapping as well as the case when the operator is represented by an unbiased stochastic oracle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;In the second part, we investigate four general types of large-scale convex composite optimization problems, including (a) multi-term composite minimization, (b) linearly constrained composite minimization, (c) norm-regularized nonsmooth minimization, and (d) maximum likelihood Poisson imaging. We demonstrate that the composite Mirror Prox, when integrated with saddle point techniques and other algorithmic tools, can solve all these optimization problems with the best known so far rates of convergences. Our main related contributions are as follows. Firstly, regards to problems of type (a), we develop an optimal algorithm by integrating the composite Mirror Prox with a saddle point reformulation based on exact penalty. Secondly, regards to problems of type (b), we develop a novel algorithm reducing the problem to solving a ``small series\u0027\u0027 of saddle point subproblems and achieving an optimal, up to log factors, complexity bound. Thirdly, regards to problems of type (c), we develop a Semi-Proximal Mirror-Prox algorithm by leveraging the saddle point representation and linear minimization over problems\u0027 domain and attain optimality both in the numbers of calls to the first order oracle representing the objective and calls to the linear minimization oracle representing problem\u0027s domain. Lastly, regards to problem (d), we show that the composite Mirror Prox when applied to the saddle point reformulation circumvents the difficulty with non-Lipschitz continuity of the objective and exhibits better convergence rate than the typical rate for nonsmooth optimization. We conduct extensive numerical experiments and illustrate the practical potential of our algorithms in a wide spectrum of applications in machine learning and image processing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;In the third part, we examine error-in-measurement optimization, referring to decision-making problems with data subject to measurement errors; such problems arise naturally in a number of important applications, such as privacy learning, signal processing, and portfolio selection. 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By focusing expressly on desirable properties of\u0026nbsp;the predictive equations, we derive a family of\u0026nbsp;local\u0026nbsp;sequential\u0026nbsp;design schemes that dynamically define the support of a Gaussian\u0026nbsp;process predictor based on a\u0026nbsp;local\u0026nbsp;subset of the data. We further\u0026nbsp;derive expressions for fast sequential updating of all needed\u0026nbsp;quantities as the\u0026nbsp;local\u0026nbsp;designs are built-up iteratively. Then we show\u0026nbsp;how independent application of our\u0026nbsp;local\u0026nbsp;design strategy across the\u0026nbsp;elements of a vast predictive grid facilitates a trivially parallel\u0026nbsp;implementation. The end result is a global predictor able to take\u0026nbsp;advantage of modern multicore architectures, GPUs,\u0026nbsp;and cluster\u0026nbsp;computing, while at the same time allowing for a non stationary\u0026nbsp;modeling feature as a bonus. 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Finkelstein, Ph.D., M.H.A. is the Director of Lien Centre for Palliative Care and Professor of the Signature Research Program in Health Services and Systems Research at the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School and Research Professor at Duke University Global Health Institute. He received his BA in Mathematics\/Economics from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in economics and Masters in Health Administration from the University of Washington. Over the past ten years Professor Finkelstein has established himself as a leading international health economist doing research in the economics of health behaviours. His research focuses on economic incentives, behavioural economics, the economics of obesity, discrete choice analysis, economic evaluation, burden of illness analysis and cost effectiveness analyses. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 2 books, and several book chapters in these areas. He also has experience as a Principal or Co-Investigator on research projects funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His research has been showcased in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and other television, print, and media outlets throughout the world.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Health Services Seminar - Eric Finkelstein"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-11-12 10:33:17","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:39","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-11-17T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-11-17T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-11-17T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-11-17 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-11-17 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-11-17 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"469571":{"#nid":"469571","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Gary Lorden","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Confidence Intervals for a Proportion - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIntroductory statistics books teach how to calculate confidence intervals for a proportion as an easy application of formulas for the standard error in sampling from binomial or hypergeometric distributions.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Assurances that \u201cthe approximation is good if the sample size n is at least 30\u201d are typical.\u0026nbsp; But even for much larger n the performance of the usual confidence intervals can best be described as \u201cugly\u201d.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Using better approximate methods only improves the results to \u201cbad\u201d.\u0026nbsp; Analyzing how to get \u201cgood\u201d performance turns out to be interesting and forces us to address questions about what we want confidence intervals to do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Gary Lorden"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-11-13 11:55:59","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:39","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-11-19T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-11-19T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-11-19T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-11-19 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-11-19 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-11-19 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"471041":{"#nid":"471041","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense - Timothy Sprock","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; A Metamodel of Operational Control for Discrete Event Logistics Systems\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiscrete event logistics systems (DELS) are a class of dynamic systems that are defined by the transformation of discrete flows through a network of interconnected subsystems. The DELS domain includes systems such as supply chains, manufacturing systems, transportation networks, warehouses, and health care delivery systems. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E In the future, smart operational control mechanisms must not only integrate real-time data from system operations, but also formulate and solve a wide variety of optimal-control analyses quickly and efficiently and then translate the results into executable commands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E However in contemporary DELS practice, these optimal-control analyses, and analyses in general, are often purpose-built to answer specific questions, with an implicit system model and many possible analysis implementations depending on the question, the instance data, and the solver. Automated and cost-effective access to multiple analyses from a single conceptual model of the target system would broaden the usage and implementation of analysis-based decision support and system optimization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The fundamental contribution of this dissertation is concerned with interoperability and bridging the gap between operations research analysis models and practical applications of the results. This dissertation closes this gap by constructing a standard domain-specific language, standard problem definitions, and a standard analysis methodology to answer the control questions and execute the prescribed control actions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The domain specific language meets a broader requirement for facilitating interoperability for DELS, including system integration, plug-and-play analysis methods and tools, and system design methodologies. The domain-specific language formalizes a recurring product, process, resource, and facility description of the DELS domain. It provides a common language to discuss our systems, including the questions that we want to ask about our systems, the problems that we need to solve in order to answer those questions, and the mechanisms to deploy the solution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E A canonical set of control questions defines the comprehensive functional specification of all the decision-making mechanisms that a controller needs to be able to provide; i.e. a model of analysis models or a metamodel of operational control. These questions refine the interoperability mechanism between system and analysis models by mapping classes of control analysis models to implementation and execution mechanisms in the system model.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E A standard representation of each class of control problems is only a partial solution to fully addressing operational control. The final contribution of this dissertation constructs a round-trip analysis methodology that completes the bridge between operations research analysis models and deployable control mechanisms. This contribution formalizes an analysis pathway, from formulating an analysis model to executing a control action, that is grounded in a more fundamental insight into how analysis methods are executed to support operational control decision-making.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Timothy Sprock"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-11-18 10:51:29","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:37","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-12-01T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-12-01T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-12-01T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-12-01 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-12-01 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-12-01 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"473821":{"#nid":"473821","#data":{"type":"event","title":"School Seminar - Peng Shi","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Prediction and Optimzation in School Choice\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn public school choice, students are not assigned to a designated school based on home location, but submit preference rankings for a given set of schools to the school board, which takes into account everyone\u2019s choices to compute the assignment. Such systems exist in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City, New Orleans, and San Francisco. An important policy lever is what choice options to offer to each neighborhood, and how to prioritize between students. A key tradeoff is between giving students equitable chances to go to the schools they want and controlling the city\u2019s school busing costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe study the optimization problem of choosing the choice menus and priorities for each neighborhood in order to maximize the sum of utilitarian and max-min welfare, subject to capacity and transportation constraints. The optimization is built on-top of a predictive model of how students will choose given new choice menus, which we validate using both out-of-sample testing and a field experiment. We show that under a fluid approximation, the optimization reduces to an assortment planning problem in which the objective is social-welfare rather than revenue. We show how to efficiently solve this sub-problem under MNL, Nested-Logit and Markov Chain choice models, and use this to produce better menus and priorities for Boston, which we evaluate by discrete simulations while taking into account possible errors in parameters.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School Seminar - Peng Shi"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-11-30 08:57:04","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:32","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-12-01T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-12-01T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-12-01T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-12-01 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-12-01 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-12-01 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"474301":{"#nid":"474301","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IE Seminar - John Carlsson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Some new results in the continuous approximation theory of transportation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the fundamental concerns in the analysis of logistical systems is the trade-off between localized, independent provision of goods and services versus provision along a centralized infrastructure such as a backbone network. \u0026nbsp;In this talk, we use the \u0022continuous approximation paradigm\u0022 to study two instances of this trade-off: \u0026nbsp;in the first instance, we calculate the improvements in efficiency that arise when one uses unmanned aerial vehicles, or \u0022drones\u0022, to deliver packages to customers, and in the second instance, we determine the social benefit that arises when cities introduce delivery services for groceries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;John Gunnar Carlsson is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. \u0026nbsp;He received a Ph.D. in computational mathematics from ICME in Stanford University in 2009 and an A.B. in mathematics and music from Harvard College in 2005. \u0026nbsp;He is the recipient of the 2013 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize, the 2014 Air Force Young Investigator Prize, the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, and the 2010 INFORMS Interactive Session Prize. \u0026nbsp;His research is supported by DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Transportation (MnDOT), and the Boeing Company, and has appeared in Operations Research, \u0026nbsp;Scientific Reports, Transportation Science, the INFORMS Journal on Computing, and the ACM Transactions on Algorithms. \u0026nbsp;He is an associate editor of Operations Research and Management Science.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IE Seminar - John Carlsson"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-12-01 09:18:55","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:32","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-12-02T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-12-02T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-12-02T19:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-12-03 00:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-12-03 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-12-03 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"474891":{"#nid":"474891","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IE Seminar - He Wang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Dynamic Learning and Optimization for Online Revenue Management\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a dynamic pricing problem where the demand function is unknown a priori, price experimentation can be used for demand learning. In practice, however, sellers are faced with business constraints when learning demand, such as the inability to conduct extensive experimentation, short sales window and limited inventory. In this talk I will discuss models and algorithms that combine price optimization with demand learning, and report implementation results at a large e-commerce marketplace for daily deals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBiography:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe Wang is a PhD candidate in the Operations Research Center at MIT, advised by David Simchi-Levi.\u0026nbsp; He received master\u0027s degree in Transportation from MIT in 2013, and dual bachelor\u0027s degree in Industrial Engineering and Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 2011. He is a recipient of Edward Linde (1962) MIT Presidential Graduate Fellowship, a Finalist in IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award, and second place in CSAMSE Best Student Paper Award.\u0026nbsp; His current research focuses on data-driven methods in revenue management and supply chains.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IE Seminar - He Wang"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2015-12-02 09:05:03","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:31","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-12-03T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-12-03T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-12-03T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-12-03 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-12-03 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-12-03 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"476221":{"#nid":"476221","#data":{"type":"event","title":"School Seminar - Xuan Wang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Performance guarantees of the long chain design in resource allocation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe consider a class of resource allocation problems in which there are \u003Cem\u003En\u003C\/em\u003E capacitated resources and \u003Cem\u003En\u003C\/em\u003E demand types. The resources are flexible, where resource\u003Cem\u003E j\u003C\/em\u003E can be used to fulfill both demand type\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ej\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003Ej\u003C\/em\u003E+1. This is known as the long chain design proposed by Jordan and Graves (1995), which has been an important concept in the design of sparse flexible processes. In this talk, we discuss the theoretical performance of the long chain in two different settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the first setting, the resource allocation decisions are made after all the demand has realized. We obtain a distribution-free bound on the ratio of the expected unit sales of the long chain relative to that of full flexibility. In a special case with \u003Cem\u003Ei.i.d.\u003C\/em\u003E demand and uniform capacity, we are able to derive the bound in closed form. Our bound depends only on the mean and standard deviation of the random demand, but compares very well with the ratio that uses complete information of the demand distribution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the second setting, the demand arrives sequentially and reveals its type upon arrival, and the allocation decisions must be made in real time. We show that the long chain is still very effective even under simple myopic online allocation policies. In particular, we show that the expected total number of lost sales only depends on the number of resources \u003Cem\u003En\u003C\/em\u003E, and is independent of how large the market size is.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXuan Wang is a fifth year doctoral candidate in the Operations Management group at Stern School of Business, New York University. Xuan\u2019s primary research interest lies in the field of supply chain management, optimization and business analytics. 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We provide a dynamic policy for the rapid containment of a contagion process modeled as an SIS epidemic on a bounded degree undirected graph with n nodes. We show that if the budget r of curing resources available at each time is \u03a9(W), where W is the CutWidth of the graph, and also of order \u03a9(logn), then the expected time until the extinction of the epidemic is of order O(n\/r), which is within a constant factor from optimal, as well as sublinear in the number of nodes. Furthermore, if the CutWidth increases only sublinearly with n, a sublinear expected time to extinction is possible with a sublinearly increasing budget r.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn contrast, for bounded degree graphs, we provide a lower bound on the expected time to extinction under any such dynamic allocation policy, in terms of a combinatorial quantity that we call the resistance of the set of initially infected nodes, the available budget, and the number of nodes n. 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In situations where the underlying stochastic model is too complex for analytical calculations to be tractable they offer a convenient way to obtain numerical approximations. However, the problem of rare-event sampling can often be a hindrance to the use such methods. In order to overcome this problem one must use some type of accelerated Monte Carlo method, in which a control mechanism is used to guide the particles in the simulation into the relevant parts of the state space. Earlier results in the area have shown that intuition can be misleading in the design of such controls and a proper theoretical analysis of the simulation method of choice is often needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe aim of this talk is to discuss the connection between Monte Carlo methods, and the rare-event sampling problem, and large deviations. Large deviation theory is the branch of probability theory that deals with rare events. In addition to providing estimates to the probabilities of such events, the theory also gives insight into how the events will occur. This is precisely the kind of insight needed to develop efficient Monte Carlo methods. After a brief overview of these two topics I will focus on the method known as importance sampling and how one can analyze and design efficient algorithms by means of large deviation theory. 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When applied to data analysis problems, these algorithms can reduce the number of scans through the data sets by orders of magnitude. Numerical experiments have been conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of these techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;Short-bio:\u0026nbsp;Guanghui (George) Lan obtained his Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in August, 2009. He then joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida as an assistant professor thereafter. His main research interests lie in stochastic optimization, nonlinear programming, simulation-based optimization, and their applications in data sciences. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research. 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Fueling the design of algorithms used in such systems is a vibrant research area at the intersection of sequential decision-making and machine learning that addresses how to balance between exploration and exploitation and learn over time to make increasingly effective decisions.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In this talk, I will formulate a broad family of such problems that greatly extends the classical multi-armed bandit problem by allowing samples of one action to inform the decision-maker\u0027s assessment of other actions. I\u0027ll describe the rising importance of this problem class, and then discuss two recent methodological advances. One advance is Thompson sampling, a simple and tractable approach that is provably efficient for many relevant problem classes. The other is information-directed sampling, a new algorithm we propose that is inspired by an information-theoretic perspective and can offer greatly superior statistical efficiently. 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The main computational challenge in a distributed setting is harnessing the computational capabilities of all the machines while keeping communication costs low. We devise an approach that requires only a single round of communication among the machines. We show the approach recovers the convergence rate of the (centralized) lasso as long as each machine has access to an adequate number of samples. Turning to the second challenge, we devise an approach to post-selection inference by conditioning on the selected model. In a nutshell, our approach gives inferences with the same frequency interpretation as those given by data\/sample splitting, but it is more broadly applicable and more powerful. The validity of our approach also does not depend on the correctness of the selected model; i.e. it gives valid inferences even when the selected model is incorrect.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoint work with Jason Lee, Qiang Liu, Dennis Sun, Jonathan Taylor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Faculty Candidate Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2014-12-16 16:00:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:49:28","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-01-08T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-01-08T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-01-08T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-01-08 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-01-08 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-01-08 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"384331":{"#nid":"384331","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Get Your Voice on the Table: Leadership Strategies for Female Faculty","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Get Your Voice on the Table: Leadership Strategies for Female Faculty\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER:\u0026nbsp; Nancy Houfek\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany highly successful women in academia can easily identify what changes need to happen for their organization to succeed, but find it difficult to lead others to confront the challenges facing their group. They often find themselves not heard in the way that they had hoped. The heart of this workshop is to help women use a strategic approach to getting their voices on the table: differentiating types of challenges, understanding factions and what\u0027s at stake, using alliances, getting on the balcony, and preparing for meetings in a new way. This workshop also will offer vocal skills designed to help participants be more effective as leaders. The goal is to be heard and understood so that we can successfully influence decision-making in both our professional and our daily lives. 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We consider non-exchangeable synchronization (NES), that is, each job can be synchronized only after all of its tasks are completed. Such networks have many applications in manufacturing, telecommunications, patient flow analysis in healthcare and parallel computing. When each station has multiple servers and operates under the FCFS service discipline, the main mathematical challenge to study fork-join networks with NES is the resequencing of tasks\u2019 arrival orders after service completion. We develop a new framework to solve the resequencing problem in the many-server heavy-traffic regimes where the arrival rates and the numbers of servers in each station get large appropriately.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, we focus on a fundamental fork-join network model with a single class of jobs and NES. Service times of the parallel tasks of each job can be correlated. 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We introduce and study a stochastic version of the orienteering problem in this setting. The deterministic orienteering problem is an extensively studied vehicle routing problem with many applications. Given a set of locations with associated rewards, distance bound B and a designated depot, the objective in orienteering is to find a path of length at most B originating from the depot that maximizes the total reward. In the stochastic orienteering problem, each location also has a random processing time which is realized only when that location is visited. The objective here is to find a non-anticipatory policy to visit locations that maximizes the expected reward subject to the total distance plus processing time being at most B. Due to its adaptive nature, even storing a feasible policy might require exponential space. We focus on a simpler class of \u201cnon-adaptive\u201d policies that are just specified by a permutation of the locations, and obtain positive and negative results on how well such policies approximate the optimal adaptive policy.\u0026nbsp;This talk is based on joint works with Nikhil Bansal, Anupam Gupta, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy and R.Ravi.\u0026nbsp;BIO:Viswanath Nagarajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan. From 2009-14 he was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He has a Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization from Carnegie Mellon University (2009) and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Bombay (2003). Dr. Nagarajan\u0027s research interests are in combinatorial optimization and approximation algorithms, especially as applied to routing, location and scheduling. He received the Gerald L. 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