INFORMS Seattle 1998 Sessions

Sun Oct 25 08:15 1998

• SA01 Panel: Decision-Analytic Concepts in Computing Applications
• SA02 Customer Satisfaction Issues in the Software Industry/Product Delivery & Quality Issues in Electronic Networks
• SA03 Education & Information Technology
• SA04 Internet Applications I
• SA05 Financial Considerations & Production Models
• SA06 Recent Effects of Globalization
• SA07 Computer Science Applications
• SA08 Applied Probability
• SA09 New Product Development
• SA11 Technology Management: Application to Mexican Industries
• SA12 Replication Strategy
• SA13 Knowledge & Organizations
• SA14 Yield Management, Pricing & Analysis of Transportation Systems
• SA15 Methodologies in Traffic Safety & Infrastructure Modeling
• SA16 Dynamic Traffic Assignment I
• SA18 Economics
• SA19 Military Applications
• SA20 Analysis of Small-Scale Contingency Operations
• SA21 Electricity Markets
• SA22 Advances in Collaborative Stewardship
• SA24 Multicriteria Decision Making I
• SA26 Combinatorial Algorithms & Applications
• SA28 Path-Following Methods for Complementarity Problems
• SA29 Optimization: Applications & Theory
• SA30 Optimization Techniques I
• SA33 Airline Revenue Management: Looking to Future
• SA34 Simulation I
• SA35 Key Factors to Success in OR Practice
• SA36 Scheduling I
• SA37 Telecommunications I
• SA38 Inventory Models I
• SA39 Production Scheduling I

Sun Oct 25 10:00 1998

• SM40 Morse Plenary: Technology-Enabled OR Education - What it May do for Professors & Practitioners

Sun Oct 25 11:00 1998

• SE40 Edelman Plenary: The Use of OR Systems in Chilean Forest Industries

Sun Oct 25 13:00 1998

• SC01 DA Computation
• SC02 Information Technologies in Management & Accounting
• SC03 Using Technology in Instruction
• SC04 Internet Applications II
• SC05 Research Strategies in Operations Management I
• SC06 Global Manufacturing
• SC07 Operations & Technology Strategy
• SC08 Algorithms for Dynamic Jobshops
• SC10 Pseudo-Boolean Functions
• SC11 Rethinking Conventional Models in New Product Development
• SC12 Technology Management: A Brazilian Perspective
• SC13 Knowledge & Organizations
• SC14 Vehicle Routing
• SC15 Integration of Transportation & Inventory
• SC16 Dynamic Traffic Assignment II
• SC18 Health Applications I
• SC19 Reliability
• SC20 Routing Using Tabu Search
• SC21 Modeling Environmental Problems
• SC22 Innovative Uses of OR in the Environmental Arena
• SC23 Analytic Hierarchy Process
• SC24 Implementation Issues in MCDM
• SC25 Network Optimization & IP Applications
• SC26 Flows, Non-Flow Cuts & Multi-Commodity Cuts
• SC27 Interior-Point Methods for Linear Optimization
• SC28 Complementarity
• SC29 Application of AI Techniques
• SC30 Optimization Techniques II
• SC31 Technological Forecasting
• SC32 Software Demonstrations
• SC33 Airline Revenue Management: Optimization Issues
• SC34 Simulation II
• SC35 Business Process Reengineering
• SC36 Scheduling II
• SC37 Telecommunications II
• SC38 Inventory Models II
• SC39 Production Scheduling II

Sun Oct 25 14:45 1998

• SD01 Outside-In: Insights from the Past Lives of DA Practitioners
• SD02 Intelligent Group Decision & Negotiation Support
• SD03 Implementing the Global Classroom: Science & Technology Commercialization
• SD04 Symbolic Modeling Languages for Developing & Operating Math Programming Models
• SD05 Research Strategies in Operations Management II
• SD06 Globalization: Operations & Decision Modeling, and Education
• SD07 Lean Supply Chain Management
• SD08 Yield Management
• SD10 Boolean Models in Artificial Intelligence
• SD11 Current Topics in Product Development Research
• SD12 Improving the Process of Strategic Planning in Hi-Tech Organizations
• SD13 Knowledge & Organizations
• SD14 Issues in Airline Management
• SD15 Innovation & Technology Diffusion
• SD16 Analysis & Algorithms for Path Problems
• SD17 Approaches to Evaluating R&D Policy Impacts
• SD18 Quality of Care Measurement
• SD19 Issues in Commonality
• SD20 Modeling & Simulation Futures
• SD21 Environmental Costs, Hazards & Risks
• SD22 Natural Resources Management I
• SD23 Business Applications Integrating AHP, Finance & Distance Learning
• SD24 Issues Related to Criteria Weights
• SD25 Logical & Number-Theoretic Approaches
• SD26 Routing & Scheduling Algorithms & Applications
• SD28 Variational Problems & Complementarity
• SD29 Data Mining & Massive Data Sets
• SD30 Heuristic Approaches to Combinatorial Problems
• SD31 The Metrics of Intersector Technology Cooperation
• SD32 Software Demonstrations
• SD33 Unmet OR Challenges in Airline Revenue Management
• SD34 Simulation in the Process Industries: Applications & Advances
• SD35 Cost & Performance Measures
• SD36 Analytic Results in Scheduling
• SD37 Telecommunications III
• SD38 Inventory Models III
• SD39 Production Scheduling III

Sun Oct 25 16:30 1998

• SE01 Panel: Downstream Decisions (Options) & Dynamic Modeling
• SE02 Panel: Women in OR/MS
• SE03 Using Commercial Software & Experiential Learning to Teach the First Management Science Course
• SE04 Statistics & OR: The Interface
• SE05 Competition in Operations
• SE06 FMS Production Planning
• SE07 Supply Chain Management Applications
• SE08 Stochastic Models of CDMA Wireless Networks
• SE10 Empirical Studies in the Logical Analysis of Data
• SE11 Issues in New Product Development
• SE12 Management of Technology: A European Perspective
• SE13 Knowledge & Organizations
• SE14 Transportation I
• SE16 Network Travel Modeling I: Equilibrium & Microsimulation
• SE17 HIV Modeling
• SE18 Improving Cost Performance, Outcomes & System Integration in Health Care
• SE19 RAHMORS Contributed
• SE20 The Joint Warfighting System: A Programmatic & Technical Progress Report
• SE21 Applications of DEA
• SE22 Natural Resources Management II
• SE23 Panel: Knowledge & Technology - Making the Connection
• SE24 MCDM: Methods & Applications
• SE25 Combinatorial Algorithms for Scheduling I
• SE26 Telecommunications Networks & Multicommodity Flows
• SE27 Large-Scale Quadratic Programming
• SE28 Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints
• SE29 Multicategory Learning with Mathematical Programming
• SE30 Data Warehouse & Data Mining
• SE31 Publishing Technology Management Research in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
• SE32 Software Demonstrations
• SE33 What's Happening in Aviation OR?
• SE34 Modeling & Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing
• SE35 Financial Modeling & Risk Management
• SE36 Parallel Machine Scheduling
• SE37 Telecommunications IV
• SE38 Queueing Systems
• SE39 Production Scheduling IV

Mon Oct 26 08:00 1998

• MA01 Topics in Behavioral Decision Making
• MA02 Simulation Modeling of Multiple Railroad Assets
• MA03 Innovative Teaching Applications of Microsoft Excel
• MA04 Tutorial: Linear Programs, Integer Programs & Constraint Programming
• MA05 New Developments in Supply Chain Models
• MA06 Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• MA07 Analytical Approaches for Supply Chain Management
• MA08 Statistical Issues in Inventory Control
• MA09 Valuation in Auctions
• MA10 Stochastic Aspects of the Logical Analysis of Data
• MA11 Efficient Product Development
• MA12 Intrastructure to Mutual Adaptation: Knowledge & Knowledge Mgmt. from Different Perspectives
• MA13 Knowledge & Organizations
• MA14 Transportation II
• MA15 Semidefinite Programming: Applications, Duality & Interior-Point Methods
• MA16 Vehicle Routing & Scheduling
• MA17 Location Models I
• MA18 Health Management Applications
• MA19 Turning Crowds into Teams by Design: Problem Solving Using the Value Methodology
• MA20 Modeling Methodologies & Challenges in Sensor Fuzed Munitions
• MA21 DEA as an Applied Tool
• MA22 Natural Resources Management III
• MA24 Optimization in the Pipeline Industry
• MA25 Combinatorial Algorithms for Scheduling II
• MA26 Flows & Cuts
• MA27 Using Surrogates in Optimization
• MA28 Nonlinear Programming, Complementarity & Modeling
• MA29 Neural Networks & Forecasting
• MA30 Stochastic Integer Programming
• MA32 Software Demonstrations
• MA33 ATM System Performance I
• MA34 State-of-the-Art Tutorial: Review of Confidence Interval Methods for Monte Carlo Simulation Experiments
• MA35 Options & Financial Models
• MA36 Flow Shop Scheduling
• MA37 Marketing I
• MA38 Queueing & Inventory
• MA39 Sequencing Mixed Model Assembly Lines

Mon Oct 26 09:45 1998

• ORS40 ORS Plenary: Operations Research Trajectories: The Anglo-American Experience, 1940-70

Mon Oct 26 11:45 1998

• MP40 Invited Plenary: Partnering for Global Technology Management

Mon Oct 26 13:00 1998

• MC01 Value-Focused Thinking
• MC02 Capacity Planning in the Railroad Industry
• MC03 New Technologies for OR/MS Education
• MC04 Optimization Modeling Languages & Systems
• MC05 Supply Chain Management
• MC06 FMS Control
• MC07 Success Stories in Supply Chain Management
• MC08 Queueing Models: Performance Evaluation & Control
• MC09 Multiunit Auctions
• MC10 Applied Logic
• MC11 Information Exchange in Product Development Processes
• MC12 Inequality & Economic Development: Understanding Challenges & Opportunities for Global Tech-Based Growth
• MC13 Knowledge & Organization
• MC14 Logistics I
• MC15 Some Applications of Semidefinite Programming to Combinatorial Optimization
• MC16 Network Travel Modeling II: Optimization & Modeling
• MC17 Continuous Location Problems
• MC18 OR Applications in Health Care
• MC19 An Introduction to the Theory of Constraints
• MC20 Econometric, Genetic Algorithms & Decision Modeling
• MC21 DEA Refinements & Extensions
• MC22 Natural Resources Management IV
• MC23 Green Design
• MC24 Capacity Management Issues at a Natural Gas Company
• MC25 Cutting Plane Algorithms
• MC26 Network Designs
• MC27 Optimization in Support of Design
• MC28 Global Optimization: Theory & Applications
• MC29 Reinforcement Learning
• MC30 Engineering Systems Optimization Using Simulation & AI Techniques
• MC31 Tabu Search Applications
• MC32 Software Demonstrations
• MC33 ATM System Performance II
• MC34 Simulation Methodology: Batch Means & Variance Reduction
• MC35 Finance
• MC36 Real Applications of Scheduling
• MC37 Marketing II
• MC38 Information Systems I
• MC39 Facilities Planning & Design

Mon Oct 26 14:45 1998

• MD01 Panel: The Case for an INFORMS Decision Analysis Journal
• MD02 Railroad Capacity Issues
• MD03 Teaching, Cases & Learning
• MD04 Computing Environment for Modeling & Solving Stochastic Programming Problems
• MD05 Information/Incentives in Supply Chain Coordination
• MD06 FMS Design & Control
• MD07 Supply Chain Optimization
• MD08 Markov Decision Processes & Games
• MD09 Auctions in a Deregulated Electricity Market
• MD10 Access, Bandwidth & Modeling Problems in High Performance Networking
• MD11 Interdisciplinary Product Development Education
• MD12 Developments in Management of Technology Programs
• MD13 Organization Theory
• MD14 Logistics II
• MD15 LGO: A Program System for Continuous/Lipschitz Global Optimization
• MD16 Applications for Urban Public Transportation
• MD17 Location Models II
• MD18 DEA-Health
• MD19 New Value Management, Theory of Constraints Developments & Applications
• MD20 Data Association for Multitarget Tracking I
• MD21 DEA Applications in Utilities & Construction
• MD22 Natural Resources Management V
• MD23 Entrepreneurial Behavior, Innovation & Sustainable Business
• MD24 Financial Instruments & the Energy Markets
• MD25 Computational Integer Programming
• MD26 Network Design & Connectivity Problems
• MD27 Interior Point Methods & Semidefinite Programming
• MD28 Global Optimization Approaches for Molecular Problems
• MD29 Satisfiability Problems
• MD30 Using Metamodels for Engineering Design
• MD31 Tabu Search, Metaheuristics & Finite Search
• MD32 Software Demonstrations
• MD33 ATM Operational Concept I
• MD34 Production Planning
• MD35 OR/MS Applications in Investment Finance
• MD36 Strategic Planning I
• MD37 Marketing III
• MD38 Information Systems II
• MD39 Decision Support Systems in Industry & Education I

Mon Oct 26 16:30 1998

• ME01 Decision Analysis Society Awards Presentation
• ME02 Competitive Marketing & New Product Strategies
• ME03 Industry Speaks! OR/MS Education & Reality
• ME04 Topics in Constraint Programming
• ME05 Advances in Flexible Resource Scheduling
• ME06 FMS Capacity Considerations
• ME07 Supply Chain Research Across the Globe
• ME08 Markov Decision Processes: Analysis & Computation
• ME09 Modeling Auctions
• ME10 Network Design Problems Arising in Telecommunications I
• ME11 Teaching Product Development
• ME12 Distinguished Speaker Session
• ME13 Project Management I
• ME14 Logistics III
• ME15 Using the Integral Simplex Algorithm for Finding Pseudo-Polynomial Algorithms for Some NP-Complete Problems
• ME16 Optimizing Freight Networks
• ME17 Location Models III
• ME18 Health Care Efficiency & Effectiveness
• ME19 Conceptualizing the Big Picture Using Function Analysis System Techniques
• ME20 Military Operations Research at TRAC-White Sands
• ME21 Panel: Building Relationships Between Universities & Business & Government
• ME22 Natural Resources Management VI
• ME23 Strategy & Sustainability
• ME24 Electricity Markets
• ME25 Network & Cutting Plane Methods
• ME26 Theoretical Studies of the TSP
• ME27 Interior Point Methods for Mathematical Programming
• ME28 Advances in Global Optimization
• ME29 Logical Analysis of Data
• ME30 Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Theory & Practice
• ME31 Tabu Search Strategies & Their Applications
• ME32 Software Demonstrations
• ME33 ATM Operational Concept II
• ME34 Web-Based Simulation Modeling
• ME35 Financial Risk Analysis
• ME36 Strategic Planning II
• ME37 Marketing IV
• ME38 Information Systems III
• ME39 Decision Support Systems in Industry & Education II

Tue Oct 27 08:15 1998

• TA01 Decision Analysis Arcade
• TA02 Competition & Collusion
• TA03 Undergraduate OR/MS Project Showcase
• TA04 Panel: OR in 2048
• TA05 Models & Analysis of Production Agility
• TA06 Process & Product Design Concepts for Quality Improvement
• TA07 Using Bayesian Statistics on Quality Problems
• TA08 Software Development for Stochastic Modeling
• TA09 When & How to Use Auctions
• TA10 Network Design Problems Arising in Telecommunications II
• TA11 Applications in Technology Management
• TA12 Multicriteria Decision Making Involving Risk & Uncertainty
• TA13 Computational Intelligence in OR & MS
• TA14 Logistics IV
• TA15 Complementarity Problems: Applications, Modeling & Solution
• TA16 Fleet Operations Under Uncertainty & Irregularity
• TA17 Logistics Planning & Execution
• TA18 Health Applications in Taiwan
• TA19 Augmenting Concepts for Strategic Decisions
• TA20 Data Association for Multitarget Tracking II
• TA22 The OCAT Approach: A Novel Data Mining Approach for Large Databases (formerly Natural Resources Mgmt. VII)
• TA25 Scheduling Applications
• TA26 Matrix Problems & Applications
• TA27 Search Algorithms
• TA28 Global Optimization of Expensive Black-Box Functions
• TA29 New Directions in Nondifferentiable Optimization
• TA30 Panel: Engineering Optimization Education
• TA31 Tabu Search for Bin Packing, Constraint Satisfaction & Vehicle Routing
• TA32 Software Demonstrations
• TA33 Separation Standards & Airspace Design

Tue Oct 27 10:00 1998

• TP40 Optimization Plenary: Optimization & Equilibrium

Tue Oct 27 11:00 1998

• TO40 Omega Rho Plenary: Sequencing the Genome - A New Application for the Mathematics of Operations Research

Tue Oct 27 13:00 1998

• TC01 Measurement, Management & Perception of Market Risk
• TC02 Consumer Decision Making
• TC03 Panel: News from the Front Lines of MBA Education
• TC04 System Dynamics in Operations & Service Management
• TC05 Investing in Capacity & New Technology
• TC06 Statistical Experimental Design for Quality Improvement
• TC07 European Developments in Quality Management & Information Systems
• TC08 Theory & Applications of Correlated Stochastic Systems
• TC09 Panel: Do Management Scientists & Economists Think about Auctions Differently, & if so, Can Both be Right?
• TC10 Network Design Problems Arising in Telecommunications III
• TC11 Collaborative Industry/Academic Research on Technology Management: A Report of Findings
• TC12 Technology Issues in a Chaotic Environment
• TC13 Session Withdrawn
• TC14 Issues in Supply Chain Management
• TC15 Approximation Algorithms via Linear Programming
• TC16 Travel Demand Modeling
• TC17 Logistics Fleet Operations
• TC18 Mathematical Models for Diagnosis & Treatment
• TC19 Applications for Results
• TC20 Modeling & Simulation
• TC21 Teaching/Learning in Cyberspace: Internet-Based Virtual Global Ed: New Approaches, Skills, Corporate-Academic Partners
• TC22 Scheduling Applications
• TC25 Mixed Integer Programming
• TC26 Packing, Covering & Partitioning
• TC27 Numerical Methods for Optimal Control
• TC28 Discrete & Nonconvex Optimization in Chemical Engineering
• TC29 Eigenvalue Optimization
• TC30 Reliability & Maintainability Engineering Optimization
• TC31 New Advances in Tabu Search
• TC32 Software Demonstrations
• TC33 Airline Schedule Evaluation & Optimization

Tue Oct 27 14:45 1998

• TD01 Decision & Risk Analysis in the Management of Faster-Better-Cheaper Space Missions
• TD02 Distribution Strategy & Marketing Partnerships
• TD03 Teaching Service Operations Management
• TD04 Quantitative Approaches to Quality
• TD05 Product Variety Management
• TD06 Panel: Emerging Issues & Directions in Quality Improvement
• TD07 Quality Management Through Global Partnership: Japanese Practices
• TD08 Queueing
• TD09 Transportation Forecasting
• TD10 Network Modeling & Control I
• TD11 Models for Management of Technology
• TD12 Strategic Technology Management
• TD13 Soft Computing in Diagnosis
• TD14 Service Industry I
• TD15 Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery in Databases I
• TD16 Highway Traffic Flow Theory
• TD17 Vehicle Routing
• TD18 Evaluating Knowledge Management & Electronic Collaboration Technology
• TD19 Keys to Success
• TD20 Estimation of Performance Measures
• TD21 Managing Trust & Communication in Geographically Dispersed Virtual Work Teams
• TD25 Computational Approaches for Scheduling
• TD26 Novel Applications of Combinatorial Optimization
• TD27 Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming
• TD28 Process Network Synthesis
• TD29 Topics in Nonsmooth Analysis
• TD31 Adapting Reasoning & Tabu Search
• TD32 Software Demonstrations
• TD33 Airline Passenger Choice Models

Tue Oct 27 16:30 1998

• TE01 Alternate Methods of Decision Analysis: A Tutorial
• TE02 Measuring Consumer Response to Marketing Mix Variables
• TE03 Panel: The Best New OR/MS Teaching Materials
• TE04 Manufacturing Management: Design to Operation
• TE05 Contracts for Coordinating Supply Chains
• TE06 Multivariable & Correlation & Transient Analysis for Process/Quality Control
• TE07 Global Partnership for Technology Management: Japanese Practices
• TE08 Applied Probability Models in Production
• TE09 Applications & Methods of Forecasting
• TE10 Network Modeling & Control II
• TE11 Managing Information Technology
• TE12 Management of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• TE13 Multiattribute Decision Making
• TE14 Service Industry II
• TE15 Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery in Databases II
• TE16 Advanced Traffic Management Systems: Analysis & Evaluation
• TE17 Supply Chain Planning Models
• TE18 Analytical & Policy Implications of the Government Computer-Based Record Initiative
• TE19 Panel: Partnering VM, TOC & DA
• TE20 Statistical Analysis & Forecasting
• TE21 Building Virtual Communities: Cultural, Economic & Organizational Issues in Design, Development & Management
• TE25 Algebraic Algorithms for Integer Programming
• TE26 Combinatorial Optimization for IPs & LCPs
• TE27 Generalized Convexity & Monotonicity
• TE28 Global Optimization Problems
• TE29 Applications of Nonsmooth Optimization
• TE31 Evolutionary Algorithms: Applications & New Developments
• TE32 Software Demonstration
• TE33 Aviation Safety

Wed Oct 28 08:15 1998

• WA01 Decision Analysis & Managerial Perceptions
• WA02 Decision Analysis I
• WA03 Education I
• WA04 Manufacturing
• WA05 Supplier Managed Inventory Systems
• WA06 Statistics & Quality I
• WA07 Quantitative Modeling in Information Systems
• WA08 Applied Probability Models in Communication Networks
• WA09 Forecasting I
• WA10 Quality Management I
• WA11 Empirical Research in Technology Management
• WA12 Project Evaluation, Selection & Implementation
• WA13 Project Management II
• WA14 Service Industry III
• WA15 Logistics V
• WA16 Analysis of Traveler Information Systems
• WA17 Logistics Models in Practice
• WA18 Health Applications II
• WA19 Topics in Nonlinear Optimization & their Applications
• WA21 Successful Mgmt. of Strategic Change in Technologically Complex, Socially Diverse, Globally Distributed Organizations
• WA25 Integer Programming I
• WA26 Networks & Graphs
• WA27 Linear Programming
• WA28 Nonlinear Programming I
• WA29 Dynamic Programming & Control
• WA31 Heuristic Programming
• WA33 Crew Planning & Traffic Management

Wed Oct 28 10:00 1998

• WB01 Decision Analysis in Project Management
• WB02 Decision Analysis II
• WB03 Education II
• WB04 Manufacturing Strategy
• WB05 Variability in Manufacturing
• WB06 Statistics & Quality II
• WB08 Stochastic Processes
• WB09 Forecasting II
• WB10 Quality Management II
• WB11 Managerial Implications of Technological Advances
• WB12 Technology Management & Control
• WB13 Resource Allocation
• WB14 Service Industry IV
• WB16 Traffic Incidents: Detection, Management & Control
• WB17 Logistics Around the World
• WB18 Project Planning
• WB19 Linear & Semidefinite Optimization
• WB21 New Issues, Challenges, Approaches: Research & Practice in an Interdependent World
• WB25 Integer Programming II
• WB28 Nonlinear Programming II
• WB33 Crew Pairing Optimization