Workshop on
Quantitative Models for Production and Communication Networks

 Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands,
January 5-7, 2009
Location: TU/e,  Laplace Building

Participation: On invitation

 Programme  |  Abstracts & Presentations | Participants | Organization | Practical Information

Summary

Both Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), conduct research in the area of quantitative models for production/inventory and communication systems. There is significant overlap in the type of the problems that are studied, as well as in the style of the research performed. The objective of this workshop is to discuss future research directions and to investigate the possibilities for joint research projects and exchange of PhD students. For this workshop, we will have ten participants from CMU and twenty from TU/e.

Programme 

Remark: The CMU participants will have their breakfast at their hotel. Therefore, breakfast is not found back in the program below.

Monday January 5

• 8:30-9:00: Arrival of participants, coffee/tea available

9:00-9:15: Opening

• 9:15-9:30: Short introductions by participants
• 9:30-10:30: Presentations:
  • Willem-Jan van Hoeve - Constraint Programming for Sequencing Problems
  • Jacques Resing - Mean value analysis of single server retrial queues
  • Bahar Biller - Setting Inventory Targets in Multi-Product, Joint Service-Level Models with Correlated Stochastic Demands

• 10:30-11:00: Break
• 11:00-12:00: Presentations
  • Marco Slikker - Collaboration between newsvendors
  • Ton de Kok - Planning concepts for ATO/MTO systems

• 12:00-13:00: Lunch
• 13:00-14:00: Travelling to ASML
• 14:00-17:00: Company visit at ASML (present: workshop participants plus a group of about 10 people of ASML)
  • 14:00: Introduction of ASML (by Joris de Wit)
  • 14:15: Presentation on relationship CMU-TU/e (by Alan Scheller-Wolf and Geert-Jan van Houtum)
  • 14:30: ASML-TU/e collaboration and achieved results within the supply chain for after-sales services (by Bram Kranenburg)
  • 15:00: Short Factory Tour
  • 16:00: New challenges at ASML with respect to the supply chain for new machines (by Susanne Vos; key issues: the high volatility in demand levels, uncertainty in sales, the enormous inventory risks during downturns, and so on)
• 17:00-18:00: Travelling back
• Evening: dinner  - Restaurant Fens, Keizersgracht 6, Eindhoven.

Tuesday January 6

• 8:30-9:00: Arrival of participants, coffee/tea available
• 9:00-10:30: Presentations
  • Nicola Secomandi - Managing commodity processing and trading assets
  • Gerhard Woeginger - T.b.a.
  • Robert Hampshire - Time Varying Queueing Models and Variational Analysis: Applications to Transport Services
  • Jan van der Wal - Blood platelet inventory management

• 10:30-11:00: Break
• 11:00-12:00: Discussion in groups on possible joint research projects (in groups of 4-6 persons; we will form groups based on research interest of the various participants)
• 12:00-13:00: Lunch
• 13:00-14:30: Discussion in groups on real-life problems of ASML
• 14:30-15:00: Preparations of presentations for feedback session on Wednesday
• 15:00-15:30: Break
• 15:30-17:00: Presentations
  • Gabriela Muratore - Energy markets and SCM issues
  • Erkut Sonmez - Balancing Risk and Efficiency at a Major Commercial Bank
  • Maria Vlasiou - Alternating systems continued: large deviations
  • Ana Busic - Perfect sampling of non-monotone Markov chains 

• Evening: City tour dinner starting at 6pm in Restaurant Auberge Nassau, Wilhelminaplein 14, Eindhoven.

Wednesday January 7

• 8:30-9:00: Arrival of participants, coffee/tea available
• 9:00-10:00: Presentations
  • Marha Shunko - Impact of International Taxation on Global Supply Chain Management
  • Sandra van Wijk - Optimal policy structure for a two location inventory problem with lateral transshipments
  • Anshul Gandhi -Optimal power allocation in server farms

• 10:00-10:15: Break
• 10:15-12:00: Feedback session for ASML:
  • Presentations on ideas to tackle the challenges faced by ASML
  • A group of ASML people will join this session, so that we can ask them further questions and they can react on the generated ideas
• 12:00-13:00: Lunch
• 13:00-14:30: Presentations
  • Matthias Mnich - The complexity Ecology of Parameters: An Illustration Using Bounded Max Leaf Number
  • Paul Enders - Optimal Size-based scheduling with Selfish Users
  • Josine Bruin - Dynamic control strategy for multi-item production systems
  • Kurtulus Öner - Upgrading Policy for Improved Components During the Exploitation Phase

• 14:30-15:00: Break
• 15:00-16:00: Discussion in groups on possible joint research projects (in either the same groups as on Tuesday or newly formed groups)
• 16:00-16:30: Feedback from discussions on possible joint research projects
• 16:30: Closure

Participants

Confirmed participants from CMU:

• Alan Scheller-Wolf, Tepper, Operations Management
• Nick Secomandi, Tepper, Operations Management
• Bahar Biller, Tepper, Operations Management
• Mustafa  Akan, Tepper, Operations Management
• Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Tepper, Operations Research
• Robert Hampshire, Heinz College, Operations Research and Public Policy
• Erkut Sonmez, Tepper, Operations Management, PhD student
• Paul Enders, Tepper, Operations Management, PhD student
• Masha Shunko, Tepper, Operations Management, PhD student
• Anshul Gandhi, Computer Science, Queueing, PhD student

Potential participants:

Paticipants from TU/e

• Ivo Adan, Dept. M&CS, Stochastic Operations Research
• Nico Dellaert, Dept. IE&IS, Operations Management
• Jan Fransoo, Dept. IE& IS, Operations Management
• Geert-Jan van Houtum, Dept. IE& IS, Operations Management
• Cor Hurkens, Dept. M&CS, Combinatorial Optimization
• Ton de Kok, Dept. IE& IS, Operations Management
• Johan van Leeuwaarden, Dept. M&CS, Stochastic Operations Research
• Jacques Resing, Dept. M&CS, Stochastic Operations Research,
• Marco Slikker, Dept. IE& IS, Operations Management
• Maria Vlasiou, Dept. M&CS, Stochastic Operations Research
• Jan van der Wal, Dept. M&CS, Stochastic Operations Research
• Gerhard Woeginger, Dept. M&CS, Combinatorial Optimization
• Gabriella Muratore, Dept. IE& IS, Operations Management, postdoc
• Josine Bruin, EURANDOM, Stochastic Operations Research, PhD student
• Gonul Karaarslan, Dept. IE& IS, Operations Management, PhD student
• Matthias Mnich, Dept. M&CS, Combinatorial Optimization
• Kurtulus Oner, Dept. IE& IS, Operations Management, PhD student
• Ingrid Vliegen, Dept. IE& IS, Operations Management, PhD student
• Sandra van Wijk, Dept. M&CS/Dept. IE&IS, Stochastic Operations Research, PhD student

 Extra participant

Organization

Contents:

• Ivo Adan, TU/e, +31 40 2472932, iadan@win.tue.nl
• Geert-Jan van Houtum, TU/e, +31 40 2475163 / 2472230, g.j.v.houtum@tue.nl
• Alan Scheller-Wolf, CMU, +1 412 5213340, awolf@andrew.cmu.edu

Organizational and administrative issues:

• Lucienne Coolen, TU/e - Eurandom, +31 40 2478122, Coolen@eurandom.tue.nl
• Geertje Kramer, TU/e, Coordinator LOIS, +31 40 2474576, g.g.kramer@tm.tue.nl 

 Practical information

Conference Location

the workshop location is EURANDOM,  Den Dolech 2, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, Laplace Building, 1st floor, LG 1.105.

EURANDOM is located on the campus of Eindhoven University of Technology, in the 'Laplacegebouw' building' (LG on the map). The university is located at 10 minutes walking distance from Eindhoven railway station (take the exit north side and walk towards the tall building on the right with the sign TU/e).

For all information on how to come to Eindhoven, please check www.eurandom.tue.nl/Location.htm

Hotel

There is a preliminary group reservation in Hotel Queen.
Address: Markt 7 --  5611 EB Eindhoven, tel. 00 31 40 2452480.

Send an e-mail to bruin@eurandom.tue.nl if you want to make a reservation.

Lunches/dinner

On January 5, 6 and 7 lunches are organised.

On January 5 & 6 dinner will be organised.