Hey!!! The IISc-IBM Research 3rd Operations Research and Data Analytics Workshop was held at the Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 3rd and 4th of March, 2008.


Technical Program

March 3, 2008
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Inauguration
09:30-10:30 Keynote Speech
Brenda Dietrich
Title: Optimization Applications: New Opportunities and Challenges

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Ravi Kannan
Microsoft Research India
Title: Randomized Algorithms for Matrices
11:45-12:30 M. Narasimha Murty
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Title: Clustering Large Datasets

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:45 Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Title: Enabling Rural India through innovations in ICT

14:45-15:30 P.S. Sastry
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Title: Temporal Datamining, Symbolic Time series and Neuroinformatics

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Ravi Kumar
GM India Science Lab, Bangalore
Title: Measuring the importance of variables in choice models

16:45-17:30 Abhinanda Sarkar
GE Research, Bangalore
Title: Monitoring and Diagnostics Services: Data to Decisions


March 4, 2008

09:00-09:45 Guruduth Banavar
IBM India Research Lab, Bangalore
Title: Service Delivery: Some Challenges and Opportunities for Analytics

09:45-10:30 Goutam Dutta
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad
Title: Optimization Based Decision Support System for Strategic Planning for Process Industries

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Jayant Haritsa
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Title: Drawing out the Artistic Talents of Database Query Optimizers

11:45-12:30 Ishwar Murthy
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Title: A New Disaggregated Formulation of the Generalized Assignment Problem and its properties
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:45 Aditya Jain
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
Title: Responding to shipment delays: The roles of operational flexibility and lead-time visibility

14:45-15:30 Hiroyuki Okano
IBM Tokyo Research Lab
Title: Applied Operations Research in Japanese Industry

15:30-16:15 Amit Mehra
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
Title: Pricing Software Upgrades Under Competition

16:15-17:00 Valedictory
17:00-17:30 High Tea




Invited Speakers
Dr. Abhinanda Sarkar, GE Research, Bangalore
Dr. Aditya Jain, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
Dr. Amit Mehra
Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Dr. Brenda Dietrich, IBM
Dr. Goutam Dutta, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad
Dr. Guruduth Banavar, IBM India Research Lab, Bangalore
Mr. Hiroyuki Okano, IBM
Prof. Ishwar Murthy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Prof. Jayant Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science
Prof. M. Narasimha Murty, Indian Institute of Science
Prof. Ravi Kannan, Microsoft Research India
Dr. K. Ravi Kumar, General Motors (India Science Lab)
Prof. P.S. Sastry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


Organizing Committee

-Prof. M. Narasimha Murty, Dept. of Computer Science and Automation, IISc
-Prof. Y. Narahari, Dept. of Computer Science and Automation, IISc
-Dr. M. Mathirajan, Dept. of Management Studies, IISc
-Dr. Gyana Parija, IBM India Research Lab, Delhi
-Dr. Vinayaka Pandit, IBM India Research Lab, Delhi
-Dr. Dinesh Garg, IBM India Research Lab, Bangalore
-Dr. Sambuddha Roy, IBM India Research Lab, Delhi