SIAM Complexity and Business Analytics conference, October 10, 2008
Conference Presentations

University of Michigan-Dearborn
Program

Keynote Addresses:

• K.P. Unnikrishnan (General Motors), "Data Mining Methods for Neuroinformatics"

• Michael North (Argonne National Lab), "Case Studies: Agent-Based Modeling in Business and Government"

Session 1-A, Supply Market Dynamics; Chair: Devadatta M. Kulkarni, General Motors R&D

• Joseph J.Innace, Platts, "Strategies for Dealing with the New Steel Supply Chain"

• Thomas Klier, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Shifts in the North American Supply Base"

• Ravi Anupidi, UM Stephen M. Ross School of Business, "Integrated Optimization of Procurement, Processing, and Trade of Commodities in Network Environment"

• Sunder Kamakshisundaram, Ariba, "Effective Sourcing strategies to mitigate supply chain risks caused by rising commodity prices, currency uctuations and natural disasters"

Session 1-B, Social Modeling; Chair: Allen Batteau, Wayne State University

• William Rand, Northwestern University / University of Maryland, "Adaptive Agents and the Diusion of Innovation across Diverse Systems"

• Jon Brewster, Lawrence Technological University, "Complexity and Coordinated Response to Hazardous Events"

• Allen W. Batteau, Wayne State University, "Technological Acceleration and Peripheralization as an Evolutionarily Stable State"

Session 1-C, Manufacturing Systems & Processes; Chair: Leandro Barajas, General Motors R&D

• Allise Wachs, Integral Concepts, Inc., "Multi-Response Optimization for Manufacturing Processes"

• Jorge Arinez, General Motors R&D, Manufacturing Systems Research Lab, "The Manufacturing Systems Information Singularity"

• Xiaowei Zhu, General Motors R&D, Manufacturing Systems Research Lab, "Modeling of Manufacturing Complexity in Mixed-Model Assembly"

• Leandro G. Barajas, General Motors R&D, Manufacturing Systems Research Lab, "Practical Approaches for Forecasting of Manufacturing Systems"

Session 1-D, Marketing and Revenue Management; Chair: Dan Reaume, General Motors R&D

• Hallie J. Kintner, Operation Research Activity, GM Research and Development, "Leveraging the Wisdom of Crows with Prediction Markets"

• Lyle Wallis, Mark Paich, Decisio Consulting, Dynamic Marketing Models: "Combining System Dynamics and Agent-Based Techniques"

• Bo Cheng, Ford Motor Company, "Statistical Characterization of Product Complexity in Market Offerings"

• Robert Bordley, Operations Research Activity, GM Research and Development, "Using Maximum Entropy to Derive Choice Probabilities"

Session 2-E, Novel Models for Supply Chain Analytics; Chairs: Ratna Babu Chinnam & Alper Murat, Wayne State University

• Saman Alaniazar, Wayne State University, "Dynamic Capacity Planning and Installation using Bass Model and Markowitz Investment Model in an Agent-based Supply Chain"

• Nezir Aydin, Wayne State University, "Impact of Bill-of-Materials Flexibility and Manufacturing Flexibility on Supply Chain Resilience"

• Ibrahim Dogan, Wayne State University, "Modeling Closed-Loop Remanufacturing Supply Chains under Non-Stationary Demand"

Session 2-F, General Modeling; Chair: Michael Lachance, University of Michigan-Dearborn

• David A. Ostrowski, Ford Motor Company, "Meta-Analysis for Validation and Strategic Planning"

• Myron Ginsberg, ACM Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, and HPC Consultant, "The Missing Links to Widespread Improvements in U.S. Industrial Global Competitiveness"

• S. Claudina Vargas, Western New England College, "Complexity: implications for performance modeling and improvement in education systems"

Session 2-G, Bio-Science and Medicine; Chair: Henry Heng, Wayne State University

• Henry Heng, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, WSU School of Medicine, "The genome context defines the genetic network"

• Hao Ying, College of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, "A Fuzzy Discrete Event Systems Approach to HIV/AIDS Treatment"

• Russ Finley, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, WSU School of Medicine, "Chasing biological networks"

• Joshua B Stevens, Christine J Ye, Lesley L Lawrenson, Guo Liu, Steve Bremer and Henry Heng, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, WSU School of Medicine, "The complexity of molecular mechanism for cancer"

Session 2-H, Analytics in Vehicle Development; Chair: Ed Moylan, SIAM1

• David A. Lamb, TACOM, "Army Crash Safety: Rollover and Complexity"

• Steven J. Goldner, First Technology Safety Systems, "A Vehicle Impact Test Form Based on a Modified Super-Ellipse"

• James Kotterman, Greg Eckhart, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, "Using Toys to Teach Applied Statistics in the Workplace"

• Richard DeVries, Senior Engineering Specialist, General Dynamics Land Systems, "Optimization, Robust Design, and Analytical Tradeoffs in a Systems Engineering Context"

NetLogo Workshop, Room 194; Chair: David Bowen, Wayne State University

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