Session Code: F1-R1
Friday, Room 1, 8:30-10:00

Mathematical Finance

Organizer and chair: Zhou, Xun Yu

Deng, Shi-Jie*; Feng, Youyi

Optimal Hedging of Electric Power Supply Contracts under Default Risk

Zhang, Shuguang; Zhou, Xun Yu
Optimal Ruin Probability Control for a Company with debt Liability
Sekine, Jun
Optimization Problems in an Incomplete Market and Associated Quadratic BSDE
Bielecki, Tomasz R.; Jin, Hanqing; Pliska, Stanley R.; Zhou, Xun Yu
Continuous-Time Mean--Variance Portfolio Selection with Bankruptcy Prohibition
Session Code: F1-R2
Friday, Room 2, 8:30-10:00

Approximation and Estimation

Chair:  Bhat, U. Narayan

Bhat, U. Narayan
Parameter Estimation in M/G/1 and GI/M/1 Queues Using Queue Length Data
Womer, Keith; Camm,Jeff; Osterman,Colin ; Radhakrishnan,Rajesh
Bayesian Program Management
Naseri, Hassan; Jafari, Mehdi K.
Linear Prediction for Electricity Consumption with Levy Distribution
Wang, Yongcai, Zhao, Qianchuan, Zheng, Dazhong
Bound Models and Approximation Technique for Multi-Server Fork-Join System
Session Code: F1-R3
Friday, Room 3, 8:30-10:00

Telecommunication

Chair: Pak, Dohyun

Xu, Deju; Hong, Shangfeng   
The Performance Analysis of Output Buffers of Advanced Routers with QoS
Lee, Yutae; Chung, Hae; Park, Chul Geun
Performance Evaluation of a New DBA Algorithm for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
Pak, Dohyun; Keppo, Jussi
A Real Option Approach to Telecommunications Network Optimization
Session Code: F1-R4
Friday, Room 4, 8:30-10:00

Supply Chain Management V

Chair: Chou, Cheng-Feng Mabel

Huang, Zhimin; Li, Susan X.

Supply Chain Coordination through Franchising: a Chance Constrained Game Approach

Zhu, Kaijie; Tsung, Fugee
Pushing Quality Improvement along Supply Chains
Chou, Cheng-Feng Mabel; Jian, Kuai; Romeijn, H. Edwin
A Two-Stage Newsvendor Problem with Emergency Delivery Options
Zhang,Sheng Hao; Cheung,Ki Ling
Replenishment Sequencing in a One-Supplier, Multiple-Retailer Supply chain
Session Code: F1-R5
Friday, Room 5, 8:30-10:00

Matrix Analytical Methods III

Chair: Grassmann, Winfried

Miyoshi, Naoto; Sugimoto, Toyoaki      

On the asymptotics of fault probability in least-recently-used caching with Zipf-type access distribution

Luh, Hsing
Solving PH/PH/1/N Queues by Using Characteristic Roots in Matrix Analytic Methods
Vuuren, Marcel van; Adan, Ivo J.B.F.
Approximating a class of  ”ĘG_{i}/G/s queues by  MAP/MAP/1 queues
Session Code: F1-R6
Friday, Room 6, 8:30-10:00
Network and Combinatorial Problems
Chair: Chen, Xi
Costa, Andre
Analytic Modelling of Network Routing Algorithms which Employ Ant-like Agents
Wedley, William C.
Preference Elicitation from Ratio Comparisons in Spanning Trees and Chained  Matrices
Ganesh, Ayalvadi J.; Xue, Feng

Connectivity and diameter of small-world random graphs

Bai,Hongxing; Chen, Xi; Xia, Li; Ho, Yu-Chi

Target detection in randomly distributed sensor networks