Session Code: T3-R1
Thursday, Room 1, 3:00-4:30
Options and Applied Probability in Economics
Chair: Keppo, Jussi
Chung, Huimin; Lee, Chin-Shen
Pricing Liquidity into Options in Emerging Markets
Keppo, Jussi; Maull, Tim; Peura, Samu
Employment Protection and Labour Market Demand
Liu, Yong; Putler, Daniel S. Zuyev, Sergei
Estimating Models of Disaggregate Household Expenditures: The       Lognormit Estimator with a Comparison to Other Approaches
Session Code: T3-R2
Thursday, Room 2, 3:00-4:30

Tail Asymptotics of Stochastic Models II

Organizer and Chair:  Miyazawa, Masakiyo and Zhao, Yiqiang Q.

Li, Quan-Lin; Zhao,Yiqiang Q.
Heavy-Tailed Asymptotics of the Stationary Probability Vector of Markov Chains of GI/G/1 Type
Zwart, Bert
Subexponential asymptotics of perturbed risk and fluid models
Sakuma,Yutaka

On the effect of finite buffer truncation in a two node Jackson network

Session Code: T3-R3
Thursday, Room 3, 3:00-4:30

Internet Applications

Chair: Lu, Yingdong
Zhu, Zhengyuan; Chi, Zhiyi

Shot noise models for Internet traffic

Zhang, Li; Xia, Cathy; Liu, Zhen
Service Time Inference using Rational Functions
Lu, Yingdong; Zhang, Li
Performance Budgeting in Tiered Systems
Li, Xuan; Yao, David D.
A Fixed-Point Model for Network Revenue Maximization
Session Code: T3-R4
Thursday, Room 4, 3:00-4:30

Inventory Models II

Organizer and Chair: Hu, Qiying
Huang, Shuo
Modelling Lateral Transshipments in Inventory Systems with       Interdependent Demands
Chen, Jian; Zhang, Xiaohong
Management of Multi-period Two-Item Inventory Systems with        Substitutable Demand
Hou, Yumei; Song, Jing-Sheng; Zhang, Hanqin
The Effect of Leadtime Uncertainty in Continuous Review (r, Q) Systems
Lian, Zhaotong
A Perishable Inventory Model with Semi-Morkov Arrival Demand
Session Code: T3-R5
Thursday, Room 5, 3:00-4:30

Simulation: Methods and Applications

Organizer and chair: Henderson, Shane
Nakayama, Marvin K.; Calvin,James M.
Improvements to Standardized Time Series for Steady-State Simulations
Shahabuddin, Perwez; Huang, Zhi
A Unified Approach for Finite-Dimensional Rare Event Monte Carlo Simulations with Applications to Value-at-Risk
Kim, Sujin ; Henderson, Shane; Simon, Burt

Adaptive Simulation using Perfect Control Variates

Session Code: T3-R6
Thursday, Room 6, 3:00-4:30
Image Processing and Computer Applications
Chair: Ou, Jihong
Chevalier, Philippe; Macq, Benoi t; Ou, Jihong
Optimal data pre-fetching for smooth navigation of large scale images
Tang, Hsiu-Khuern; Eshghi, Kave
The Storage Overhead in Hash-based File-chunking Algorithms 
Sun, FuXong; Sun, Dong
The Fast Image Fusion Based on A Lifting Wavelet Algorithm