45th Annual Convention of
Operational Research Society of India
announces
Tutorial Sessions
Co-located with
The International Conference on
Optimization, Computing and Business Analytics
(ICOCBA2012)
at
Techno India University
Salt Lake, Kolkata, India
on
December 19, 2012
Conference Website:
www.orsi.in/convention
Conference E-mail:
[email protected]
Tutorial Session 1: Optimum Decision Making Under Uncertainty:
Methods, Applications and Case Studies
Tutorial Session 2: Tutorial on How to Use Two Practical Tools for
Strategy Analytics
Speakers:
Speaker:
Prof. Gautam Mitra, Director OptiRisk&CARISMA, Brunel University
Prof. Enza Messina, Prof. Informatics, DISCO, Milan University
Prof. Cathal M. Brugha, University College Dublin Centre for Business Analytics
Abstract: This tutorial will show participants how to use two practical tools for Strategy
Abstract: Optimization in general and Linear programming (LP) and integer
programming (IP) in particular has made considerable progress in the last 50 years.
These successes in the domain of deterministic optimization have been extended to that
of optimum decision making under uncertainty; in this tutorial we focus mainly on this
latter topic. Stochastic (Optimization) Programming: SP addresses such decision
problems by taking an ex-ante view of the future. In SP two modeling paradigms are
brought together (a) a predictive analytic model which describes the random behavior of
the uncertain parameters and (b) an optimum decision model as in LP/IP approaches.
Professor Gautam Mitra is an internationally renowned
scientist in the field of Operational Research in general and
computational optimisation and modelling in particular. He was
Head of the Department of Mathe-matical Sciences, Brunel
University and later established the Centre for the Analysis of
Risk and Optimisation Modeling Applications:CARISMA that
specializes in the research of Risk and Optimisation and their role
in decision modelling. He is a Director of OptiRisk Systems UK
and India. Professor Mitra also acts as a hands-on Angel investor
and is a director & shareholder of UNICOM Learning systems and Excellence in People.
Email: [email protected]
Professor Enza Messina is a Professor in Operations
Research at the University of Milano-Bicocca in the
Department of Informatics Systems and Communications
(DISCO). She has collaborated with Prof. Mitra and
CARISMA team in the design of SPInE : Stochastic
programming integrated environment and in supply chain
logistics studies under uncertainty. Her research focuses on
the development of models and methods for decision making
under uncertainty and statistical relational models for data
analysis in different application domains such as supply chain management, finance,
system biology, web mining, e-forensics.
Email: [email protected]
Analytics. The first, the Priority Pointing Procedure (PPP), helps organizations to identify a
new strategy. The second, the Direct-Interactive Structured-Criteria (DISC) Multi-Criteria
Decision-Making (MCDM) System helps decision-makers to make choices between
alternative courses of action. This will be illustrated using cases from multiple industries, as
well as in applications from China and Africa.
Professor Cathal M. Brugha, is the Director of the Centre
for Business Analytics in the School of Business, University
College Dublin. His main theoretical research is in Nomology, the
study of the decision processes of the mind, the structures or
“covering laws” that frame people’s thinking and provide
commonalities between different fields and cultures. His applied
work is focused on generic decision methodologies & on multicriteria measurement.
As President of the Analytics Society of Ireland since 1992 he has
represented Ireland annually at council meetings of the European
Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO) and the
International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). He was Editor of the
IFORS Journal, International Transactions in Operational Research from 2000 to 2006. He is a
Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, and was for many years Chair / Member of the
Institute’s Education Committee, and an Extern Examiner. He is a member of international
societies and working groups for European and Global conferences since 1992 including:
Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, and Complex Societal Problems, and has participated in EastWest conferences since 1998 including Knowledge and Systems Science, the International
Society for Systems Science, Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems. He is also doing research
into Irish Business in China with Dr. Liming Wang and Dr Lan Li of UCD’s Institute for
Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute. Together they have recently published a book:
“Doing Business in China: The Irish Experience”.
Email: [email protected]
For further details about these sessions and speakers, about mode of
payment and registration and any other information, please refer to the
website of ORSI convention www.orsi.in/convention.