International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Decision Making December 6-7, 2004 Melbourne, Australia

Program

Monday, December 6, 2004:

Time	Activity	Speaker
8:30	Registration
9:00	Welcome
9:15	Keynote Lecture From Planning to Execution: The Ever-Shrinking Optimization Time Horizon	Bob Bixby
10:15	Software Engineering for Operations Research and Optimization	Leon Sterling
11:15	Tea Break
11:45	Recreational Optimization	Moshe Sniedovich
12:45	Lunch
ILOG Workshop			I L O G
Understanding Best Approaches for Your Optimization Needs Maximize your knowledge and application of ILOG optimization technologies by attending a comprehensive workshop that will provide a series of technical tutorials spanning ILOG's optimization technologies. This workshop will help you understand best approaches for specificoptimization application objectives, requirements and developmentenvironments. Share experiences and discuss ILOG technologies withother OR practitioners, researchers and instructors. Workshop take-away materials will be provided.
13:45	Sign in and Greeting	Pamela Wright
14:00	Welcome and Introduction	Pamela Wright
14:15	Introduction to ILOG CPLEX	Irv Lustig
15:00	Methods for Embedding ILOG CPLEX	Irv Lustig
15:45	Tea Break
16:00	ILOG CPLEX Advanced Performance Tuning	Irv Lustig
16:45	ILOG Optimization Customer Case Study	Gary Froyland
17:15	Workshop Summary and Next Steps plus Teaser Introduction of New Technology	Irv Lustig
17:30 --- 19:00	Reception
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Time	Activity	Speaker
9:00	Using commercial codes to solve cutting stock problems	Bob Johnston
10:00	Solving Logistic and Scheduling Problems via Constraint Programming	Mark Wallace
11:00	Tea Break
11:30	Panel Discussion on Education and Training in OR and Optimization
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Global Optimization: Software Development and Applications	Janos Pinter
CSIRO Workshop			C S I R O
15:00	ORPIM: The OR Practitioner's Impact Mindset	Mohan Krishnamoorthy
16:00	Tea Break
16:30	Panel Discussion on Practising Optimization and OR in Australia
17:15 --- 19:00	Reception

---

This workshop is organized by the Melbourne Chapter of the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR) and will be held on the campus of the University of Melbourne.

The workshop is intended to provide a meeting forum for OR/MS oriented delegates of other important conferences to be held in Australia in Dec 2004 (and a conference in New Zealand in November!) :

• November 28 -29, 2004, Annual ORSNZ Conference
  Auckland, New Zealand
  www.orsnz.org.nz/conf
• December 6-8, 2004, International Conference on Mathematical Inequalities and their Applications, I
  Melbourne, Australia
  rgmia.vu.edu.au/conference
• December 9-11, 2004, The Sixth International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA 6)
  Ballarat (120 km from Melbourne), Australia
  www.ballarat.edu.au/icota/
• December 12-14, 2004, Second Australian-China workshop on Optimization
  Ballarat (120km from Melbourne), Australia
  (website not ready yet)
• December 12-15, 2004,Fifth Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS 2004)
  Gold Coast, Australia
  www.maths.qut.edu.au/apiems2004
• December 12-15, 2004, World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling
  Melbourne, Australia
  www.ma.rmit.edu.au/2004RMAconference/
• December 13-14, 2004, The First International Workshop on Intelligent Finance (IWIF 1)
  Melbourne, Australia
  www.iwif.org
• December 13-17, 2004, Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 04)
  Melbourne, Australia
  www.issnip.org

Every effort will be made to coordinate the activities of the workshop with the programs of these conferences.

The plan is to allow delegates plenty of time and opportunities for informal discussions and professional networking. Thus, the technical program of the workshop will consist solely of invited plenary lectures, each followed by a panel discussion.

This forum will enable you to meet OR/MS analysts from Australia and the Asia Pacific region, and to obtain first-hand information on OR/MS activities in this part of the world. Indeed, one of the main objectives of this workshop is to strengthen the ties between OR/MS professionals in the Asia Pacific region.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of OR/MS and its strong links to other fields such as applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering, this workshop should be of interest also to delegates of the above mentioned conferences who are not fully-fledged OR/MS professionals.

Needless to say, although the workshop was designed specifically with delegates of these conferences in mind, registration to the workshop is open to the public. That is, you do not have to participate in any of these conferences in order to register to the workshop.