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2 - Comprehensive Framework for Hazmat Network Design,
Response Team Location, and Equity of Risk
Rajan Batta, Suny Distinguished Professor, University at Buffalo
(SUNY), 410 Bell Hall, Buffalo, United States of America,
, Masoumeh Taslimi, Changhyun Kwon
Control variables are locations of hazmat response teams and which additional
links to include. Regulatory authorities (upper level) aim to minimize the
maximum transport risk incurred by a transportation zone. Our measure of risk
incorporates average response time. Hazmat carriers (lower level) seek to
minimize travel cost. Using optimality conditions, we reformulate the non-linear
bi-level model into a single-level mixed integer linear program, and propose a
greedy heuristic approach.
3 - Primal and Dual Algorithms for Min-max Location with Euclidean
Distance Plus Fixed Distance in R^n
Lin Dearing, Professor Emeritus, Clemson University, 520
Bentbrook Lane, Clemson, SC, 29631, United States of America,
, Akshay Gupte
Primal and dual algorithms are given for one center min-max location using
Euclidean distance plus fixed distance in R^n, based on a directional search
method along paths that are a ray or a two-dimensional hyperbola in R^n. Search
paths are derived from the intersection of bisectors of points, which may be
hyperplanes or hyperboloids in R^n, and the step size is determined explicitly.
The problem is equivalent to finding the minimum covering Euclidean ball of a
given set of balls in R^n.
4 - Stochastic Location Models with Congestion
Oded Berman, University of Toronto, 105 St. George Street,
Toronto, Canada, Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass
We review facility location models where consumers generate stochastic
demands, and service times are stochastic. We focus on the customer-facility
interaction, developing a classification of modelsbased on the how customer
demand is allocated to facilities and whether the demand is elastic or not. We use
this classification to organize the variety of models considered in the literature
into four thematic groups that share common assumptions and structural
properties.
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Joint Session with all ENRE Clusters: The Energy,
Natural Resources, and Environment Awards Session
Sponsor: ENRE – Energy II – Other (e.g., Policy, Natural Gas,
Climate Change)
Sponsored Session
Chair: Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts, MIE Department , 220
ELAB, Amherst, MA, United States of America,
1 - Best Young Researcher Award
Enzo Sauma, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile,
Santiago, Chile,
The winner of the award will present a brief synopsis of the research
2 - ENRE Best Publication Award 2015 in Energy
Benjamin Hobbs, Professor, The Johns Hopkins University,
3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, United States of
America,
This award is given annually to the best refereed journal article in the area of
Energy published within the three calendar years prior to the year in which the
award is given.
3 - ENRE Best Publication Award in Natural Resources 2015
Sandor Toth, U. of Washington, Box 352100, Seattle, WA,
United States of America,
This award is given annually to the best refereed journal article in the area of
Natural Resources published within three calendar years prior to the year in
which the award is given.
4 - Brief Presentation by the Award Winner
Victoria Chen, The University of Texas at Arlington, Dept. of Ind.,
Manuf., & Sys. Engr., Campus Box 19017, Arlington, TX, 76019,
United States of America,
The winner of the Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment Award will
present a brief synopsis of the research.
5 - Enre Student Travel Award Competition
Sauleh Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University,
3400 N. Charles St. Latrobe 205, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United
States of America,
The winner of the ENRE Student Travel Award Competition will present a brief
synopsis of their research.
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Funding Opportunities within CMMI
Cluster: Funding Opportunities at NSF
Invited Session
Chair: Diwakar Gupta, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA,
United States of America,
1 - Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research Program
Diwakar Gupta, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA,
United States of America,
This talk will describe a new program for funding research in the area of service,
manufacturing and operations research.
2 - NSF Research Opportunities in Engineering and Systems Design
Chris Paredis, Program Director, National Science Foundation,
4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA, United States of America,
The National Science Foundation supports research in Engineering and Systems
Design through a core program in the CMMI division (Civil, Mechanical and
Manufacturing Innovation). This presentation provides an overview of the ESD
program, specifically highlighting opportunities for contributions by the
Operations Research community.
3 - Funding Opportunities for Research in Smart Service Systems
Alexandra Medina-borja, Program Director, National Science
Foundation/ UPRM, 2507 Fowler St, Falls Church, VA, 22046,
United States of America,
An overview of interdisciplinary funding opportunities for researchers modeling
the interaction between humans and engineered systems that could enable the
smart service systems of the future. Requirements and opportunities will be
discussed by one of the NSF cognizant program officers fostering these initiatives,
including opportunities for translational interdisciplinary research.
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Small Firms, Mobility, and Entrepreneurial Spawning
Cluster: Strategy Science
Invited Session
Chair: Todd Zenger,
1 - A New Small Firm Effect? Ability Sorting by Firm Size among
Ph.D.s in Science and Engineering
Daniel Elfenbein, Associate Professor of Strategy, Washington
University at St. Louis, Olin School of Business, St. Louis, MO,
United States of America,
2 - Forged in the Heat of Battle: New Organizations and Small Firms
as Business Incubators
Tiantian Yang, Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, NC,
United States of America, , Howard Aldrich,
Frederic Delmar
Organizational scholars have long been interested in the question of where do
organizations come from. In this study, we revisit this central question within
organization theory by establishing links between macro approaches that
emphasize institutional conditions and micro approaches that stress
organizational conditions. Using a unique data set that has comprehensive
coverage of individual employees and employing organizations in Sweden from
1990 to 2002, we demonstrate that institutional conditions encouraging
monopoly but discouraging individual entrepreneurial efforts amplify
entrepreneurial spawning in small and autonomous organizations. Conditions in
small and new organizations amplify peer influence on nascent entrepreneurs,
whereas intra-firm job mobility in large corporations suppresses it. Results from a
novel method – Ridge Regression – address unobserved heterogeneity, and
provide compelling evidence for the argument that nascent entrepreneurs are
forged in the heat of battle, as small and new organizations struggle to survive in
an economy dominated by monopolistic corporations. We call for greater
attention to the genesis of organizations through research on the interplay
between organizations and their environments.
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