2018 Fall Technical Symposium

Call for Papers

2018 Fall Technical Symposium

Cincinnati-Dayton Chapter of INFORMS

Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

October 19, 2018



The Cincinnati-Dayton INFORMS Chapter will host a technical symposium, and we welcome the submission of short summaries which will be posted in online proceedings. Submissions by practitioners are especially welcome.

Deadlines:  Abstracts must be submitted by August 31 for full consideration and scheduling. 

Proceedings from the 2014-2017 conferences are available at: https://www.informs.org/Community/Cincinnati-Dayton-Chapter/Symposium/

RSVP Registration Online: For the registration form, please click here.

Conference Fees:  $15 Students, $35 Professionals (includes 2019 chapter membership dues)

Presenter Submission Procedures

To submit your short summary for a presentation or poster for review for the 2018 Meeting, please email the document to: cindayinformsgroup@gmail.com

 

Each electronic submission must include the title of the submission, the authors, and the abstract. Please use the following guidelines when preparing your submission:

1.      Submissions and final papers are acceptable in MS Word only.

2.      Using the template example on the following, copying the format, font and style.

3.      Short summaries are a 1-page max 

4.      An author is limited to submitting a maximum of three (3) submissions, either single or multiple-authored.

5.      In the case of multiple authors, all correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise requested.

6.      By submitting, you are agreeing to allow the Cincinnati-Dayton Chapter of INFORMS to post your work in our proceedings and online.  It is thus assumed that any prior release approval has been granted. 

7.      All presenters need to have completed registration to attend and present a paper. 

8.      Questions concerning the electronic submission process can be directed to cindayinformsgroup@gmail.com.

For the application process, please click here.

 

Sponsorship


Without sponsor support, this event would not be possible.

In addition to our Cincinnati-Dayton INFORMS Chapter, Wright State University's Department of Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering (BIE) Department is our primary sponsor.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor for the 2018 or subsequent Cincy-Dayton INFORMS events, please contact our chapter:  cindayinformsgroup@gmail.com


Time

2018 Schedule

0800-0830

Registration and Coffee

0830-0840

Welcome and Agenda

Authors: Matthew JD Robbins, AFRL

 

Morning Session

0840-0900

Panel on Emerging Issues in Supply Chain Management

Panelists:  Ben Rhinehart, Crown Equipment Co.

Angela Moeder, Midmark Corp.

Josh Brown, Honda

Kevin Cordonnier, Honda

Moderator: James Hamister, WSU

0900-0920

0920-0940

0940-1000

Insights into the Aircraft Availability Conundrum

Presenter: Tamiko Ritschel, AFMC/A9

1000-1020

Big Data Analysis with Topological Data Analysis (TDA)

Presenter: Elizabeth Campolongo, OSU, Trevor Bihl, AFRL, Juan Ramirez, Ball, Ryan Kramer, AFRL 

1020-1040

Coffee Break

1040-1100

Effect of Rack Design on Visibility and Profit in a Retail Store

Presenter: Brad Guthrie and Pratik Parikh, WSU   

1100-1120

Military Planning Using Robust Markov Decision Processes

Presenter: Andrew Keith and Darryl Ahner, AFIT   

1120-1140

Marketing Marketing Analytics in a Government Context: Application Case Studies

Presenter: Amanda Reboulet, AFMC/A9A Ross Jackson, Wittenberg Uni

1140-1200

Optimal Prize Collecting Aircraft Routing

Presenter: Bryan Kolano, Michael Larkin and Jade Baker, AFIT

 

 

1200-1320

Luncheon

Keynote Speaker (1220 – 1320)

Daniel Steeneck AFIT---Estimating Demand for Substitutable Products when Inventory Records are Unreliable

 

 

Afternoon Session

1320-1340

Sole Source Contracting Timelines

Presenter: Sophia Morrell, AFMC/A9A

1340-1400

Approximate Dynamic Programming for Military Medical Evacuation Dispatching Policies

Presenter: Phillip Jenkins, Matthew Robbins and Brian Lunday, AFIT

1400-1420

Following Instructions: Results and Implications from a Comparative Analysis of Three Air Force Instruction Corpora for Acquisition, Logistics, and Personnel

Presenter: Ross Jackson, Wittenberg Uni Amanda Reboulet, AFMC/A9A

1420-1440

Assessing Partial Association between Ordinal Variables: A General Framework

Presenter: Dungang Liu, University of Cincinnati 

1440-1510

Heavy Hors d'oeuvres

1510-1530

Influence Modeling: Mathematical Programming Representations of Persuasion under Either Risk or Uncertainty

Presenter: William Caballero and Brian Lunday, AFIT   

1530-1550

Female STEM Student Mentoring Program

Presenter: Emily Kloos and Sandra Furterer, University of Dayton 

1550-1610

Optimizing Aircraft Non-Availability Resourcing to Enable Cost-Effective Readiness

Presenter: Greg Gehret AFLCMC, Mary Godby AFSC, Danielle Beckham AFMC, Jeremy Brogdon AFMC

1610-on

Closing