Program: Bellingham Symposium on Modeling and Data Analytics 2022

July 27th, 5:20 pm - 10:30 pm PST

Keynote Speech: Scheduling Heuristics in Practice -- Hybrid Flow Shops and Flow Shops with Reentry (Dr. Michael L. Pinedo, New York University, USA)
Session 1
Talk 1: Optimal Prescheduling of Overtime for Services with Updated Forecasts and Availabilities (Gerry Campbell, Western Washington University, USA)
Talk 2: The Generalized c/μ Rule for Queues with Heterogeneous Server Pools (Zhenghua Long, Nanjing University, China)
Talk 3: Risk-Sensitive Markov Decision Processes with Long-Run CVaR Criterion (Li Xia, Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
Session 2
Talk 1: Dynamic focus programming: A new approach to sequential decision problems under uncertainty (Peijun Guo, Yokohama National University, Japan)
Talk 2: Review Manipulation in Online Discussion Forums: When Reviewers Are Not the Purchasers (Bin Zhu, Oregon State University, USA)
Talk 3: Collecting, Quantifying, and Analyzing Qualitative Cultural Data through the Freelist Technique: An Overview (Chris Califf, Western Washington University, USA)
Talk 4: Modeling and Optimization of a Retrial Queue with Imperfect Coverage and Reboot Delay (Jau-Chuan Ke, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Kuo-Hsiung Wang, Asia University, Taiwan)
 

July 28th, 5:30 pm - 10:30 pm PST

Keynote Speech: Computing for Markov Chains with Large State Space (Dr. Peter W. Glynn, Stanford University, USA)
Session 1
Talk 1: Group Buying as a Competitive Platform (Ming Fan, University of Washington, USA)
Talk 2: Combating Misinformation by Sharing the Truth: a Study on the Spread of FactChecks on Social Media (Jiexun Li, Western Washington University, USA)
Talk 3: Optimality of the offer-everything policy (Tim Huh, University of British Columbia, Canada)
Session 2
Talk 1: Dynamic Coalitional Stability in Supply Chain Games (Mahesh Nagarajan, University of British Columbia, Canada)
Talk 2: Algorithms for Queueing Systems with Reneging and Priorities Modeled as Quasi-Birth-Death Processes (Amir Rastpour, Ontario Tech University, Canada)
Talk 3: Queues with Setup Time: Exact Solutions and Scaling Limits (Tuan Phung-Duc, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Talk 4: Analysis of the Risk-sensitive Newsvendor Model: A Distortion Risk Measure Perspective (Hui Shao, Zhejiang University, China)