2003 Seminars

2004-06-01 **Special Date**

Inventory Control Involving Capacity
Speaker: Prof. Jian Yang
New Jersey Institute of Technology

2004-05-18

Auctioning Supply Contracts
Speaker: Prof. Fangruo Chen
Graduate School of Business,
Columbia University, New York

2004-05-13

Electricity Swing Flowgate Right and Power Transmission Risk Management
Speaker: Prof. Shi-Jie Deng
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology

2004-04-15

Feedback Control of Nonlinear Systems by Nonsmooth State/Output Feedback: An Overview
Speaker: Prof. Wei Lin
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Case Western Reserve University

2004-04-08

Vector Space Model: Past, Present and the Future
Speaker: Prof. Robert Luk
Department of Computing,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

2004-04-07

Multiple Degrees of Separation Between Acoustic Patterns and Functional Components of Speech - A Functional and Multi-mechanistic View
Speaker: Dr. Yi Xu
Haskins Laboratory, Yale University, USA

2004-04-01

Towards Chinese Temporal Information Extraction and Its Applications
Speaker: Prof. Kam-Fai Wong
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2004-03-25

Dynamic Intersection Signal Control Optimization (DISCO)
Speaker: Prof. Hong K. LO
Department of Civil Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2004-03-18

Convergent Lagrangian Methods for Nonlinear Integer Programming: Contour Cut and Domain Cut
Speaker: Prof. Xiaoling Sun
Department of Mathematics
Shanghai University
Shanghai, China.

2004-03-11

Discrete Optimization --- From Local to Global
Speaker: Doctor NG, Chi-Kong
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2004-03-04

Enhance Supply Chain Management Through Developing Transport Information System in Hong Kong
Speaker: Professor William H.K. Lam
Chair Professor of Civil & Transportation Engineering,
Department of Civil & Structural Engineering,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

2004-02-26

Many-To-One Stable Admissions: Geometry and Linear Programming
Speaker: Professor Chung Piaw TEO
Department of Decision Sciences,
National University of Singapore

2004-02-19

Data Mining for Profitable CRM
Speaker: Professor Charles Ling
Department of Computer Science,
University of Western Ontario

2004-02-12

An Optimization-Based Decision Support System for Strategic Planning in a Process Industry
Speaker: Professor Goutam Dutta
Chairman, Production and Quantitative Methods Area,
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Vastrapur,
Ahmedabad 380015, India

2004-02-05

A fluid approach to the control of multi-class queueing networks
Speaker: Professor Gideon Weiss
University of Haifa

2004-01-08

Higher-order and Multivariate Markov Chain Models and Their Applications
Speaker: Professor Wai-Ki CHING
Department of Mathematics
University of Hong Kong

2003-12-23

Differential Variational Inequalities
Speaker: Professor Jong-Shi Pang
The Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2003-12-18

Finding Hierarchical Heavy Hitters in Data Streams
Speaker: Prof. Flip Korn
AT&T Labs-Research
and
New York University

2003-11-27

Data Mining, Multi-agent Systems, and Their Application in Stock Market
Speaker: Chengqi Zhang
Visiting Professor
Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
&
Professor of Computer Science
Faculty of Information Technology,
University of Technology, Sydney
Australia

2003-11-20

Investing in quality improvement at an upstream supplier
Speaker: Professor Kaijie Zhu
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2003-11-13

Demand Point Aggregation for Location Models
Speaker: Professor Timothy J. Lowe
Tippie College of Business,
University of Iowa,
Iowa City, IA 52242

2003-11-11 **Special Date and Time**

Using PLA to Liberate Learning
Speaker: Dr. Michael Bieber
Co-Director, Collaborative Hypermedia Research Laboratory
Information Systems Department,
College of Computing Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights, Newark, New Jersey, USA

2003-11-07 **Special Date**

Joint Inventory Replenishment and Pricing Control for Systems with Uncertain Supply and Demand
Speaker: Professor Qing Li
Dept. of Information and Systems Management,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2003-10-30

Topics in Nonlinear Stochastic Systems
Speaker: Professor Han-Fu Chen
Laboratory of Systems and Control,
Institute of Systems Science,
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

2003-10-23

Conic Optimization --- What, Why, and Where
Speaker: Professor Shuzhong Zhang
Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Department,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2003-10-16 **Special Time**

Tracking topics in broadcast news data
Speaker: Yuen Yee, LO
Spoken Language Processing Group
Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mecanique et les Sciences del'Ingenieur (LIMSI-CNRS)

2003-10-09 **Special Location and Time**

Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems and Applications
Speaker: Prof. Christos G. Cassandras,
Prof. of Manufacturing Engineering, and
Prof. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE)
Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering
Boston University

2003-10-02

Intelligent Robots and Cyborgs
Speaker: Prof. Kevin Warwick
Professor of Cybernetics,
University of Reading, UK,
presently visiting Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2003-09-25

Locating Sensors To Monitor Network Flows
Speaker: Prof. Pitu Mirchandani
Professor and Director, ATLAS Research Center,
Systems and Industrial Engineering Department,
The University of Arizona

2003-09-18

From Path Tree To Frequent Patterns: A Framework for Mining Frequent Patterns
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Xu YU
Systems Engineering & Engineering Management Department,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong