| Preface |
vii |
| Referees |
viii |
| A Warm Welcome |
ix |
| Message from President, ORSI |
x |
| Message from Director, IIM, Ahmedabad |
xi |
| Welcome Note from ORSI Ahmedabad Chapter
President |
xii |
| Welcome Note from Programs Committee |
xiii |
| Program Overview |
xv |
| Plenary Talks |
xvii |
| Distinguished Lectures/Tutorials |
xxiii |
| Panels |
xxvii |
| List of Invited Papers |
xxviii |
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1. |
Theme Paper
N. Ravichandran |
1 |
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PART I: THEME BASED CONTRIBUTIONS |
| 2. |
Contexts in Models for Auction Designs: Lessons from
Experience |
19 |
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Rekha Jain |
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| 3. |
Management of Emerging Global Terrorism: An Application
of
Stochastic Catastrophe Theory |
45 |
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Usha Sharma, Surender Kumar |
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| 4. |
Optimization of Service Parameters for Indian Hospitals:
Taguchi's Robust Design Approach |
65 |
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Roma Mitra Debnath, Ravi Shankar |
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| 5. |
Outsourcing to India: Exploring the Management
Implications for the Outsourcer and Outsource |
78 |
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Kulwant S. Pawar, Abhishek Gupta, Chandra Lalwani, Janat
Shah,
Dipali Ghosh, Jens Eschenbacher |
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| 6. |
Performance Analysis in Multi-Layer Cellular Network
with Integrated Traffic |
92 |
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Madhu Jain, Neeta Singh |
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| 7. |
Strategies for Improving Indian Railways' Market Share
of Port Based Coal Traffic: A Diagnostic Study |
116 |
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G. .Raghuram, Sanjay Verma, K.L. Dixit, Sanjeevan Kapshe |
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| 8. |
Systems Perspectives on Inland Water
Transport for Freight Movement |
142 |
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G. Raghuram, Narayan Rangaraj |
|
| 9. |
The Role of Supply Chain in India's
Development Index: An Analytical Approach |
160 |
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S. Balan, Pradeep Kumar, Prem Vrat |
|
| 10. |
Tuberculosis Control in Developing
Countries: A Generalized Community Health Worker Based Model |
183 |
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N. Ravichandran |
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PART II: ADVANCES IN THEORY |
|
11. |
A Modeling Approach for Outsourcing
Decisions in Supply Chain Management |
207 |
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Navin K. Dev, Rahul Caprihan, Sanjeev Swami,
Sumit Raut |
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12. |
A Two-State Queueing Model with Intermittent
Available Server and Departures in Batches of Variable Size |
222 |
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lndra, Vijay Kumar |
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| 13. |
An Approach to Pricing of Bonds |
233 |
|
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Arnab Sarkar, N. Hemachandra, K. Suresh
Kumar |
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14. |
An Efficient Solution Methodology to
Determine Nash-Cournot. Equilibrium in Coupled Constraint
Power Markets |
260 |
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R.M. Saloman Danaraj, S.F. Kodad |
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15. |
Developing Evolutionary Robotics using Fuzzy
Logic Approach |
268 |
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M. Dev Anand, T. Selvaraj |
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16. |
Energy Allocation for Irrigation System
using Fuzzy Optimization |
286 |
|
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Chinmoy Jana |
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17. |
Evaluation of Coordination in Supply Chain:
A Fuzzy Logic Approach |
298 |
|
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Arshinder Kaur, Arun Kanda, S.G. Deshmukh |
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18. |
F-Nucleolus of Cooperative TU Games: An
Approach for Fair Allocation |
313 |
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M. V. Durga Prasad, R.M. Saloman Danaraj |
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19. |
Forecasting Foreign Exchange Movements using
Neural Networks |
321 |
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Aneesh Chinubhai, Yogesh Doshit |
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20. |
Information Sharing in a Serial Supply Chain
of Low Demand Items |
332 |
|
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Sunil Agrawal, Raghu Nandan Sengupta, Kripa
Shanker |
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21. |
Minimum ATI ChSP-4 (C1. C2) Plans |
348 |
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Akamanchi Raghottam H., C. Raju |
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xxx |
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22. |
Minimum Risks Chain Sampling Plans [ChSP-1]
- A Goal Programming Approach |
359 |
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C. Raju, Akamanchi Raghottam |
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23. |
Multi-Criteria Decision Making for the
Selection of Vendors in the Forward Supply Chain Model |
366 |
|
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G. Kannan, A. Noorul Haq, N. Ganesh Perumal,
J. Varatharajan |
|
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24. A Direct Method of Solving Linear
Programming Problems |
379 |
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A. Udhayakumar, T.R. Natesan, V. Rhymend
Uthariaraj |
|
| 25. |
A Survey of Memetic Algorithms for Optimization and their Applications |
389 |
|
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Kusum Deep, Kedar Nath Das |
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26. |
Duality in Multi-objective Fractional
Programming Problem Involving Semilocally b-Vexity and
Related Functions |
398 |
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G. Varalakshmi, P.R.S. Reddy |
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27. |
Practical Vehicle Routing
Problems-Challenges and Solution Methods |
406 |
|
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T. T. Narendran |
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28. |
Routing Strategies for Integrated Voice/Data
Traffic in Cellular Mobile Radio System |
421 |
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Madhu Jain, R.P. Ghimire, Rakhee |
|
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29. |
Sensitivity Analysis of the Control Limit
with Respect to the Cost Parameters in an M/M/1 Queue |
433 |
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Kartikeya S. Puranam, N. Hemachandra |
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30. |
An Exact Formulation and Algorithm for Two
Commodity Capacitated Network Design |
440 |
|
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Trilochan Sastry |
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31. |
Mixed Type Duality for a Variational Problem
with Strong Pseudo-invex Constraints |
465 |
|
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I. Husain, A. Ahmed |
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32. |
Duality with Strong Pseudo-Univexity for a
Class of Non-Differentiable Programming Problem |
481 |
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Rishi Rajan Sa
hay, P.C. Jha, Davinder Bhatia |
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PART III: APPLICATIONS |
|
33. |
Optimization of College Bus Routes |
497 |
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R. Suresh, S.R. Sudheendra |
|
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34. |
Performance Evaluation of Public Transport
Sector of Uttar Pradesh: An Application of DEA |
510 |
|
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Shivi Agarwal, Shiv Prasad Yadav, S.P. Singh |
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35. |
Allocation of Testing Effort using Software Reliability
Growth Model with Testing Coverage |
524 |
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P.K Kapur, P.C. Jha, Amit Gupta, A.K. Bardhan |
|
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36. |
An Efficient Meta Heuristic Approach for Scheduling a
Single Batch Processing Machine |
539 |
| |
M. Mathirajan |
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37. |
Capacitated Single Machine Scheduling with Deteriorating
Job Values |
558 |
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Sumit Raut, Sanjeev Swami, Jatinder N.D. Gupta |
|
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38. |
ML Estimation for the Availability Measure of a
Two-Component System in Presence of Chance Common Cause
Failures |
570 |
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U. Subrahmanyam, A.A Chari |
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39. |
An Improved Software Reliability Growth Model with
Multiple Failure and Imperfect Debugging |
588 |
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Subhashis Chatterjee, S. Dasgupta |
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40. |
Multi-Objective Linear Programming with Imprecise
Constraints and
Cost Parameters: A Fuzzy Programming Approach |
595 |
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M. Chakraborty, Ananya Ray . |
|
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41. |
Multilevel Control of Degraded Machining System with
Warm Standbys, Set up and Vacation |
603 |
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Madhu Jain, G.C. Sharma, Sharon Moses |
|
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42. |
On Discrete Software Reliability Growth Models |
617 |
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P.K Kapur, Amit Gupta, Ompal Singh |
|
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43. |
Optimal Acquisition Policy in Remanufacturing with
Uncertain Recovery |
635 |
| |
Sandeep Mandai, Kampan Mukherjee |
|
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44. |
Optimization of an Integrated Reliability Model for a
Parallel Series
System with Multiple Constraints |
648 |
| |
P. Sasikala, S. Pavan Kumar; C. Umashankar, Y. Vijaya
Kumar |
|
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45. |
Pattern Clustering Neural Networks |
662 |
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K. Thangavel, D. Ashok Kumar |
|
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46. |
Proportional Mean Residual Life Model in Reliability
Analysis |
682 |
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Subarna Bhattacharjee, Ashok K Nanda, S.S. Alam |
|
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47. |
Retailer's Optimal Ordering Policy of Deteriorating
Items under Trade Credit |
695 |
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Chandra K Jaggi, K.K Aggarwal, S.K Gael |
|
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48. |
The Optimal Cycle Time for EPQ Inventory Model of
Deteriorating Items under Permissible Delay in Payments |
707 |
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Chandra K Jaggi, K.K Aggarwal, S.K Gael |
|
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Author Index |
721 |
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