ORS 2012

CONFERENCE THEME

Originally used by military planners during World War II, Operations Research and Statistics is now widely used in private and government sectors, business, industry and society today. Used to improve decision-making and efficiency, Operations Research and Statistics is the scientific approach to analyzing problems and making decisions.

Researchers faced with new problems must determine the most effective techniques, given the nature of the system, constraints (time and physical) and improvement. The goal of the Annual International Conference on Operations Research and Statistics is to provide a platform and opportunity for academics, researchers and professionals and industry experts to share their knowledge.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Decision analysis •	Environment, energy, and natural resources •	Financial engineering • Manufacturing, service sciences, and supply chain management •	Policy modeling and public sector work •	Revenue management •	Simulation •	Stochastic models •	Transportation •	Assignment problem •	Decision Analysis •	Dynamic programming •	Linear programming •	Inventory theory •	Optimal Maintenance •	Optimization •	Real options analysis •	Stochastic processes •	Systems analysis •	Systems thinking •	Statistical Mechanics •	Medical Statistics •	Queuing Theory & Stock Control •	Mathematical Statistics •	Medical Statistics •	Non-Parametric Statistics •	Operations Research

•	Probability •	Experimental Design •	Time Series Analysis and Forecasting •	Mathematical Foundations of Internet Security • Numerical Solution of Elliptic Differential Equations •	Complex Function Theory •	Calculus of Variations •	Probability •	Regression Analysis •	Wavelets and Data Compression Actuarial Science •	Agricultural Statistics •	Applied Statistics •	Bayesian Statistics •	Biostatistics •	Business Statistics •	Computational Statistics •	Computer Simulations •	Demographic Statistics •	Econometrics •	Educational Statistics •	Environmental Statistics •	Epidemiology Industrial Statistics •	Management Science •	Psychometrics •	Quantitative Methods •	Risk Analysis •	Statistical Modeling

GENERAL CHAIR

Prof. the Hon. Dr. Stephen Martin Member, Board of Governors, Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF) Former Speaker Parliament of Australia Former Deputy Vice Chancellor (Strategy and Planning) Curtin University of Technology Former Pro Vice Chancellor International, Victoria University

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Prof. C. B. Gupta Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

CO-EDITOR

Dr. Malay Banerjee Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Prof. Ernesto Estrada Chair in Complexity Sciences Department of Mathematics & Statistics Department of Physics Institute of Complex Systems, Strathclyde University of Strathclyde Glasgow, United Kingdom Prof. Alain Kornhauser Princeton University, USA

Prof. Brian Dangerfield University of Salford, United Kingdom

Prof. Joerg Fliege University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Prof. Prabhat Mahanti University of New Brunswick, Canada

Prof. Susan H. Xu Pennsylvania State University, USA

Prof. Selwyn Piramuthu University of Florida, USA

Assoc. Prof. Jun Ni University of Iowa, USA

Assoc. Prof. Nalan Gulpinar University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom

Assoc. Prof. Sanming Zhou University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Gareth William Peters School of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

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