This page is the archived site of the 37th Annual ORSNZ conference. Current conference information can be found at http://www.orsnz.org.nz/conf.

 

37th Annual ORSNZ Conference 

29 to 30 November 2002 

University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ

The University of Auckland's Department of Engineering Science is pleased to host
the 37th Annual Conference of the Operational Research Society of New Zealand.

Speaker Guidelines Presentation Program Call for Papers Registration and Fees Programme and Venue Social Programme Sponsors Logistics Contact


 

Sponsors

Many thanks to ILOG, Transpower, Charles River Associates, Orbit Systems, Hoare Research Software and Bank of New Zealand for generous support of this conference.

 

Speaker Guidelines

Check out the programme to see when you will be speaking. (Room locations will be provided shortly.) 

You will have 18 minutes for your talk, with 2 minutes for questions. (Students entering the Young Practitioner Prize (YPP) should note that this will be tightly enforced.) 

Each of our two presentation rooms will be equipped with an overhead projector, a laptop and a datashow (either 1024x768 or 800x600). The laptops will be running Powerpoint 2000 (not 2002/XP). If you wish to use the provided laptop, you should load your talk onto the laptop in the break before your presentation. There will be no network connections available.

You may find Fritz Raffensperger's excellent Powerpoint guidelines useful in preparing your talk.

Full papers & Program

A programme for the conference is now available with presentation times and links to downloadable papers. The program also contains an You may also find the author index useful for finding your paper and presentation slot.

Abstracts of (most of the) accepted papers are available here.

Guidelines for preparation of manuscripts are available for both Word and Latex. Please download the Word Guidelines Document if you want to prepare your paper using Word. For Latex users we have prepared a style file and sample document. It is in this Latex Guidelines archive, which includes some necessary style files. Please refer to the README.txt file for installation instructions.
Submission deadline: 31 October 2002
 

Registration and Fees

The conference fee includes breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon tea on 29 and 30 November, a copy of the proceedings volume and a banquet ticket. In order to register for the conference, please download the registration form, complete both sides of the form and return it by fax or post, together with your payment. Refund of paid fees is only possible by notice in writing or by email before 15 November 2002.

 Fees

ORSNZ member  NZ$ 240 (student NZ$ 65)
Non-member  NZ$ 280 (student NZ$ 80)
New member, including 2002-2003 membership  NZ$ 290 (student NZ$ 80)
Discount for registration before 15 October 2002  NZ$ 40 (student NZ$15)

 

Programme and Venue

ILOG/ORSNZ WORKSHOP Using Optimization Software in Practice, Thursday 28 November

In conjunction with the ORSNZ annual conference, the ORSNZ and ILOG are pleased to announce a one-day tutorial workshop on optimization hosted by Dr Sanjay Saigal. Dr Saigal is the vice president and general manager of ILOG Direct, with responsibility for ILOG’s direct sales channel. He holds a doctorate in mathematical sciences from Rice University in Houston, and has over 10 years industrial experience in the development and delivery of decision-support software and consulting services.

The workshop will be held in the computer laboratory of the department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland. Attendees will be expected to have had some previous exposure to optimization and Excel. The Workshop includes a hands-on introduction to OPL Studio, ILOG's modelling environment for mathematical and constraint programming.

Workshop Programme

  • Modeling approaches
  • LP/MIP - state of the art
  • Constraint programming for combinatorial search
  • Others - QP, NLP, MINLP, Stochastic, etc.
  • Products
  • Optimization engines (CPLEX, Solver, ...)
  • Modeling languages (AMPL, OPL, ...)
  • Embedding options and their trade-offs
  • Exploiting constraint programming
  • Scope and limitations
  • Role of search
  • Extensions to scheduling, dispatching and configuration
  • Commercial application development
  • Architecture
  • Data I/O
  • Visualization of large data-sets
  • Automating business logic
  • You can register for the workshop on the conference registration form, together with registration for the conference.

    Fees are NZ$ 150 for ORSNZ members, NZ$ 200 for non-mebers and NZ$ 50 for students.


    Conference Speakers

    The programme includes two plenary addresses by the following speakers:

    Sanjay Saigal, ILOG

    Decision-Support System Development Beyond Linear Programming

    Focusing primarily on developing decision-support systems (DSSs) based on traditional mathematical programming techniques - LP/MIP, for instance - has unnecessarily restricted industrial OR's scope of practice. In a sense, OR practice in the corporate sector remains a niche within a niche. We describe recent DSS trends that allow us to extend OR practice into areas hitherto deemed too complex for structured optimization (e.g., real-world supply-chain planning, configuration) or "not really OR" (e.g., policy automation). Our presentation is driven by quintessentially practical considerations - what do the consumers of OR need? What are their organizational constraints? What is the perceived value of our raison d'etre - optimality?


    Ralph E. Steuer, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

    Multiple Criteria Optimization in Portfolio Selection

    In finance there is the famous Markowitz formulation whose solution set is the efficient frontier in mean/standard deviation space. While textbook theory states that everyone has the same efficient frontier and faces the same equilibrium market portfolio, it is widely known that this is not exactly the case. People have different limits on the amount they wish to invest in a stock, on the degree they wish to engage in short selling, and on the number of securities they will tolerate in their portfolio. Commonly implemented as constraints in order to remain in 2-space, all of these limitations, as shown in the paper, have an extremely dramatic effect on the efficient frontier, to the extent that it would not make much sense to restrict the search for an improved theory of portfolio analysis. In particular, the limitations of short selling and the number of securities in a portfolio are probably more adequately modeled as criteria. Along with other concerns such as social responsibility and dividends, we are now, in the opinion of this author, most decidedly beyond mean/standard deviation space and in the realm of multiple objectives. With multiple objectives transforming the efficient frontier into an efficient surface, this paper discusses new approaches, new solution procedures, and new ways of rationalizing equilibrium in asset prices with a view toward developing a new more realistic multiple criteria based theory for portfolio selection.


    Venue

    The conference proper will be held in Architecture (building 421), in rooms ALR1 and ALR3; see this map of the city campus. Architecture is most easily accessed by going through the Conference centre at 22 Symonds St (between Wellesley St East and Grafton Rd, on the Grafton Road side).

    Breakfast, morning tea, and afternoon tea will be served in the foyer and garden area outside these rooms. Lunches will be served in the Engineering staff common room, level 12, Building 401.

    The workshop venue will be the University of Auckland School of Engineering.
    The workshop tutorials will be held in the Engineering Science computer lab, room 515, Building 404.
    Breakfast, morning and afternoon tea, and lunches will be served in the Engineering staff common room, level 12, Building 401.

    Please refer to the map of the city campus (also available in PDF format). The main entrance of the School of Engineering is at 20 Symonds St (on this Wises map).

    Note that the University has no student parking; this is a recent change. We suggest you park in the Victoria Street car park (entered by turning left at the intersection of Victoria St East and Kitchener St) or the Kitchener street car park (on the left after entering from Wellesley St East), and the walking through Albert Park to Symonds St. See this map.

     


    Transpower Young Practitioner's Prize

    The Young Practitioners competition is open to authors under 25 years of age on 1 Jan 2002. Papers must be singly authored. More details are contained on the registration form. The Prize of NZ$ 1,000, sponsored by Transpower, is to be split between the author(s) of the best paper(s), according to the judges' discretion.

    Special Session on Group Decision Making

    The session is devoted to all problems connected with group decision making (i.e. when decision is made by more than two actors) such as modeling decision making process, voting techniques, power indices in both theoretical and practical aspects (EU, UN, parliaments on national and supranational levels). Perspective speakers are kindly requested to contact the session organiser Jacek Mercik at [email protected].
     

    Social Programme

    There will be a pre-conference gathering at 7 p.m. on 28 November, at Old Government House, University of Auckland. Old Government House is located between Princes and Symonds Streets and Waterloo Quadrant, see the map of the city campus (also available in PDF format) or this Wises map.

    The conference banquet will be held on the evening of 29 November at the Copthorne Hotel, Anzac Avenue, see this Wises Map.

     

    Logistics

    Transportation

    Map of the University of Auckland City Campus
    Map of Auckland
    The School of Engineering, 20 Symonds St, is on this Wises map.

    The airport is south of the city centre and university. A taxi from the airport's taxi rank to the university costs about NZ$ 40, a shuttle bus about NZ$20. There is no need to book when catching a taxi or shuttle from the airport.


    Accommodation

    Conference participants should make arrangements for accommodation. We recommend you book as early as possible. The Luis Vuitton Cup (challenger races for the America's Cup) will be taking place at the time of the conference. This will create high demand for hotel rooms.

    The following websites might be useful for information on the range of accommodation available:
    Pure New Zealand
    Auckland Hotels
    innz travel office


    The hotels closest to the conference venue (all in easy walking distance) are
    Copthorne, Anzac Avenue,
    Hyatt, Waterloo Quadrant,
    Quest on Mount, Mount Street,
    Sheraton, Symonds Street.
    Mount Street and Waterloo Quadrant and the beginning of Anzac Avenue are on the campus map, Copthorne is just off to the right.

    We have arranged for accommodation in O’Rorke halls of residence. O'Rorke Halls is on Mount Street, see the map of the city campus (also available in PDF format). This is on a first come first serve basis and must be booked and paid by 15 October through the registration form. Cost is $59 ($38 for students) per night including breakfast.


    Things to do in Auckland

    Links: Auckland New Zealand, Lonely Planet
     

    Contact

    Post

    ORSNZ Conference
    Department of Engineering Science
    University of Auckland
    Private Bag 92019
    Auckland
    New Zealand

    Fax

    +64 9 373 7468   Attn: ORSNZ Conference

    email

    [email protected]


     

    16 August 2002, ME