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CFP: 11TH INFORMS APPLIED PROBABILITY SOCIETY CONFERENCE , New York City , Julyt 25 - 27, 2001



        	  11TH INFORMS APPLIED PROBABILITY SOCIETY CONFERENCE

	    Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City

           	JULY 25 - July 27, 2001

NEWS!!
People residing outside of the USA who register for this conference will
received a FREE one-year membership to the
Applied Probability Society of INFORMS: http://www.ie.psu.edu/aps/



The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS)
Applied Probability Society (APS) will hold its eleventh conference in
New York City at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on July 25 - July 27, 2001 
(Wednesday-Friday).

The conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Applied probability 
(CAP) at Columbia University
(http://www.cap.columbia.edu), AT&T Bell Labs and IBM Research.



PRE-REGISTRATION, HOTEL INFORMATION and SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS AND 
ABSTRACTS is ONLINE at:

http://www.conference.com/informsApplied/
(this link, if under construction, will be up and running soon)


Conference WEB Site (containing updated information about the
conference):
http://www.cap.columbia.edu/informs-aps/ap-2001.html



TOPIC AREAS

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

*       Markov Processes
*       Point Processes
*       Particle Systems
*       Stochastic Comparison
*       Stochastic Control
*       Discrete Event Systems
*       Markov Decision Processes
*       Queueing Networks
*       Stochastic Petri Networks
*       Large Deviations
*       Financial Engineering
*       E-Commerce
*       Probabilistic Models in Biology
*       Modeling of Telecommunication Systems
*       Modeling of Manufacturing Systems
*       Modeling of Computer Systems
*       Modeling of Transportation Systems
*       Stochastic Simulation
*       Perturbation Analysis
*       Probabilistic Combinatorial Optimization
*       Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms
*       Stochastic Scheduling
*       Reliability, Risk and Survival Analysis
*       Information Theory


PLENARY SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Ward Whitt (AT&T Labs-Research)

John Hull (U. Toronto, Canada. Director, Bonham Centre for Finance),
author of "Options, Futures and other Derivatives".

GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Two kinds of submissions will be accepted:

1.  proposals for organized sessions;
2.  proposals for single papers.

A proposal for an organized session should include one-page abstracts
for all
presentations (20 minutes each).  A proposal for a paper should 
include a one-page abstract.

(ONE PRESENTATION PER AUTHOR.)
All submissions will be reviewed by a program committee.  The authors
will
be notified of the program committee's decision by February 15, 2001.


DEADLINES FOR ABSTRACTS:

November 15, 2000,  Submission of organized session title, list
		   of participants and title of presentations.

December 15, 2000   Submission of abstract(s) for single papers and
		   organized sessions.

February 15, 2001, Acceptance notification


The session proposals and abstracts should be submitted online
(this link, if under construction, will be up and running soon):
http://www.conference.com/informsApplied/




Questions should be directed to:

Karl Sigman, Chair of the Conference <sigman@ieor.columbia.edu>
and cc'd to <beng@ieor.columbia.edu> (CAP Administrative Assistant)
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Karl Sigman
Professor and
Secretary of the Center for Applied Probability (CAP)
Columbia University
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
S.W. Mudd Building
500 West 120th Street, MC: 4704
New York, NY 10027

Phone: (212) 854-3556
FAX: (212) 854-8103

Email: sigman@ieor.columbia.edu
URL:   http://www.ieor.columbia.edu/~sigman
CAP URL: http://www.cap.columbia.edu
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To members of COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic simulation, 
and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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