2015 Informs Annual Meeting

SD57

INFORMS Philadelphia – 2015

SD58 58-Room 110A, CC Funding Opportunities within CMMI Cluster: Funding Opportunities at NSF Invited Session Chair: Diwakar Gupta, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States of America, guptad@umn.edu 1 - Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research Program Diwakar Gupta, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States of America, guptad@umn.edu This talk will describe a new program for funding research in the area of service, manufacturing and operations research. 2 - NSF Research Opportunities in Engineering and Systems Design Chris Paredis, Program Director, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA, United States of America, cparedis@nsf.gov The National Science Foundation supports research in Engineering and Systems Design through a core program in the CMMI division (Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation). This presentation provides an overview of the ESD program, specifically highlighting opportunities for contributions by the Operations Research community. 3 - Funding Opportunities for Research in Smart Service Systems Alexandra Medina-borja, Program Director, National Science Foundation/ UPRM, 2507 Fowler St, Falls Church, VA, 22046, United States of America, amedinab@nsf.gov An overview of interdisciplinary funding opportunities for researchers modeling the interaction between humans and engineered systems that could enable the smart service systems of the future. Requirements and opportunities will be discussed by one of the NSF cognizant program officers fostering these initiatives, including opportunities for translational interdisciplinary research. SD59 59-Room 110B, CC Small Firms, Mobility, and Entrepreneurial Spawning Cluster: Strategy Science Invited Session Chair: Todd Zenger, todd.zenger@eccles.utah.edu 1 - A New Small Firm Effect? Ability Sorting by Firm Size among Ph.D.s in Science and Engineering Daniel Elfenbein, Associate Professor of Strategy, Washington University at St. Louis, Olin School of Business, St. Louis, MO, United States of America, elfenbein@wustl.edu 2 - Forged in the Heat of Battle: New Organizations and Small Firms as Business Incubators Tiantian Yang, Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America, ty41@duke.edu, Howard Aldrich, Frederic Delmar Organizational scholars have long been interested in the question of where do organizations come from. In this study, we revisit this central question within organization theory by establishing links between macro approaches that emphasize institutional conditions and micro approaches that stress organizational conditions. Using a unique data set that has comprehensive coverage of individual employees and employing organizations in Sweden from 1990 to 2002, we demonstrate that institutional conditions encouraging monopoly but discouraging individual entrepreneurial efforts amplify entrepreneurial spawning in small and autonomous organizations. Conditions in small and new organizations amplify peer influence on nascent entrepreneurs, whereas intra-firm job mobility in large corporations suppresses it. Results from a novel method – Ridge Regression – address unobserved heterogeneity, and provide compelling evidence for the argument that nascent entrepreneurs are forged in the heat of battle, as small and new organizations struggle to survive in an economy dominated by monopolistic corporations. We call for greater attention to the genesis of organizations through research on the interplay between organizations and their environments.

2 - Comprehensive Framework for Hazmat Network Design, Response Team Location, and Equity of Risk Rajan Batta, Suny Distinguished Professor, University at Buffalo (SUNY), 410 Bell Hall, Buffalo, United States of America, batta@buffalo.edu, Masoumeh Taslimi, Changhyun Kwon Control variables are locations of hazmat response teams and which additional links to include. Regulatory authorities (upper level) aim to minimize the maximum transport risk incurred by a transportation zone. Our measure of risk incorporates average response time. Hazmat carriers (lower level) seek to minimize travel cost. Using optimality conditions, we reformulate the non-linear bi-level model into a single-level mixed integer linear program, and propose a greedy heuristic approach. 3 - Primal and Dual Algorithms for Min-max Location with Euclidean Distance Plus Fixed Distance in R^n Lin Dearing, Professor Emeritus, Clemson University, 520 Bentbrook Lane, Clemson, SC, 29631, United States of America, pmdrn@g.clemson.edu, Akshay Gupte Primal and dual algorithms are given for one center min-max location using Euclidean distance plus fixed distance in R^n, based on a directional search method along paths that are a ray or a two-dimensional hyperbola in R^n. Search paths are derived from the intersection of bisectors of points, which may be hyperplanes or hyperboloids in R^n, and the step size is determined explicitly. The problem is equivalent to finding the minimum covering Euclidean ball of a given set of balls in R^n. 4 - Stochastic Location Models with Congestion Oded Berman, University of Toronto, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada, Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass We review facility location models where consumers generate stochastic demands, and service times are stochastic. We focus on the customer-facility interaction, developing a classification of modelsbased on the how customer demand is allocated to facilities and whether the demand is elastic or not. We use this classification to organize the variety of models considered in the literature into four thematic groups that share common assumptions and structural properties. Joint Session with all ENRE Clusters: The Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment Awards Session Sponsor: ENRE – Energy II – Other (e.g., Policy, Natural Gas, Climate Change) Sponsored Session Chair: Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts, MIE Department , 220 ELAB, Amherst, MA, United States of America, edbaker@ecs.umass.edu 1 - Best Young Researcher Award Enzo Sauma, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, esauma@ing.puc.cl The winner of the award will present a brief synopsis of the research 2 - ENRE Best Publication Award 2015 in Energy Benjamin Hobbs, Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, bhobbs@jhu.edu This award is given annually to the best refereed journal article in the area of Energy published within the three calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. 3 - ENRE Best Publication Award in Natural Resources 2015 Sandor Toth, U. of Washington, Box 352100, Seattle, WA, United States of America, toths@uw.edu This award is given annually to the best refereed journal article in the area of Natural Resources published within three calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. 4 - Brief Presentation by the Award Winner Victoria Chen, The University of Texas at Arlington, Dept. of Ind., Manuf., & Sys. Engr., Campus Box 19017, Arlington, TX, 76019, United States of America, vchen@uta.edu The winner of the Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment Award will present a brief synopsis of the research. 5 - Enre Student Travel Award Competition Sauleh Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St. Latrobe 205, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States of America, siddiqui@jhu.edu The winner of the ENRE Student Travel Award Competition will present a brief synopsis of their research. SD57 57-Room 109B, CC

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