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UofA CORS Prep Workshop
We warmly invite you to the CORS Prep Workshop, organized by the AI Centre for Decision Analytics (AI4DA) at the University of Alberta’s School of Business. Scheduled for May 29, 2024, this workshop is a prelude to the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) annual conference, offering a stage for our researchers to present their latest work.
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Date: May 29, 2024
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Location: BUS 4-06
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Time: 9:25 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
UofA CORS Prep Workshop — Schedule
| Time | Session | Speaker | Talk |
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9:25am – 9:30am |
Opening remarks |
Borzou Rostami |
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9:30am – 10:00am |
Session 1 Talk 1 |
Mehrnaz Behrooz |
Retirement decision-making: When is the right time? |
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10:00am – 10:30am |
Session 1 Talk 2 |
Yasser Zeinali |
Predicting Demand for Wildfire Suppression Resources |
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10:30am – 11:00am |
Session 1 Talk 3 |
Fahimeh Rahimi |
Robust and Distributinally Robust Binary Quadratic Programming |
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11:00am – 11:15am |
Coffee Break |
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11:15am – 11:45am |
Session 2 Talk 1 |
Amin Aslani |
Augmented Reality Investment and Assortment Planning in Omnichannel Retail Systems |
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11:45am – 12:15pm |
Session 2 Talk 2 |
Erfan Rafiekia |
Strategic Dual Pricing for Delivery Services: Broadening Reach in Discounted Food Platforms |
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12:15pm – 1:15pm |
Lunch break (Lunch will be provided) |
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1:15pm – 1:45pm |
Session 3 Talk 1 |
Arash Asgari |
Formulation and validation of a model of a call centre with stochastic agent availability |
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1:45pm – 2:15pm |
Session 3 Talk 2 |
Mehrnaz Behrooz |
Last-mile delivery with lockers and local crowd-shippers: The Study of TELUS Data for Good |
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2:15pm – 2:45pm |
Session 3 Talk 3 |
Khanh Phuong Nguyen |
Selection of Helicopter Bases and Transport Modes to Minimize Pre-hospital Times in Iceland |
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2:45pm – 3:00pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:00pm – 3:30pm |
Session 4 Talk 1 |
Saleh Farham |
Vehicle-Based Hub Network Design with Routing: Exact and Learning-based Approximation |
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3:30pm – 4:00pm |
Session 4 Talk 2 |
Fahimeh Rahimi |
Hub Network Design under Demand Uncertainty |
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4:00pm – 4:30pm |
Session 4 Talk 3 |
Likang Ding |
Causal Analysis for Queues Informed by Queuing Models |