2002-2003 Program: Optimization

with partial support by Honeywell and EPRI.

Organizers:

S. Massoud Amin
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
mamin@epri.com
http://rodin.wustl.edu/~massoud/amin.html

George Cybenko
Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor
Dartmouth College
gvc@dartmouth.edu
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gvc

Rudolf Kulhavy
Honeywell Laboratories
Automation & Control Solutions
Data-Centric Technology Group
rudolf.kulhavy@honeywell.com
http://www.htc.honeywell.cz/personalpages/kulhavy/

Tariq Samad
Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions
tariq.samad@honeywell.com
http://www.htc.honeywell.com/people/tariq_samad

 

A transformation is underway in how technologists design, build, and operate the increasingly complex, large-scale, and distributed systems that are becoming the objects of our engineering undertakings. Instead of relying primarily on our knowledge of immutable scientific laws, we must now supplement-and in some cases even supplant-this knowledge with information extracted from empirical data. This data-centric turn has been accelerated by progress in sensor and data storage technologies. It has resulted in the establishment of new disciplines-data mining and knowledge discovery from data-and in renewed interest in areas such as machine learning, statistical estimation, and system identification.

A number of application domains are already reaping the benefits of this new paradigm, from direct marketing to financial forecasting. Successful broad-based applications in some other domains, however, still require research challenges to be overcome. In particular, intricacies associated with dynamics, feedback, and physicality must be resolved before we can move beyond data-centric forecasting and prediction in non-real-time domains and toward data-driven control and optimization of complex engineering systems.

Meeting these challenges requires a multidisciplinary effort, which this workshop hopes to promote. We will bring together experts in relevant areas of control and optimization with experts in statistics, learning theory, and databases. In addition, applied researchers who can articulate the present and future automation needs in economically important industries that are expected to be some of the primary beneficiaries of data-driven control and optimization will also participate. Notable among these industry sectors are electric power, process automation, and communication networks.

"HOT TOPICS" WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:30-9:15 am	Coffee and Registration	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:15-9:30 am	Douglas N. Arnold, Scot Adams, and Organizers	Welcome and Introduction
9:30-10:20 am	Steve Smale University of California, Berkeley	Fast Algorithms for Dealing with Data and Understanding Them
10:20-10:30 am	Discussion
10:30-11:00 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00-11:50 am	Arthur Kordon Research Leader, Corporate R&D, The Dow Chemical Company	Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Data-Driven Monitoring Slides:    pdf
11:50 am-12:00 pm	Discussion
12:00-1:30 pm	Lunch Break
1:30-2:20 pm	Steffen L. Lauritzen Aalborg University	LIMIDs - Representing and Solving Decision Problems with Limited Information Slides:   pdf
2:20-2:30 pm	Discussion
2:30-2:40 pm	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
2:40-3:30 pm	Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro KDnuggets	Knowledge Discovery in Microarray Gene Expression Data Slides:   html    pdf    ppt
3:30-3:40 pm	Discussion
3:40- pm	IMA Tea/Poster Session, IMA East, 400 Lind Hall Maria Prandini University of Brescia, Italy Cautious Hierarchical Switching Control of Stochastic Linear Systems
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
9:00-9:30 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30-10:20 am	Joe H. Chow Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Optimization and Risk Management in Open-Access Electric Energy Markets Slides:   pdf
10:20-10:30 am	Discussion
10:30-10:40 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:40-11:30 am	Bruce F. Wollenberg University of Minnesota	Solving the ISO "Seams" Problem for Uniform Boundary LMP's Slides:   pdf
11:30-11:40 am	Discussion
11:40-12:40 pm	Lunch Break
12:40-1:10 pm	Jay H. Lee Georgia Institute of Technology	Simulation Based Approximation of Value Function for Process Control Slides:   pdf
1:10-1:20 pm	Discussion
1:20-1:50 pm	S. Massoud Amin Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)	Impact of Data-based Modeling on Electricity Infrastructure Operations and Security Applications Slides:   pdf
1:50-2:00 pm	Discussion
2:00-2:10 pm	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
2:10-2:40 pm	Rudolf Kulhavy Honeywell ACS Advanced Technology	Data-driven Decision-making: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Slides:   html    pdf     pps
2:40-2:50 pm	Discussion
2:50-3:20 p m	George Cybenko Dartmouth College	Dynamic Dynamical Systems Slides:   html    pdf   ppt
3:20-3:30 pm	Discussion
3:30-4:00 pm	Joao P. Hespanha University of California, Santa Barbara	Complexity Issues in Probabilistic Mapping Slides:   pdf
4:00-4:10 pm	Discussion
4:10-4:20 pm	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
4:20-5:00 pm	PANEL DISCUSSION: S. Massoud Amin (Moderator)    Slides:    pdf Academic/Industry Collaboration on Data-Centric Methods and Applications Speakers: Tariq Samad Vladimir Cherkassky Arthur Kordon George Cybenko Rudolf Kulhavy
6:30 pm	Workshop Dinner	Gardens of Salonica 19 5th St NE, Minneapolis
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
NOTE THE ABBREVIATED SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY; FIRST TALK AT 9:10
9:00-9:20 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:20-9:35 am	Susan A. Murphy University of Michigan	Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Chronic, Relapsing Disorders
9:35-10:35 am	Daniel E. Rivera Arizona State University	Model-on-Demand Estimation for Improved Identification and Control of Process Systems Slides:   pdf
10:35-10:55 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:55-11:30	Tariq Samad Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions	High-Confidence Control: Ensuring Reliability in High-Performance Real-Time Systems Slides:    html    pdf    ppt
11:30-12 noon	Organizers Concluding Remarks Tariq Samad Concluding Remarks Slides:    html    pdf    ppt

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

As of 12/6/2002

Name	Department	Affiliation
Scot Adams	IMA	University of Minnesota
Montaz Ali	Computational And Applied Mathematics	Witwatersrand University
Mohammad A. Alsaffar	Electrical & Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota
Massoud Amin		EPRI
Douglas N. Arnold	IMA	University of Minnesota
Donald Aronson	IMA	University of Minnesota
Indrias G. Berhane	Statistics	University of Kentucky
Olga Brezhneva	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Marina Brockway		Guidant
Singdhansu Chatterjee	Statistics	University of MInnesota
Vladimir Cherkassky	Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota
Joe Chow	Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering	RPI
Collette Coullard	Industrial Eng. & Mgmt. Sciences	Northwestern University
George Cybenko	Thayer Engineering	Dartmouth College
Dibyendu Das	Electrical & Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota
Vladimir Eletsky
Lisa Evans	IMA	University of Minnesota
Krishna Gade	Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Charles Geyer	Statistics	University of Minnesota
Balaji Gopalakrishnan	Institute for Mathematics and its Application	University of Minnesota
Sr. Steve Harp		Honeywell Labs
Joao Pedro Hespanha	Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of California-Santa Barbara
Lili Ju		Minneapolis VA Medical Center
Herve Kerivin	IMA	University of Minnesota
D. Arthur Kordon		Dow Chemical Company
Rudolf Kulhavy		Honeywell
Steffen Lilholt Lauritzen	Mathematical Sciences	Aalborg University
Jay Lee	Chemical Engineering	Georgia Institute of Technology
Sunil Menon	ES&S	Honeywell Labs
Susan Murphy	Statistics	University of Michigan
Dave Musicant	Mathematics and Computer Science	Carleton College
Richard Nau	Mathematics & Computer Science	Carleton College
Peh Ng	IMA	University of Minnesota
M. Yvonne Ou	University of Minnesota	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Samuel Patterson	Mathematics and Computer Science	Carleton College
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro		KDnuggets
Maria Prandini	Electronics for Automation	University of Brescia - Italy
Maurice Queyranne	Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration	University of British Columbia
Daniel Rivera	Chemical and Materials Engineering	Arizona State University
Tariq Samad		Honeywell, Inc.
Fadil Santosa	IMA	University of Minnesota
M. Nuri Sendil	Industrial Eng. & Mgmt. Sciences	Northwestern University
Sashirekha Shanmugavelu	Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota
Steve Smale	Mathematics	University of California-Berkeley
Tamon Stephen	IMA	University of Minnesota
Xijian Sun	Electrical Engineering	University of Minnesota
Yun Ju Sung	Statistics	University of Minnesota
Jing Wang	Institute for Mathematics and its Application	University of Minnesota
Bruce Wollenberg	Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota