- SATURDAY, April 17
- Morning : Please see the activities list for a range of activities available in Pittsburgh.
- Noon : For those here and interested, please meet us in the Lobby of the
Holiday Inn Select. We will be walking to the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
We will have lunch there and then will look at Art and Natural History Museums.
- 3:30 p.m. : Those at the Museum may choose to come with us to the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Also, a group will be leaving from the
Holiday Inn at the same time (3:30 p.m.) to walk to the Phipps Conservatory.
- 5 p.m. : We will walk back to the hotel.
- 7:00 p.m. : We will meet at the hotel restaurant, Fosters, for dinner.
- SUNDAY, April 18
- 8:30 Take shuttle to CMU Campus, Roberts Hall, Singleton Room.
Prompt 8:30 a.m. pickup. Click here for CMU campus map .
Bagels and coffee will be available when you arrive.
- 8:45 - 9:00 Welcome Speech
- 9:00 - 10:30 DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION
- 9:00 - 9:30 Talk 1: Mor Harchol-Balter -- "
Dimensionality Reduction for the analysis of Cycle Stealing, Priority Queueing, Task Assignment, and Threshold Policies (Part I)"
- 9:30 - 10:00 Talk 2: Alan Scheller-Wolf -- "
Dimensionality Reduction for the analysis of Cycle Stealing, Priority Queueing, Task Assignment, and Threshold Policies (Part II)"
- 10:00 - 10:30 Discussion related to talks 1 and 2.
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:30 MULTISERVER QUEUES & DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
- 11:00 - 11:30 Talk 3: Helen Karatza -- "Performance Analysis of Scheduling Strategies in Distributed Systems"
- 11:30 - 12:00 Talk 4: Daryl Daley -- "Classical k-server queues revisited: some problems"
- 12:00 - 12:30 Discussion related to talks 3 and 4.
- 12:30 - 1:30 LUNCH
- 1:30 - 3:00 FLUID MODELING TECHNIQUES & APPLICATIONS
- 1:30 - 2:00 Talk 5: R. Srikant -- "Fluid Modeling of BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer Networks"
- 2:00 - 2:30 Talk 6: Peter Glynn -- "Heavy-Traffic Approximations for Many-Server and Multi-Server Systems"
- 2:30 - 3:00 Discussion related to talks 5 and 6.
- 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break
- 3:30 - 5:00 RESOURCE POOLING
- 3:30 - 4:00 Talk 7: Ruth Williams -- "Dynamic Scheduling of a Parallel Server System"
- 4:00 - 4:30 Talk 8: Mark Squillante -- "Analysis of Parallel-Server Systems with Dynamic Affinity Scheduling and Load Balancing"
- 4:30 - 5:00 Discussion related to talks 7, 8, and 9.
- 5:00 Shuttle Pickup at Roberts Hall going to hotel.
- 5:00 - 6:30 FREE TIME
- 6:30 Meet at Holiday Inn Lobby -- Bus leaves at 6:30 to go to dinner at Church Brew Works . Return buses leaving Church Brew Works at 9:30 p.m..
- 9:30 - 11:00 Jazz at hotel for those interested. Pittsburgh Jazz Society.
- MONDAY -- April 19
- 8:30 Shuttle leaves from hotel to CMU Campus, Roberts Hall, Singleton Room. Bagels and coffee will be available when you arrive.
- 9:00 - 10:30 SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS
- 9:00 - 9:30 Talk 9: Balaji Prabhakar -- "SIFT: a randomized algorithm for determining large flows in the Internet"
- 9:30 - 10:00 Talk 10: John Lehoczky -- "Heavy Traffic Limit Theorems for Real-Time Computer Systems"
- 10:00 - 10:30 Talk 11: Ed Coffman -- "Combinatorial Service Disciplines in the Multi-Server Queue"
- 10:30 - 11:00 Discussion related to talks 9, 10 and 11.
- 11:15 - 12:15 Tour of CMU Campus
- 12:15 - 1:30 LUNCH
- 1:30 - 3:00 SCHEDULING WEB & NETWORKS
- 1:30 - 2:00 Talk 12: Carey Williamson -- "Simulation Evaluation of Hybrid SRPT Policies"
- 2:00 - 2:30 Talk 13: Ernst Biersack -- "Modeling of LAS-based scheduling polices in packet switched networks"
- 2:30 - 3:00 Discussion related to talks 12 and 13.
- 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break.
- 3:30 - 5:00 CALL CENTER DESIGN
- 3:30 - 4:00 Talk 14: Bill Massey -- "An Optimal Design of the M/M/C/K Queue for Call Centers"
- 4:00 - 4:30 Talk 15: Ward Whitt -- "Resource Pooling and Staffing in Call Centers with Skill-Based Routing"
- 4:30 - 5:00 Discussion related to talks 14 and 15.
- 5:00 - 5:30 Wrap up discussion and plans for next workshop!
- 5:30 Bus leaves from campus to Holiday Inn.
- 6:00 Bus leaves from Hoiday Inn to dinner at Mor's House for those staying for the night.
- 9:30 Bus returning from dinner to Holiday Inn.
- TUESDAY -- April 20