Fwd: RE: Workshop in Operations Management

[Margaret Jaffey]

This is a talk announcement from Prof. Schrage of the Graduate School 
of Business.  It may be of interest to some of you.

Margaret Jaffey
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>       Speaker: Andrew Ross
>  Organization:  UC Berkeley
>         Title: A Two-Provider Cost Model
>          Date: 1 March 2001,  Thursday
>          Time: 11:00 AM
>         Place: Stuart 216
>
>Abstract:
>   We present a cost model for taking Internet dial-up traffic that varies
>by time-of-day, and splitting it between two large modem banks,  one of
>which charges by the hour,  the other charges for the peak.  To study if
>the possible savings are enough to make the effort worthwhile,  we
>formulate a clairvoyant("perfect information") Integer Program that is
>equivalent to a network flow problem.  This leads us to use a ceiling
>policy.  In the stochastic case,  we use a Normal approximation to explore
>the properties of the system.
>
>
>  Paper available in Stuart 202c.

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