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Monday, February 8, 2010 - Beer Sheva, Israel
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8.00-9.30 |
Registration | ||
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9.30-10.00 |
Welcome Addresses and Introductory Remarks | ||
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10.00-10.50 |
Opening Session 1 Chair: Ilia Frenkel
Speaker: N. Balakrishnan
Signatures of Systems and Properties  | ||
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10.50-11.20 |
Coffee Break | ||
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11.20-13.00 |
Opening Session 2 Chair: Eugene Kopytov
Speaker: Min Xie
Modeling and Analysis of Software Reliability
 Speaker: Yigal Gerchak
Pooling in Inventory and Service Systems | ||
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13.00-14.30 |
Lunch | ||
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14.30-15.20 |
Plenary Session 1.1
Chair: Vladimir Rykov
Speaker:
Kishor Trivedi
(with Dong Seong Kim)
Availability
Modeling
in Practice |
Plenary Session 1.2
Chair: Alex Karagrigoriou
Speaker:
Filia Vonta
(with Catherine Huber and Valentin Solev)
Inference for
Interval
Censored
and Truncated
Data |
Plenary Session 1.3
Chair: Irina Yatskiv
Speaker:
Ron Kenett
Quality, Risk and
Operations
Management:
The
Integration |
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15.20-16.00 |
Coffee Break | ||
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16.00-17.30 |
Session 1.1, M152-154
Complex Technical Systems Reliability
Chair: Franciszek Grabski Vladimir Rykov On the Reliability Analysis of Complex Hierarchical
Systems
Franciszek Grabski Semi-Markov Reliability Model of the Renewal Cold
Standby System
Oleg Abramov Parallel Algorithms for Reliability Computation and
Optimization
Gurami Tsitsiashvili Phase Transition in Renewal Systems with Common
Reserve
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16.00-17.30 |
Session 1.2, S200 Survival Analysis
Chairs: Winfried Stute, Hannelore Liero Winfried Stute The Statistical Analysis of Consecutive Survival Data
under Serial Dependence
Carla Moreira, Jacobo de Una-Alvarez A Semiparametric Model for Doubly Truncated Data Hannelore Liero Estimation and Testing in Nonparametric Regression Models
for Survival Data
Arusharka Sen Testing for Positive Cure-Rate Under Random and Case-1
Interval Censoring
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16.00-17.30 |
Session 1.3, S201
Practical RAMS: Examples from the Israel Defense Forces
Chair: Olga Gelfenstein Olga Gelfenstein Practical System Safety Analysis Ilya Levin PFI (Private Financial Initiative) of Communication Systems:
Comparison between Army Maintenance Vs. Industry
Maintenance
A. Laufer, Optimization of Spare Parts Allocation by Hybrid Monte
Carlo/Analytic Approach
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16.00-17.30 |
Session 1.4, S202
General Problems in Biostatistics
Chair: Filia Vonta Eric Slud
Mathewos DeMissie
Bias of Meta-Regression Analysis versus Pooled Analysis via
Mixed Effect Generalized Linear Model
Victor Panaretos, David Kraus, John Maddocks Second-order Comparison of Random Curves with Application
to DNA minicircles
Christos Kitsos Non-Linear Modeling for Ca Bioassays Laurence Freedman, Natasha Tasevska, Victor Kipnis, Arthur Schatzkin, Nancy Potischman Statistical Problems in Assessing Nutrition and its Relation
to Health
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16.00-17.30 |
Session 1.5, S203
Statistical Models for Risk Assessment in Medicine
Chair: Radim Briš
Pavel Praks, Lubomír Martínek, Radim Briš Exact Confidence Limits for Mortality Probabilities of Open
and Laparoscopic Surgeries
Radim Briš, Lubomír Martínek, Pavel Praks, Pavlína Kuráňová The Use of Censored Medical Survival Data to Evaluate
Efficiency of Different Surgery Techniques
Pavel Jahoda, Lubomír Martínek, Radim Briš Laparoscopic versus open surgery
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16.00-17.30 |
Session 1.6, S209 Transport Systems
Chair: Eugene Kopytov
Stanislav Grishin, Eugene Kopytov, Oleg Schiptsov
Investigation of the Interrelated Tasks of Estimating
Transport Influence on the Urban Ecology
Irina Yatskiv, Vaira Gromule, Nadezda Kolmakova Estimation of Weights for the Indicator of Quality
of Service
Eugene Kopytov, Natalia Petukhova Application of Temporal Databases in Modeling
of Railway Processes
Ke Wan, Alain Kornhauser Scenario-based path travel time aggregation with
Gaussian copula estimated through Lasso
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16.00-17.30 |
Session 1.7, S121
Semi-Markov Models and Applications
Chair: Vlad Stefan Barbu Vlad Stefan Barbu, Nikolaos Limnios Some Algebraic Methods in Semi-Markov Processes Fulvio Gismondi, Jacques Jannsen, Raimondo Manca The Claim Reserve as a Company Insurance Reliability
Function
Guglielmo D’Amico, Giuseppe Di Biase, Jacques Janssen,
Raimondo Manca
Semi-Markov Reliability Credit Risk Models
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18.00-20.00 |
Welcome Reception | ||