The International Symposium on STOCHASTIC MODELS in RELIABILITY ENGINEERING, LIFE SCIENCES and OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
 

           
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - Beer Sheva, Israel
                         

9.00-9.50

Plenary Session  2.1

 

Chair: Ilia Frenkel               

 

Speaker: 

Anatoly Lisnianski

   Recent Advances
   in Multi-state and 
   Continuous-state
   System
   Reliability    

Plenary Session  2.2

 

Chair: Yuriy  Kutlakhmedov

 

Speaker:

Vitaly Koltover

   Reliability of 
   Technosystems
   and Biosystems:
   From Analogy to
   Real
   Knowledge   

Plenary Session  2.3

 

Chair: Raimondo Manca

 

Speaker:

Dmitrii Silvestrov

   Nonlinearly 
   Perturbed
   Processes and 
   Systems   

 

9.50-10.20

Coffee  Break

10.20-11.50

Session 3.1, M152

Multi-state and Continuous State Systems Reliability 1

Chair: Anatoly Lisnianski

 

Shay Goldner, Anatoly Lisnianski

   Markov Model for Generating Units Dispatch

 

Ilia Frenkel, Lev Khvatskin

   Reliability Measures Calculation of Supermarket Refrigeration
   System

 

Christoph Riethmueller

   Maintenance Policies for Multi-state Systems

                    

10.20-11.50

Session 3.2, M154

Complex Technical Systems Reliability 2

Chair: Stanisław Radkowski

 

Stanisław Radkowski

   Vibroacoustic Diagnostic and Bayesian Updating Based Remaining
   Useful Life Prediction for Power Unit System

 

Pavel Grabov, Itai Negrin

   Availability Analysis and Monitoring Using Data Mining from On-Line

   Information Systems

 

Milan Holicky, Miroslav Sykora

   Stochastic Models in Structural Reliability

 

Yuan Fuqing, Uday Kumar,Claudio Rocco, Krishna  Misra

   Approximating System Reliability Using Information Derived from
  Support Vector Machine Models
 

10.20-11.50

Session 3.3, S200

Stochastic Models for Classifications Problems

Chair: Zeev Volkovich

 

Andrew  Rukhin

   Estimation in Heterogeneous Growth Models

 

Zeev Volkovich, Zeev Barzily, Dvora Toledano-Kitay,  Renata Avros

   Probability Metrics Standpoint on the Cluster Stability
   Problem

 

Henning Läuter, Ayad Ramadan

   Statistical Scaling of Categorical Data

 

Susmita Datta

   Predicting Survival from High Dimensional Data
 

10.20-11.50

Session 3.4, S201

Reliability of Biological Systems

Chair: Vitaly  Koltover

 

Yuriy Kutlakhmedov, Anastasiya  Salivon, Svetlana Phelovskya,

Victor Rodyna, Irina Matveeva, Valentina Petrusenko

   Theory of Reliability in Radiation Ecology

 

Vitaly Koltover

   Reliability in Nano-Engineering: Nuclear Spin of Magnesium-25
   as Reliability Factor in Biomolecular Nanoreactors

 

Paolo Rocchi

   A Contribution to the Interpretation of the Late-Life
   Mortality Deceleration

 

Dmitro  Grodzinsky

   Reliability Systems in Plants as a Basis for Evolution
 

10.20-11.50

Session 3.5, S202

Stochastic Modeling in Finance and Insurance 1

Chair: Dmitrii Silvestrov

 

Dmitrii Silvestrov, Evelina Silvestrova, Raimondo Manca

   Stochastically Ordered Models for Credit Rating Dynamics

 

Erland Ekheden, Ola Hössjer

   Pricing of Catastrophe Cover in Life Reinsurance

 

Oskar Schyberg, Anatoliy Malyarenko, Dmitrii Silvestrov,

   Monte Carlo Based Software for Analysis of Reinsurance
   Processes

 

Ying Ni

   Nonlinearly Perturbed Renewal Equation with Perturbations of a

   Non-polynomial Type
 

10.20-11.50

Session 3.6, S203

Stochastic Models in Network Project Management

Chair: Dimitri Golenko-Ginzburg

 

Vladimir Burkov, Irina Burkova

   Network Programming Method in Nonlinear Optimization
   Problem

 

Doron Greenberg, Avner Ben-Yair

   Upon Using Beta - Distribution in Project Management

 

Doron Greenberg, Dimitri Golenko-Ginzburg 

   Controlling   Network   Projects   via   Aggregation

 

Dimitri Golenko-Ginzburg, Zohar Laslo

   Upon Controlling Several Building Projects
 

11.50-13.30

Lunch

13.30-15.00

Session 4.1, M152

Multi-state and Continuous State Systems Reliability 2

Chair: Somnath Datta
               

Somnath Datta

   Nonparametric Inference in Multistate Models with Interval
   Censored Data

           

Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez, Ana Paula Amorim

   Presmoothed Estimation for Multi-State Survival Data

                                    

Roi Schvartz, Anatoly Lisnianski

   Markov Model of Generation Unit for Short Term Capacity
   Obligations

                                          

13.30-15.00

Session 4.2, M154

Tests Related to Reliability Theory 1

Chair: Alex Karagrigoriou

 

Yefim  Michlin,  Lilach Levin - David, Dov Ingman

   Sequential Test for Reliability under Allowance for Target
   Uncertainty

 

Ioannis  Koutrouvelis, Alex Karagrigoriou

   Tests of Fit for the Inverse Gaussian Distribution

 

Gerd Christoph

   On Accuracy of Approximation of Transformed Chi-Squared
   Distributions by the Normal Law

 

Yefim Michlin,  Ofer Shaham

   Design of Acceptance Binomial Tests by Average Sample
   Number Parameter
 

13.30-15.00

Session 4.3, S200

Environmental Health: Research Methods and Decision Making

Chair: Michael Gdalevich

 

Michael Gdalevich,  Esti Nissan, Levana Kordova-Biezuner,

Itamar Grotto, Shimon Scharf,  Michael Huerta

   Measuring the Acute Health Effects of Dust Storms: a Matched
   Analysis

 

Michael Gdalevich, David  Broday, Yuval, Shimon Scharf,

Haim Bibi, Michael Huerta

   Air Pollution and Community Health: Acute Cardio-Respiratory Events
  Attributable to SO2 and NO2 Exposure

 

Itamar Grotto, Nadav Davidovitch
   Environment and Health: Health Impact Assessment as a
   Planning Tool
 

13.30-15.00

Session 4.4, S201

Stochastic processes in mathematical genetics

Chair: Paolo Rocchi

 

Amandine Veber, Alison Etheridge

   Spatial Lambda-Fleming-Viot process: Genealogies in the
   Presence of Recombination
               

Bjarki Eldon

   Gene Genealogies and Large Offspring Numbers
                                       

Fabian Freund, Martin Möhle

   On the Number of Allelic Types for Samples Taken
   from Exchangeable Coalescents with Mutation and its
   Asymptotics

 

Svetlana Margulis, Valery Kirzhner, Avraham Korol

   Compositional Heterogeneity of Vertebrate Genomes

 

 

13.30-15.00

Session 4.5, S202

Stochastic Modeling in Finance and Insurance 2

Chair: Ilya Molchanov

 

Ilya Molchanov, Michael Schmutz

   Symmetry Properties of Multivariate Distributions in View of Financial

   Applications

 

Guglielmo D’Amico,  Montserrat Guillen, Raimondo Manca

   Initial and Final Backward Non-Homogeneous Semi-Markov
   Processes for Disability Insurance Models

 

Fima Klebaner, Robert Liptser

   Ruin Analysis in the Constant Elasticity of Variance Model

 

Shakir Formanov, Abdujabar Rasulov, Gulnora Raimova,

   Application Monte Carlo Methods for the Pricing Weather
   Derivatives
 

13.30-15.00

Session 4.6, S203
Stochastic Models in Operations Management and DEA
Chair: Dimitris K. Despotis

 

Zilla Sinuany-Stern, Lea Friedman, Yossi Hadad, Dov Chernichovsky, Amit Shelef, Ilana Grau

   Returns to Scale in Hospitals' Efficiency

 

Dimitris Despotis, Yiannis G. Smirlis

   Handling Extreme Observations in Data Envelopment
   Analysis

 

Zohar Laslo, Gregory Gurevich, Baruch Keren

   Operating Global Production under Uncertainty

 

Yuval Cohen, Baruch Keren

   New Modeling Framework for Project Risk Analysis with
   Uncertain Durations and Stochastic Risks
 
  

15.00-15.30

Coffee  Break

15.30-17.00

Session 5.1, M152

Repair and Maintenance Models

Chair: Waltraud Kahle

 

Michael Ben Chaim, Moshe Brand, Tamir Ilan

   Method of Preventive Repair Modes of Vehicles Elements

 

Waltraud Kahle

   Optimal General Repair of Systems with Discrete Lifetimes

                      

Rui Peng, Min Xie, Szu Hui Ng, Gregory Levitin

   Optimal Replacement and Protection Strategy for Parallel
   Systems
               

Mangey Ram, S. B. Singh

   Availability, MTTF and Cost Analysis of Complex System under

   Preemptive-repeat Repair Discipline using Gumbel-Hougaard Family
   Copula

                                   

 

15.30-17.00

Session 5.2, M154

Tests Related to Reliability Theory 2

Chair: Chien-Yu Peng

 

Israel Gershman , Avshalom Hava , Joseph  Bernstein

   Resistance Increase as Criteria of Solder Joint Life Expectancy

 

Yefim  Kovarsky

   Using Special Test Methods to Reduce the Development Stage
   of Mobile Antennas

 

Amos  Gera

   An Efficient Start-Up Demonstration Test

 

Chien-Yu Peng, Sheng-Tsaing Tseng

   Progressive-Stress Accelerated Degradation Test for Highly-Reliable
   Products
 

 

Session 5.3, S200

Non/Semiparametric Likelihood Methods, Bio-statistical Applications

Chair: Gregory Gurevich

 

Malka Gorfine

   Case-Control Survival Analysis with a General Semiparametric
   Shared Frailty Model - a Pseudo Full Likelihood Approach

 

Micha Mandel

   Nonparametric Estimation under Biased Sampling with Application to 
   Hospital Data

 

Albert Vexler,  Gregory Gurevich

   Entropy Based Empirical Likelihood Ratios for Goodness-of-Fit
   Testing

 

Gregory Gurevich, Albert Vexler

   Entropy Based Two-Sample Empirical Likelihood Ratio Tests

 

15.30-17.00

Session 5.4, S201

Accidents Risk Models

Chair: Zbigniew Smalko

 

Boriss Misnevs,  Alla Melikyan

   Stochastic Model Assessing the Impact of Weather Conditions
   on Accidents Risk at Railway

 

Michael Ben Chaim, Moshe Brand, Boris Arav, Shlomo Yanetz

   Stochastic Estimate of the Collision Avoidance Probability

 

Zbigniew Smalko, Maciej Woropay, Stanisław Radkowsky

   Transport Systems Risk Assessment Uncertainty                               
                                             

15.30-17.00

Session 5.5, S202

Actuarial Sciences  and Risk Management

Chair: Zinoviy Landsman

 

Zinoviy Landsman

   On the Tail Mean-Variance Optimal Portfolio
  Selection

 

Yaser Awad, Shaul Bar-Lev, Udi Makov

   Extensions of the Lee-Carter Model for Mortality
   Projections

 

Esther Frostig

   Asymptotic Analysis of the Time to Ruin for a Risk Model with
   Dividend Barrier

 

Rami Yosef

   Floor Options on Structured Products and Life Insurance
   Contracts
 

15.30-17.00

Session 5.6, S203

Measuring Insurance Risks

Chair: Ričardas Zitikis

 

Assaf Mizan
   Solvency 2 Accord: Theory and Applications in Israel

 

Edward Furman, Ričardas Zitikis

   Weighted Pricing Functionals: A New Method and Its Manifold
   Implications (Part 1) 
                

Edward Furman, Ričardas Zitikis

   Weighted Pricing Functionals: A New Method and Its Manifold
   Implications (Part 2) 

                                      

Emil Sheinfeld,  Udi Makov

   Extended  Loss Reserving: The Parallelogram Approach

                       

17.00-17.30

Coffee  Break

17.30-19.00

Session 6.1, M152

Fuzzy Probabilistic Models in System Analysis

Chair: Jacov Mostovicz

 

Alexander Rotshtein, Jacov Mostovicz

   Fuzzy-Logic Based System Reliability Analysis
                        

Michael Ben Chaim, Valery Cherniaev, Moshe Brand

   Fuzzy- Stochastic Control Systems of Vehicles Dynamics                
           
K. Senthamarai Kannan, S. Suresh, V. Balamurugan
   Markov Model Prediction on Bivariate Fuzzy Time Series  
                       
P. Sailapathi Sekar,K. Senthamarai Kannan, M. Mohamed Sathik
   Fuzzy Logic in Impulse Noise Detection and Reduction 
               

Milan Holicky

   Fuzzy Probabilistic Models for Structural Serviceability

             

17.30-19.00

Session 6.2, M154

Reliability of Mechanical and Biomechanical Systems

Chair: Zdenek Vintr

  

Remus  Campean, Mihaela Hedesiu

   Statistical Model for Testing the Reliability of some CBCT
    Dental Scanners

 

Zdenek Vintr, Michal Vintr

   Rolling Bearing Reliability Model for Railway
   Application

 

A. Maer

   Automated Program Complex for Modeling of the Reliability
   of Complex Systems 
              
  

17.30-19.00

Session 6.3, S200

Stochastic Processes and Related Problems

Chair: Michael Lin

 

Michael Lin

   The Central Limit Theorem for Additive Functionals of Stationary
   Markov Chains

                              

Hans  Frenk, Robin  Nicolai

   Approximating the Randomized Hitting Time Distribution of a
   Non-stationary Gamma Process
                                       

Joel Ratsaby

   On the Relation Between a System's Complexity and its Interaction
   with Random Environments
                           

Yair Shaki, Rami Atar, Adam Shwartz

   Fair Allocation Between Large Server Pools

                                    

17.30-19.00

Session 6.4, S201

Data Mining and Information Systems

Chair: Sofiya Ostrovska

 

Sofiya Ostrovska, Atilim University, Turkey

   Uncorrelatedness Sets of Two Random Variables

 

Dima Alberg, Mark Last, Roni Neuman, Avi Sharon

   Prediction Trees Induction from Continuous Temporal
   Data

                   

Efron Razi, Michael Hanani, Sarit Mashiah, Ido Ran

   Knowledge Creation: Facing the Gap between the State of
   Information Systems and the Real Needs of Management
   and of Managers  
                     
K. Senthamarai Kannan, V. Balamurugan, S. Suresh,  
   Composite Distance Measure for Time Series  Similarity
   Analysis
                               

17.30-19.00

Session 6.5, S202

Information Systems and Transportation (Intelligent Transport Systems)

Chair: Gabriel Nowacki

 

Jadwiga Bąk, Dorota Bąk-Gajda

   Transport Psychology in Poland

 

Gabriel Nowacki,  Izabella Mitraszewska, Tomasz Kamiński,

Andrzej Wojciechowski

   The National Automatic Toll Collection System – Proposal
   for Poland

 

Jerzy Mikulski

   Legislation Changes on Introduction of Toll Collection
   System in Poland

 

Tomasz Kamiński, Gabriel Nowacki,

Izabella Mitraszewska, Andrzej Wojciechowski

   The Pan-European Automatic Notification System for Road Accidents
   “eCall”
 

17.30-19.00

Session 6.6

Management of Risk and Efficiency

Chair: Marina Kopeetsky
                                      
P. Sailapathi Sekar, K. Senthamarai Kannan,P. Arumugam  
   The Stock Market Prediction Using Combinational
   BSRCTB Algorithm  
                        

Shlomi Dolev, Marina Kopeetsky, Niv Gilboa

   Computing Trust Anonymously in the Presence of Curious Users
                                             

Yu Dmitriev, Felix  Tarasenko

  On Certain Natural Regularities
                                                         
                 

V.  Simakhin

   Nonparametric Robust Prediction Algorithms