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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - Beer Sheva, Israel
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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 
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9.50-10.20 |
Coffee Break |
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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11.50-13.30 |
Lunch |
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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15.00-15.30 |
Coffee Break |
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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
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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 
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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 
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17.00-17.30 |
Coffee Break |
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 

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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” 
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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 
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