From robinlh at us.ibm.com Fri Jan 6 10:25:23 2006 From: robinlh at us.ibm.com (Robin Lougee-Heimer) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:25:23 -0500 Subject: [Coin-rpx] testbeds for data & health systems optimization Message-ID: Matthew Realff , NSF Program Director of Service Enterprise Engineering, is helping to organize a workshop on "Open Standards" with NIST on the 12-13th of March 2006 in Washington DC. The workshop will have discussions around the creation of open standards and their role in manufacturing and ehealth. One one of the expected outcomes from the workshop will be definitions of testbeds that will be helpful for the academic community to test algorithms on and in particular the representation of data for health systems optimization. This is an initiative across NSF divisions and involves two other PO's, Stephen Nash and Abhi Deshmuk, Matthew's is looking to establish "moonshot" problems that can be used to make the case for the participation of OR in the development of the next generation of cyberinfrastructure. We could think of these as being advanced testbeds. There will be significant investments made in this infrastructure, and the physicists, geologists etc are way ahead inside of NSF in terms of articulating their needs for what this infrastructure needs to be. If you have any thoughts about how we could develop at least the outlines of these types of moonshot problems, this would be a very helpful contribution. Matthew's email address is mrealff at nsf.gov. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Lougee-Heimer IBM TJ Watson Research Center 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 ph: 914-945-3032 fax: 914-945-3434 robinlh at us.ibm.com http://www.coin-or.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.coin-or.org/pipermail/rpx/attachments/20060106/d61dd32e/attachment.html From blowe at lucent.com Wed Jan 11 14:46:18 2006 From: blowe at lucent.com (Lowe, Benjamin M (Ben)) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:46:18 -0500 Subject: [Coin-rpx] FW: IW Manufacturing Business Challenge - January 2006 Message-ID: <1B8C2E08B21B8743A2B3AED07407DA76126A6844@nj7460exch002u.ho.lucent.com> This is an example of how IndustryWeek has begun its problem exchange. It is titled as a challenge, IW Manufacturing Business Challenge, where people can submit a problem and those who are interested will provide an answer. What is of interest to me is the incentive for people to provide solutions. In this case, I believe consulting companies are interested in submitting answers, because it is an easy way to advertise and get potential new clients. For the problem exchange to thrive there needs to be an incentive on the part of both the problem creator and solution provider. For research folks, is gaining access to a problem and data enough to encourage them to provide a solution? Ben -----Original Message----- From: IndustryWeek-Challenge [mailto:IW_Challenge at nls.industryweek.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:41 AM To: blowe at lucent.com Subject: IW Manufacturing Business Challenge - January 2006 Thank you for registering to receive the IW Manufacturing Business Challenge, an IndustryWeek custom e-newsletter sponsored by SAP. Please find this month's Challenge below: This Month's Challenge* Measures That Matter How to define, capture, and share results of a lean implementation. 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This one results from interactions with industry representatives who complain that academics publish using test models (e.g. of refineries) that do not capture real-world effects and yet who will not release the proprietary details to make the models realistic enough. ICS could sponsor panels that maintain and update standard industry test models, e.g. of a typical refinery or manufacturing operation, complete with sufficient detail to be realistic, but devoid of any proprietary features. I sent John a note and told him about the "real problem exchange" so we can coordinate efforts. Robin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Lougee-Heimer IBM TJ Watson Research Center 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 ph: 914-945-3032 fax: 914-945-3434 robinlh at us.ibm.com http://www.coin-or.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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