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<td width=40%><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Kempf, Karl G"
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<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">03/20/2006 10:58 AM</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"Kempf, Karl G" <karl.g.kempf@intel.com>,
<david.heltne@lakesideassociates.com>, <hpc@acm.org>, Robin
Lougee-Heimer/Watson/IBM@IBMUS</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">TELEPHONE DETAILS ... plan for the "real
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Team : below the details for our
phone con - below that the "notes" we will be using during the
meeting ...</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Tuesday, <b>March 21, </b>2006
<b>9:00 </b>AM MST </font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Please dial this number: 916-356-2663,
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">The voice will ask for your "Bridge
Number", enter 8</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">The voice will then ask for your
"Passcode", enter 801 7147 #</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Talk to you tomorrow. - Karl</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Team - below is what we committed
to in OR/MS Today ......</font>
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<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">lunch Monday - facilitated
breakout</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">late Monday - birds
of a feather </font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">lunch Tuesday - facilitated
breakout</font>
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<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">topic 1: form and characteristics
of problems</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">facilitators from practitioner
community</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">example problem statements,
models, data sets</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">distribute questions
before session / post on the web</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">result 1: guidelines</font>
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<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">topic 2: policies, procedures,
systems</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">facilitators</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">(straw schemes ????)</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">distribute questions
before session / post on web</font>
<br><font size=4 color=blue face="Times New Roman">result 2: guidelines</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">What is "done" ...</font>
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<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Times New Roman">1) </font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Terry
Cryan has the two birds of a feather sessions scheduled and has rooms etc.</font>
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<br><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Times New Roman">2) </font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">I
am getting ready to co-facilitate the birds of a feather on form and characteristics
of problems - intend to use one problem set from Willems (this is a fixed
set of 20 problems of varying sizes including data for each) and a problem
structure that I use in my university collaborations (I consider this</font><font size=3 color=#000080 face="Times New Roman">
</font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">to be a problem generator -
it comes with some standard parameter sets but can be re-parameterized
and expanded along many axes).</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">3) We have a mailing list dedicated
to the RPX.<br>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">4) We have a webpage: http://www.coin-or.org/RPX/
to use as we wish (e.g., post samples before, after, during the conference).</font>
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