DEPARTMENT OF DECISION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT  MAY-JUNE-JULY 2006
PUBLISHED JOURNAL PAPERS
Berg, Dan, “Analyzing Corporate Innovation Using the Data Surface Mining Technique” (with N.
G. Einspruch), The Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Management of
Innovation and Technology 2006, pp. 166-170, June 2006; and, “The Integration of
Analytical Hierarchy Process and Data Envelopment Analysis in a Multi-Criteria Decision
Making Problem” (with N. Ahmad and G. Simons), International Journal of Information
Technology and Decision Making., Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 263-276; and, “Beyond the
Balance Sheet and the Global Economic Sectors” (with N.G. Einspruch), PICMET 2006
Conference Proceedings, July 9-13, Istanbul, Turkey (c) 2006, pp. 1911-1916.
Krishnamurthy, Ananth, “A Two-Stage Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Block Layout
Problems” (with Al-Araidah, O. and Malmborg, Charles J.), International Journal of
Production Research, Vol. 44, No. 20, pp. 4417-4429, 2006.
Wallace, William A., “Designing gaming simulations for the assessment of group decision
support systems in emergency response” (with D. Mendonca, G.E.G. Beroggi and D. van
Gent), Safety Science, Vol. 44, Issue 6, July 2006, pp. 523-535; and, “The Impact of the
December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on Tourism in Thailand” (with T. A. Birkland, P.
Herabat, and R. G. Little), Earthquake Spectra 22, S889 (2006).
PUBLISHED TECHNICAL REPORTS
Willemain, Thomas R., “New Approaches to Confirming Bimodality in Histograms” (with P.
Ayyalasomayajula, J. Celaya-Galvan, Z. Li, A. Petrie, and K. Satyam), DSES Technical
Report #38-06-524, April 2006.
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
Berg, Dan, “Analyzing Corporate Innovation Using the Data Surface Mining Technique” (with N.
G. Einspruch), The Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Management of
Innovation and Technology2006; session chair and introduced Plenary Speaker M. Singh,
President of Deloitte Tsuche Komatsu Pacific Region, June 2006; session chair, PICMET
Istanbul meeting; appointed to the Doctor of Management Advisory Board, University of
Maryland College; “On Service Sectors Engineering Systems and Characterization,” Chinese
Academy of Science Conference on Knowledge Economy; Tsinghua University; “Service
Sector and its Technology Management,” Tsinghua University and Yunnan University; and,
“Corporate Reputation, Technology and the Economic Sectors” (with N.G. Einspruch),
Conference of the International Association of Technology Management, Beijing.
Tien, James M., Invited Plenary Speaker, “Data Mining Requirements for Customized Goods and
Services,” 278th Xiangshan Forum: Frontier Studies on Data Technology and Knowledge
Economy, Beijing, China, May 2006.
Wallace, William A., "Finding Hidden Group Structure in a Stream of Communications" (with J.
Baumes, M. Goldberg, M. Hayvonovych, M. Magdon-Ismail, and M. Zaki), Proceedings of
the 4th Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 06), San Diego, CA, May
23-24 2006 (Best Paper Award--Honorable Mention--awarded to top 3 papers); and,
“Decision Support Models for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems.
PROPOSALS ACCEPTED FOR FUNDING AND GRANTS RECEIVED
Grabowski, Martha R., (PI), “Puget Sound risk Assessment,” The George Wasington University,
$234K, 5/30/06-3/29/08.
Krishnamurthy, Ananth, (PI), “I-PICS: Integration of Advance Demand Information with Pull-Type
Production,” NSF, $238K, 1/1/07-12/31/09.
Wallace, William A., (Co-PI), (with M. Goldberg (PI) and M. Magdon-Ismail (Co-PI), “Algorithms
and Software Tools for Discovering Coalitions and Identifying Leaders in the Blogosphere,”
NSF, $193K, 6/22/06.
OTHER FACULTY RECOGNITIONS
DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES
The 2006 DSES Commencement was held at the Krause’s Restaurant and Grove and was
attended by a total of 57 people; there were 11 graduating students, 21 family members and
friends; and 25 faculty, staff and invited guests. Mr. Albert Wurz was selected by the faculty
as the year 2006 recipient of the Rensselaer Alumni Association (RAA) Fellows Award. Al
was our speaker at this year's luncheon; his topic was "Engineering Opportunities are Better
Than Ever."
The following awards and prizes were awarded at the luncheon: The Ray Palmer Baker Prize was
awarded to Kiley Dean and Matthew Zepernick; The Del and Ruth Karger Doctoral Dissertation
Prize was awarded to Dr. Lingyi Zhang and Dr. Aparna Gupta (advisor), and Dr. Ali Yasar and
Drs. Ananth Krishnamurthy and James M. Tien (co-advisors); the DSES Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Award was awarded to Adam Petrie; Meaghan Faraca was the recipient of
the 2006 Material Handling Educational Foundation Scholarship.
The total number of DSES degrees awarded were as follows:
August 2005 - December 2005 - May 2006 Degrees
BS/MGTE: 26
ME/ORST: 1
ME/MGTE: 3
MS/ORST: 1
MS/MGTE: 2
PhD/DSES: 7
Bachelors: 26
Masters: 7
PhDs: 7
GRADUATE CUMULATIVE ADMISSION STATISTICS: Fall 2006 Compared to Fall 2005
July 1, 2006 - July 1, 2005
PHD
MGTE
MFSE
Fall 2006
Total
Applicants
62
23
1
Fall 2005
Total
Applicants
49
22
2
Fall 2006
Total
Admitted
7
14
0
Fall 2005
Total
Admitted
21
8
0
Fall 2006
Total
Accepting
3
3
0
Fall 2005
Total
Accepting
5
1
0
Fall 2006
Total Accepting
w/FA New
3
1
0
Fall 2005
Total Accepting
w/FA New
5
0
0
ORST
TOTAL
18
104
13
86
10
31
6
35
0
6
0
6
0
4
0
5