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Events for September
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CED and WIE College Gameday 2006
Fri, Sep 08, 2006 @ 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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Join the Center for Engineering Diversity (CED) & Women in Engineering (WIE) as we kick off the year with good food & drinks, as well as all of your favorite GAMES! We'll have everything from TWISTER to Connect Four....so bring your inner child and get ready for some fun!Please RSVP to viterbi.ced@usc.edu
Location: Engineering Quad
Audiences: Viterbi women, CED members & friends
Contact: CED and WIE
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Freshmen Academy Large Lecture Series
Thu, Sep 14, 2006 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
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The first large Freshmen Academy Lecture of the semester will host Fariborz Maseeh, Founder and Managing Principal of Picoco LLC. The Iranian-born Fariborz Maseeh is a worldwide expert in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). To learn more about Fariborz Maseeh, please visit the Freshmen Academy website: http://viterbi.usc.edu/academies/ Pizza will be served at 5:30pm!
The program will begin at 6pm!Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 123
Audiences: Viterbi Freshmen Academy Students
Contact: Freshmen Academies
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Quantitative Methods for the Deterrence of Terrorists
Thu, Sep 21, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Seminarby Dr. Susan E. MartonosiAssistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CAABSTRACT: Many homeland security models focus on system reliability in the event of an attack and neglect deterrence: terrorists might choose not to attack, or might shift their focus to less desirable targets, if the costs of attack become too high relative to the benefits. I will present a model for resource allocation in which a defender must invest in protecting a target knowing that the attacker will either respond with heightened effort or give up. The optimal defender and attacker strategies are characterized, and we find that it is never optimal to leave the target undefended. Extensions to the allocation of resources to multiple targets will also be explored.THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2006,
GERONTOLOGY BUILDING (GER) ROOM 309,
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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A Non-Parametric Data-Driven Approach to Inventory Planning and Revenue Management
Fri, Sep 22, 2006 @ 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Information and Operations Management Department, Marshall School of Business Seminarby Dr. Woonghee Tim HuhIEOR Department, Columbia UniversityABSTRACT: We consider inventory planning and revenue management problems where the distribution of demand distribution is not available a priori, and lost sales are not observable. We take a non-parametric approach, and propose adaptive algorithms that generate a sequence of ordering decisions over time, where the decision in each period depends only on historical sales data. We show that our adaptive algorithms converge to the optimal solution, and establish the convergence rate.This is a joint work with Paat Rusmevichientong.Woonghee Tim Huh is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. His current research interests include developing data-driven adaptive policies, and proving structural results in the inventory theory such as the optimality of threshold policies. He has received Columbia Engineering School's Distinguished Teaching Award and the Diversity Teaching Award. He recieived a B.A. in sociology, B.Math in computer science and M.Math in combinatorics & optimization and from the University of Waterloo, and holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University.Friday, September 22, 2006, Hoffman Hall 303, 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Location: Hoffman Hall 303
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Recommendation Agents for Electronic Commerce: Effects of Explanation Facilities on Trusting Beliefs
Fri, Sep 29, 2006 @ 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Information and Operations Management Department, Marshall School of Engineering Seminarby Dr. Izak BenbasatDepartment of Information Technology Management, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, CanadaABSTRACT: We empirically test the effects of explanation facilities on consumers' initial trusting beliefs concerning online recommendation agents (RAs). RAs provide online shopping advice based on user-specified needs and preferences. The characteristics of RAs that may hamper consumers' trust building in the RAs are identified, and the provision of explanation facilities is proposed as a knowledge-based approach to enhance consumers' trusting beliefs by dealing with these obstacles. This study examines the effects of three types of explanations about an RA and its use – how, why, and trade-off explanations – on consumers' trusting belief in an RA's competence, benevolence, and integrity.An RA was built as the experimental platform and a laboratory experiment was conducted. The results confirm the important role of explanation facilities in enhancing consumer' initial trusting beliefs and indicate that consumers' use of different types of explanations enhances different trusting beliefs: the use of how explanations increases their competence and benevolence beliefs, the use of why explanations increases their benevolence beliefs, and the use of trade-off explanations increases their integrity beliefs.KEYWORDS AND PHASES: Trust, Recommendation Agents, Decision Support, Explanations, Decisional Guidance, Electronic Commerce-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Izak Benbasat, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, is CANADA Research Chair in Information Technology Management at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Benbasat is the past editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research and currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. He is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. His current research interests include designing and evaluating human-computer interfaces for e-business.Friday, September 29, 2006, Hoffman Hall 302, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Location: Hoffman Hall 302
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
