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  Tentative Program of the Conference

December 15, 2009
 
     
 

January 4th (Monday)

Time
Program
7:30 – 9:00
9:00- 10:45
Registration
Opening Ceremony
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00
12:00 – 1:00
Plenary Talk – 1: C.R. Rao
Chair : Hira Lal Koul
Plenary Talk – 2: Robert Elston
Biometrical Genetics : Past, Present & Future
Chair : Prem Narain
1:00 – 2:15 Lunch Break
2:15 – 4:15 Special Invited Sessions: A1 – A8
            (Half-hour talks)
4:15 – 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:30 Invited Sessions: J1 – J7
            (12-minute talks)
J8: U.S. Nair Young Statistician Award Competition
5:45 – 7:15
7:15 – 10:00
Felicitations
Banquet

January 5th (Tuesday)

Time
Program
8:30 – 9:30

Plenary Talk – 3: S.R. Jammalamadaka
Gaps between observations : what can one learn form them ?
Chair : Subbirami Reddy
(Parallel)
Plenary Talk – 4: J.Lakshminarayana
Statisticians-An Agenda for next Decade
Chair : Sastry Pantula

9:35 – 10:35 Invited Sessions: K1 – K8
        (12-minute talks)
10:35 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:50 Special Invited Sessions: B1 – B7
         (Half-hour talks)
12:50 – 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 4:00 Special Invited Sessions: C1 – C8
         (Half-hour talks)
4:00 – 4:15 Coffee Break
4:15 – 6:15 Invited Sessions: L1 – L7
        (12-minute talks)
L8: ISPS MSc Project Presentation Competition
6:15 – 7:00 IISA General Body/Executive Meeting
ISPS General Body Meeting
7:00 - 7:30 IISA Awards Ceremony

January 6th (Wednesday)

Time
Program
8:30 – 9:30 Plenary Talk – 5: S.R.S. Varadhan
Chair : N.Bala Krishnan
(Parallel)
Plenary Talk – 6: B.L.S. Prakasa Rao
Chair : Ram C.Tiwari
9:35 – 10:35 Invited Sessions: M1 – M8
        (12-minute talks)
10:35 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:50 Special Invited Sessions: D1 – D7
             (Half-hour talks)
12:50 – 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 4:00 Special Invited Sessions: E1 – E7
              (Half-hour talks)
4:00 – 4:15 Coffee Break
4:15 – 6:15 Invited Sessions: N1 – N8
        (12-minute talks)
6:30 – 7:30
7:30 – 10:00
Felicitations
Cultural Program and Dinner

January 7th (Thursday)

Time
Program
8:30 – 10:30 Special Invited Sessions: F1 – F6
               (Half-hour talks)
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:45 Special Invited Sessions: G1 – G7
               (Half-hour talks)
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 7:30 Sightseeing Tour

January 8th (Friday)

Time
Program
8:30 – 10:30 Special Invited Sessions: H1 – H4
           (Half-hour talks)
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:45 Special Invited Sessions: I1 – I4
          (Half-hour talks)
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:00 Invited Sessions: O1 – O7
          (12-minute talks)
3:00 – 4:00 Valedictory Function
 
     
     
 
A–1

“Measuring Social and Economic Advancement”
(Organizer: Subir Ghosh)

(a) Dr. Pronab Sen (National Statistical Comm., Govt. of India)
(b) Dr. Rajiv Mehta (National Sample Survey Org., Govt. of India)
(c) Dr. Kirit S. Parikh (Planning Commission, Govt. of India)
(d) Dr. Dilip M. Nachane (Indira Gandhi Inst. Devel. Res., India)

A–2

 “Resampling Methodology”
(Organizer: S.N. Lahiri)

(a)Karin S. Dorman (Lowa State Univ., Ames, Iowa)
(b) Bodhisattva Sen (Columbia University, New York)
(c) Ranjan Maitra (Iowa State University, Iowa)
(d) S.N. Lahiri (Texas A&M University, Texas)



A–3

 “Censored Survival Data Analysis”
(Organizer: S. Subramanian)

(a) Gerhard Dikta (Aachen, Germany)
(b) W. Stute (Giessen, Germany)
(c) S. Subramanian (New Jersey Inst. of Technology, New Jersey)

(d) David D. Hanagal (Univ. of Pune, India)
     Modeling Heterogeneity for bivariate survival data by the compound poission
     distribution with random scale.
A–4

 “Stochastic Orderings and Applications”
(Organizer: S.C. Kochar)

(a) Neeraj Mishra (IIT-Kanpur, India)
(b) Kanchan Jain (Panjab University, India)
(c) Subhash Kochar (Portland State University, Oregon)
(d) Baha Khaledi (Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran)


A–5

“Censoring Methodology and Inference”
(Organizer: Vasudevan Mangalam)

(a) Somnath Datta (Univ. of Louisville, Kentucky)
(b) H.K. Tony Ng (Southern Methodist Univ., Texas)
(c) Vasudevan Mangalam (Univ. Brunei Darussalam, Brunie)


(d) Masahito Hayashi (Tohoko University, Japan)
    Quantum Statistical State Estimation and Quantum Cramer-Rao Bound.

A–6

“Small Area Estimation”
(Organizers: Hukum Chandra & U. C. Sud)
Session by Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Inst.

(a) Partha Lahiri (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)
     Adjusted maximum likelihood method in the small-area estimation
     with applications
(b) Snigdhansu Chatterjee(University of Minnesota, MN)
     On the extended Fay-Herriot model for small area statistics
(c) Sanjay Chaudhuri (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
     Empirical likelihood for small area estimation
(d) B.V.S. Sisodia (Narendra Dev Univ., Faizabad, India)
     Methods small area crop estimation for crop production - An empirical      illustration.

A–7

 “Random Matrices and Asymptotics”
(Organizer: Subir Ghosh)

(a) Arunava Mukherjea (Univ. of Texas–Pan American, TX)
(b) Shankar Bhamidi (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC)
(c) T.E.S. Raghavan (University of Illinois, Chicago, IL)
     Applications of cooperative game theory



A–8

 “Stochastic Volatility Models”
(Organizer: T.V. Ramanathan)
Session by the Indian Statistical Association

(a) A. Thavaneswaran (Univ. of Manitoba, Canada)
(b) N. Balakrishna (Cochin Univ. of Science and Technology, India)
(c) N. K. Unnikrishnan (Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, India)
(d) Neelabh Rohan (Univ. of Pune, India)



 
     
 
B–1

“Statistics as a Profession”
(Organizer: Sastry Pantula)
(Chair: Sastry Pantula)
Session by American Statistical Association

(a) Srinivas Bhogle (TEOCO, Bangalore, India)
     The statistical disconnect
(b) Roger F. Liddle (GlaxoSmithKline R&D, North Carolina)
     GlaxoSmithKline’s statistics and programming facility in Bangalore,
     and associated educational strengths and opportunities in India
(c) Robert N. Rodriguez (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina)
     New career opportunities for statisticians in business and industry
(d) Ron Wassertein (ASA, Alexandria, VA, USA)
     Accrediation and professional development



B–2

“Categorical Data and Inference”
(Organizer: Cyrus R. Mehta)

(a) Devan Mehrotra (Merck)
(b) Christopher Corcoran (Utah State University, Utah)
(c) Chris J. Lloyd (Melbourne Business School, Australia)



B–3

“Use of Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry”
(Organizers: Ashwini Mathur & Pulak Ghosh)
 Session by International Biometrics Society &
 Indian Association for Statistics in Clinical Trials

(a) Sujit Ghosh (Noth Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC)
      A Bayesian approach to Assessing the risk of QT Prolongation
(b) Karthinathan Thangavelu (Novartis, Basel, Switzerland)
      Logitudinal target dose estimation in a phase II dose finding study
(c)  Vishwanath Iyer (Novartis Health Care Pvt. Ltd.)
      A single step adaptive FDR controlling procedure.
(d) Debjit Biswas (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mumbai, India)
     Perspectives on the reporting of Statistical Significance

B–4

 “Statistical Modelling”
(Organizers: Prajneshu & Himadri Ghosh)
 Session by Indian Agricul. Stat. Res. Inst., New Delhi

(a) Yogendra P. Chaubey (Concordia Univ., Montreal, Canada)
(b) Sujit K. Sahu (University of Southampton, U.K.)
(c) Himadri Ghosh (IASRI, New Delhi, India)
(d) Toshio Sumi (Kyushu University, Japan)
      Lifting between the sets of three-way contingency tables and r-            
      Neighbourhood property for 3 × 3 × K



B–5

 “Semi- and Non-parametric Inference”
(Organizer: Hira Lal Koul)

(a) Wolfgang Wefelmeyer (University of Cologne, Germany)
(b) Uschi M¨uller-Harknett (Texas A&M Univ., Texas)
      Estimating the density of a possibly missing response variable in
      nonlinear regression
(c) Weixing Song (Kansas State University, Kansas)

 

B–6

 “Statistical Genetics”
  (Organizer: Varghese George)

(a) Robert Elston (Case Western Univ. Cleveland, Ohio)
     Single - Marker and Two-Marker association tests for Unphased case-control      genotype data
(b) Varghese George (Medical College of Georgia, Georgia)
      Haplotype construction in admixed populations
(c) Saurabh Ghosh (ISI-Kolkata, India)
     Model-free linkage and association mapping of complex traits using
     quantitative endophenotypes
(d) Nitai Mukhopadhyay (Virginia Commonwealth Univ., VA)
     Bayesian model selection for inverse correlation matrices with ap-
     plication to gene expressions



B–7

 “Directional Data Analysis”
(Organizer: Ashis SenGupta)

(a) Sungsu Kim (California Baptist University, CA)
(b) Barry C. Arnold (Univ. of California, Riverside, CA)
(c) A. Roy Choudhury (Univ. of California, Riverside, CA)
(d) A.V. Dattatreya Rao (Nagarjuna Univ., India)



 
     
 
C–1

 “Some Emerging Issues in Clinical Trials”
(Organizer: Ram C. Tiwari)

(a) Pulak Ghosh (Georgia State Univ., Georgia)
(b) Chitra Lele (Sciformix Technologies, India)
(c) Sanjib Basu (Northern Illinois Univ., Illinois)
(d) Ram C. Tiwari (Food & Drug Admin., Washington, DC)



C–2

 “Accelerating Pharmaceutical Development”
(Organizer: D. Mehrotra)

(a) P.K. Tandon (Genzyme)
(b) Kannan Natarajan (Novartis)
(c) Cyrus Mehta (Cytel, Boston)
(d) Martin Posch (Medical Univ. of Vienna, Austria)



C–3

 “Econometrics and Statistics”
(Organizer: Bo Ranneby)

(a) Michael Hanemann (Univ. of California - Berkeley)
(b) Allen Klaiber (Pennsylvania, USA)
(c) Bengt Kristrom (Swedish Univ. of Agricult. Sciences, Sweden)


(d) Magnus Ekstrom (Swedish Univ. of Agricult. Sciences, Sweden)


C–4

“Inference in Multivariate Data”
(Organizer: Y. P. Chaubey
Chair: P. K. Sen)

(a) Govind S. Mudholkar (University of Rochester, NY)
     Data-transformation approach to lifetimes data analysis: An overview
(b) Ashis Sengupta (ISI-Kolkata, India)
(c) Deokumar Srivastava (St. Jude Children Res. Hospital, TN)


C–5

 “Advances in Nonparametrics and Asymptotics”
(Organizer: Subir Ghosh)

(a) Holger Dette (Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany)
(b) Melanie Birke (Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany)
(c) Madan L. Puri (Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Indiana)
(d) Debasis Bhattacharya (Visva-Bharati Univ., India)
      Local asymptotic properties of the log-likelihood ration statistic: LAN,
      LAMN and beyond



C–6

 “Advances in Design and Analysis of Experiments”
(Organizer: Rajinder Prasad)
Session by Indian Agricultural Statist. Research Inst.

(a) Sudhir Gupta (Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL)
(b) Subir Ghosh (Univ. of California, Riverside, CA)
(c) Kashinath Chatterjee (Visva-Bharati Univ., Santiniketan, India)
(d) Rita Saharay (ISI-Kolkata, India)



C–7
 

 “Long Memory Processes”
(Organizer: Rita Ghosh)

(a) Jan Beran (Univ. of Konstanz, Germany)
(b) Yuanhua Feng (Univ. of Paderborn, Germany)
(c) Liudas Giraitis (Univ. of London, England)
(d) Rafal Kulik (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada)



C–8

 “Recent Advances in Sample Surveys”
(Organizers: U. C. Sud & Hukum Chandra)
Session by Indian Agricultural Statist. Research Inst.

(a) Avi Singh (NORC, University of Chicago, IL)
      Hybrid strategies for cost and estimation efficient design of sample
      surveys in the 21st century
(b) Pushpal Mukhopadhyay (SAS Institute, North Carolina, USA)
      Quasi-score tests for Cox’s proportional hazards models from survey
      data
(c) Sanghamitra Pal (West Bengal State Univ., India)
      Modifications on bootstrap in case of rare and illusive population
(d) R. Arnab (University of Botswana, Botswana)
     Variance estimation for complex survey designs with reference to
     HIES and BAIS II Survey Data – 1



 
     
 
D–1

 “Innovations of Statistics for Biology and Medicine”
(Organizer: Deb Sinha)

(a) Dipak Dey (Univ. of Connecticutt, Storrs, CT)
      Analysis of extreme drinking in patients with alcohol dependence
      using Pareto regression
(b) Mousumi Banerjee (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
     Competing risks with missing cause of death: Application to a cohort
      study of breast cancer
(c) Debajyoti Sinha (Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL)
     Approximate median regression in survival analysis via transform-
     both-sides model
(d) Bibhas Chakraborty (Columbia Univ., New York)
     Inference for non-regular parameters in optimal dynamic treatment
     Regimes



D–2

 “Survey Sampling”
(Organizer: Gauri Datta)

(a) Michael Elliott (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
(b) T. Raghunathan (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
(c) Danney Pfeffermann (Hebrew Univ., Israel)
(d) Meena Khare (NCHS/CDC, Atlanta, Georgia)
     An evaluation of bias and total survey error in a complex telephone
     survey of health



D–3

“Topics in Inference”
(Organizer: S.R. Jammalamadaka)

(a) Kaushik Ghosh (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada)
     A unified approach to variations of ranked set sampling
(b) Tom Kozubowski (Univ. of Nevada, Reno, Nevada)
     Multivariate models connected with sums and maxima of exponential
     variables
(c) P. Vellaisamy (IIT-Mumbai, India)
     A-collapsibility of distribution dependence and quantile regression
     coefficients
(d) Balgobin Nandram (Worcester Polytechnic Inst., USA)
      Bayesian predictive inference for benchmarking small areas




D–4

“Biostatistics”
(Organizer: K.R. Sundaram)
Session by the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences,Kochi

(a) Ajit Sahai (JIPMER, Pondicherry, India)
(b) P. Venkatesan (Tuberculosis Research Center, Chennai, India)
(c) Arvind Pandey (Director, NIMS, ICMR, New Delhi)
(d) K.R. Sundaram (AIMSRC, Kochi, India)

D–5

 “Survival Analysis””
(Organizer: P.G. Sankaran)

(a) Isha Dewan (ISI - New Delhi, India)
(b) Biswabrata Pradhan (ISI - Kolkata, India)
(c) M.A. Islam (Univ. of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
(d) Aruna Rao (Mangalore University, India)

D- 6

 “Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes”
(Organizer: Santanu Chakraborty)


(a) Arnab Kumar Laha (IIM-Ahmedabad, India)
      Valuation of weather derivatives – An application
(b) Mark M. Meerschaert (Michigan State Univ., MI)
      Fractional Cauchy problems in bounded domains

D–7

“Bayesian Analysis with Applications”
(Organizer: S.K. Upadhyay)
Session by Indian Bayesian Society

(a) Kalyan Das (Calcutta University, Kolkata, India)
       Inferences for joint modeling of repeated ordinal scores and time to
       event data
(b) Athar Ali Khan (Aligarh Muslim Univ., Aligarh, India)
     Bayesian applications in agricultural statistics with R
(c) S.K. Upadhyay (Banaras Hindu Univ., Varanasi, India)
      Bayesian modeling of bathtub shaped hazard rate using Weibull ex-
      tension, modified Weibull and Weibull families
(d) Richa Vatsa (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
     The variational Bayes method for inverse problems with applications
     to the palaeoclimate reconstruction



 
     
 
E–1

 “Statistics in Agriculture”
(Organizer: John Boyer)
Session by American Statistical Association

(a) Dallas Johnson (Kansas State University, Kansas)
     Some messy experimental designs
(b) George Fernandez (University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada)
      Data mining applications in agriculture
(c) Julia Sharp (Clemson University, SC)
     Testing for co-directional interactions in two-factor experiments us-
     ing union-intersection and intersection-union methods
(d) Kevin S. McCarter (Louisiana State University, LA)
     Using semi-parametric models to account for spatial variability in
     developing variable-rate treatment prescriptions for applications in
     precision agriculture



E–2

 “Multivariate Analysis”
(Organizer: Dayanand Naik)

(a) R.N. Rattihalli (Univ. of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana)
      Generalized multivariate models
(b) Ravi Khattree (Oakland Univ., Michigan)
     Antieigenvalues and antieigenvectors in applied statistics
(c) K.S. Madhava Rao (Univ. of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana)
      A simple nonparametric test for bivariate symmetry
(d) Dayanand Naik (Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, Virginia)



E–3

 “Model Selection”
(Organizer: Subir Ghosh)

(a) Arijit Chakrabarti (ISI-Kolkata, India)
(b) Jayanta K. Ghosh (ISI-Kolkata & Purdue Univ., Indiana)
(c) Axel Munk (Univ. of Goettingen, Germany)
(d) Klaus Frick (Univ. of Goettingen, Germany)

 


E–4

“Advances in Distribution-Free Methods”
(Organizer: Subir Ghosh)
(Chair: Jagbir Singh)

(a) Byeong U. Park (Seoul National Univ., S. Korea)
(b) Anil K. Ghosh (ISI-Kolkata, India)
(c) Johannes Schmidt-Hieber (Univ. G¨ottingen, Germany)
(d) Hee-Seok Oh (Seoul National Univ., S. Korea)



E–5

 “Challenges in Statistical Inference”
(Organizer: Subir Ghosh)

(a) Nozer D. Singpurwalla (George Washington Univ., DC)
(b) Ayanendranath Basu (ISI-Kolkata, India)
(c) Thomas Mazzuchi (George Washington Univ., DC)
(d) Ulrike Genschel (Iowa State Univ., Ames, Iowa)




E–6

 “Applications to Probability and Statistics”
    (Organizer: P.S.Varma)


(a) M.K. Reddy (Osmania University, India)
(b) P.K. Kapoor (Delhi University, India)
(c) P. Suresh Varma (Adikavi  Nannaya Univ., India)
      Performance evaluation  of implementing  strategies in mobile wire- less network


E–7

 “Statistics in Drug Development”
(Organizer: Amarjot Kaur)

(a) Ernst Wit (Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands)
      Extensions of LARS for GLMs
(b) Jayanti Gupta (Manipal AcuNova Ltd., Bangalore, India)
     Designing clinical trials: Lessons for US and India
(c) M. Lakshminarayanan (Merck, Rahway, New Jersey)
     Multiplicity issues in decision making in clinical trials
(d) Amarjot Kaur (Merck, Rahway, New Jersey)
     Nonproportional hazards assumption in time-to-event data in clin-
     ical trials

 
     
 
F–1

“New Frontiers of Statistical Genetics: Fresh Perspectives”
(Organizer: Bhramar Mukherjee)

(a) Sebastian Zollner (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
(b) Saonli Basu (Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
(c) Paul Scheet (M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Texas)
(d) Bhramar Mukherjee

F–2

 “Applied Probability”
(Organizer: Sunil K. Dhar)

(a) Pranab K. Sen (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
(b) Arka P. Ghosh (Iowa State Univ., Ames)
      Optimal control of a stochastic network driven by a fractional Brow-
       nian motion input
(c) M.C. Bhattacharjee (New Jersey Inst. of Technology, NJ)
(d) Sunil K. Dhar (New Jersey Inst. of Technology, NJ)

 



F–3

“Bayesian Models for Complex Multivariate Data”
(Organizer: Veera Baladandayuthapani)

(a) Ananda Mayee Majumdar (Arizona State University, AZ)
      A locally stationary multivariate spatial covariance modeling ap-
      proach
(b) Veera Baladandayuthapani (Univ. of Texas M.D. Anderson
      Cancer Center, Houston, TX)
       Bayesian functional methods for copy number data
(c) Gary Rosner (Univ. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
       Houston, TX)
      A Bayesian model for repeatedly-repeated binary data
(d) Bani Mallick (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX)

 


F - 4

“Analysis of Multiple Endpoints in Clinical Trials”
(Organizer: Mohammad Huque)
(Chair: Mani Lakshminarayanan)

(a) Frank Bretz (Novartis, Bassel, Switzerland)
     A graphical approach to sequentially rejective multiple test proce-
     dures
(b) Steve Wilson (US FDA, Silver Spring, MD)
      Multiplicity issues and the clinical trials evidence supporting the
      approval of new drugs: Recent statistical review experience
(c) David Li (Wyeth, Pennsylvania)
      A simple and powerful distribution-free gatekeeping method
(d) Mohammad Huque (US FDA, Silver Spring, MD)
     An improved ad-hoc multiplicity adjustment method for correlated
     response variables



F–5

 “Ordered Data – Models and Methods”
(Organizer: H.N. Nagaraja)

(a) Erhard Cramer (Inst. Statist. Wirtschaft., Aachen, Germany)
(b) Qinying He (Southwestern Univ. of Finance & Econ., China)
(c) H.N. Nagaraja (Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH)



F–6

“Distribution Theory”
(Organizer: Debasis Kundu)

(a) R. C. Gupta (University of Maine, Orono, Maine)
(b) G. Hamedani (Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI)
(c) N. R. Chaganty (Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA)
(d) P.G. Sankaran (Cochin Univ. of Science & Tech., India)

 
     
 
G–1

 “Statistical Methods in Genetics and Public Health Research”
   (Organizer: Sowmya Rao)

(a) Sowmya Rao (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA)
(b) Arindam RoyChoudhury (Columbia Univ., New York)
      Estimation of population tree from single nucleotide polymorphism
      (SNP) data
(c) Bhramar Mukherjee (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
(d) William C. L. Stewart (Columbia Univ., New York)
      Intensifying the search for causal variants by improving detection and       Localizition from Dense SNP Linkage Data

G–2

 “Queueing Theory – I”
(Organizer: U. Narayan Bhat)
(Chair: U. Narayan Bhat)

(a) Kanwar Sen (Univ. of Delhi, India)
(b) Gopalan Nair (Univ. of Western Australia, Australia)
      Anaysis of M/G/1 type queues — A combinatorial perspective
(c) U.C. Gupta (IIT-Kharagpur, India)
     Complete analysis of bulk service queue with finite buffer: M/G(a,b)/1/N
(d) Manju Agarwal (Univ. of Delhi, India)
     Waiting time distributions of patterns involving Markov dependent
     trials: GERT approach

G–3

 “Bayesian Nonparametrics”
(Organizer: Jayanta K. Ghosh)
(Chair: Jayanta K. Ghosh)

(a) Subhashis Ghosal (North Carolina State Univ., North Carolina)
(b) Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay (ISI-Kolkata, India)
(c) T. Choi (Inhov Univ., Incheon, S. Korea)
(d) J. K. Ghosh

G–4

 “Topics in Survival Analysis”
(Organizer: Nandini Kannan)

(a) Debasis Kundu (IIT-Kanpur, India)
(b) Ram C. Tripathi (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX)
(c) Jyotirmoy Dey (Novartis, USA)
(d) Nandini Kannan (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX)

G–5

““Reliability Theory”
(Organizer: Ajit Chaturvedi)

(a) Jayant Deshpande (Univ. of Pune, India)
     Analysis of load sharing systems (I)
(b) U. Naik-Nimbalkar (Univ. of Pune, India)
     Analysis of load sharing systems (II)
(c) Neeraj Misra (IIT-Kanpur, India)
     Redundancy allocation in systems
(d) K. Muralidharan (M.S. Univ. of Baroda, India)
     Statistical inferences on maintained system models

G–6

 “Large Scale Surveys in Health
(Organizers: Arvind Pandey & R.J. Yadav)
Session by National Inst. of Medical Stat., New Delhi

(a) Arvind Pandey (Director, NIMS, ICMR, New Delhi)
     Survey techniques in integrated behavioral and biological     
      assessment — National highways surveys
(b) K.K. Singh (Dy DG(SG), ICMR, New Delhi)
     Survey methodology in health research
(c) R.J. Yadav (Dy Director(SG), NIMS, New Delhi)
      Impact for fortified food: Survey methodological investigation
(d) Abha Agarwal (Dy Director, NIMS, New Delhi)
     Comparision of Inverse sampling & conventional sampling in Estimation of      Burden of Disease - Leprosy in Bareilly Dist.

G–7


“Design of Experiments”
(Organizer: Sudhir Gupta)

(a) Bikas Sinha (ISI-Kolkata, India)
(b) Vinod Gupta (IASRI, New Delhi, India)
(c) Dibyen Majumdar (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL)
(d) Rajender Prasad (IASRI, New Delhi, India)



 
     
 
H–1

 “Sequential Designs in Clinical Trials”
(Organizer: Atanu Biswas)

(a) Seng Huat Ong (Univ. of Malaya, Malaysia)
(b) Asis Chattopadhyay (Univ. of Calcutta, Kolkata, India)
(c) Rahul Bhattacharya (West Bengal State Univ., India)
(d) Atanu Biswas (ISI-Kolkata, India)



H–2

“Queueing Theory – II”
(Organizer: U. Narayan Bhat)
(Chair: U. Narayan Bhat)

(a) S. Chakravarthi (Kettering Univ., Flint, Michigan)
      A disaster queue with Markovian arrivals and impatient customers
(b) A. Krishnamoorthy (Cochin Univ. of Science & Technology, India)
     Queues with service interruptions — A Survey and some new results
(c) B. Krishna Kumar (Anna Univ., Chennai, India)
     On single server queueing system with controlled batch arrival and
     server under maintenance
(d) T.G.Deepak (IIST, Thiruvananthapuram, India)
     Role of Matrix analytic methods in stochastic modelling

H–3

 “Reliability Models and their Properties”
(Organizer: Asok Nanda)

(a) Amarjit Kundu (Santipur College, Nadia, India)
     On improvement and deterioration of a repairable system under gen-
     eralized stochastic orders
(b) Sudhansu S. Maiti (Visva-Bharati Univ., Santiniketan, India)
     Reliability models and related inference problems in discrete set-up
(c) S.K. Chaturvedi (IIT-Kharagpur, India)
      Network reliability: Techniques and challenges



 
     
 
H–4

IISA Student Paper Presentation Competition

 
     
 
I–1

 “Complex Data Analysis and Modeling”
(Organizer: Subir Ghosh)

(a) Toshio Sakata (Kyushu University, Japan)
(b) Philipp Marnitz (Univ. of Gottingen, Germany)
(c) Balram Rajput (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN)
     Uniform comparison of tail probabilities of (non-symmetric) random
     vectors and their symmetrized counterparts with applications
(d) Ram Shanmugam (Texas State Univ., San Marcos, TX)
      What else does a statistical modeling of epileptic data can reveal?

I–2

“Recent Advances in Statistical Genetics”
(Organizers: V.K. Bhatia & A.K. Paul)
Session by Indian Agricul. Stat. Res. Inst., New Delhi

(a) Prem Narain (New Delhi)
(b) J. Sreekumar (CTCRI, Trivandrum, India)
(c) Archana Singh (Tsukuba, Japan)





I–3

“Image and Speech Processing”
(Organizer: Srinivas Yarramalle)

(a) Sumit Gupta (MVGR, JNT University (K), India)
      AdaBoost based Object Detection
(b) V. Vijay Kumar (JNTU-H, India)
     Texture Based image Segmentation
(c) G.V.S. Raj Kumar (GITAM University, India)
     Color Image Segmentation Using Truncated Multivariate Gaussian Mixture      model.

I–4

 “Applied Statistics”
(Organizer: K. Venkata Subbaih)

(a) K.V. Raghavulu (NABARD, India)
(b) H.J. Vaman (Bangalore University, India)
(c) Sivaswamy (Annamalai University, India)
(d) P. Tirupati Rao (S.V. University, India)

 
     
     
 
J-1

“Biostatistics”
(Chair:  K.V.S.Sarma, S.V.University, India)

(a)  M.B.Rao (Univ. of Cincinnati, USA)
      Probabilistic Recurrence relations
(b)  Alka Sabharwal (University of Delhi, India),
      Gurprit Grover (University of Delhi, India),
      A.K.Gadpayle (Dr.  Ram  Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi, India)
      Identifying  patients with diabetic  nephropathy based on serum crea- tinine       under zero truncated model
(c) Brijesh Sathian (Manipal College of Med.  Sci., Nepal),
     Jayadevan Sreedharan (Gulf Medical University, Ajman,  UAE),
     Krishna  Sharan  (Kasturba Medical College,Manipal),
     Sandeep Goel (Manipal College of Med.  Sci., Nepal)
     Statistical modeling and forecasting of cervix cancer cases in radia- tion  oncology      treatment: A hospital  based study
(d)  G. Suresh (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India),
       K. Senthamaraikannan (Manonmaniam Sund.  Univ., India)
       A stochastic  modelling approach to clinical  trails
(e) Gaurav Sharma (Univ.  of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA) Higher order      likelihood based inference for consensus  mean in inter- laboratory studies

J-2

“Distribution Theory”
(Chair:  R.R.L. Kantam, A.N. Univ., India)

(a) Asha Gopala Krishnan (Cochin  Univ.  of Sci. & Tech.,  India),
     Jagathnath Krishna (Cochin  Univ.  of Sci. & Tech.,  India)
     Income  related measures for bivariate truncated random variables
(b) A.H. Khan (Aligarh  Muslim Univ., India),
     Mohamad Faizan (Aligarh  Muslim Univ., India),
     Ziaul Haque (Aligarh  Muslim Univ.,India)
     Characterization of continuous distributions through record statis- tics
(c) Arabin Kumar Dey (IIT-Kanpur, India),
     Debasis Kundu (IIT-Kanpur, India),
     Discriminating between bivariate Weibull and bivariate generalized exponential      distribution
(d)  N. Unnikrishnan Nair (Cochin  Univ.  of Sci. & Tech.,  India),
      M. Preeth (TKMM  College, India)
      Multivariate equilibrium distributions of order n
(e) G. Asha (Cochin  Univ.  of Sci. & Tech.,  India),
      Rejeesh C. John (Cochin  Univ.  of Sci. & Tech.,  India)
      Generalizations of reversed lack of memory property

J-3

“Data  Mining”
(Chair:  P. Srinivasa  Rao, Andhra Univ., India)

(a)  V. Archana (Mangalore Univ., India),
      K. Aruna Rao (Mangalore Univ., India)
       New estimators of population  co-efficient  of variation under strati- fied random
       sampling

(b)  D. Senthilkumar (Meenakshi  College of Eng.,  India),
       R. Ambrose Prabhu (Meenakshi  College of Eng.,  India) Decision support        systems for detecting  duplicates  records in election commission  voter ID        database
(c) J.P.Singh (IIT-Roorkee, India),
     Devendra Singh (IIT-Roorkee, India)
     Quantum information in quantum  field theoretic frame work
(d)  K. Koteswara  Rao (GMRIT, India),
      G. Vijay Kumar (TPIST, India),
      T.V. Madhusudana Rao (TPIST, India)
      Optimal   proteins  structure  classification and  identification  using software tool
(e) D. Haritha (Univ.  College of Eng., India),
     Ch. Satyanarayana (Univ.  College of Eng., India)
     Performance evaluation  of face recognition using DCT  approach

J-4

“Operations Research”
(Chair:  SivaSamy, Annamalai Univ., India)

(a) V. Charles (CENTROM Catolica, Latin America),
      S. Srinivas (Dravidian University, India)
      A weighted quadratic programming approach to  conjoint  analysis: Zero utility       elimination
(b) Vaibhav (IIT-Khargpur, India),
      Koilakuntla  Maddulety (NITIE,  India)
      A research study on application of queueing model for optimization of resource      allocation  at ticketing  counters of Indian  Railways
(c) V. Rajagopalan (Annamalai Univ., India),
     N. Paranjothi (Annamalai Univ., India)
     On an  M/G/1  retail  queueing system  with two types of services to repeated      type customers
(d) G.V. Pratap Singh (GITAM Univ., India),
      K. Venkata  Subbaiah (Andhra Univ., India),
      K. Narayana Rao (Govt.  Polytech.  College, India)
      Supply chain  modeling in fuzzy environment
(e) P.C. Jha (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     Kuldeep Chaudhary (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     Yogender Singh (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     K.K.  Aggarwal (Univ.  of Delhi, India)
     Optimal  production and  inventory policy of multi-products in  seg- mented       marked

J-5

“Communication Networks”
(Chair:  G. Gopal, Univ.  of Madras,  India)

(a)  G. Venkateshwara  Rao (GITAM Univ., India),
      K. Hari Krishna (GITAM Univ., India),
      G.V.  Swamy (GITAM Univ., India)
      A new technique  for evaluating  minimal  cuts of a graph
(b)  H. Ravi Sankar (Central Tobacco  Res.  Inst., India),
      K. Sarala (Central Tobacco  Res.  Inst., India),
      V. Krishnamurthy (Central Tobacco  Res.  Inst., India)
      Knowledge base system for rain fed natu  tobaco germplasam
(c) V. Mahesh Babu (Narasaraopeta Eng.  Coll., India),
      Siva Nageswara Rao (Narasaraopeta Eng.  Coll., India),
      Distributed protocol for interactive applications
(d)  T. Rambabu (Rao and  Naidu  Eng.  Coll., India),
      P. Rajesh Kumar (Andhra Univ., India)
      Blind equalization  using fractionally spaced CMA algorithm for MIMO FIR  channel
       in wireless communication systems
(e) T. Madhavi (GITAM Univ., India),
      S. Vamsi Krishna (GITAM Univ., India),
      G. Sasi Bhushana Rao (Andhra Univ., India)
      Performance  analysis   of  connection-oriented  and  connection-less service       protocols using DSR algorithm

J-6

“SQC  & Reliability”
(Chair:  V.H. Bajaj, Dr.  B.A.M Univ., India)

(a) Pavan Kumar (EVM  Coll.  of Eng.  & Tech.,  India)
     Software reliability growth model with testing-effort function
(b) M. Saral (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India),
     A. Loganathan (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India),
     P. Muttu Krishnan (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India),
     Determination of single sampling  plans for heterogeneous lots
(c) K. Shalini (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India),
     A. Loganathan (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India)
     Determination of single sampling plans by attributes under the con- ditions  of      zero inflated  Poison  distribution
(d) A. Loganathan (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India),
     S. Kalaiselvi (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India),
     R. Vijayaraghavan (Bharathiar Univ., India)
     Bayesian  reliability sampling plans under the conditions  of Rayleigh-
     inverse- Rayleigh distribution

(e) Ashok Kumar (Banaras Hindu  Univ., India),
     Sanjeev Kumar (Banaras Hindu  Univ., India)
     Maximum  likelihood Bayesian  analysis  of incomplete  series system data

J-7

“Design  of Experiments”
(Chair:  K.R.M. Nair, Cochin Univ.  of Sci. & Tech., India)

(a) B.Re. Victorbabu (Acharya Nagarjuna Univ., India)
     Modified second order rotatable designs using a pair of symmetrical unequal  block      arrangements with two unequal  block sizes
(b) Jyoti Sharma (Banasthali Univ., India),
     Jagdish Prasad (Univ.  of Ra jasthan, India),
     Sarla Pareek (Banasthali Univ., India)
     On construction of fractional factorial plan
(c) Kunja Deka (Handique Girls College, India),
     Bipin  Gogoi (Dibrugarh Univ., India)
     Role of few statistics for testing main effects in a three-way factorial experiment
(d) Bipin  Gogoi (Dibrugarh Univ., India),
     Kunja Deka (Handique Girls College, India)
     Robustness  and power of few tests for testing main effects in a 3-way factorial      experiment
(e) Nairanjana Dasgupta (Washington State Univ., USA),
     Mike Jacroux (Washington State Univ., USA),
     Partially replicated fractional factorial designs

 

J-8


U.S.Nair Young Statistician Award Competition

(a) Amitava Mukherjee (Ume University, Ume, Sweden)
     Nonparametric Partially Sequential Tests for Possible Presence of
     Trend in Location
(b) Srilakshminarayana.G (University Of Mysore, Manasagangotri, India)
      BARNDORFF NIELSON'S FORM OF THE LAW OF THE ITERATED
      LOGARITHM FOR rth MOVING MAXIMA
(c) Neelabh Rohan (University of Pune, India)
      Asymmetric volatility models with structural breaks


 
     
     
 
K-1

“Reliability”
(Chair:  Y. Krishna Reddy, RGKC,  IIT,  India)

(a) Pardeep Gupta (Sant Longowal Inst. of Eng.  & Tech.,  India),
     Atul  Goyal (Lala  La japathi Rai Inst. of Eng.  & Tech.,  India)
     Modeling and availability  analysis  of a repairable production system based on      Markov model
(b) Ch.V.M.K. Hari (GITAM Univ., India),
     G. Srinivas (GITAM Univ., India),
     K. Naveen Kumar (GITAM Univ., India),
     Ch. Pavan Satish (GITAM Univ., India)
     Reducing coupling and increasing cohesion with aspect oriented pro- gramming to      improve software reuse
(c) P.C. Jha (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     Kuldeep Chaudhary (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     P.K. Kapur (Univ.  of Delhi, India)
     Optimal  testing  effort allocation  for modular software system
(d) B. Ramanna (Rayalaseema Univ., India),
     S. M. Verma (Rayalaseema Univ., India),
     Y. Raghunatha  Reddy (Rayalaseema Univ., India),
     G. Y. Sagar (Malla  Reddy  Eng.  College, India)
     Availability  and  frequency measures  for  a  three-unit with  chance CCS failures
(e) S.K.  Singh (Pt.  Ravishankar Shukla  Univ., India),
     Kanti Sahu (Pt. Ravishankar Shukla  Univ., India)
     A study on a two unit  parallel system  subject to inspection and  re- placement

K-2

“Biostatistics”
(Chair:  M.C. Babu, Andhra Univ., India)

(a) Gurprit (Delhi Univ., India),
      Neeta (Delhi Univ., India)
      On the estimation of survival times  of cardiac patients in Delhion the basis of       number of non-fatal  myocardial infarctions
(b) Krishna K. Saha (Central Connecticut State Univ., USA)
      Analysis  of proportions for clustered binary data  in the preference of unequal       dispersions
(c) M. Nagavara Prasad (Emergency Mgmt.  & Res.  Inst., India),
      Biranchi N. Jena (Emergency Mgmt.  & Res.  Inst., India)
      Study  on  incidence  of fever and  utilization of emergency medical services in       Andhra Pradesh
(d)  Neeraj  Tiwari  (Kumaun University),
      K. Ram Mohan  Rao (Indian Inst. of Remote Sensing, India),
      V.S. Tolia (District Tuberculosis Officer, India)
      Investigation of tuberculosis clusters in  Dehradun city  using  Geo- graphical       information system and spatial  scan  statistic
(e) Siuli Mukhopadhyay (IIT-Bombay, India),
      Varghese George (Medical  College Of Georgia,  USA),
      Hongyan Xu (Medical  College Of Georgia,  USA)
      Variable selection  method  for quantitative trait  analysis  based  on parallel       genetic  algorithm

K-3

 “Statistical Quality  Control”
(Chair:  Kalyan Das, Univ.  of Calcutta, India)

(a) Anoop Chaturvedi (Univ.  of Allahabad, India),
      Chandra Gulati (Wollongong  Univ., Australia)
      Control charts for observations on 2-D grid with general autocorre- lations             structure
(b) S. Datta Deka (Dibrugarh Univ., India),
     B. Gogoi (Dibrugarh Univ., India)
     Study on some control chart models:  A nonparametric approach
(c) B. Sri Ram (SRP  Institute of Tech.,  India),
     V. Srinivas (SRP  Institute of Tech.,  India)
     Extreme value control charts in some life testing  models
(d)  R. Subba Rao (Shri Vishnu  Engg.  College for Women,  India),
     R.R.L. Kantam (Acharya Nagarjuna Univ., India)
     SPRT  - Software quality assessment
(e) Ch. Mohan Prasad (Vivekananda Deg.  & P.G.  College, India),
     Ch. Srinivas (Vivekananda Deg.  & P.G.  College, India),
     R. Kiran Kumar (Vivekananda Deg.  & P.G.  College, India)
     Recent  developments  in statistical quality control - A study

K-4

“Operations Research”
(Chair:  P.K. Kapoor, Univ.  of Delhi, India)

(a) P.C. Jha (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     Kanika Gandhi (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     Sandhya Makkar (Intl. School of Business and  Media, India),
     K.K. Aggarwal (Univ.  of Delhi, India)
     Multi-item  procurement-distribution supply chain model incorporat- ing price           freight discount
(b) P.C. Jha (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     Indumati (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     Indu Tyagi (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     P.K. Kapur (Univ.  of Delhi, India)
     Interactive  approach to  release time  problem of a  software under fuzzy                environment
(c) A. Thangam (Gandhigram Rural  Univ., India),
     R. Uthayakumar (Gandhigram Rural  Univ., India)
     Two-echelon  trade credit policy in  a  supply chain  with perishable items  under      two different payment  methods
(d) P.G. Khot (Nagpur Univ., India),
     P.A. Thakre (JSCOE, India)
     Solving fuzzy linear programming problem as multi-objective  linear programming      problem
(e) Prabha Rohatgi (Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla  Univ., India),
     Nidhi Shrivastava (Rungta College of Eng.  & Tech.,  India)
     Queueing  analysis  of ATM services in India

K-5

“Computer Networks”
(Chair:  A.V.D. Rao, A.N. Univ., India)

(a) K.L. Kagade (Dr.  B.A.M.  Univ., India),
     V.H. Bajaj (Dr.  B.A.M.  Univ., India)
     Fuzzy approach for solving multi-objective  assignment problem
(b) V. Bapuji (Kakatiya Univ., India),
     S.S.V.N. Sarma (Kakatiya Univ., India)
     Pervasive computing  technology  paradigms in  mobile  ad  hoc  net- works
(c) V. Sireesha  (GITAM Univ., India),
     N. Ravi Shankar (GITAM Univ., India)
     A  new  approach to  find  possible  critical paths  in  a  fuzzy project network
(d) V. Siva Bhaskara Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
     G. Sasi Bhushana Rao (Andhra Univ., India)
     Modeling of mobile cellular base station  and mobile devise optimum radiating           powers to reduce the microwave frequencies radiation haz- ards on human
     beings
(e) Nageswara  Rao Kuda (Andhra Univ., India)
     Multi  protocol label switching  (MPLS)  – A new concept  of router switching

K-6

“Applied Probability, Probability & Limit  Theorems”
(Chair:  Ramji Tiwari, Univ.  of Jammu, India)

(a) M.B. Rao (Univ.of Cincinnati, USA)
     Hemachandra numbers, Fibonacci  numbers, patterns in coin tossing and Indian       music
(b)  P. Deepthi (Pydah College of Eng.  & Tech.,  India)
     Decoy’s operational jamming  effect
(c) Dhritikesh  Chakrabarthi (Handique Girls College, India)
     Probability: Determination of its value
(d)  S. Bagh (Sambalpur Univ., India),
     M.K. Pal (ICFAI  National College, India)
     The expected number of maxima  of a random algebraic polynomial
(e) S.C. Parmar (Water Resources  Eng.  & Manag.  Inst., India),
     D.T. Shete (Mahara ja Shiva jirao Univ.  of Baroda,  India)
     Probability distribution analysis  of maximum consecutive  days rain- fall data  for      Ahmedabad  District of Gujarat, India

K-7

“Bayes  Inference”
(Chair:  Rakesh Srivastava, MS Univ., India)

(a) Ashutosh  Shukla (Banaras Hindu  Univ., India),
     B.P.  Singh (Banaras Hindu  Univ., India)
     Bayes estimation of scale parameter of classical  Pareto distribution under LINEX      loss function  using MCMC technique
(b) Bhaswati  Mukherjee (Bristol Myers Squibb,  India)
     A new tool for predictive model choice based on absolute  error loss function
(c) Srinivasan Balaji (George Washington Univ., USA),
    Hosam Mahmoud (George Washington Univ., USA)
     Phases  in the mixing of gases via the Ehrenfest urn model
(d) Satyaki  Mazumder (Univ.  of Texas  at Dallas,  USA),
     Robert  Serfling (Univ.  of Texas  at Dallas,  USA)
     Exponential inequality  and  Bahadur representations  for the  MAD
     and applications
(e) Taeryon Choi (Korea  University, S. Korea),
     Jaeyong Lee  (Seoul National Univ., S. Korea),
     Anindya Roy (Univ.  of Maryland, USA)
     A note on the Bayes factor in a semi-parameter regression model

K-8

“Time  Series Analysis”
(Chair:  D. Bhattacharya, Viswa Bharathi U., India)

(a) Amrender Kumar (Indian Agr.  Stat. Res.  Inst., India),
     Ratna Raj Laxmi (Maharshi Dayananda Univ., India)
     Weather based forecasting models for crop yield using artificial neu- ral networks      approach
(b) G. Hareesh (Inst. for Systems Studies & Analyses,  India),
      N.Balakrishna (Cochin  Univ.  of Sci. & Tech.,  India)
      Stable auto-regressive model and time series analysis
(c) Rajkumari Sanatombi  Devi (SMIMS and  CRH,  India),
     Girish Chandra (Coll.  of Agr.  Eng.  & Post Harvest Tech., India)
     Trends and forecasting the estimation of different contraceptive needs in the           districts of Sikkim
(d) S. Eakambaram  (Annamalai Univ., India),
     R. Elangovan (Annamalai Univ., India)
     On  the  least  absolute  error estimation of linear regression models with
     auto-correlated errors

(e) Sujatha  Verma (ISB and  M, India)
     Revolution  in  the  Indian  car industry: A time  series analysis  for Maruthi      Suzuki


 
     
 
L-1

“Biostatistics”
(Chair:  P. Venkatesan, ICMR,  India)

(a) V.B.S. Srilatha  Indira Dutt (Andhra Univ., India),
     G. Sasi Bhushana Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
     K.V.N.M. Prasad (APGENCO, India),
     A.V.N.S. Mrudula (Andhra Univ., India)
     Ionospheric tomography using medical imaging technique for precise
     GPS  navigation  solution
(b) Vijay Kumar Mago (DAV College, India),
     M. Syamala Devi (Punjab Univ., India),
     Ajay Bhatia (CTIMT, India)
     Ravinder Mehta (Mehta Child Care Centre, India)
     Selecting  a  medical  specialist  agent:   Fusion  of Bayesian   network and          
     contract net protocol

(c) S. Rajesh (V.R.  Siddhartha Eng.  College, India),
     S. Pratima (DJR Inst. of Eng.  & Tech.,  India),
     L.S.S. Reddy (LBR College of Eng.,  India)
     DNA pattern matching  using KMP  algorithm
(d) Anil Dada Warbhe (GHRCE, India),
      Rajiv V. Dharaskar (GHRCE, India),     
     Bharati Kalambhe (GHRCE, India)
     Denoising  of phonocardiographic records using independent compo- nent analysis
(e) Devarapalli Dharmaiah (Vignan’s Inst. of Inf.  Tech.,  India),
     R. Rajender (Vignan’s Inst. of Inf.  Tech.,  India)
       Analyzing  the  protein protein interaction using  Bayesian  network in
       b
ioinformatics
(f ) A.S. Talawar  (Karnataka Univ., India),
     K.S. Wali (Gulbarga Univ., India)
     Modeling of HIV/AIDS epidemic  in homosexual population
(g) R.M. Sarvade (Karnataka Univ., India),
     A.S. Talawar  (Karnataka Univ., India)
     A study of waiting time distribution for the preferred sex
(h) Manoj Kumar (Punjab Univ., India),
     Rashpal Singh (Univ.  of Jammu, India)
     A comparative study  of Stein-mixed  type estimator under balanced loss function
(i) Nazneen Shariff (Edinburgh Univ., UK)
     Statistical methods  to analyze ordinal categorical data  arising from the clinical      tail of drugs from the pharmaceutical industry
(j)  B. Prasad (Vignan’s Inst. of Inf.  Tech.,  India),
     P. Praveen Kumar (Vignan’s Inst. of Inf.  Tech.,  India)
     A novel facial detection  algorithm based on DCT  and LDA

L-2

“Distribution Theory”
(Chair:  N. Balakrishna, Cochin U. of Sci. & Techn.)

(a) M.K. Patil (P.V.P. Mahavidyalaya, India),
     D.T. Shirke (Shiva ji Univ., India)
     Some new zero-inflated models
(b)  Girish Chandra (Coll.  of Agr.  Eng.  & Post Harvest Tech., India) Near optimal      allocation  model for skewed distributions in ranked set sampling
(c) Kiruthika (Pondicherry Univ., India),
     Subhradev Sen (Pondicherry Univ., India)
     On characterization of some families of derived power series distri- butions
(d)  V. Rohini  Kumari  (Andhra Univ., India)
     On two-component mixture of three-parameter  generalized Gaussian- type           distribution
(e) Rajendran (Cornell  Univ., USA),
      Martin T. Wells (Cornell  Univ., USA)
     Improved Lasso estimation
(f ) M.S. Bhalachandra (K.T.H.M. College, India)
     Distributional properties of order statistics corresponding to a ran- dom sample      from subexponential  distribution
(g) N.K. Sajeev Kumar (Govt.  College, India)
     Use of quasi-ranges in the estimation of a scale parameter of a sym- metric      
     distribution
.
(h)  Rousan  Ara Begum (Darrang College, India)
     A discrete class of probability distributions with variety of applica- tions
(i) K. Sumathi (Mangalore Univ., India),
     K. Aruna Rao (Mangalore Univ., India)
     On epidemiological  models using zero-inflated distributions:  A case study of      
     cross sectional  data  from a dental  setup

(j)  S.P. Nabar (Univ.  of Mumbai,  India),
     S.C. Deshmukh (K.C.  College, India)
     Estimation and  testing  of parameters  for epsilon  skew-normal and epsilon
     skew-Laplace distributions


L-3

“Data  Mining”
(Chair:  K.S. Srinivasa Rao, Times Bus.  Sch., India)

(a) K. Swapnadevi (SVU College of Eng., India),
     M.M. Naidu (SVU College of Eng.,  India),
     H. Ravisankar (CTRI, India)
     An efficient algorithm for mining  maximal  frequent item sets
(b)  T. Srikanth (GITAM Univ., India)
     Retrieval of resources from web using rough set theory
(c) K. Phalguna Rao (Shri Vishnu  Eng.  Coll.  for Women,  India)
     Disk-aware mining  and indexing of massive time series data  sets
(d) M. Suneetha (Ra jah RSRK  Ranga  Rao Coll., India),
      M. Ramesh (Ra jah RSRK Ranga  Rao Coll., India)
      Managing very huge databases  and data  warehousing
(e) P. Kamakshi (Kakatiya Inst. of Tech.  & Sci., India)
     A review of privacy preserving data  mining  algorithms
(f ) R. Satya  Rajendra Singh (Narayana Eng.  Coll., India)
     Mining  frequent patterns  from very high-dimensional data:  A row- wise      
     comparison enumeration approach

(g) Sandhya Joshi (MGR  Univ., India),
     Deepa Shenoy (Visvesvaraya Coll.  of Eng.,  India),
      K.R
. Venugopal  (Visvesvaraya Coll.  of Eng., India),
      L.M. Patnaik (Defense Inst. of Adv.  Tech., India)
     Assessing various stages of dementia  using neuropsychological tests and      
     machine  learning methods

(h) S. Selva Kumar (Manonmaniam Sundarnar Univ., India),
     K. Senthamaraikannan (Manonmaniam Sundarnar Univ., India)
     Similarity analysis  in time series data
(i)  Sujatha  Mukharjee (Kolkatta, India)
     The  ARIMA(0,  1,  2)  (0,  1,  1)  32 model and  confidence  intervals
     (Part II)

L-4

“Operations Research”
(Chair:  P.G. Khot, Nagpur  Univ., India)

(a) P. Chandra Kala (Arora  Degree Coll., India),
     G. Varalakshmi (J.B.M.C.A. College, India),
     P. Raja Sekhara Reddy (S.V. Univ., India)
     Duality for nonsmooth  non-linear multiobjective fractional program- ming in      
     terms of weak vector saddle point theorem under V-invexity

(b) P.Mahalakshmi (Bishop  Heber Coll., India),
     A. Srinivasan (Bishop  Heber Coll., India)
     M/M/1queuing model having two types of essential  services along with optional
     service

(c) Brijesh Ainapur (BITS,  India),
     P.R. Vittal (Univ.  of Madras,  India)
     Goal programming – A key to supply chain  success
(d) T. Srinivas Rao (ASE, India),
     N.V.  Naidu  (MSRIT, India),
     K. Mallikarjuna Babu (BMSE,  India)
     Design of web-based aggregation of materials in a supply chain  net- work using      genetic algorithm
(e) K. Maddulety (Natl.  Inst. of Indust. Eng., India),
     Raghav Vaghela (Natl.  Inst. of Indust. Eng., India)
     Paper on  framing relocation  strategy for optimal  use  of manufac- turing      
     facilities
(f ) Raghav Vaghela (Natl.  Inst. of Indust. Eng., India),
     K. Maddulety (Natl.  Inst. of Indust. Eng., India)
     Designing  and developing scientific  inventory management model
(g) S. Kanchana (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India),
     K. Senthamarai Kannan (Manonmaniam Sundaranar U., India),
     V. Ganesan (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India)
     Erlangian bulk service queue with controllable rates
(h) Safar Fazli (Imam  Khomeini  Intl. Univ., Iran),
     Seyed Sina Madani (Imam  Khomeini  Intl. Univ., Iran)
     Using AHP  priorities with goal programming in resource allocation in construction
(i) Sunil V. Kawale (Dr.B.Ambedkar Marathawada U., India)
    V.H.Bajaj (Dr.B.Ambedkar Marathawada U., India)
    Inventory model for deteriorating items with declining demand, defective
    product recycle and holding cost varies with time
(j) Swati Agrawal (Devi Ahilya Univ., India)
    Snidha Banerjee (Devi Ahilya Univ., India)
    Two-warehouse inventory model for deteriorating items with ramp type
    demand
(k) Kaparthi (Visakhapatnam Port Trust, India)
    Optimum capacity of the berth after setting up mechanical unloading
    facilities in sea water port - A case study

L-5

“SQC  & Reliability”
(Chair:  Elangovan, Annamalai Univ., India)

(a) SC MALIK (MD Univ. Rohtak)
      Dheeraj Pawar (Amity Univ. Noida)
      Reliability and Profit evaluation of a system with different repair policies       subject to weather conditions
(b)  Ajit  Goswamy (Dhibrugarh Univ., India),
     H.N. Dutta (Dhibrugarh Univ., India)
     Studies on process capability indices:  An empirical study in a chem- ical industry      in Assam
(c) Gauri Shankar (Pt. Ravishankar Shukla  Univ., India)
     Disease:  A statistical quality control perspective
(d)  P.K. Chourasia (Pt. Ravishankar Shukla  Univ., India),
      Gauri Shankar (Pt. Ravishankar Shukla  Univ., India) Conditional corrective            action  plan for three attribute classes
(e) G.P. Prasada Reddy (G.  Narayanamma Inst.  of Tech.   & Sci., India)
     Role of statistical thinking  in six sigma
(f ) Gurprit Grover (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
     A.K. Gadpayle (Dr.Ram Manohar Lohia Hosp., India),
     Manoj (Univ.  of Delhi, India)
     Estimation of probability of death  of AIDS patients in the presence of competing       risks in National  Capital  Territory, Delhi, India
(g) K. Rosaiah (Acharya Nagarjuna Univ., India),
      R.R.L. Kantam (Acharya Nagarjuna Univ., India),
      B. Srinivasa Rao (R.V.R  & J.C. Coll.  of Eng., India),
      J. Pratap Reddy (St. Ann’s PG  College, India)
      Extreme value charts and analysis  of means  (ANOM)  based on log- logistic
      distribution

(h)  K.K. Suresh (Bharathiar Univ., India),
      N.V. Saravanakumar (Bharathiar Univ., India)
      Construction and selection of chain sampling plans through six sigma quality
      methods

(i) K.K. Suresh (Bharathiar Univ., India),
    V. Sangeetha (Bharathiar Univ., India)
     Designing of suspension  system based on quality interval with single sampling       plan
(j)  K.M. Sakthivel (Bharathiar Univ., India),
      R. Vijayaraghavan (Bharathiar Univ., India)
      A study  on  the  performance measures and  the  selection  of double sampling        inspection plans with smaller acceptance numbers
(k)  P.C. Jha (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
      Ritu Arora (Univ.  of Delhi, India),
      P.K. Kapur (Univ.  of Delhi, India)
      Optimal  testingtime allocation  of modular software system for flex- ible SRGM       incorporating imperfect debugging

L-6

“Cryptography & Network Security”
(Chair: V.K. Sastry, IIT-Kharagpur, India)

(a)  I.L. Narasimha Rao (Aurora Degree & PG  Coll., India),
      N. Ch. Bhatra Charyulu (Osmania Univ., India)
      Methods for the construction of visual cryptographic secret sharing schemes
(b)  B. Umaprasada Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
      P. Vasudeva Reddy (Andhra Univ., India)
      An ID-based  blind signature scheme from bilinear pairings
(c) K.V.S.S.R.S.S. Sarma (Univ.  of Hyderabad, India),
      P.S. Avadhani (Andhra Univ., India)
      Pell’s equation  based cryptosystem for providing confidentiality and           
     authentication

(d)  M. Kishore Kumar  (AIET, India),
     S. Raghunanda Reddy (St. Mary’s CIT,  India)
     Roll based access  control and  Extensible  Markup Language  (XML)
     security in adhoc networks
(e) S. Gopi Krishna (Acharya Nagarjuna Univ., India),
     S. Siva Nageswara Rao (Narasaraopeta Eng.  Coll., India)
     Security issues in open source web systems
(f ) K. Lakshminadh (Narasaraopeta Eng.  Coll.  India),
     S. Gopi Krishna (Acharya Nagarjuna Univ., India)
     System security using higher order differential power analysis
(g) Somu Venkateswarlu (PSCMR Coll.  of Eng.  & Tech.,  India),
     K. Jaganmohan (PSCMR Coll.  of Eng.  & Tech.,  India),
     A. Srinivasa Rao (Nalanda Inst. of Eng.  & Tech.,  India),
     G. Rajesh Chandra (PSCMR Coll.  of Eng.  & Tech.,  India)
     Visual  cryptography techniques  for color images
(h)  B. Sridhar (Sree Chaitanya PG  Coll., India),
     Khaja Ziauddin (Sree Chaitanya PG  Coll., India),
     T. Pallavi (Sree Chaitanya PG  Coll., India)
     A focus on security issues for the data  in cloud computing
(i) D. Shravani (Rayalaseema Univ., India),
     P. Radhika (Rayalaseema Univ., India),
     P. Suresh Varma (Adikavi  Nannaya Univ., India)
     Designing  dependable  service oriented web services security archi- tectures      
     solutions
(j)  Rajkumar Goswami (Andhra Univ., India),
     G. Sasi Bhushana Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
     Vinod Naik Bhukya  (Andhra Univ., India),
     M.N.V.S.S.  Kumar  (Andhra Univ., India)
     Analysis  of impact  of change  of states  on  implementation of rate
     1/3,  8PSK  TCM  scheme  in  digital  communication  over AWGN
     channel

L-7

“Nonparametric Inference”
(Chair:  V. Hara Gopal, Osmania  Univ., India)

(a)  Y.S. Rama Krishnaiah (Aurora Deg.  & PG  College, India),
       K. Satyanarayana (Aurora Deg.  & PG  College, India)
        Bootstrapping estimators of mixing proportions
(b)  K. Satish (Aurora Deg.  & PG  College, India),
       Y.S. Rama Krishnaiah (Aurora Deg.  & PG  College, India)
       On  the  estimation of mixing  proportions based  on  non-i.i.d. sequences
(c)  R.R. Savapandit (D.R.  College, India),
      B. Gogoi (Dibrugarh Univ., India)       
      Bootstrapping in some statistical hypothesis  testing  problems
(d)  Min S. Park (Seoul National Univ., S. Korea)
      Testing  in nonparametric  varying coefficient  additive  models
(e) Chanchala Ghadge (Univ.  of Pune,  India),
      T.V. Ramanathan (Univ.  of Pune,  India)
      Rank  test  for testing  randomness of the technology parameter in a stochastic       frontier regression model
(f ) B. Gogoi (Dibrugarh Univ., India)
      A study on some K-sample  tests  under umbrella alternatives
(g) E. Abdul Saleem (Bharathiar Univ., India),
      Maya T. Nair (Bharathiar Univ., India)
      Parametric and  non-parametric estimation in failure time  mixture models
(h)  Sucharita  Ghosh (Swiss Fed.  Res.  Inst., Switzerland) Nonparametric             estimation of distribution functions   for  Gaussian subordination models and
      applications

(i) V.B. Joshi (Karnatak Univ., India),
      I.D. Shetty (Karnatak Univ., India)
      A class  of distribution-free tests  for C-sample  scale  problem based on the
      generalized Rosenbaum’s  test

(j)  D.T. Shirke (Shiva ji Univ., India),
      V.Y. Pawar (Vivekanand College, India)
      Nonparametric moving average control charts

L-8

ISPS MSc Project Presentation Competition

       This year, we had received in all 13 entries. Based on the evaluation        by experts following three teams have been short listed.

(a) Sneha Jadhav, Sonal Jaikar, Poonam Bhuse and Aritra  Kanjilal,         University of Pune,Pune.(MS)
(b) Kulkarni Hemant S., Patil Shivaji N. , More Vijay P. and Kamble Tejaswi S.     Shivaji University, Kolhapur(MS)
(c) Manjit Vishal, Ashutosh Kumar Jha, Mrinal Kumar and Rohan Kumar Verma     Patna University, Patna (Bihar)



 
     
 
M-1

“SQC  & Reliabiltiy”
(Chair:  Mohammad Aktar, S.K. Univ., India)

(a) H.N. Dutta (Dibrugarh Univ., India),
      Gohain Deepjan (North Lakshmipur Coll., India)
      Exponentially  weighted moving average (EWMA)  control charts mod- eling:
      Bibliography and review

(b) Marianne Frisen (Univ.  of Gothenburg, Sweden)
      Multivariate surveillance
(c) Neelufur (GITAM Univ., India),
     K. Venkata  Subbiah (Andhra Univ., India)
      A comparative study  of designing  the  control charts with random out-of-control       times
(d) N. Unni Krishnan Nair (Cochin  Univ., India),
      B. Vinesh Kumar (Cochin  Univ., India)
      L-moments  of residual life
(e) A. Anand (G.V.P. Degree College, India)
      Control chart with truncated Weibull in-control times

M-2

 “Distribution Theory”
(Chair:  M.K. Reddy, Osmania  Univ., India)

(a) U.V. Subba Rao (Dadi  Inst. of Eng.  & Tech.,  India)
      On additive  uniform-exponential distribution
(b) G.A. Kalyani (M.R.  College,India)
      A compound  bimodal exponential  distribution
(c) V.V. Hara  Gopal (Osmania Univ., India),
     Joshna Goud (Osmania Univ., India),
     S.N. Narahari Pandit (Osmania Univ., India)
     Local information based parameter estimation
(d) K. Umakrishna (GITAM Univ., India)
      Joint distribution of age at investment and period of investment
(e) B. Muniswamy (Andhra Univ., India)
      Compounded  new symmetric-normal distribution

M-3

“Data Mining”
 (Chair:  P.C. Jha, Univ.  of Delhi, India)

(a) R.L.K. Venkateswarlu (Sasi Inst. of Tech.  & Eng.,  India)
      Developing stochastic  grammar using syntactic pattern recognition
(b) A. Nagesh (Mahatma Gandhi  Inst. of Tech.,  India),
      V.Kamakshi Prasad (JNT Univ., India)
      Automatic language identification using Mel frequency cepstrum co- efficient and       vector quantization
(c) B.T. Maruthi (Aurora Deg.  & PG  College, India),
      S.N. Narahari Pandit (Aurora Tech.  & Res.  Inst., India)
      A comparison between performance of artificial neural networks and multiple
      regression approach

(d) K. Vedavathi (GITAM Univ., India)
      Supervised data  mining  algorithm using bivariate AR(1)  model
(e) S. Achyuta (Andhra Univ., India)
      Unsupervised learning algorithm using new symmetric distribution

M-4

“Stochastic Process”
(Chair:  P.R. Vittal, Univ.  of Madras,  India)

(a) P. Konda Babu (MR College, India),
      G.A. Kalyani (MR College, India)
      Two graded manpower model with bulk recruitment
(b) S. Parthasarathy (Annamalai Univ., India),
      M.K. Ravichandran (Annamalai Univ., India),
      M. Chitra (Annamalai Univ., India)
      Discrete  case  of  SCBZ  property  applying  in  manpower  planning model
(c) S. Govinda Rao (Ra ja RSRK  Ranga  Rao College, India)
      On bivariate stochastic  manpower planning  model
(d) A.V.S. Suhasini (Sri Venkateswara Univ., India),
      P. Tirupathi Rao (Sri Venkateswara Univ., India),
      P. Rajasekhar Reddy (Sri Venkateswara Univ., India)
      Optimal  manpower recruitment  policy through stochastic  program- ming in
      graded manpower systems

(e) V. Srinivasa Rao (Acharya Ranga  Agri.  Univ., India)
      Stochastic  graded manpower systems

M-5

“Operations Research”
(Chair:  S.K. Singh, Pt.Ravi Shanker Shukla U., India)

(a) A. Lakshmana Rao (Aditya Inst. of Tech.  & Manag.,  India) Load dependent        tandem queuing model with two service stations hav- ing finite buffers
(b) B. Venkataramudu (S.S.B.N.  Degree College, India),
      Y. Krishna Reddy (IIIT,  India)
      Optimal  replacement policy for two-unit  cold standby  system  using geometric
      process

(c) Ch. Ganapathi Swamy (Aditya Inst. of Tech.  & Manag.,India),
      P. Srinivasa  Rao (Andhra Univ., India)
      Queuing  model with hyper Erlangian service times
(d) G. Ramesh  (Andhra Univ., India)
      Single server queuing models with truncated distributions
(e) K. Surya Narayana Rao (Al-Ameer  Coll.  of Eng.  & IT, India),
      N. Ravi Shankar (GITAM Univ., India)
      Estimating the mean  and variance of activity  duration in PERT

M-6

“Communication Networks”
(Chair:  S.M. Varma, Rayalaseema Univ., India)

(a) P.S. Rama Chowdary (Raghu  Eng.  College, India),
      V.V.S.S.S. Chakravarthy (Raghu  Inst. of Tech.,  India),
      Sk.A. Rahiman (PVPSIT, India)
      Performance analysis  of mandatory modes of IEEE  802.11g PHY
(b)  M.V. Rama Sundari (Aditya Eng.  College, India),
      P. Srinivasa  Rao (Andhra Univ., India)
      Performance evaluation  of a communication network with balking
(c) G. Padmavathi (Govt.  Polytechnic, India),
      K.V.V.S.  Reddy  (Andhra Univ., India)
      Performance evaluation  of a communication network model with a splitter and       dynamic  bandwidth allocation
(d) Ch.R. Phani Kumar (GITAM Univ., India),
      V. Malleswara Rao (GITAM Univ., India),
      D. Uday Kumar (GITAM Univ., India)
      Tempest  protection of IT  infrastructure

M-7

“Cryptography & Network Security and Image Processing”
(Chair:  C.V.R.S. Vijay Kumar, IIFM,  India)

(a)  S. Venkata  Appaji (ASTRA, India),
      G.V.S. Acharyulu (ASTRA, India),
      P. Vijayababu Varma (ASTRA, India)
      Image encryption using three-level hill cipher algorithm
(b)  Tapas Kumar Sinha (North Eastern Hill Univ., Shillong),
      Vijay Prasad  (St. Anthony College, Shillong)
      A  novel  technique  for secure transmission  of sensitive  data  over internet
(c) K. Raghavarao (SRREC, India),
     Amjan Shaik (ASTRA, India),
     B. Bhaskara Rao (GITAM Univ., India)
     Object oriented analysis  and design using patterns
(d) G. Sasi Bhushana Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
      M.N.V.S.S.  Kumar  (Andhra Univ., India),
      S. Deva Prasad (Andhra Univ., India),
      Rajkumar Goswami (Andhra Univ., India)
      Extraction of 3-D information from 2-D underwater SONAR images
(e) S. Swapna  Rani  (GITAM Univ., India),
      U. Anusha (Visakha  Eng.  College, India),
      G. Sasi Bhushana Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
      Rajkumar Goswami (Andhra Univ., India)
      Performance analysis of linear and non-linear, spatial filters for noise reduction in
      image processing

M-8

“Signal  Processing”
(Chair:  Anoop Chaturvedi, Univ.  of Allahabad,India)

(a) Deepak Nag Ayyala (Univ.  of Maryland, USA),
      Junyong Park (Univ.  of Maryland, USA),
      Anindya Roy (Univ.  of Maryland, USA)
      Estimation of the proportion of exponential  signals
(b) V. Sailaja  (Godavari Inst. of Eng.  & Tech.,  India),
      K.V.V.S.  Reddy  (Andhra Univ., India)
      Text independent speaker identification model with finite doubly trun- cated
      Gaussian mixture

(c) C.S.S.R.C. Hanumantha  Rao (M.R.  College, India)
      Finite   source interdependent  multiple  server queuing  models  with
      heterogeneous errors

(d)  Srinivas Alluri (GITAM Univ., India),
      K.V.V.S.  Reddy  (Andhra Univ., India)
      Digital  signal  controller application on  direct broadcast TV  signal at KU band
      frequencies

(e) G. Sasi Bhushana Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
      Rajkumar Goswami (Andhra Univ., India),
      S. Swapna  Rani (Andhra Univ., India),  
      Mrudula (Andhra Univ., India)
      Feature extraction from the ocean acoustic  noise using higher order spectrum
      analysi

 


 
     
 
N-1

Pattern  Recognition & Image Processing”
(Chair:  D.T. Shirke, Shiva ji Univ., India)

(a)  Balamurugan (Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India),
     Senthamarai  Kannan(Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univ., India)
     Nonparametrictests  on time series to evaluate  image similarity
(b) M. Ramesh (Ra jah RSRK  Ranga  Rao Coll., India),
     M. Suneetha (Ra jah RSRK  Ranga  Rao Coll., India)
     A hybrid method for segmentation of 2D tomography images
(c) M. Kamala Kumari (Adikavi  Nannaya Univ., India),
     J.V. Ratna Kumar (Infohub  Technologies,  India)
     A frame  work  for redescriptions:   CART  wheels  on  cosmology data
(d)  P. Chandrasekhar (GITAM Univ., India),
     G.V.S. Rajkumar (GITAM Univ., India),
     Ch. Hamaraju (GITAM Univ., India),
     K. Srikanth (GITAM Univ., India)
      Some recent developments in image segmentation algorithms based on
      distantly-viewed trees

(e) G. Rajaiah (Abdul  Kalam  Inst. of Tech.  Sci., India),
     J. Ashok (Vishnu  Sri Inst. of Tech.  & Sci., India)
     Rama Sita (Vishnu  Sri Inst. of Tech.  & Sci., India)
     A neural network expert system – Oriya handwriting
(f ) M. Seetha (GNITS, India),
     G. Ravi (CBIT, India)
     A novel piano  count  decision  tree for image classification
(g) T. Sudheer Kumar (ANITS,  India),
     M. Sujana (ANITS,  India),
     E. Bharani Samrat (Raghu  Eng.  College, India)
     Power spectrum estimation of human speech using robust linear pre- dictive
      analysis

(h) V.V. Rambrahmam (ANITS,  India),
     N.V. Goutham (ANITS,  India)
     A novel approach to image compression and reconstruction
(i) S. Swapna Rani (JNTU, India),
     G. Sasi Bhushana Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
     U. Anusha (GITAM Univ., India),
     M. Nagamani (Lendi  Inst. of Eng.  & Tech.,  India)
     A new image processing segmentation algorithm for navigation  and guidance  of
     an under water robot

(j)  Srinivas Yerramalle (VIIT,  India),
     P. Srinivasa  Rao (Andhra Univ., India)
     Generalizations of model based image segmentations


N-2

“Biostatistics & Bioinformatics”
(Chair:  Saurab Ghosh, ISI-Kolkatta, India)

(a)  Nimisha Chaturvedi (Univ.  of Allahabad, India)
     Inference of gene regulatory networks of microarray data  for cancer progression      due  to  IGF-1  in  breast epithelial  cells using  dynamic Bayesian  networks
(b) N. Srinivasa Rao (Dir. of Medicinal  & Aromatic  Plants Res., India),
     K.A. Geetha (Dir.of Medicinal  & Aromatic Plants Res., India),
     Satyabrata Maiti  (Dir. of Medicinal  & Aromatic  Plants Res., India)
     Bioinformatics web-tool on herbal gardens in India
(c) K. Padmalatha (Sree Venkateswara Univ., India),
     P. Tirupathi Rao (Sree Venkateswara Univ., India),
     M. Venkateswaran (Sree Venkateswara Univ., India)
     Stochastic  programming on optimal  drug administration  for cancer treatment
(d) C.L. Usha (Al Ameer Coll., India),
     P. Tirupathi Rao (Sree Venkateswara Univ., India),
     M. Venkateswaran (Sree Venkateswara Univ., India)
     Stochastic  programming on blood glucose and insulin  regulatory sys- tem for
     Type-II  diabetes  mellitus

(e) R. Bharathi (Bhadruka Coll.  of IT, India),
     P. Tirupathi Rao (Sree Venkateswara Univ., India),
     A.V.S. Suhasani (Sree  Venkateswara Univ., India)
     Evaluation of drug efficiency through stochastic  modeling
(f ) R. Geetha (S.D.N.B  Vaishnav  Coll.  for Women,  India)
     A fractal model for microarray data
(g) S. Rajesh (V.R.  Siddhartha Eng.  Coll., India),
     S. Prathima (QIS Coll.  of Eng.  & Tech.,  India),
     L.S.S. Reddy (LBR Coll.  of Eng.,  India)
     DNA pattern matching  using KMP  algorithm
(h) Suresh Babu Mudunuri (Aditya Eng.  Coll., India),
     Priyatosh  Mishra (Aditya Eng.  Coll., India),
     Allam Appa Rao (JNT Univ., India),
     S. Pallamsetty (Andhra Univ., India)
     Short tandem  repeats extraction software: A comparative review

N-3

“Distribution Theory”
(Chair:  Smitha  P. Nabar, Univ.  of Bombay,  India)

(a) Reza Arabi (Univ.  of Tehran, Iran),
     Ahmad Parsian (Univ.  of Tehran, Iran)
     A survey on Burr-XII distribution and estimation of its parameters
(b) R.N. Rattihalli (Univ.  of Botswana, Gaborone),
     S.B. Patil (Shiva ji Univ., India)
     Estimation and  testing  of symmetric distributions:  By minimizing measures of
      asymmetry

(c) P.S.V. SrinuBabu (GIET, India)
     On a bivariate bimodal distribution
(d) G.V. Ramana Murthy (VT  College, India)
     Truncated bimodal distribution and its properties
(e) V.V.V.S. Prakash Rao (LAMFORM, India)
     Pollutent concentration modeling  using hyper-exponential distribu- tion
(f ) Chandramouli (Univ.  of Pune,  India)
     Random  hazards
(g) Goutam  Saha (MBB College, India),
     Pranitha Sarmah (Gauhati Univ., India)
     Probabilistic analysis of school examination result with special  ref- erence to the      state  of Tripura.
(h) S. Irene Kavitha (Dravidian Univ., India),
     V. Charles (Pont. Univ.  Catolica del Peru,  S. America),
     Mukesh Kumar (Pont. Univ.  Catolica del Peru,  S. America),
     P. Rajasekhara Reddy (Sree Venkateswara Univ., India)
     Measuring efficiency  through various stochastic   DEA  approaches: A
     comparative study

(i) K. Anuradha (Dr.  L.B. College, India),
     P. Rajasekhara Reddy (Sree Venkateswara Univ., India),
     J. Lakshmi Narayana (Andhra Univ., India)
     On a doubly-truncated three-parameter Laplace  distribution
(j)  N. Ramya (NIST,  India)
     On a bivariate new symmetric distribution

N-4

“Data  Mining & Multivariate Analysis”
(Chair:  S.D. Gore, Univ.  of Pune,  India)

(a) Madhavi Dabbiru (Acharya Nagarjuna Univ., India),
     Shashi Mogalla (Andhra Univ., India)
     Conceptual  overlapping clustering algorithm
(b) Tumulesh Solanky (Univ.  of New Orleans,  USA)
     Partitioninga set of exponential  populations
(c) Giri Prsad Madderla (Kakatiya Univ., India),
     B. Manjula (Kakatiya Univ., India)
     E-commerce and data  mining:  Ingredients & challenges
(d) Anita  Raju (PACE Coll.  of Eng., India),
     Ramesh Babu Peddisetty (C.R.Coll. of Eng., India)
     Security enhancements to low computational cost user authentica- tion scheme      for mobile communication
(e) Y.S. RamaKrishnaiah (Arora  Deg.  & PG  Coll., India),
     Suraj Prakash Yadav (Arora  Deg.  & PG  Coll., India)
     Data  mining  “extracting patterns from data  samples”
(f ) S.S. Desai (GKG  College, India),
     D.N. Kashid (Shiva ji Univ., India)
     Support vector machine  for regression
(g) M. Seshashayee (GITAM Univ., India),
     Ch. Satyanarayana (JNTU, India)
     On model based data  mining  using truncated Gaussian distribution
(h) Tilak Abeysinghe (Natl.  Univ.  of Singapore,  Singapore)  ,
     Gulasekaran Raja Guru (BOND  Univ., Australia)
      A Gaussian test  for cointegration based on variance difference
(i) S.V.S. Girija (Hindu  College, India),
     A.V. Dattatreya Rao (Acharya Nagarjuna Univ., India),
     I. Ramabhadra Sarma (KL Coll.  of Eng., India)
     Raising  sun cardioid model
(j) N. Madhavi (Andhra Univ., India)
     Two-variable regression under Laplace  errors

N-5

“Operations Research”
(Chair:  S.S. Handa, ISI-New Delhi, India)

(a) Kousar Jaha Begum (Andhra Univ., India)
     E.P.Q. model for deteriorating items  with generalized Pareto decay having selling      price and time dependent  demand
(b) K. Narayana Rao (Govt.  Polytechnic, India),
     K. Venkata  Subbaiah (Andhra Univ., India),
     K.G. Durga Prasad (Al-Ameer  Coll.  of Eng., India)
     Design of supply chain  with dynamic  periodic review inventory pol- icy in fuzzy
      environment

(c) K. Aruna Kumari (GITAM Univ., India)
     Two-sources heterogeneous queuing system with bulk arrivals
(d) G. Sridevi (VITAM  College of Eng., India),
     K. Nirupama Devi (Andhra Univ., India)
     Inventory model for deteriorating items with Weibull rate of replen- ishment  and      demand  as a function  of on hand inventory
(e) S. Eswara Rao (GITAM Univ., India)
     Optimal  ordering and pricing policies of an inventory model for de- teriorating      
     items with permissible delay in payments  under inflation with Weibull rate of
     decay

(f ) S.V. Uma Maheswara Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
     K. Venkata  Subbaiah (Andhra Univ., India)
     An EPQ  model for deteriorating items having alternate rate of pro- duction  and
     Weibull decay

(g) V. Papayya Sastri (VT  College, India)
      Heterogeneous queuing models with two-state  input  source
(h)  T.N. Nirmala Rani (TJPS College, India)
     The  changing  facet  of statistical education  through statistical soft- ware tools
(i) N. Rajan Babu (LIET,  India),
     G. Sasi Bhushana Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
     S. Deva Prasad (Andhra Univ., India),
     M.N.V.S.S.  Kumar  (Andhra Univ., India)
     Bit error rate analysis  of IEEE  802.11G  physical layer for manda- tory and
     optional  modes

(j)  V.V.S.S.V. Prasada Rao Patnaik (M.R.  College, India)
     An EPQ  model for deteriorating items under inflation  with variable cycle length

N-6

 “SQC  & Reliability”
(Chair: Gowri Shankar, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla Univ., India)

(a) S.K.  Singh (Pt.  Ravishankar Shukla  Univ., India),
     Kanti Sahu (Pt. Ravishankar Shukla  Univ., India),
     Anail Kumar Tiwari (Pt. Ravishankar Shukla  Univ., India)
     On  the  stochastic   analysis  of a  master slave  system  having  three types of
      non-identical units

(b)  S.M. Sunoj (Cochin  Univ.  of Sci. & Tech.,  India),
     M.N. Linu (Cochin  Univ.  of Sci. & Tech.,  India)
     Some characterizations using cumulative  residual Renyi’s entropy
(c) T.C. Ravi Chandra Kumar (Govt.  Coll.  for Men, India),
     Y. Krishna Reddy (A.P.  IIIT,  India)
     A bivariate optimal  repair replacement policy with a series process
(d)  V. Kesava Reddy (Rayalaseema Univ., India),
     Y. Raghunatha  Reddy (Rayalaseema Univ., India),
     S.M. Verma (Rayalaseema Univ., India),
     G.Y. Sagar (Malla  Reddy  Eng.  Coll., India)
     ML estimation of availability  and  frequency measure – A two unit non-identical
     system with common  cause shock failures

(e) V. Persis (Adikavi  Nannaya Univ., India),
     A. Vinay Babu (JNTU, India)
     Safety case matrix: A hybrid safety case notation for a safety crit- ical system
(f ) V.M. Chacko (St. Thomas  Coll., India),
      P.C. Pravena  (St. Thomas  Coll., India),
      M. Manoharan (Univ.  of Calicut, India)
     Identification of failure rate model of first passage time distribution of Markov
      semi-Markov system

(g) Y. Santosh  Kumar Reddy (SVCET, India),
     C. Nadamuni Reddy (SVEPCT, India),
     K. Naveen (CDAAC,  India),
     K. Ramesh Reddy (SVCET, India)
     Stochastic  reliability redundancy design of complex system-simulation
(h) B. Srinivasa Rao (VRS & YRN Coll., India)
     Stochastic  logistic equation  and software reliability growth model
(i) P.R. Vittal (Univ.  of Madras,  India)
     Stochastic  models with optimal  dividend barrier
(j) Y. Gopinath (HCL Techn.,  India)
     Pricing and  ordering policies  of an  inventory model with additive exponential  life
     time distributions

N-7

“Multivariate Analysis”
(Chair:  B. Victor  Babu, A.N. Univ., India)

(a) M. Radha  (Bharathiar Univ., India),
     R. Muttu Krishnan (Bharathiar Univ., India),
     T. Kanneswari (Bharathiar Univ., India)
     Robust  estimators and  outlier detection  procedures in  multivariate data
(b) Rajkumari Sanatombi  Devi (SM Inst. of Med.  Sci., India)
     A statistical study  on  causes  of deaths  in  Sikkim:  Evidence  from
     MCCD report
(c) Rajkumari Latasana Devi (Ghana Priya  Women’s Coll., India),
     Rajkumari Sanatombi  Devi (SM Inst. of Med.  Sci., India)
     A comparative study on family problem of HIV-infected  widows and
     HIV-infected  spouses of IDUs in Imphal west districts of Manipur
(d) R. Prabhakar Rao (Sri Satya Sai Univ., India),
     B.C. Sutradhar (Memorial  Univ.  of Newfoundland, Canada)
     On  measurement error  problem in  generalized linear  longitudinal models for
     count  data

(e) S. Gurunathan (Centre for Agri.  and  Rural  Devel.  Stud., India)
     Farmers awareness and perception towards crop insurance schemes as  a  tool
      of risk minimization – A censored regression model  ap- proach

(f ) Shivkumar M. Karreppa (MPK  Vidyapeeth, India)
     Application  of D2-statistics in cotton  breading programme
(g) Atwar  Rahman (M.V.P. College, India)
     A simpler method of computing  least-square estimates
(h) S. Prem Kumar (G.P.C.E.T., Kurnool, India)
     V.V. Venkata Ramana (NIC, Hydrebad, India)
     C. Uma Shankar (Rayalaseema Univ. Kurnool, Inida)
     Integrating data warehousing with e-Governance
(i) B. Krishna Reddy (Osmania Univ., India),
     B. Madhavi Latha (Vanitha Mahavidyalaya, India)
     Customer satisfaction in hospitality  industry – A study on star ho- tels
(j)  A.G. Matani (Govt.  Coll.  of Eng.,  India),  
     A.A.  Gulhane (Govt.  Polytechnic, India),
     Vishwas N.  Ahuja (Devika  Web Printers, India)
     IT applications improving productivity in automobile industries and services

N-8

“Time  Series Analysis”
(Chair:  R.N. Mishra, Patna Univ., India)

(a) K.V. Sujatha (Sathyabama Univ., India),
     S. Meenakshi Sundaram (Sathyabama Univ., India)
     Forecasting of sensex data  using traditional and modern computing techniques
(b) S. Suresh (Manonmaniam Sundarnar Univ., India),
     K. Senthamaraikannan (Manonmaniam Sundarnar Univ., India)
     Markov chain  prediction on fuzzy time series
(c) B. Sreenivasa Rao (AITAM, India),
     B. Sivakumar (AITAM, India),
     A. Laxmana Rao (AITAM, India)
     Dot plots for time series analysis
(d) K.W. Sandhya Nilmini Kumari (UVA Wellassa Univ., Srilanka)
     Seasonal  integrated time  series model  to  forecast monthly  rainfall and air
      temperature

(e) M. Nirmala (Sathyabhama Univ., India),
     S.M. Sundaram (Sathyabhama Univ., India)
     An artificial neural network model for forecasting of annual  rain fall in Tamilnadu
(f ) C.V.R.S. Vijaya Kumar (Ind.  Inst. of Forest Manag.,  India),
     Ashutosh  Verma (Ind.  Inst. of Forest Manag.,  India)
     Long memory evidence of NSE indices
(g) Putti  Srinivasa  Rao (Andhra Univ., India),
     Ch. Ratnam (Andhra Univ., India)
     Acceleration residual generation approach using time  series models for vibration
     based damage  identification

(h) Anitha  Soni (Technocrats Inst. of Tech.,  India),
     P.G. Khot (HOD  Univ., India)
     Full efficiency model by using Operations Research
(i) Manish Sharma (SKUASTJammu, India),
     Sharad Bhatnagar (CCSHAU-HISAR, India)
     A general class of improved product type estimators for estimating population  
     mean

(j)  M. Govinda Rao (MSN Deg.  Coll., India),
      K.S. Srinivasa Rao (Times  Business Sch., India)
      On interdependent queuing model with state  dependence


 
     
 
O-1

 “Econometrics”
(Chair:  R.N. Mishra, Patna Univ., India)

(a)  Aboobacker Jahufer  (South  Eastern  Univ. of Sri  Lanka, Sri Lanka),
      Jianbao Chen (Xiamen  Univ., China)
      Measuring local influential observations in modified ridge regression
(b)  Jubin Antony  (Mangalore Univ., India),
      Aruna Rao (Mangalore Univ., India)
      Willingness to pay:  A comparison between single and double bound estimators
(c) P. Narayanasamy (National Eng.  College , India),
      K. Senthamarai Kannan (Manonmaniam Sundaranar U., India),
      S. Suresh (Manonmaniam Sundaranar U., India)
      Stock market prediction by rescaled range analysis  and Garch model
(d)  Rudra Prakash Pradhan (IIT-Kharaghpur, India)
      The stock price and economic growth Nexus in India:  Evidence from
       cointegration test

(e) Recha Sarma (Pune  Univ., India)
      Identification and estimation of simultaneous equations model of fertility in
       Haryana


O-2

“Multivariate Analysis”
(Chair:  K. Rosayya, AN Univ., India)

(a)  G. Thirupati Reddy (SV Coll.  of Eng.  & Tech.,  India),
      K. Sreenivasa Rao (Rayalaseema Univ., India),
      Ujwal Kumar Behera (Singareni  Coll.  Co., India)
      Productivity  improvement of  coal  mines  using  data  envelopment analysis
(b)  R. Elangovan (Annamalai Univ., India)
      Determination of optimal  time to recruitment in a two-grade orga- nization
(c) S.N. Megeri (Univ.  of Agri.  Sci., India),
      H.M. Chethana (Univ.  of Agri.  Sci., India),
      S.J. Patil (Univ.  of Agri.  Sci., India)
      Prediction models for teak and agriculture crop from teak based agro forestry
       systems

(d)  P. Balasubramanyam (SV Univ., India),  
      M.  Venkata  Ramanaiah (SV Univ., India)  Graphical measures of errors in
       regression modeling

(e) D.N. Kashid (Shiva ji Univ., India)
      Variable selection  in regression using sum of transformed residuals

O-3

“Survey Sampling”
(Chair:  T.J. Rao, Univ.  of Hyderabad, India)

(a)  Amitava  Mukherjee (Umea  University, Sweden)
      Model based classification of varved lake sediment  profiles: Problems and       challenges
(b) R. Vijayaraghavan (Bharathiar Univ., India),
      D. Raja Lakshmi (Manonmaniam Sundarnar Univ., India),  
      A.  Loganathan (Manonmaniam Sundarnar Univ., India)  
      Selection of minimum
 sample size     
      tightened-normal-tightened sam- pling inspection schemes

(c)  A.H. Ansari (Kejriwall  Inst. of Manag.  and Dev.  Studies, India),
      Rahul Varshney (Aligarh  Muslim Univ., India),
      Najmussehar
(Aligarh  Muslim Univ., India),
      M.J. Ahsan (Aligarh  Muslim Univ., India)
      An optimum  multivariate multi-objective  stratified sampling  design

(d) Rahul Varshney (Aligarh  Muslim Univ., India),
      A.H. Ansari (Kejriwall  Inst. of Manag.  and Dev.  Studies, India),
      M.J. Ahsan (Aligarh  Muslim Univ., India)       
      On multivariate multi-objective  compromise allocation  in stratified sampling

O-4

“SQC  & Reliability”
(Chair:  V. Charles, CENTROM Cat., Latin America)

(a)  S. Devaraj Arumainayagam (Govt.  Arts College, India),
      G. Uma (PSG  Coll.  of Arts & Science, India)
      LQL indexed quick switching system compatible with MIL-STD-105
      E in structure

(b)  G. Gopal (Univ.  of Madras,  India),
      D. Damodaran (Min.  of Commun.  & Inf.  Tech.,  India)
      A software reliability model with generalized Weibull test effort func- tion
(c) Vinod Varghese (Reliance  Indust. Ltd., India),
      Bh
askar Bisen (Reliance Indust. Ltd., India),
      P
radeep G. Khot (RTM  Nagpur  Univ., India)
      Reduction  of chemical oxygen demand  in waste water effluent plant with       
      utilization of six sigma methodologies

(d)  Vinod Varghese (Reliance  Indust. Ltd., India), Nandeo
      W. Khobragade (RTM  Nagpur  Univ., India),
      Pradeep G. Khot (RTM  Nagpur  Univ., India)
      A systematic approach to optimize cycle time of tanker through lean six sigma
(e) R. Radha Krishnan (PSG  Coll.  of Arts & Science, India),
      P. Vasantha  Mani (SNR Sons College, India)
      Determination of lot  size  in  the  construction of double sampling plans


O-5

Design  of Experiments”
(Chair:  V. Raja  Gopal,  Annamalai Univ., India)

(a)  S. Gajanana (MVSR  Eng.  College, India),
      P. Srinivas (MVSR  Eng.  College, India)
      Mathematical model  for domestic  refrigerator using  two factorial design of       
       experiments

(b)  Swati  Raj (Banasthali Univ., India),
      Jagdish Prasad (Univ.  of Ra jasthan, India),
      Sarla Pareek (Banasthali Univ., India)
      An alternative method  of construction of partially balanced  incom- plete block
       design

(c) Susheel Kumar  Sarkar (Cent. Inst. for Res.  on Buffaloes, In- dia),
      Krishan Lal (Ind.  Agri.  Stat. Res.  Inst., India),
      Rajender Parsad (Ind.  Agri.  Stat. Res.  Inst., India),
      V.K. Gupta (Ind.  Agri.  Stat. Res.  Inst., India)
      Generation of linear trend-free designs  for fractional factorial ex- periments
(d)  T. Nancharaiah (DMSSVH  Coll.  of Eng., India),
      B. Amarnagebdram (DMSSVH  Coll.  of Eng., India),
      D. Ranga Raju (SRKR  Coll.  Of Eng., India),
      M.M.M.  Sarcar  (Andhra Univ., India)
      Optimization of process parameters in FDM process using design of experiments
(e) Amjan Shaik (JNTU, India),
      G. Anil Kumar (JNTU, India)
      C.R.K.  Reddy (JNTU, India),
      Vivek Kulkarni  (JNTU, India)
      Empirical analysis  of metrics for object-oriented design complexity

O-6

“Queues  and Inventory Modeling”
(Chair:  N.V.R. Naidu, MSRIT,  India)

(a)  Yesuf Obsie Mussa (Andhra Univ., India),
      P. Vijaya  Lakshmi (Andhra Univ., India)
      Modeling  and  analysis  of batch  service multiple  working vacation queues with       renewable input
(b)  N.M. Wazalwar (RTM  Nagpur  Univ., India),
      M.V. Khaparde (RTM  Nagpur  Univ., India)
      Waiting  time distribution of interdependent H2/M/1 queuing model
– A combinatorial approach

(c) G. Arivarignan (Madurai Kamara j Univ., India),
      B. Siva Kumar (Madurai Kamara j Univ., India)
      A perishable inventory system with postpone  and retrial demands

(d)  K.V.S. Sarma (SV Univ., India),
      P.S.R.K. Prasad (Narayana Eng.  Coll., India)
      An EOQ  model with temporary stock dependent  demand  with ran- dom lag
(e) R.N. Mishra (Patna Univ., India),
      Amita  Verma (Gangadevi Mahila  Maha  Vidy., India),
      J.K. Sinha (Dir.  of Stat. and  Eval.,  India)
      Loss systems in the queuing process in multi-server case – A discrete time
       analysis

(f ) M.D. Prasad Patnaik (M.R.  Coll., India)
      Inventory model for deteriorating items  having demand  as a func- tion  of time       with variable cycle lengths

O-7

 “Stochastic Models”
(Chair:   R. Prabhakar  Rao, Inst.  of High.  Learn..,India)

(a) P. Anusha (Cochin  Univ., India)
     P.G.Sankaran (Cochin  Univ., India)
     Regression methods for gap time hazard functions of recurrent event data with      multiple causes
(b)  B.T. Krishna (GITAM Univ., India),
      K.V.V.S.  Reddy  (Andhra Univ., India)
      FractionalFourier transform theory and applications
(c) P.R. Chavan (Dr.  BAM Univ., India),
      V.H. Bajaj (Dr.  BAM Univ., India)
      Use  of fuzzy multiple  criteria decision  making  method  in  replace- ment  
      problem

(d)  R. Satya  Prasad (AN Univ., India),
      Orsu Nagaraju (AN Univ., India), R.R.L. Kantam (AN Univ., India)
      SRGM and imperfect debugging based on multiple change-point
(e) Ruchit  Ahuja (National  Institute of Industrial  Engineering, In- dia),
      Koilakuntla Maddulety (Natl.  Inst. of Indus.  Eng.,  India)
      ISO 27001:  A methodology for gap analysis  and implementation of
      ISMS

 

 
     
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