Technical Program

08:25
Opening and Introductory Remarks
08:30
"Switching Constrained Online Convex Optimization with Predictions and Feedback Delays"
W. Pan, Z. Liu
09:00
"New Stability Results for Multiserver-job Models via Product-form Saturated Systems"
I. Grosof, M. Harchol-Balter, A. Scheller-Wolf
09:30
"The stationary distribution of the redundancy-d model with random order of service"
E. Anton, K. Gardner
10:00
"Insensitivity for Loss Systems with Compatibilities"
R. Xie, K. Gardner, R. Righter
10:30
"Fitting with matrix exponential mixtures generated by discrete probabilistic scaling"
J. Bor, G. Casale, W. Knottenbelt, E. Smirni, A. Stathopoulos
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
FCRC Plenary Talk
12:30
Lunch Break
13:30
"Optimal Rate Matrix Pruning For Heterogeneous Systems"
Z. Zhao, D. Mukherjee
14:00
"Distributed Rate Scaling in Large-Scale Service Systems"
D. Rutten, M. Zubeldia, D. Mukherjee
14:30
"On Rate of Convergence of Tail Probabilities to Heavy Traffic"
P. Jhunjhunwala, D. Hurtado-Lange, S.T. Maguluri
15:00
"On Ultra-Sharp Queueing Bounds"
F. Ciucu, S. Mehri, A. Rizk
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
"Time-Average MDP and Bellman-Optimality"
N. Gast, B. Gaujal, K. Khun
16:30
"Performance of the Gittins Policy in the G/G/1 and G/G/k, With and Without Setup Times"
Y. Hong, Z. Scully
17:00
"Reducing Heavy-Traffic Response Time with Asymmetric Dispatching"
R. Xie, Z. Scully
17:30
"Markov Decision Process Framework for Control-Based Reinforcement Learning"
Y. Lu, M.S. Squillante, C.W. Wu
18:00
Closing Remarks