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Department of Statistics and Operations Research
Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid
Smarter Decisions for a Better World
November 10, 2010
Our mission To improve analytics methods for a globalised and highly competitive world
To apply them in relevant grand-challenge problems
To teach them excellently both at undergrad and postgraduate levels, emphasising ICT based learning
To contribute to third world development through science and education
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Who are we? 2 Professors
6 Associate Professors
9 Tenured Assistant Professors
3 Untenured Assistant Professors. 20 PhDs
6 Teaching Assistants
12 PhD students
110 Master students
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Research&Development strengths Methodological research grounded in complex challenging problems
From decision sciences to decision technologies From basic data to novel solution concepts From novel solution concepts to efficient algorithms From algorithms to advanced software
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Our fields
FinanceEnergy and
Water Resources
Air Transporta
tion
Supply Chain management
Public Administra
tionICT Health
Optimization
Inference
Data mining
Simulation
Decision and Risk Analysis
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Optimization Stochastic Programming (Optimization under uncertainty)
Nonlinear Programming
Integer Programming
Linear Programming
Network programming
A mixture of these main disciplines (SIP, MINLP)
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Inference Forecasting for time series models
Complex reliability models
Image processing
Complex mixture modelling
Time-space models for rainfall prediction
Bayesian prediction for queues
Bayesian analysis of stochastic processes
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Data Mining Support Vector Machines
Bayesian Analysis of Neural Network Models
Kernel Methods in Complex Classification Problems
Task segmentation for robot programming
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Simulation Bayesian Discrete Event simulation
Reduced order models for efficient complex computation
MCMC algorithms for Bayesian inference
Discrete Event Simulation for workflow lines
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Decision and Risk Analysis
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Finance Strategic adquisitions and investment planning
Cash Management
Portfolio selection on fixed rate assets
Portfolio selection on variable rate assets
Debt securitization management
Assets and Liability management
Branch offices allocation / distribution
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Public Administration and Policy Participatory budgeting systems
Resource allocation models for counterterrorism
E-participation systems
Public budget resource allocation
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Energy and Water Resources DSS for energy-efficient building operators Fair water distribution schemes Optimal management of watersheds National energy plan for Angola Technology selection for wastewater treatment DSS for electric generation (thermal, nuclear,hydro, wind, solar) planning and network distribution in competitive markets DSS for petrochemical production planning and distribution DSS for Oil & Gas network capacity expanding and workload distribution
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ICT Reliability prediction for HW/SW systems
Adversarial Risk Analysis for ICT systems
Security in e-voting systems
Task segmentation for robot programming
Trajectory planning for robots
Affective decision making and computing for social emotional robots: Aisoy 1
E-participation
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Air Transportation ATFM (Air Traffic Flow Management)
CDR (Conflict Detection & Resolution)
Collaborative Decision Making for slot allocation after an incident
Risk assessment of unintended slide deployment
Optimal fueling decisions for holding
Revenue Management
Aircraft assignment and maintenance planning
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Health Efficient algorithms for medical image reconstruction
Medical Decision Support Systems
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Supply chain management
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Decision Support Systems developed for:
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Our scientific partners
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Our partners. Developing World Universite Tizi-Ouzou, Argelia
Universidade Agostinho Neto, Angola
Universidade 11 Novembre, Angola
Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, México
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Our non-academic partners
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Current projects
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Facts Only Spanish president of EURO (Association of European Operational Research
Societies)
1st ESF project to be led by a Spanish
Next SEIO meeting to be organised by DEIO (Madrid 2012)
Only excellence network in the field (out of 50 in Sciences&Engineering) within Madrid: Riesgos-CM
Only Royal Academy member in the field
Papers published in leading journals: PAMI, Machine Learning, Management Science, Math Programming, JASA, EJOR, Annals of Stats, C&OR, Annals of OR, OMEGA, JOGO, Statistical Science, Technometrics, Decision Analysis,…
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Teaching strengths Project/Case based teaching
Emphasis on ICT based learning
Own six sigma based methodology for quality improvement
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Undergrad Analytics courses for Engineering, Journalism and Political Science
undegrads
1500 students served per year
40 final year projects per year
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PostgradMaster in Decision Systems Engineering
Reference Master in OR for MoD Quality label from MoED Supported by AECID 100 students Supported by LLP VRTUOSI program Online
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Postgrad partners
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PhDs 20+ PhD students
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Possible Cooperation European FP7 / FP8 projects
National Goverment projects
Large Spanish projects (CENIT, AVANZA Tractor)
In-house training in advanced analytics: Master Special topic courses
Support in advanced analytics consulting projects
Stages for Master students
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