Schedule and abstracts for the Integrated Logistics Workshop:

Thursday, Oct 31
9:00 - 9:30	Breakfast
9:30-10:30	Plenary Speaker: Ted Gifford on Practical Logistic Models (ppt presentation)
10:30 - 11:00	Tea break
11:00 - 12:30	Short talks:
	Integrating facility location and network design (pdf) Amitabh Sinha
	Primal dual algorithms for Connected Facility Location (abstract) (ppt) Chaitanya Swamy
	Simple randomized algorithms for Connected Facility Location (abstract) Anupam Gupta
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 3:00	Plenary Speaker: Adam Meyerson on Buy-at-Bulk Networking (ppt presentation)
3:00 - 3:30	Tea break
3:30 - 5:00	Short talks:
	Buy-at-bulk : LP rounding based algorithm (abstract) , ( ppt) Kunal Talwar
	Discriminative Margin Clustering (abstract) , ( ppt) Kamesh Munagala
Friday, Nov 1
9:00 - 9:30	Breakfast
9:30-10:30	Plenary Speaker: David Shmoys on Facility Location
10:30 - 11:00	Tea break
11:00 - 12:30	Short talks:
	Optimal Time Bounds for Approximate Clustering (abstract) Ramgopal Mettu
	A New Greedy Approach for Facility Location Problem (pdf) Kamal Jain
	An improved approximation algorithm for the facility location problem (pdf), (ps) Mohammad Mahdian
	Facility Location with Nonuniform Hard Capacities (abstract), ( ppt) , ( pdf) , ( ps) Martin Pal
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 3:00	Plenary Speaker: Sudipto Guha on Logistics and Databases
3:00 - 3:30	Tea break
3:30 - 5:00	Discussion of open problems

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