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Schedule for ICONQR08
Day 1: 22 January 2008,
Tuesday
22
January 2008, Tuesday
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Time |
Session
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09:00 - 10:00 hrs. |
Registration
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10:00 - 10:30 hrs. |
Inauguration
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10:30-11:30 hrs. |
Key Note Address by
Vijayan N. Nair
Chairperson: C.R.Rao
Process Monitoring, Anomaly Detection and Beyond:
New Directions and Applications |
High
Tea: 11:30 - 12:00
Session -I
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22 January 2008, Tuesday (12:00 hrs. - 13:30
hrs.) |
Plenary Talk-I
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Chairperson:
Vijayan N. Nair
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Recent Research and Challenges in Reliability
Hoang Pham
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The Future of Quality
Elart Von Collani
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Lunch
13:30 - 14:45 hrs.
Session- IIA
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22 January 2008, Tuesday (14:45 hrs. - 16:15
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Characterization of Lifetime Distribution
Organiser: Dilip Roy
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Chairperson: Manisha Pal
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On Some Properties of the
Generalized Total Time on Test Transform
Jaroslaw
Bartoszewicz (Invited) |
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Nonparametric Classes of
Lifetime Distributions via Binary Associative Operation
B.L.S. Prakash Rao (Invited) |
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Characterization and
Classification of Bivariate Life Distributions based on
Reciprocal Subtangent
Dilip Roy
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Session- IIB
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22 January 2008, Tuesday (14:45 hrs. - 16:15
hrs.) |
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Quality Management - I
Organiser: B.Majumdar
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Chairperson: B.K.Pal
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TPM and Six Sigma - Exploring their Mutually Complementary Role
S. K.
Majumdar |
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Application of Six Sigma Tools for supply Chain Inventory
Control - Case Study
P. Raghavulu,
Naresh Yamini, K. Ravindranath |
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ISO 9001 : 2000 with Spirit Does Cover other Standard’s
Requirements
Gopinath T, A. K.
Chakraborty |
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A
Note on Sigma Level for Attribute Data
B.Majumdar, Ajit Jain |
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Reduction of Critical Failures in DT Meter Installation - A Case
Study
Sayan Bhattacharya,
Koushik Das, Rajendra Laha
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Session - IIC
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22 January 2008, Tuesday (14:45 hrs. - 16:15
hrs.) |
Reliability Applications
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Chairperson: S.P. Mukherjee
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Modern Developments and Applications of Mean Residual Life in
Engineering
Frank M.
Guess, J. Cody Steele, Timothy M. Young, Ramón V. León (Invited) |
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Time Variant
Reliability Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Beams Subjected to
Choride Induced Corrosion of Reinforcement
K. Balaji Rao,
M. B. Anoop, T. V. S. R. Appa Rao, N. Lakshman ( Dhiman Basu) |
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Study on
Modeling Failure Types and Failure Times with Given Failure Type
for Boring and Turning Machine
Abhijit
Ghosh, S. K. Majumdar |
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Reliability Modeling of Some Critical Machine Systems
R. Tewari, S. K. Majumdar |
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Reliability Analysis of Steel Frame Structures, Located in
Coastal Region of India
Dhiman
Basu, K. Balaji Rao |
Tea : 16:15 - 16:30 hrs.
Session- IIIA
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22 January 2008, Tuesday ( 16:30 hrs. - 18:00
hrs.) |
Reliability Models
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Chairperson : Dilip Roy
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Reliability Properties of
Parallel and Series System for Dependent Components
Felix
Belzunce (Invited) |
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Inlier Prone
Models
K. Muralidharan,
B.K.Kale
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Comparison of Performance of
Different Coherent Systems
Soma
Roychowdhury, Debasis Bhattacharya |
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Reliability Model of a System
with Major and Minor Repair by Varying Workloads
Kirti Arekar
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Session- IIIB
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22 January 2008, Tuesday ( 16:30 hrs. - 18:00
hrs.) |
Quality Management - II
Organiser: Sujit Basu |
Chairperson : Sujit Basu
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Evolution of
Information Technology Software and System Quality Assurance
Ray Paul (Invited)
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Policy
Deployment through X-matrix Leveraging Balance Score card - A
Journey towards TQM.
Animesh Kumar Sarkar
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Wither, ISO
9000?
R.S.Shankar
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A Systematic
Approach to Supplier SPC for Quality Improvement - A Case
Example
P.K.Basu |
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Trends in
Quality Management- Historical and Future
Tajjammul Hussain
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Implementation of Balanced Business Score Card in an
Organisation
A K Chaudhuri |
Session - IIIC
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22 January 2008, Tuesday ( 16:30 hrs. - 18:00
hrs.) |
Quality and Reliability Applications
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Chairperson : D.T.Ghosh
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Fault Tree
Applied to Methyl Ketone (MEK) Based Solvent Extraction
Generator (SEG) Design
Chetan Kothalkar
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Application
of Simulation Techniques for Capacity Modeling
Anurag Seksaria
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Reliability-based Design with Limit-state Factor by Stochastic
Simulations
Harpreet Singh, J. Ching
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Off-On line
Pump Dependability Study for Increasing Stability and
Effectiveness of Automated Controlled Systems in Offshore
Industry
V.
Ebrahimipour, A. Azadeh, K. Suzuki |
Day 2: 23 January 2008, Wednesday
Session -IV
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23 January 2008, Wednesday (09:30 hrs. - 11:00
hrs.) |
Plenary Talk-II
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Chairperson : Elart
Von Collani
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Integrated
Optimization Modelling in Quality Control, Production Planning,
Inventory
Control and
Maintenance: Recent Developments and Future Research Directions
M.Abdur Rahim
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Some Options
for Assembly Quality
V.E.Kane
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Tea 11:00 - 11:15 hrs
Session - VA
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23 January 2008, Wednesday (11:15 hrs. - 13:00
hrs.) |
Reliability Inference - I
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Chairperson: Md. Zafar Anis
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Applying Novel Mean Residual Life Confidence Intervals
Frank M. Guess, J. Cody Steele, Thimothy M. Young, Ramon
V. Leon (Invited) |
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Likelihood Inference for P(X<Y) in the Weibull Distribution
using Record Values
Ayman Baklizi (Invited) |
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Inference
under Progressive Interval Censoring for Discrete Lifetime Model
M. N. Patel, Ketan A.
Gajjar |
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Discriminating Weibull and Log-normal under Type-II Censored
Data
Arabin Kumar Dey
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Session - VB
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23 January 2008, Wednesday ( 11:15 hrs. - 13:00
hrs.) |
Data Analysis
Organiser: Debasis Sengupta |
Chairperson : Sukalyan Sengupta
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Accurate and Robust Tool Wear Estimation using Current Sensing
P. Bhattacharyya, D.
Sengupta, S. Mukhopadhyay |
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Establishing Process Parameter Levels for Double Sided PCBs
B. Pradhan
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Modeling and
Prediction of Pressure-Time characteristics of a Solid Rocket
Motor with Limited Data
Debasis Sengupta
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Warranty
Analysis: Early Detection of Potential Problems
A. D. Dharmadhikari, R. L. Karandikar |
Session - VC
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23 January 2008, Wednesday (11:15 hrs. - 13:00
hrs.) |
Sampling Inspection for Product Quality Assurance - I
Organiser:
R.J. Pandey |
Chairperson : Anup Majumder
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Price Adjusting Sampling plans
by Variables under Double Specification Scheme
Banibrata Roy |
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Selection of Single Sampling
Plan through Trigonometric Ratios
K. K. Suresh, P. R. Divya |
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Construction and Evaluation of
Performance Measures for Bayesian Conditional Repetitive Group
Sampling Plan
K. K. Suresh, K. Pradeepa Veerakumari |
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Designing a Quality Interval
Single Sampling Plan
T.B.Ramkumar |
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A Metaheuristic Method for
Optimizing Inspection Strategies in Serial Multi-Stage Processes
Ali Azadeh , Mohammad Sadegh Sangari |
Lunch 13:00 - 14:15 hrs.
Session - VIA
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23 January 2008, Wednesday ( 14:15 hrs. - 15:45
hrs.) |
Software Reliability Modelling and Analysis- I
Organiser:
- P. K. Kapur |
Chairperson : Hoang Pham
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A Neuro-fuzzy
Approach to Predict Software Defects using Environmental
Parameters
A. K. Verma, Anil R.,
Om Prakash Jain, Srividya A. |
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An Artificial
Neural-network based Approach for Developing a Dynamic
Integrated Software Reliability Growth Model
P. K. Kapur, Sunil Kumar Khatri, Kalpana
Yadav |
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Optimal
Testing Resource Allocation during Module Testing considering
Cost, Testing Effort and Reliability
P. C. Jha, Deepali
Gupta, Bo Yang, P. K. Kapur |
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Metrices based Early Software Reliability Prediction using Fuzzy
Logic
K. Saravana Kumar, R. B. Misra |
Session - VIB
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23 January 2008, Wednesday ( 14:15 hrs. - 15:45
hrs.) |
Health Care and Risk Models
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Chairperson : Anup Dewanji
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A Stochastic
Model for Time to Cross Antigenic Diversity Threshold of HIV
Infection Under Preventive Strategy
R. Kannan, A. Ganesan |
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Quality Control in Radiation Treatment Delivery System
Liton Naha Biswas
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Ruin
Probabilities and the Distribution of the Deficit at Ruin for a
Renewal Risk Model.
K. K. Thampi, M. J.
Jacob |
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A conjoint
study of health care services in India
Sanjit Roy, U H Acharya |
Session - VIC
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23 January 2008, Wednesday ( 14:15 hrs. - 15:45
hrs.) |
Reliability Inference - II
Organiser:
- S.B.Bagchi |
Chairperson : S.B.Bagchi
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Reliability
of a Stress - strength Model with Power Function Distribution
Sudhansu S. Maiti , Sudhir Murmu |
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Estimation of Pr (X<Y) when X and Y belong to Different
Distribution Families
Manisha Pal
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Progressively Censored Reliability Sampling Plan and its
Applications
R. Elangovan , G.
Arivazagan |
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Estimation of
Mean Life and Reliability for Exponential Life Distribution
using Time Censored Sample Data
Samindranath Sengupta,
B.K.Sinha, S.B.Bagchi |
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Estimation of
Loss of Information due to Censoring for some Useful
Distribution
Asit Baran Aich
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Tea : 15:45 - 16:00 hrs.
Session - VIIA
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23 January 2008, Wednesday ( 16:00 hrs. - 18:00
hrs.) |
Maintained System
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Chairperson : Anis Mukhopadhyay
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Planning and
Scheduling Maintenance Resources in a Complex System
Martin Newby (Invited) |
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Stochastic Allocation Problems in Inventory Pooling
Anand Paul (invited) |
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Availability
of One-unit System Supported by a Spare and Maintained by
Imperfect Repair Policy
Atanu Biswas, Jyotirmoy
Sarkar |
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Hierarchical Segmented Point
Process Models with Multiple Change Points for Maintained
Systems
A. Syamsundar,
V.N.A.Naikan |
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Estimation of Availability for
Periodically Inspected Systems
Uttam Bandopadhyay, Atanu Biswas |
Session - VIIB
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23 January 2008, Wednesday (16:00 hrs. - 18:00
hrs.) |
Sampling Inspection for Product Quality Assurance - II
Organiser:
- R.J. Pandey |
Chairperson : R.J.Pandey
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Theory and Practice of Sampling
Inspection by Attributes - A Short Review
Anup Majumdar |
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An Empirical Study on the
Behaviour of Operating Characteristic Curves of Unknown - Single
Sampling Plans using Predictive Distribution
R. Vijayaraghavan, K.
Rajagopal, A. Loganathan |
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Designing Single Sampling Plans
by Variables using Predictive Distribution
A. Loganathan, R. Vijayaraghavan, K. Rajagopal
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Bayesian Single Sampling Plan by
Variables for Normal Population when σ is Known
K. Rajagopal, R. Vijayraghavan, A.
Loganathan |
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On the Pt (LTPD)
Characteristics of a Continuous Sampling Plan
D.T. Ghosh |
Session - VIIC
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23 January 2008, Wednesday (16:00 hrs. - 18:00
hrs.) |
Statistics in Industry - I
Organiser:
- A. Dharmadhikari |
Chairperson : Sugata Adhikari
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Effectiveness of Statistical Process Control (SPC) in TQM
H. G. Raghunath,
Chandrasekaran N, Seenivasan K. |
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Reliability through the Life Cycle: Linking Reliability
Arguments to the Design Process
A. Thomas, M. Douglas, Martin Newby |
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Quality
Management Systems at Maruti Engine Manufacturing: Bolt Torque
Management
Sanjay Khare
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Design Parameter Sensitivity Analysis
S. Shamasundar, K.V.
Nagaraj |
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Validation of an Accelerated Test on a 4-post Road Simulator
Chandrakant M. Awate,
Suyog M. Panse, Colin J. Dodds |
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Six Sigma
at Crompton Greaves Ltd.
Umesh V. Baganikar
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Cultural Programme : 19:00 - 20:00 hrs.
Day 3: 24 January 2008, Thursday
Session - VIIIA
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24 January 2008, Thursday (09:30 hrs. - 11:00
hrs.) |
Application of Bayesian Principles in Reliability
Organiser: -
Madhuchhanda Bhattacharjee and Fabrizio Ruggeri |
Chairperson : Tapas Samanta
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Stochastic Modelling of Cylinder Liners Wear in a Marine Diesel Engine
Fabrizio Ruggeri (Invited) |
Bayesian Analysis of Hazard Regression Models under Order Restrictions on Covariate Effects and Ageing
Arnab Bhattacharjee, Madhuchhanda Bhattacharjee (Invited)
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Some Conditional Inferences on Intensity Parameters in Power Law
Process
K. Muralidharan |
Session - VIIIB
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24 January 2008, Thursday (09:30 hrs. - 11:00
hrs.) |
Business Excellence
Organiser: -
K.N.Anand |
Chairperson : Sujit Kumar Majumdar
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Successfully Implementing Six Sigma in R & D
U. C. Jha
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Six Sigma - BSC Synergy for Project Selection
S. Anil Kumar
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Six Sigma -A Strategic Approach for Business in a
Large Company
P. N. Karmokar,
A. K. Sarkar |
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Application of Shainin DOE in Validation of Welding Process
N.Ravichandran, A. J. Jegadheeson,
K.Saravanan |
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Current Trends & Practices in Business Excellence
S. Bhuniya
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Tea 11:00 - 11:15 hrs.
Session - IXA
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24 January 2008, Thursday (11:15 hrs. - 13:00
hrs.) |
Software Reliability Modelling and Analysis -II
Organiser: -
A.K.Chakraborty |
Chairperson : Shigeru Yamada
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Software Reliability Growth Modeling : State of the Art
P. K. Kapur (Invited) |
Discrete Software Reliability Models: Some New
Directions
A.K.Chakraborty, Sumana Das |
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Analysis of Software Model for Multi Types of Errors
B. V. Dhandra, M. R. Huggi |
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Pareto Distribution - A Software Reliability Growth Model
R. R. L. Kantam, R.
Subba Rao |
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Software Reliability Growth Modelling with Complexity of Program
Path-searching
Shinji INOUE, Shigeru Yamada |
Session - IXB
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24 January 2008, Thursday (11:15 hrs. - 13:00
hrs.) |
Control Chart
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Chairperson : Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
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Control Charts with Variable Sampling Intervals - A Review and
Literature Survey
H.N.Dutta, Bipin Gogoi |
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Some Run Length based Single Attribute Charts for Markovian
Production Process
M.P.Gadre
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Modified
Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart Covering
Abrupt Changes
Alpaben K.Patel, Jyoti Divecha,
Rajarajan Aiyenger |
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Economic
Design of Shewhart Control Chart with Runs Rule for a Multiple
Stream Process: A Discontinuous Model
Saroj K. Patel
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Feature-based
Approach for Recognition of Control Chart Patterns
Susanta
Kumar Gouri, Shankar Chakraborty |
Session - IXC
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24 January 2008, Thursday (11:15 hrs. - 13:00
hrs.) |
Statistics in Industry - II
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Chairperson : B. Majumdar
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Normal
Probability Plot
Sibdas Bandyopadhyay (Invited) |
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On the
Distribution of Burr
Ratan
Dasgupta |
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Application of Statistics to Scientific & Industrial Problems
for Quick and Precise
Determination of Short Fiber Percentage in Cotton Textile
Industry
Lanjewar U. A., Khot
P. G. |
Multivariate Process Capability: A New Approach
A.K.Chakraborty, Riddhi Dasgupta |
Lunch 13:00 - 14:15 hrs.
Session - XA
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24 January 2008, Thursday (14:15 hrs. - 16:00
hrs.) |
Experimental Design
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Chairperson : Rahul Mukherjee
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The Future of the Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments
Geoff
Vining (Invited) |
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Response
Surface Design for Multiple Inputs - Single Output Continuous
Time Series Process Optimization.
Jyoti
Divecha, Alpa K. Patel, Mayank Bhatt,
Rajarajan Aiyenger |
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Experimental Design Methodology in Textile Manufacturing
Arunangshu Mukhopadhyay
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Optimizing Zinc Coating Weight of Fasteners
Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
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S/N Ratio or
Log?
Pathik Mandal
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Session - XB
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24 January 2008, Thursday (14:15 hrs. - 16:00
hrs.) |
Bayesian Inference in Reliability
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Chairperson : Fabrizio Ruggeri
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Efficiency of
Two Risk Functions of the Parameters and Reliability Function of
Rayleigh Distribution
Sanku Dey
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Bayesian
Estimation of Parameters of Mixed Failure Models from Type-I
Group Censored Sample
J. B. Shah
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Bayes
Estimation of Change Point in Mixture of Left-truncated
Exponential and Degenerate Distribution.
Mayuri Pandya, Prabha
Yadav |
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Bayesian
Prediction for the Failure Times
Ashis Kumar Chattopadhyay
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Session - XC
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24 January 2008, Thursday (14:15 hrs. - 16:00
hrs.) |
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Six Sigma Project Studies
Organiser: A.K.Chaudhuri
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Chairperson
: Sadhan Chakravarty
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Optimization of UPPCL Power at Lowest Rates
Arun
Mittal |
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Reduction in
Silicon Finish Consumption in Polyester Fibre Fill Production
JPN Pandey and Rajesh Arora |
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Advanced SPC
in Manufacturing: ‘Must’ for Process Excellence
R.Umashankar
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Optimization
of PET Filament Yarn Evenness Using Six Sigma Methodology
K. V.
Sukumaran, Ajay Tiwari and
Shekhar Iyer |
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A Six Sigma Black Belt Project in Sutherland
Global Services
Sridhar
Narayanan and Ibrahim Abdul Rahuman |
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Six Sigma -
Status and Trends in the ITES Industries
K V Rama
Mohan |
Tea : 16:00 - 16:15 hrs.
Session - XIA
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24 January 2008, Thursday (16:15 hrs. - 17:30
hrs.) |
Warranty Analysis
Organiser:
- D.K. Manna |
Chairperson : Debasis Sengupta
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On Warranty
with Preventive Maintenance and Phase Type Life
K. Aneesh Kumar & M. Manoharan |
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Reliability and Warranty Analysis with Use-rate Information
D.K.Manna
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Warranty Cost Estimation from Field Failure Data
Surajit Pal
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Session - XIB
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24 January 2008, Thursday (16:15 hrs. - 17:30
hrs.) |
Six Sigma Practices & Methodology
Organiser: A.K.Chaudhuri
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Chairperson : Roopa Sethuram
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Six Sigma Implementation - A Strategy
Ashok Sarkar
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Six Sigma
Implementation in Aditya Birla Group
B. N Jha
Why Management schools should have Six Sigma as a
subject?
Vaidya Omkarprasad Shivarampant |
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Organization
Sigma Level Prediction Methodology
Lakshmi R
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Six Sigma Initiatives in Sutherland Global
Services
Sridhar
Narayanan and Ibrahim Abdul Rahuman |
Improving
the Process of Estimation in Sri Lanka Retail Audits
Ravish
Khare |
Banquet
Dinner : 19:30 hrs.
Day 4: 25 January 2008, Friday
Session - XIIA
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25 January 2008, Friday (09:30 hrs. - 11:15 hrs.) |
Reliability Design and Sampling Plan
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Chairperson : Avinash Dharmadhikari
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An Improved Genetic Algorithm for Reliable Communication Network
Design
S. Veera Kumar, D.
Devraj and V. Vasudevan |
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Information Fusion on
Reliability of Industrial Equipment using Fuzzy-stat Modelling
Edwin Vijay Kumar
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Reliability Test Plans for
Type-II Exponential Log-Logistic Distribution
G. Srinivasa Rao,
R. R. L. Kantam, K. Rosaiah |
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Construction of Optimum
Reliability Test Plans for Coherent Systems with Independent and
Non-identical Components
G. Agnihothram, S. V. Sabnis |
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Reliability Based Design of
Conrad bearing
Suraj S. Rane, A. Srividya, A. K. Verma |
Session - XIIB
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25 January 2008, Friday (09:30 hrs. - 11:15 hrs.) |
Software Reliability Modelling and Analysis -III
Organiser: A.K.Chakraborty
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Chairperson : P.K.Kapur
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Recent
Advances in Software Reliability Assessment based on Empirical
Analysis and
Stochastic
Modelling Approaches
Shigeru
Yamada (Invited) |
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Queue-Theoretic performance Models for Open/close Software Fault
Phenomena
Amrit L. Goel (Invited)
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On
Inconsistency of Estimators of Parameters of Non-homogeneous
Poisson Process Models for Software Reliability
Subrata Kundu
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Flexible
Discrete SRGM with Two Types of Imperfect Debugging
P.K.Kapur,
S.S.Handa, Deepak Kumar, P.C.Jha
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Session - XIIC
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25 January 2008, Friday (09:30 hrs. - 11:15 hrs.) |
Six Sigma and Beyond
Organiser: B.K.Pal
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Chairperson : B.K.Pal
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Reduction in
Change Over Time in the SMT Cell from 190 to 45 Minutes
Ruchi
Ajmera, Swapnil Jain |
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Six Sigma - A
Case Study
Sudhir
Manglick, Rai Mohan Bhattacharjee |
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Software Project Estimation as a Value-chain
Gali Krishna Prasad
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Application of Statistical Methods in Industry - Enablers and
Impediments
B.N.Jha
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Development of a Software for Six Sigma - A DFSS Approach
Amitabha Chattopadhyay |
Tea 11:15 - 11:30 hrs.
Panel Discussion
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25 January 2008, Thursday (11:30 hrs. - 13:00
hrs.) |
Statistical Thinking: Industrial Perspective
Organiser: Bikas Sinha and Sugata Adhikari
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Chairperson : B.K.Sinha
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T.S.Arthanari (Invited)
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C.R.Rao (Invited)
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S.P.Mukherjee (Invited)
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Avinash Dharmadhikari
(Invited)
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J.K. Ghosh (Discussant)
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Valedictory
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25 January 2008, Friday (13:00 - 13: 30 hrs.) |
Lunch 13:30 - 14:45 hrs. |
