Workshop Program

Saturday, June 11

Afternoon

Delegates arrive at Purdue

Evening

Trolley to Lafayette

Dinner at 6pm in Maize

Sunday, June 12

Morning

Introduction talk by Ed Chronicle and Zyg Pizlo

Iris van Rooij, Understanding Human Optimization: The Case for a Tractable-Design Cycle

Ulrike Stege, Implementing The Tractable-Design Cycle: Definitions and Techniques

Brian Stankiewicz, Understanding human sequential decision making under uncertainty using ideal observer analysis

Lunch

Afternoon

Michael Lee, A generative model of human performance on an optimal stopping problem

Nick Burns, Individual Differences in Problem Solving and Intelligence

James MacGregor, Solution performance and heuristics in closed and open versions of 2D Euclidean TSPs

Evening

Dinner at 6pm in Lafayette Country Club

Monday, June 13

Morning

Tom Ormerod and Simon Slavin, Human solutions to the capacitated vehicle routing problem

Walter Kropatsch and Yll Haxhimusa, Approximating TSP solutions with Graph Pyramids

Edward Chronicle, Optimizing and “pessimizing” – human performance with instructional variants of the traveling salesperson problem

Afternoon

Richard Eglese, Human interaction in solving hard practical optimization problems

Pizlo, Z., Stefanov, E., Saalweachter, J., Haxhimusa, Y. and Kropatsch, W.G., Adaptive pyramid model for the traveling salesman problem

Software Demos

Evening

Official workshop dinner at 6pm in Holiday Inn Select

Tuesday, June 14

Morning

Thomas Bacher, Director of Purdue University Press

Summary talk by Zyg Pizlo and Ed Chronicle

Small group brainstorming sessions

Afternoon

Early departure for a few delegates.

Tourism/relaxation for remaining delegates.

Evening

Dinner ad libitum

Wednesday, June 15

Morning

Delegates depart