Current What's New

December 29, 2004 - A page on the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization was added to the site.

December 26, 2004 -  A link to The Princeton Review article on the Isenberg School of Management MBA program that acknowledges the Virtual Center for Supernetworks was added to Media Coverage. Photos from the visit by Center Associate Professor Grace Ke were added to Center Photos.

December 20, 2004 - Links to the articles, A Network Modeling Approach for the Optimization of Internet-Based Advertising Strategies and Pricing with a Quantitative Explanation of Two Paradoxes, by
Lan Zhao and Anna Nagurney and Global Supply Chain Dynamics with Multicriteria Decision-Making Under Risk and Uncertainty, by Anna Nagurney and Dmytro Matsypura, were added to Downloadable Articles. Student projects from FOMgt 341 are posted in Visuals#Students.   

December 18, 2004 -  An article on the UMass INFORMS Student Chapter in ORMS Tomorrow and an article from the University of Pittsburgh INFORMS Student Chapter's website on the visit to the chapter by Professor Nagurney were added to Media Coverage. Photos from the UMass - Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter Holiday Dessert Party on December 17, 2004 were added to Center Photos.

December 13, 2004 -  A link to the invited chapter,  Projected Dynamical Systems, Evolutionary Variational Inequalities, Applications, and a Computational Procedure, by Monica Gabriela Cojocaru, Patrizia Daniele, and Anna Nagurney, prepared for Pareto Optimality, Game Theory and Equilibria, edited by Athanasios Migdalas, Panos Pardalos, and Leonidas Pitsoulis, Kluwer Academic  Publishers, was added to Downloadable Articles.

December 7, 2004 -  An article on the presentation by Professors Nagurney and Cruz and Ms. Wakolbinger at the POMS Conference at Columbia Business School, December 3-4, 2004 was added to Media Coverage. Links to Optimization Days 2005 and the GERAD's 25th Anniversary, the 11th Annual Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, CARV2005, The First International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production, and the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics were added to Conferences.

December 5, 2004 -  Photos from the POMS Conference at Columbia Business School, December 3-4, 2004 were added to Center Photos.

December 3, 2004 -  A link to the paper, Monotonicity and Existence of Periodic Cycles for Projected Dynamical Systems on Hilbert Spaces, by Monica Gabriela Cojocaru was added to Downloadable Articles. Slides from the presentation at the POMS Conference, The Co-Evolution and Emergence of
Integrated International Financial Networks and Social Networks: Theory, Analysis, and Computations, by Anna Nagurney, Tina Wakolbinger, and Jose Cruz were added to Visuals. An updated link to the conference was added to Conferences.

November 26, 2004 -  Photos from Thanksgiving Day 2004 were added to Center Photos.

November 25, 2004 -  A link to the Conference, Mathematical Models for Optimizing Transportation Services, was added to Conferences.

November 24, 2004 - Professor Anna Nagurney and Center Associate Stephen Davis '04 were featured in articles in the Isenberg School of Management 2004 Annual Report. See Media Coverage.

November 23, 2004 -  Slides from Jack Ampuja's Presentation to the FOMgT 341 Class, How Leaders are Leveraging Supply Chain Expertise, were added to Visuals.

November 19, 2004 -  Slides from Professor Anna Nagurney and Center Associate Tina Walkobinger's  Seminar, Social Networks: New Paradigms for Modeling, Applications, Computations, and Visualization,  at University of Massachusetts Amherst INFORMS Seminar Series in Operations Research / Management Science on November 19, 2004 were added to Visuals.  Photos from the Lecture and Visit to the Supernetworks Lab by Jack Ampuja from Niagara University and Supply Chain Optimizers on November 17, 2004 and from Professor Nagurney and Tina Wakolbinger's Seminar were added to Center Photos.

November 13, 2004 -  Photos from Professor Nagurney's Seminar at the University of Pittsburgh on November 11, 2004 and the refurbished Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization were added to Center Photos.

November 10, 2004 -  Slides from Professor Anna Nagurney's Seminar, Supernetworks and Decision-Making in the 21st Century, at the University of Pittsburgh and from the Tutorial, Structure and Dynamics of Financial Networks, by Panos M. Pardalos, V. Boginski, and S. Butenko were added to Visuals. A link to the paper, The Payoff Projection Dynamic, by William H. Sandholm and Ratul Lahkar  was added to Downloadable Articles.

October 30, 2004 -  Photos from the INFORMS Annual Meeting and the UMass INFORMS Operations Research/Management Science Seminar by Professor Julie Caswell were added to Center Photos. Links to the International Conference on Computational Management Science, and The International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability were added to Conferences.

October 27, 2004 - Photos from the NETWORKS Editorial Board Luncheon and Meeting hosted by Wiley Publishers at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, October 24-27, 2004 were added to Photos of Network Innovators. Congratulations to Bruce Golden, Co-Editor of  NETWORKS, and to Michael Ball, Associate Editor,  for being named INFORMS Fellows!

October 23, 2004 -  Slides from the INFORMS Annual Meeting presentations, Financial Networks with Intermediation: Risk Management with Variable Weights, by Anna Nagurney and Ke Ke, and Projected Dynamical Systems and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities with Applications to Dynamic Traffic Networks, by Anna Nagurney, Monica Gabriela Cojocaru, and Patrizia Daniele, were added to Visuals.

October 16, 2004 - A link to the article in the Daily Collegian on Professor Erin Baker's Presentation at the INFORMS Student Chapter Seminar Series was added to Media Coverage. Links to The Third SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, the  13th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, and the Second Shanghai International Symposium on Nonlinear Science and Applications were added to Conferences.

October 9, 2004 - Welcome to our new Center Undergraduate Associate, Maxfield Raynolds. See his webpage at the newly updated Center Associates.

October 2, 2004  - The Fall 2004 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see The Supernetwork Sentinel.

October 1, 2004 - A link to the UMass INFORMS Student Chapter webpage was added to UMass Links. A link to the UMass Press Release about the INFORMS Student Chapter Speaker Series was added to UMass Press Releases. A link to the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications was added to Journals.

September 24, 2004 -  Photos from the MKIDS'04 Workshop and the Welcome Luncheon for new Doctoral and Undergraduate Center Associates were added to Center Photos.

September 17, 2004 -  Photos of Center Associate Fuminori Toyasaki's Dissertation Proposal Defense were added to Center Photos. Slides from the MKIDS'04 Presentation, Dynamic Supernetworks for the Co-Evolution and Emergence of Integrated Social and Economic Networks: Modeling, Analysis, Computations, Visualization, and Applications by Professor Anna Nagurney, Professor June Dong, and Center Associate Tina Wakolbinger, were added to Visuals.

September 14, 2004 - A link to the Fall 2004 Seminar Series in Operations Research - Management Science was added. This seminar series is organized by the UMASS Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter with support provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of Finance and Operations Management, and the John F. Smith Memorial Fund.

September 10, 2004 - A link to the paper,  Supernetworks: An Introduction to the Concept and its Applications with a Specific Focus on Knowledge Supernetworks, by Anna Nagurney and Tina Wakolbinger was added to Downloadable Articles.

September 6, 2004 - A link to the article, Creative Solutions: Foundations Lend a Hand, in Science that features Professor Nagurney was added to Media Coverage.

September 1, 2004 -  The Letter to the Editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Teaching Engineers About Humans and Technology, by Professor Nagurney that appears in the September 3, 2004 issue of the Chronicle was added to Commentaries, Letters, and OpEds.

August 29, 2004 - A link to the paper, Financial Engineering of the Integration of Global Supply Chain Networks and Social Networks with Risk Management, by Jose M. Cruz, Anna Nagurney, and Tina Wakolbinger was added to Downloadable Articles.

August 26, 2004 - Welcome to our new Center Doctoral Associate, Qiang (Patrick) Qiang. See his webpage at Center Associates. 

August 19, 2004 - A link to the MKIDS '04 Conference was added to Conferences.

August 16, 2004 -  The homepage now has a dynamic supernetwork visualization thanks to Center Associate Zugang Leo Liu.

August 15, 2004 - A link to the 4th Global Conference on Business & Economics was added to Conferences.

August 13, 2004 - A page Congratulations and Kudos! was added to this site. A link to the paper, The Co-Evolution and Emergence of Integrated International Financial Networks and Social Networks: Theory, Analysis, and Computations, by Anna Nagurney, Jose M. Cruz, and Tina Wakolbinger was added to Downloadable Articles.

August 11, 2004 -  Photos of Center Associate Professor Ke Ke, Ph.D. 2004, as she assumes her new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Monticello were added to Center Photos.

August 9, 2004 - A link to the Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis at the University of Wisconsin was added to Related Sites. Links to the First Conference of the POMS College of Service Operations Operations Management in Services: Theory and Practice,  the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXV, and the Eighth SIAM Conference on Optimization were added to Conferences.

August 6, 2004 -  Photos from The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, London, UK, were added to Center Photos. A link to CREATE, the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events at the University of Southern California, was added to Related Sites. Congratulations to Professor Emmanuel Josserand on the publication of his book, The Network Organization: The Experience of French World Leaders, Volume 4 of New Dimensions in Networks. 

July 24, 2004 - Visuals from, Supernetworks for the Management of Knowledge Intensive Dynamic Systems, a Workshop presented by Anna Nagurney and Tina Wakolbinger at The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, University of Greenwich, London, August 3-6, 2004 were added to Visuals. A link to the article in the Loop on the workshop was added to
Media Coverage.

July 23, 2004 - A new page with the Abstracts of the Dissertations of Doctoral Center Associates was added as Dissertations.

July 19, 2004 - Welcome to our new Center Doctoral Associate, Zugang (Leo) Liu. Leo received a Masters in Transportation Engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Congratulations to Center Associate, Dr. Padma Ramanujam, upon joining the Optimization R&D Group at SAS in North Carolina. See their webpages at Center Associates. Photos from the visit of Professor Lan Zhao of the State University of New York at Old Westbury were added to Center Photos.

July 17, 2004 - A link to the paper, Social Structure and Opinion Formation, by Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman was added to Downloadable Articles. Links to the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2005, and to the 1st International Conference on Transportation Logistics, T-Log 2005, were added to Conferences.

July 12, 2004 - Links to the papers, The Evolution and Emergence of Integrated Social and Financial Networks with Electronic Transactions: A Dynamic Supernetwork Theory for the Modeling, Analysis, and Computation of Financial Flows and Relationship Levels by Anna Nagurney, Tina Wakolbinger, and Li Zhao and Dynamic Supernetworks for the Integration of Social Networks and Supply Chains with Electronic Commerce: Modeling and Analysis of Buyer-Seller Relationships with Computations by Tina Wakolbinger and Anna Nagurney, were added to Downloadable Articles.

July 11, 2004 - Photos from the visit by Center Associate Professor Patrizia Daniele of the University of Catania, Sicily were added to Center Photos.

July 8, 2004 - A link to the paper, A Survey of Models of Network Formation: Stability and Efficiency, by
Matthew O. Jackson was added to Downloadable Articles.

July 7, 2004 - Links to the 51st Annual North American Meeting of the Regional Science Association International and to the Society of Risk Analysis 2004 Conference were added to Conferences. The Society for Risk Analysis, SRA, was added to Societies.

June 30, 2004 - The presentation, Personal Biographies, Social Networks, and Travel Behaviour, by Kay Axhausen was added to Visuals. A link to the UMass Environmental Institute was added to UMass Links.

June 28, 2004 - To recognize those whose professional accomplishments, scholarship, collegiality, vision, and energy are inspirations to the Center Director and Associates, a page of Friends of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks was added to the site.

June 26, 2004 - The International Network for Social Network Research, INSNA,  was added to Societies. A link to the NSF Workshop Report, Integrated Research in Risk Analysis and Decision Making in a Democratic Society, was added to Downloadable Articles.

June 21, 2004 - Photos from Ke Ke's Ph.D. Dissertation Defense and of Stephen Davis FOMgt'04 receiving the Leaders for the 21st Century Award at UMass Commencement were added to Center Photos. The presentation from Ke Ke's dissertation defense was added to Visuals.

June 20, 2004 - A link to the paper, Interaction, Time, and Motion: Animating Social Networks with SoNIA, by Skye Bender-deMoll and Dan McFarland was added to Downloadable Articles. A link to the SoNIA software package was added to Software. A link to Network Movies from Professor James Moody of Ohio State was added to Demos.

June 19, 2004 - A link to the paper, A Supply Chain Network Perspective for Electric Power
Generation, Supply, Transmission, and Consumption, by Anna Nagurney and Dmytro Matsypura was added to Downloadable Articles.

June 18, 2004 - Links to the papers: The simultaneous evolution of author and paper networks by Katy Borner, Jeegar T. Maru, and Robert L. Goldstone, Mapping topics and topic bursts in PNAS by Ketan K. Mane and Katy Borner, A Simulation of the Structure of Academic Science by N. Gilbert, Information flow in generalized hierarchical networks by Juan A. Almendral, Luis Lopez and Miguel A. F. Sanjuan, and Social Networks by Juan C. Dürsteler were added to Downloadable Articles. Links to the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems at New York University, to REGIONAL INVERSION, and to Katy Börner's InfoVis Lab were added to Related Sites.

June 16, 2004 - With graduations behind us, we have updated the Center Associates page along with the associates' curriculum vitae to reflect current information. We also added a page to show where former associates are now. See Associates.

June 12, 2004 -  A link to the paper, Improving Traffic Flows at No Cost, by Robert Abrams and Jane Hagstrom was added to Downloadable Articles. Photos of Fuminori Toyasaki at the 9th WORKSHOP ON ECONOMICS AND HETEROGENEOUS INTERACTING AGENTS (WEHIA04) in Kyoto, Japan were added to Center Photos.

June 6, 2004 -  A link to the paper, Forecasting Travel on Congested Urban Transportation Networks:
Review and Prospects for Network Equilibrium Models, by David Boyce was added to Downloadable Articles. Links to CIST: Conference on Information Systems and Technology,  the INFORMS Annual Meeting Denver 2004, Access to Destinations 2004 Conference, and the Winter Simulation Conference 2004 were added to Conferences.

May 30, 2004 -  Links to Tristan V and TraLog - Transportation and Logistics were added to Conferences.

May 27, 2004 - Several SOM 822 student projects on topics ranging from Traffic Management in various parts of the world to Food Supply Chains were added to Visuals.

May 25, 2004  - The Summer 2004 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted: see Supernetwork Sentinel.

May 23, 2004 - Photos from the celebration in honor of Dr. Jose Cruz following the the UMass Graduate Commencement were added to Center Photos. A link to an article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on Jose Cruz was added to Media Coverage.

May 21, 2004 - Photos from the INFORMS/CORS Meeting in Banff Alberta were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

May 15, 2004 - Two presentations, A Supply Chain Network Perspective for Electric Power
Generation, Supply, Transmission, and Consumption by Anna Nagurney and Dmytro Matsypura and
Statics and Dynamics of Global Supply Chain Networks with Environmental Decision-Making by Anna Nagurney, Jose Cruz, and Fuminori Toyasaki, were added to Visuals.

May 11, 2004 - The Center Director and Associates congratulate our Undergraduate Associate, Stephen Davis '04, on being chosen a "UMass Leader for the 21st Century." See Media Coverage.

May 9, 2004 - Links to articles on Environmental, Financial, Infrastructure, Logistics, Telecommunications, and Transportation Networks were added to Networks in the News. The FOMgT 456 Presentation, Commencement Traffic Operations, by Maxfield Raynolds, Stephen Davis, Pilar Newman, and Ankit Patel was added to Visuals.

May 2, 2004 - A link to the presentation, Supernetworks: Decision-Making in the 21st Century, by Anna Nagurney, presented to the Deans' Council at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, was added to Visuals. Photos from Jose M. Cruz's Ph.D. Dissertation Defense were added to Center Photos. Congratulations to Professor June Dong who has been awarded a CES-Chow Teaching Fellowship with
support provided from the Gregory and Paula Chow Foundation. See details in Photos of Network Innovators. A link to the 2nd World Conference on POM was added to Conferences.

April 29, 2004 - A link to the April 2004 Viewpoint article in OR/MS Today, A Fortnight in Bellagio, by Anna Nagurney, Patrizia Daniele, and Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru was added to Media Coverage.

April 21, 2004 -  A link to the paper, Projected Dynamical Systems and Evolutionary (Time-Dependent) Variational Inequalities via Hilbert Spaces with Applications, Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru, Patrizia Daniele and Anna Nagurney was added to Downloadable Articles. A link to the Conference, Research Opportunities in CyberEngineering/CyberInfrastructure, was added to Conferences.

April 19, 2004 -  Links to the papers, Evolution Variational Inequalities and Projected Dynamical Systems with Application to Human Migration by Anna Nagurney and Jie Pan and Emergence of Complexity in Financial Networks by Guido Caldarelli, Stefano Battiston, Diego Garlaschelli, and Michele Catanzaro were added to Downloadable Articles.

April 18, 2004 -  A link to the paper, Financial Networks with Intermediation: Risk Management with Variable Weights, by Anna Nagurney and Ke Ke was added to Downloadable Articles. Links to articles on Environmental, Financial, Infrastructure, Logistics, Telecommunications, and Transportation Networks were added to Networks in the News.

April 15, 2004 -  Links to the IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control of Economic Systems (SME 2004), the International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT'04, and to Changing Travel Behaviour - the ESRC TSU final event were added to Conferences. Links to the papers, Financial Networks: Contagion, Commitment, and Private-Sector Bailouts by Yaron Leitner, Social Networks and Access to Financial Services in the UK by Paul Ormerod and Laurence Smith, and Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Angel Financial Networks by Lloyd Steier and Royston Greenwood, were added to Downloadable Articles.

April 12, 2004 - An article on the Cojocaru, Daniele, and Nagurney Bellagio Research Team Residency from the University of Guelph was added to Media Coverage.

April 11, 2004 - Links to articles on Environmental, Financial, Infrastructure, Logistics, Telecommunications, and Transportation were added to Networks in the News. Links to the Quantitative Methods in Finance 2004 Conference and the Ninth INFORMS Computing Society Conference were added to Conferences.

April 5, 2004 - The paper, A Retrospective on Beckmann, McGuire and Winsten’s Studies in the Economics of Transportation, by David E. Boyce, Hani S. Mahmassani, and Anna Nagurney was added to Downloadable Articles. See also Classics. Additional photos and information on the Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

April 4, 2004 - Links to articles on Environmental, Financial, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, and Transportation Networks were added to Networks in the News.

April 1, 2004 - The Center Director, Anna Nagurney, is pleased to announce the appointment of two new International Center Associates, Professor Monica Cojocaru of Canada and Professor Daniele of Italy. The director and other associates welcome the new colleagues! Information on Professors Cojocaru and Daniele can be found at Center Associates. See also Cojocaru and Daniele. Additional photos of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center team residency of Nagurney, Daniele, and Cojocaru can be found in Photos of Network Innovators.

March 25, 2004 - Photos from the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Residency Team Project Dynamics of Complex Networks in an Environment of Risk and Uncertainty:  Theoretical Foundations and Applications to Global Supply Chains and International Financial Networks with Professors Anna Nagurney, Patrizia Daniele, and Monica Cojocaru in Bellagion, Lake Como, Italy, March 2004 were added to Center Photos. The essay, Experiences from an (Operations) Research Team Residency
at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, by Professors Nagurney, Daniele, and Cojocaru was added to Commentary.

March 7, 2004 - Professor Nagurney is listed as an Intellectual Leader of Regional Science in an article by Professor Andrew M. Isserman in Papers in Regional Science.  See Media Coverage.

March 6, 2004 - Professor Nagurney is now a speaker with the INFORMS Speakers Program. For more information on her presentations, click here.

March 3, 2004 - The festschrift volume in honor of David E. Boyce, edited by Der-Horng Lee, will be available soon. For more information, including the jacket cover, see New Dimensions in Networks.

February 29, 2004 - Photos from the Center's Celebrating Successes Luncheon and the Commonwealth article on the Virtual Center for Supernetworks were added to Center Photos.

February 21, 2004 - The Virtual Center for Supernetworks was featured in the Cover Story, After the Blackout: Supernetwork Models to the Rescue, in the Commonwealth, Winter 2004. See Media Coverage.

February 14, 2004 - Links to articles on Environmental, Infrastructure, Logistics, Telecommunications, and Transportation Networks were added to Networks in the News.

February 1, 2004 - The FOMGT 341 student presentation, United Parcel Service by Eric Opidee, Ankit Patel, and Stephen Davis, and links to the presentations,  Complexity and Constraint in Complex Adaptive Networks by Stephen B. Wicker, Using Renewables and Energy Efficiency to Build a Robust Energy Infrastructure by John P. Thornton, and Interdependencies: A DOE Perspective by R. Fisher and J. Peerenboom, were added to Visuals.

January 18, 2004 - Welcome to our new Undergraduate Center Associate, Gregory Bergmann. See his webpage at Center Associates. Links to the Computational Management Science Conference and the
Workshop on Computational Econometrics and Statistics and the REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL - South Africa Conference were added to Conferences. The essay, Supernetworks:
The Paradigm for Critical Infrastructure and the Supernetworked Economy, was added to Commentary.

January 17, 2004 - The presentation, Dynamics of Global Supply Chain Supernetworks, by Anna Nagurney, Jose Cruz, and Dmytro Matsypura, presented at the Stella Meeting, Globalisation, E-Economy, and Trade, NSF, Arlington, VA, January 15-16, 2004 was added to Visuals. Photos taken at the Stella Meeting were added to Photos of Network Innovators.

January 11, 2004 - The Winter 2004 Issue of The Supernetwork Sentinel was posted, see Supernetwork Sentinel. A page for societies related to supernetworks was added as societies. A link to Albert-László Barabási and Eric Bonabeau's Scientific American article, Scale-Free Networks, was added to Downloadable Articles.

January 5, 2004 - A link to the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) at Carnegie Mellon University was added to Related Sites. Links to the articles, The Structure and Function of Complex Networks and Random Graphs as Models of Networks, both by Mark Newman, were added to Downloadable Articles.

January 2, 2004 - Links to Barabási's Self-Organized Networks at the University of Notre Dame and the Santa Fe Institute were added to Related Sites.

What's New? 2003

What's New? 2001-2002

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