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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>The Structural Modeling Applications for Research in Technology (S.M.A.R.T) society will host a workshop on August 17-18, 2014 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Structural Modeling methods are being increasingly used in research on Technology. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333'>The purpose of the workshop is to i<span style='background:white'>ntroduce PhD students/researchers to structural modeling methods. As most of the researchers involved in structural modeling would agree that the upfront cost of learning and applying structural modeling is a quite steep. It is even steeper if one does not have economics<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=textexposedshow>department teaching courses on structural modeling. The workshop would aim to reduce the upfront cost of learning a bit by providing several hands-on tutorials on the structural modeling. The aim of the workshop is also to open up common ground for future discussions between PhD students and colleagues across schools who use/ wish to use structural modeling methods in Information Systems research. </span></span></span><span class=textexposedshow><span style='color:#333333;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Workshop Format:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Day 1: Tutorial Day<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Several hands on tutorials (directed primarily at doctoral students) on Structural Modeling. Three particular models will be covered this year:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>1. Structural Demand Estimation Using Aggregate Data<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>2. Dynamic Structural Learning Model<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>3. Single Agent Dynamic Structural Optimization Model.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Day 2: Invited Paper Presentations by Faculty<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>A 30 minutes paper presentation followed by an in-depth 20-30 minutes discussion on the paper (with particular focus on methods). The papers presented would use structural modeling methods. The presentations will be done by faculty only.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Everyone is invited to the workshop. However for the tutorial day, we would restrict the number of PhD students that we would accept for attending the workshop to a max of 40.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Conference Chairs: Anindya Ghose, New York University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Param Vir Singh, Carnegie Mellon University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Yong Tan, University of Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Tutorial Chairs: Vibhanshu Abhishek, Carnegie Mellon University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Rajiv Garg, University of <span style='color:black'>Texas at Austin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Sang-Pil Hahn, City University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Yan Huang, University of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black'>Beibei Li, Carnegie Mellon University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Yingda Lu, Rensselaer Polytechnic University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Param Vir Singh, Carnegie Mellon university<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span class=textexposedshow><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Best Regards,</span><span style='color:#333333;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Anindya, Param, Yong</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>