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Rose-Hulman
Institute of
Technology
Mathematics
Professor Diane
Evans has
received the
2006 INFORMS
Computing
Society's Prize
for research
excellence in
the interface
between
operations
research and
computer
science.
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Award-Winning
Professor:
Mathematics
Professor
Diane
Evans
received
an award
for
research
excellence
from
INFORMS,
the
largest
professional
society
in the
world
for
professionals
in the
field of
operations
research. |
The Institute
for Operations
Research and the
Management
Sciences
(INFORMS) is the
largest
professional
society in the
world for
professionals in
the field of
operations
research. The
research prize
was presented to
Evans and three
colleagues at
the INFORMS
national
conference.
The research
prize honored a
collection of
papers about
probability
software called
A Probability
Programming
Language (APPL).
The software and
accompanying
papers were
constructed for
use by students,
teachers, and
researchers in
mathematics and
science.
"These papers
form the core of
an innovative
body of work on
computations in
applied
probability with
operations
research
applications,”
according to
INFORMS’ award
judges. “These
colleagues have
introduced a
probability
programming
language and
demonstrated how
to use it with
applications at
several
corporations,
government
agencies and
academic
institutions.
These
publications
contribute
significantly to
computational
probability and
its practice at
the interface op
operations
research and
computer
science."
The collection
of research
papers about
APPL span a
decade of work
by Evans in
conjunction with
Lawrence Lemmis
and John Drew,
both mathematics
professors at
the College of
William & Mary;
and Andrew Glen,
a mathematics
professor at the
U.S. Military
Academy.
The published
papers include "APPL:
A Probability
Programming
Language," "The
Distribution of
Order Statistics
for Discrete
Random Variables
with
Applications to
Bootstrapping,"
Computing the
Distribution of
the Product of
Two Continuous
Random
Variables,"
"Computing the
Cumulative
Distribution
Function of the
Kolmogorov-Smirnov
Statistic" and
"A Generalized
Change-of-Variable
Transformation
Technique."
Evans teaches
courses at
Rose-Hulman in
calculus,
differential
equations,
engineering
statistics,
discrete and
combinatorial
algebra,
operations
research,
quality methods,
and reliability. |
