Session III (May 15, 1:00pm-2:30pm): Factorial/Multi-level Design, organized by Hongquan Xu

• Title: Models for Order-of-addition Screening Experiments 

• Speaker: Jing-Wen Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan 

• Abstract: In many physical and engineering experiments, the order in which a process is executed or components are added can have a marked impact on the response. Due to constraints on resources or feasibility, there are situations where only a subset of the components can be administered in practice and the experimenter encounters a complicated task with the selection of components and its corresponding best order.  We present a series of models for such order-of-addition screening experiments and study their properties.  We develop theoretical results on the corresponding optimal designs and illustrate these models on job scheduling problems with job rejection penalties.