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Research Topics in Operations Research, Management Science, and Industrial Engineering

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1. Management Science

-- Management of Innovation and Technology 

  • Emerging Technologies 
  • Entrepreneurship 
  • Global Production Network 
  • Green Technologies 
  • e-Health Technologies 
  • Environmental Technology Management 
  • Human Resource Management 
  • Industrial and Manufacturing System Technologies 
  • Information and Communication Technology Management 
  • Innovation and Management of Renewable Resources 
  • Innovation Policy and Management 
  • Intellectual Property Right and Patent 
  • IT Management: e-Government, Health Informatics, e-Commerce 
  • Social impact of technology development 
  • Supply Chain Management 
  • Sustainable Development 
  • Sustainable Innovation and Technology Incubation 
  • Technological Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions 
  • Technology Foresight and Forecasting 
  • Technology Intelligence and Planning 
  • Technology in the Financial / Services Sector 
  • Technology Strategy 
  • Technology Transfer, Marketing and Commercialization 
  • Telecommunications Technology, Health Services, and Technology Assessment 

-- Knowledge Management 

  • Management of Nuclear/Energy Technologies 
  • Management of Technology Education and Research 
  • Management of Technology for the Knowledge Economy 
  • Management of Technology in Developing Countries 
  • Managing IT and E-Commerce 
  • National and Regional Systems of Innovation 
  • New Product / Service Development 
  • Process Innovation 
  • Project and Program Management 
  • R&D Management 
  • Risk Management 
  • Semantic Web and Ontology Management Technology 
  • Service Science and Innovation 
  • Six Sigma and Quality Management 
  • Small and Medium Enterprises 
  • Telemedicine Technologies and Telehealth Services 
  • The Integration of Technology and Business Strategies 
  • Financial Science 
  • Development of Financial Service 
  • Evolutionary Algorithms 
  • Artificial Immune Systems 
  • Rough Sets 
  • Service Management 
  • Money Laundering Surveillance 
  • Issue of Rural Finance 
  • Listed Company and Corporate Governance 
  • Customer Relationship Management 
  • Theory of Technology 
  • Water Desalination Technologies

    -- Financial Engineering

    • Term Structure Models 
    • Term-Structure and Credit Derivatives
    • Arbitrage Techniques 
    • Rational Expectation Models 
    • Term Structure of Interest Rate 
    • Credit Assessment 
    • Option Pricing and Trading 
    • Artificial Neural Networks 
    • DNA and Cellular Computing DNA 
    • Reinforcement Learning 
    • Fuzzy Logic 
    • Risk Assessment and Analysis 
    • Financial Diagnosis 
    • Financial Data Mining 
    • Portfolio Models 
    • Hedging Strategies 
    • Game Theory 
    • Forward Trading 
    • Swap Pricing and Trading 
    • Insurance Pricing and Modeling 
    • Financial Supervision 
    • Swarm Intelligence 
    • Support Vector Machines 
    • Hybrid System 
    • Financial Time Series Forecasting 
    • Bankruptancy Prediction 
    • Credit Fraud Detection 
    • Asset Pricing Models 
    • Trading Strategies 
    • General Equilibrium Models 
    • Futures Pricing and Trading 
    • Options Pricing and Valuation 
    • Trading Under Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Model
    • Trading Under the Exponential OU Model
    • Trading Under CIR Model
    • Futures Under Mean Reversion
    • Options Liquidation of Options
    • Trading Credit Derivatives


    2. Operations Research and Analysis

    -- Research Fields of Operations Research: Energy, Engineering, Finance, Healthcare, Agriculture, Marketing, Service Industry, transportation

    • Algorithms
    • Online algorithms
    • Approximation algorithms
    • Algorithms and statistics  
    • Applied Probability
    • Data Mining
    • Financial Engineering
    • Infotech Modeling
    • Networks
    • Optimization
    • Simulation
    • Statistics and data science 
    • Discrete, continuous, convex, robust, stochastic optimization
    • Waiting line theory or queuing theory.
    • Inventory control systems
    • Replacement problems
    • Network Analysis
    • Sequencing Problems 
    • Ground and air transportation
    • Healthcare
    • Healthcare analytics
    • Machine learning and its interface with optimization 
    • Computing and Information Technologies
    • Financial Engineering
    • Manufacturing, Service Sciences, and Supply Chain Management
    • Inventory Management
    • Hub and Spoke Systems' Design
    • Cooperation in Pharm. Industry
    • Lot-Sizing Algorithms
    • Design of Electricty Markets
    • Layout Optimization
    • Business Process Analysis
    • Decomposition
    • Electricity Markets
    • Semidef Prog: Models, Alg&Comp
    • Scheduling
    • Project Management
    • Elec Power Unit Commit Models
    • Pricing & Revenue Management
    • Fundamentals of Queuing Theory
    • Matrix Analytic Methods
    • Can Hlth Care - Wait List Opt
    • Network Models
    • Operat. and Supply Chain Mgmt.
    • Nurse Rostering and Scheduling
    • Process Improve. & Lean Man.
    • Scheduling: Theory & Practice
    • Facilitating Bible Study
    • Cost Based Opt. in Health Care
    • Foundations of Management
    • Foundations of Machine Learning
    • Topics in Op Research & Mngmnt
    • Decomp Methods Large-Scale Opt
    • Location Analysis
    • Prescriptive Analytics

    -- Game Theory

    • Game theory is the study of how the interactive choices of economic agents produce outcomes according to the preferences (or utilities) of those agents, where the outcome in question may not be the intention of any of the agents.
    • Game Theory & Recent Appls
    • Utility
    • Games and Rationality
    • Trees and Matrices
    • The Prisoner’s Dilemma as an Example of Strategic-Form vs. Extensive-Form Representation
    • Solution Concepts and Equilibria
    • Subgame Perfection
    • On Interpreting Payoffs: Morality and Efficiency in Games
    • Trembling Hands and Quantal Response Equilibria
    • Uncertainty, Risk and Sequential Equilibria
    • Beliefs and Subjective Probabilities
    • Repeated Games and Coordination
    • Team reasoning and conditional games
    • Evolutionary Game Theory
    • Game Theory and Behavioral Evidence
    • Game Theory in the Laboratory
    • Neuroeconomics and Game Theory
    • Game Theoretic Models of Human Nature

    -- Linear Programming (LP)

    • Models of LP: Manufacturing problems, Diet Problems, Transportation Problems, Optimal Assignment Problems
    • Types Of LP Solutions: Feasible solution, Optimal solution, Infeasible solution, Unbounded solution

    -- Stochastic Programming

    • Stochastic programming has seen recent advances with far-reaching impact involving risk measures, distributionally robust optimization, and applications in areas ranging from energy and natural resources to economics and finance to statistics and machine learning.
    • Stochastic Dynamic Programming 
    • Risk and distributionally robust optimization
    • Scenario generation, reduction, and analysis
    • Asymptotic analysis, including consistency and rates of convergence
    • Algorithms, computation, and applications
    • Stochastic Control

     

    3. Smart Supply Chain and Logistics 4.0

    • Logistics 4.0 and smart supply chain management in Industry 4.0
    • Robots and cobots in logistics 
    • The role and evolutions of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud and advanced analytics in connected logistics
    • Digital transformation in transportation and logistics 
    • Risk, resilience and continuity
    • S&OP, forecasting, demand management
    • Sales and operations planning (S&OP), forecasting, demand management
    • Operational efficiency
    • Supplier management and collaboration
    • Internet of Things (IoT) and its impact on supply chain management
    • Sustainable and innovative business
    • Sustainable supply chains
    • Supply chain networks
    • Supply chain network risk management
    • Supply chain resilience and security
    • Port resilience and security
    • Supply chain coordination
    • Supply chain competition
    • Sustainability in global supply networks
    • Supply chain innovation in emerging markets
    • Pricing in supply chains
    • Big data and business analytics
    • Optimized technology in the supply chain
    • Inventory management and optimization
    • Fulfillment capability and Flow optimization
    • Warehouse performance assessment, design, management, automation
    • Goods movement and logistics
    • Intermodal freight transport system for optimal supply chain logistics

    -- Infrastructure and Technology

    • Freight logistics in smart city
    • Logistics hubs and clusters
    • Real-time logistics information system
    • Access to transport networks, infrastructure and nodes
    • Freight consolidation and transhipment
    • Implementation of low emission technologies
    • IT-technologies and solutions (for management and administration)
    • Innovative vehicles, vessels and equipment
    • ICT (e.g. routing, guidance), transport optimization
    • The Internet-of-Things in logistics

    -- Operations and Services

    • Business to customer (B2C) solutions (e.g. e-commerce, last mile delivery)
    • Innovative operational solutions
    • Service quality and sustainability agreements/certification
    • Transport management, fleet management
    • Value added services, development of services

     

    4. Industrial and System Engineering

      -- Industrial Engineering

      • Engineering economic analysis
      • Computer methods for engineering
      • Engineering experimental design
      • CIMS, robotics and automation
      • Quality engineering, environment risk analysis
      • Systems reliability engineering, maintenance analysis
      • Human factors/ergonomics in design
      • Simulation modelling/analysis
      • System design and control systems, concurrent engineering
      • Production systems analysis/design
      • Facilities layout/design
      • Financial/investment engineering
      • Information systems, ICT, AI/expert systems design
      • Project management, decision support systems
      • Technology management/transfer
      • Business and strategy, decision analysis
      • Engineering economy, cost estimation
      • Environmental issues
      • Facility location, layout, design, materials handling
      • Human factors, ergonomics, safety
      • Education, case studies
      • ICT and information systems
      • Innovation, knowledge management, organisational learning
      • Inventory, logistics, transportation, supply chain management
      • Manufacturing, control, automation
      • Product/process design and management
      • Forecasting, production planning/control
      • Project/operations management, scheduling
      • Service systems/management, performance analysis, modelling/simulation
      • TQM/quality engineering, reliability/maintenance engineeri

      -- Systems Engineering

      • Design and manufacturing
      • Human factors and ergonomics
      • Human factors /ergonomics /safety
      • Production systems
      • Reliability systems
      • Wind power management.
      • Engineering economics /cost estimation
      • Engineering management /organizational behavior
      • Facility location /plant layout
      • General systems theory
      • Innovation/entrepreneurship
      • Optimization and operations research
      • Production schedule and control
      • Quality and reliability
      • Simulation
      • Supply Chain Management
      • Work Measurement 
      • Uncertainty in manufacturing 
      • Lean Manufacturing 
      • Design of Experiments 
      • Supply Chain Management
      • Manufacturing Strategies 
      • Multi-Objective Optimization
      • Data Mining
      • Experimental Design
      • Metaheuristics
      • Facilities Layout and Location
      • Bayesian Estimation
      • Reliability Models


      5. Complex Science and System, Entrepreneurship and Venture

      • Complex science and system
      • Startup management
      • Entrepreneurship and venture capital
      • Venture creation and development
       
       
       
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