{"title":"On the Advancement of Project Management through a Flexible Integration of Machine Learning and Operations Research Tools","authors":"Nikos Kanakaris, N. Karacapilidis, Alexis Lazanas","doi":"10.5220/0007387103620369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0007387103620369","url":null,"abstract":"Project Management is a complex practice that is associated with a series of challenges to organizations and experts worldwide. Aiming to advance this practice, this paper proposes a hybrid approach that builds on the synergy between contemporary Machine Learning and Operations Research tools. The proposed approach integrates the predictive orientation of Machine Learning techniques with the prescriptive nature of Operations Research algorithms. It can aid the planning, monitoring and execution of common PM tasks such as resource allocation, task assignment, and task duration estimation. The applicability of our approach is demonstrated through two realistic examples.","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133807294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A State Dependent Chat System Model","authors":"P. Enqvist, G. Svensson","doi":"10.5220/0007391001210132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0007391001210132","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a model of a chat based communication system, as well as developing the necessary tools to enable resource optimization with regards to a measure of the service quality. The system is modeled by a Markov process in continuous time and with a countable state space. The construction of the intensity matrix corresponding to this system is outlined and proofs of a stationary state distribution and an efficient way of calculating it are introduced. A numerical example for system optimization when the service measure is the average sojourn time is included as well as a heuristic algorithm for quicker solution generation.","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116384295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Iterative Request Exchange Mechanism for Carrier Collaboration in Less than Truckload Transportation","authors":"Xiaohui Lyu, Haoxun Chen, Nengmin Wang","doi":"10.5220/0007368602990306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0007368602990306","url":null,"abstract":"In carrier collaboration, multiple carriers form an alliance and exchange some of their transportation requests to improve the overall profit of the alliance and the individual profit of each carrier. In this paper, we propose a mechanism for the request exchange with limited information sharing among the carriers. In each round of the mechanism, each carrier first outsources multiple bundles of requests with the corresponding transfer payments and then insources bundles of requests from other carriers. The auctioneer reassigns bundles of requests among carriers based on the outsourcing bundles and insourcing bundles of requests. The auction mechanism iterates until a certain criterion is met. Numerical experiments on randomly generated instances show that our iterative request exchange mechanism can provide high quality solutions.","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116069753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Newsvendor Model for Multi-Inputs and -Outputs with Random Yield: Applications to Agricultural Processing Industries","authors":"Kannapha Amaruchkul","doi":"10.5220/0007346900720081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0007346900720081","url":null,"abstract":"Consider a newsvendor model, which we extend to include both multiple inputs and outputs. Different input types possess different levels of quality, and are purchased at different prices by a processing firm. Each type of input is processed into multiple outputs, which are sold at different prices. The yield for each output type is random and depends on the input type. We need to determine the purchase quantities of different types of input, before demands of different types of output are known. In our analytical results, we show that the expected total profit is jointly concave in the purchasing quantities and derive the optimality condition. Our multi-input and -output newsvendor model is suitable for processing industries in agriculture supply chain. In our numerical example, we apply our model to the rice milling industry, whose primary output is head rice and byproducts are broken rice, bran and husk. Our model can help the rice mill to decide which paddy types to procure and how much, in order to maximize the total expected profit from all outputs. We also show that the expected profit can be significantly better than using the standard newsvendor model.","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132864601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Heuristic Method for the Multi-skill Project Scheduling Problem with Partial Preemption","authors":"Oliver Polo-Mejía, C. Artigues, P. Lopez","doi":"10.5220/0007390001110120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0007390001110120","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we consider a new scheduling problem known as the Multi-Skill Project Scheduling Problem with Partial Preemption. The main characteristic of this problem is the way we handle the resources release during the preemption periods: only a subset of resources are released. Since this problem is NP-hard, we propose a greedy algorithm based on priority rules, modeling the subproblem of technicians allocation as a Minimum-Cost Maximum-Flow problem. In order to improve the performance of the greedy algorithm, we propose a randomized tree-based local search algorithm. Computational tests are carried out and analyzed.","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122196805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decision Models as Software Artifacts - Bridging the Business-Software Gap for Decision Support Systems","authors":"Armando Guarnaschelli, O. Chiotti, H. E. Salomone","doi":"10.5220/0004282000860095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004282000860095","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we introduce a methodology for integrating the development of decision models with model driven software development approaches. This methodology captures the relationships between service oriented architecture software models and decision models by deriving from a common reference model, the data and conceptual elements of both types of models. Using this reference model and through successive model transformations and refinements, the methodology delivers integrated models and implementation models of software aimed to be more resilient to changes in business models. As all software artifacts are connected through a unique reference model, the collaboration with business partners is enabled at all levels by sharing or reusing existent reference models.","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114905632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fuzzy Approach to Risk Analysis in Information Systems","authors":"E. Vicente, A. Jiménez-Martín, A. Mateos","doi":"10.5220/0004212001300133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004212001300133","url":null,"abstract":"Assets are interrelated in risk analysis methodologies for information systems promoted by international standards. This means that an attack on one asset can be propagated through the network and threaten an organization’s most valuable assets. It is necessary to valuate all assets, the direct and indirect asset dependencies, as well as the probability of threats and the resulting asset degradation. These methodologies do not, however, consider uncertain valuations and use precise values on different scales, usually percentages. Linguistic terms are used by the experts to represent assets values, dependencies and frequency and asset degradation associated with possible threats. Computations are based on the trapezoidal fuzzy numbers associated with these linguistic terms.","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"19 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125890037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Business Process Enterprise Model - Operations Research for Managing Business Process Communication and Performance","authors":"Y. Caseau","doi":"10.5220/0003718200110020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0003718200110020","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a computational model of a generic enterprise (BPEM, which stands for Business Process Enterprise Model), based upon the core concept of business process. BPEM may be seen as a bridge between two worlds of “Enterprise Models”, the world of mathematical models, formal and fully operational for optimization purposes and the world of conceptual models (boxes & arrows type) for management science, for reasoning and communicating about what a company is. Our model was built as the minimal and most elegant model that is detailed enough to investigate difficult management science issues such as the influence of hierarchical organization on performance, the optimal usage of various communication channels or the benefits of lean-management-style control of processes. BPEM is organized around four concepts: business processes, capabilities that encapsulate resource management, hierarchical and transverse management organization, as well as information flows that are required to run business","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129884227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence for the Relationship between Pilot Effectiveness, Surface Anomalies, and Operational Efficiency Data","authors":"D. Howell, S. Borener","doi":"10.5220/0004273302360241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004273302360241","url":null,"abstract":"To justify an investment in a safety-related program, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration must develop a business justification with a positive return on investment. While the assumed value of an avoided aviation accident is quite large, the rarity of such events many times makes a business case built strictly on safety metrics untenable. It is therefore helpful to examine if there are efficiency or capacity impacts related to the investment. One area of interest to the aviation safety community is fatigue and pilot effectiveness. Previous research has examined the connection between operator fatigue and accident frequency. In this study, we examine the relationships between pilot effectiveness, measured surface anomalies, and archived operational efficiency data at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Memphis International Airport to provide evidence to support future taxi path conformance or crew rest requirement investments.","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"213 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114843526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pareto Frontier for Vehicle Fleet Purchases - Cost versus Sustainability","authors":"Daniel Reich, S. Winkler, Erica Klampfl","doi":"10.5220/0004222901750182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004222901750182","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle fleets for large corporations can have thousands of vehicles that are replaced between every few months and every few years. With the emergence of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and other new vehicle technologies, combined with an increasing focus on sustainability, planning fleet purchases has and continues to become a significantly more complicated undertaking. This paper introduces Ford’s Fleet Purchase Planner system designed to present fleet customers with optimal purchase strategies that incorporate their companies’ cost and sustainability considerations.","PeriodicalId":235376,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128695158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}