Monday 02/07/2018 | |
8:00 – 8:40 | Registration |
8:40 – 9:20 | Opening Ceremony |
9:20 – 10:00 | Plenary 1 – Michael Trick Business Analytics: Combining Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics to Have Broad Impact |
10:00 – 10:40 | Panel Discussion – Securing the future of OR in Africa Session Moderator – Sue Merchant Members: Mohamed Limam, Charles Malack Oloo, James J. Cochran, Hatem Masri and Serigne Gueye. |
10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 11:40 | Plenary 2 – Samir Elhedhli Data-Driven Modelling and Optimization for Warehouse Analytics |
11:40 – 13:00 | Parallel Sessions A |
A1 – Health Care Management 1 Chair: Malek Masmoudi |
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11:40 – 12:00 | A new generalized approach for surgeries scheduling |
Dalel Amami and Abdelaziz Dammak | |
12:00 – 12:20 | Several meta-heuristics for home care routing problems |
Malek Masmoudi, Bassem Jarboui and Sana Frifita | |
12:20 – 12:40 | Management Approach of tensions in emergency services |
Mouna Berquedich, Oulaid Kamach, Malek Masmoudi and Laurent Deshayes | |
12:40 – 13:00 | Chemotherapy outpatient scheduling case study from Tunisia |
Asma Bouras, Malek Masmoudi, Houda Saadani and Zied Bahroun | |
A2 – Simulation Chair: James J. Cochran |
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11:40 – 12:00 | Improving patient flow at a Tunisian outpatient department using simulation modelling approach |
Hana Ben Mbarek, Amel Jaoua, Najla Aissaoui Omrane, Safa Bhar Layeb and Atidel Hadj Alouane | |
12:00 – 12:20 | Combining Monte Carlo Simulation with Exact Method to Solve a Random Problem of Collect Infectious Healthcare Waste: The Case of Tunisia |
Rim Daoud, Mahdi Khemakhem and Wafik Hachicha | |
12:20 – 12:40 | Simulation and Multiple Linear Regression to model patient flow at an outpatient clinic |
Hadhemi Saadouli and Abdelmoneem Ltaif | |
12:40 – 13:00 | Optimization of Robotized Tasks for the UV Treatment of Diseases in Horticulture |
Merouane Mazar, M’Hammed Sahnoun, Belgacem Bettayeb and Nathalie Klement | |
A3 – Financial Markets Chair: Hans-Jörg von Mettenheim |
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11:40 – 12:00 | Nonlinear dynamics in stock returns: Do risk aversion, investor sentiment and monetary policy shocks matter? |
Meriam Dahmene, Adel Boughrara and Skander Slim | |
12:00 – 12:20 | Switching regime risk spillover in global financial markets |
Ahmed Bensaïda, Houda Litimi and Oussama Abdallah | |
12:20 – 12:40 | The Vietnamese Stock Market: An Analysis with Linear and Non-Linear Methods |
Hans-Jörg von Mettenheim, Dinh Tri Vo and Duc Khuong Nguyen | |
12:40 – 13:00 | Lobbying Expenditures and Sin Stocks’ Market Performance |
Hatem Ghouma and Carissa Hewitt | |
A4 – Decision Sciences and Optimization Chair: Alexis Tsoukias |
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11:40 – 12:00 | Generating Alternatives for Policy Design |
Alexis Tsoukias, Alberto Colorni and Irene Pluchinotta | |
12:00 – 12:20 | The Transition from outsourcing to R&D : the case of information technology (IT) Tunisian companies |
Meriem Youssef and Fouad Ben Abdelaziz | |
12:20 – 12:40 | Algorithm for asymptotically exact minimizations in Karush-Kuhn-Tucker methods |
Jean Koudi, Babacar Mbaye Ndiaye, Guy Degla and Mamadou Traoré | |
12:40 – 13:00 | A primal-dual interior point algorithm for convex quadratic programming based on a new kernel function |
Hayet Roumili, Nawel Boudjellal and Benterki Djamel | |
13:00 – 14:20 | Lunch |
14:20 – 15:00 | Plenary 3 – Imed Kacem Polynomial approximation schemes: when the standard techniques become unavoidable |
15:00 – 16:20 | Parallel Sessions B |
B1- Health Care Management 2 Chair: Khaoula Besbes |
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15:00 -15:20 | Firm’s adaptation to low consumer sensitivity to nutritional health considerations: What public corrective strategy? |
Manel Zahra Boutouis and Abdelhakim Hammoudi | |
15:20 -15:40 | A Two-Stage Stochastic Home Healthcare routing and scheduling Problem |
Khaoula Besbes and Issam Nouaouri | |
15:40 -16:00 | Optimizing the Between-Class Variance using the VNS Metaheuristic for Brain MRI Segmentation |
Mariem Miledi and Souhail Dhouib | |
16:00 – 16:20 | Applying “lean management » to hospital logistics |
Dorra Dridi and Younes Boujelbene | |
B2 – Logistics Chair: Mohamed Dia |
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15:00 -15:20 | A Mixed Integer Programming Model for Cargo Composition Problem Including Containers with Dangerous Goods |
Kiros Gebrearegawi Kebedow and Johan Oppen | |
15:20 -15:40 | Aligning Reliability Improvement Strategies in an Assembly System |
Amirmohsen Golmohammadi, Alireza Tajbakhsh, Mohamed Dia and Matthias P. Takouda | |
15:40 -16:00 | Port Efficiency and Competitiveness: the Case of European Ports |
Rabeb Kammoun, Chokri Abdenadher and Souhir Abbes | |
16:00 – 16:20 | Benchmarking Canadian Oil and Gas Companies |
Mohamed Dia, Pawoumodom M. Takouda and Amirmohsen Golmohammadi | |
B3 – Scheduling 1 Chair: Imed Kacem and Faten Ben Chihaoui |
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15:00 -15:20 | Exact and Approximate Temporal Partitioning Methods for Dynamic Reconfigurable Architecture |
Fadel Abdallah, Camel Tanougast, Imed Kacem, Camille Diou and Daniel Singer | |
15:20 -15:40 | A PTAS for Minimizing the Maximum Lateness and Makespan on Two-Parallel Machine |
Gais Alhadi, Imed Kacem, Pierre Laroche and Izzeldin Osman | |
15:40 -16:00 | Approximation Schemes for Minimizing the Maximum Lateness on a Single Machine with Release Times under Non-Availability or Deadline Constraints |
Imed Kacem and Hans Kellerer | |
16:00 – 16:20 | 2-Dimensional packing algorithm on a variable size rectangular interface |
Imed Kacem, Ilyes Kadri, Benoit Martin and Isabelle Pecci | |
B4 – Manufacturing and Service Management Chair: David Moroz |
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15:00 -15:20 | Disassembly Scheduling with Capacity Constraints, Safety stocks and Lost Component |
Ilhem Slama, Mounir Benaissa and Faouzi Masmoudi | |
15:20 -15:40 | Planning, exploitation and management of stocks in the cashew nut sector in Senegal |
Amadou Saikou Diallo, Babacar Mbaye Ndiaye and Daouda Niang Diatta | |
15:40 – 16:00 | From the World’s Manufacturing Factory to the World’s Innovation Lab: New Business Trends in China and Implications for Scholarship |
Amy Zeng | |
16:00 – 16:20 | The Hedonic Price for Whisky: Distiller’s Reputation, Age and Vintage |
David Moroz and Bruno Pecchioli | |
16:20 – 16:40 | Coffee Break |
16:40 – 18:00 | Parallel Session C |
C1 – Health Care Management 3 Chair: Phillips Obasohan |
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16:40 – 17:00 | Case Studies in Hospital Ward and Bed Management: Decision Support by Simulation and Optimization under Flexibility |
Thomas Stoeck, Taieb Mellouli and Karsten Schwarz | |
17:00 – 17:20 | Process mining in healthcare domain |
Neyla Guennichi and Kamel Barkaoui | |
17:20 – 17:40 | Women Autonomy, Wealth Status and Maternal Healthcare Utilization among Nigerian Women: Factor Analysis and Score Approach |
Phillips Obasohan, Paul Gana, Mustapha A Mahmud, Ahmed Egbako Umar and Makada Abdullah | |
17:40 – 18:00 | Cultural Impediments and Antenatal Care Utilization among Reproductive Age Women in Wushishi and Zungeru Communities in Niger State, Nigeria |
Phillips Obasohan, Audu Makada, Mahmud A. Mustapha, Egbako Umar Ahmed, Paul Gana and Dorcas Nike Obasohan | |
C2 – Supply Chain Management Chair: Taïcir Moalla Loukil |
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16:40 – 17:00 | Bi-level Multi-objective programming in Supply Chain Management: A review |
Maroua Abed, Taïcir Moalla Loukil and Fouad Ben Abdelaziz | |
17:00 – 17:20 | Supply Chain Risk Models |
Arij Lahmar | |
17:20 – 17:40 | Group Decision Support for the Selection and Evaluation of 3PLs Suppliers: Literature Review |
Hichem Brahmi, Zaki Brahmi and Khaled Jabeur | |
17:40 – 18:00 | A Bi-Objective Stochastic Programming Model for the Household Waste Collection and Transportation Problem: Case of the City of Sousse |
Haifa Jammeli, Hatem Masri and Mejdi Argoubi | |
C3 – Scheduling 2 Chair: Berndt Lindner |
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16:40 – 17:00 | A linear programming model to solve the minimax multi-period substitutable resources production-allocation problem |
Mohamed Essalah Salah and Younes Boujelben | |
17:00 – 17:20 | Bi-objective Generator Maintenance Scheduling for a National Power Utility |
Berndt Lindner and Jan Harm van Vuuren | |
17:20 – 17:40 | Upper bounds for minimizing the total completion time in a two-machine Flow shop under release dates and blocking constraint |
Ines Agrebi and Talel Ladhari | |
17:40 – 18:00 | A Guided Tabu Search for the Vector Bin Packing Problem |
Farida Mannai and Mongi Boulehmi | |
C4 – Data Finance Chair: Sabri Boubaker |
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16:40 – 17:00 | Predictability of Bitcoin Price- Evidence from Variance Ratio Tests |
Khaled Guesmi, Stephane Goutte, Fathi Jouini and Samir Saadi | |
17:00 – 17:20 | Decision-making support by cognitive maps to understand the effects of crowdfunding finance on entrepreneurial self-efficacy |
Imen Abdennadher Gdoura, Karim Trabelsi and Anis Jarboui | |
17:20 – 17:40 | The Difficult Apprehension of Blockchains by Law |
Olivier Lasmoles | |
17:40 – 18:00 | Do Good As Others are Doing Well : An Evidence from Corporate Employee Welfare Policy |
Asad Ali-Rind, Souad Lajili Jarjir and Sabri Boubaker | |
18:00 – 19:00 | AFROS Council Meeting |
20:00 – 22:30 | Conference Dinner |
Tuesday 03/07/2018 | |
8:00 – 8:40 | Registration |
8:40 – 9:20 | Plenary 4 – James J. Cochran Are p-Values the Problem? |
9:20 – 10:40 | Parallel Session D |
D1 – Electric Vehicle Routing Problem Chair: Hatem Masri |
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9:20 – 9:40 | The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem: Literature Review |
Najeh Dammak and Souhail Dhouib | |
9:40 – 10:00 | A stochastic model for the design of electric vehicle charging infrastructure |
Mouna Kchaou Boujelben and Celine Gicquel | |
10:00 – 10:20 | A skewed general variable neighborhood search for solving the battery swap station location-routing problem with capacitated electric vehicles |
Mannoubia Affi, Houda Derbel and Bassem Jarboui | |
10:20 – 10:40 | A Hybrid Approach of Analytic Hierarchy Process-TOPSIS and Goal Programming for Electric Automobile Selection |
Mustafa Hamurcu and Tamer Eren | |
D2 – Fuzziness and Uncertainty Chair: Mehdi Mili |
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9:20 – 9:40 | A Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Processing Model for Customers’ Bank Selection Decision |
Minwir Alshamari and Mehdi Mili | |
9:40 – 10:00 | Aspects of fuzzy logic decision making in crowdfunding: a review of literature |
Imen Abdennadher Gdoura and Anis Jarboui | |
10:00 – 10:20 | Analyst Forecast Accuracy and Policy Uncertainty throughout the Electoral and Economic Cycles |
Lamia Chourou, Lynnette Purda and Samir Saadi | |
10:20 – 10:40 | A Real Option Approach to Irreversible Investment in Petroleum Refinery under Revenue Uncertainty |
Esosa Enoyoze and Sunday Omosigho | |
D3 – Stochastic Models Chair: Safa Bhar Layeb |
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9:20 – 9:40 | New Hierarchical Clustering Method in Interval Data |
Roumaissa Kerboui and Moncef Abbas | |
9:40 – 10:00 | European option pricing by simulation based on the retrograde stochastic differential equations |
Rania Bouzid and Yacin Jerbi | |
10:00 – 10:20 | The Generalized Discrete Cost Multicommodity Network Design Problem with Stochastic Demands |
Imen Mejri, Safa Bhar Layeb, Farah Zeghal Mansour and Mohamed Haouari | |
10:20 – 10:40 | Monopoly pricing in an M/M/1 unreliable queue with strategic customers |
Fazia Rahmoune, Kamel Meziani and Mohammed Said Radjef | |
D4 – Efficiency and Performance Analysis Chair: Meryem Masmoudi |
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9:20 – 9:40 | Risk Management of a Project Management Process at TTE International-Onetech Group -Tunisia |
Souha Belli, Faten Ben Chihaoui and Tarek Kharroubi | |
9:40 – 10:00 | Efficiency analysis of terminal containers in the Port of Dakar using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Bootstrap approach |
Karamoko Sita Diallo, Babacar Mbaye Ndiaye and Guy Degla | |
10:00 – 10:20 | Reduction of the WIP in the Production unit BMW at LEONI Wiring systems Sousse-Tunisia |
Latifa Ben Khaled, Faten Ben Chihaoui and Siwar Briki | |
10:20 – 10:40 | Measuring technical efficiency and productive slacks of Tunisian manufacturing industry: A comparative analysis between the traditional and the bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis |
Rim Slimani and Maha Kalai | |
10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 11:40 | Plenary 5 – El-ghazali Talbi Synergy between metaheuristics and machine learning |
11:40 – 13:00 | Parallel Session E |
E1 – Data Analytics Chair: Hans W. Ittmann |
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11:40 – 12:00 | The Evolution of an Election Forecasting Model over 20 Years |
Hans W. Ittmann | |
12:00 – 12:20 | Application of the Choquet Integral in Clustering Method: K-Means |
Roumaissa Kerboui and Moncef Abbas | |
12:20 – 12:40 | Forecasting Financial Distress: A Comparative Study of Statistical and Artificially Intelligent Models with and without Financial Theory |
Saban Celik, Bora Aktan and Berna Tektaş Sivrikaya | |
12:40 – 13:00 | Implementation of WT and Neural Networks Algorithms for Speech Signal Denoising Optimization |
Said Ouznadji, Djamel Chaabane and Messaoud Thameri | |
E2 – Multiple Criteria Decision Aid Chair: Sarah Ben Amor |
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11:40 – 12:00 | The SISINA Method: A Distance-Based Multi-Attribute Ranking Approach with Superiority and Inferiority Indexes |
Moufida Hidouri and Abdelwaheb Rebaï | |
12:00 – 12:20 | Using Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Metro Projects Selection in Ankara |
Mustafa Hamurcu and Tamer Eren | |
12:20 – 12:40 | Using Principal component analysis to resolve interactive criteria decision making problems |
Olfa Meddeb and Fouad Ben Abdelaziz | |
12:40 – 13:00 | A Multiple-Criteria Decision Sorting Model for pharmaceutical suppliers’ selection under mixed imperfect data |
Sarah Ben Amor, Renata Pelissari and Maria Celia de Oliveira | |
E3 – Vehicle Routing Chair: Taieb Mellouli |
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11:40 – 12:00 | From Vehicle Scheduling to Vehicle Routing: Problem structures, (dis-)similarities, complexities, practical issues, and efficient solution by “Merged Network Flows” Math Models, Part A: Problem Classes and Research Road Map |
Taieb Mellouli | |
12:00 – 12:20 | From Vehicle Scheduling to Vehicle Routing: Problem structures, (dis-)similarities, complexities, practical issues, and efficient solution by “Merged Network Flows” Math Models, Part B: Modelling towards Large Scale Optimization |
Taieb Mellouli | |
12:20 – 12:40 | Improved Biogeography-Based Optimization for the Selective Vehicle Routing Problem in a Collaborative Environment |
Olfa Chebbi, Safa Bhar Layeb and Jouhaina Chaouachi | |
12:40 – 13:00 | Minimizing Fuel Consumption in Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem |
Dalila Tayachi and Cheima Jendoubi | |
13:00 – 14:20 | Lunch |
14:30 – 19:30 | Sightseeing Tour of Carthage and Sidi Bou Said |
Wednesday 04/07/2018 | |
8:00 – 9:00 | Registration |
9:00 – 10:20 | Parallel Sessions F |
F1 – Multiple Objective Programming 1 Chair: Sahnoun M’Hammed |
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9:00 – 9:20 | Non-efficient points approach for solving multiobjective linear problems |
Houda Alaya, Fouad Ben Abdelaziz and Tarak Joulak | |
9:20 – 9:40 | Multi-objective Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem: Simulation Approach |
Yiyi Xu, Sahnoun M’Hammed, Fouad Ben Abdelaziz, David Baudry and Anne Louis | |
9:40 – 10:00 | Solving the Bi-Objective Portfolio Optimization Problem with Uncertain Market Parameters: A Comparative Study |
Meziane Aider, Mhand Hifi and Samira Bokhari | |
10:00 – 10:20 | SWVP method (Surrogate Worth Value Path) for selecting Goal Programming variant |
Lahmar Arij, François Galasso, Jacques Lamothe and Habib Chabchoub | |
F2 – Metaheuristics Chair: El-ghazali Talbi |
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9:00 – 9:20 | Multi-objective chicken swarm optimization for continuous optimization |
Djaafar Zouache and Fouad Ben Abelaziz | |
9:20 – 9:40 | A Hybrid approach for zero-one Multiple-Choice Knapsack Problem with Setup |
Yassine Adouani, Malek Masmoudi, Iyad Alghoul and Bassem Jarboui | |
9:40 – 10:00 | A greedy-based simulated annealing algorithm for the clustering problem in ad hoc networks |
Khalil Amine | |
10:00 – 10:20 | Meta-heuristics for surgical scheduling problem with hospitalization |
Manel Belkhamsa, Malek Masmoudi, Iyad Alghoul and Bassem Jarboui | |
F3- Finance and Business Models Chair: Imen Derouiche |
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9:00 – 9:20 | Accruals Quality, Financial Constraints and Corporate Cash Holdings |
Imen Derouiche, Karima Jemai and Hatem Mansali | |
9:20 – 9:40 | Risk Adjusted Credit Pricing: Application to the state’s guarantee funds for Moroccan enterprises |
Oussouadi Kamal | |
9:40 – 10:00 | NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies for predicting financial distress: Evidence from Tunisia |
Senda Belhaj Slimene and Chokri Mamoghli | |
10:00 – 10:20 | Indications and guarantees of coopetition in strategic alliances: Evidence of fsQCA on a business model innovation |
Sahar Ayadi, Younes Boujelben and Lotfi Khreifich | |
F4 – Transportation 1 Chair: Serigne Gueye |
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9:00 – 9:20 | A genetic algorithm for the Multi-vehicle Covering Tour Problem |
Manel Kamoun, Houda Derbel and Bassem Jarboui | |
9:20 – 9:40 | A Genetic Algorithm for Rich Vehicle Routing Problems Optimization |
Bochra Rabbouch, Foued SaÂdaoui and Rafaa Mraihi | |
9:40 – 10:00 | A greedy evolutionary hybridization algorithm for the Optimal Network and Quadratic Assignment Problem |
Mouhamadou Aliou Moutaga Tall Baldé, Babacar Mbaye Ndiaye and Serigne Gueye | |
10:00 – 10:20 | Senegaulois Algorithm for Transportation Network and Land Use Problem |
Mamadou Kone and Babacar Mbaye Ndiaye | |
10:20 – 10:40 | Coffee Break |
10:40 – 12:00 | Parallel Session G |
G1 – Multiple Objective Programming 2 Chair: Sahnoun M’Hammed |
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10:40 – 11:00 | Bi-objective scheduling of multi-processor tasks on two dedicated processors |
Adel Kacem and Abdelaziz Dammak | |
11:00 – 11:20 | An Integrated Approach of Analytic Network Process and Goal Programming Model for Effective Usage of resources in the Higher Education |
Mustafa Hamurcu and Tamer Eren | |
11:20 -11:40 | Improved Branch and Bound for Scheduling a No-wait Two-machine Flow-shop to Minimize the Makespan under Non-Availability Constraints |
F. Ben Chihaoui, I. Kacem, A. B. Hadj-Alouane and N. Dridi | |
11:40 – 12:00 | A multi-objective approach for cell formation problem |
Soukaina Triki, Malek Masmoudi and Hichem Kamoun | |
G2 – Health Care Management 4 Chair: Salah Ben Abdallah |
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10:40 – 11:00 | VMI and demand pooling effect in pharmaceutical supply chain |
Mouna Elarbi, Malek Masmoudi, Omar Ayadi and Faouzi Masmoudi | |
11:00 – 11:20 | Medical equipment maintenance optimization: Mixed-Integer Linear Programming |
Zeineb Ben Houria, Malek Masmoudi and Ahmad Al Hanbali | |
11:20 -11:40 | A HVNS algorithm for solving multistage operating room scheduling integrating building surgical team constraints |
Marwa Khalfalli and Hichem Kamoun | |
11:40 – 12:00 | An improved tabu search algorithm for surgery scheduling problem with maximal time lags |
Marwa Khalfalli | |
G3 – Transportation 2 Chair: Mohamed Ayman Boujelben |
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10:40 – 11:00 | Worldwide Passenger Flows Estimation |
Rodrigo Acuna-Agost, Ezequiel Geremia, Thiago Gouveia, Serigne Gueye, Micheli Knechtel and Philippe Michelon | |
11:00 – 11:20 | GVNS algorithm to solve the Technician Routing and Scheduling Problem |
Sana Frifita, Ines Mathlouthi, Malek Masmoudi and Abdelaziz Dammak | |
11:20 -11:40 | The Crew pairing problem for the Tunisian airline company based on Hybrid approach |
Hela Jedidi, Ons Abdelkhalek, Hela Masri and Saoussen Krichen | |
11:40 – 12:00 | A new model for the green tourist trip design problem |
Rami Jouirou, Hela Masri, Ons Abdelkhalek and Saoussen Krichen | |
G4 – OR and Education Chair: Sue Merchant |
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10:40 – 11:00 | The Current Status of OR in Africa |
Hans W. Ittmann | |
11:00 – 11:20 | Designing an Undergraduate Honours Programme in Operations Research |
Philimon Nyamugure and James Cochran | |
11:20 -11:40 | The Development of OR in Africa |
Maseka Lesaoana | |
11:40 – 12:00 | Visualizing the knowledge domain of Operations Research and Management Science in Africa: a bibliometric analysis |
Emna Ammari and Mejdi Argoubi | |
12:00 – 12:20 | TDAS Awards Ceremony |
12:20 – 12:40 | Closing Ceremony |
12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 – 17:00 | Doctoral Workshop |
17:00 – 18:00 | TDAS Council Meeting |