Keynote Speeches in 12th NCM

No matter if you have missed the 12th International Conference on Challenges in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, here is the summary of keynote speeches at this conference.

The conference took place in Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey on September 11-12, 2018. The conference organizer was Canadian Institute for Knowledge Development (www.CIKD.ca)

The main theme of NCM 2018 was New Challenges in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.  The conference also covered research including MCDM, DEA, Optimization Techniques, Operation Management, fuzzy logic, and stochastic methods analysis.

We were honored to have Ali Emrouznejad as one of our keynote speakers

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Here is his keynote speech at this conference:

Data Envelopment Analysis: Recent Developments and Challenges

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a new tool for measuring the efficiency and productivity of decision-making units (DMUs). In this talk, we first introduce the standard definition of DEA and further discuss some more advanced models on this topic. When using DEA, it is important to note that various interactions can intricate the analysis. For example, changing the modeling technique, or the input or output variables might result in significantly different efficiency scores. Therefore, we will provide a systematic checklist that makes efficiency analysis less costly, more reliable, more repeatable, more manageable and faster. Hence, this talk will provide the necessary background to work with DEA. We further will discuss recent developments and challenges that could be useful to both academics and practitioners.

Also, we had Serkan Eryilmaz as the other keynote speaker

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following is what his speech was about:

System Reliability Optimization: An Overview and New Problems

The concept of reliability has become more and more important with the rapid change and development in engineering systems. Reliability optimization deals with the design of a highly reliable system that functions more safely and efficiently under specified conditions and constraints. System reliability optimization is of special importance since it is concerned with a balance between reliability and cost. In this talk, some reliability optimization problems such as redundancy allocation problem and optimal replacement time problem will be mentioned and discussed under various scenarios. Furthermore, new optimization problems on systems consisting of multiple types of components will be presented.