SATURDAY 19 MAY 2001

SAT1 SESSION

S. B. Gershwin, M.I.T., USA, (Keynote Speaker)

“Problems and Opportunities in Manufacturing Systems Engineering”

Coffee Break

SAT2 SESSION

M. Caramanis, H. Pan, and O. Anli, Boston Univ., USA.

“Is there a Trade off between Lean and Agile Manufacturing? A Supply Chain Investigation”

W.H.M. Zijm*, G.-J. van Houtum ** and W. D. Rustenburg ***, *Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands, **Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, ***Districon B.V., The Netherlands.

“Re-supply Strategies for General Two-echelon, Multi-indenture Maintenance Systems”

H. Tempelmeier, Univ. of Cologne, Germany.

“Supply Chain Management with Advanced Planning Systems”

E. Iakovou, Univ. of Miami, USA.

“A New Framework for Supply Chain Management: Review, Concepts and Examples”

SUNDAY 20 MAY 2001

S1 SESSION

S. Mittman, Intracom, Greece.

“Every Supply Chain is NOT as Weak as its Weakest Link - it is MUCH Weaker!”

G. Makrokanis, Neoset, Greece.

“Supply Chain: Strategic Procurement”

T. Modestou, BSP, Greece.

“ERP Systems Applications on BSP’s Supply Chain Management”

C. Galiatsatos, Coca Cola HBC, Greece.

“Logistics & Supply Chain Organization in a Beverage Company”

K. Zografos and Y. Salouras, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece.

“Designing a DSS for Optimizing Logistics Operations in an e-Commerce Environment”

S2 SESSION

S. Makris, Telcordia Technologies, USA.

“Telecommunications Aspects of the Olympic Games: The Challenges for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games”

Coffee Break

S3 SESSION

Y. Nonaka, Hitachi, Japan.

“A Company's Research Needs for Configure-To-Order Production Systems”

G. Ioannou, G. Prastacos and G. Skintzi, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece.

“Inventory Positioning in Single Product Supply Chains”

G. T. Tsoulfas and C. P. Pappis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece.

“Application of Environmental Principles to Reverse Supply Chains”

R. Gaonkar and N. Viswanadham, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore.

“Collaborative Scheduling Model for Supply-Hub Management”

S. Daskalaki, Univ. of Patras, Greece.

“Design of Supply Chains for Quick Response: The Case of the Apparel Industry”

K. Zografos and K. Androutsopoulos, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece.

“A Heuristic Algorithm for Solving Large-Scale Bi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows”

MONDAY 21 MAY 2001

M1 SESSION

J. A. Buzacott, York Univ., Canada.

“Modelling Teams and Workgroups in Manufacturing”

K. H. Youssef*, Y. Dallery*^,** and C. Van Delft**, *Ecole Centrale Paris, France, ** Groupe HEC, France.

“Combining Make to Stock and Make to Order in a Multi-Product Manufacturing System”

J.-M. Bollon and M. Di Mascolo, Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble, France.

“Unified Formulation and Comparison of Pull Control Policies Using (min,+) Algebra”

R. Grubbström, Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden.

“On the Triple Algorithm for Optimal Dynamic Lotsizing”

G. Krieg and H. Kuhn, Catholic Univ. of Eichstätt, Germany.

“Analysis of Multi-Class Queueing Systems with Finite Buffers and Setup Times Using Decomposition Methods”

J. Mbihi*, R. P. Malhamé** and J. Sadr*, *École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, **École Polytechnique de Montréal and GERAD, Canada.

“On Two Decoupling Approximations in Transfer Lines and Their Application in the Control of a Stochastic Flow Shop”

Coffee Break

M2 SESSION

S. Axsater, Lund Univ., Sweden.

“Evaluation of Asymmetric Lateral Transshipments in Inventory Systems”

G. Liberopoulos and S. Koukoumialos, Univ. of Thessaly, Greece.

“Numerical Investigation of Tradeoffs in Production-Inventory Control Policies with Advance Demand Information”

M. I. Vidalis and C. Τ. Papadopoulos, Univ. of the Aegean, Greece.

“A Heuristic Algorithm for the Buffer Allocation in Short Unreliable Production Lines”

M. Zazanis, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece.

“Make-to-Stock Queues in Heavy Traffic”

L. Tsironis*, N. Bilalis*, and V. Moustakis**, *Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece, ** Technical Univ. of Crete and Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Greece.

“Using Inductive Machine Learning to Support Quality Management”

Lunch  Break

M3 SESSION

T. Sawik, Univ. of Mining & Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland.

“Scheduling of Printed Wiring Board Assembly in Surface Mount Technology Lines by Mixed Integer Programming”

V. Kouikoglou, Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece.

“An Efficient Discrete Event Model of Unreliable Production Lines”

F. A. Batzias, N. Nikolaou and A. Kakos, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece.

“Design of Optimal Biogas Buffer Inventory in Wastewater Treatment Facilities”

G. Τagaras and Y. Nikolaidis, Aristoteles Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece.

“On the Performance of Alternative Adaptive Control Charts”

B. Tan, Koç Univ., Turkey.

“Options-Based Sourcing Strategies for Producers with Limited Capacity and Volatile Demand”

J. Geraghty and C. Heavey, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland.

“A Review and Analysis of Horizontally Integrated Hybrid Production Control Strategies”

TUESDAY 22 MAY 2001

T1 SESSION

S. B. Gershwin*, N. Maggio**., A. Matta**, T. Tolio**, and L. Werner*, *M.I.T., USA, **Politecnico di Milano, Italy. 

“Analysis of Loop Networks by Decomposition”

E. Enginarlar*, J. Li** and S. Meerkov*, *Univ. of Michigan, USA, **GM Research and Development Center, USA.

“A Potpourri on the Team of Lean Buffering”

J. MacGregor Smith* and L. Kerbache**, *Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, ** HEC School of Management, France. 

“Buffer Space Allocation in General Closed Finite Queuing Networks”

G. Allon, T. Raviv and R. Y. Rubinstein, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

“Application of the Cross Entropy Method for Buffer Allocation Problem in Simulation Based Environment”

R. Levantesi, A. Matta and T. Tolio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. 

“A New Algorithm for Buffer Allocation in Production Lines”

J. Van der Wal, Technical Univ. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

“Threshold Subcontracting”

Coffee Break

T2 SESSION

T. Kniker and M. Burman, Analytics Inc., USA.

“Applications of Revenue Management to Manufacturing”

S. Yeralan* and H. Emery**, *Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, USA, **Rigel Corporation, USA.

“Distributed Manufacturing Systems Control”

S. Khanian and C. Heavey, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland.

“Development of a Manufacturing Simulation Model Using Object Oriented Principles”

H. Ishikura*. and K. Hitomi**, *Osaka Gakuin Univ., Japan, **Centre of Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Japan.

“Analysis of the Recycling-Oriented Manufacturing Systems in Consideration of Energy Consumption and Cost in Manufacturing Process”

I. P. Tatsiopoulos* N. Panayiotou* and A. Rinn**, *NTUA, Greece, **TU Karlsruhe, Germany.

“A Reference Model for Production Planning in Metals Industry”

Lunch  Break

T3 SESSION