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  Systems Engineering   Department

  
Dr. HESHAM K. ALFARES 

Professor
Systems Engineering (SE) Department
College of Computer Sciences & Engineering (CCSE)
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)

Work Address
PO Box 5067, KFUPM, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Work Phone:  +9663 860-3726
Work Fax:      +9663 860 2965
E-mail:           alfares@kfupm.edu.sa  

Dr. Hesham Al-Fares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 EDUCATION      <<Home>>

  • BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1982, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara, USA

  • MS, Industrial Engineering, 1984, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, USA

  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, 1991, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 WORK  EXPERIENCE       <<Home>>

Systems Engineering Department         

King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

  • 1984-1991, Lecturer

  • 1991-2000, Assistant Professor

  • 2000-2004, Associate Professor

  • 2004-present, Professor

British Council Summer Research Program, UK   

     

  • 1993 Summer, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, Visiting Professor

  • 1998 Summer, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, Visiting Professor

  • 2003 Summer, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, England, Visiting Professor

Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

 

  • 1983 Summer, Industrial Engineering (IE) Division, Organization & Industrial Engineering (O&IE) Dept., Industrial Engineer Summer Trainee

  • 1984 Summer, Office Services Dept., Electrical Engineer Summer Trainee

  • 1995 Summer, I.E. Div., O&IE Dept., Consultant

  • 1997 Summer, I.E. Div., O&IE Dept., Consultant

  • 1999-2000 (Sabbatical Year), I.E. Div., O&IE Dept., Consultant

  • 2002 Summer, I.E. Div., O&IE Dept., Consultant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




TEACHING ACTIVITIES     <<Home>>

Teaching several graduate and undergraduate academic courses in the various areas of industrial engineering, including:

  1. PYP 003  University Study Skills

  2. SE 100     Introduction to Technology

  3. SE 201     Introduction to Systems Engineering

  4. SE 301     Numerical Methods

  5. SE 303     Operations Research I

  6. SE 305     Optimization methods

  7. SE 307     Engineering Economic Analysis

  8. SE 325     Engineering Statistics

  9. SE 402     Production Systems and Inventory Control

  10. SE 421     Operations Research II

  11. SE 443     Human Factors Engineering

  12. SE 447     Decision Making

  13. SE 501     Introduction to Operations Research Models and Applications

  14. SE 503     Linear Programming and Applications

  15. SE 508     Advanced Production Systems and Inventory Control

Coordinating several Systems Engineering courses, including:

  1. SE 100 (Introduction to Technology)

  2. SE 351 (co-op training)

  3. SE 399 (summer training)

  4. SE 599 (graduate seminar)

Coordinating and teaching in short courses offered to professionals outside KFUPM, including:

  1. Production & Inventory Control Systems (coordinated 3 times)

  2. Linear Programming & Its Applications in Refineries

  3. Workshop on Basic Statistics for Laboratory Applications

  4. Total Quality

  5. Maintenance Management

  6. Cost Reduction through Industrial Engineering

  7. Skills for Measuring and Controlling Industrial Costs (Kuwait)

  8. Inventory and Supply Chain Management (coordinator)

  9. Reliability-Based Maintenance Planning & Scheduling (Dubai, UAE)

  10. Forecasting Techniques for SAP Users (Saudi Aramco)

  11. Forecasting the Annual Production of SABIC Plants Using Statistics (SABIC)

  12. Long-Term Forecasting for SABIC Plants (SABIC)

  13. Forecasting Models and Techniques for STC

  14. Basics of Supply Chain Management (Saudi Aramco)

  15. Statistics for Plant Engineers and Lab Scientists (Saudi Aramco)

  16. Master Planning of Resources (Saudi Aramco)

  17. Detailed Scheduling and Planning (Saudi Aramco)

  18. Execution and Control of Operations (Saudi Aramco)

 

Short Courses/Workshops Attended

  • Effective Teaching, KFUPM, 6-8 December, 1997.

  • ISO 9000 Awareness, KFUPM, 8 June, 1998.

  • Teaching Courses Incorporating Projects, KFUPM, 1 November, 1998.

  • Striving for Excellence in University Teaching and Learning II, KFUPM, 27-29 August 2001

  • Basic Web Technology Skills for Courseware Development, Manama, Bahrain. 14-18 Oct. 2001, cosponsored by UNESCO and ISESCO (Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).

  • Workshop on Introduction to WebCT, KFUPM, 26-28 October 2002.

  • Workshop on Introduction to Outcome-Based Program and Course Assessment, KFUPM, October 7, 2003.

  • Use of RAED ERP System for Research Projects, KFUPM, February 18, 2007.

  • Workshop on Good Teaching & Effective Lecturing, KFUPM, November 14, 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 Administrative/Committee/activites     <<Home>>

Chairing and Membership in several University (KFUPM), College (CCSE), and Department (SE) committees, including:

University

  • KFUPM Bids Opening Committee

  • KFUPM Honors & Convocations Committee

  • KFUPM Student Affairs Committee

  • KFUPM Committee on Standing Committees

  • KFUPM 6th Saudi Engineering Conference Exhibition Committee

  • KFUPM 6th Saudi Engineering Conference Workshops Committee

  • KFUPM Admissions and Academic Standings Committee

  • KFUPM Coop Workshop Organizing Committee

  • KFUPM Alumni Affairs Committee

  • KFUPM Ad Hoc Committee on Strategy To Assign Spaces

  • KFUPM Academic Development Committee

  • KFUPM Conferences Committee

  • KFUPM Annual Research Awards Committee

  • KFUPM University Senate Committee
  • KFUPM Research Award Committee
  • KFUPM Research Proposals Review Committee

College

  • CCSE Publicity & Information Committee

  • CCSE Industrial Liaison  Committee (Committee Chairman in 2000/2001)

  • CCSE Graduate Program Promotion Committee

  • CCSE Business Ventures  Committee

  • CCSE Continuing Education Committee

  • CCSE Committee for Evaluation of CCSE Summer Special Assignments (Committee Chairman for one year)

Department

  • SE Curriculum Committee

  • SE Industrial Liaison  Committee

  • SE Lab Committee

  • SE Promotion Committee (Committee Chairman 97/98 and 98/99)

  • SE Information Committee (Committee Chairman in 2001/2002 and 2002/2003)

  • SE Industrial Engineering/Operations Research Group (Chairman in 002/03 and 05/06)

  • SE Graduate & Research Committee

  • SE Supply Chain Management Committee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 Industrial Experience/Consulting     <<Home>>

 

SAUDI  ARAMCO, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

  • Summer 1983, O&IE Dept.

  • Worked as industrial engineer at the Organization & Industrial Engineering (O&IE) Department. Received a letter of appreciation and an offer to join ARAMCO.  

  • Summer 1984, Office Services Dept.

  • Worked as electrical engineer at ARAMCO's Office Services Department.

  • Summer 1995, O&IE Dept.

  • Completed a simulation project on relief valve inspection intervals at Ras Tanura Refinery. Received a letter of appreciation from Saudi Aramco.

  • Summer 1997, O&IE Dept.

  • Completed a project for scheduling aircraft maintenance workforce for the Aviation Department. Received a letter of appreciation from Saudi Aramco.

  • August 1999-August 2000, O&IE Dept.

  • Spent a sabbatical year conducting a research project on: “Minimum-cost staffing for Saudi Aramco restricted work schedules.” Also worked on several applied projects for Saudi Aramco. Received a letter of appreciation from Saudi Aramco.

  • Summer 2002, O&IE Dept.

  • Completed a project for scheduling the operations workforce at Yanbu Refinery

 

 RESEARCH INSTITUTE Projects, KFUPM

  • H. Al-Fares (Project Manager), T. Al-Faraj, A. Burney, A. Rahman, “Polypropylene Production Optimization at Ibn Zahr”, RI/KFUPM applied project #CEMS 2238, May 2006-May 2007.

  • H. Alfares (Project Manager), O. Al-Turki, Forecast Modelling, for Saudi Telecom Company (STC), RI/KFUPM applied project #CCCR 2215, August 2006-August 2007.

  • H. Al-Fares (Project Manager), T. Al-Faraj, A. Burney, “Forecasting the Annual Production of SABIC Plants Using Statistics”, RI/KFUPM applied project #CEMS 2244, Sept. 2006-Sept. 2007.

  • H. Alfares (Project Manager), O. Al-Turki, Study and analyze the customer forecast for STC Enterprise Business Unit, RI/KFUPM applied project #CCIT 2228, Sept. 2008-March 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




RESEARCH     <<Home>>

 

Papers in refereed journals

1.    J. Bailey, H. Alfares, W. Lin, Optimization and heuristic models to integrate project task and manpower scheduling, Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 29, no. 1-4, September 1995, pp. 473-476.

2.    H. Alfares, J. E. Bailey, Integrated project task and manpower scheduling, IIE Transactions,  Vol. 29, No. 9, September 1997, 711-718.

3.    A. M. Al-Amer, H. Alfares, and Faiz-ur-Rahman, Towards modeling the development of the petrochemical industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Arabian Journal of Science & Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 1B, April 1998, 113-126.

4.    H. Alfares, An efficient two-phase algorithm for cyclic days-off scheduling, Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 25, No. 11, November 1998, 913-923.

5.    H. Alfares, Optimizing a library's loan policy: An integer programming approach, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 49, No. 13, November 1998, 1169-1176.

6.    H. Alfares, Aircraft maintenance workforce scheduling: a case study, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1999, 78-88.

7.    H. Alfares, J. Bailey, W. Lin, Integrating project operations and personnel scheduling for multiple labor classes, Production Planning & Control, Vol. 10, No. 6, September 1999, 570-578.

8.    H. Alfares, A simulation model for determining inspection frequency, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 36, No. 3, November 1999, 685-696.

9.    H. Alfares, Dual-based optimization of cyclic three-day workweek scheduling, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 17, 2000, 137-148.

10.    H. Alfares, Dual-based optimization of cyclic four-day workweek scheduling, IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business & Industry, Vol. 11, 2000, 269-283.

11.    H. Alfares, Four-week employee scheduling using the (7/3, 7/3, 6/2) days-off schedule, Arabian Journal of Science & Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 1C, June 2000, 95-108.

12.    H. Alfares, Cyclic labor days-off scheduling: efficient optimization without mathematical programming, OR Spektrum, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001, 283-294.

13.    H. Alfares, M. Nazeeruddin, Electric load forecasting: Literature survey and classification of methods, International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 33, No.1, December 2001, 23-34.

14.    H. Alfares, Staffing and workforce scheduling for a security gate, International Journal Operations & Quantitative Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2001, 281-293.

15.    H. Alfares, Optimum  workforce scheduling under the  (14, 21)  days-off timetable, Journal of Applied Mathematics & Decision  Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2002, 191-199.

16.    H. Alfares, Developing optimum preventive maintenance schedules using simulation, International Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 3, Sept. 2002, 311-318.

17.    H. Alfares, A. Al-Amer, An optimization model for guiding the petrochemical industry development in Saudi Arabia, Engineering Optimization, Vol. 34, No. 6, Dec. 2002, 671-687.

18.    H. Alfares, Flexible four-day workweek scheduling with two or three consecutive days off, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 44, No. 3, Jan. 2003, 325-338.

19.    H. Alfares, Compressed workweek scheduling with differing weekdays and weekends labor demands, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2003, 1-20. 

20.    H. Alfares, Four-day workweek scheduling with two or three consecutive days off, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2003, 67-80.

21.    H. Alfares, Survey, classification, and comparison of recent tour scheduling literature, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 127, No. 1-4, March 2004, 145-175. 

22.    H. Alfares, H. Elmorra, The distribution-free newsboy problem: extensions to the shortage penalty case,  International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 93-94, 2005, 465-477.

23. H.K. Alfares, S.N. Khursheed, and S.M. Noman, Integrating quality and maintenance decisions in a production-inventory model for deteriorating items, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 43, No. 5, 2005, 899-911.

24. H.K. Alfares, Compressed workweek scheduling with days-off consecutivity, weekend-off frequency, and work stretch constraints, INFOR, Vol. 44, No. 3, Aug. 2006, 175-189.

25. H.K. Alfares, A simulation approach for stochastic employee days-off scheduling, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2007, 9-15.

26. H.K. Alfares, Inventory model with stock-level dependent demand rate and variable holding cost, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 108, no. 1-2, July 2007, 259-265.

27. H. Alfares, Operator staffing and scheduling for an IT-help call centre, European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2007, 414-430.

28. H.K. Alfares, M. T. Lilly, I. Emovon, Maintenance staff scheduling at Afam power station, Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2007, 22-27.

29. M. Ndiaye, H. Alfares, Modeling health care facility location for moving population groups, Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 35, No. 7, July 2008, 2154-2161.

30. M Elshafei, H Alfares, A dynamic programming algorithm for days-off scheduling with sequence-dependent labor costs, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 11, Nuo. 2, April 2008, 85-93.

31. H.K. Alfares, S.O. Duffuaa, Assigning individual and aggregate weights in multi-criteria decision making based on ordinal ranking, Journal of Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Published Online: 26 Mar 2008. (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/mcda.420.

32. H.K. Alfares, S.O. Duffuaa, Determining aggregate criteria weights from criteria rankings by a group of decision makers, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2008. 

33.  H.K. Alfares, Optimum multi-plant, multi-supplier production planning for multi-grade petrochemicals, Engineering Optimization, forthcoming.

 

Conference Papers/Presentations

1.  H. Alfares and J. E. Bailey, Integrating the scheduling of project activities and manpower, ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 31 - Nov. 3, 1993.

2.  H. Alfares, An efficient two-stage algorithm for manpower days-off scheduling, 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 15 -19, 1994.

3.  J. Bailey, H. Alfares, W. Lin, Optimization and heuristic models to integrate project task and manpower scheduling, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, March 5-8, 1995.

4.  H. Alfares, Simulating an optimum inspection policy for relief valves, First Minisymposium on Computer Simulation and its Applications, KFUPM, Dhahran, May 21, 1996, p. 28.

5.  H. Alfares, A simulation model for optimizing valve inspection, International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management, Jaipur, India, January 5-8, 1997.

6.  H. Alfares, Optimum compressed workweek scheduling, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Cairo, Dec. 20-22, 1997, 13-16.

7. H. Alfares and M. Nazeeruddin, Regression-based methodology for daily peak load forecasting, Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Operations & Quantitative Management, Ahmedabad, India, Jan. 3-6, 1999, 468-471.

8.    H. Alfares and M. Al-Dakhil, Developing optimum preventive maintenance schedules using simulation, 15th Conference of International Federation of Operations Research Societies, Beijing, China, August 16-20, 1999.

9.   H. Alfares, Days-off  employee scheduling  over a three-week work cycle, Proceedings of PATAT 2000: 3rd. International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Constance, Germany, August 16-18, 2000, 251-258.

10. H. Alfares, An optimization model for investment in ethylene derivatives, Optimization in Industry III Conference, Tuscany, Italy, June 17-22, 2001.

11. H. Alfares and H. Elmorra, The distribution-free newsboy problem: extensions to the shortage penalty case, 12th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 19-24, 2002.  

12. Alfares, HK, Al-Amer, AM, Saifuddin, S, A mathematical programming model for optimum economic planning of the Saudi Arabian petrochemical industry, 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, KFUPM, Dhahran, December 14-17, 2002, Vol. 4, 425-437.  

13. H. Alfares, S. Selim, A cyclic selection combinatorial algorithm with cyclic scheduling applications, 6th  Saudi Engineering Conference, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, December 14-17, 2002, Vol. 4, 513-520.

14. H. Alfares, W. Abul-Khair, Simulation-based days-off scheduling of pipelines maintenance workforce, The 1st  Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Nottingham, UK, August 13-16, 2003, Vol. 2, 524-525.

15. F.M. Al-Sunni, S.N. Khursheed, H.K. Alfares, A control theoretic approach for the inventory drift problem, The 16th International Conference on Systems Engineering, Coventry University, Coventry, UK, September 9-11, 2003, Vol. 1, 36-40.

16. H.K. Alfares, S.O. Duffuaa, Determining criteria weights as a function of their ranks in multiple-criteria decision making, Proceedings of the Second Conference on Administrative Sciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, April 19-21, 2004, 77-83.

17. M. Elshafei, H.K. Alfares, A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Solving a Constrained Labor Scheduling Problem, 17th European Conference on Combinatorial Optimization, Beirut, Lebanon, June 24-26, 2004.

18. M. Ndiaye, H.K. Alfares, Facility location with seasonal demand, 17th European Conference on Combinatorial Optimization, Beirut, Lebanon, June 24-26, 2004.

19. H.K. Alfares, Inventory model with stock-level dependent demand rate and variable holding cost, 13th International Symposium on Inventories, August 22-27, 2004, Budapest, Hungary.

20. H.K. Alfares, Compressed workweek scheduling with days-off consecutivity, weekend-off frequency, and work stretch constraints, The Fifth Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference,  Gold Coast, Australia, December 12-15, 2004, 21.5.1-21.5.7.

21. H.K. Alfares, Optimum tour scheduling of IT desk help agents, Second International Industrial Engineering Conference, December 19-21, 2004, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 9.1.1-9.1.9.

22. H.K. Alfares, Scheduling laboratory technicians at an oil refinery, The 1st International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February 1-3, 2005.

23. H. Al-Fares, A. Jaber, M. Achoui , A. Bubshait, O. Al-Swailem and S.A.M.Said,  University-Industry/Business Interaction: KFUPM Experience, Conference of University-Private Sector Partnership in Research & Development, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 10-12, 2005, 25-34.

24. H. Al-Fares, Using simulation to determine the optimum P.M. policy, Process Industry Reliability & Maintenance – Middle East, Dubai, UAE, July 25-27, 2005.

25. M.A. Dajani, H.K. Alfares, Optimum location of banking automatic teller machines, CAIMS-MITACS 2006 Joint Annual Conference, June 15-20, 2006, Toronto, Canada.

26. H.K. Alfares, U.M. Al-Turki, S.O. Duffuaa, Developing a new Industrial & Systems Engineering program at KFUPM, 2nd International Conference on Engineering Education & Training, April 9-11, 2007, Kuwait.

27. H.K. Alfares, A mathematical model for optimum petrochemical multi-grade selection, production, and sequencing, The Sixth Conference on the Analysis of Manufacturing Systems (AMS 2007), May  11-16, 2007, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 199-204.

 28. H.K. Alfares, Combining criteria ranks for calculating their weights in group MCDM, Proceedings of Group Decision and Negotiation, June 17-20, 2008, Coimbra, Portugal, 257-258.

 

Book Chapters

1. H. Alfares, An optimization model for investment in ethylene derivatives, in Parmee and Hajela (eds.) Optimization in Industry, Springer-Verlag, London, 2002, pp. 255-266.

2. H. Alfares, S. Duffuaa, Maintenance Forecasting and Capacity Planning, in M. Ben-Daya, S.O. Duffuaa, A. Raouf, J. Knezevic, and D. Ait-Kadi (eds.), Handbook of Maintenance Management and Engineering, Springer-Verlag, London, forthcoming.  

 

Book Reviews

1. H. Alfares, Project  Scheduling with Time Windows and Scarce Resources: A book review, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 42, No. 20, October 15, 2004, p. 4427.

 
Conference Session Chair Report

1.  H. Alfares, MM13, Thursday afternoon, August 26, 2004. Session chairman’s report on Session MM13, 13th International Symposium on Inventories. ISIR  Newsletter, Vol. 22, No. 2, November 2004, 29-30.

 

Seminars & Public Lectures

1.  H.K. Alfares, KFUPM Faculty work experience in industry, The Discussion Forum on University/Business Interaction,  January 4, 2005, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

2.    H.K. Alfares, Community service by Saudi universities, Strategic Plan for University Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-Aafaq, Second National Workshop on Higher Education Issues: Preliminary Results of Technical Studies, Riyadh, 4-5 December 2006.

 

Funded Research Projects

  • H. Alfares, “An efficient two-stage algorithm for manpower days-off scheduling”, British council-sponsored research project, University of Warwick, UK, summer, 1993.

  • H. Alfares, “Dual-based optimization of compressed workweek scheduling”, British council-sponsored research project, University of Nottingham, UK, summer, 1998.

  • H. Alfares, Minimum-cost staffing of Saudi Aramco restricted work schedules, Saudi Aramco –supported and hosted sabbatical year research project, August 1999-August 2000. Received Research Committee "Excellent-Outstanding" rating and appreciation letter.

  • M. Al-Haboubi, H. Alfares, O. Al-Turki, Skills for Measuring & Controlling Industrial Costs, Workshop sponsored by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, RI Project # CEMS 4906, Oct. 7-11, 2000, Kuwait.

  • H. Alfares, A.M. Al-Amer, A model for the optimal planning of the Saudi Arabian petrochemical industry, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Grant, Research Project # SABIC/2000-07, October 1, 2000 - October 1, 2001.

  • H. Alfares, “Flexible three-day workweek scheduling with weekend work frequency constraints”, British Council-sponsored research project, Loughborough University, UK, summer, 2003.

  • S.A.M. Said, A-M. Jaber, A. Bubshait,  H. Al-Fares, M. Achoui, O. Al-Suwailem, “A Framework for KFUPM-Industry/Business Interaction”, KFUPM-sponsored research project, September 2004-May 2005.

  • H. Al-Fares (Project Coordinator), M. Al-Habboubi, M. Al-Zahrani, Community Service Planning, AAFAQ Project, Sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education, Sept. 2006-Dec. 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Professional Activities       <<Home>>

 

Conference and Editorial Committees

1.  Member of the Organizing Committee for The 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 14-17, 2002.

 2. Member of the International Program Committee for The 1st  Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Nottingham, UK, August 13-16, 2003.

3. Member of the editorial board for a special issue of European Journal on Operational Research (EJOR) on  “Timetabling and Rostering”, Vol. 156, No. 2, July 2004.

4. Member of the International Program Committee for The 17th European Conference on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO XVII), Beirut, Lebanon, June 24-26, 2004.

5. Member of the Organizing Committee for The Discussion Forum on University/Business Interaction, January 4, 2005, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

6.  Member of the Program Committee for The 2nd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), New York, USA, July 18-21 6, 2005.

7.  Member of the Program Committee for the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2006), Brno, Czech Republic, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2006.

8. Member of the Program Committee for the 2007 IEEE Computational Intelligence and Scheduling Symposium (CIS'07), Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007.

9.  Member of the Program Committee for the 3rd International Conference on IT (ICIT 2007), Amman, Jordan, May 9-11, 2007.

10. Member of the Program Committee for The 3rd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Paris, France,  Aug. 28-31, 2007.

11.  Member of the Program Committee for the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling, Nashville, USA, March 30 – April 2, 2009.

12.  Member of the Program Committee for the 4th International Conference on IT (ICIT ‘09), Amman, Jordan, June 3-5, 2009.

 

 

Awards & Recognition

Include:

  1. Out-of state graduate student tuition-waiver scholarship from Arizona State University, for 86/87 academic year.

  2. Letters of appreciation from Saudi Aramco, 1983, 1995, 1997, and 2000.

  3. “Outstanding-excellent” rating and appreciation letter from KFUPM Research Committee for 1999/2000 sabbatical report.

  4. Appreciation letter from KFUPM Research Committee for final report on SABIC Grant Research Project # SABIC/2000-07, by H. Alfares and A.M. Al-Amer.

  5. KFUPM Excellence in Research Award for the 2002/2003 academic year.

  6. KFUPM Excellence in Research Award for the 2007/2008 academic year.

  7. More than 250 citations by other authors.

 

Affiliation       

  1. Member of INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

  2. Member of the International Society of Interdisciplinary Scheduling (ISIS).

  3. Member of the Saudi Society of Industrial & Systems Engineering (SSISE)

  4. Member of the Engineering and Technical management Education and Research Council (ETMERC).

 

Refereeing

Reviewed scientific papers and research proposals for several journals, conferences, and funding institutions, including:

1.        Applied Mathematical Modeling.

2-3.     Funded research project at King Abdul-Aziz University (2 reports).

4-6.     International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management (3 papers).

7.        Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering.

8.        International Transactions in Operational Research.

9.        A funded research proposal for King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology.

10-11.   Asia-Pacific Journal on Operational Research (2 papers).

12-13. Optimization in Industry, 2002, a book selection of the papers presented in the Optimization in Industry III June 2001 Conference (2 papers).

14.      European Journal of Operational Research.

15.        6th Saudi Engineering Conference, December 14-17, 2002, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

16.        Annals of Operations Research.

17-18.       International Journal of Production Economics (2 papers).

19-23. The 1st  Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Nottingham, UK, August 13-16, 2003. (5 papers).

24.      Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

25.       Arabian Journal of Science & Engineering.

26.       Computers and Industrial Engineering.

27-28. A book volume of selected papers from The 1st  Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (2 papers).

29-30.       International Journal of Production Research. (a book & a paper).

31-106.   76 abstracts for The 17th European Conference on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO XVII), Beirut,  Lebanon, June 24-26, 2004.

107.       Journal of Applied Mathematics & Decision  Sciences.

108.      Annals of Operations Research.

109.      European Journal of Operational Research.

110-114. The 2nd  Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), New York, USA, July 18-21, 2005. (5 papers)

115.      The Second Conference on Education and Applied Research Planning in Arab Countries, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 15-17, 2005.

116.    Proposal for a funded research project at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals.

117.      Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering (May 2005).

118.      International Journal of Production Research (September 2005).

119.      European Journal of Operational Research (Dec. 2005).

120-128. 9 papers for the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2006), Brno, Czech Republic, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2006 (April 2006).

129.      International Journal of Production Economics (April 2006).

130.      Computers and Industrial Engineering (April 2006).

131-132. Annals of Operations Research (June 2006). (2 papers)

133.      INFORMS Journal on Computing (June 2006).

134-135. 2 papers for the 2007 IEEE Computational Intelligence and Scheduling Symposium, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007 (Nov. 2006).

136-137. 2 papers for the 2nd International Conference on Engineering Education & Training (ICEET-2), April 9-11, 2007, Kuwait (Nov. 2006).

138-141. 4 papers for a volume of selected papers from The 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Brno, Czech Republic, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2006. (Jan. 2007).

142.       A paper for Computers and Industrial Engineering (March 2007).

143.     A paper for the 3rd International Conference on IT (ICIT 2007), Amman, Jordan, May 9-11, 2007 (March 2007).

144.     Reviewed a funded research project proposal for Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (April 2007).

145-148. 4 papers for 3rd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Paris, France, August 28-31, 2007 (April 2007).

149.      A paper for the Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, (June 2007).

138-141. 4 papers for a volume of selected papers from The 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Brno, Czech Republic, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2006. (Jan. 2007).

142.       A paper for Computers and Industrial Engineering (March 2007).

143.     A paper for the 3rd International Conference on IT (ICIT 2007), Amman, Jordan, May 9-11, 2007 (March 2007).

144.     A funded research project proposal for Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (April 2007).

145-148. 4 papers for 3rd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Paris, France, August 28-31, 2007 (April 2007).

149.      A paper for the Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, (June 2007).

150.       A paper for the International Journal of Production Economics (July 2007).

151.       A paper for the International Journal of Production Economics (August 2007).

152.       A paper for the Second Conference on Planning and Development of Education and Scientific Research in Arab States (October 2007).

153.     A paper for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (December 2007).

154.       A paper for the Journal of Scheduling (February 2008).

155.       A book proposal for John Wiley & Sons (March 2008).

156.       A paper for the Int. Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, (April 2008).

157.       A paper for the European Journal of Operational Research (July 2008).

158.       A paper for INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research (July 2008).

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