DR. UMAR AL-TURKI

Research & Publications
 

 Dr. Umar M. Al-Turki
Dean, College of Computer Sciences and Engineering.

Phone (O): +966 3 860-2157
E-mail: alturki@kfupm.edu.sa
Postal: P.O. Box 833, KFUPM,   Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.

PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • Zaim, S., Turkyilmaz, A., Acar, M., Al-Turki, U.M., and Demirel, O. " Maintenance Strategy Selection Using AHP and ANP Algorithms" , Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol. 18(1) (2012), pp. 16-29.
  • Al-Turki, U.M. Saleh, H., Deyab, T, and Almoghathawi, Y., " Resource Allocation and Job Dispatching for Unreliable Flexible Flow Shop Manufacturing Systems " , Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 445, (2012), pp. 947-952.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., " A Framework for Strategic Planning in Maintenance " , Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol. 17(2), (2011), pp. 150-162.
  • Hadidi, L.A., Al-Turki, U.M. and Rahim, M.A., " An Integrated Cost Model for Production Scheduling and Perfect Maintenance " , International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research, Vol. 3(4), (2011), pp. 395-413.
  • Hadidi, L. A., Al-Turki, U.M. and Rahim, M.A., " Integrated Models in Production Planning and Scheduling , Maintenance and Quality: A Review " , International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, vol. 10(1) (2012), pp. 21-50.
  • Hadidi, L.A., Al-Turki, U.M. and Rahim, M.A. " Joint Production and Maintenance Planning " , International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR), 13(2) (2012), pp 174-184.
  • Mahmoud, Magdi S., Al-Turki, Umar M., and Selim, Shokri Z., " Tracking Policies for a Class of Dynamic Production-Inventory Systems " , Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 347, (2010), pp. 1689-1703.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Arifusalam, S., El-Seliaman, M. and Khan, M., " Resource Allocation, Batching and Dispatching in a Stochastic Flexible Job Shop ". Journal of Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 264-265 (2011) pp. 1758-1763.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., " An Exploratory Study of ERP Implementation in Saudi Arabia " , Production Planning and Control, Vol. 22(4) (2011), pp. 403-413.
  • Raza, S.A. and Al-Turki, U.M. " A New Policy for Scheduling Maintenance on a Single Machine " , International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, Vol. 3(2) (2010), pp. 132-150.
  • AlFares, H., Duffuaa, S., and Al-Turki, U.M. " Developing an outcome-based Industrial & Systems Engineering Program " , Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems (IEMS), 60-68, 9(1), 2010.
  • Duffuaa, S.O., Al-Turki, U.M. and Kulus, A.A., " A Process Targeting Model for a Product with Two Dependent Quality Characteristics Using Acceptance Sampling Plans " , International Journal of Production Research, 4031-4046, 47(14), 2009.
  • Duffuaa, S.O., Al-Turki, U.M. and Kulus, A.A., " A Process Targeting Model for a Product with Two Dependent Quality Characteristics Using 100% inspection " , International Journal of Production Research, 1039-1053, 47(4), 2009.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Duffuaa, S. O., Ayar, T. and Demeril, O., " Stakeholders Integration in Higher Education: Supply Chain Approach ", European Journal of Engineering Education, 33(2), 2008, 211-219.
  • Duffuaa, S.O., Al-Turki, U.M. and Kulus, A.A., "A Process Targeting Model for a Product with Two Dependent Quality Characteristics Using Acceptance Sampling Plans", International Journal of Production Research, DOI: 10.1080/00207540701644243, April 2008
  • Duffuaa, S.O., Al-Turki, U.M. and Kulus, A.A., "A Process Targeting Model for a Product with Two Dependent Quality Characteristics Using 100% inspection", International Journal of Production Research, DOI: 10.1080/00207540600705111, April 2008.
  • Raza, S. A., Al-Turki, U.M. and Selim, S.Z., “Early-Tardy Minimization for Joint Scheduling of Jobs and Maintenance Operations on a Single Machine” International Journal of Operations Research, 4(1), 2007, 1-10.
  • Raza, S. A. and Al-Turki, U.M., "A Comparative Study of Heuristic Algorithms to Solve Maintenance Scheduling Problem", Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, 13(4),2007, 398-410.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Andijani, A. A. and Arifusalam, S. "A New Dispatching Rule for Stochastic and Dynamic Job Scheduling",Simulation : Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International 80(3), (2004)165-170.
  • Duffuaa S. O. and Al-Turki, U. M., Howsawi, F., "Quality Function Deployment for Designing a Basic Statistics Course", International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 20(6) (2003), 740-750.
  • Al-Turki, U. M. and Duffuaa S. O., "Performance Measures for Academic Departments", International Journal of Educational Management, 17(7) (2003), 330-338.
  • Al-Turki, U., Fedjki, C., and Andijani, A., “Tabu Search for a Class of Single Machine Scheduling Problems” , Computers and Operations Research, 28 (2001) 1223-1230.
  • Al-Turki, U.M. “Simple heuristics for the single machine minimum variance scheduling problem”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 26-2B (2001), 127-132.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., “Analysis of the set of V-Shaped schedules”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 26-1B (2001) 59-67.
  • Al-Turki, U., and Andijani, A., “Quality Control Practices in Saudi Arabia: Survey Results”, Production Planning & Control, 8, 726-730, 1997.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Mittenthal, M., and Raghavachari, M., "A Dominant Subset of V-shaped Sequences for a Class of Single Machine Sequencing Problems", European Journal of Operational Research 88, 345-347, 1996.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Mittenthal, M., and Raghavachari, M., "The Single Machine Absolute Deviation Early-Tardy problem with Random Completion Times", Naval Research Logistics, 43, 573-587, 1996.

CONFERENCES PUBLICATIONS:

  • Al-Turki, Umar M., " Scheduling Physicians in a University Clinic ", POMS 21st Annual Conference, May 7-10,2010, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Arifusalam, S., El-Seliaman, M., and Khan, M., " Resource Allocation and Batch Sizing in a Flexible Job Shop ", Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies (AMPT), 26 - 29 October 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Alfares, H., Al-Turki, U. and Duffuaa, S. "Revising the Industrial & Systems Engineering program at KFUPM", The Second International Conference on Engineering Education and Training, 9-11 April, 2007, Kuwait.
  • Haroun, Ahmed and Al-Turki, U. "Objectivity of students' Evaluation of faculty", The Second International Conference on Engineering Education and Training, 9-11 April, 2007, Kuwait.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Andijani, A., and Siddiqui, A. "ERP Implementation Trends in Saudi Arabia”,The 36 th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, June 20-23, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan
  • S. O. Duffuaa and U. Al-Turki "Benchmarking King Fahd University Community Service with Leading Universities" IFEE2006, 4 th International Forum on Engineering Education Integrating Teaching & Research with Community Service25-27 April 2006 , Sharjah, UAE
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Duffuaa, S. O., and Ayar, T. " Stakeholders Integration in Higher Education: Supply Chain Approach ", IFEE2006, 4 th International Forum on Engineering Education Integrating Teaching & Research with Community Service25-27 April 2006 , Sharjah, UAE
  • Al-Turki, U.M. Asif Raza, " Integrated Scheduling of Maintenance Operations and Job Processing on a single Machine", Proceedings of the ECCO XVII, European Conference on Combinatorial Optimization, June 24-26 (2004), Beirut.
  • Seliman , M.E. and Al-Turki, U.M., "Single Machine Scheduling with a Common Due Window and Random Machine Breakdowns", The second IIEC-2004, December 19-21, ( 2004), Riyadh.
  • Duffuaa S. O. and Al-Turki, U. M. "Quality function deployment for Curriculum Design: Framework" Third Forum on Engineering Education: Building Partnership with government, Industry and Society, Sharjah, UAE, October, 2003.
  • Duffuaa S. O. and Al-Turki, U. M. "Role of performance measures in self assessment", 8 th Congress on Total Quality Management (TQM), (2003), Dubai.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Andijani, A. A. and Arifusalam, S., "A New Dispatching Rule for Stochastic and Dynamic Job Scheduling", Summer Computer Simulation Conference, July 20-24, 2003, Montreal, Canada, 35(3), (2003) 536-539.
  • Al-Turki, U. M., Duffuaa, S. O., Kayyal, A., and Al-Ghamdi, H., (2003) "Evaluation and Selection Scheme for Funding Research Projects", Third Forum on Engineering Education: Building Partnership with government, Industry and Society, Sharjah, UAE, October, 2003.
  • Andijani, Bendaya, Duffuaa, Selim, Alhaboubi, Al-Turki, and Vaqar “A Simulation Model for Bus Scheduling and Routing during the Nafrah Period”, Second Scientific meeting on Hajj research, March 2002.
  • Al-Turki, U. M. and Duffuaa S. O., "Performance Measures for Academic Departments " Proceedings of the 6 th Engineering Conference, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia December 2002.
  • Al-Turki, U. M. and Duffuaa, S.O. “Role of Measures ofPerformance in Strategic Planning”, Conference on Quality, Kuwait, 10-13 March 2002
  • Duffuaa, S.O. and Al-Turki, Umar M. “Quality Function Deployment for Designing a Course”, Conference on Quality, Kuwait, 10-13 March 2002.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Selim, S., and Andijani, A. “Window Due Date Determination in the Stochastic Single Machine Scheduling Problem”, Seventh International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling, Osnabruck, Germany, 49-52, April 2000.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Andijani, A., and Rahim, M.A. “Sensitivity of the Replacement Model Under Various Failure Distributions”, the fifth ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, Las Vegas, Nevada, 274-278, August 1999.
  • Al-Turki, U., “Scheduling on a Single Machine with Breakdowns”, EURO / INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, July (1997).
  • Al-Turki, U., Andijani, A. “Quality Control Practices in Saudi Arabia Manufacturing Business”, Workshop on Manufacturing Management and Technology, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, June (1997).
  • Al-Turki, U., “Multiobjective Job shop Scheduling: A simulation Study”, International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management, Jaipur The Pink City of India, January 5-8 (1997).
  • Al-Turki, U., Andijani, A., “A Study of Quality Control Practices in the Manufacturing Sector in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia”, First International Conference on Industrial Engineering Applications and Practice, Houston, USA, December (1996).
  • Al-Turki, U., and Andijani A., “Stochastic Job shop Scheduling: A Simulation Study”, 20th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Kyongju, Korea, October (1996).
  • Al-Turki, U., Andijani, A., “Stochastic Job shop Scheduling: A simulation Study”, Minisymposium on: Computer Simulation and its Applications, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, May (1996).
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Mittenthal, M., and Raghavachari, M., "Solution Characteristics for Stochastic Early/Tardy Problems", ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Boston, May 24-27, 1994.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Mittenthal, M., and Raghavachari, M., "Stochastic Single Machine Scheduling to Minimize Total Absolute Deviation from a Common Due Date", ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Chicago, May 16-18, 1993.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

  • Al-Turki, Umar, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, a book chapter in the Handbook of Maintenance Management and Engineering, Edited By Ben Daya, Duffuaa,et al, Springer, June 2009.
  • S. O. Duffuaa and U. Al-Turki " Benchmarking King Fahd University Community Service with Leading Universities ", Integrating Teaching and Research with Community Service, 298-305, 2008, Collge of graduate Studies & Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Duffuaa, S. O., Ayar, T., and Demirel, O. " Stakeholders Integration in Higher Education: Supply Chain Approach ", Integrating Teaching and Research with Community Service, 116-123, 2008, Collge of graduate Studies & Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.
  • Selim, S.S., and Al-Turki, U.M., "A New Heuristic for the Flow shop Problem", Advanced Production Management Systems, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amesterdam, The Notherlands, 91-96, 1987.  

TECHNICAL REPORTS:

  • Budaiwi, I., Al-Turki, U.M., The effectiveness of the preparatory Year Program in Preparing University Students to Undergraduate Studies”, KFUPM special Assignment project, Feb 2009.
  • Al-Fares, H., Al-Turki, U. “Study and Analyze the Customer forecast for the STC Enterprise business unit”, RI Project # CCIT2228, November, 2008
  • Al-Fares, H., Al-Turki, U. “Forecasting Modeling for Saudi Telecom Company (STC)”, RI roject # CCCR2215, 2007.
  • Azad, A. Al-Turki, U., and El-Amin, I., “ Aligning Work Culture to Improve University Values”, KFUPM Strategic Planning Projects, 2007.
  • Al-Turki, U., “On Stochastic Single Machine Early-Tardy Scheduling”, Research proposal submitted to the British Council, Summer, (1996).
  • Al-Turki, U.M., Selim, S., and Andijani, A. “On stochastic Single Machine Early-Tardy Scheduling”, On going KFUPM project SE\SCHEDULE/191, May 1998.

 

 

 

 

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