Year: 2013

2014 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (Toronto, May 31st – June 3rd, 2014)

Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo Conferences

Welcome to the Abstract Submission site for the 2014 IIE Annual Conference!

The IIE Annual Conference welcomes two different types of submissions:  1) Applied Solutions presentations, in which industry applications of proven solutions are presented, and 2) ISERC presentations, in which research from academia or industry scholars is presented.   Abstracts are being accepted in both categories.  Please review the information below and submit your abstract to the most appropriate type of presentation.

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 22, 2013 – even though late submissions will be accepted if there is space available.

Applied Solutions Conference
Purpose: to present proven solutions from applying industrial and systems engineering principles within industry, healthcare or service companies.  Submissions must include an abstract, a description, and 3-5 presentation objectives.
Time: Presentations are 35 or 75 minutes each.		 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC)
Purpose:   to present scholarly work by researchers in academia or industry.  Submissions of preliminary research results, works in progress, and significant or final results are welcome.  A full paper is optional (but is encouraged).
Time:  Presentations are 15-25 minutes.
2014 Applied Solutions Tracks

Aerospace & Defense
Computer & Information Systems
Construction
Engineering Economy
Engineering Management
Ergonomics
Health Systems
IAB – Industry Advisory Board
Latin American
Lean
Operations Research
Process Industries
Quality & Reliability
Simulation
Supply Chain & Service Engineering
Sustainability
Systems Engineering
Work Systems

 2014 ISERC Tracks

Computer and Information Systems
Construction Research
Energy
Engineering Economy
Engineering Education
Engineering Management
Facility Logistics
Healthcare Modeling
Healthcare Systems
Homeland Security
Human Factors and Ergonomics
IE in Latin America
IE in the Military
Lean Systems
Manufacturing and Design
Modeling and Simulation
Operations Research
Production Planning and Scheduling
Process Industries
Quality Control and Reliability Engineering
Service Systems
Social, Environmental and Sustainability
Supply Chain and Logistics
Systems Engineering
Tutorials
Work Systems

 

If you are submitting an abstract on an industry project, please choose “Applied Solutions conference”.I want to submit an abstract forAPPLIED SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE Please choose “ISERC conference” if you are submitting a research abstract from a UniversityI want to submit an abstract forISERC CONFERENCE

Improving entry into food supply chains by SME local producers

Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo Lincolnshire sustainability Think Tank, Project

Funder: College of Social Sciences Research Fund 2012/13

Context: Different authors have been discussing supply chains for mass distribution of food across borders and regions, but efforts to develop special, local, sustainable and innovative markets for food are fragmented. Supply chain expertise lags behind marketing innovation in these areas (Hingley et al, 2012). Different definitions and theories seem to be available to explore this phenomenon: Micro, Small and Medium Entreprises, MSMEs (European Union, 2005; Holter et al, nd); Supply Chains, SC (Christopher, 2005; Sanders, 2012); cooperation (Axelrod, 1990); relationships and networks (Barabasi, 2003), and systems theory (Checkland, 1999; Stowell and Welch, 2012). It is at the intersection of these disciplines where the Marketing and Supply Chain research group (MaSC) is committed to the development of “knowledge which supports sustainable value for market, chain and network stakeholders” (MaSC, 2013). Our first task in terms of exploring innovative aspects of research in Supply Chains has been defined as identifying, from a local/regional perspective, potential contributions that previous theories may provide to support the development of sustainable food supply chains, and when and where their application can be considered. This aim involves uncovering challenges and proposing possible solutions for creating and maintaining effective/efficient SCs in this arena. As an initial step, this project will concentrate our efforts on developing and testing a research design to explore the intersection between to related topics, Supply Chains and Food Security:

  • Supply chains: specifically ways for supporting different stakeholders (self-) organisation.
  • Food security: local autonomy vs. global dependence, maintaining and developing skills inside the (local) workforce.

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Future Decision-Makers and Complexity: Learning problem structuring through System Dynamics

Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo Conferences, Paper

Coauthors:

Eliseo Vilalta-Perdomo, Lincoln Business School, University of Lincoln

Ricardo Thierry Aguilera, Universidad del Valle de México, Campus Toluca, Mexico

Abstract:

Studies on complexity suggest two sources for uncertainty. On one hand, environments constituted by immense amounts of actors interacting through (almost) infinite relationships. On the other, subtle changes recognizable only after it is too late to react. We characterize both situations as complex because of the difficulties to guarantee any links between causes and effects, and to identify effective and efficient paths for action.

This paper deals with the challenge of introducing our students, future decision-makers, to the exercise of simulating systems with complex behaviors. System Dynamics (SD) is used to illustrate the process from a problem structuring perspective. By modeling and simulating different scenarios, complex situations can be studied and analyzed. Conceding that these activities may help on improving human action, the difficulty would strive on how to expand its use as it seems difficult to be caught by students. This paper elaborates on this by proposing an approach based on looking at SD as a problem structuring method (PSM), rather than a problem solving tool. Instances of the procedure are provided from a SD course delivered to undergraduate students in a Mexican university.

Keywords:

System Dynamics, Complexity, Problem Structuring Methods, Problem Solving, Education

Status:

Presented in FUBUTEC 2013