Research Interests
Manufacturing system analysis;
flexible and cellular manufacturing systems;
fractal, distributed, holonic and modular manufacturing systems;
reconfigurable machine tools and reconfigurable manufacturing systems;
part sequencing and scheduling; production and inventory planning;
vehicle routing and transportation network optimization;
supply chain modeling and simulation;
reverse logistics and remanufacturing systems analysis;
meta-heuristics and application of parallel computation in optimization;
life cycle analysis of bio-composite materials