Seminars OPERA

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Archive

2023

Monday September 11
OPERA Seminar Asvin Goel (Kühne Logistics University Hamburg). Title: The futility of a well-ordered publication ranking. Time: 14.00 hrs. Place: 5416.0059.

Monday July 10
OPERA Seminar Di Fan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). Title: Ambitions in corporate carbon-neutrality goal setting: Consequences and antecedents. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0039.

Friday 21 April
OPERA Seminar: Farewell seminar for Damien Power. Time: 14.00, Place: 5412.0035.

Tuesday 28 March
OPERA Seminar Mark Pagell (University College Dublin). Title: The Tension Between Worker Wellbeing and Operational Performance: The Paradoxical Role of Firm Temporal Orientation. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0109.

Monday 6 March
Online OPERA Seminar Dustin Cole (Auburn University). Title: Does leader disability status influence the operational performance of teams with workers with disabilities? An empirical study in the apparel industry. Time: 14.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107.

Thursday 26 January
OPERA Seminar Zahra Ahmadi (Universidad Pública de Navarra). Title: The adoption of environmental sustainability practices: The moderation effect of national culture. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0003.

Wednesday 11 January
OPERA Seminar Aline Seepma (FEB). Title: Serving the public good (or) better: unraveling the context-uniqueness of supply chain management principles. Time: 11.30 hrs. Place: 5419.0244

2022

2021

2020

2019

Wednesday 27 October
OPERA Seminar Canan Kacabasoglu Hillmer (City University of London). Title: Understanding sales and operational tensions in downstream networks. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0025.

Thursday 12 March
OPERA Seminar: Philip Scarf (University of Salford). Title: On scoring-rates, score-dependence and competitive balance in football. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5416.0063. Abstract attached.

Thursday 5 March
OPERA/MARK Seminar: Qingchen Wang (University of Hong Kong). Title: Data-Driven Consumer Debt Collection via Machine Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0039.

Tuesday 21 January
OPERA Seminar: Danja Sonntag (University of Mannheim). Title: Retailer Grouping in a One Warehouse Multiple Retailer System with Time based Shipment Consolidation. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107.

Wednesday 4 December
OPERA Seminar: Chris Ellegaard (University of Aarhus). Title: Innovation down the drain: A process study of the routinization of consortium innovation. Time: 14.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0035.

Thursday 28 November
OPERA Seminar: Kerem Akartunali. Title: OR in Action: Two Applications of Maritime Logistics. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0111.

Thursday 21 November
OPERA Seminar: Nicky van Foreest (FEB). Title: The divorced parents problem; how to distribute child maintenance obligations over divorced parents. Time: 15.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0011.

Thursday 31 October
OPERA Seminar: Tao Lu (Erasmus University). Title: Sourcing from a Self-Reporting Supplier: Strategic Communication of Social Responsibility in a Supply Chain. Time: 15.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0035.

Thursday 5 September
OPERA Seminar: Andrea Bellisario, Martijn van der Steen, and Andrey Pavlov (Cranfield School of Management). Title: Strategic alignment in an Italian brewer: a sensemaking perspective. Time: 15.30 hrs. Place: 5419.0107.

Thursday 23 May
OPERA Seminar: Eddie Anderson (University of Sydney). Title: tba. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Friday 12 April
OPERA Seminar: James P. Bailey (Singapore University of Technology and Design). Title: The Physics of Data-Driven Decision Making. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007.

Wednesday 3 April
OPERA Seminar: Marlin Ulmer (Technische Universität Braunschweig). Title: Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dynamic Vehicle Routing. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007. Abstract attached

Monday 18 February
OPERA Seminar: Christian Busse (University of Oldenburg). Title: Increasing Order Volume through Sustainable Reputation: A Study on Buyer-Supplier Relationships. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0105

Monday 18 February
OPERA Seminar: Mark Pagell (University College Dublin). Title: Is it bad to be bad: The tension between worker safety and organizational survival. Time: 13.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0105

2018

Wednesday 12 December
OPERA Seminar: Sajad Fayezi (Monash University). Title: Legitimacy Contexts, Stakeholder Attributes and Procurement Sustainability Tensions: A Multiple Case Study Approach. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0109

Tuesday 30 October
OPERA Seminar: Sangho Chae (Tilburg University). Title: Buyer-supplier structural equivalence and supplier innovation value: Evidence from the PACE Awards in the automotive industry. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009

Thursday 21 June
OPERA Seminar: Joren Gijsbrechts (KU Leuven). Title: Off-shoring versus on-shoring: A deep reinforcement learning approach for the generalized dual sourcing problem. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0011

Thursday 26 April
OPERA Seminar: Jan Fransoo (Kuehne Logistics University). Title: 50 million nanostores: why research into mom-and-pops in developing countries is relevant, interesting, and academically challenging. Time: 10.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007.

Tuesday 17 April
OPERA Seminar: Hasifah Namatovu (Makerere University, Kampala). Title: Enhancing Antenatal Care Decisions Among Expectant Mothers in Uganda. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0101.

Monday 16 April
OPERA Seminar: Mike Hewitt (Loyola University Chicago). Title: tba. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5410.0009

Tuesday 27 February
OPERA Seminar: Juliana Keiko Sagawa (Universidade Federal de São Carlos). Title: Representing workload control of manufacturing systems as a dynamic model. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009.

2017

Friday 1 December
OPERA Seminar: Sut I Wong (BI Norwegian Business School). Title: Meaning of work and subjective well-being: The role of job-career (in)congruence in the gig economy. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5416.0063

Monday 25 September
OPERA Seminar: Craig Whitsed (Murdoch University; Visiting research fellow FEB). Title: Internationalization of higher education from a business perspective. Time: 15.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0028.

Thursday 21 September
OPERA Seminar: Burcu Subasi (Erasmus University). Title: Importance of Accountability and Information Access on Decision Making. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place 5416.0060

Monday 17 July
OPERA Seminar: Zied Babai (Kedge Business School Bordeaux). Title: Supply chain forecasting when information is not shared. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place. 5414.0101

Thursday 13 July
OPERA Seminar: Amir Hossein Gharehgozli (Texas A&M University). Title: Container stacking operations in the era of mega containerships. Time: 13.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0039.

Thursday 29 June
OPERA Seminar: Claudia Caballini (University of Genoa). Title: Road carriers cooperation and physical Internet. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Thursday 6 April
OPERA Seminar: Jan Dul (Rotterdam School of Management). Title: Necessary Condition Analysis. Time 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0039.

Thursday 23 March
OPERA Seminar: Niels Pulles (University of Twente). Title: Conflict in buyer-supplier interactions: The effects of conflict expression. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place 5412.0028

Thursday 3 November
OPERA/I&O Seminar: Jan vom Brocke (University of Liechtenstein). Title: The role of design science research in economics and business. Time: 16.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0031

Tuesday 1 November
OPERA Seminar: Bismark Singh (University of Texas at Austin). Title: An adaptive model with joint chance constraints for a hybrid wind-conventional generator system. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Friday 30 September
OPERA Seminar: Thomas Bortolotti (Swansea University). Title: Generating organizational commitment: the centrality of selective hiring and cross-functional integration to embedding lean practices. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0028

Thursday 29 September
OPERA Seminar: Stefania Boscari (Swansea University). Title: Is there an ideal organisational culture for lean management? Time: 13.00 hrs. Place: 5411.0120

Friday 23 September
OPERA Seminar: Tomomi Kito (University of Tsukuba). Title: Detangling complexity of supply network formations: large-scale data analysis by network science approach. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0040

Monday 29 August
OPERA Seminar: Marco Bijvank (Haskayne School of Business). Title: tba. Time: 15.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0109

Wednesday 13 July
OPERA Seminar: Paul Childerhouse (Massey University). Title: Coevolution of interorganizational and interpersonal networks in collaboration. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Tuesday 7 June
OPERA Seminar: Lawrence Fredendall (Clemson University, USA). Title: Improving coordination in perioperative services of a hospital—A case study of the effects of block scheduling. Time: 13.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009

Tuesday 16 February
OPERA Seminar: Pearl Rebecca Tumwebaze. Title: Decision enhancement for poultry farmers in East Africa. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

2015

Tuesday 8 December
OPERA Seminar: Hasifah Kasujja Namatovu. Title: Decisions enhancement in maternal health care. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Monday 30 November
OPERA Seminar: Kristoph Ullrich (KLU). Title: Linking executive compensation and inventory investments. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Tuesday 24 November
OPERA Seminar: Michael Lewis (University of Bath). Title: M ind the gap; Reframing service exchange as a series of asymmetries. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Thursday 19 November
OPERA Seminar: Laura Maruster. Title: Mind your change process? MINE your change process! Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Wednesday 4 November
OPERA Seminar: Yori Zwols (Google DeepMind, London UK). Title: Artificial intelligence, deep learning, and Big Data at Google DeepMind. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Tuesday 27 October
OPERA Seminar: Benny Mantin (University of Waterloo). Title: P2P marketplaces and retailing in the presence of consumers' valuation uncertainty. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Thursday 9 July
OPERA Seminar: Peter O’Neill (Monash University) has been cancelled

Tuesday 3 March
OPERA Seminar: Oskar Roemeling. Title: A field research: exploring the focus of lean interventions. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009

Tuesday 24 February
OPERA Seminar: Patrick Witte (Utrecht University). Title: To perform or not to perform (that’s the question). A statistical analysis of inland port performance in the Netherlands. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Tuesday 27 January
OPERA Seminar: Cristina Sancha Fernandez (Esade Business School). Title: Achieving a socially responsible supply chain through assessment and collaboration. Time: 14.00 hrs. Place: 5411.0741

Monday 12 January
OPERA Seminar: Yiyin Liu (Loughborough University). Title: An integrated model for ship routing with transshipment and berth allocation. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0003

Wednesday 7 January
OPERA Seminar: Bart van Riessen (EUR). Title: Planning and optimization of synchromodal container transportation networks. Time: 14.30 hrs. Place: 5419.0226

2014

Tuesday 9 December
OPERA Seminar: Leandro Coelho (Laval University). Title: Classification, models and exact algorithms for multi-compartment delivery problems - an industrial application. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0035

Thursday 27 November
OPERA Seminar: Zoe Radnor (Loughborough University). Title: Is Lean a failed theory for public services? Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0039

Tuesday 4 November
OPERA Seminar: Jelle de Vries (RSM).Title: Making the Right Pick: Aligning Order Picking Methods, Incentive Systems, and Regulatory Focus to Increase Picking Performance. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Thursday 2 October
OPERA Seminar: Vanajah Siva (Chalmers University of Technology). Title: Sustainable product development. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009

Friday 19 September
OPERA Seminar: Ben Montreuil (Université Laval, Québec). Title: tba. Time: 10.30 hrs. Place: 5419.0222

Thursday 12 June
OPERA Seminar: Terry Rockafellar (University of Washington, Seattle). Title: The quadrangle of risk in optimization and statistics. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Monday 7 April
OPERA Seminar: Till Becker (Jacobs University). Title: Robustness in manufacturing systems. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0109

Thursday 20 March
OPERA Seminar: Dario Pacino (Technical university of Denmark). Title: Efficient container stowage planning. Challenges and opportunities in an industrial setting. Time: 13.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0101

Tuesday 11 March
OPERA Seminar: Nishant Mishra (RSM). Title: A stochastic model for inter-terminal container transportation. Time: 12.30 hrs. Place: 5414.0103

Wednesday 5 March
OPERA Seminar: Torbjôrn Netland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Title: How corporate lean programs affect plant performance: The S-curve theory. Time: 12.30 hrs. Place: 5419.0013

Thursday 20 February
OPERA Seminar: Steve Melnyk (Michigan State University). Title: Towards the better understanding and study of resilience in supply chains. Time: 14.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0040

2013

Tuesday 3 December
OPERA Seminar: Marlies de Keizer (Wageningen University). Title: Process and inventory allocation in a perishable product logistics network. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0101

Thursday 28 November
OPERA Seminar: Frits van Merode (Maastricht University). Title: Pull logistics in health care. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0103

Tuesday 5 November
OPERA Seminar: Niels Pulles (University of Twente). Title: Pressure or pamper? The effects of power and trust dimensions on supplier resource allocation. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Thursday 10 October
OPERA Seminar: Cheng Yong Xiao. Title: Toward a theory of supply chain paradigms: A configurational perspective. Time: 13.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0103

Thursday 5 September
OPERA Seminar: Diptesh Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management). Title: A heuristic approach to check for and identify defective valves in blowout preventer valve networks. Time: 14.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0031

Friday 12 July
SOM Seminar: George Onofrei (University College Dublin). Title: Factory fitness: A swift even flow perspective. Time: 10.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0101

Friday 12 July
SOM Seminar: Joice Hu (Washington University at St. Louis). Title: Global sourcing decisions for a multinational firm with foreign tax credit planning. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0101

Friday 12 July
SOM Seminar: Carolien de Blok (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research). Title: Interfaces in modular services. A typology developed in elderly care. Time: 14.15 hrs. Place: 5414.0101

Thursday 30 May
OPERA Seminar: Chris Hicks (Newcastle University). Title: The participative design of lean healthcare facilities. Time: 14.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009

Thursday 28 February
OPERA Seminar: Melek Akin Ates (Erasmus University). Title: An empirical taxonomy of purchasing strategies: Identification and validation at the purchase category level. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Thursday 28 February
OPERA Seminar: Somayeh Najmabadi (University of Melbourne). Title: Supply chain integration and operational performance of Australian manufacturing firms: A transaction cost economics perspective. Time: 14.45 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Wednesday 27 February
OPERA Seminar: Jasper Veldman (Twente University). Title: Competitive operations management incentives. Time: 16.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0103

Thursday, 7 February
OPERA Seminar: Wil van der Aalst (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Queensland University of Technology). Title: Process mining: "Elephant Trails" in assurance. Time:11.30 hrs. Place: Academiegebouw zaal A 12

Thursday 7 February
OPERA/GEM Seminar: Miriam Wilhelm and Constantin Blome (Université Catholique de Louvain). Title: Managing indirect supplier relations in global value chains: The case of sustainability. Time: 11.45 hrs. Place: 5412.0035


2012

Tuesday 11 December
OPERA Seminar: Frank Karsten (TU Eindhoven). Title: Pooling of spare parts between multiple users: How to share the benefits? Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0035

Monday 26 November
OPERA Seminar: Nima Zaerpour (RSM). Title: Storing fresh produce for fast retrieval in an automated compact cross-dock system. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0102

Monday 26 November
OPERA Seminar: Brian Fynes (School of Business, University College Dublin). Title: Emphasising today over tomorrow: A strategic option in Operations? Time: 14.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009

Tuesday 13 November
OPERA Seminar: Astrid van der Veen-Mooij (Funding coordinator FEB). Title: Acquiring external research funds. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0102

Friday 2 November
SOM Seminar: Vahid M. Beiki (Chalmers University of Technology). Title: Collaborative tracking and tracing: A step towards intelligent logistics systems. Time: 15.45 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Thursday 20 September
SOM Seminar: Marco Formantini (University of Padua) has been cancelled

Monday 17 September
SOM Seminar: Daniele Catanzaro (Université Libre de Bruxelles). Title: The balanced minimum evolution problem. Time: 13.45 hrs. Place: 5419.0011

Wednesday 27 June
OPERA Seminar: Mark Ferguson (Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina). Title: How do we estimate demand anyway? Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Tuesday 12 June
OPERA Seminar: Ester Guijarro Tarradellas (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia). Title: On the suboptimality of FCFS for inventory systems with a fill rate criterion. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Tuesday 29 May
OPERA Seminar: Hans Wortmann. Title: Operations management revolved by service innovation: Challenges and opportunities. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Tuesday 15 May
OPERA Seminar: Kathryn E. Stecke (University of Texas at Dallas). Title: Seru production system: An organizational extension of JIT. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0109

Tuesday 24 April
OPERA Seminar: Cristina Pomales (University of Puerto Rico). Title: Case study or industry project - Which project is better to enhance student skills and experiences? Time: 15.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0035

Tuesday 27 March
OPERA Seminar: Amir Hossein Gharehgozli (Rotterdam School of Management). Title: A trilogy on sequencing storage and retrieval requests at a container terminal. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0102

Tuesday 13 March
OPERA Seminar: Martin Land. Title: Integrating load-based order release and priority dispatching. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0101

Monday 13 February
OPERA Seminar: Roberto Chavez (ESADE Business School). Title: Assessing the effect of industry clockspeed on the supply chain management practice-performance relationship. Time: 10.30 hrs. Place: 5419.0103

Friday 10 February
OPERA Seminar: Kirstin Scholten (Dublin Institute of Technology). Title: Research contributions from a PhD journey: Planning for the unpredictable - Building resilience in service supply chains (Insights
from the humanitarian aid sector). Time: 10.30 hrs. Place: 5419.0103

Tuesday 7 February
OPERA Seminar: Hector Carlo (University of Puerto Rico). Title: The continuous facility location problem with unknown number of facilities. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Friday 27 January
OPERA Seminar: Jitka Dupacova (Charles University Prague). Title: Robustness for probabilistic programs. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Wednesday 14 December
OPERA Seminar: Rui Sousa (Universidade Católica Portuguesa). Title: A framework for the design of front-office processes in multi-channel service delivery systems. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0039

Tuesday 13 December
OPERA Seminar: Debjit Roy (Rotterdam School of Management). Title: Improving throughput capacity in multi-tier warehouse systems using autonomous vehicles. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Tuesday 15 November
OPERA Seminar: Canan Kocabasoglu-Hillmer (Cass Business School, City University London). Title: Does perceptual dissonance among supply-chain partners matter? Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0035

Monday 31 October
OPERA Seminar: Rouba Ibrahim (McGill University). Title: Real-time delay prediction in customer service systems. Time: 09.45 hrs. Place: 5412.0035

Monday 31 October
OPERA Seminar: Yori Zwols. Title: Greedy scheduling in local pooling wireless networks. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0035

Tuesday 25 October
OPERA Seminar: Jeroen de Mast (University of Amsterdam). Title: Strategies for diagnostic quality problem solving. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0101

Tuesday 11 October
OPERA Seminar: Refik Güllü (Bogazici University). Title: Optimal inventory policies with non-stationary supply disruptions and advance supply information. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0103

Friday 23 September
OPERA Seminar: Martina Gerbl (University of Ulster). Title: Making the services outsourcing decision: Why distance matters. Time: 13.30 hrs. Place: 5412.0039

Tuesday 28 June
OPERA Seminar: Jayanth Jayaram (Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina). Title: A contingency perspective of integration at the new product development project level. Time: 15.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Tuesday 14 June
OPERA Seminar: Mark Pagell (Schulich School of Business, York University). Title: Are safe and effective production systems an oxymoron? Evidence from ten case studies. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009

Tuesday 24 May
OPERA Seminar: Liu Liming (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). Title: An optimal policy for dynamic joint price and lead time quatation - research in order management. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009

Thursday 21 April
OPERA Seminar: Christian Huber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). Title: Queueing models of narrow-aisle manual order picking systems. Time: 10.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Tuesday 12 April
OPERA Seminar: Sven de Vries (Universität Trier). Title: Graph products for faster separation of wheel inequalities. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0230

Tuesday 5 April
OPERA Seminar: Daryl Powell (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Title: Beyond lean: ERP systems within lean production. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0230

Wednesday 30 March
OPERA Seminar: Marco Bijvank (University of Montreal). Title:  Periodic review inventory models with lost sales. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0011

Tuesday 22 March
OPERA Seminar: Mark Taylor (University of Auckland). Title: Analysis of human work decisions in an aluminium smelter. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0101

Tuesday 8 March
OPERA Seminar: Linda Zhang. Title: Solving production configuration based on constraint satisfaction. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Monday 14 February
OPERA Seminar: Rajan Suri (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Title: Beyond lean: It's about time! Research opportunities in shifting from cost-based to time-based frameworks. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: tba.

Tuesday 8 February
OPERA Seminar: Willem van Jaarsveld (EUR). Title: The repair shop stocking problem. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5256.0108

Tuesday 18 January
OPERA Seminar: Renzo Akkerman (Technical university of Denmark). Title: Efficiency and sustainability in the supply chain of professionally prepared meals. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0103

Monday 17 January
OPERA Seminar: Tamás Koltai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). Title: Formulation of workforce skill constraints in simple assembly line balancing models. Time: 11.30 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Thursday 13 January
OPERA/SOM Seminar: Gudela Grote (ETH Zürich). Title: Collaborative planning in different work domains - a psychological approach. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5411.0128

Thursday 13 January
OPERA/SOM Seminar: Jan Fransoo (TUe). Title: Using archical data to infer human behavior in planning. Time: 13.00 hrs. Place: 5411.0128

Tuesday 11 January
OPERA Seminar: Changyong Zhang. Title: Complete models and decomposition methods of the unique shortest path routing problem. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0005

2010

Friday 17 December
SOM Seminar: Merieke Stevens (University of Cambridge). Title: Mind the gap: Creating value when formal and informal structures do not match. Time: 15.15 hrs. Place: 5414.0101

Wednesday 1 December
OPERA Seminar: Linda Hendry (Lancaster University Management School). Title: Workload control: Successful implementation taking a contingency-based view of production planning & control. Time: 14.00 hrs. Place: 5411.0743

Wednesday 1 December
OPERA Seminar: Hendrik van Landeghem (Ghent University). Title: Recent research on in-plant logistics. Time: 15.30 hrs. Place: 5411.0743

Tuesday 23 November
OPERA Seminar: Simme Douwe Flapper (TUE). Title: Using OR to estimate the value of contracts and RFID for managing pools of reusable transport items. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0101

Tuesday 9 November
OPERA Seminar: Carolien de Blok (Amsterdam Centre for Service Innovation (AMSI), University of Amsterdam & Department of Tranzo, Tilburg University). Title: Modular care provision - towards demand-based long-term care. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5414.0102

Thursday 3 June
OPERA Seminar: Vikram Bhakoo (University of Melbourne). Title: Collaborative implementation of e-business processes within the health care supply chain. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0111

Tuesday 1 June
OPERA Seminar: Tillmann Bohme (University of Waikato, New Zealand). Title: 15 Years of quick scan audit methodology (QSAM) - Where next? Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0003

Tuesday 25 May
OPERA Seminar: Kurtulus Öner (TUE). Title: Redundancy allocation for serial systems. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0031

Tuesday 18 May
OPERA Seminar: Damien Power (University of Melbourne). Title: Top down vs emergent decision making in operations: The case of suply chain management enabling technologies. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0031

Tuesday 27 April
OPERA Seminar: Kathryn E. Stecke (University of Texas, Dallas). Title: Production and transportation integration for a make-to-order manufacturing company with a commit-to-delivery business mode. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Tuesday 6 April
OPERA Seminar: Stuart Zhu. Title: Supply chain integration with inventory and speed trade-off. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0039

Tuesday 9 February
OPERA Seminar: Marjan Gort. Title: The complexity of using indicators for quality improvement in health care - A multiple case study in breast cancer teams. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0039

Tuesday 26 January
OPERA Seminar: Durk Jouke van der Zee. Title: A modelling framework for manufacturing simulation. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0009

Monday 21 December
OPERA Seminar: Yori Zwols (Brown University, New York). Title: Fractionally co-strongly perfect graphs with an application in wireless networking. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0108

Thursday 17 December
OPERA Seminar: Tudor D. Bodea (Operations Research Analyst InterContinental Hotels Group). Title: Choice-based revenue management - A hotel application. Time: 10.00 hrs. Place: 5416.0056

Thursday 19 November
OPERA Seminar: Boris Goldengorin. Title: p-Median cluster analysis based on general-purpose solvers. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0005

Tuesday 6 October
OPERA Seminar: Jos Bokhorst. Title: Lean production control at a high-variety/low-volume part manufacturer. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0107

Tuesday 15 September
OPERA Seminar: Aharon Ben-Tal (TECHNION-Israel Institute of Technology). Title: Robust solutions of uncertainty affected conic optimization problems. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0109

Tuesday 8 September
OPERA Seminar: Ruud Teunter. Title:  ABC inventory classification: service levels and inventory costs. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0003

Thursday 9 April
OPERA Seminar: Ram Narasimhan (Michigan State University). Title: An assessment of the role of supply and environmental management practices in achieving relative quality advantage. Time: 11.00 hrs. Place: 5412.0039

Tuesday 24 March
OPERA Seminar: Harmen Bouma. Title: An efficient approach to solve a scheduling problem that has remained open for more than 25 years. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0007

Tuesday 10 March
OPERA Seminar: Rahul Caprihan (Faculty of Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India). Title: Information delays in manufacturing scheduling – the missing link? Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: 5419.0101

Tuesday 24 February
OPERA Seminar: Devrim Yazan. Title: tba. Time: 12.00 hrs. Place: tba.