Séminaire invité – John W. Fowler (Motorola Professor of Supply Chain Management / Arizona State University)

John W. Fowler, Motorola Professor of Supply Chain Management, W.P. Carey School of Business à Arizona State University, est accueilli à l'IMT-A la
la semaine du 14 octobre. Il interviendra dans le Master MPLP pour le cours "Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management". Il est ex-Chair du département
Supply Chain Management qui est classé no. 2 à l'USA (juste derrière MIT).

Lundi 14 octobre, à partir de 10h30, il animera un séminaire sur "The Use of Simulation in Genetic Algorithms"en amphi Besse.

Resumé : In this talk, we discuss two research efforts that used discrete event simulation as a solution evaluator within a genetic algorithm. The
first effort was a study focused on scheduling patients’ surgeries in an outpatient procedure clinic. The second involved evaluating remote
diagnostic investment decisions for semiconductor equipment suppliers. While the goal in the second study was to determine the best long-term
solution, we made extensive use of short simulations in the early iterations of the genetic algorithm.

Bio: JOHN W. FOWLER is the Motorola Professor of Supply Chain Management and recently served as Chair of the Supply Chain Management department in
the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research interests include discrete event simulation, deterministic scheduling,
multi-criteria decision making, and applied operations research with applications in semiconductor manufacturing and healthcare. He has published
over 125 journal articles and over 100 conference papers. He was the Program Chair for the 2002 and 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conferences and
the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering and
currently serves as a Healthcare Operations Management Departmental Editor. He is also an Editor of the Journal of Simulation and Associate Editor of
IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing and the Journal of Scheduling.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems
Engineers (IISE) and recently served as the IIE Vice President for Continuing Education, is a former INFORMS Vice President, and currently
serves on the WSC Board of Directors. His email address is <john.fowler@asu.edu>.