Linear Optimization of Operational Systems: New Extensions to the Coupled Systems: Applied to Liner and Tramp Shipping in Maritime Cargo Transport

The author received higher diplomas and a master’s degree in Operations Research, Statistical methods, and Management Systems from Cairo University and American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research in shipping from the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST), UK. The author has a career path in computers and information systems in both business in the National Cash Register (NCR) and education in the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt. He has been teaching - as a visiting professor - at the Central Michigan University (CMU), USA. He has several publications in Operations Research and its applications in shipping of cargo in maritime transport. The author is now Professor of Information Systems. His primary interest is in developing OR-based information systems in cargo transportation.