Operations Research and Analytics in Latin America: Proceedings of Asocio / Iise Region 16 Joint Conference 2022

This book presents a selection of peer-reviewed research papers presented at the joint IV ASOCIO / XIX IISE Region 16 Conference held in Chia and Bogota, Colombia. The conference was organized by the Research Group on Logistics Systems of Universidad de La Sabana, in partnership with the IISE Chapters #782 (Universidad de La Sabana), #712 (Universidad Sergio Arboleda), and #988 (Universidad de Los Andes) of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). The main emphasis of the book is on modeling and resolution of business-related problems of operations research, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics and the management sciences for actual decision making in organizations. Both theoretical developments and algorithm implementation are presented. A special focus is given to business problems arising in emerging economies, with a particular interest in Latin America and the Caribbean region.

This book is addressed to academics, practitioners, postgraduate students and researchers in operations research, analytics, and industrial engineering, as well as to undergraduate students for educational purposes. In particular, the academic and research community in Latin America and the Caribbean region will be highly interested as this book represents projects conceptualized and applied in the region. Higher education engineering programs will benefit from the knowledge transferred by this book in the fields of industrial engineering, operations research and analytics, applied mathematics, and computer science and engineering.

Jairo R. Montoya-Torres is a Full Professor and Director of the doctoral program in engineering and Director of the doctoral program in logistics and supply chain management at the School of Engineering, Universidad de La Sabana, Chia, Colombia. He holds a PhD in industrial engineering from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France and Université Jean Monnet, France, and the Accreditation for Research Supervision (＂Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches＂ HDR) in logistics and operations research from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon and Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France. His research interests include sustainability and collaborative decision-making in scheduling, vehicle routing, supply chain design and urban logistics, using advanced optimization, simulation and hybrid techniques. He is a founding member of the Colombian Operations Research Society (ASOCIO) and was also its president and vice-president.

William J. Guerrero is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Universidad de La Sabana, Chia, Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. in systems optimization and dependability from Université de Technologie de Troyes (France) and Ph.D. in Engineering from Los Andes University, Colombia. He also holds degrees in industrial engineering and a master’s in industrial engineering with a major in operations research. His research interests involve combinatorial optimization and heuristics for humanitarian and hospital logistics and supply chain and the vehicle routing problem and its extensions. He also has experience in the European projects under the H2020 research and innovation program entitled ePICenter for developing disruptive technologies for global supply chains.

David L. Cortés-Murcia is a postdoctoral fellow within the research group in logistics systems of the School of Engineering at Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in industrial engineering from Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito (Colombia) and his Ph.D. in optimization and systems reliability from Université de Technologie de Troyes (France). His research interests include studies in sustainable logistics, routing with electric vehicles, optimization and simulation in Colombia and France, as well as supply chain design, green logistics and operations research.