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Harris (Charalampos) Makatsoris

Name: Dr Harris (Charalampos) Makatsoris Harris (Charalampos) Makatsoris
Job Title: Lecturer
Email: Harris.Makatsoris@brunel.ac.uk
Office: TA036
Phone: 65063
Direct Line: 01895 265063
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I am a Chartered Engineer and a Member of IMechE and currently I hold a Lecturer position in Manufacturing and Engineering systems at Brunel University and head of research of the Advanced Manufacturing and Enterprise Engineering (AMEE) Group. Also I am Honorary Research Fellow at the Chemical Engineering Department of Imperial College and member of The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modeling Applications at Brunel.

 

I earned my first degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. I also hold a PhD in Computer Aided Systems Engineering from the Mechanical Engineering department of Imperial College . Then, I worked as a Research Associate for three years in the same department. During that time I led a research team in a £6m EU project relating to the development of a pioneering distributed optimisation and control system for ASIC manufacturing and employed evolutionary programming optimisation technology.  I have ten years overall work experience in academic R&D and also in commercial software product development in the area of systems modelling, optimisation, planning and control. I have established a university spin out Software Company in the in which I am still the Technical Director. I have also beein involved in the set up of a semiconductor wafer recycling company based in . In addition I am currently the non executive director in a European IT services company.

 

Research Interests:

My research is multidisciplinary. Using engineering principles, mathematical modelling techniques and advanced computing technology I am interested in the design, modelling, analysis and optimisation of complex systems. More specifically, my current research interests are as follows:

Autonomous systems – this area includes:

  • intelligent agent-based computing and its application in modelling, simulation and optimisation of complex systems and their interactions

  • artificial intelligence including evolutionary and genetic programming and their application in systems modelling and optimisation

  • data driven modelling and problem inversion 

  • design, analysis and control of intelligent manipulation and material handling devices such as robots and other autonomous systems

 

Responsive and sustainable supply chains – this area includes:

  • supply chain and adaptive value network (AVN) modelling and optimisation

  • responsive and sustainable production and supply chains

  • manufacturing and supply chain lead time compression

  • mass customisation

  • RFID systems and applications

  • grid computing in manufacturing and supply chain management

 

Micro-nano systems – this area includes:

  • micro machine and process chain development and control

  • grid computing in system design

  • micro manipulation

  • self assembly

 

Publications list:

Book:

·         Y. Chang, C. Makatsoris, Richards, H. D., 2004, Evolution of Supply Chain Management, Symbiosis of Adaptive Value Networks and ICT, Springer (originally Kluwer academic publishers), ISBN 1-4020-7812-9.

 

Book Chapters

  1. Howard D. Richards, Charalampos Makatsoris, Yoon S. Chang, “Human-Centric eBusiness”, In Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A (ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, second edition, Idea Group Reference, to appear in 2007

  2. Howard D. Richards, Orion Logic Ltd, United Kingdom; Charalampos Makatsorsis, Orion Logic Ltd., United Kingdom; Yoon S. Chang, HanKuk Aviation University, Korea, 2005,  “Change Process Drivers for e-Business”. In Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A (ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Idea Group Reference, January 7, 2005, ISBN: 1-59140-553-X

  3. Makatsoris, H., Chang Y. & Richards, H. (2004).  “Collaborative sense-and-respond ICT for demand-driven value network management.” In: Chang, Y., Makatsoris, H., & Richards, H., Evolution of supply chain management: Symbiosis of adaptive value networks and ICT (pp. 483-514), Boston : Kluwer Academic Publisher.

  4. Richards, H., and C. Makatsoris, 2001, The Metamorphosis to dynamic trading networks and virtual corporations. In U.J. Franke (ed.), Managing Virtual Web Organizations in the 21st Century: Issues and Challenges (Idea Group Publishing, ), pp 61-80.

  5. Charalampos Makatsoris, Nick Leach, Howard D Richards, Addressing the Planning & Control Gaps in Semiconductor Virtual Enterprises, IT and Manufacturing Partnership ( Advances in Design and Manufacturing, vol.7), p.117- 129. IOS Press , ISBN 90 5199 2963. Amsterdam , 1996.

 

Refereed Journal Publications

  1. Charalampos Makatsoris, Howard Richards, “A System for Responsive Supply Network Management”, to appear 2006/2007

  2. Harris Makatsoris, Yoon Chang and Howard Richards, 2004, Design of a distributed order promising system and environment for a globally dispersed supply chain, INT. J. COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING, Taylor and Francis, DECEMBER 2004, VOL. 17, NO. 8, 679–691. 2004

  3. C. Makatsoris and Y.Chang, 2004, Design of a demand-driven collaborative supply chain planning and fulfilment system for distributed enterprises, Production Planning & Control, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 15, No. 3, April 2004, 256–269. 2004

  4. Y. Chang, C. Makatsoris, Richards, H. D., 2004, Design and Implementation of an e-Procurement System, Production planning and control, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 15, No. 7, October 2004, 634–646. 2004

  5. Y.Chang and C. Makatsoris, Supply chain modelling using simulation, International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology.( simulation society), Vol 2, No1, p24-30, 2001.

  6. Richards, H., H. Dudenhausen, C.Makasoris, and L. De Ridder, 1997, Flow of Orders through a Virtual Enterprise – their proactive planning, scheduling and reactive control. IEE Computing & Control Engineering Journal, August, pp 173-179.

  7. Controllo della catena di alimentazione: trade-off e requisiti di sistema. N.P. Leach, C. Makatsoris, H.D. Richards, DICEMBRE 1998, journal DE QUALITATE

  8. N. P. Leach, Charalampos Makatsoris, Howard Richards, Supply Chain Control: trade-off and System requirements, Journal: Human Systems Management, No16, 1997, 159 – 169, IOS Press, ISSN 0167-2533.

Refereed Conference papers and other publications

  1. Y. Chang, C. Makatsoris, Richards, H. D., 2003, A System enabling Integrated demand/supply side chain, 9th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, ESPOO, Finland, 16-18 June.

  2. C. Makatsoris and Y. Chang, A Sense and Respond Supply Chain Management System, the 6th SMESME International Conference, Athens 1-3 June 2003, pp 64 – 74

  3. Harris Makatsoris, 2004, Deployment of distributed computing at CERN, in DTI GlobalWatch mission to CERN in Distributed Applications, Report and keynote presentation at launch event 16 September 2004, DTI GlobalWatch service (http://www.pparc.ac.uk/in/cern50.asp)

  4. Y.Chang and C. Makatsoris, Collaborative reactive control of supply chains, In the proceedings of the 30th Computers and Industrial Engineering Conference-Greece, June 29-July 2nd 2002, pp 593 - 598.

  5. Makatsoris C and Besant C, Production planning and control strategies for cellular manufacturing facilities, 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Production Engineering, IMechE, Conference Transaction 1995 – 3, MEP, ISSN 1356-1448, ISBN O 85298 949 0

  6. Makatsoris C and Besant C, Distributed Planning and Control for Cellular Manufacturing Facilities, 1995

  7. Charalampos Makatsoris, Nick Leach, Howard D Richards, Addressing the Planning & Control Gaps in Semiconductor Virtual Enterprises, Proceedings of the Conference on IiM: Galway, Ireland, 2 – 4 Oct 96, pp117 – 130. IOS Press, ISBN 90 5199 296 3.

  8. Howard D Richards, Charalampos Makatsoris, Nick Leach, Production Planning & Control within Supply Chains, ESPRIT- Copernicus 'Symposium on Quality, logistics and Technology Management', Budapest Dec 96

  9. Evelyn Teixeira, Charalampos Makatsoris, Colin Besant, Distributed Capacity Analysis for Proactive Planning in  Semiconductor Virtual Enterprises, IFAC/IFIP Confernce 'management and control of production Logistics': Campinas (Brazil) Aug. 97

  10. Charalampos Makatsoris, Howard D. Richards, Semiconductor Virtual Enterprises: Requirements and solution proposals, IFAC/IFIP Confernce 'management and control of production Logistics': Campinas () Aug. 97

  11. Makatsoris C, Besant C. B. Semiconductor virtual enterprises: requirements and solution proposals. Keynote paper. The Fourth International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, , October 1997: p. 13-25.

  12. Richards, H. D.; Dudenhausen, Hans-Martin; Makatsoris, C; Ridder, L. de, 1997
    ”Order Flow Management and Control in a Virtual Enterprise.”
    Appeared in 1997 in several publications: Fichtner, Dieter (Hrsg.); Mackay, Ronald (Hrsg.); Technische Universität <Dresden> / CIMTT Zentrum für Produktionstechnik und Organisation; Europäische Gemeinschaften / Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General III : RTD Information Technologies; Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt / Nationale Kontaktstelle für ESPRIT, ACTS und TELEMATICS; Sachsen / Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst; ESPRIT Club Sachsen: Facilitating deployment of Information and Communications Technologies for competitive manufacturing: Proceedings of the European Conference on Integration in Manufacturing, 24-26 September 1997, Dresden, Germany. Dresden: Selbstverlag der Technischen Universität Dresden, 1997, S.85-94

  13. Makatsoris C, Besant C. B. Semiconductor virtual enterprises: requirements and solution proposals. Invited Lecture presented at the plenary session. Proceedings of the 1997 Design to Manufacture in Modern Industry (DMMI) Conference, 8-9 September 1997, Portoroz, .

  14. Charalampos Makatsoris, Evangelos Markopoulos, Panos Lampropoulos, Next generation collaborative e-commerce technologies as tools for managing supplier quality, Cyprus Quality Forum, June 26-28, 2001.

  15. Besant C B and Makatsoris C, Distributed Planning and Control Systems for Manufacturing, International Conference in Process Planning and Shop Floor Control, Eindhoven , 1994

 
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