Afshin Mansouri
Senior Lecturer
Contact Details
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Summary
Dr Mansouri (PhD, MSc, BSc) is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at Brunel University Business School. He has several years of industrial work experience in production and project management areas. In 2005 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tours in France. Prior to joining Brunel University in 2007, he has held academic and research positions at the University of Tehran and King’s College London. Dr Mansouri's research on humanitarian supply chain management for disaster relief in Iran has been funded by ESRC. He has also received research funding from Brunel University to investigate the role of multi-objective optimisation as a decision aid in build-to-order supply chains. Afshin is member of editorial board for International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations and Management Science Letters and co-guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, special issue on Search Based Optimization for Software Engineering.
Teaching and Research
Teaching
Operations and Project Management (Module Leader, MSc)
Issues and Controversies in Management Project (Module Leader, 3rd Level)
Understanding Business and Management Research (MSc)
Research Interests
- Operations and supply chain management
- Humanitarian operations and disaster management
- Decision support for build-to-order supply chains
- System modelling and optimisation
- Scheduling
- Search based software engineering
Research Centres
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2012) Mansouri, SA., Gallear, D. and Askariazad, MH., Decision support for build-to-order supply chain management through multiobjective optimization, International Journal of Production Economics 135 24- 36
(2012) Harman, M., Mansouri, SA. and Zhang, Y., Search Based Software Engineering: Trends Techniques and Applications, ACM Computing Surveys 45 (1) : 11:1- 11:61
(2011) Al-Yafi, K., Lee, H. and Mansouri, SA., Centralised Versus Market-Based Control Under Environment Uncertainty: Case of the Mobile Task Allocation Problem (MTAP), International Journal of eBusiness and eGovernment Studies 3 (1) : 79- 88
(2011) Zhang, YY., Harman, M., Finkelstein, A. and Mansouri, SA., Comparing the performance of metaheuristics for the analysis of multi-stakeholder tradeoffs in requirements optimisation, Information and Software Technology 53 (7) : 761- 773
(2011) Rodriguez‐Melo, A. and Mansouri, SA., Stakeholder Engagement: Defining Strategic Advantage for Sustainable Construction, Business Strategy and the Environment In Press
(2010) Yazdani Sabouni, MT., Jolai, F. and Mansouri, SA., Heuristics for minimizing total completion time and maximum lateness on identical parallel machines with setup times, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 21 439- 449
(2010) Harman, M. and Mansouri, SA., Search Based Software Engineering: Introduction to the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 36 (6) : 737- 741
(2009) Finkelstein, A., Harman, M., Mansouri, SA., Ren, J. and Zhang, Y., A search based approach to fairness analysis in requirement assignments to aid negotiation, mediation and decision making, Requirements Engineering 14 (4) : 231- 245
(2009) Mansouri, SA., Hendizadeh, SH. and Salmasi, N., Bicriteria scheduling of a two-machine flowshop with sequence-dependent setup times, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 40 (11-12) : 1216- 1226 Download publication
(2008) Hendizadeh, SH., Faramarzi, H., Mansouri, SA., Gupta, JND. and ElMekkawy, TY., Meta-heuristics for scheduling a flowline manufacturing cell with sequence dependent family setup times, International Journal of Production Economics 111 (2) : 593- 605
(2006) Mansouri, SA., A simulated annealing approach to a bi-criteria sequencing problem in a two-stage supply chain, Computers and Industrial Engineering 50 (1-2) : 105- 119
(2005) Mansouri, SA., A multi-objective genetic algorithm for mixed-model sequencing on JIT assembly lines, European Journal of Operational Research 167 (3) : 696- 716
(2005) Mansouri, SA., Coordination of set-ups between two stages of a supply chain using multi-objective genetic algorithms, International Journal of Production Research 43 (15) : 3163- 3180
Conference Papers
(2008) Finkelstein, A., Harman, M., Mansouri, SA., Ren, J. and Zhang, Y., "Fairness analysis" in requirements assignments, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
(2002) Mansouri, SA., Moattar-Husseini, SM. and Zegordi, SH., Multi-criterion tackling bottleneck machines and exceptional parts in cell formation using genetic algorithms, Proceedings of the 5th Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture Conference (ACDM)
(2007) Zhang, Y., Harman, M. and Mansouri, SA., The Multi-Objective Next Release Problem, Annual Conference of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2007: GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE, VOL 1 AND 2 1129- 1136
Book Chapters
(2008) Torabi, SA., Jenabi, M. and Mansouri, SA., Hybrid genetic algorithms for the lot production and delivery scheduling problem in a two-echelon supply chain. In: Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management. Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer (144) : 253- 275
