Emel Aktas
Lecturer
Contact Details
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Fax: +44 (0) 1895232806
Email: Emel.Aktas@brunel.ac.uk
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Summary
Emel Aktas is a Lecturer of Sustainability and Operations Management at Brunel Business School. She earned her B.S., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Her B.S. degree was on logistics management, her M.Sc. degree was on healthcare management, and her Ph.D. degree was on supply chain contracting. She took part as a researcher in both public and private funded projects on diverse areas such as location selection, shift scheduling or transportation master plan strategy. Her refereed articles have appeared in a variety of journals including European Journal of Operational Research, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, and Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.
Teaching and Research
Teaching
Operations Management
Project Management
Issues and Controversies in Management Project
Quantitative Methods in Business and Management
Research Interests
- Supply chain management
- Sustainable system design
- Performance measurement
- Operations and supply chain management teaching
Research Centres
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2011) Aktas, E., Özaydin, Ö., Ülengin, F., Önsel, Ş. and Ağaran, B., İstanbul`da itfaiye istasyonu yerlerinin seçimi için yeni bir model - Fire station location selection for Istanbul, Endüstri Mühendisliği Dergisi 22 (4) : 2- 12 Download publication
(2011) Ulengin, F., Kabak, O., Onsel, S., Aktas, E. and Parker, BR., The competitiveness of nations and implications for human development, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 45 (1) : 16- 27
(2011) Aktas, E., Agaran, B. and Ulengin, F., The use of outsourcing logistics activities: The case of turkey, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 19 (5) : 833- 852
(2010) Kaya, T., Aktas, E., Topcu, YI. and Ulengin, B., Modeling toothpaste brand choice: An empirical comparison of artificial neural networks and multinomial probit model, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems 3-5 674- 687 Download publication
(2010) Ülengin, F., Kabak, O., Önsel, S., Ülengin, B. and Aktaş, E., A problem-structuring model for analyzing transportation–environment relationships, European Journal of Operational Research 200 (3) : 844- 859
(2008) Önsel, Ş., Ülengin, F., Ulusoy, G., Aktaş, E., Kabak, Ö. and Topcu, Yİ., A new perspective on the competitiveness of nations, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 42 (4) : 221- 246
(2008) Yücel, G. and Aktaş, E., An evaluation methodology for ergonomic design of electronic consumer products based on fuzzy axiomatic design, Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing 14 (3-5) : 475- 493 Download publication
(2008) Kabak, Ö., Ülengin, F., Aktaş, E., Önsel, Ş. and Topcu, YI., Efficient shift scheduling in the retail sector through two-stage optimization, European Journal of Operational Research 184 (1) : 76- 90
(2007) Aktas, E., Ülengin, F. and Şahin, ŞÖ., A decision support system to improve the efficiency of resource allocation in healthcare management, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 41 (2) : 130- 146
(2007) Ülengin, F., Önsel, Ş., Topçu, Yİ., Aktaş, E. and Kabak, Ö., An integrated transportation decision support system for transportation policy decisions: The case of Turkey, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 41 (1) : 80- 97
(2005) Aktas, E. and Ulengin, F., Outsourcing logistics activities in Turkey, Journal of Enterprise Information Management 18 (3) : 316- 329
(Accepted) Aktas, E., An Analysis of Supply Chain Related Graduate Programmes in Europe, Supply Chain Management: an International Journal
Conference Papers
(2012) Mansouri, A. and Aktas, E., Towards green scheduling: A decision support for trade-off analysis between makespan and energy consumption, DSI 2012 Annual Meeting
(2012) Mansouri, A. and Aktas, E., Energy considerations in a two machine flowshop scheduling problem with sequence dependent setups, INFORMS Annual Meeting Download publication
(2012) Kabak, O., Ulengin, F., Onsel, S., Ozaydin, O. and Aktas, E., Analyzing competitiveness of automotive industry through cumulative belief degrees, The 10th International FLINS Conference on Uncertainty Modeling in Knowledge Engineering and Decision Making (FLINS 2012) Download publication
(2012) Topcu, YI., Aktas, E., Cevik Onar, S. and Doran, D., An Analysis of Supply Chain Related Graduate Programs in Europe, The 25th EURO Conference on Operational Research
(2012) Bourlakis, M., Maglaras, G., Aktas, E. and Fotopoulos, C., Does greater company size lead to better performance? Evidence from Greek food supply chain, The 25th EURO Conference on Operational Research
(2012) Hassan, M., Ali, M. and Aktas, E., Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technologies for Locating Warehouse Resources: A Conceptual Framework, Smart SysTech 2012 Download publication
(2011) Ugurlu, S., Aktas, E. and Topcu, I., A decision support system to improve service quality in multimodal rapid rail systems: A bayesian perspective, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering 872- 877 Download publication
(2011) Agaran, B., Ulengin, F., Onsel, S. and Aktas, E., What Turkey expects from logistics outsourcing?, 9th International Logistics and Supply Chain Congress: International Retail Logistics in the Value Era, Proceedings (1) : 243- 260 Download publication
(2011) Hassan, M., Ali, M. and Aktas, E., Evaluating the reading performance of semi-passive RFID tags to enhance locating of warehouse resources: An experiment design, European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems 2011, Proceedings 59- 74 Download publication
(2008) Onar, SC., Aktas, E. and Topcu, YI., A Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Factors Affecting Internet Banking in Turkey., International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, MCDM (634) : 235- 246
Book Chapters
(2009) Onar, SC., Aktas, E. and Topcu, YI., A multi-criteria evaluation of factors affecting Internet banking in Turkey. In: Ehrgott, M., Naujoks, B., Stewart, TJ. and Wallenius, J. eds. Multiple criteria decision making for sustainable energy and transportation systems. Springer Verlag 235- 244
(2009) Ulengin, F., Kabak, O., Onsel, S. and Aktas, E., Assessment of implication of competitiveness on human development of countries through data envelopment analysis and cluster analysis. In: Lawrence, KD. and Kleinman, G. eds. Financial modeling applications and data envelopment applications. Bradford : Emerald Group Publishing (13) : 199- 226
(2007) Onsel, S., Ulengin, F., Aktas, E., Kabak, O. and Topcu, YI., A new approach for evaluation of countries in terms of knowledge. In: A dedication to Sitki Gozlu. Istanbul : Caglayan Press 269- 379




