Alireza Goli

Alireza Goli
University of Isfahan · Faculty of Engineering

PhD Professor (Assistant)
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Introduction
Alireza Goli Ph.D. of Industrial Engineering. He has published more than 60 papers in high-quality journals and conferences and has been serving as an Editor/Reviewer in many reputed journals. He has reached an excellent reviewer in Publons in 2019. His current research interests include supply chain management, artificial intelligence, portfolio optimization, meta-heuristic algorithms, and uncertanity.
Additional affiliations
February 2019 - January 2021
University of Isfahan
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • Teaching experience in different fields of industrial engineering such as combinatorial optimization, supply chain management, decision making and etc.
Education
September 2015 - June 2019
Yazd University
Field of study
  • Industrial Engineering

Publications

Publications (124)
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The quantity of medical waste produced by municipalities is on the rise, potentially presenting significant hazards to both the environment and human health. Developing a robust supply chain network for managing municipal medical waste is important for society, especially during a pandemic like COVID-19. In supply chain network design, factors such...
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This mind map presents a versatile, well-structured framework covering essential dimensions of the supply chain, making it an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners alike. This tool facilitates a comprehensive understanding of the supply chain field by encompassing a wide range of critical areas, from decision-making processes and ke...
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Operating rooms (ORs) are key to a hospital's profitability, and increasing their benefits helps decrease surgical costs, minimize patient waiting times, and boost the number of patients admitted for surgery. This study presents a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model to address the issue of treating inpatients in operating rooms waiting fo...
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In an era where sustainability and efficient resource utilization are paramount, the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) emerges as a critical approach, particularly in the context of perishable goods. The perishability of products adds a layer of complexity to supply chain management, necessitating innovative strategies for maximizing product life and...
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Cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) are essential for achieving efficient production processes, and their success relies on effective cell formation and layout design. This research paper presents a novel nonlinear mathematical programming model that employs the rectilinear distance notion to define the layout within a continuous space. The propos...
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In the coming decade, as restrictions on fossil fuel usage become more stringent, investment in renewable energy projects presents an increasingly appealing opportunity. Evaluating investment attractiveness involves considering both profitability and investment risk. This study proposes a multi-objective mathematical model for identifying the optim...
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The global community is actively pursuing alternative energy sources to mitigate environmental concerns and decrease dependence on fossil fuels. Biodiesel, recognized as a clean and eco-friendly fuel with advantages over petroleum-based alternatives, has been identified as a viable substitute. However, its commercialization encounters challenges du...
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In this research, an exergetic mathematical model is proposed for closed-loop food supply chain network design considering economic, environmental, and social aspects. The studded closed-loop food supply chain consists of six echelons, four echelons for forwarding the products (suppliers, factory, distribution centers, and customers), and two echel...
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In the past decade, the implementation of the circular economy has emerged as a compelling alternative to the linear model, proving effective in addressing critical global challenges such as climate change, population growth, and the depletion of non-renewable resources. Integrating the circular economy into supply chain networks results in the for...
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A circular economy (CE) is a key solution to dealing with resource crises in terms of waste produced and the resources consumed [...]
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The importance of healthcare supply chains has allowed optimization strategies, which have quickly become one of the most effective methods for enhancing the structure of pharmaceutical/healthcare supply chains. In the healthcare industry, parameters such as increasing the quality of service, as well as optimizing costs, environmental, and social f...
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Crowd counting (CC) and density estimation are crucial for ensuring public safety and security in surveillance videos with large audiences. As computer vision-based scene interpretation advances, automatic analysis of crowd situations is becoming increasingly prevalent. However, existing crowd analysis algorithms may not accurately interpret the vi...
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Optimization plays an important role in several branches of the engineering sciences [...]
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In today’s dynamic and competitive free market, businesses strive to gain a distinct competitive advantage, enabling them to seize opportunities and overcome potential threats. Achieving and sustaining superior performance has become a fundamental objective for companies. Accordingly, the main objective and contribution of this research is to delve...
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Nowadays, the business landscape is highly focused on establishing efficient logistics systems, with numerous companies striving to gain a strong foothold in the global market and achieve maximum productivity and cost effectiveness [...]
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Over the last decade, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has become a very pronounced topic, receiving increasing attention from different communities [...]
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Designing resilient supply chain networks for vaccine development and distribution requires reliable and robust infrastructure. This stud develops a novel two-stage decision support framework for configuring multi-echelon Supply Chain Networks (SCNs), resilient supplier selection, and order allocation under uncertainty. Resilient supplier selection...
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Supply chain network design is one of the most important issues in today’s competitive environment. Moreover, the ratio of transportation costs to the income of manufacturing companies has increased significantly. In this regard, strategic decisions, as well as tactical decisions making, are of concern for supply chain network design. In this resea...
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The excessive consumption of fossil fuels has sparked debates and caused environmental damage, leading the global community to search for a suitable alternative. To achieve sustainable development goals and prevent harmful climate scenarios, the world needs to increase its use of renewable energy. Biodiesel, a clean and eco-friendly fuel with a hig...
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The circular economy and circular supply chain (CSC) can be considered as environmentally friendly alternatives for the linear economy and linear supply chains. The objective of CSC is to apply the economic, social, and environmental dimensions to reduce the total consumed energy. Despite its growing importance and popularity, a limited number of s...
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Product portfolio design is one of the important and effective factors in the financial and physical flows of various supply chains, especially dairy products. Accordingly, the financial and physical flows of the portfolio should be taken into consideration during the supply chain design. In this study, a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) network is...
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Blood platelets are a typical instance of perishable age-differentiated products with a shelf life of five days (on average), which may lead to significant wastage of some collected samples. At the same time, a shortage of platelets may also be observed because of emergency demands and the limited number of donors, especially during disasters such...
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Nowadays, the speed of implementation of technological advances is increasing. Moreover, the economic challenges posed by technological and social developments have led industrial companies to increase their agility and responsiveness in order to be able to manage the entire value chain. On the other hand, one of the most interesting and at the sam...
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Flexible supply chain networks are one of the most influential classes of supply chain in production and service. In such networks, different delivery modes can significantly increase the efficiency of the entire chain. In this article, mixed integer programming is used to design four-echelons and multi-product supply chain networks. The introduced...
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This study investigates the optimization of non-permutation flow-shop scheduling problems and lot-sizing simultaneously. Contrary to previous works, we first study the energy awareness of non-permutation flow-shop scheduling and lot-sizing using modified novel meta-heuristic algorithms. In this regard, first, a mixed-integer linear mathematical mod...
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In this research, a new method to determine the supply chain performance based on its sustainable strategies is proposed. This method consists of a balanced scorecard, path analysis, and hybrid Shapley value and Multimoora method. The main contribution of this research is to design an intelligent performance evaluation system for different supply c...
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The process of heating water consumes a lot of energy. In South Africa (SA) up to 40% of household energy consumption is utilized for water heating. In this regard, the use of renewable energies, especially solar, can help reduce the energy crisis in this country. In this study, applying the solar water heaters (SWHs) in home-scale has been explore...
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This study examines how to build customer loyalty in the online retailing industry of China. It focuses on whoever does online shopping for physical goods in the Business to Consumer (B2C) internet store. The study also discusses the drive mechanism of logistics service quality, energy efficiency, and customer loyalty to the internet store, which i...
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Organ transplantation is a crucial task in the healthcare supply chain, which organizes the supply and demand for various vital organs. In this regard, dealing with uncertainty is one of the main challengings in designing an organ transplant supply chain. To address this gap, in the present research, a mathematical formulation and solution method i...
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Since the last decade, transportation and distribution systems have experienced significant growth and development. Designing distribution systems utilizing electric vehicles is one of the main issues in this field. Accordingly, this research provides a novel solution method for a two-echelon distribution system using electric vehicles. At the firs...
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This special issue of the Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences, titled “Computational Performance Analysis based on Novel Intelligent Methods: Exploration and Future Directions in Production and Logistics”, is devoted to the application of Computational Performance Analysis (CPA) for real-life phenomena. The special issue and its editoria...
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Medical waste management (MWM) system is one of the most important issues in the management of medical services and entails a high cost for those in charge of collecting and disposing of this type of hazardous materials. With increasing social awareness and greater knowledge of health and environmental issues, reducing raw material reserves and ene...
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Home healthcare, a novel type of health treatment provided at residents’ homes for specific populations (elderly, disabled), is typically less expensive, more convenient, and efficient. The purpose of this article is to offer a paradigm for scheduling medical professionals from various medical institutes. With the need for home health care likely t...
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Discussions of the antifragility, resiliency, sustainability, and agility of supply chains are important in the research and management of supply chains in these difficult times, considering the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19, summarized by Ivanov in 2020 who proposed, viable supply chains are characterized by resiliency, sustainability, and agility...
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Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is known as one of the most crucial activities in municipalities that requires large amounts of fixed/variable and investment costs. The operational processes of collection, transportation and disposal include the major part of these costs. On the other hand, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission as environmental aspe...
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A decrease in the utilization of fossil energies, mainly by replacing them with renewable energy sources (RESs), is regarded as a potential energy source in today’s applications. RESs are broadly utilized for heating purposes and particularly with applications in solar water heater (SWH). Despite the accessibility of SWH technologies and their affo...
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Aggregate production planning (APP) within a supply chain is known as one of the main activities in general planning of large and leading companies throughout the world. In the present study, a survey is conducted on the importance of three main factors: (1) human paradigm, (2) reliability, and (3) uncertainty in the APP. To do so, these three fact...
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This study develops a novel mathematical model to design a sustainable mask Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network (CLSCN) during the COVID-19 outbreak for the first time. A multi-objective Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model is proposed to address the locational, supply, production, distribution, collection, quarantine, recycling, reuse, and d...
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The present paper addresses a novel two-echelon multi-product Location-Allocation-Routing problem (LARP). It also considers the integration of issues such as disruption, environmental pollution, and energy-efficient vehicles as currently critical issues in a Supply Chain Network (SCN) that includes production plants, central warehouses, and retaile...
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This study proposes a robust two-echelon periodic multi-commodity Location Routing Problem (LRP) by the use of RFID which is one of the most useful utilities in the field of Internet of Things (IoT). Moreover, uncertain demands are considered as the main part to design multi-level petroleum logistics networks. The different levels of this chain con...
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The transport of perishable products is in need of specific control and safety operations, either due to their short shelf life or their particular storage circumstances. This study investigates an extended Location-routing-inventory problem (LRIP) for perishable products, in which a two-phase hybrid mathematical model is developed. In the first ph...
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A decrease in the utilization of fossil energies, mainly by replacing them with renewable energy sources (RESs), is regarded as a potential energy source in today's applications. RESs are broadly utilized for heating purposes and particularly with applications in solar water heater (SWH). Despite the accessibility of SWH technologies and their affo...
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This paper addresses Acoustic Emission (AE) from Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining operations. Experimental measurements are performed on the CNC lathe sensors to provide the power consumption data. To this end, a hybrid methodology based on the integration of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and a Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm (SFLA)...
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Roughly 8 percent of the final energy used for heating and cooling of buildings and industries around the world is provided by renewable energies. Nevertheless, a major part of the energy consumed for heating is based on fossil fuels. Turkey's energy policies are aimed at providing secure, sustainable, and cost-effective energy, enhancing domestic...
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In today's competitive environment, it is essential to design a flexible-responsive manufacturing system with automatic material handling systems. In this study, a fuzzy Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model is designed for Cell Formation Problem (CFP) including the scheduling of parts within cells in a Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) w...
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This study provides a three-objective mixed-integer linear mathematical model to design a sustainable closed-loop supply chain network in the aluminum industry. In this regard, the proposed model optimizes economic, social, and environmental objectives simultaneously. The main contribution of this research is to provide a framework for the sustaina...
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This research specifically addresses the prediction of dairy product demand (DPD). Since dairy products have a short consumption period, it is important to have accurate information about their future demand. The main contribution of this research is to provide an integrated framework based on statistical tests, time-series neural networks, and imp...
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This study concerns the optimization of green supply chain network design under demand uncertainty. The issue of demand uncertainty has been addressed using a scenario-based analysis approach. The main contribution of this research is to investigate the optimization of cross-dock based supply chain under uncertainty using scenario-based formulation...
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In this research, a parallel machine sequence-dependent group scheduling problem with the goal of minimizing total weighted earliness and tardiness is investigated. First, a mathematical model is developed for the research problem which can be used for solving small-sized instances. Since the problem is shown to be NP-hard, this research focuses on...
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Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is among the essential tasks of municipalities that requires large amounts of fixed/variable and investment costs. In this system, the processes of collection and transportation include the major part of these costs. On the other hand, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission as environmental aspect and citizenship satis...
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In this research, designing a sustainable, multi-level, multi-products, and multi-period closed-loop supply chain network for perishable products is addressed. For this purpose, an integrated mathematical model is proposed. The main objectives are to minimize the production, distribution, and customer satisfaction related costs, minimize total CO2...
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Flow Shop Scheduling (FSS) problem constitutes a major part of production planning in every manufacturing organization. It aims at determining the optimal sequence of processing jobs on available machines within a given customer order. In this research, a novel bi-objective Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model is proposed for FSS with an o...
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Iran is among the ten disaster-prone countries and, in terms of earthquake, it has been ranked the sixth in the world. Although the damages caused by the disasters are not irreversible from different aspects, they could be reduced to minimum by choosing appropriate preventive actions as well as preparedness plans to counteract the impacts of these...
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Purpose – Every day, the sun provides by far more energy than the amount necessary to meet the whole world's energy demand. Solar energy, unlike fossil fuels, does not suffer from depleting resource and also releases no Greenhouse Gas emissions when being used. Hence, employing solar irradiance to produce electricity via photovoltaic systems has si...
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Cross-docking practice plays an important role in improving the efficiency of distribution networks, especially, for optimizing supply chain operations. Moreover, transportation route planning, controlling the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and customer satisfaction constitute the major parts of the supply chain that need to be taken into account i...
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A constant development of gas utilization in domestic households, industry, and power plants has slowly transformed gaseous petrol into a noteworthy wellspring of energy. Supply and transportation planning of liquefied natural gas (LNG) need a great attention from the management of the supply chain to provide a significant development of gas tradin...
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In this research, designing a sustainable, multi-level, multi-products, and multi-period closed-loop supply chain network for perishable products is addressed. For this purpose, an integrated mathematical model is proposed. The main objectives are to minimize the production, distribution, and customer satisfaction related costs, minimize total CO2...
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Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is among the essential tasks of municipalities that requires large amounts of fixed/variable and investment costs. In this system, the processes of collection and transportation include the major part of these costs. On the other hand, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission as environmental aspect and citizenship satis...
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As the dairy products have a short consumption period, the accurate prediction of their demand is very important for the dairy industry. Accordingly, this research specifically addresses the prediction of dairy product demand (DPD). The main contribution of this research is to provide an integrated framework based on statistical tests, time-series...
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The integration of big data analytics and cognitive computing results in a new model that can provide the utilization of the most complicated advances in industry and its relevant decision-making processes as well as resolving failures faced during big data analytics. In E-projects portfolio selection (EPPS) problem, big data-driven decision-making...
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Edge and fog computing mainly deal with Internet of Things (IoT). Practically, problems related to remote sensors or devices are typically where edge computing and fog computing incorporate. Thermal comfort of urban open spaces is one of the most important topics in the field of edge and fog computing. It is necessary to fulfill the demands for mor...
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The main objectives of the problem are as follows: Minimizing the total cost including production, outsourcing, workforce, holding, shortage and employment/unemployment costs, AND Minimizing the total pollution emission released by normal and overtime production, AND Maximizing the reliability of the production system to possibly fulfill all demand...
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The main objectives of the problem are represented as follows: Maximizing total amount of income from the reverse logistics in waste management, AND Maximizing total job opportunity, RESULTING IN: Economically and Socially Sustainable Waste Management System
Conference Paper
This paper proposes a robust two-echelon periodic multi-commodity Location Routing Problem (LRP) by the use of RFID which is one of the most useful utilities in the field of Internet of Things (IoT). Moreover, uncertain demands are considered as the main part to design multi-level petroleum logistics networks. The different levels of this chain con...
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In order to coordinate the supply chain, reordering strategy of needed goods must be synchronised and sequence of production and replenishment cycle time must be optimised in terms of cost. Therefore, this paper studies the economic lot and delivery scheduling problem for multi-stage supply chain. The common cycle time and integer multiplier polici...