Mehdi Rajabi Asadabadi- Doctor of Philosophy
- Lecturer at The University of Western Australia
Mehdi Rajabi Asadabadi
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Lecturer at The University of Western Australia
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Introduction
Dr. Mehdi Rajabi Asadabadi is a Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. As a researcher, Mehdi looks at expanding knowledge on project and operations management. He does this by introducing real-world problems to the literature and providing novel solutions to them. For example, Mehdi suggests that automated text mining techniques can be combined with traditional techniques, sometimes from other disciplines, to extract and utilise information and support effective decision making.
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To cope with the advancements in blockchain technologies, novel platforms are rapidly evolving. This creates new business and financial opportunities for supply chain networks. Despite the extensive literature on blockchain technologies, few studies have focused on selecting the most suitable platforms for supply chain networks. Furthermore, such d...
In any project investment decision, the comparison of project-required resources and monetary or financial benefits is usually relatively straightforward as these can be presented in dollar values. In contrast comparing the non-monetary benefits of projects can be quite challenging. The literature often overlooks this problem and only provides high...
It often occurs that after a multi-criteria decision is made, the decision maker becomes unsure as to whether they have made the best decision. This doubt arises because the criteria being considered do not carry the same weightings. This instability is relevant to the consideration of possible future events, such as a possible recession following...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective approach to support and guide production improvement processes utilising online product reviews.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper combines two methods: (1) natural language processing (NLP) to support advanced text mining to increase the accuracy of information extracted from produ...
Organisations need to develop long-term strategies to ensure they incorporate innovation for environmental sustainability (IES) to remain competitive in the market. This can be challenging given the high level of uncertainty regarding the future (e.g., following the COVID pandemic). Supplier selection is an important decision that organisations mak...
The literature points out that project outputs need to be aligned with project goals. However, it does not demonstrate how this alignment can be utilized to enhance project decision making. Drawing on system theory, this paper shows how to evaluate and utilize project goal-outputs relationships – while integrating risk related to the future values...
Waste disposal technology selection is a key problem in the field of municipal solid waste (MSW). This decision may have long-term impacts on environmental development and economic growth. The literature suggests using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to address this problem. MCDM techniques commonly require decision makers to assign w...
In large-scale projects, the client defines a set of product requirements, which the provider is then expected to deliver within the agreed time, cost and scope. If a client sets ambiguous requirements for the project, this may result in the receipt of an unsatisfactory product. Therefore, reducing ambiguity in product requirements by the client is...
A complex decision-making challenge senior managers commonly face is the selection of the winning bid from multiple project proposals. Project selection decisions become more complex when providers deliberately choose to introduce ambiguity to their project proposals rather than address the client's predetermined set of desired specifications. In p...
In large-scale projects, it often occurs that the product the purchaser ends up receiving – possibly from projects extending over many years – differs from what they expected. The provider usually defends its delivered product and may blame the imprecision and ambiguity of the requirements, defined by the purchaser, as the primary reason for misint...
Time and cost estimations of project activities are challenging tasks for project managers and planners. As a result of the high level of risk and uncertainty present during the early stages of projects, the reliability of these estimations during project planning remains poor. This study argues that this reliability can be improved through using t...
Customers prefer the availability of a range of products when they shop online. This enables them to identify their needs and select products that best match their desires. This is addressed through assortment planning. Some customers have strong awareness of what they want to purchase and from which provider. When considering customer taste as an...
The requirement specification process is an important part of a project and has the potential to prevent problems that may last for years after a project is delivered. Previous studies on the requirement specification process have focused on clarifying stated fuzzy terms in software requirement engineering. However, in many projects there is inform...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to use game theory and ambiguity theory to show how “economically rational” vendors will behave in a procurement process that runs over more than one period. In light of that behavior, we have proposed “economically rational” counter-strategies on the part of purchasers.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on a...
Although Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods have been applied in numerous case studies, many companies still avoid employing these methods in making their decisions and prefer to decide intuitively. There are studies claiming that MCDM methods provide better rankings for companies than intuitive approaches. This study argues that this cl...
Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods generally require the decision maker to evaluate alternatives with respect to decision criteria and also to assign importance weightings to the criteria. Then, based on the assigned weightings, the best alternative can be selected. However, after a decision is made it often happens that the decision...
Due to the increasing number of cloud services, service selection has become a challenging decision for many organisations. It is even more complicated when cloud users change their preferences based on the requirements and the level of satisfaction of the experienced service. The purpose of this paper is to overcome this drawback and develop a clo...
There is commonly a level of ambiguity involved in buyer-supplier relationship. This causes misunderstanding and consequently receiving unsatisfactory products. Avoiding ambiguity and fuzziness in the determination of buyer requirements is crucial. To date insufficient studies have been undertaken that investigate this aspect of the procurement pro...
In the procurement process, a set of requirements for the product and obligations for the vendor are defined and the vendor then is committed to provide the product. Since the buyer does not get involved in the process, avoiding vagueness in the determination of the requirements and obligations is a crucial factor in the success of such contracts....
Best Worst Method (BWM) has recently been proposed as a Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) method. Studies show that BWM compared with other methods such as Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), leads to lower inconsistency of the results while reducing the number of required pairwise comparisons. MCDM methods such as BWM require accurate informatio...
The concept of stratification (CST) has recently been proposed as an innovative approach in problem solving. CST takes a recursive approach to solve problems. It considers a system which has to transition through states until it arrives to a state which belongs to a desired set of states, namely a target set. The states can be stratified by enlargi...
Avoiding ambiguity and fuzziness in the determination of the requirements is a crucial factor in the success of Performance Based Contracting (PBC). To date, there is a research gap because insufficient studies have been undertaken to address this significant issue in the pro-curement process. Previous studies that have been con-ducted on requireme...
The overall objective of this paper is to introduce a customer oriented supplier selection method. Although the supplier selection problem has previously been investigated, an effective solution to consider the dynamics of Customer Needs (CNs) in finding the best supplier has not yet been proposed. Such a method takes into account customer needs as...
This paper finds a sequence of m jobs on one processor with the minimum total cost as a solution to the sequencing problem where the raw materials are either expensive to buy or carry. There have been numerous studies considering m jobs on one processor which consider various cost factors such as the total penalty cost. One of the important, but le...
Showcased in the Video Competition track during the conference
Available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBOcI-Jk7Kk&t=122s
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a solution to the problem of changing
priorities of customer needs (CNs) in quality function deployment (QFD). Customer
preferences and priorities are not very stable and they may change before products are
ready for the market. Therefore, finding CNs accurately is a key to reach a higher level o...
