Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Business, University of Patras, 26504, Patras, GREECE
E-mail: nearchou@upatras.gr
Phone: +30-2610-969980, Fax: +30-2610-969838
Logistics Research Group: Members
Born and grew up in Cyprus. Married and father of two daughters. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Computer Engineering and Informatics, and a Dr.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering (both from School of Engineering, University of Patras, Greece). Before joining academia in 2006, he has held various industrial appointments reaching the position of the Director of the Central Information Systems Services at Patras University. He has extensive experience in managing large IT projects.
His research focuses on the modeling of production and service systems, and more specifically, on the planning and scheduling of these systems. Recently, his research also has focused on intelligent transportation systems related to city logistics, maritime logistics as well as to smart warehouses and robotics logistics. He has authored numerous research papers in scientific referred journals and international conferences on these topics.
Ηe mainly works on the development of efficient algorithms for, operations scheduling, manpower shift planning, balancing and sequencing of assembly lines, resource-constrained projects scheduling, resource leveling, facilities layout design, routing and scheduling in transportation and robot motion planning. Related results have appeared in several refereed journals including IJPE, IJPR, C&OR, APIN, IJAMT, JHeur, JIM, EAAI, EO, CIND, R&CIM, IMAMAN among others. He is regular reviewer in dozens of scientific journals and member of the editorial board of four referred scientific journals. He is, also, acting as a Program Committee member in several IT and industrial engineering related international scientific conferences.
- Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services.
- Optimal Design of Production and Assembly Lines.
- Logistics and Supply Chain Optimization.
- Advanced Transportation Systems.
- Combinatorial Optimization (heuristics to large-scale real-world manufacturing and services problems)
- Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Robotics
- Evolutionary and Swarm Computing
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Memetic Computing Journal
Industrial Robot
Assembly Automation
International Journal of Metaheuristics
Program Committee Member in International Conferences
Operations Management
Production and Supply Chain Management (Logistics)
Game Theory
Special Topics on Operations Management
Operations, Supply Chains and Project Management (MBA)