Industrial & Systems Engineering

 

Dr. Nasim Nahavandi, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering

Tarbiat Modares University

 

E-mail: n_nahavandi@modares.ac.ir

Last Up date: Jan 2013

1-Personal Information:

    Name: Nasim Nahavandi

   Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran

    E-mail: n_nahavandi@modares.ac.ir, nasim_nahavandi@yahoo.com

    Address: Industrial Engineering Department, Tarbiat Modares University,        P.O.Box    14115- 143,Tehran,    Iran.

    Tel: +98-21-8288 3961

 

2- Education:

    1998-2003: Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

      Ph.D.in Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis: "Material Flow Management to Improve Throughput and Leadtime; A New Approach."

 

    1993-1995: Polytechnic University, Tehran, Iran.

  M.Sc.in Industrial Engineering, M.Sc. Thesis: "Design of Tarrif model for Loading, Unloading and Storage of Containers in Ports"

 

    1989-1993: Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

      B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, B.Sc. Project: "Feasibility Study of Rock Wool Plant"

 

3- Work Experiences:

    Assistant Professor at Tarbiat Modares University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, 2004 until now.

 

    Senior Expert in Research and Development Center, Ports and Shipping Organization, 1995-2003.

 

4- Referee for Journals:

   International Journal of Production Research

   Applied Soft Computing

   Journal of E-Commerce in Organization

   Knowledge Based System Journal

   International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research

   Sharif Journal of Science and Technology

   Amir Kabir Journal of Science and Technology

   International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Management

   Modares, Management Research in Iran

   International Journal of Industrial Engineering

 

5- Research Interests:

  

Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Production Planning and control Systems

System Dynamics

Optimization and applications

 Productivity and Performance Measurement

   Simulation

 

6- Graduate Courses Taught:

  Advanced production Planning

  Advanced Engineering Economics

   Simulation

   Production Planning and Control Systems

  Multiple Criteria Decision Making

  Probability and Statistics

  Operations Research II

   System dynamics

 

7- Membership of Scientific Socities

  Industrial Engineering Society of Iran

 

8- Papers and Publications in Journals

 

 1) S. H. Zegordi, and N. Nahavandi, " Measuring Productivity Indexes and Efficiency in Container Terminal of Rajaei Port", Scientia Iranica, 9(3), 248-254, 2002.     

 

    2) N. Nahavandi and S. K. Chaharsooghi, "Calculating Performance Measures of Flow Line Based on Queuing Models; An Approximation Method", Modares Technical and Engineering Journal, 11, 1-10, 2002 (In Persian).

 

    3) S. K. Chaharsooghi, and N. Nahavandi, "Buffer Allocation Problem; A Heuristic Approach", Scientia      Iranica, 10(4), 401-409, 2003.

 

 4) M. M. Sepehri, and N. Nahavandi, "Critical WIP Loops: A Mechanism for Material Flow Control in Flow lines", International Journal of Production Research, 45(12), 2759-2774, 2007.

 

5) A. Farzad, N. Nahavandi and A. Caruana, “The Effect of International Marketing on Organizational Commitment in Iranian Banks, American Journal of Applied Sciences, 5(11), 1480-1486, 2008.

 

6) N. Nahavandi, “ CWIPLII, A Mechanism For Improving Throughput and Lead time in Unbalanced Flow lines, International Journal of Production Research, 47 (11), 2921-2941, 2009.

 

7) N. Nahavandi and S. Dehbashi, “The Effect of Perceived risk, Perceived Usefulness, Trust and IT-Related Knowledge on Adoption of E-ticketing in Iran, World Applied Sciences Journal, 6 (1), 86-96, 2009.

 

8) N. Nahavandi and F. Haghighirad, “An Integrated Inventory Model for Two Products with Internal and External Demands”, World Applied Sciences Journal, 5 (2), 258-266, 2008.

 

9) N. Nahavandi, M. Abbasian, “Minimizing F_max in flexible Job-Shop with parallel machines in dynamic environment”, Sharif Journal, 26 (2), 47-58, 1389 (In Persian).

 

10) N. Nahavandi, Abbasian, “Solving Multi-Objective Flexible Dynamic Job-Shop Scheduling Problem with Improved Genetic Algorithm”, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and production Management, 21 (3), 1-11, 1389 (In Persian).

 

11) N. Nahavandi and F. Haghighi, “Integrated Versus non integrated inventory management”, African Journal of Business management, 5 (9), 3436-3447, 2011.

 

12) N. Nahavandi, J. Parsaee and Montazeri, “Integrated Framework for Using TRIZ and TOC together: A case study”, International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 5 (4), 309-324, 2011.

 

13) N. Nahavandi, F. Haghighi and Farrokhi,“A Dual Model for Describing Reverse Logistics inventory systems”, International Journal of Modeling and Optimization, 1 (22), 174-179, 2011.

 

14) ) N. Nahavandi, Abbasian, “Solving Multi-Objective Flexible Dynamic Job-Shop Scheduling Problem with Protective and Maintenance constraints”, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and production Management, 22 (1), 14-26, 1390 (In Persian).

 

15) N. Nahavandi, M. H. Yousefian, A. Bayat,“Determining IT outsourcing strategy using AHP; A Case in Bank”, New Business and Economic, 13, 89-110, 1387 (In Persian).  

 

16) H. Mashreghi, N. Nahavandi, M. R. Amin Naseri, “Prioritizing of production fields in machinery industries by Topsis and AHP for preparing Iran Accession to WTO“, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and production Management, 22 (2), 127-143, 1390 (In Persian).

 

 

17) E. Nikbakhsh, N. nahavandi, S. H. Zegordi, “A goal Programming approach  “,International Journal of Industrial Engineering and production Management, 22(3), 294-302, 1390 (In Persian).

 

 

 

 

18) N. Nahavandi, K. Najafzafdeh, “Comparison of demand side control and supply side development of Electricity by system dynamics                  “, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and production Management, 22 (4 ), 342-358, 1391 (In Persian).

 

19) M. Hossein zadeh Kashan, N. Nahavandi, A. Hosseinzadeh Kashan, “ DisABC: A new artificial bee Colony algorithm for binary optimization”, Applies Soft Computing, 12, 342-352, 2012.

 

20) J. Parsaee, N. Nahavandi, ElMekkawy, “Buffer size Determination for DBR Controlled Supply chain Networks”, International Journal of Agile system and Management, 5 (2), 151-163, 2012.

 

 

21) N. Nahavandi, A. Norouzi, “Contractor Analysis via fuzzy MADM techniques with independent and interdependent relationships“, Journal of transportation, 8(3), 303-312, 2011.

 

 

22) N. Nahavandi, H. Eslami, M. Abbasian, S. Pourdarab,”Design of an Intelligent System for evaluation of science park“, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and production Research, 23(2), 73-83, 2012.

 

23) N. Nahavandi, F. Haghighi rad,“Measuring supply chain Entropy using TSALLIS method”, Economics & Sociology, 4(2), 2011.

 

24) A. Abdi, E. Asadi, M. Saffarzadeh, F. Jolaei, N. Nahavandi, “Bi-Objective Job shop scheduling for Airport, Tehran University Journal, 45 (2), 175-185, 1390 (in Persian).

 

25) N. Nahavandi, F. Tanhaee, “Algorithm for solving product mix problrm in two constraint resource environmrnt“, International Journal of Advanced manufacturing Technology, Accepted.

 

26) M. Nakhaei Nejad, N. Nahavandi, “An Interactive Algorithm for multiobjective flow shop scheduling using fuzzy processing time through resolution method and TOPSIS”, International Journal of Advanced manufacturing Technology, Accepted.

 

27) M. Hossein zadeh Kashan, A. Hosseinzadeh Kashan, , N. Nahavandi, “A Novel Differential Evolutionary Algorithm for binary optimization, Computational optimization and application, Accepted.

 

28) B. Lak, N. Nahavandi, “Determining risks in traffic congestion RFID                              , Sharif Journal, Accepted (In Persian).

 

29) N. Nahavandi, Maddahi, E. Masehian, “Local Search simulatied Annealing for solving multi objective dynamic facility layout problrm“, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and production Management, Accepted (In Persian).

 

 

30) N. Nahavandi, E. Asadi, M. R. Amin Naseri, “Influence of bottleneck position on performance criteria in flexible flow shop scheduling with unrelated parallel machines”, Sharif, Accepted (in Persian).

 

31) E. Asadi, N. Nahavandi, “Hueristic Approach for scheduling in flexible flow shop environment”, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and production Management, Accepted (in Persian).

 

32) N. Nahavandi, T. Sabbaghi, “Solutions of security limitations for reduction of Privacy Vilation in RFID in Iran, E- Passport” Sharif, Accepted (in persian).

 

 

9- Papers in Conferences

 

1) N. Nahavandi, " Comparing JIT, Job shop and GT& JIT by Simulation", The 2 ^nd  Industrial Engineering Conference, Amir Kabir Technical University, 1994.

 

2) N. Nahavandi, "Design A Tarriff Model for Loading and Unloading in Ports, The 3 ^rd Industrial Engineering Conference, Science and Technology University, 1995.

 

3) N. Nahavandi, "Design A Tarriff Model for Load, Unload and Container Storage in Ports, The 3 ^rd Marine Techniqual Conferences, Tarbiat Modares University, 1996.

 

4) S. H. Zegordi, and N. Nahavandi, "Measuring Productivity Indexes and Efficiency in Ports and Shipping Organization", The 6 ^thIndustrial Engineering Conference, Sharif Technical University, 1998.

 

5) S. K. Chaharsooghi, and N. Nahavandi, "Determining Performance Measures in Flow Lines" The 2^nd National Industrial Engineering Conference, Yazd University, Feb 2003.

 

6) S. K. Chaharsooghi, and N. Nahavandi, "An Approximation Method for determining Throughput and Leadtime in Flow lines", EURO/INFORMS Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003.

 

7) N. Nahavandi and S. Dehbashi, “Factors Affecting on Iranian Passengers Acceptance towards electronic ticketing provided by airlines”, IAIDS International Conference Society, Lisbon, Portugal , 2007.

 

8) N. Nahavandi and T. Khoshoie, “Factors Affecting stickiness in Virtual Community”, IAIDS International Conference Society, Algarve, Portugal, 2008.

 

9) N. Nahavandi and T. Khoshoie, “Factors Affecting Online Shopping”, IAIDS International Conference Society, Algarve, Portugal, 2008.

 

10) N. Nahavandi and J. Parsaee, “Using Thinking Process of TOC for Elevating the causes of unsuccessfull Strategic planning” , 5 th Industrial Engineering Conference, Iran, Terhran,1386.

 

11) N. Nahavandi and J. Parsaee, “Improved Supply chain Collaboration Performance Based on Theory of Constraints”, First International Symposium on Supply Chain Management, Sharjah, UAE, 2008.

 

12) N. Nahavandi and J. Parsaee, “Applying Thinking Process of TOC in Determining Strategic Constraint”,

Second International Strategic Management Conference, Tehran, Iran, 1386.

 

13) N. Nahavandi and J. Parsaee, “A New Approach for Problem Solving by Thinking Process in Six Sigma”, Second International Six Sigma Conference, Tehran, Iran, 1386.

 

14)N. Nahavandi and S. Dehbashi, “The Effect of Trust, Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Risk on E-ticketing in Iran”, The 4^th Conference on Information and Communication Technology Management, Tehran, 1386.

 

15) A. Farzad, N. Nahavandi and A. Caruana, “The Effect of International Marketing on Organizational Commitment improvement in Iranian Banks, International Management Conference,Tehran, Iran, 1386.

 

16) M. H. Sobhieh, N. Nahavandi, O. Weisi and M. Azizi,“An Analytical Hirarchy process for Organizational Improvement in Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)”, 4^th  International Project management Conference, 1387.

 

 17) N. Nahavandi, O. Weisi and D. A. Ardakani, “An Integrated Decision      Model for Strategic Decision making”, The 6 ^th  Industrial Engineering , Imam Hossein University, 1387.

 

18) N. Nahavandi and M Abbasian, “Solving Multi-Objective Flexible Dynamic Job-Shop Scheduling Problem with Improved Genetic Algorithm”, 6 th Industrial Engineering Conference, Terhran,1387

 

19) N. Nahavandi and M. Abbasian, “Minimizing F_max in flexible Job-Shop with parallel machines in dynamic environment”, 6 th Industrial Engineering

              Conference, Terhran,1387.

 

20) N. Nahavandi and M. T. Rajabi, “Evaluation of Teacher’s Performance Using Computer Simulation”, Third Internatinal Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, Sharjah, UAE, 2009.

 

21) N. Nahavandi and B. Lak, “Determining risks in traffic congestion RFID  “RFID conference, 1388.

 

22) N. Nahavandi and J. Parsaee, “Integrating Triz and TOC  Triz conference, 1388.

 

23) N. Nahavandi and Safarian, First international and Third National Logistics and Supply chain Conference, Tehran, 1388.

 

24) N. Nahavandi, M. Hosseinzadeh Kashan, A. Hossein zadeh Kashan, “   “, Third International Conference of Operations Research, Tehran, 1389.

 

25) N. Nahavandi, B. Ajdari, “How use of Internet affects perception of exporter Barriers? Experience of Website use among Iranian SMEs”, IAIDS International Conference e- Society, 2008.

 

26) E. Nikbakhsh, N. Nahavandi, “ “, 7th International conference of Industrial Engineering, Isfahan, Iran, 1389.

 

27) N. Nahavandi, M. Azari khojasteh, E. Asadi, E. Saberi, “A Fuzzy multi-objective approach for interdependent information system project selection”, 7th International conference of Industrial Engineering, Isfahan, Iran, 1389.

 

28) N. Nahavandi, F. Haghighi Rad, ”Heat Transfer Approach to modeling and analysis of Reverse logistics Inventory models”, 2^nd International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial engineering, Singapour, 2011.

 

29) S. koochaki, N. Nahavandi, “Determining buffer size in critical chain “, First International conference of Innovation and Enterprenership, shiraz, Iran, 1389.

 

30) S. Koochaki, N. Nahavandi, L. Ghalami,”Buffer size determination in critical chain management with resource constraint“ , First International conference of Innovation and Enterprenership, shiraz, Iran, 1389.

 

31) N. Nahavandi, M. Maleki, M. Bolboli, “ “,First International conference of Innovation and Enterprenership, shiraz, Iran, 1389.

 

32) N. Nahavandi, P. Mohammadi, “ The effect of global crisis on economic growth of MENA countries by system Dynamics”, Middle East Economic Association, Espain, 1390.

 

33) P. Mohammadi, N. nahavandi, “Foreign trade relationships of MENA countries and global crises”,Middle East Economic Association, Espain, 1390.

 

34) N. Nahavandi, K. Najafzadeh, “Comparing demand control side and supply manage in electricity generation by system dynamics approach“, Energy Conference, Tehran, 1389.

 

35)  N. Nahavandi, K. Najafzadeh, “Modeling the effect of energy price on electricity generation“, 8^th International Energy Conference, Tehran, 1390.

 

36) N. Nahavandi, “ Comparison of CONWIP, TOC and CWIPL in job shop”, 21th International Conference of production Research, Germany, Stutgaurt, 2011.

 

37) N. Nahavandi, F. Tanhaee, “Considering decision maker idea in product mix problem by goal programming”, IEEE, Singapour, 2011.

 

38) N. Nahavandi, R. Hemmatgo, I. nakhaee, “A modified algorithm to find a representative capacity with evenness consideration for non-additive robust ordinal regression“ IEEE. Singapour, 2011.

 

39) N. Nahavandi, M. Pourhossein,”Estimating electricity required generation capacity in Iran by system dynamics approach,8th International conference of Industrial Engineering, Tehran, Iran, 1390.

 

40) F. Marandi, N. Rasouli, N. Nahavandi, “ Supplier Ranking by integrated Goal DEA and AHP”, International Conference of OR”, Tabriz, Iran, 1391.

 

41) A. Salmasnia, A. Yazdekhasti, M.R. Aminnaseri, N. Nahavandi, “Optimizing Queuing system based on modified TOPSIS”, International Conference of OR”, Tabriz, Iran, 1391.

 

42) E. Asadi Gangraj, N. Nahavandi, A. Ebrahimzadeh, S. Dovali, “A two stage lexible flow shop scheduling model with unrelated parallel machines for ice cream industry”, 13 th International conference on econometrics, Operations Research and Statistics, Cyprus, 2012.

 

 

10- Thesis Supervised

 

     Magid Mashayekhi (Guidance, M.Sc)

     Bahman Ajdari (Guidance, M.Sc)

 Taraneh Khoshoee (Guidance, M.Sc)

 Jaleh Parsaee (Guidance, M.Sc)

 Atousa Farzad (Guidance, M.Sc)

     Shima Dehbashi (Guidance, M.Sc)

     Mohammad Abbasian (Guidance, M.Sc)

     Mojtaba Safarian (Guidance, M.Sc)

     Mohammad Hadi Ketabchi (Guidance, M.Sc)

    Mohammad Malekzadeh (Guidance, M.Sc)

    Alireza Ghajari (Guidance, M.Sc)

    Omid Weisi Tappehgoli (Guidance, M.Sc)

    Omid Bigdeli (Guidance, M.Sc)

    Kian Najafzadeh (Guidance, M.Sc)

    Farshid Jahangiri (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Samaneh Koochaki (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Mina Hoseinzadeh Kashan (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Fahimeh Tanhaei (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Pour Hossein (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Roghayye Hemmatgo (Guidance, M. Sc)

   Zahra Chaman Ara (Guidance, M. Sc)

   Elham Shakoorshaker (Guidance, M. Sc)

   Saeed Imeni (Guidance, M. Sc)

   Sharifpour (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Roxana Nasri Nazif (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Hossein Zeini Ardakani (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Behzad Lak  (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Golestaneh Sheini Dashtgol (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Tayyebeh Sabbaghi (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Aliabadi (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Mahshid Mashreghi (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Keyvani (Guidance, M.Sc)

   Abdorreza Saei(Adviser, M.Sc)

   Bagheri pour (Advisor, M.Sc)

   Farzad haghighi Rad (Guidance, Ph.D)

   Jaleh Parsaee (Guidance, Ph.D)

   Ebrahim Asadi Gangraj (Guidance, Ph.D)

   Mahdi Nakhaei Nejad (Guidance, Ph.D)

   Arman Sagedi Nejad (Advisor, Ph.D)

   Ahmad Jafar Zadeh Afshari (Advisor, Ph.D)

   Mohammad Abbasian (Guidance, Ph.D)

 

11- Research Projects

     BPR in Foreign Affairs Islamic Republic of Iran

     Determine the hire rate of dredgers in Ports and Shipping Organization

     Developing an expert system for port's Tariff

     Mechanize the ordering system in Iran Khodro

       

12- Honors and Awards

1996- Top Student Award of Amir Kabir Technical University (M.sc.         Degree).

     2003- Top Researcher in Road & Transportation Ministry

      2004- Top Woman Researcher in Iran