About the Book
The advancements in decision sciences theory and applications can be regarded as a continuously emerging field in all areas of interest including technology, industry, energy, healthcare, education, agriculture, social sciences, and more. Managers in all disciplines face an endless list of complex issues every day. One of the essential managerial skills is the ability to allocate and utilize limited resources appropriately in the efforts of achieving optimal performance efficiently. This is no less important for those who work in the transportation sector. The Handbook of Research on Decision Sciences and Applications in the Transportation Sector explores the importance of decision sciences and the ways in which they apply to the transportation sector. This book covers technologies and tools including machine learning, mathematical modeling, and simulation and their applications in such tasks as reducing fuel costs, improving passenger flow, and ensuring vehicle safety. It is an essential reference source for managers, professionals in the transport industry, supply chain specialists, safety officers, IT consultants, executives, practitioners, scientists, students, researchers, and academicians.
About the Author :
Said Ali Hassan received his Ph.D. degree in Informatics from National Institute Polytechnic, Toulouse, France, 1981. He received two M.Sc. degrees in Operations Research Applications, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, 1974 and in Management Development, Euro-Arab Management School, Granada, Spain, 2000. He received his B.Sc. degree from the Military Technical College in Cairo, Egypt in 1971. He is a full professor in the Department of Operations Research and Decision Support, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, Egypt. Prior to his current position, he was a staff member in the Military Technical College, Cairo from (1971–1993). He was the Chairman of Operations Research Department in Maritime Research and Consultation Center (MRCC), Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt, (1993–1994). He was the Chairman of Operations Research and Decision Support Department in the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University (2000-2003) and. He was the Vice Dean, Arab Development Institute, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2004-2005). He was professor at the Industrial Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2005–2018). He has the field experience in working as: Scientific Manager, International Center for Systems (ICS), Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt, (1986 – 1996), Member of the Board of Directors of the Higher Institute of Computer Science and Information Systems, 6 October City, Egypt, 1998, Member of the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Information Systems and Computer Science , 6 October City, Egypt, 1999, Training Manager, Pyramids Computer Center (PCC), Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, (2001-2004), Member of the Founding Committee of Engineering Faculty, Northern Borders University, Saudi Arabia, 2009, and Member of the Academic Accreditation Committee, College of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, 2009. He serves as an editor and as a reviewer for many International accredited journals, he published more than 110 research papers in National and International Journals and Conferences, supervised more than 60 M.Sc. and Ph. D. thesis in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and participated as a PI and Co-PI in more than 30 funded projects. His research interests lie broadly in Operations Research, Optimization, Decision sciences, Forecasting, Management science, Strategic management, and modelling and solving of real-life applications. Ali Wagdy Mohamed received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD. degrees from Cairo University, in 2000, 2004 and 2010, respectively. Ali Wagdy is an Associate Professor at Operations Research department, Faculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research), Cairo University, Egypt. Currently, He is an Associate Professor of Statistics at Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC), Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nile University. Recently, he has recognized among the top 2% scientists according to Stanford University report 2019. He serves as reviewer of more than 70 international accredited top-tier journals and has been awarded the Publons Peer Review Awards 2018, for placing in the top 1% of reviewers worldwide in assorted field. He is an associate editor with Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal, Elsevier. He is editor in more than 10 journals of information sciences, applied mathematics, Engineering, system science and Operations Research. He has presented and participated in more than 5 international conferences. He participated as a member of the reviewer committee for 35 different conferences sponsored by Springer and IEEE. He has obtained Rank 3 in CEC’17 competitions on single objective bound constrained real-parameter numerical optimization in Proc of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE-CEC 2017, San Sebastián, Spain. Besides, Obtained Rank 3 and Rank 2 in CEC’18 competitions on single objective bound constrained real-parameter numerical optimization and Competition on Large scale global optimization, in Proc of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE-CEC 2017, Sao Paolo, Brazil. He has obtained Rank 2 in CEC’20 competitions on single objective bound constrained real-parameter numerical optimization in Proc of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE-CEC 2020, UK. He published more than 70 papers in reputed and high impact journals like Information Sciences, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Intelligent Manufacturing, Soft Computing and International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. He is interested in mathematical and statistical modelling, stochastic and deterministic optimization, swarm intelligence and evolutionary computation. Additionally, he is also interested in real world problems such as industrial, transportation, manufacturing, education, and capital investment problems. 2 PhD and 1 master have been completed under his supervision.
