Committees

General Chairman
Prof. Ehud Menipaz
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
and The Ira Center for Business, Technology and Society
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Israel

Local Organizing Committee
Dr. Irad Ben Gal, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Yossi Bukchin, Tel Aviv University (Head of the Program Committee)
Prof. Shaul P. Ladany, Ben Gurion University
Prof. Ehud Menipaz, Ben Gurion University
Prof. Gadi Rabinowitz, Ben Gurion University
Prof. Avi Shtub, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Mr. Netanel Ben Zaken, Intel Israel
Mr. Shai Finger, Ben Gurion University
Mr. Asher Grinbaum, CEO and President, Dead Sea Works
Mr. Harel Yedidzion, Ben Gurion University
Ms. Adi Zilberman, The Ira Center for Business, Technology and Society

Scientific Committee

Prof. Susan Albin
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
U.S.A.

Prof. Ron Askin
Systems & Industrial Engineering

Prof. Bopaya Bidanda
Ernest Roth Professor & Chairman, Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
U.S.A.

Prof. Algirdas Bargelis
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kaunas University of Technology
Lithuania

Prof. Héctor Cancela
Operations Research Department, Computer Science Institute of the Engineering School,
University of the Republic of Uruguay
Uruguay

Prof. Alberto G. Canen
Department of Production Engineering at COPPE
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

Federico Caniato
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Politecnico Di Milano

Prof. Michael Caramanis
Department of Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering
Boston University
U.S.A.

Prof. Paul Cohen
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
U.S.A.

Prof. Mark S. Daskin
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University
U.S.A.

Prof. Goran Dukic
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
University of Zagreb
Croatia

Prof. John R. English
Dean of Engineering
Kansas State University
U.S.A.

Prof. Maria Ines Fae
Departamento de Engenharia de Produção
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Brazil

Dr. Isabel Fernandez
Department of Administration of Companies and Accounting
University of Oviedo
Spain

 

Prof. Maria Christina Fogliatti de Sinay
Instituto Militar de Engenharia
Brazil

Prof. Nelson Fraiman
Columbia Business School
Columbia University in the City of New York
U.S.A.

Prof. Petri Helo
Faculty of Technology Logistics Research Group
University of Vaasa
Finland

Prof. Ralph Huntsinger
College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology
California State University
U.S.A.

Prof. Ron S. Kenett
KPA Israel/University of Torino

Prof. Ehud Menipaz
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Israel

Prof. Micahel Pinedo
Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Stern School of Business, NYU
U.S.A.

Prof. José Hernández Ramírez
Universidad Metropolitana
Venezuela

Prof. Gerardo Rubino
IRISA- University of Rennes
France

Prof. Andres Weintraub
Universidad de Chile
Chile

Prof. Candi Yano
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Berkeley University
U.S.A.

Prof. Uri Yehieli
Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of
Tel Aviv and Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Afeka College of Engineering
Israel

Dr. Maciej Zygmunt
ABB Corporate Research Center
Cracow
Poland