Operations Research and Analytics in Latin America

Jairo R. Montoya-Torres is a Full Professor, Director of the doctoral program in engineering, and Director of the doctoral program in logistics and supply chain management at the School of Engineering, Universidad de La Sabana, Chia, Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France and the Université Jean Monnet, France, and the Accreditation for Research Supervision (“Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” HDR) in logistics and operations research from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon and Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France. His research interests include sustainability and collaborative decision-making in scheduling, vehicle routing, supply chain design and urban logistics using advanced optimization, simulation and hybrid techniques. He is a Founding Member of the Colombian Operations Research Society (ASOCIO) and was also its President and Vice President.  William J. Guerrero is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Universidad de La Sabana, Chia, Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. in systems optimization and dependability from Université de Technologie de Troyes (France) and a Ph.D. in engineering from Los Andes University, Colombia. He also holds a master’s in industrial engineering with a focus on operations research. His research interests include combinatorial optimization and heuristics for humanitarian and hospital logistics and supply chains, and the vehicle routing problem and its extensions. He also has experience in European projects under the H2020 research and innovation program ePICenter, focused on developing disruptive technologies for global supply chains.  David L. Cortés-Murcia is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Group on Logistics Systems of the School of Engineering at the Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in industrial engineering from Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito and his Ph.D. in optimization and systems reliability from Université de Technologie de Troyes (France). His research interests include sustainable logistics, electric vehicle routing optimization and simulation in Colombia and France, as well as supply chain design, green logistics and operations research.

• An Overview of Operations Research / Management Science in Latin America.- Collaborative versus Non-Collaborative Bus School Routing.- Method for Assigning Break Times in Predefined Shifts for Call Center Teleoperators.- Financial Risk Analysis for a Specialized Dairy Farm Project and Impacts of Government Interest Rate Subsidies.- Brand Positioning Analysis for the Automotive Lubricants Industry Using Perceptual Maps.- Comparison of Nawaz-Enscore-Ham Algorithm and Local Search Operator in Flowshop Scheduling with Learning Effects.- Methodology for integrating variables for a transdisciplinary productivity model.-Mathematical Models for Scheduling Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) Vehicles at Urban Air Mobility Vertiports .- Inter-cities Model Proposal for Potato's Last Mile Logistics: Case study in Bogotá, Colombia and Cochabamba, Bolivia.- Road prioritization for the reconstruction of an area affected by a disaster.- Heuristic Method for the Emergency Water Delivery Problem with Deprivation Costs.- A Simulation Approach to Analyze the Operational Response Plans in an Emergency Department under the COVID-19 Pandemic.- A Simulation Approach to Analyze the Operational Response Plans in an Emergency Department under the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Predicting Medicine Administration Times in the Inpatient Ward Using Data Analytics.- Modeling Vaccine Allocations in Rural Areas in Central Regions from Colombia.- Feasibility Study and Multivariate Analysis of a Sustainable Housing Project.- Perspectives of Operational Research for Modeling and Analysis of Agricultural Production Systems​.- Informal Recycling of Venezuelan Migrants in Bogotá.