MONDAY 30 JUNE, 2003

Registration

Dinner

TUESDAY 1 JULY, 2003

Samos Island Tour

Registration

Welcome/Opening of the conference

Coffee Break

G. Lapsatis,  Warehouse and Export Manager, BSH, Greece .

“Logistics Brief: The Case of Aegean Arxipelagos”

A. Tatarakis, Senior SCM Sales Consultant, Oracle Hellas S.A., Greece .

“Oracle Supply Chain Management - Δημιουργία εφοδιαστικής αλυσίδας με προστιθέμενη αξία σε διάσπαρτες περιοχές (Αιγαίο Αρχιπέλαγος)”

E. N. Loukis, Univ. of Aegean , Greece .

“Information Systems in Supply Chain Management: The Case of the Aegean Archipelagos”

H. Rogdaki, Univ. of the Aegean , Greece .

“Inventory transactions as seen by the firm's Financial Manager”

Dinner

WEDNESDAY 2 JULY, 2003

Invited Speaker’s Speech

James MacGregor Smith, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (Keynote Speaker).

“Dilemmas in Factory Design: Paradox and Paradigm”

Session II – Chairman: Prof. H. Tempelmeier

E. Enginarlar*, J. Li** and S. M. Meerkov*, *Univ. of Michigan, USA, **General Motors Research & Development Center, USA.

“How Lean Can Be Lean?”

M. van Vuuren*,**, I. J.B.F. Adan* and S. A.E. Resing – Sassen**, *Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, **CQM B.V., The Netherlands.

“Performance Analysis of Multi-Server Tandem Queues with Finite Buffers”

S. Mocanu, Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble, France.

“Decomposition Algorithms for Performance Evaluation of Continuous Flow Production Lines Driven by General Markov Chains”

H. Tempelmeier, Univ. of Cologne, Germany.

“Simultaneous Buffer and Workload Optimization for Asynchronous Flow Production Systems”

Coffee Break

Session III – Chairman: Prof. J. van der Wal

J. Sadr* and R. P. Malhamé**, *Centre de Researche sur les Transports, Montreal, Canada, **École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.

“Bottleneck Identification and Maximal Throughput Evaluation in Unreliable Transfer Lines”

J. Kim and S. B. Gershwin, M.I.T., USA.

“An Integrated Quality/Quantity Model of a Transfer Line”

G. A.J.F. Brouns and J. van der Wal, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

“Monotonicity and Threshold Properties in Workload Models with Admission and Termination Control”

G. A.J.F. Brouns and J. van der Wal, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

“Monotonicity Properties in a Batch Workload Model with Controlled Phase-Type Service Times”

Lunch Break

Coffee

Session IV – Chairman: Prof. F. Karaesmen

B. Tan, Koç Univ., Turkey.

“Capacity Investment and Pricing Decisions for Producers and Their Subcontractors”

E. Elahi, S. Benjaafar and K. Donohue, Univ. of Minnesota, USA.

“Inventory Competition in Make-to-Stock Systems”

G. Liberopoulos, A. Chronis and S. Koukoumialos, Univ. of Thessaly, Greece.

“Base Stock Policies with Some Unreliable Advance Demand Information”

F. Karaesmen, Koç Univ., Turkey.

“Inventory Systems with Advance Demand Information and Random Replenishment Times”

Gala Dinner

THURSDAY 3 JULY, 2003

Session V – Chairman: Prof. S. Helber

A. Matta and T. Tolio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

“First Study on Manufacturing Flow Lines with Shared Buffer”

A. Diamantidis and C. T. Papadopoulos, Univ. of the Aegean, Greece.

“Analysis of a Discrete Material Unreliable Merge System with a Finite Intermediate Buffer and Three Stations with Operational - Dependent and Idleness Failures”

M. I. Vidalis * and C. Heavey**, *Univ. of the Aegean, Greece, ** Univ. of Limerick, Ireland.

“On the Workload Allocation Problem of Short Unreliable Production Lines with Finite Buffers”

S. Helber, Universität Hannover, Germany.

“Analysis of Flow Lines with Cox-2-Distributed Processing Times and Limited Buffer Capacity”

Coffee Break

Session VI – Chairman: Prof. S. Sofianopoulou

M. A. Jafari and A. Amini, Rutgers Univ., USA.

“A Distributed Discrete Event Dynamic Model for Supply Chain of Business Enterprises”

T. van Woensel*, L. Kerbache**, H. Peremans*** and N. Vandaele***, * Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, **HEC School of Management, France, ***Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium.

“A Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Travel Times”

G. Saharidis*, Y. Dallery* and F. Karaesmen**, * Ecole Centrale Paris, France, ** Koç Univ., Turkey.

“Centralized Versus Decentralized Production Planning in Supply Chains”

S. Sofianopoulou, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece.

“Application of Advanced Production Techniques in a 'Real-World' Manufacturing Environment”

Coffee Break

Session VII – Chairman: Prof. W.H.M. Zijm

S. Axsäter, Lund Univ., Sweden.

“Planning Production for an Assembly System with Random Operation Times”

D. Quadt and H. Kuhn, Catholic Univ. of Eichstätt, Germany.

“Production Planning in Semiconductor Assembly”

Α. Daryanto*, J.C.W van Ommeren** and W.H.M. Zijm**, *Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands, ** Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands.

“A Closed-Loop Two-Indenture Repairable Item System”

Lunch Break

Coffee

Session VIII – Chairman: Prof. T. Tolio

J. Li, General Motors Research & Development Center, USA.

“Modeling and Analysis of Complex Production Systems”

H.P.G. van Ooijen and J.W.M. Bertrand, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

“The Optimal Arrival Rate Control Policy in Production Systems with Workload Dependent Processing Rates”

P.L.M. van Nyen*, J.W.M. Bertrand*, H.P.G. van Ooijen* and N.J. Vandaele**, * Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands, **Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium.

“The Control of an Integrated Production-Inventory System with Job Shop Routing and Stochastic Arrival and Processing Times”

M. Colledani, A. Matta and T. Tolio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

“Performance Evaluation of Production Lines with Finite Buffer Capacity Producing Two Different Products”

Dinner

FRIDAY 4 JULY, 2003

Session IX – Chairman: Prof. N. J. Vandaele

H. Ishikura, Osaka Gakuin Univ., Japan.

“Production Planning for Short Life-Cycle Products Using the Intuition of Specialists as Information

-In the case that there are correlations between models-”

J. Geraghty* and C. Heavey**, *Dublin City Univ., Ireland, **Univ. of Limerick, Ireland.

“An Experimental Comparison of Production Control Strategies”

N. J. Vandaele, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium.

“Advanced Resources Planning”

Coffee Break

Closing of the Conference: " Evaluation and Future of Manufacturing Systems" -

Chairmen: Y. Dallery, S. B. Gershwin, G. Liberopoulos, J. MacGregor Smith and B. Tan

“Informal Evaluation of Samos Meeting . Future Collaboration and International Cooperation Conference Publication”

Lunch