Operations Research and Analytics in Latin America

lt;b>Jairo R. Montoya-Torres is a Full Professor and 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 PhD in industrial engineering from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France and 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 Ph.D. in Engineering from Los Andes University, Colombia. He also holds degrees in industrial engineering and a master's in industrial engineering with a major in operations research. His research interests involve combinatorial optimization and heuristics for humanitarian and hospital logistics and supply chain and the vehicle routing problem and its extensions. He also has experience in the European projects under the H2020 research and innovation program entitled ePICenter for developing disruptive technologies for global supply chains.

David L. Cortés-Murcia is a postdoctoral fellow within the research group in logistics systems of the School of Engineering at Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in industrial engineering from Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito (Colombia) and his Ph.D. in optimization and systems reliability from Université de Technologie de Troyes (France). His research interests include studies in sustainable logistics, routing with electric vehicles, 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.