Farouk Yalaoui

Farouk Yalaoui
University of Technology of Troyes, France

Biography

Farouk YALAOUI obtained his Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnics School of Algiers (Algeria) in 1995, his master’s degree in Industrial System Engineering from Polytechnics Institute of Lorraine (Nancy, France) in 1997, his Ph.D. degree in Production Management from the Troyes University of Technology (UTT) in 2000 and followed by a Habilitation à diriger les recherches (Dr. Hab) from Compiegne University of Technology (UTT) in 2006. He is currently a full Professor at Troyes University of Technology, France, where he is head of global Master programme of UTT and head of Production management and Filed 2 of OSI-ICD Lab. His research topic focuses on the scheduling problems, system design, operations research, modeling, analysis and optimization of logistic and production systems, reliability and maintenance optimization and on optimization problems in general. He is author or co-author of more than 210 contributions, publications or communications with one book, 7 book chapters and 44 articles in journals such as IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational research, International Journal of Production Economics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Computer & Operations research, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. He also published more than 150 papers in conference proceedings. He is member of several international conference committees (about 30 conferences as ILS2012, FLINS2012, INCOM2012, EMO11, IEEE-CCCA11, IEEE/ICMWI’2010, IISE2010, EFEEA 2010, FLINS2010, ICIEM10) and International journal Boards: American Journal of Operations Research (AJOR), Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (ACSE), Modelling and Simulation in Engineering (MSE), Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AAI), International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL).

Research Interest

Planning and Scheduling
• Optimal design of production and Assembly lines, Layout
• Transport optimization • Reliability and maintenance optimization
• Heuristic and Metaheuristic (Genetic algorithm, Ant colony, PSO, …)
• Discrete Optimization methods (mathematical programming, stochastic algorithms)
• Multi-objectives optimization