رابط الصفحة العربية

1982    BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

1984    MS, Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

1991    Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

Saudi Shura council (Parliament), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2020-present    Member of the Shura Council

2020-2023       Member, Transportation, Communications, & IT Committee

2023-present    Deputy Chairman, Transportation, Communications, & IT Committee

2020-present    Member, Ninth Parliamentary Friendship Committee

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, KING FAHD UNIV. OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

            1991-2000       Assistant Professor

            2000-2004       Associate Professor

            2004-present    Professor

            2014-2017       Coordinator, Supply Chain Management Master Program

            2015-2021       Chairman

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, USA

2012 Spring Term, MIT, Cambridge, USA, Visiting Scholar      

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHARLOTTE, USA

2010 Summer, Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program, USA, Visiting Professor      

BRITISH COUNCIL SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM, UK

1993 Summer, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, Visiting Professor

1998 Summer, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, Visiting Professor

2003 Summer, Univ. of Loughborough, Loughborough, England, Visiting Professor

2013 Summer, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, Visiting Professor

SAUDI  ARAMCO, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

1983 Summer, Organization & Industrial Engineering (O&IE) Dept., Summer Trainee

1984 Summer, Office Services Department, Summer Trainee

1995 Summer, O&IE Dept., Consultant

1997 Summer, O&IE Dept., Consultant

1999 Aug. – 2000 Aug., O&IE Dept., Consultant

2002 Summer, Organization Consulting Dept., Consultant

1. Member of Alpha Pi Mu: Industrial Engineering Honor Society, since 1986.
2. Out-of-state graduate student tuition-waiver scholarship, Arizona State University, 1986/87 academic year.
3. KFUPM Excellence in Research Award for the 2002/2003 academic year.
4. KFUPM Excellence in Research Award for the 2007/2008 academic year.
5. Fulbright-sponsored research project, USA, summer 2010.
6. Almarai Prize for Scientific Innovation in Industrial Engineering, 2014.
7. Best Paper Prize in the 9th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology, 29-31 March, 2016, Nanjing, China.
8. Distinguished Educator Award by the Industrial Engineering & Operations Management (IEOM) Society, 2017.
9. KFUPM Excellence in Research Award for the 2019/2020 academic year.
10. More than 3,650 citations in Google Scholar.

Academic courses

1.       PYP 003    University Study Skills

2.       SE 100       Introduction to Technology

3.       SE 201       Introduction to Systems Engineering

4.       SE 301       Numerical Methods

5.       SE 303       Operations Research I

6.       SE 305       Optimization methods

7.       SE 307       Engineering Economic Analysis

8.       SE 325       Engineering Statistics

9.       SE 391       Industrial Engineering Design

10.   SE 402       Production Systems and Inventory Control

11.   SE 421       Operations Research II

12.   SE 443       Human Factors Engineering

13.   SE 447       Decision Making

14.   SE 501       Introduction to Operations Research Models and Applications

15.   SE 503       Linear Programming and Applications

16.   SE 508       Advanced Production Systems and Inventory Control

17.   SE 527       Advanced Decision Making

18.   SCM 520   Materials and Production Management

19.   SCM 540   IT & Supply Chain Management

20.   SCM 572   Customer Relationship Management

21.   SCM 600   Integrative Project

22.   SEN 525    Deterministic Operations Research

Supervising

Advisor or thesis committee member in 17 MS & 6 PhD theses at KFUPM.

External examiner in 3 MS theses (Bahrain) & 2 PhD dissertations (Thailand and India).

Short courses

1.       Production & Inventory Control Systems (coordinator)

2.       Linear Programming & Its Applications in Refineries

3.       Workshop on Basic Statistics for Laboratory Applications (Saudi Aramco)

4.       Total Quality (SHARQ)

5.       Maintenance Management

6.       Cost Reduction through Industrial Engineering

7.       Skills for measuring and controlling industrial costs (Kuwait)

8.       Inventory & Supply Chain Management (coordinator)

9.       Reliability-Based Maintenance Planning & Scheduling (Dubai, UAE)

10.   Forecasting Techniques for SAP Users (Saudi Aramco)

11.   Forecasting the Annual Production of SABIC Plants Using Statistics (SABIC)

12.   Long-Term Forecasting for SABIC Plants (SABIC)

13.   Forecasting Models and Techniques for Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC)

14.   Basics of Supply Chain Management (Saudi Aramco)

15.   Statistics for Plant Engineers and Lab Scientists (Saudi Aramco)

16.   Master Planning of Resources (Saudi Aramco)

17.   Detailed Scheduling and Planning (Saudi Aramco)

18.   Execution and Control of Operations (Saudi Aramco)

19.   Certified Supply Chain Professional (Saudi Aramco)

20.   Introduction to Forecasting Models and Techniques (Saudi Aramco)

21.   Hands-on Experience in Project-Centric Engineering Design Education.

22.   Linear Programming & Supply Chain Optimization (SABIC)

ResearchGate Page:      https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hesham_Alfares

Google Scholar Page:   https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K_DaU-IAAAAJ&hl=en

Book

Alfares, H.K., Applied Optimization in the Petroleum Industry, 2023, Springer, Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24165-9, e-book ISBN: 978-3-031-24166-6.

Patents

1.       H. K. Alfares, Patent title: “Cyclic combinatorial method and system”, U.S. Patent Number 8,046,316. Issued by the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO). Date: 25 October 2011.

2.       A. Abu Elkhail, U. Baroudi, H. Alfares, System and method for hierarchical clustering of wireless mobile network, U.S. Patent no. 11,412,039, USPTO, 9 August 2022.

3.       H. K. Alfares, “Method and system for optimum cyclic scheduling”, U.S. Patent no. 11,537,995, USPTO, 27 December 2022.

Journal Papers

JP1.    J. Bailey, H. Alfares, W. Lin, Optimization and heuristic models to integrate project task and manpower scheduling, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 29, No. 1-4, September 1995, pp. 473-476.

JP2.    H. Alfares, J. E. Bailey, Integrated project task and manpower scheduling, IIE Transactions, Vol. 29, No. 9, September 1997, pp. 711-718.

JP3.    A. M. Al-Amer, H. Alfares, and Faiz-ur-Rahman, Towards modeling the development of the petrochemical industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 1B, April 1998, pp. 113-126.

JP4.    H. Alfares, An efficient two-phase algorithm for cyclic days-off scheduling, Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 25, No. 11, November 1998, pp. 913-923.

JP5.    H. Alfares, Optimizing a library's loan policy: An integer programming approach, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 49, No. 13, 1998, pp. 1169-1176.

JP6.    H. Alfares, Aircraft maintenance workforce scheduling: a case study, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1999, pp. 78-88.

JP7.    H. Alfares, J. Bailey, W. Lin, Integrating project operations and personnel scheduling with multiple labor classes, Production Planning & Control, V. 10, No. 6, Sept. 1999, 570-578.

JP8.    H. Alfares, A simulation model for determining inspection frequency, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 36, No. 3, November 1999, pp. 685-696.

JP9.    H. Alfares, Dual-based optimization of cyclic three-day workweek scheduling, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 17, No. 2, Nov. 2000, pp. 137-148.

JP10. H. Alfares, Dual-based optimization of cyclic four-day workweek scheduling, IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business & Industry, Vol. 11, No. 4, Oct. 2000, 269-283.

JP11. H. Alfares, Four-week employee scheduling using the (7/3, 7/3, 6/2) days-off schedule, Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 1C, June 2000, pp. 95-108.

JP12.  H. Alfares, Efficient optimization of cyclic labor days-off scheduling, OR-Spektrum, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001, pp. 283-294.

JP13. H. Alfares, M. Nazeeruddin, Electric load forecasting: Literature survey and classification of methods, International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 33, No.1, Dec. 2001, pp.23-34.

JP14. H. Alfares, Staffing and workforce scheduling for a security gate, International Journal of Operations & Quantitative Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2001, pp. 281-293.

JP15. H. Alfares, Optimum workforce scheduling under the  (14, 21)  days-off timetable, Journal of Applied Mathematics & Decision  Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2002, pp. 191-199.

JP16. H. Alfares, Developing optimum preventive maintenance schedules using simulation: a case study, International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, Vol. 9, No. 3, Sept. 2002, 311-318.

JP17. H. Alfares, A.M. Al-Amer, An optimization model for guiding the petrochemical industry development in Saudi Arabia, Engineering Optimization, Vol. 34, No. 6, Dec. 2002, 671-687.

JP18. H. Alfares, Flexible four-day workweek scheduling with weekend work frequency constraints, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 44, No. 3, Jan. 2003, 325-338.

JP19. H. Alfares, Compressed workweek scheduling with differing weekdays and weekends labor demands, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2003, 1-20.

JP20. H. Alfares, Four-day workweek scheduling with two or three consecutive days off, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2003, 67-80.

JP21. H. Alfares, Survey, categorization, and comparison of recent tour scheduling literature, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 127, No. 1-4, March 2004, 145-175.

JP22. H. Alfares, H. Elmorra, The distribution-free newsboy problem: extensions to the shortage penalty case, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 93-94, 2005, 465-477.

JP23. H.K. Alfares, S.N. Khursheed, and S.M. Noman, Integrating quality and maintenance decisions in a production-inventory model for deteriorating items, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 43, No. 5, 2005, 899-911.

JP24. H.K. Alfares, Compressed workweek scheduling with days-off consecutivity, weekend-off frequency, and work stretch constraints, INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, Vol. 44, No. 3, Aug. 2006, 175-189.

JP25. H.K. Alfares, A simulation approach for stochastic employee days-off scheduling, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2007, 9-15.

JP26. H.K. Alfares, Inventory model with stock-level dependent demand rate and variable holding cost, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 108, No. 1-2, July 2007, 259-265.

JP27. H. Alfares, Operator staffing and scheduling for an IT-help call centre, European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2007, 414-430.

JP28. H.K. Alfares, M. T. Lilly, I. Emovon, Maintenance staff scheduling at Afam power station, Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2007, 22-27.

JP29. M. Ndiaye, H. Alfares, Modeling health care facility location for moving population groups, Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 35, No. 7, July 2008, 2154-2161.

JP30. M. Elshafei, H.K. Alfares, A dynamic programming algorithm for days-off scheduling with sequence-dependent labor costs, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 11, No. 2, April 2008, 85-93.

JP31. H.K. Alfares, S.O. Duffuaa, Assigning cardinal weights in multi-criteria decision making based on ordinal ranking, Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 5-6 (September - December 2008), 125-133.

JP32. H.K. Alfares, S.O. Duffuaa, Determining aggregate criteria weights from criteria rankings by a group of decision makers, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2008, 769-781.

JP33.  H.K. Alfares, Optimum multi-plant, multi-supplier production planning for multi-grade petrochemicals, Engineering Optimization, Vol. 41, No. 5, May 2009, 495–504.

JP34.  M. A. Al-Dajani, H.K. Alfares, Location of banking automatic teller machines based on convolution, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 57, No. 4, Nov. 2009, 1194-1201.

JP35.  H.K. Alfares, U.M. Al-Turki, S.O. Duffuaa, Developing an outcome-based industrial & systems engineering program, Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2010, 60-68.

JP36.  H.K. Alfares, A production planning optimization model for maximizing battery manufacturing profitability, International Journal of Applied Industrial Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, January-June 2012, 55-63.

JP37.  H.K. Alfares, A Dual-based combinatorial algorithm for solving cyclic optimization problems, Recent Patents on Computer Science, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2012, 188-196.

JP38.  H.K. Alfares, An EPQ model with variable holding cost, International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, Vol. 19, No. 5, 2012, 232-240.

JP39.  H.K. Alfares, M.H. Al-Haboubi, M.M. Al-Zahrani, Community Service in Saudi Arabian Universities: A Comparative Study, Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, Vol. 5, No. 2, Dec. 2013.

JP40.  H. Alfares, Production-inventory system with finite production rate, stock-dependent demand, and variable holding cost, RAIRO – Operations Research, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2014, 135-150.

JP41.  H.K. Alfares, Multiobjective scheduling of remote-area employees with minimum cost of transportation, Journal of Industrial Engineering, vol. 2014, Article ID 978347, 11 pages, 2014. doi:10.1155/2014/978347.

JP42.  H.K. Alfares, Maximum-profit inventory model with stock-dependent demand, time-dependent holding cost, and all-units quantity discounts, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, Vol. 20, No. 6, 2015, 715-736.

JP43.  H.K. Alfares, Production-inventory planning with variable holding cost and all-unit quantity discounts, INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, Vol. 53, No. 4, May 2015, 170–177.

JP44. H.K. Alfares, S.O. Duffuaa, Simulation-based evaluation of criteria rank-weighting methods in multi-criteria decision making, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, Vol. 15, No.1, 43–61, January 2016.

JP45.  H.K. Alfares, A.M. Ghaithan, Inventory and Pricing Model with Price-Dependent Demand, Time-Varying Holding Cost, and Quantity Discounts, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 94, April 2016, 170–177.

JP46. Ahmad A. Al-Subhi, Hesham K. Alfares, Economic load dispatch using linear programming: A comparative study, International Journal of Applied Industrial Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, January-June-2016, 16–36.

JP47.  H.K. Alfares, R. Turnadi, General model for single-item lot-sizing with multiple suppliers, quantity discounts, and backordering, Procedia CIRP, Vol. 56, 199-202. Online: 16-Nov-2016, 199-202. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212827116310460.

JP48.  M.A. Mrad, H.K. Alfares, Optimum multi-period, multi-plant, and multi-supplier production planning for multi-grade petrochemicals, International Journal of Industrial Engineering – Theory, Applications, & Practice, Vol. 23, No. 6, 2016, 399-411.

JP49.  H.K. Alfares, A.M. Attia, A supply chain model with vendor-managed inventory, consignment, and quality inspection errors, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 55, No. 19, 26 May 2017, 5706-5727.

JP50.  H.K. Alfares, Rio Turnadi, Lot sizing and supplier selection with multiple items, multiple periods, quantity discounts, and backordering, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 116, February 2018, Pages 59–71.

JP51.  H.K. Alfares, A.M. Ghaithan, Production-inventory models with variable holding cost: state-of-the-art review, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, March 2019, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp 1737–1755.

JP52.  H.K. Alfares, K.G. Murty, A.A. Al-Saati, Application of clustering models in offshore drilling for crude oil and natural gas, Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, Vol 18, No 1, March 2019, pp.104-116.

JP53.  H.K. Alfares, O.G. Alsawafy, A least-loss algorithm for a bi-objective one-dimensional cutting-stock problem, International Journal of Applied Industrial Engineering, vol. 6, no. 2, July 2019, 1-19.

JP54.  H. Alfares, A. Alzahrani, Workforce scheduling for multiple security gates, INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, Vol. 58, No. 3, July 2020, 438-455.

JP55.  H.K. Alfares, A. Abu Elkhail, U. Baroudi, Iterative clustering for energy-efficient large-scale tracking systems, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 110, No. 2, Jan. 2020, 713-733.

JP56. U. Baroudi, A. Abu Elkhail, H. Alfares, Optimum bi-level hierarchical clustering for wireless tracking systems, Wireless Networks, Vol. 26, No. 2, Feb. 2020, 1227-1242.

JP57. H.K. Alfares, A.R. Afzal, An economic order quantity model for growing items with imperfect quality and shortages, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol. 46, No. 2, Jan. 2021, 1863-1875.

JP58. H.K. Alfares, A.M. Mohammed, M.M. Ghaleb, Two-machine scheduling with aging effects and variable maintenance activities, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 160, Oct. 2021, 107586.

JP59. A.S. Alzahrani, H.K. Alfares, Consistency-based multi-criteria group decision-making for fire station staffing, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, Vol. 27, No. 4, Dec. 2021, 303-320.

JP60.  H.K. Alfares, A.M. Ghaithan, A generalized production-inventory model with variable production, demand, and cost rates, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol. 47, March 2022, 3963–3978.

JP61. H.K. Alfares, Plant shutdown maintenance workforce team assignment and job scheduling, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 25, April 2022. 321–338.

JP62. A. Khakbaz, H.K. Alfares, A. Amirteimoori, E.B. Tirkolaee,  A novel cross-docking EOQ-based model to optimize a multi-item multi-supplier multi-retailer inventory management system, Annals of Operations Research, published online: 18 Jan. 2024, DOI: 10.1007/s10479-023-05790-9.

Conference Papers/Presentations

CP1.   H. Alfares and J. E. Bailey, Integrating the scheduling of project activities and manpower, ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 31 - Nov. 3, 1993.

CP2.   H. Alfares, An efficient two-stage algorithm for manpower days-off scheduling, 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 15 -19, 1994.

CP3.   J. Bailey, H. Alfares, W. Lin, Optimization and heuristic models to integrate project task and manpower scheduling, 17th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, March 5-8, 1995.

CP4.   H. Alfares, Simulating an optimum inspection policy for relief valves, First Minisymposium on Computer Simulation and its Applications, KFUPM, Dhahran, May 21, 1996, p. 28.

CP5.   H. Alfares, A simulation model for optimizing valve inspection, International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management, Jaipur, India, January 5-8, 1997.

CP6.   H. Alfares, Optimum compressed workweek scheduling, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Cairo, Dec. 20-22, 1997, pp. 13-16.

CP7.   H. Alfares and M. Nazeeruddin, Regression-based methodology for daily peak load forecasting, Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Operations & Quantitative Management, Ahmedabad, India, Jan. 3-6, 1999, pp. 468-471.

CP8.   H. Alfares and M. Al-Dakhil, Developing optimum preventive maintenance schedules using simulation, 15th Conference of International Federation of Operations Research Societies, Beijing, China, August 16-20, 1999.

CP9.   H. Alfares, Days-off employee scheduling over a three-week work cycle, Proceedings of PATAT 2000: 3rd. International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, August 16-18, 2000, Constance, Germany, pp. 251-258.

CP10. H. Alfares, An optimization model for investment in ethylene derivatives, Optimization in Industry III Conference, Tuscany, Italy, June 17-22, 2001.

CP11. H. Alfares, H. Elmorra, The distribution-free newsboy problem: extensions to the shortage penalty case, 12th Int. Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 19-24, 2002.

CP12. Alfares, HK, Al-Amer, AM, Saifuddin, S, A Mathematical Programming Model for Optimum Economic Planning of the Saudi Arabian Petrochemical Industry, 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, Dhahran, December 14-17, 2002, Vol. 4, pp. 425-437.

CP13. H. Alfares, S. Selim, A cyclic selection combinatorial algorithm with cyclic scheduling applications, 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, December 14-17, 2002, Vol. 4, pp. 513-520.

CP14. H. Alfares, W. Abu Al-Khair, Simulation-based days-off scheduling of pipelines maintenance workforce, Proceedings of The 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Nottingham, UK, August 13-16, 2003, Vol. 2, 524-525.

CP15. F.M. Al-Sunni, S.N. Khursheed, H.K. Alfares, A control theoretic approach for the inventory drift problem, Proceedings of The 16th International Conference on Systems Engineering, Coventry, UK, September 9-11, 2003, Vol. 1, 36-40.

CP16. H.K. Alfares, S.O. Duffuaa, Determining criteria weights as a function of their ranks in multiple-criteria decision making, Proceedings of the Second Conference on Administrative Sciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, April 19-21, 2004, 77-83.

CP17. M. Elshafei, H.K. Alfares, A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Solving a Constrained Labor Scheduling Problem, 17th European Conference on Combinatorial Optimization, Beirut, Lebanon, June 24-26, 2004.

CP18. M. Ndiaye, H.K. Alfares, Facility location with seasonal demand, 17th European Conference on Combinatorial Optimization, Beirut, Lebanon, June 24-26, 2004.

CP19. H.K. Alfares, Inventory model with stock-level dependent demand rate and variable holding cost, 13th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 22-27, 2004.

CP20. H.K. Alfares, Compressed workweek scheduling with consecutivity, frequency and stretch constraints, The Fifth Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference,  Gold Coast, Australia, December 12-15, 2004, 21.5.1-21.5.7.

CP21. H.K. Alfares, Optimum tour scheduling of IT desk help agents, Second International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 19-21, 2004, 9.1.1-9.1.9.

CP22. H.K. Alfares, Scheduling laboratory technicians at an oil refinery, The 1st International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February 1-3, 2005.

CP23. H. Al-Fares, A. Jaber, M. Achoui , A. Bubshait, O. Al-Swailem S.A.M.Said, University-Industry/Business Interaction: KFUPM Experience, Conf. on University-Private Sector Partnership in Research & Development, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 10-12, 2005, 25-34.

CP24. H. Alfares, Using simulation to determine the optimum preventive maintenance policy, Process Industry Reliability & Maintenance Conference – Middle East, Dubai, UAE, July 25-27, 2005.

CP25. M. A. Al-Dajani, H.K. Alfares, Optimum location of banking automatic teller machines, CAIMS-MITACS 2006 Joint Annual Conference, June 16-20, 2006, Toronto, Canada.

CP26. H.K. Alfares, U.M. Al-Turki, S.O. Duffuaa, Revising the Industrial & Systems Engineering program at KFUPM, 2nd International Conference on Engineering Education & Training (ICEET-2), April 9-11, 2007, Kuwait.

CP27. H.K. Alfares, A mathematical model for optimum petrochemical multi-grade selection, production, and sequencing, The Sixth Conference on the Analysis of Manufacturing Systems (AMS 2007), May  11-16, 2007, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 199-204.

CP28. H.K. Alfares, Combining criteria ranks for calculating their weights in group MCDM, Proceedings of Group Decision and Negotiation, June 17-20, 2008, Coimbra, Portugal, 257-258.

CP29. H.K. Alfares, Operator scheduling using queuing theory and mathematical programming models, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Stochastic Models of Manufacturing & Service Operations, June 7-12, 2009, Ostuni, Italy, pp. 283-289.

CP30. H.K. Alfares, Simulation-based multi-craft workforce scheduling, Proceedings of the 6th St. Petersburg Workshop on Simulation, 28 June - 4 July 2009, St Petersburg, Russia, Vol. II, pp. 915-921.

CP31. H.K. Alfares, Integer programming to maximize battery production productivity, 40th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, New Orleans, LA, USA, 14-17 November 2009.

CP32. S.O. Duffuaa and H.K. Al-Fares, Methods and Approaches for Maintenance Capacity Planning, The Middle East Maintenance Conference & Exhibition 2010 (MAINTCON 2010), 5 -8 December 2010, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.

CP33. H.K. Al-Fares, A.A. Zaid, Particle swarm optimization algorithm for workforce job rotation scheduling, 10th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems: MAPSP, Nymburk, Czech Republic, 19-24 June 2011, pp. 250-252.

CP34. H.K. Alfares, Integer programming model and optimum solution for a bi-objective days-off scheduling problem, The 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2012), August 19-24, 2012, Berlin, Germany.

CP35. H. Alfares, Production-inventory system with finite production rate, stock-dependent demand, and variable holding cost, 17th International Symposium on Inventories, (ISIR 2012) August 20-24, 2012, Budapest, Hungary.

CP36. H.K. Alfares, An efficient algorithm for solving cyclic combinatorial optimization problems (Keynote Presentation), International Conference on Distributed Systems and Decision 2012: ICDSD'12, 21 - 22 November 2012, Oran, Algeria.

CP37. H.K. Alfares, O.G. Alsawafy, Simulated Annealing for a Bi-Objective Trim Loss Problem with a Variable Large Object Length, Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms - International Conf. and Summer School (NUMTA2013), 17- 23 June 2013, Falerna, Italy.

CP38. H.K. Alfares, A.A. Al-Shaer, Profit-maximizing production model with stock-dependent demand and time-dependent holding cost, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, May 26-29, 2014, Druskininkai, Lithuania, p. 82.

CP39. H.K. Alfares, Maximum-Profit Production-Inventory System with Stock-Dependent Demand, Variable Holding cost, and Purchase Cost Discounts, International Summit on Industrial Engineering, Dec 08-10, 2014 San Francisco, USA.

CP40. H.K. Alfares, M.A. Mrad, Optimum multi-period production planning for multi-plant, multi-supplier, and multi-grade petrochemicals, Hydrocarbon Supply Chain Optimization Forum, December 17-18, 2014, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

CP41. S.O. Duffuaa, H.K. Alfares, Methods and Approaches for Maintenance Capacity Planning, Proceedings of The 2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Dubai, UAE, March 3-5, 2015, pp. 1674-1677.

CP42. H.K. Alfares, R. Turnadi, General model for single-item lot-sizing with multiple-suppliers, quantity discounts, and backordering, 9th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology (DET 2016), 29-31 March, 2016, Nanjing, China.

CP43. H.K. Alfares, O.G. Alsawafy, Efficient Least-Loss Algorithm for a Bi-Objective Trim-Loss Problem, Proceedings of The 2017 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Rabat, Morocco, April 11-13, 2017, pp. 2118-2122.

CP44. H.K. Alfares, Designing an Executive Master Program in Supply Chain Management, presented in the Global Engineering Education Forum, 2017 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Rabat, Morocco, April 11-13, 2017.

CP45. A.S Alzahrani, H.K. Alfares, Scheduling security personnel for multiple security gates, 8th International Conference in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Bandung, Indonesia, March 6-8, 2018.

CP46. A.S Alzahrani, H.K. Alfares, Scheduling homogeneous workforce for multiple security gates, 9th Annual KFUPM Students Scientific Forum, KFUPM, Dhahran, May 1-2, 2018.

CP47. H.K. Alfares, A.G. Ghaithan, An EPQ model with variable demand rate, setup cost, production cost, and holding cost, 20th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-24, 2018.

CP48. I.T. Al-Turki, H.K. Alfares, Optimum inventory control and warehouse selection with a time-dependent selling price, Industrial & Systems Engineering Conference (ISEC 2019), Jeddah, 19-20 January 2019.

CP49. Hesham Alfares, Awsan Mohammed, Mustafa Ghaleb, Two-machine scheduling with aging effects and variable maintenance activities, 10th Annual KFUPM Students Scientific Forum, 16 April, 2019.

CP50. Abdulaziz S. Alzahrani, Hesham K. Alfares, Integrated group decision-making for fire station staffing, 10th Annual KFUPM Students Scientific Forum, 16 April, 2019.

CP51. Hesham Alfares, Awsan Mohammed, Mustafa Ghaleb, Two-machine job-shop scheduling with aging effects and maintenance activities, 30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2019), 23-26 June, 2019, Dublin, Ireland.

CP52. H.K. Alfares, Maintenance modeling applications in Saudi industries (Keynote presentation), Saudi Maintenance & Reliability Conference (SMARCON), Alkhobar, October 27-31, 2019.

CP53. H.K. Alfares, Recent trends in Industrial Engineering education, First GCC International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Riyadh, 26-28 November, 2019.

CP54. A.S. Alzahrani, H.K. Alfares, Multi-criteria group decision-making for fire station staffing, First GCC International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Riyadh, 26-28 November, 2019.

CP55. Khalid Al-Khodhairi, H.K. Alfares, Integrated Sequential Contractor & PMC Selection Model, 10th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Dubai, 10-12 March 2020.

CP56. A.R Afzal, H.K. Alfares, An Inventory model for growing items with quality inspections and permissible shortages, Proceedings of the 5th North American Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) Conference, Detroit, Michigan, USA, August 10-14, 2020, pp. 1153-1160.

CP57. Hudaifah A. Syawal, Hesham K. Alfares, Inventory optimization for multiple perishable products with dynamic pricing, dependent stochastic demand, and dynamic order quantity, Proceedings of the 2nd Industrial & Systems Engineering Conference (ISEC 2020), Makkah, 3-4 October, 2020, pp. 1-5.

CP58. H.K. Alfares, M.A. Al-Marhoun, Stock market portfolio selection using linear programming, Proceedings of the 51st Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, San Francisco (Online), 21-23 November 2020, pp. 1096-1104.

CP59. H.K. Alfares, Rank-Weighting Methods in Multi-Criteria Decision Making (Online Keynote Presentation), International Conference on Quantitative Research Methodology in Behavioural Sciences, Pusa Samastipur, Bihar, India, 28-30 Sept. 2021.

CP60. H.K. Alfares, Plant shut-down maintenance workforce allocation and job scheduling, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2021), Volume II (2021), pp. 351-356.

Book Chapters

BC1.   H. Alfares, An optimization model for investment in ethylene derivatives, in I.C. Parmee and P. Hajela (eds.) Optimization in Industry, Springer-Verlag, London, 2002, 255-266.

BC2. H.K. Alfares, S.O. Duffuaa, Maintenance Forecasting and Capacity Planning, in M. Ben-Daya, S.O. Duffuaa, A. Raouf, J. Knezevic, and D. Ait-Kadi (eds.), Handbook of Maintenance Management and Engineering, Springer-Verlag, London, 2009, pp. 157-190.

BC3. H.K. Alfares, An integer programming model to maximize battery manufacturing productivity, in Management Science, Logistics, and Operations Research, John Wang, editor, Business Science Reference (IGI Global), Hershey, PA, USA, 2013, pp. 26-37.

BC4. A.A. Alsubhi, H.K. Alfares, Linear programming based on piece-wise linearization for solving the economic load dispatch problem, Chapter 2 in Optimizing Current Strategies and Applications in Industrial Engineering, P. Sahoo, editor, IGI Global, 2019.

Working Paper

WP1. F.M. Al-Sunni, S.N. Khursheed and H. Al-Fares, A control theoretic approach for the inventory drift problem, Working paper, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia (2003).

Book Reviews

BR1. H. Alfares, Book Review of Project Scheduling with Time Windows and Scarce Resources, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 42, No. 20, Oct. 15, 2004, p. 4427.

BR2. H. Alfares, Book Review of E-Supply Chain Technologies and Management, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 61, No. 11, 1680-1681, Nov. 2010.

Funded Research Projects

1.  H. Alfares, “An efficient two-stage algorithm for manpower days-off scheduling”, British Council-sponsored research project, University of Warwick, UK, summer, 1993.

2.  H. Alfares, “Dual-based optimization of compressed workweek scheduling”, British Council-sponsored research project, University of Nottingham, UK, summer, 1998.         

3.  H. Alfares, Minimum-cost staffing of Saudi Aramco restricted work schedules, Saudi Aramco –supported and hosted sabbatical year research project, August 1999-August 2000. Received “Outstanding-excellent” rating and appreciation letters from KFUPM and Saudi Aramco.

4.  M. Al-Haboubi, H. Alfares, O. Al-Turki, Skills for Measuring & Controlling Industrial Costs, Workshop sponsored by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, RI Project # CEMS 4906, Oct. 7-11, 2000, Kuwait.

5.  H. Alfares (Principal Investigator),  A.M. Al-Amer, A model for the optimal planning of the Saudi Arabian petrochemical industry, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Grant, Research Project # SABIC/2000-07, October 1, 2000 - October 1, 2001.

6.  H. Alfares, “Flexible three-day workweek scheduling with weekend work frequency constraints”, British Council-sponsored research project, University of Loughborough, UK, summer, 2003.

7. S.A.M. Said, A-M. Jaber, A. Bubshait, H. Al-Fares, M. Achoui, O. Al-Suwailem, “A Framework for KFUPM-Industry/Business Interaction”, KFUPM-sponsored research project, September 2004-May 2005.

8. H. Al-Fares (Principal Investigator), M. Al-Habboubi, M. Al-Zahrani, “Community Service Planning” (REC02257), AAFAQ Project: Future Plan for Higher Education in Saudi Arabia, sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education, September 2006 – February 2007.

9. H. Alfares, EPQ Model with Stock-Level Dependent Demand Rate and Variable Holding Cost, Fulbright-sponsored research project conducted at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA, June-Sept. 2010.

10. KFUPM members: N. Merah (PI), A. Shuaib, M. Deriche, H. Alfares, H. Bahaidrah, N. Abudheir; MIT members: D. Wallace, W. Seering, M. Yang, S. Leeb, Engineering Design II: inspiring technical innovation in the sophomore and junior years, Project funded by KFUPM-MIT Center for Clean Water & Clean Energy, Project # MIT 10113-10114, Sept. 2010-Sept. 2012.

11. H. Alfares, “A Production-Inventory Model with Variable Holding Cost and Quantity Discounts”, British Council-sponsored research project, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, summer, 2013.

12. H.K. Alfares, C. Garris, KFUPM faculty and students perceptions of each other, Mini-project sponsored by the Deanship of Academic Development, KFUPM, February - May 2014.

1. H. Al-Fares (Project Manager), T. Al-Faraj, D. Redwan, “Polypropylene Production Optimization at Ibn Zahr”, RI/KFUPM applied project #CEMS 2238, May 2006-May 2008.

2.  H. Alfares (Project Manager), O. Al-Turki, Forecast Modelling, for Saudi Telecom Company (STC), RI/KFUPM applied project #CCCR 2215, August 2006-August 2007.

3. H. Al-Fares (Project Manager), T. Al-Faraj, “Forecasting the Annual Production of SABIC Plants Using Statistics”, RI/KFUPM applied project #CEMS 2244, Sept. 2006-Sept. 2007.

4. H. Alfares (Project Manager), O. Al-Turki, Study and analysis of the customer forecast for STC Enterprise Business Unit, RI/KFUPM applied project #CCIT 2228, Sept. 2008-March 2009.

5. H. Alfares (Project Manager), I. El-Amin, M.A. Al-Zahrani, S. Elferik, Power and water demand forecasting model, for Saudi Aramco. (RI Project # SE 02341), Dec. 2012-May 2013.

6. Hesham K. Alfares (team coordinator), Mojahid F.S. Osman, A Bachelor of Science program in Industrial and Systems Engineering for Al-Fayha College, sponsored by Al-Fayha College, Jubail, Saudi Arabia, March 2014 – March 2015.

Journal Editorial Boards & Reviewing

1.   Member of the editorial board for a special issue of the European Journal of Operational Research on “Timetabling and Rostering,” Vol. 153, No. 1, February 2004.

2.   International Journal of Applied Industrial Engineering,

Member of the Editorial Review Board for (2010 –2016).

Associate Editor (2016 – 2020).

3.   Systems Engineering Subject Editor for the Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (2011-2015).

4.   Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Industrial Engineering (2012-2017).

5.   Reviewed 279 journal and conference papers and abstracts and research proposals and reports.

1.   Member of two Organizing Sub-committees for The 6^th Saudi Engineering Conference, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 14-17, 2002.

2.   Member of the Program Committee for The 1^st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Nottingham, UK, August 13-16, 2003.

3.   Member of the International Program Committee for the 17^th European Conference on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO XVII), Beirut, Lebanon, June 24-26, 2004.

4.   Member of the Organizing Committee for The Discussion Forum on University/Business Interaction, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, January 4, 2005.

5.   Member of the Program Committee for The 2^nd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications, New York, USA, July 18-21, 2005.

6.   Member of the Program Committee for the 6^th Int. Conf. on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2006), Brno, Czech Republic, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2006.

7.   Member of the Program Committee for the 2007 IEEE Computational Intelligence and Scheduling Symposium (CIS'07), Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007.

8.   Member of the Program Committee for the 3^rd International Conference on IT (ICIT 2007), Amman, Jordan, May 9-11, 2007.

9.   Member of the Program Committee for The 3^rd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications, Paris, France, Aug. 28-31, 2007.

10. Member of the Organizing Committee for The First Supply Chain Management Symposium, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, April 22, 2008.

11. Member of the Program Committee for the 7^th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, Canada, Aug. 18-22 2008.

12. Member of the Program Committee for the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling, Nashville, USA, March 30 – April 2, 2009.

13. Member of the Organizing Committee for the 3^rd Annual Supply Chain Management Symposium, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, April 4-6, 2009.

14. Member of the Program Committee for the 4^th International Conference on IT (ICIT ‘09), Amman, Jordan, June 3-5, 2009.

15. Member of the Program Committee for the 4th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications, Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 10-12, 2009.

16. Member of the Program Committee for 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics” - ICINCO 2010, Madeira, Portugal, June 15-18, 2010.

17. Member of the Program Committee for the 8^th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2010), Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 10 - 13 2010.

18. Member of the organizing and scientific committee for the 4th Supply Chain Management Symposium, October 30 – November 1, 2010, Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

19. Member of the Program Committee for the Group Decision & Negotiation Conference (GDN 2011), Amman, Jordan, June 19-23, 2011.

20. Member of the Program Committee for the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: ICINCO 2011, July 28-31, 2011, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.

21. Member of the Program Committee for the 5^th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications, Phoenix, USA, August 9-12, 2011.

22. Member of the Program Committee for the 9^th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2012), Aug.  28–31, 2012, Son, Norway.

23. Member of the Program Committee for the International Conference on Distributed Systems and Decision 2012: ICDSD'12, November 21 - 22, 2012, Oran, Algeria.

24. Member of the Program Committee for the 10^th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2014), August 26-29, 2014, York, UK.

25. Member of the Program Committee for the Second International Conference on Distributed Systems and Decision 2014: ICDSD'2014, December 7-8, 2014, Oran, Algeria.

26. Member of the Program Committee for the International Conference on Operations Excellence and Service Engineering, Orlando, USA, September 10-11, 2015.

27. Member of the Honorary Committee, Sixth International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, March 8-10, 2016.

28. Member of the Program Committee for the 11th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2016), Udine, Italy, August 23-26, 2016.

29. Member of the Honorary Committee, 8th International Conference in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Bandung, Indonesia, March 6-8, 2018.

30. Co-Chair, KFUPM / ISA-SAS Symposium on Industrial Systems & Control (SISC2018), Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, March 27-28, 2018.

31. Member of the Program Committee for the 12^th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2018), August 28-31, 2018, Vienna, Austria.

32. Member of the Honorary Committee, Ninth International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Bangkok, Thailand, March 5-7, 2019.

33. Member of the Organizing Committee, First GCC International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 26-28, 2019.

34. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2nd Industrial and Systems Engineering Conference (ISEC 2020), Makkah, Saudi Arabia, October 3-4, 2020.

35. Member of the Program Committee of the First Asia Pacific International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Surakarta, Indonesia, September 14-16, 2021.

36. Member of the Program Committee for the 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2022), Leuven, Belgium, Aug. 30–Sept. 2, 2022.

37. Member of the Technical Committee, 14th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Dubai, UAE, February 12-14, 2024.

38. Member of the Technical Committee, 5th African International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. Johannesburg/Pretoria, South Africa, April 23-25, 2024.

39.  Member of the Program Committee, 14th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2024), Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-30 August 2024.

Last update: 1 August 2024