US-South Africa Workshop: Operations Research for Global Logistics Involving Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, August 2002

[0218033 . kleywegt]该奖项支持10名美国参与者参加美国-南非研讨会，该研讨会的主题是“涉及非洲的全球物流运筹学”，计划于2002年8月12日至15日在南非比勒陀利亚举行。会议的共同组织者是佐治亚理工学院工业与系统工程学院的Anton J. Kleywegt教授，以及科学与工业研究委员会信息与通信技术部的Hans W. Ittmann先生。总共将有大约30名与会者，他们将来自美国、南非共和国、毛里求斯和东南亚的学术、工业和政府组织。讲习班将集中讨论全球物流和供应链问题，重点是涉及非洲的全球物流的业务研究模式和技术。协办方希望与会者能够更好地理解第一世界和第三世界物流问题的异同，以及解决这些问题的不同技术的有用性。将实地视察约翰内斯堡/比勒陀利亚/米德兰特地区的后勤设施。研讨会的一个主要目标是在美国和南非共和国的物流社区之间建立合作研究和教育计划的发展联系。世界其他地区的大多数物流人员对非洲独特的物流挑战知之甚少。例如，南非的物流系统具有异质性，但其基础设施却很脆弱。工作坊参加者将分享供应链管理及运筹学在物流方面的应用。他们还将确定那些涉及非洲的对全球物流最相关和最重要的业务研究问题。预计会议的结果将确定美国研究人员目前没有遇到的新研究问题。此外，非洲的研究人员和从业人员将接触到新的技能和工具，他们可以使用这些技能和工具来解决他们的一些后勤问题。讲习班的成果将通过乔治理工学院后勤研究所的网页http://www.tli.gatech.edu以及CD-R副本传播。该项目支持来自美国的五名初级研究人员的参与。国际科学与工程办公室和设计、制造和工业创新司共同支持这一奖项。

0218033KleywegtThis award supports 10 US participants in a US-South Africa Workshop on "Operations Research for Global Logistics Involving Africa," scheduled for August 12-15, 2002, in Pretoria, South Africa. The co-organizers are Professor Anton J. Kleywegt, with the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Mr. Hans W. Ittmann, in the Information and Communication Technology Department at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. There will be a total of approximately 30 participants, who will be drawn from academic, industrial, and governmental organizations in the United States, the Republic of South Africa, Mauritius, and South East Asia. The workshop will focus on global logistics and supply chain issues, with an emphasis on operations research models and techniques for global logistics involving Africa. The co-organizers expect the participants to develop a better understanding of the similarities and differences between first-world and third-world logistics problems, as well as the usefulness of different techniques for addressing these problems. Site visits will be made to logistics facilities in the Johannesburg/Pretoria/Midrand region. A major goal of the workshop is to establish linkages between the logistics communities in the United States and the Republic of South Africa for the development of collaborative research and education programs. Most logisticians throughout the rest of the world know little about Africa's unique logistics challenges. For example, South Africa's logistics system can be characterized as heterogeneous, yet it has a fragile infrastructure. Workshop participants will share information about advances in supply chain management and operations research applications in logistics. They will also identify those operations research problems involving Africa that are the most relevant and important to global logistics. Results of the meeting are expected to identify new research problems not presently encountered by US investigators. Additionally, the African researchers and practitioners will be exposed to new skills and tools that they can use to address some of their logistics problems. Workshop results will be disseminated through the web page of The Logistics Institute at George Tech, at http://www.tli.gatech.edu, as well as by CD-R copies. The project supports the participation of five junior investigators from the United States.The Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Design, Manufacturing, and Industrial Innovation jointly support this award.