Operations Management for Social Good

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Operations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Evaluating Order Picking Efficiency Under Demand Fluctuations

      • Jens Bürger

      Pages 3-13

   3. Product Demand Forecasting Based on Reservoir Computing

      • Jorge Calvimontes, Jens Bürger

      Pages 15-25

   4. Quality of Service Evaluation of a University Library Using Text Mining and Kohonen Self-organizing Maps

      • Anderson Guilherme de Freitas Rodrigues, Jose Alfredo Ferreira Costa, Sanderson Santos Azevedo da Silva

      Pages 27-35

   5. Data Analytics for the Selection of Wind Turbine Power Curve Models

      • Gabriel Almeida Hammes, Paula Medina Maçaira, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira

      Pages 37-44

   6. Forecasting Electricity Generation of Small Hydropower Plants

      • Margarete Afonso de Sousa, Paula Medina Maçaira, Reinaldo Castro Souza, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira, Rodrigo Flora Calili

      Pages 45-54

   7. Evaluation of the Efficiency of the Solar Energy System of the Brazilian States

      • Mariana Rodrigues de Almeida, Joao Carlos Correia Baptista Soares de Mello, Wallace Giovanni Rodrigues do Valle, Bruno Guimarães Torres, Alessandro Jackson Teixeira de Lima, Carlos Alberto de Jesus Martinhon

      Pages 55-65

3. Defense, Tourism and Other Emerging OM Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Transfer of Technology Through Offset Agreements in Brazil: The Case of AEL Sistemas S.A.

      • Antonio Rodrigues da Silva, Newton Hirata, Rodrigo Antônio Silveira dos Santos

      Pages 69-75

   3. Defense Industry: Ezute’s Cases of Knowledge and Technology Absorption

      • Cleber Almeida de Oliveira, Antonio Pedro Timoszczuk, Andrea Silva Hemerly

      Pages 77-86

   4. The Importance of Architectural Design in Disaster Mitigation Involving Crowds

      • João Carlos Souza, Anne Wetzstein Schumann, Manuela Lalane Nappi

      Pages 87-95

4. Healthcare Operations Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Public Purchase Governance in Brazilian Local Healthcare Systems: A Pattern Analysis by Text Mining

      • Maria Clara Lippi, Diego Carvalho, Rafael Garcia Barbastefano

      Pages 99-106

   3. A Two-Step Optimization Process for Medical Center Location and Capacity Allocation

      • João Flávio de Freitas Almeida, Luiz Ricardo Pinto, Samuel Vieira Conceição, Francisco Carlos Cardoso de Campos, Gilberto de Miranda Júnior

      Pages 107-117

   4. Scaling Hospital Laboratory Queues via Discrete Event Simulation Using Simpy

      • Maria Carolina B. Corgozinho, Vinícius Antônio S. Ferreira, João Flávio de Freitas Almeida

      Pages 119-128

   5. An Integrated Model of Healthcare Facility Location and Equipment Allocation

      • Tamara de Melo Sathler, João Flávio de Freitas Almeida, Samuel Vieira Conceição, Luiz Ricardo Pinto, Francisco Carlos Cardoso de Campos

      Pages 129-139

   6. Improving Operation Rooms and Planning to Reduce Surgery Cancelations and Inpatient Length of Stay

      • Janaina F. Marchesi, Silvio Hamacher, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira

      Pages 141-150

   7. Application of Layout Analysis in the Pediatric Emergency of a Teaching Hospital

      • Bruno Soares de Melo Barreto, Cláudia Dias Pflueger, Kaio Borges Mendes da Silva, Leonardo Lara, Nissia Carvalho Rosa Bergiante

      Pages 151-161

   8. Vascular Elective Surgeries Planning and Scheduling: A Case Study at a Teaching Hospital

      • Daniel Bouzon Nagem Assad, Silvio Hamacher, Thaís Spiegel

      Pages 163-174

This volume showcases the presentations and discussions delivered at the 2018 POMS International Conference in Rio. Through a collection of selected papers, it is possible to review the impact and application of operations management for social good, with contributions across a wide range of topics, including: humanitarian operations and crisis management, healthcare operations management, sustainable operations, artificial intelligence and data analytics in operations, product innovation and technology in operations management, marketing and operations management, service operations and servitization, logistics and supply chain management, resilience and risk in operations, defense, and tourism among other emerging Operations Management issues. The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is one of the most important and influential societies in the subject of Production Engineering and, as an international professional and academic organization, represents the interests of professionals and academics in production management and operations around the world. 

• Operations management
• Social Good
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Resilience and Risk
• Sustainable Operations
• Crisis Management
• sustainability

• Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Adriana Leiras

• Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin (UNAL-Medellin), Medellín, Colombia

  Carlos Alberto González-Calderón

• Universidade Estadual Paulista at São José dos Campos (ICT-UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil

  Irineu de Brito Junior

• Universidad de Los Andes (UniAndes), Bogotá, Colombia

  Sebastián Villa

• Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

  Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki

Adriana Leiras is associate professor of the Industrial Engineering Department as well as founder and coordinator of Lab HANDs - Humanitarian Assistance and Needs for Disasters at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and she is also a contributing professor of the Post-Graduate Program in Logistic Systems Engineering at the University of São Paulo. Adriana holds a PhD in Engineering of Logistics Systems at USP (2012), a PhD in Production Engineering at PUC-Rio (2011) and a Master degree in Production Engineering at PUC-Rio (2006). She is the leader of the regional humanitarian logistics and disaster response operations project of MIT SCALE Latin America Network, President of the POMS Caribbean & Latin American Chapter and General Chair of the 2018 POMS International Conference in Rio. 

Carlos A. Gonzalez-Calderon is associate professor at the National University of Colombia, in Mendellin as well as a research associate at the Rensselaer Polytechnin Institute. He holds a PhD and a ME degree on Transportation Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnin Institute in Try, New York. Carlos has research experience on freight transportation engineering, acquired through research projects with the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (CoE-SUFS); the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; the Department of Civil Engineering of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Universidad de Antioquia at Medellin, Colombia.


Irineu Brito Jr holds, from the University of São Paulo,  a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering, a masters degree in Logistic Systems Engineering and a PhD in Production Engineering. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology of the Júlio de Mesquita Filho São Paulo State University, at the Campus of São José dosCampos. Irineu is also a researcher at the Disaster Research Center of the University of São Paulo. he mainly works with following subject areas: operational research, logistics, humanitarian logistics, disaster management, location of facilities, materials management and physical distribution.


Sebastian Villa currently works at the Faculty of Administration at the Los Andes University in Colombia. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland, a Master degree in Science in Engineering and a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Sebastian does research in Supply chain management, Business Administration and Behavioural Economics. His most recent publication is 'Transshipments in Supply Chains: A Behavioral Investigation'.



Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki has, from the University of São Paulo, a PhD in Production Engineering, a master's degree in Transport Engineering and a bachelor degree on Naval Engineering. In 2008, he had a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics and he is currently associate professor at the University of São Paulo where he coordinates the Specialization Program (Post-Graduation Lato Senso) in Business Logistics of the Polytechnic School. Hugo is scientific coordinator of the Nucleus of Research Support of the Center for Studies and Research on Disasters of São Paulo and deputy coordinator of the NAP Center for Innovation in Sustainable Logistics at the same university.

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