Norio WATANABE

Professor

School of Business Administration, Senshu University

2-1-1 Higashi-mita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki 214-8580, Japan

E-mail: dbzhn AT isc DOT senshu-u DOT ac DOT jp

Office Hours: (Ikuta Campus 3606) by appointment

EDUCATION

• B.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering, 1978, Hiroshima University
• M.S. degree in Systems Engineering, 1980, Hiroshima University

TEACHING

• UNDERGRADUATE
  • Introduction to Information and Management Science, Information Literacy
  • Operations Research, Pre-seminar, Seminar
  
  
• GRADUATE
  • Operations Research
  
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Mathematical Programming and Applied Optimization
• Modeling System
• Inventory Control, Production Planning

KEYWORDS

• Multiobjective Programming, Goal Programming, Integer Programming
• Mathematical Programming Modeling Language
• Multistage Production System, Production Ordering System
• Just-in-Time (JIT), Push System and Pull System, Kanban System

BOOK

• Norio Watanabe: A Multistage Production, Inventory and Transportation System - A Modeling Approach using Mathematical Programming -, Keisui-sha, 1999, ISBN 4-87440-535-5 (in Japanese)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Norio Watanabe, Beumjun Ahn and Shusaku Hiraki: " A Mathematical Programming Approach to Pull Type Ordering Systems" Journal of Japan Industrial Management Association, Vol.44, No.6, pp.478-486, 1994 (in Japanese).



• Norio Watanabe and Shusaku Hiraki: " A Mathematical Programming Model for a Pull Type Ordering System including Lot Production Processes", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol.15, No.9, pp.44-58, 1995.



• Norio Watanabe and Shusaku Hiraki: " An Approximate Solution to a JIT-based Ordering System", Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol.31, Nos.3-4, pp.565-569, 1996.



• Norio Watanabe and Shusaku Hiraki: " A Modeling Approach to a JIT-based Ordering System", Annals of Operations Research, Vol.69, pp.379-403, 1997.



• Norio Watanabe: " A PC-based Solution to a Multi-stage Production Ordering System", Proc. of the Special International Conference on Production Research (Special ICPR 2000), Abstract Booklet page 46, 6 pages full paper in CD-ROM, 2000.



• Norio Watanabe: " A Solution to a Production Plannnig Problem using a Shell Environment on PCs", The Hiroshima Economic Review, Vol.24, No.2, pp.53-70, 2000 (in Japanese).



• Norio Watanabe: " Computer Implementation via a Cut-and-Branch Method for a Production Planning Problem", The Hiroshima Economic Review, Vol.25, Nos.1-2, pp.13-29, 2001 (in Japanese).



• Norio Watanabe: " Solving an Integer Goal Programming Problem of a Multi-stage Production Ordering System", Information Science and Applied Mathematics, Vol.11, pp.11-20, 2002, The Institute of Information Science, Senshu University.



• Norio Watanabe: " Implementation of a PC-based Solution to a Multi-stage Production Ordering System", Information Science and Applied Mathematics, Vol.12, pp.11-24, 2003, The Institute of Information Science, Senshu University.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• The Operations Research Society of Japan (ORSJ)
• Japan Industrial Management Association (JIMA)
• Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
• The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ)
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)