Jairo R. Montoya-Torres

JAIRO R. MONTOYA-TORRES is an Associate Professor of Operations Research and Director of the Master program in Operations Management at the School of Economics and Management Sciences, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France. He has been Invited Professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico, in 2009, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France, in 2011 within the Department OMSI. He has been Guest Editor for the Int. J. of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (published by IGI Global), Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Int. J. of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Dr. Montoya is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Modelling and Simulation Systems, and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Application. His research interests include scheduling, applied combinatorial optimization, reverse/sustainable logistics, supply chain management under collaborative and sustainable environments, and modeling and simulation of complex industrial and service systems. His webpage is http://jrmontoya.wordpress.com.

Publications

Comparison of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques for the Location of Multi-Modal Terminals in an Integrated Public Urban Transport System
Johanna Camargo-Pérez, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres. © 2019. 15 pages.
Multiple actors from both private and public sectors are currently involved in the design and operation of urban passenger transport systems seeking at optimizing their own...
Mathematical Model for Designing Supply Chains
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres. © 2014. 9 pages.
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the process of planning, implementing and controlling the operations of the supply chain in an effective way. Part of the planning process...
Solving a Bi-Criteria Hybrid Flowshop Scheduling Problem Occurring in Apparel Manufacturing
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Fabián Vargas-Nieto. © 2013. 21 pages.
This paper studies the problem of production scheduling in a company belonging to the apparel industry, where textile labels are manufactured through the process of thermal...
Hybrid Algorithms for Service, Computing and Manufacturing Systems: Routing and Scheduling Solutions
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Angel A. Juan, Luisa Huaccho Huatuco, Javier Faulin, Gloria L. Rodriguez-Verjan. © 2012. 354 pages.
In a global, highly competitive environment, organizations face increasing economic pressure and customer demands for more complex products and services. Hybrid algorithms have...
Global Bacteria Optimization Meta-Heuristic: Performance Analysis and Application to Shop Scheduling Problems
Elyn L. Solano-Charris, Libardo S. Gómez-Vizcaíno, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Carlos D. Paternina-Arboleda. © 2012. 17 pages.
A large number of real-life optimization problems in economics and business are complex and difficult to solve. Hence, using approximate algorithms is a very good alternative to...
Global Bacteria Optimization Meta-Heuristic Algorithm for Jobshop Scheduling
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Libardo S. Gómez-Vizcaíno, Elyn L. Solano-Charris, Carlos D. Paternina-Arboleda. © 2012. 12 pages.
This paper examines the problem of jobshop scheduling with either makespan minimization or total tardiness minimization, which are both known to be NP-hard. The authors propose...
Decision-Making Coordination within Three-Echelon Supply Chains
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres. © 2011. 15 pages.
Supply chain performance is highly influenced by the coordination level between its members, which needs information sharing. In this paper we consider a three-echelon direct...
On the Analysis of Supplier-Manufacturer Information Sharing Strategies for Production Scheduling
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Gloria L. Rodríguez-Verjan. © 2011. 14 pages.
Nowadays, implementing collaboration strategies between the members of the supply chain has been an important research topic to obtain a more reactive and flexible supply chain...
Solving a Bi-Criteria Hybrid Flowshop Scheduling Problem Occurring in Apparel Manufacturing
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Fabián Vargas-Nieto. © 2011. 19 pages.
This paper studies the problem of production scheduling in a company belonging to the apparel industry, where textile labels are manufactured through the process of thermal...
Global Bacteria Optimization Meta-Heuristic Algorithm for Jobshop Scheduling
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Libardo S. Gómez-Vizcaíno, Elyn L. Solano-Charris, Carlos D. Paternina-Arboleda. © 2010. 12 pages.
This paper examines the problem of jobshop scheduling with either makespan minimization or total tardiness minimization, which are both known to be NP-hard. The authors propose...
Analyzing the Impact of Coordinated Decisions within a Three-Echelon Supply Chain
Mauricio Núñez-Muñoz, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres. © 2009. 15 pages.
Supply chain performance is highly influenced by the coordination level between its members, which needs information sharing. In this article we consider a three-echelon direct...