The
seventh International Research Conference on Systems Engineering and Management
Science (IRC-SEMS2019) took place in Nanjing, China, 19-20 April 2019. IRC-SEMS
aims to provide a research platform for academics and researchers, particularly
young faculty and graduate students, to share and exchange experience and
research findings in various disciplines of Systems Engineering and Management
Science. Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM) is
organizer. School of Data Science, CityU
and School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University are
co-organizer. We took a group photo in
front of the Xingyun
Building (星雲樓) for memory.
I
arrived the conference hall and took a photo in front of the banner.
I
took a photo with Prof. Shen Houcai (沈厚才) (Professor, School of Mgt & Eng, Nanjing University).
We
took a photo with guest speakers and academic friends.
(Left:
Prof. Shen Houcai, I, Prof. Wang YingMing (Fuzhou University), Prof. Kwok L
Tsui (Chair Professor, CityU), Dr. KS Chin (SEEM, CityU), Prof. Jian-Bo
Yang (The University of Manchester, UK) and Prof. Xianjia Wang (王先甲) (Wuhan University))
Then
CityU representatives took a photo.
(Left: Dr. Mo huadong (Australian National University), Prof. Min XIE, Prof. Chuangyin Dang, Prof. Kwok L Tsui, Dr. KS Chin
and I)
In the beginning, Prof. Shen Houcai (Professor, School of Mgt & Eng, Nanjing University) chair the morning section.
Prof.
Jing Zhou (Dean and Professor, School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing
University) gave welcome speech and she introduced the history of Nanjing city
and also their school which was one of youngest schools at Nanjing University.
Prof.
Kwok L Tsui (Chair Professor, School of Data Science, CityU) gave welcome
speech and he brief IRC-SEMS background and introduced three keynote speakers.
Prof.
Chuangyin Dang (Acting Head and Professor, SEEM Dept., CityU) gave welcome
speech and he welcome all participants and believed that the young faculty and
students could develop their skills and build a strong international network
through this significant conference.
The
first keynote speaker was Prof. Jim Dai (Presidential Chair Professor,
Institute for Data and Decision Analytics (iDDA), The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Shenzhen; Leon C. Welch Professor of Engineering, School of Operations
Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University) and his presentation
topic entitled “Hospital Inpatient Operations: Modeling, Analysis and
Optimizations”. He introduced fidelity
modeling to capture time-of-day patient waiting time (descriptive analysis):
service-time models and trading off waiting & overflow (prescriptive
analysis) through bed overflow decisions.
Firstly, Prof. Jim Dai introduced Emergency Department (ED) boarding patient in Singapore. Then Prof. Jim Dai briefed their model named “Two-time-scale service time”.
Then
he introduced another model named “Approximate Dynamic Programing (ADP)
algorithm. Finally, he concluded that
two-service-time-models – one of models for deciding discharge timing and the
other one for deciding the number of doctor rounds. ADP algorithm could potentially reduce both
the waiting time and the overflow proportion.
The
second keynote speaker was Prof. Geoffrey QP Shen (Chair Professor of
Construction Management, Faculty of Construction and Environment, PolyU) and
his topic named “Research and Practice in Value Management for Large and
Complex Construction Projects”. Firstly,
Prof. Shen introduced some mega construction projects (MCPs).
Then
Prof. Shen introduced concept of “Value for Money” in Construction field. It included Quality, Safety, Environment,
Cost and Time.
And
then he briefed their funded research on Value Management (VM) and developed
framework for value briefing. The
following diagram showed one of their research projects in construction and its
expected outcome.
Lastly, he stated the stakeholder analysis to list stakeholder and critical stakeholder concerns. He mentioned one of benefits of using VM was to provide a forum for major stakeholders to share and learn from each other.
The
third keynote speaker was Jian-Bo Yang (Professor, Decision and Cognitive
Science Research Centre, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of
Manchester, UK) and his presentation was “From Bayesian Inference to Evidential
Reasoning – For AI Decision System Research and Application”. Firstly, Prof.
Yang briefed the Bayesian Inference using disease diagnosis as example. There are three type of diseases named meningitis
(M), concussion (C) and/or brain tumor (T).
Using
Dempster’s Rule, conjunctive reasoning was combined two pieces of independent
evidence to make the decision. However,
some situation such as “Counter-Intuitive” with Dempster’s Rule that did not
consider the importance or reliability of evidence distinctively.
Finally,
Prof. Yang introduced Evidential Reasoning (ER) rule for data analytics to
decision making. He concluded that ER
rule was a generic rule for evidence combination and unique for hybrid system
modelling under uncertainty.
In
afternoon parallel session I, I chaired the session named “Business &
Management Model”.
The
first speaker in this session was Mr. Hao Liu (CityU) and his topic entitled
“Designing Contracts for Competing Retailers under Asymmetric Demand
Information”. He mentioned the preferences for contractual forms and two-part
tariff contract could lead to “win-win” outcome for the supplier and incumbent.
The
second speaker was Ms. Zhongyuan Hao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and
Astronautics) and her topic named “Direct Selling by Suppliers can Influence
System-wide Information Flow to Benefit Retailers”. She concluded this study to screen out the
structure and information effects of direct selling and to establish the
interactions between direct selling and information flow in the system; so as
to identify the circumstances in which direct selling by supplier could benefit
retailers.
The
third speaker was Ms. Xuan Wang (PolyU) and her topic was “Strategic and
Economic Implications when a Firm Joins the Sharing Economy”. Firstly, she introduced traditional sharing
economy. The she mentioned her model for product sharing with Firm’s
involvement. She concluded that when the
firm could strategically decide the product quality, it would increase the
product quality when it joins the sharing market.
The
fourth speaker was Ms. Xiaozhou He (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics)
and her presentation was “A Survey on the Consumer Characteristics of Food
Delivery under O2O e-Commerce”. She analyzed delivery times and order price in
different cities. Her exploratory
research findings included respondents’ favorite promotion activities were
completely independent of other factors; the price per order was related to
monthly income and marital status.
I
presented certificates to all speakers.
I
was the last speaker in this session and my topic entitled “Preliminary Study
on QMS based Innovation Management System with Extension Innovation Methodology”.
In
the beginning, I introduced ISO 9001:2015 QMS standard and ISO/FDIS 56002
Innovation Management System (InnoMS). Then I discussed how to integrate both
standard under ISO High Level Structure (HLS).
And
then I introduced Extension Innovation Method (METS) for implementation of QMS
based InnoMS. Basic theory of Extenics
were introduced too.
Dr.
KS Chin presented a certificate to me.
In
parallel session II, Prof. Xin Shi (Reader in Applied Statistics, Faculty Lead
for China at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School) chaired the
session named “Big Data & Blockchain”.
The
first speaker in session II was Ms. Juan Liu (Dongbei University of Finance and
Economics) and her topic entitled “An Assessment of the Business Environment in
Northeast China Based on Text Mining”.
She concluded that the combination of social issues, such as Business
Environment and Big Data was future research hotspot.
The second speaker in session II was Mr. HaoRan Wu (Nanjing University) and his topic named “Testing Adequacy of Smart Contracts on Blockchain”. He focused on the programmable part of the blockchain, the smart contract. Blockchain is a decentralized and distributed database. It is decentralization, transparency, autonomy, untouchable modification and anonymity. Finally, Mr. Wu believed that these mutation operators could help tester to discover potential errors in smart contracts and write more adequacy test cases to ensure the security of blockchain applications.
The
last speaker was Ms. Licai Lei (Xiangtan University) and her presentation was “Research
on the Impact of User’s Social Support Perception on Exercise Behaviours in
Social Network”. She used WeRun as
example that user could follow the account to see real-time walking data about
themselves and their friends, and they could give their friends a thumb-up
through a “step ranking”.
After
the session II, Dr. KS Chin and I took a photo with Prof. Xin Shi.
Finalized
the day 1 of IRC-SEMS2019, we joined a gala dinner. Firstly, Prof. Jing Zhou gave a welcome remark.
Then Prof. Kwok L Tsui thanked all staff for their contribution to the conference.
Many
research students and supervisors joined the dinner.
At
the end, all research students under Dr. KS Chin supervision were took a group
photo for memory.
Reference:
IRC-SEMS2019 - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/ircsems2019/
SEEM, CityU - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/
School of Management and
Engineering, Nanjing University - https://www.nju.edu.cn/en/7f/53/c7136a163667/page.psp
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