Dr. J. (Jafar) Rezaei
Profile
Jafar Rezaei is an associate professor and Head of Section Transport and Logistics. He did his Ph.D. at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM), Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He has a background in Operations Research, and has published in several peer-reviewed journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supply Chain Management Science. In 2015, he developed the Best Worst Method (BWM).
Research
His main research interests are freight transport modeling and analysis, supply chain partnership, supplier selection and segmentation, multi-objective and multi-criteria decision-making.
He was named to the Highly Cited Researcher list (Web of Science) in 2020 and 2021.
- Multi-criteria Decision Analysis
2021-2022
Technology, Policy and Management MSc course
ECTS: 5 - Advanced Evaluation Methods for Transport Policy Decision-making
2019-2021
Master Complex Systems Engineering & Management
ECTS: 5
- Rezaei, J., Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method: Some properties and a linear model, Omega, Vol. 64, pp. 126-130.
- Rezaei, J., 2015. Best-Worst Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method, Omega, Vol. 53, pp. 49–57.
- Rezaei, J., 2015. A two-way approach to supply chain partner selection, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 53, Iss. 16, pp. 4888–4902.
- Rezaei, J., 2014. Economic order quantity for growing items, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 155, pp. 109–113.
- Geqie Sun; Topic: Behavioral decision-making; December 2021-present
- Weronika Gaska; Topic: Cancer treatment; November 2021-present
- Mohammad Satouri; Topic: Cancer treatment; September 2021-present
- Fuqi Liang; Topic: Best Worst Method, October 2017-December 2021
- Shahrzad Nikghadam; Topic: Port performance management; October 2017-present
- Kailan Wu, Topic: Green supply chain management; October 2017-present
- Patrick Fahim; Topic: Physical Internet; February 2017-present
- Wenhua Qu; Topic: Network optimization and synchromodality; January 2017-July 2021
- Alexander Onstein; Topic: Logistics distribution structure; September 2016-December 2021
- Kartika Nurhayati; Topic: Decision chain in supply chain management; October 2016-present
- Masoud Khakdaman; Topic: Synchromodality; March 2016-September 2021
- Karimah Wan Ahmad; Topic: Sustainable supply chain management in oil and gas industry; August 2012-September 2016
Conferences:
The conferences in which I have been co-organizer/reviewer:
- Stream Chair
26th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
26 June-1July 2022, Portsmouth, UK - Chair
The Third International Workshop on Best-Worst Method
09-10 June 2022, Delft, The Netherlands - Chair
The Second International Workshop on Best-Worst Method
10-11 June 2021, Delft, The Netherlands - Chair
The First International Workshop on Best-Worst Method
11-12 June 2020, Delft, The Netherlands - International Scientific Committee
Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas
02-03 September 2019, Gazimagusa, TRNC - Chair
The 87th conference of the EURO Working Group on Multi Criteria Decision Aiding
05-07 April 2018, Delft, The Netherlands - Program committee:
XIX International Conference on Systems Science
7-9 September 2016, Wrocław, Poland - Session co-organizer (organizing a special session together with Prof. Rommert Dekker on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making in Transportation and Logistics):
18th conference of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT2015)
14-16 July 2015, Delft, Netherlands - Review Committee:
2014 IEEE International Technology Management Conference & 20th ICE Conference
23-25 June 2014, Bergamo, Italy - Organizing committee and review committee:
2013 IEEE International Technology Management Conference & 19th ICE Conference
24-26 June 2013, The Hague, Netherlands
Editorial and Review Activities:
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, November 2019-present
- Editorial Board Member for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, November 2017-present
- Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supply Chain Management Science June 2019-present
- Guest Editor Journal of Air Transport Management (A special issue on the applications of MCDM in air transport and logistics) 2016-2017
- Editorial Board Member for Heliyon (published by Elsevier) May 2015-May 2018
Reviewer for (a selection):
- International Journal of Production Research
- International Journal of Production Economics
- Omega
- European Journal of Operational Research
- Journal of Operational Research Society
- IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
- Computers & Industrial Engineering
- Applied Mathematical Modeling
- Expert Systems with Applications
- Industrial Marketing Management
- International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
Books
- Rezaei, J., 2016. A matchmaking assignment model for supply chain partnership, In: H. Kotzab, J. Pannek, K.D. Thoben (Eds.), Dynamics in Logistics, pp. 577-586, Springer International Publishing. (ISBN: 978-3-319-23511-0
- Rezaei, J., and Ortt, R., 2012. Two multi-criteria approaches to supplier segmentation, In: J. Frick and B. Laugen (Eds.): APMS 2011, IFIP AICT 384, pp. 317–325, Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York. (ISBN: 978-3-642-33979-0)
- Davoodi, M., Mohades, A. and Rezaei, J., 2009. A genetic algorithm for the constrained coverage problem. In: J. Mehnen, M. Köppen, A. Saad and A. Tiwari (Eds.), Applications of Soft Computing, Vol. 58, pp. 347-356, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. (ISBN: 978-3-540-89618-0)
- Rezaei, J. and M. Davoodi, 2006. Genetic algorithm for inventory lot-sizing with supplier selection under fuzzy demand and costs, In: M. Ali and R. Dapoigny (Eds.), Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4031, pp. 1100-1110, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. (ISBN: 978-3-540-35453-6)
- Rezaei, J., 2006. Application of fuzzy AHP for determining the most important affecting factors on pistachio export, In: A. Javanshah, E. Facelli, M. Wirthensohn, Acta Horticulturae, No. 726, pp. 695-700, Tehran, Iran. (ISBN: 978-90-66057-09-8)
- Rezaei, J. and Davoodi, M., 2005. Multi-item fuzzy inventory model with three constraints: genetic algorithm approach. In: S. Zhang and R. Jarvis, Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3809, pp. 1120-1125, Springer Berlin/ Heidelberg. (ISBN: 978-3-540-30462-3)
Links

Jafar Rezaei
Associate Professor
- +31 15 27 81716
- J.Rezaei@tudelft.nl
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Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Building 31Room: B3.100
Department:
Engineering Systems and Services
Group:
Transport and Logistics
Secretary:
Cherelle Nieuwenhuis
Research interests:
Multi-criteria decision-making
Supply chain management
Inventory management
Freight transport
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