Lotfi Gaafar
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The American University in Cairo
Egypt
Biography
Lotfi Gaafar is a professor in the mechanical engineering department. He graduated in 1982 from Ain Shams University from the mechanical engineering department. He earned his MSc in 1989 from Arizona State University and his PhD in 1992 from Arizona State University
Research Interest
Automatic validation of simulation models , Applications of mixture designs in simulation studies, Control charts for autocorrelated data, Process mapping in business process reengineering
Publications
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Gaafar, L. and Masoud, S. 2005. “Genetic algorithms and simulated annealing for scheduling in agile manufacturing.†International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 43, No. 14, pp. 3069-3085.
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Gaafar, L. and Saad, K., 2007. "Factors Affecting National Technological Absorptive Capacity." Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems, pp. 492-501.
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Gaafar, L. and Masoud, S. 2005. “Genetic algorithms and simulated annealing for scheduling in agile manufacturing.†International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 43, No. 14, pp. 3069-3085.
