Faculty Member, PhD
Erfan Babaee Tırkolaee
Endüstri Mühendisliği
H-Index: 56
Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee obtained a BSc. (2012) and MSc. (2014) in Industrial Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in Isfahan, Iran. Then, he received a Ph.D. degree (2019) in Industrial Engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology in Babol, Iran. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee is currently an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istinye University in Istanbul, Turkey. Meanwhile, he worked as a Quality Assurance expert in some automotive industries in Iran and went through different relevant training courses like ISO 9001: 2015 and IATF 16949-2016. He has published more than 160 papers in high-quality journals, including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Waste Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Annals of Operations Research, etc. He has been serving as a chair, organizing, committee member as well as a keynote speaker in several prestigious international conferences. Moreover, he is a reviewer in many reputed WoS journals and has been recognized as a Top Peer Reviewer in 2 of the Essential Science Indicators research areas by Clarivate WoS. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems (IEEE), Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer), Editorial Board Member of Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical Engineering (University of Niš), Academic Editor of PLOS One (PLOS), Associate Editor of the Journal of Dynamics and Games (AIMS), and Editorial Advisory Board member of Management Decision (Emerald). He has also been serving on the guest editorial board in several journals such as Annals of Operations Research (Springer) and Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer). Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee has been featured among the "World’s Top 2% Researchers/Scientists in 2021 - 2023" list identified by Elsevier BV, Stanford University.
Araştırma Alanları
- Waste Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Solution Algorithms
- Industrial Engineering
- Operations Research
- Fuzzy Programming
- Robust Optimization
Çalışma Alanları
- Mühendislik Temel Alanı
- Endüstri Mühendisliği
- Modelleme ve Optimizasyon
- Tedarik Zinciri Yönetimi
- Çok kriterli Karar verme
- A hybrid fuzzy decision-making approach for evaluating the suppliers based on industry 5.0 and viable supply chain dimensions: a case study in medical devices manufacturing , 2025
- Plithogenic fuzzy graph: A study of fundamental properties and potential applications, 2025
- Optimizing energy consumption for blockchain adoption through renewable energy sources, 2025
- Selection of Internet of Things-enabled sustainable real-time monitoring strategies for manufacturing processes using a disc spherical fuzzy Schweizer–Sklar aggregation model, 2025
- Evaluating the performance of countries in COVID-19 management: A data-driven decision-making and clustering, 2025
- Assessing the industry 4.0 strategies for a steel supply chain: SWOT, game theory, and gap analysis, 2025
- Product tracing or component tracing? Blockchain adoption in a two-echelon supply chain management, 2025
- RELIABILITY PREDICTION AND PROCESS PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION OF WELDED JOINTS: ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AND FUZZY LOGIC, 2025
- An intelligent predictive framework for consumer returns forecasting: Leveraging social media data in the electronics service industry, 2025
- Towards waste management 5.0: A nexus between circular economy and industry 5.0 dimensions, 2025
- A multi-stage machine learning model to design a sustainable-resilient-digitalized pharmaceutical supply chain, 2025
- Picture fuzzy compromise ranking of alternatives using distance-to-ideal-solution approach for selecting blockchain technology platforms in logistics firms, 2025
- Assessing the viability of blockchain technology in renewable energy supply chains: A consolidation framework, 2025
- Assessment of agricultural sustainability in agro-climatic regions of India: A single-valued neutrosophic distance measure-based hybrid ranking framework, 2025
- Pythagorean fuzzy comprehensive distance-based ranking approach for assessing industry 4.0 adoption strategies in the automotive manufacturing sector, 2025
- Intercity Road Transportation Assessment: Double-Frontier Q-Cross-Efficiency Method, 2025
- A novel two-stage fuzzy classification method with different weight permutations for optimal GIS-based placement of wellness and sports centers, 2025
- Blockchain-enabled healthcare supply chain management: Identification and analysis of barriers and solutions based on improved zero-sum hesitant fuzzy game theory, 2025
- Incorporation of prospect theory into double-frontier cross-efficiency: a case study of Iranian airline, 2025
- Viable supplier selection problem based on Industry 5.0 and circular economy aspects: a hybrid decision-making approach, 2025
- DeepEMPR: coffee leaf disease detection with deep learning and enhanced multivariance product representation, 2024
- A Novel Solution Approach Based on Dominance Evaluation Measure for Project Scheduling in Multi-Project Environments, 2024
- Efficiency-sustainability models to assess blockchain adoption strategies with uncertainty in the oil and gas sector, 2024
- Evaluating manufacturing plants readiness for distributed ledger technology: a network framework for ambiguity levels, 2024
- Enhancing the productivity of mould shop using continuous improvement tools and simulation, 2024
- Sustainable Development of Industrial Engineering with the Application of Intelligent Systems, 2024
- Addressing barriers to big data implementation in sustainable smart cities: Improved zero-sum grey game and grey best-worst method, 2024
- Circular–Sustainable–Reliable Waste Management System Design: A Possibilistic Multi-Objective Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Model, 2024
- Circular Economy Practices in the Context of Emerging Economies, 2024
- Evaluating the performance of metaheuristic-tuned weight agnostic neural networks for crop yield prediction, 2024
- Applications and Emerging Trends of Blockchain Technology in Marketing to Develop Industry 5.0 Businesses: A Comprehensive Survey and Network Analysis, 2024
- Evaluation of risk strategies for supply chain sustainability with interval-valued neutrosophic fuzzy EDAS, 2024
- A variant-informed decision support system for tackling COVID-19: a transfer learning and multi-attribute decision-making approach, 2024
- Local core expanding-based label diffusion and local deep embedding for fast community detection algorithm in social networks, 2024
- A multi-objective optimization approach for resource allocation and transportation planning in institutional quarantine centres, 2024
- Similarity coefficient and TOPSIS methods for designing flexible machine cell layout: a case study of electrical and electronic industries, 2024
- Uncovering pathways towards sustainable transportation: Investigating factors influencing societal acceptance of end-of-life vehicle management in Indonesia, 2024
- Single-vendor single-buyer multi-product economic production quantity problem with stochastic constraints: a modified generalized elimination method, 2024
- A novel hybrid decision-making framework based on modified fuzzy analytic network process and fuzzy best–worst method, 2024
- Identification of optimal waste-to-energy strategies for sustainable development in Iran: SWOT analysis, hybrid MCDM methods, and game theory, 2024
- Effect of augmented reality applications on attitude and behaviours of customers: cognitive and affective perspectives, 2024
- Integrated design of a sustainable waste management system with co-modal transportation network: A robust bi-level decision support system, 2024
- Circular closed-loop supply chain network design considering 3D printing and PET bottle waste, 2024
- A novel parallel heuristic method to design a sustainable medical waste management system, 2024
- Sustainability performance assessment of freight transportation modes using an integrated decision-making framework based on m-generalized q-neutrosophic sets, 2024
- Evaluating the performance of intercity road freight transport: Double-frontier parallel network cross-efficiency model, 2024
- Designing a Sustainable Water Supply Strategy through Biobjective Mixed-Integer Linear Programming: A Case Study on Gaza, 2024
- Benchmarking of industrial wastewater treatment processes using a complex probabilistic hesitant fuzzy soft Schweizer–Sklar prioritized-based framework, 2024
- Crafting efficient blockchain adoption strategies under risk and uncertain environments, 2024
- Traveling salesman problem with drone and bicycle: multimodal last‐mile e‐mobility, 2024
- Designing a reliable-sustainable supply chain network: adaptive m-objective ε-constraint method, 2024
- Innovative supply chain network design with two-step authentication and environmentally-friendly blockchain technology, 2024
- The combined effects of interest and inflation rates on inventory systems: A comparative analysis across countries, 2024
- Brain tumor segmentation based on optimized convolutional neural network and improved chimp optimization algorithm, 2024
- Cell formation and layout design using genetic algorithm and TOPSIS: A case study of Hydraulic Industries State Company, 2024
- A Bioinspired Test Generation Method Using Discretized and Modified Bat Optimization Algorithm, 2024
- A novel cross-docking EOQ-based model to optimize a multi-item multi-supplier multi-retailer inventory management system, 2024
- Assessing and selecting sustainable refrigerated road vehicles in food logistics using a novel multi-criteria group decision-making model, 2024
- Predicting Water Quality With Non-stationarity: Event-Triggered Deep Fuzzy Neural Network, 2024
- An intelligent decision support system for warranty claims forecasting: Merits of social media and quality function deployment, 2024
- Blood supply chain network design with lateral freight: A robust possibilistic optimization model, 2024
- A bi-level decision-making system to optimize a robust-resilient-sustainable aggregate production planning problem, 2023
- Recent advances in viable and sustainable supply chain management, 2023
- Efficiency analysis technique with input and output satisficing approach based on Type-2 Neutrosophic Fuzzy Sets: A case study of container shipping companies, 2023
- Sustainable route selection of petroleum transportation using a type-2 neutrosophic number based ITARA-EDAS model, 2023
- Brain tumor segmentation of MRI images: A comprehensive review on the application of artificial intelligence tools, 2023
- Breast tumor localization and segmentation using machine learning techniques: Overview of datasets, findings, and methods, 2023
- Designing a portfolio-based closed-loop supply chain network for dairy products with a financial approach: Accelerated Benders decomposition algorithm, 2023
- Evaluating the Sustainability of Fashion Brands Using a Neutrosophical ORESTE Approach, 2023
- A DEA-based simulation-optimisation approach to design a resilience plasma supply chain network: a case study of the COVID-19 outbreak, 2023
- An integrated decision support framework for resilient vaccine supply chain network design, 2023
- Discovering the secret behind managing WEEE: Deep learning method in the industry 4.0, 2023
- Sustainable transportation planning considering traffic congestion and uncertain conditions, 2023
- Industry readiness measurement for circular supply chain implementation: an Irish dairy industry perspective, 2023
- ETACM: an encoded-texture active contour model for image segmentation with fuzzy boundaries, 2023
- Recent Advances of Solutions Algorithms for Logistics Routing Problems, 2023
- Sustainable Global Supply Chain Management from an International Perspective, 2023
- Logistics and Operations Modelling and Optimization for Sustainable Supply Chain, 2023
- Preface: advances of machine learning and optimization in healthcare systems and medicine, 2023
- Identifying and prioritizing resilient health system units to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023
- Technical challenges of blockchain technology for sustainable manufacturing paradigm in Industry 4.0 era using a fuzzy decision support system, 2023
- Intuitionistic fuzzy power Aczel-Alsina model for prioritization of sustainable transportation sharing practices, 2023
- A sustainable-circular citrus closed-loop supply chain configuration: Pareto-based algorithms, 2023
- An integrated decision support system to achieve sustainable development in transportation routes with traffic flow, 2023
- A decision support framework to evaluate the sustainability performance of urban road transportation, 2023
- DeepFND: an ensemble-based deep learning approach for the optimization and improvement of fake news detection in digital platform, 2023
- Designing an integrated blockchain-enabled supply chain network under uncertainty, 2023
- A Systematic Literature Review of MABAC Method and Applications: An Outlook for Sustainability and Circularity, 2023
- ME-CCNN: Multi-encoded images and a cascade convolutional neural network for breast tumor segmentation and recognition, 2023
- Business process optimization for trauma planning, 2023
- Critical success factors of lean six sigma to select the most ideal critical business process using q-ROF CRITIC-ARAS technique: Case study of food business, 2023
- A robust Tri-Objective optimization to supply chain configuration under Vendor-Managed inventory policy considering supply chain visibility, 2023
- A parallel heuristic for hybrid job shop scheduling problem considering conflict-free AGV routing, 2023
- Neutrosophic LOPCOW-ARAS model for prioritizing industry 4.0-based material handling technologies in smart and sustainable warehouse management systems, 2023
- Evaluating and selecting sustainable logistics service providers for medical waste disposal treatment in the healthcare industry, 2023
- Agile supply chain management based on critical success factors and most ideal risk reduction strategy in the era of industry 4.0: application to plastic industry, 2023
- The q-rung fuzzy LOPCOW-VIKOR model to assess the role of unmanned aerial vehicles for precision agriculture realization in the Agri-Food 4.0 era, 2023
- Neutrosophic CEBOM-MACONT model for sustainable management of end-of-life tires, 2023
- A data-driven model for sustainable and resilient supplier selection and order allocation problem in a responsive supply chain: A case study of healthcare system, 2023
- Industry 5.0 implications for inclusive sustainable manufacturing: An evidence-knowledge-based strategic roadmap, 2023
- A robust optimization model to design an IoT-based sustainable supply chain network with flexibility, 2023
- A multi-phase decision-making approach for supplier selection and order allocation with corporate social responsibility, 2023
- Optimizing the dam site selection problem considering sustainability indicators and uncertainty: An integrated decision-making approach, 2023
- Designing an efficient humanitarian supply chain network during an emergency: A scenario-based multi-objective model, 2023
- Reuse intention of augmented reality apps: recreational consciousness as moderator, 2023
- Generalized vehicle routing problem: Contemporary trends and research directions, 2023
- Improving audit opinion prediction accuracy using metaheuristics-tuned XGBoost algorithm with interpretable results through SHAP value analysis, 2023
- Prioritizing highway safety improvement projects using a stochastic optimization model with robust constraints, 2023
- A systematic review of aggregate production planning literature with an outlook for sustainability and circularity, 2022
- A Hybrid Biobjective Markov Chain Based Optimization Model for Sustainable Aggregate Production Planning, 2022
- Circular economy application in designing sustainable medical waste management systems, 2022
- Preface to the Special Issue on Computational Performance Analysis based on Novel Intelligent Methods: Exploration and Future Directions in Production and Logistics, 2022
- A robust time-cost-quality-energy-environment trade-off with resource-constrained in project management: A case study for a bridge construction project, 2022
- A novel model for sustainable waste collection arc routing problem: Pareto-based algorithms, 2022
- A neutrosophic approach to evaluate the factors affecting performance and theory of sustainable supply chain management: application to textile industry, 2022
- MODELLING AND PREDICTING THE GROWTH DYNAMICS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A COMPARATIVE STUDY INCLUDING TURKEY, 2022
- Performance Evaluation of Omni-Channel Distribution Network Configurations considering Green and Transparent Criteria under Uncertainty, 2022
- A Deep Learning Approach for Robust, Multi-oriented, and Curved Text Detection, 2022
- An integrated methodology for green human resource management in construction industry, 2022
- An integrated multi-criteria decision-making approach to optimize the number of leagile-sustainable suppliers in supply chains , 2022
- A socio-economic optimization model for blood supply chain network design during the COVID-19 pandemic: An interactive possibilistic programming approach for a real case study, 2022
- A parallel hybrid PSO-GA algorithm for the flexible flow-shop scheduling with transportation, 2022
- Appointment Scheduling Problem under Fairness Policy in Healthcare Services: Fuzzy Ant Lion Optimizer, 2022
- A Fuzzy Profit Maximization Model using Communities Viable Leaders for Information Diffusion in Dynamic Drivers Collaboration Networks, 2022
- Integrated design of sustainable supply chain and transportation network using a fuzzy bi-level decision support system for perishable products, 2022
- Evaluating the impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on supply chain risks by modified failure mode and effects analysis: a case study in an automotive company, 2022
- An extended robust mathematical model to project the course of COVID-19 epidemic in Iran, 2022
- Designing a sustainable closed-loop supply chain network of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic: Pareto-based algorithms, 2022
- A closed-loop supply chain configuration considering environmental impacts: a self-adaptive NSGA-II algorithm, 2022
- Development of Dynamic Balanced Scorecard Using Case-Based Reasoning Method and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System, 2022
- An augmented Tabu search algorithm for the green inventory-routing problem with time windows, 2021
- Sustainable fuzzy multi-trip location-routing problem for medical waste management during the COVID-19 outbreak, 2021
- Fuzzy Integrated Cell Formation and Production Scheduling Considering Automated Guided Vehicles and Human Factors, 2021
- An Integration of Neural Network and Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm for CNC Machining Monitoring, 2021
- A sustainable medical waste collection and transportation model for pandemics, 2021
- Using a Process Approach to Pandemic Planning: A Case Study, 2021
- A sustainable hybrid manufacturing/remanufacturing system with two-way substitution and WEEE directive under different market conditions, 2021
- Application of Machine Learning in Supply Chain Management: A Comprehensive Overview of the Main Areas, 2021
- Multi-Objective Optimization for Healthcare Waste Management Network Design with Sustainability Perspective, 2021
- The stochastic location-routing-inventory problem of perishable products with reneging and balking, 2021
- Sport Performance Analysis with a Focus on Racket Sports: A Review, 2021
- A fuzzy multi-objective optimization model for sustainable closed-loop supply chain network design in food industries, 2021
- An extended approach to the diagnosis of tumour location in breast cancer using deep learning, 2021
- The time-dependent multi-depot fleet size and mix green vehicles routing problem: improved adaptive large neighbourhood search, 2021
- Analyzing failures in adoption of smart technologies for medical waste management systems: a type-2 neutrosophic-based approach, 2021
- A novel two-echelon hierarchical location-allocation-routing optimization for green energy-efficient logistics systems, 2021
- A Novel Approach for Group Decision Making Based on the Best-Worst Method (G-BWM): Application to Supply Chain Management, 2021
- Application of Industry 4.0 in the Procurement Processes of Supply Chains: A Systematic Literature Review, 2021
- An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Green Supplier Selection in an Agri-Food Supply Chain: Threshold of Robustness Worthiness, 2021
- A novel hybrid method using fuzzy decision making and multi-objective programming for sustainable-reliable supplier selection in two-echelon supply chain design, 2020
- Evaluation of green and sustainable supply chain management using structural equation modelling: A systematic review of the state of the art literature and recommendations for future research, 2020
- Multi-objective optimization for the reliable pollution-routing problem with cross-dock selection using Pareto-based algorithms, 2020
- Fuzzy Mathematical Programming and Self-Adaptive Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm for Just-in-Time Energy-Aware Flow Shop Scheduling Problem With Outsourcing Option, 2020
- Big Data-Driven Cognitive Computing System for Optimization of Social Media Analytics, 2020
- Foundations of semialgebraic gene-environment networks, 2020
- A robust green location-allocation-inventory problem to design an urban waste management system under uncertainty, 2020
- A robust bi-objective mathematical model for disaster rescue units allocation and scheduling with learning effect, 2020
- A Self-Learning Particle Swarm Optimization for Robust Multi-Echelon Capacitated Location–Allocation–Inventory Problem, 2019
- An improved ant colony optimization for the multi-trip Capacitated Arc Routing Problem, 2019
- A hybrid augmented ant colony optimization for the multi-trip capacitated arc routing problem under fuzzy demands for urban solid waste management, 2019
- A multi-objective invasive weed optimization algorithm for robust aggregate production planning under uncertain seasonal demand, 2019
- Multi-objective multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem using Pareto-based algorithms, 2019
- Investigation of off-grid photovoltaic systems for a reverse osmosis desalination system: A case study, 2019
- A robust just-in-time flow shop scheduling problem with outsourcing option on subcontractors, 2019
- A robust green traffic‐based routing problem for perishable products distribution, 2019
- Robust optimization and mixed-integer linear programming model for LNG supply chain planning problem, 2019
- A robust bi-objective multi-trip periodic capacitated arc routing problem for urban waste collection using a multi-objective invasive weed optimization, 2019
- Developing an applied algorithm for multi-trip vehicle routing problem with time windows in urban waste collection: A case study, 2019
- Stable maintenance tasks scheduling: A bi-objective robust optimization model, 2019
- A robust periodic capacitated arc routing problem for urban waste collection considering drivers and crew’s working time, 2018
- A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Trip Green Capacitated Arc Routing Problem in the Scope of Urban Services, 2018
- A robust multi-trip vehicle routing problem of perishable products with intermediate depots and time windows, 2017
- A robust-reliable aggregate production planning problem considering operations failure under uncertainty,
- Hazardous Material Logistic Network Design Based on Vehicle Routing Problem using Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm., 2020
- Multi-objective Optimization for Two-echelon Green Routing Problem with Intermediate Depots in Perishable Product Distribution, 2018
- A DECISION-MAKING APPROACH TO ESTABLISH A SUSTAINABLE- CIRCULAR WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF ISTINYE UNIVERSITY,
- Enhancing the Performance of Engineering Projects Considering Future Uncertainty: The Case Study of Centralized,
- Multi-objective Aggregate Production Planning Model Considering Overtime and Outsourcing Options Under Fuzzy Seasonal Demand,
- A perishable product supply chain network-design problem with lead time and customer satisfaction using a hybrid whale-genetic algorithm,
- A novel formulation for the sustainable periodic waste collection arc-routing problem: A hybrid multi-objective optimization algorithm,
- Sustainable Aggregate Production Planning with Overtime, Outsourcing and Human Factors under Uncertain Seasonal Demand,
- Sustainable-robust aggregate production planning considering workforce satisfaction, 2021
- A Robust Two-Echelon Periodic Multi-commodity RFID-Based Location Routing Problem to Design Petroleum Logistics Networks: A Case Study,
- A novel multi-objective model for sustainable-robust aggregate production planning problem , 2022
- Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology (Second International Conference, SEMIT , Ankara, Turkey, Proceedings, Part-II), ISBN: 978-3-031-72287-5, 2024
- Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology (Second International Conference, SEMIT , Ankara, Turkey, Proceedings, Part-I), ISBN: 978-3-031-72284-4, 2024
- Sustainable Production and Consumption Systems, ISBN: 978-981-16-4760-4, 2021
- Application of Mathematics and Optimization in Construction Project Management, ISBN: 978-3-030-81123-5, 2021
- Advances of Artificial Intelligence in a Green Energy Environment, ISBN: 978-0-323-89785-3, 2022
- Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology (First International Conference, SEMIT 2022, Ankara, Turkey, September 8-9, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II), ISBN: 978-3-031-40398-9, 2023
- Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology (First International Conference, SEMIT 2022, Ankara, Turkey, February 2–3, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part I), ISBN: 978-3-031-40395-8, 2023
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management (7th International Conference, LSCM 2020, Tehran, Iran, December 23-24, 2020, Revised Selected Papers), ISBN: 978-3-030-89743-7, 2021
- Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology, ISBN: 978-3-031-40395-8, 2023
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management, ISBN: 978-3-642-33857-1, 2021
- Logistics Operations and Management for Recycling and Reuse, ISBN: 978-3-642-33857-1, 2020
- Logistics Operations and Management for Recycling and Reuse, ISBN: 978-3-642-33857-1, 2020
- Advances in Manufacturing II, ISBN: 978-3-030-18788-0, 2019
- PhD Thesis Award, 2021
- Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award (Runner-up), 2023
- International Journal of Production Research’s top 2% of reviewers for 2023, 2023
- WM&R Rising Star Award 2022, 2022
- World’s Top 2% Researchers/Scientists in 2022&2023&2024, 2024