Professor Adel Hatamimarbini

Adel Hatami-Marbini joined Leicester Castle Business School (LCBS) at De Montfort University as a Professor in Business and Management in 2017. His research revolves around performance measurement, operations and supply chain management and operational research.

He holds a BSC and an MSc in Industrial Engineering and received his PhD in Economics and Management Sciences from Louvain School of Management (LSM) of Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. 

Adel also visited Aston Business School, Technical University of Ostrava, University of Seville, American University of Beirut and Virginia Tech.

He has published over 60 research papers in a variety of scholarly academic journals including European Journal of Operational Research (ABS List 4), Omega (ABS List 3), Expert Systems with Applications (ABS List 3) and Journal of the Operational Research Society (ABS List 3), among others and has regularly presented his work at various national and international conferences.

You can follow him on Twitter @hatamimarbini.

The Center for Enterprise and Innovation

Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development

Institute of Artificial Intelligence

Quantitative Modelling in Operations Management

Logistics and Transportation

Decision Support Systems (Optimisation, DEA, MCDM,…)

Performance Evaluation of Supply Chain Management

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Service Operations Management

Logistics and Transportation

Research Methodology

Strategic Management

Ph.D. in Economics & Management Sciences, Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, System & Productivity Management, Islamic Azad University, Iran

B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, Planning & System Analysis, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, De Montfort University, Leicester 

INFORMS Decision Analysis Society

INFORMS Optimization Society

The Operational Research Society UK

A. Hatami-Marbini, S. M. Sajadi, “Fuzzy Performance Evaluation for Network Structures” The Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference 2018 (APPC 2018), July 4-6, 2018, Seoul National University, South Korea.

A. Hatami-Marbini, S. M. Sajadi, “Benchmarking in supply chain management using DEA”, INFORMS International Conference, June 17-20, 2018, Taipei, Taiwan.

A. Hatami-Marbini, S. M. Sajadi, M. Alibeik, “A Malmquist productivity index for assessing photovoltaic program in Belgium”, Data Envelopment Analysis International Conference (DEAIC2018)-Innovative Management, June 14-16, 2018, Taipei, Taiwan.

A. Hatami-Marbini, “Dual-role factors for imprecise data envelopment analysis”, 21^st International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), July 17-21, 2017, Quebec City, Canada.

A. Hatami-Marbini, “Network DEA with common weights”, 15^th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, June 26-29, 2017, University of Economics, Prague, the Czech Republic.

A. Hatami-Marbini, A. Aldamak, S. Zolfaghari, "A FDH super-efficiency model", The OR Society OR58 Conference, 6-8 September 2016, Dennis Sciama Building, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Toloo, P. Agrell, "A facility location model using DEA", 28^th European Conference on Operational Research, 3-6 July 2016, Poznan, Poland.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Toloo, “A bi-objective data envelopment analysis model using a common set of weights”, 13^th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, 24-27 August 2015, Technische Universität (TU) Braunschweig, Germany.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Toloo, "A multiple criteria data envelopment analysis approach to a two-stage process", XIV European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (EWEPA2015), 15-18 June 2015, Helsinki, Finland.

A. Hatami-Marbini, A. Ebrahimnejad J. Ignatius, A fully fuzzified two-stage DEA, 2014 Informs Annual Meeting, 9–12 November 2014, San Francisco, California, USA,

A. Hatami-Marbini, S. Hekmat, "An integrated strategic DEA-based structure for supplier selection in supply chain management", 12^th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, 14-17 April 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A. Hatami-Marbini, F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, K. Gholami, Z. Ghelejbeigi, “Centralized resource reduction and target setting under DEA control”, 11^th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, 27-30 June 2013, Samsun, Turkey.

P. Khoshnevis, P. J. Agrell, A. Hatami-Marbini, Measuring and modelling productivity in education: state-of-the-art and research frontiers, 11^th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, 27-30 June 2013, Samsun, Turkey.

S. Saati, A. Hatami-Marbini, "Improving the computational complexity and weights dispersion in fuzzy DEA", Tenth International FLINS Conference on Uncertainty Modeling in Knowledge Engineering and Decision Making (FLINS2012), 27-29 August 2012, pp. 1070-1075, Istanbul, Turkey.

P. J. Agrell, A. Hatami-Marbini, A. H. Shokouhi, H. Shahriari "Robust analysis of network efficiency with imprecise data", North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW VII), 6-9 June 2012, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.

P. J. Agrell, A. Hatami-Marbini, "Frontier-based performance analysis models for supply chain management: State of the art and research directions", 41st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE), 23-25 October 2011, pp. 372-379, Los Angeles, California, USA.

A. Hatami-Marbini, A. Emrouznejad, P. J. Agrell, M. Tavana "Fuzzy efficiency metrics decomposition under price uncertainty", XII European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (EWEPA), 22-24 June 2011, Verona, Italy.

A. Hatami-Marbini, S. Saati. Measuring performance with common weights: network DEA, Neural Computing and Applications, 32 (2020) 3599–3617.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Toloo, "Data envelopment analysis models with ratio data: A revisit”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 133 (2019) 331-338.

A. Hatami-Marbini, S. Saati. Efficiency evaluation in two-stage data envelopment analysis under a fuzzy environment: A common-weights approach, Applied Soft Computing, 72 (2018), 156-165.

A. Hatami-Marbini, J. Pourmahmoud, E. Babazadeh, "A modified super-efficiency in the range directional model", Computers & Industrial Engineering, 120 (2018), 442-449.

A. Hatami-Marbini, S. Saati, S. M. Sajadi, "Efficiency analysis in two-stage structures using fuzzy data envelopment analysis", Central European Journal of Operations Research, 26 (4) (2018), 909-932.

A. Hatami-Marbini, Z. Ghelej Beigi, J.L Hougaard, K. Gholami, "Measurement of returns-to-scale using interval data envelopment analysis models", Computers & Industrial Engineering, 117 (2018), 94-107.

M. Toloo, E. Keshavarz, A. Hatami-Marbini. “Dual-role factors for imprecise data envelopment analysis”. Omega, 77 (2018), 15-31.

R. Khanjani Shiraz, A. Hatami-Marbini, A. Emrouznejad, H., Fukuyama, "Chance-constrained cost efficiency in data envelopment analysis model with random inputs and outputs", Operational Research: An International Journal (doi.org/10.1007/s12351-018-0378-1).

A. Hatami-Marbini, K. Gholami, P. J. Agrell, H., Fukuyama, P. Khoshnevis, "The role of multiplier bounds in fuzzy data envelopment analysis", Annals Operations Research, 1(250) (2017), 249-276.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Toloo, "An extended multiple criteria data envelopment analysis model", Expert Systems with Applications, 73 (2017), 201–219.

A. Hatami-Marbini, A. Ebrahimnejad, S. Lozano, "Fuzzy efficiency measures in data envelopment analysis using lexicographic multiobjective approach", Computers & Industrial Engineering, 105 (2017), 362-376.

A. Hatami-Marbini, F. Kangi, "An extension of fuzzy TOPSIS for a group decision making with an application to Tehran stock exchange", Applied Soft Computing, 52 (2017), 1084–1097.

A.  Hatami-Marbini, P. Agrell, M. Tavana, P. Khoshnevis, "A flexible cross-efficiency fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis model for sustainable sourcing", Journal of Cleaner Production, 142 (2017), 2761-2779.

J. Ignatius, A. Hatami-Marbini, A. Rahman, L. Dhamotharan, P. Khoshnevis, "A fuzzy decision support system for credit scoring", Neural Computing and Applications, DOI 10.1007/s00521-016-2592-1.

A. Aldamak, A. Hatami-Marbini, S. Zolfaghari, "Dual frontiers without convexity", Computers & Industrial Engineering, 101 (2016), 466–478.

J. Ignatius, M. Ghasemi, F. Zhang, A. Emrouznejad, A. Hatami-Marbini, “Carbon efficiency evaluation: An analytical framework using fuzzy DEA”. European Journal of Operational Research, 235 (2016), 428-440.

A. Hatami-Marbini, Z. Ghelej Beigi, H. Fukuyama, K. Gholami "Modelling centralized resources allocation and target setting in imprecise data envelopment analysis", International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 14(6) (2015), 1189-1213.

J. Pourmahmoud, A. Hatami-Marbini, E. Babazadeh, "A comment on a new super-efficiency model in the presence of negative data", Journal of the Operational Research Society, 67 (2015), 530-534.

J. Ignatius, M.-R. Ghasemi, A. Emrouznejad, S. Lozano, A. Hatami-Marbini, "A fuzzy expected value approach under generalized data envelopment analysis", Knowledge-Based Systems, 89 (2015), 148-159.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, P. J. Agrell, F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, Z. Ghelej Beigi, "A common-weights DEA model for centralized resource reduction and target setting", Computers & Industrial Engineering, 79 (2015), 195–203.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Rostamy-Malkhalifeh, P. J. Agrell, M. Tavana, F. Mohammadi, "Extended symmetric and asymmetric weight assignment methods in data envelopment analysis", Computers & Industrial Engineering, 87 (2015), 621–631.

A. Hadi-Vencheh, A. Hatami-Marbini, Z. Ghelej Beigi, K. Gholami, "An inverse optimization model for imprecise data envelopment analysis", Optimization, 64 (11) (2015), 2441-2454.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, K. Gholami, Z. Ghelej Beigi, “A bounded data envelopment analysis model in a fuzzy environment with an application to safety in the semiconductor industry”, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 164 (2015), 679–701.

M. Tavana, R. Khanjani Shiraz, A. Hatami-Marbini, "A new chance-constrained DEA model with birandom input and output data", Journal of the Operational Research Society, 65 (2014), 1824–1839.

A. Hatami-Marbini, A. Emrouznejad, P. J. Agrell, "Interval data without sign restrictions in DEA", Applied Mathematical Modelling, 38 (2014), 2028–2036.

A. H. Shokouhi, H. Shahriari, P. J. Agrell, A. Hatami-Marbini, "Consistent and robust ranking in imprecise data envelopment analysis under perturbations of random subsets of data", OR Spectrum, 36 (2014), 133–160.

P. J. Agrell, A. Hatami-Marbini, “Frontier-based performance analysis models for supply chain management: State of the art and research directions”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 66 (2013), 567–583.

M. Tavana, R. Khanjani Shiraz, A. Hatami-Marbini, P. J. Agrell, K. Paryab, "Chance-constrained DEA models with random fuzzy inputs and outputs", Knowledge-Based Systems, 52 (2013), 32-52.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, S. Saati, F. Kangi, "A fuzzy group linear programming technique for multidimensional analysis of preference", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 25 (2013), 723-735.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, V. Hajipour, F. Kangi, A. Kazemi, "An extended compromise ratio method for fuzzy multi-attribute group decision making problem with SWOT analysis", Applied Soft Computing, 13 (2013), 3459-3472.

A. Hatami-Marbini, P. J. Agrell, M. Tavana, A. Emrouznejad, "A stepwise fuzzy linear programming model with possibility and necessity relation", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 25 (2013), 81-93.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, P. J. Agrell, S. Saati, "Positive and normative use of Fuzzy DEA-BCC models: A critical view on NATO enlargement", International Transactions in Operational Research, 20 (2013), 411-433.

S. Saati, A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, P. J. Agrell, "A fuzzy data envelopment analysis for clustering operating units with imprecise data", International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 21 (1) (2013), 29–54.

F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, A. Hatami-Marbini, P. J. Agrell, N. Aghayi, K. Gholami, "Allocating fixed resources and setting targets using a common-weights DEA approach", Computers & Industrial Engineering, 64(2) (2013), 631-640.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, M. Moradi, F. Kangi, "A fuzzy group Electre method for safety and health assessment in hazardous waste recycling facilities", Safety Science, 51 (2013), 414-426.

A. Emrouznejad, M. Rostamy-Malkhalifeh, A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, "General and multiplicative non-parametric corporate performance models with interval ratio data", Applied Mathematical Modelling, 36(11) (2012), 5506-5514.

M. Tavana, R. Khanjani Shiraz, A. Hatami-Marbini, P. J. Agrell, K. Paryab, "Fuzzy stochastic data envelopment analysis with application to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)", Expert Systems with Applications, 39 (15) (2012), 12247-12259.

S. Saati, A. Hatami-Marbini, P. J. Agrell, M. Tavana, "A common set of weight approach using an ideal decision making unit in data envelopment analysis", Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, 8 (3) (2012), 623–637.

A. Emrouznejad, M. Rostamy-Malkhalifeh, A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, N. Aghayi, "An overall profit Malmquist productivity index with fuzzy and interval data", Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 54 (2012), 2827–2838.

A. Hatami-Marbini, A. Emrouznejad, M. Tavana, "A taxonomy and review of the fuzzy data envelopment analysis literature: Two decades in the making", European Journal of Operational Research, 214 (2012), 457–472.

M. Tavana, A. Hatami-Marbini, "A group AHP-TOPSIS framework for human spaceflight mission planning at NASA", Expert Systems with Applications, 38 (2011), 13588–13603.

A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, "An extension of the Electre I method for group decision-making under a fuzzy environment", Omega, 39(4) (2011), 373-386.

A. Hatami-Marbini, S. Saati, M. Tavana, "An ideal-seeking fuzzy data envelopment analysis framework", Applied Soft Computing, 10 (4), 1062–1070.

A. H. Shokouhi, A. Hatami-Marbini, M. Tavana, S. Saati, "A robust optimization approach to imprecise DEA", Computers & Industrial Engineering, 59 (3) (2010), 387–397.

I currently supervise three PhD students in addition to several master students at DMU and other universities.

Sustainability, inclusiveness and governance of mini-grids in Africa (SIGMA),Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), GCRF - Sustainable Energy and International Development: Beyond Technology),2020-2023, Co-investigator, Value £1.5M

Associate Editor:

• Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, (Springer, IF:3.535)
• IEEE Access (IF: 4.098)
• OR Spectrum (Springer, ABS3, IF:2.281)
• International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IGI)
•  International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (IGI)

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• Kybernetes (Emerald, IF: 0.81)

Reviewing activities for a variety of scholarly academic journals including Energy Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, OMEGA, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, INFOR, 4OR, Kybernetes, RAIRO - Operations Research among others.

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