Contents Welcome 1 Message 2 Organizers & Committees Program 6 Overview 13 11-Dec 27 12-Dec 47 Abstracts 126 Author Index Conference Venue SUNTEC Singapore Plenaries 1 Raffles Boulevard, Suntec City, 8 Workshop Singapore 039593 9 Keynotes Tel: +65 6337 2888 General Info 5 Venue Layout 11 Presenter Guides 12 Conference Dinner 131 Contacts & Tel Singapore Guide 132 Getting to SUNTEC 133 Transportation in Singapore 134 Singapore Mass Rapid Transit Map 135 Experience Singapore Welcome Message Dear Participants, A very warm welcome to you to the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM2017) to be held from 10-13 December 2017 in Singapore. Some eleven years ago, the first IEEM was held in Singapore in 2007. We were encouraged by the support and enthusiasm of our colleagues in Asia and had organized the conference every year without fail since then. It has grown into a high-quality conference in the fields of industry engineering and engineering management, with participants from all corners of the world. For this we are very gratefully to authors, reviewers, participants, and also our co-hosts in Hong Kong, Macau, Bali, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur during this period. We can now confidently say that IEEM brings together the community’s most innovative thinkers and dynamic researchers from around the world to share the latest research findings in industrial engineering and engineering management. This year, IEEM2017 received nearly 1000 submissions from more than 50 countries. As in the past, each paper was sent to at least three reviewers. The acceptance decisions were based on at least two consistent recommendations, ensuring the quality and standard of the conference. These papers, organized around 20 topics, will be presented in oral and poster sessions. We are also privileged to have with us two distinguished speakers to deliver the keynote presentations: Professor Andy Neely, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, will present on “Rethinking Operations Strategy in an Age of Digital Manufacturing”. Professor Benjamin W. Wah, Provost and Wei Lun Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, will discuss on “Using Kernels to Harness the Complexity of Big Data.” We are also honored to have Professor Jianjun Shi, editor-in-chief of IISE Transactions, who is also the Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, to run a workshop on “How to Publish in Top Journals”. We would like to thank all authors and participants for their interests, contributions and continued support to IEEM. Lastly, we are also grateful to the technical program committee members and reviewers for their help in the review process. Have a fruitful conference, and we hope that you will enjoy the cultural experiences of Singapore. Arnoud DE MEYER, General Chair Singapore Management University, Singapore Kah Hin CHAI, Organizing Chair National University of Singapore, Singapore Roger JIAO, Organizing Chair Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Nan CHEN, Program Chair National University of Singapore, Singapore Min XIE, Program Chair City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 1 Organizers & Committees General Chair Technical Program Committee Chuang-Chun CHIOU Arnoud DE MEYER Dotun ADEBANJO Tunghai University, Taiwan Singapore Management University, University of Greenwich, Singapore United Kingdom Thierry COUDERT University of Toulouse, France Organizing Chairs Michel ALDANONDO Kah Hin CHAI Toulouse University / IMT-Mines Albi, Rob DEKKERS National University of Singapore, France University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Singapore Hisham ALIDRISI Magdalena DIERING Roger JIAO King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabi Poznan University of Technology, Poland Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Teresa ALVAREZ Martin DROZDA University of Valladolid, Spain Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia Program Chairs (Slovak Republic) Nan CHEN Elita AMRINA National University of Singapore, Andalas University, Indonesia Ahmed EL-BOURI Singapore Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Yonas Zewdu AYELE Min XIE Østfold University College, Norway Alireza FARAZ City University of Hong Kong, University of Applied Sciences Upper Hong Kong SAR Ana Paula BARROSO Austria, Austria UNIDEMI, Faculty of Science and Publication Chair Technology, New University of Lisbon, Fabio GONTIJO Anil K. VARMA Portugal UNIPAM, Brazil Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore Ibrahim Mujdat BASARAN Xiuzhu GU Members Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Songlin CHEN Nanyang Technological University, Philipp BAUMANN Aldy GUNAWAN Singapore University of Bern, Switzerland Singapore Management University, Singapore Carmen Ka Man LEE Zhiqiang CAI Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Indra GUNAWAN Hong Kong SAR China The University of Adelaide, Australia Seung Ki MOON Ayon CHAKRABORTY Rika Ampuh HADIGUNA Nanyang Technological University, Indian Institute of Management Andalas University, Indonesia Singapore Tiruchirapalli, India Siana HALIM Szu Hui NG Paul CHANG Petra Christian University, Indonesia National University of Singapore, National Changhua University of Singapore Education, Taiwan Budi HARTONO Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Zhisheng YE Sheng-Hung CHANG National University of Singapore, Minghsin University of Science and Markus HARTONO Singapore Technology, Taiwan University of Surabaya, Indonesia Mu-Chen CHEN Takashi HASUIKE National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Waseda University, Japan Shin-Guang CHEN Jishnu HAZRA Tungnan University, Taiwan Indian Institute of Management, India Xiao-li CHEN Yihai HE Chemnitz University of Technology, Beihang University (BUAA), China Germany 2 Organizers & Committees Yu-Hsiang HSIAO Yan-Fu LI Luis A. MONCAYO-MARTINEZ National Taipei University, Taiwan Tsinghua University, China Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), Mexico Qingpei HU Wenzhu LIAO Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Chongqing University, China Egon MUELLER Chemnitz University of Technology, Chi-Cheng HUANG SC Johnson LIM Germany Aletheia University, Taiwan Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia Indrajit MUKHERJEE Chin-Yu HUANG Bengal Engineering & Science University, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Chen-ju LIN India Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Lars HVAM Ipseeta NANDA Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Chu-Ti LIN Silicon Institute of Technology, India National Chiayi University, Taiwan Supachart IAMRATANAKUL Malick NDIAYE Kasetsart University, Thailand Danping LIN AUS, United Arab Emirates Shanghai Maritime University, China Shinji INOUE Dinh Son NGUYEN Kansai University, Japan Tyrone T. LIN University of Science and Technology, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan The University of Danang, Viet Nam Ville ISOHERRANEN University of Oulu, Finland Weidong LIN Tatsushi NISHI Singapore Institute of Technology, Osaka University, Japan Raja JAYARAMAN Singapore Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates Sanjay Kumar PALEI Yiliu LIU Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Parminder Singh KANG Norwegian University of Science and Varanasi, India De Montfort University, United Kingdom Technology, Norway Naraphorn PAOPRASERT Muhammad Waris Ali KHAN Mei-Chen LO Kasetsart University, Thailand Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia National United University, Taiwan Jennifer PERCIVAL Hadi KHORSHIDI Huitian LU University of Ontario Institute of Monash University, Australia South Dakota State University, Technology, Canada United States Murat KUCUKVAR Alan PILKINGTON Qatar University, Qatar Virginia MACHADO University of Westminster, UNIDEMI, FCT-UNL, Portugal United Kingdom Chien-Liang KUO Chinese Culture University, Taiwan Jukka MAJAVA Jan Harm PRETORIUS Industrial Engineering and Management / University of Johannesburg, Yong-Hong KUO University of Oulu, Finland South Africa The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR Viliam MAKIS Kit Fai PUN University of Toronto, Canada University of the West Indies, Trinidad C.K. KWONG and Tobago The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Anas MAKKI China King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia Anisur RAHMAN Griffith University, Australia Carmen Ka Man LEE Harekrishna MISRA Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Institute of Rural Management Anand, Parthasarathy RAMACHANDRAN Kong SAR India Indian Institute of Science, India Jun-Der LEU Lars MOENCH R.M. Chandima RATNAYAKE National Central University, Taiwan University of Hagen, Germany University of Stavanger, Norway 3 Organizers & Committees Fernando ROMERO David VALIS University of Minho, Portugal University of Defence, Czech Republic Mojahid Saeed OSMAN Elise VAREILLES American University of Sharjah, United Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines Albi, Arab Emirates France, Metropolitan Tomoko SAIKI Enrico VEZZETTI SAIKI PATENT, Japan Politecnico di Torino, Italy Kin Meng SAM Ari WIDYANTI University of Macau, China Industrial Engineering Dept. ITB, Indonesia Karthik SANKARANARAYANAN Seng Fat WONG University of Ontario Institute of University of Macau, Macau Technology, Canada Haiyan XU Kiyoshi SAWADA Institute of High Performance Computing, University of Marketing and Distribution Singapore Sciences, Japan Alice YALAOUI Mohammad SHAMSUZZAMAN University of Technology of Troyes, France University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Bingwen YAN Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Nagesh SHUKLA South Africa University of Technology Sydney, Australia Jun YANG Ali SIADAT Beihang University,