Brunel University London

Brunel University London is a dynamic institution with over 15,000 students and nearly 900 academic staff with total staff numbers in excess of 2400 operating in a vibrant culture of research excellence.

As a research intensive school, Brunel Business School was placed in the top 25% of UK Business Schools. The School has six research centers, generating high quality outputs in the form of key publications, research income (five ongoing EU FP7 projects as well as other numerous international grants).

The School currently has around 75 full-time academic members of staff and about 150 PhD students supported by some 30 administrators.

Professor Habin Lee will be the coordinator of the project and will lead task 2.3 and task 2.5 for developing simulator and integration.

Professor Chris Pitelis will lead the literature review (T1.1) and train TSAT staffs on sustainable eco-system.

Prof Zahir Irani will contribute to task 2.3 and task 2.5 on the design of user scenarios of the simulator from operational management perspective.

Prof Lee is a chair of data analytics and operations management at Brunel Business School. He is an expert of computer simulation based on multi-agent systems, fuzzy cognitive maps, and dynamic modelling.

Prof Pitelis is expert in sustainable eco-system. He is interested in the sustainability of value and wealth creation and capture by business organisations and nations in today’s semi-globalised knowledge-based economy.

Prof Irani has research interests I sustainable business operation applying information systems.

Mr Marios Pournaris, Ms Saowanit Lekhavat, Mr Suleyman Kastafa, and Mr Oluwakayode Aluko are working on Ph D degrees in sustainable operations management in Brunel Business School.

Mr Pournaris and Mr Aluko are working on adoption of green information systems and green practices in organizational context.

Ms Lekhavat and Mr Kastafa are interested in simulation based optimization techniques reducing CO2 emissions from buildings and transportation logistics.

• State of the Art newly built Eastern Gateway Building with new offices equipped with computer, networks, telephones, photocopiers accessible by all members of staff;
• Weekly school seminars and staff development programmes of the University;

Brunel University owns its research premises and is wholly independent from other beneficiaries and/or partner organisations in the consortium.

• LiveCity (CIP297291, ~Nov 2014) / LEAP (EU FP5 ICT)
• SEBASE (UK Government, EPSRC, EP/D050863/1)
• Humanitarian Supply Chain Management for Disaster Relief in Iran (UK Government, ESRC, RES-067-27-0027)
• UbiPOL (INFSO248010, ~Mar 2013)
• CEES (IAPP230658, ~Mar 2013)

• MINI-CHIP ( IAPP611693, ~Sep 2017)
• DAREED (ICT609082, ~Aug 2016)
• Policy Compass (ICT612133, ~Sep 2016)
• CLOUD-VAS (SME instrument)

• Mansouri, A., Lee, H., and Aluko, O., (201x) Multi-objective decision support to enhance sustainability in maritime shipping, Transportation Research Part E (IF 2.193, ABS 3), doi:10.1016/j.tre.2015.01.012.
• Lee, KC., Lee, N. and Lee, H., (2012) Multi-agent knowledge integration mechanism using particle swarm optimization, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 79 (3) : 469- 484
• Lagravinese, R., Moscone, F., Tosetti, E., Lee, H. (2014). The impact of air pollution on hospital admissions: Evidence from Italy. Regional Science and Urban Economics (ABS 3, SSCI, IF 1.628), 49: pp. 278 - 85, DOI:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco. 2014.06.003
• Osman, I., Anouze, A.L., Irani, Z., Lee, H., Balci, A., Medeni, T., Weerakkody, V. (2014) COBRA Framework to Evaluate E-Governent Services: A Citizen- Centric Perspective, Government Information Quarterly, 31 (2), 243 - 256.
• Irani, Z. and Kamal, MM., (2014) Intelligent systems research in the construction industry, Expert Systems with Applications 41 (4 PART 1) : 934- 950