Editor in Chief
Turan PAKSOY
Selçuk University, Faculty of Engineering,
Department of Industrial Engineering,
Aladdin Keykubad Campus, Konya, Turkey.
E-mail: tpaksoy@yahoo.com
Co-Editor
Gerhard Wilhelm WEBER
Middle East Technical University, Institute of
Applied Mathematics, 06531, Ankara, Turkey.
E-mail: gweber@metu.edu.tr
Editorial Secretary
Eren OZCEYLAN
Selçuk University, Faculty of Engineering,
Department of Industrial Engineering,
Aladdin Keykubad Campus, Konya, Turkey.
E-mail: eozceylan@selcuk.edu.tr
International Editorial Board
Asım Egemen YILMAZ
Electronics Engineering
Department,Ankara University, Faculty
of Engineering,Tandogan 06100, Ankara,
TURKEY
E-mail: aeyilmaz@eng.ankara.edu.tr
Ching-Ter CHANG
Chang Gung University, Department of
Information Management, Kwei-Shan,
Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, ROC.
E-mail: chingter@mail.cgu.edu.tw
Dorien DETOMBE
Chair International Research Society
on Methodology of Societal
Complexity
P.O. Box. 3286, NL-1001 AB
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
E-mail: detombe@nosmo.nl
Ekrem TATOGLU
Department Chair Department of
International Trade Faculty of
Economics and Administrative Sciences
Bahcesehir University, Besiktas, Istanbul,
Turkey.
E-mail: ekremt@bahcesehir.edu.tr
Elise del ROSARIO
International Federation of Operational
Research Societies, the President,
Philippines.
E-mail: elise@jgdelrosario.com
Eric KROPAT
Universitaet der Bundeswehr
Munich, Operations Research, ITIS
GmbH, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39,
85579 Neubiberg, Germany.
E-mail: erik.kropat@unibw.de
Florian JAEHN
Dept. of Management and Information
Sciences
University of Siegen Hölderlinstraße 3
57068 Siegen, Germany
E-mail: florian.jaehn@uni-iegen.de
Hasan Kursat GULES
Selçuk University, Department of
Production and Operations
Management, Faculty of Management,
Aladdin Keykubad Campus, Konya,
Turkey,
E-mail: hkgules@selcuk.edu.tr
Irina DOLGOPOLOVA
Service Sector Economics and
Management Department, Baikal
State University of Economics and
Law, Irkutsk, Russia.
E-mail:irina.dolgopolova@gmail.com
Jan-J. RUCKMANN
School of Mathematics Edgbaston
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B152TT, United Kingdom
E-mail: ruckmanj@for.mat.bham.ac.uk
Marc SEVAUX
Head of the Science and Technology
Dept., The Faculty of Science Université
de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France.
E-mail: Marc.Sevaux@univ-ubs.fr
Melek ACAR BOYACIOGLU
Selcuk University Faculty of
Economics and Administrative
Sciences Department of Accounting
and Finance, Campus 42031 KonyaTURKEY
E-mail: melekacar@yahoo.com
Miro KLJAJIC
Faculty of Organizational Sciences
University of Maribor
4000 Kranj, Kidri eva ulica 55 A, Slovenia
E-mail: miroljub.kljajic@fov.uni-mb.si
Mohammad SHAHRIARI
Department of Product and Production
Development
Chalmers University of Technology
E-mail:
mohammad.shahriari@chalmers.se
Mustafa Atilla ARICIOGLU
Selçuk University, Faculty of
Engineering, Department of Industrial
Engineering, Aladdin Keykubad Campus,
Konya, Turkey,
E-mail: maaricioglu@selcuk.edu.tr
Nimet Yapici PEHLIVAN
Selçuk University, Faculty of Science, Konya,
Turkey.
E-mail: nimet@selcuk.edu.tr
Peter LETMATHE
University of Siegen, Faculty of Economics,
Management Science and Business Law
Chair of Value Chain Management,
Hoelderlinstr 3, 57072 Siegen, Germany.
E-mail: Peter.Letmathe@uni-siegen.de
Refail KASIMBEYLI
Department of Industrial Systems
Engineering, Faculty of Computer
Sciences,Izmir University of Economics
Sakarya Cad. No:156, Balcova 35330,
Izmir, TURKIYE
E-Mail: refail.kasimbeyli@ieu.edu.tr
Stefan PICKL
Institut für Theoretische Informatik,
Mathematik und Operations Research,
Fakultät für Informatik, Universität der
Bundeswehr München, Werner-HeisenbergWeg 39, 85577, Neubiberg, Germany
E-mail: stefan.pickl@unibw.de
Tatiana TCHEMISOVA
Department of Mathematics
University of Aveiro, Aveiro,Portugal
E-mail: tatiana@ua.pt
Ulrike LEOPOLD-WILDBURGER
Mitglied des Obersten Rates am Europ.
Universitätsinstitut
Fiesole/Italien,Institut für Statistik und
Operations Research, Vorstand
Karl Franzens Universität Graz
Universitätsstrasse 15/E3
8010 Graz, Austria
E-mail: ulrike.leopold@uni-graz.at
Vadim STRIJOV
Computing Centre of the Russian Academy
of Sciences,
Vavilova 40, Moscow, 119333, Russia
E-mail: strijov@gmail.com
Zari DZALILOV
Graduate School of Information
Technology & Mathematical Sciences
University of Ballarat
P.O. Box 663 Ballarat, Victoria 3353,
Australia
E-mail: z.dzalilov@ballarat.edu.au
Zeev VOLKOVICH
ORT Braude College, Department of
Software Engineering P.O. Box: 78,
Karmiel, 21982, Israel
E-mail: zeev@actcom.co.il
Aims and Scope: International Journal of Lean Thinking (IJLT) welcomes contributions on research related to the lean
manufacturing, production and distribution planning, logistics and supply chain management, mathematical modeling of
engineering, manufacturing and industrial systems. A significant emerging area of research activity involves meta-heuristics and
artificial intelligent systems (fuzzy sets theory, genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks etc.), and contributions in these areas
are particularly encouraged.
IJLT publishes high quality, original papers that contribute to the methodology of management engineering, lean
manufacturing and to the theory and the practice of decision making. The relation with ongoing research should be
demonstrated by providing proper reference to the recent literature.
IJLT is a very rapid response journal with two issues (June-December) published every year.