Dr. Iris Forma

Dr. Iris Forma

Dr. Iris Forma has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the School of Industrial Engineering and Smart Systems at Tel Aviv University, M.Sc. from École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada), and B.Sc. from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Her research focuses on optimization and simulation in transportation systems, pricing problems, and urban and environmental systems.

She teaches courses in her research fields at Afeka College of Engineering and has received several awards for her excellence in teaching at Afeka and for her research achievements recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

  • Introduction to Operation Research
  • Simulation
  • Demand Analysis and Forecasting

Research Grants:

Research grant from the Council for Higher Education and the Planning and Budgeting Committee “Proof of Concept” funding program. (300,000 NIS)
 
Publications: 

  1. Ben Gal H., Forma I.A., Singer G., 2022. A  flexible employee recruitment and compensation model: A bi-level optimization approach. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 107916.
  2. Forma I., Raviv T., Tzur M., 2015. A 3-step math heuristic for the static repositioning problem in bike-sharing systems. Transportation Research Part B, 71, 230-247.
  3. Raviv, T., Tzur, M., Forma, I., 2013. Static repositioning in a  bike-sharing system: models and solution approaches. EURO Journal of Transportation and Logistics 2, 187-229.
  4. Forma I., Raviv T., Tzur M., 2008. A model for planning of production, inventory and combined routing of delivery and pick-up. International Conference on Industrial Logistics (ICIL 2008): Logistics in a Flat World: Strategy, Management and Operations, pages 140-151.
  5. Forma I., Raviv T., Tzur M., 2009. Functional Decompositions for a Production and Distribution System. IFAC Proceedings Volumes, pages 1268-1273.
  6. Forma I, 2006. Tarification du Transport de Marchandises (Master Thesis). PolyPublie. https://publications.polymtl.ca/7884/. 130 pages.
  7. Forma I, 2016. Decomposition Methods for Solving Transportation Problems in Supply Chain and in Bike-sharing Systems (Doctoral Thesis). Tel-Aviv University. 111 pages.
  8. The Cycling Equation, Aaaretz, 2011.