Gholamreza Amin

Gholam R. Amin is an Associate Professor of Management Science in the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, Canada. Prior to joining UNB in 2016, he taught at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman where he received the distinguished research award for his outstanding performance in research. Dr. Amin has received his Ph.D in Operations Research from Azad University (2003, Iran). He received the UNB Merit Award for the academic year 2019-2020.

Dr. Amin is an Associate Editor of IMA Journal of Management Mathematics at Oxford University Press. He was also a guest editor of this journal for the special issue of Recent Advances in Inverse Data Envelopment Analysis.

Dr. Amin is an editor of the SN Business and Economics at Springer. He also participated in the organizing and scientific committees of many international conferences and workshops.

He has taught different undergraduate and graduate courses in Operations Research such as Management Science, Applied Optimization Methods, Quantitative Methods in Business, Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management.

His research interests include Performance Measurement and Management, Mathematical Programming and Productivity and Efficiency Analysis through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) Operators, Data Aggregation, and Inverse Optimization.

Dr. Amin has published over 85 articles in several international top journals such as Operations Research (FT50), European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Computers and Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Information Sciences, Computers and Industrial Engineering, European Journal of Sport Science, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, and Abacus among others.

His publications have been cited more than 2900 times.

Selected journal publications

B. Watson and Gholam R. Amin (2024). An Examination of Health Care Efficiency in Canada: A Two-Stage Semi-Parametric Approach. Health Economics, Policy and Law, Article in Press.

M. Ibn Boamah, and Gholam R. Amin (2024). Partner selection in business mergers: a data envelopment analysis approach. Rairo Operations Research, Article in Press.

Amar Oukil and Gholam R. Amin (2023). An Induced OWA aggregation operator with dual preference settings for DEA cross-efficiency ranking. Soft Computing, 27, 18419–18440.

A. Emrouznejad and Gholam R. Amin (2023). Advances in Inverse Data Envelopment Analysis: Empowering Performance Assessment, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 34(3), 415-419.

Gholam R. Amin and Ibn-Boamah, M. (2023). Modeling Business Partnerships: A data envelopment analysis approach, European Journal of Operational Research, 305(1), 329-337.

A. Emrouznejad, Gholam R. Amin, M. Ghiyasi, and Maria Michali (2023). A Review of Inverse Data Envelopment Analysis: Origins, Development, and Future Directions, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 34(3), 421-440.

D. Mahla, S. Agarwal, Gholam R. Amin, and T. Mathur (2023). An inverse data envelopment analysis model to consider ratio data and preferences of decision-makers, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 34(3), 441-464.

Gholam R. Amin, O. El-Temtamy and Garas, S. (2022). Audit risk evaluation using data envelopment analysis with ordinal data, Abacus, 58(3), 589-602.

M.H. Shirvani, Gholam R. Amin, and Babaeikiadeh, S. (2022). A decision framework for cloud migration: a hybrid approach, IET Software, 16(6), 603-629.

Gholam R. Amin & M. Ibn Boamah (2021). A two-stage inverse data envelopment analysis approach for estimating potential merger gains in the US banking sector, Managerial and Decision Economics.

M. Toloo, B. Ebrahimi & Gholam R. Amin (2021). New DEA models for classifying flexible measures: The role of non-Archimedean Epsilon, European Journal of Operational Research, 292(3), 1037-1050.

Gholam R. Amin & M. Hajjami (2021). Improving DEA Cross-efficiency optimization in portfolio selection, Expert Systems with Applications, 168, article no. 114280.

Gholam R. Amin & Mustapha Ibn Boamah (2020). A new inverse DEA cost efficiency model for estimating potential merger gains: A case of Canadian banks, Annals of Operations Research, 195(1), 21-36.

Gholam R. Amin & Fazley Siddiq (2019). Measuring global prosperity using data envelopment analysis and OWA operator, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 34(10), 2713-2738.

Matthew Wegener & Gholam R. Amin (2019). Minimizing Greenhouse Gas Emissions using Inverse DEA with an Application in Oil and Gas, Expert Systems with Applications, 122, 369–375.

Gholam R. Amin & Amar Oukil (2019). Gangless cross-evaluation in DEA: an application to stock selection. Rairo Operations Research, 53(2), 645-655.

Gholam R. Amin, S. Al-Muharrami, M. Toloo (2019). A combined goal programming and inverse DEA method for target setting in mergers, Expert Systems with Applications, 115, 412-417.

M. Al-Siyabi, Gholam R. Amin, S. Bose, & H. Al-Masroori (2019). Peer-judgment risk minimization using DEA Cross-evaluation with an application in fishery, Annals of Operations Research, 274 (1), 39-55.

Ali Emrouznejad, Guoliang Yang, & Gholam R. Amin (2019). A novel inverse DEA model with application to allocate the CO2 emissions quota to different regions in Chinese manufacturing industries. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 70(7), 1079-1090.

M. Hajjami & Gholam R. Amin (2018). Modelling stock selection using ordered weighted operator, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 33(11), 2283-2292.

Gholam R. Amin & Ahmed El-Bouri (2018). A Minimax Linear Programming Model for Dispatching Rule Selection. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 121, 27-35.

Gholam R. Amin & S. Al-Muharrami (2018). A new inverse DEA model for mergers with negative data, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 29(2), 137-149.

Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad, & Said Gattoufi (2017). Modelling Generalized Firms' Restructuring using Inverse DEA, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 48(1), 51-61.

Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad, & Said Gattoufi (2017). Minor and Major Consolidations in Inverse DEA: Definition and Determination, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 103(1), 193-200.

Gholam R. Amin & M. Hajjami (2016). Application of optimistic and pessimistic OWA and DEA methods in stock selection, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 31(12), 1220-1233.

Ahmed El Bouri & Gholam R. Amin (2015). A combined OWA-DEA method for dispatching rules selection, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 88(1), 470-478.

Amar Oukil & Gholam R. Amin (2015). Maximum appreciative cross-efficiency in DEA: A new ranking method, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 81(1), 14-21.

Muhittin Oral, Gholam R. Amin, & Amar Oukil (2015). Cross-Efficiency in DEA: A Maximum Resonated Appreciative Model, Measurement, 63(1), 159-167.

Gholam R. Amin & SK. Sharma (2014). Cricket team selection using data envelopment analysis, European Journal of Sport Science, 14(1): 369-375.

S. Gattoufi, Gholam R. Amin, & Ali Emrouznejad (2014). A new inverse DEA method for merging banks, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 25(1): 73-87.

Gholam R. Amin & Ali Emrouznejad (2013). A new DEA model for technology selection in the presence of ordinal data. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 65(9-12): 1567-1572.

Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad, & H. Sadeghi (2012). Metasearch information fusion using linear programming, Rairo Operations Research, 46(4): 289-303.

R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, M. Ranjbar-Bourani, Gholam R. Amin, & Ali Siadat (2012). A cell formation problem considering machine utilization and alternative process routes by scatter search, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 23(4): 1127-1139.

Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad, & S. Rezaee (2011). Some Clarifications on the DEA clustering approach. European Journal of Operational Research, 215: 498-501.

Gholam R. Amin & Ali Emrouznejad (2011). Parametric Aggregation in ordered weighted averaging. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 52(6): 819-827.

Gholam R. Amin, Said Gattoufi, & E. Rezaee Seraji (2011). A maximum discrimination DEA method for ranking association rules in data mining. International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 88(11): 2233-2245.

Ali Emrouznejad, Gholam R. Amin, E. Thanassoulis, & A. L. Anouze (2010). On the boundedness of the SORM DEA models with negative data. European Journal of Operational Research, 206(1): 265-268.

Gholam R. Amin & Ali Emrouznejad (2010). Finding relevant search engines results: a minimax linear programming approach. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 61(7): 1144-1150.

Ali Emrouznejad & Gholam R. Amin (2010). Improving minimax disparity model to determine the OWA operator weights. Information Sciences, 180(8):1477-1485.

Gholam R. Amin (2010). A comment on modified big-M method to recognize the infeasibility of linear programming models. Knowledge-Based Systems, 23: 283-284.

Gholam R. Amin (2009). Optimal solution of technology selection model: A computational efficient form. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 43(9), 1046-1050.

Ali Emrouznejad & Gholam R. Amin (2009). DEA models for ratio data: Convexity consideration. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 33(1):486–498.

Gholam R. Amin (2008). A note on an improved MCDM DEA model for technology selection. International Journal of Production Research, 46(2-4):7073-7075.

Gholam R. Amin & Ali Emrouznejad (2007). Inverse forecasting: A new approach for predictive modeling. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 53(3):491–498.

Gholam R. Amin & M. Toloo (2007). Finding the most efficient DMUs in DEA: An improved integrated model. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 52(1):71-77.

Gholam R. Amin, M. Toloo, & Babak Sohrabi (2006). An improved MCDM DEA model for technology selection. International Journal of Production Research, 44(13): 2681–2686.

Gholam R. Amin & Mehdi Toloo, (2004). A polynomial-time algorithm for finding epsilon in DEA models. Computers & Operations Research, 31(5):803-805.

S. Mehrabian, GR., Jahanshahloo, MR., Alirezaee, & Gholam R. Amin (2000). An assurance interval for the non-Archimedean epsilon in DEA models. Operations Research, 48(2):344-347.