Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications:

  1. Munawar, S.A., Bhushan, M., Gudi, R.D. and Belliappa, A.M. Cyclic Scheduling of Continuous Multiproduct Plants in a Hybrid Flowshop Facility, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2003, 42, 5861-5882.
  2. Munawar, S.A. and Gudi, R.D. A Multi-level, Control-theoretic Framework for Integration of Planning, Scheduling and Rescheduling, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2005, 44, 4001-4021.
  3. Munawar, S.A. and Gudi, R.D. A Nonlinear Transformation based Hybrid Evolutionary Method for MINLP Solution, Trans. IChemE., Part A, Chemical Engineering Research & Design, 2005, 83 (A10), 1218-1236.
  4. Munawar A. Shaik, Stacy L. Janak and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Continuous-Time Models for Short-Term Scheduling of Multipurpose Batch Plants: A Comparative Study, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2006, 45, 6190-6209.
  5. Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Improved Unit-Specific Event-based Continuous-Time Model for Short-Term Scheduling of Continuous Processes: Rigorous Treatment of Storage Requirements, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2007, 46, 1764-1779.
  6. Babu, B.V. and Munawar A. Shaik. Differential Evolution Strategies for Optimal Design of Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers, Chemical Engineering Science, 2007, 62, 3720-3739.
  7. Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Unit-Specific Event-based Continuous-Time Approach for Short-Term Scheduling of Batch Plants using RTN Framework, Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2008, 32, 260-274.
  8. Munawar A. Shaik, Christodoulos A. Floudas, Kallrath, J. and Pitz, H.-J. Production Scheduling of a Large-Scale Industrial Continuous Plant: Short-Term and Medium-Term Scheduling, Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2009, 32, 670-686.
  9. Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Novel Unified Modeling Approach for Short-term Scheduling, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2009, 48, 2947-2964.
  10. Li, J., Susarla, N., Karimi, I. A., Shaik, M. A. and Floudas, C. A. An Analysis of Some Unit-Specific Event-based Models for Short-term Scheduling of Non-Continuous Processes, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2010, 49, 633-647.
  11. Bhatt, S., Gupta, A. K. and Shaik, M. A. Energy Saving and Production Enhancement Through Scheduling Optimization of Displacement Batch Digesters, Indian Pulp & Paper Technical Association (IPPTA) Journal, 2011, 23(1), 111-116.
  12. Vooradi, R. and Shaik, M. A. Improved Three-index Unit Specific Event based Model for Short-Term Scheduling of Batch Plants, Computers & Chemical Engineering (in press).
  13. Yadav, S. and Shaik, M. A. Short-term Scheduling of Refinery Crude-Oil Operations, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (under review).
  14. Shaik, M. A. and Bhat, S. Scheduling of Displacement Batch Digesters using Discrete Time Formulation, submitted to Chemical Engineering Research & Design.

Book Chapters:

  1. Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Chapter 6: Short-term Scheduling of Batch and Continuous Processes, Supply Chain Optimization Vol 4: Part II, L. G. Papageorgiou, M. C. Georgiadis (eds.) Wiley-VCH Verlag, Germany, 2007, 173 - 217 (ISBN 978-3-527-31906-0).
  2. Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Short-term Scheduling of Continuous Processes, Encyclopedia of Optimization (2nd ed.), C.A. Floudas and P.M. Pardalos (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Netherlands, 2009, 3533-3547.
  3. Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Short-term Scheduling, Resource Constrained: Unified Modeling Frameworks, Encyclopedia of Optimization (2nd ed.), C.A. Floudas and P.M. Pardalos (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Netherlands, 2009, 3547-3560.

Presentations at Peer-Reviewed International Conferences:

  1. Munawar, S.A., Bhushan, M., Gudi, R.D. and Belliappa, A.M. A Multi-level, Control-theoretic Approach to Reactive Scheduling in Continuous Plants, 4th International Conference on Foundations Of Computer Aided Process Operations (FOCAPO), 2003, Florida, USA.
  2. Munawar, S.A. and Gudi, R.D. A Multi-level, Control-theoretic Framework for Integration of Planning, Scheduling and Rescheduling, 7th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS -7), 2004, Massachusetts, USA.
  3. Munawar, S.A., Kapadi, M.D., Patwardhan, S.C., Madhavan, K.P., Pragathieswaran, S., Lingathurai, P. and Gudi, R.D. Integration of Planning and Scheduling in Multi-site Plants: Application to Paper Manufacturing, 15th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE -15), 2005, Barcelona, Spain.[Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 20, Part 2, 2005, 1621-1626.]
  4. Stacy L. Janak, Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas A Comparative Study of Continuous-Time Models for Short-Term Scheduling in Multipurpose Batch Plants, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2005, Cincinnatti, USA.
  5. Munawar A. Shaik, Stacy L. Janak and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Slot based Vs. Global-Event based Vs. Unit-Specific-Event based models in Scheduling of Batch Plants, 16th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering & 9th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (ESCAPE-16 + PSE-9), 2006, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. [Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 21, Part 2, 2006, 1923-1928.]
  6. Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. An Improved Continuous-Time Model for Short-Term Scheduling of Continuous Processes: Rigorous Treatment of Storage Requirements, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2006, San Francisco, USA.
  7. Munawar A. Shaik, Christodoulos A. Floudas, Kallrath, J. and Pitz, H.-J. Medium-Term and Short-Term Scheduling of a Large-Scale Industrial Continuous Plant, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2006, San Francisco, USA.
  8. Munawar A. Shaik, Christodoulos A. Floudas, Kallrath, J. and Pitz, H.-J. Production Scheduling of a Large-Scale Industrial Continuous Plant: Short-Term and Medium-Term Scheduling, 17th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-17), 2007, Bucharest, Romania.[Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 24, 2007, 613-618.]
  9. Munawar A. Shaik, Christodoulos A. Floudas, Kallrath, J. and Pitz, H.-J. Novel Framework for Short-Term and Medium-Term Scheduling of Large-Scale Industrial Continuous Plants, PSE-ASIA, 2007, Xian, China.
  10. Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. A Novel Unified Modeling Approach for Short-term Scheduling, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2007, Salt Lake City, USA.
  11. Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Resource-Task-Network Framework for Short-term Scheduling of Batch Plants using Unit-Specific Event-based Continuous-Time Approach, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2007, Salt Lake City, USA.
  12. Peter M. Verderame, Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Operational Planning of a Multisite Production and Distribution Network, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2007, Salt Lake City, USA.
  13. Peter M. Verderame, Munawar A. Shaik and Christodoulos A. Floudas. Integrated Operational Planning and Medium-Term Scheduling of a Large-Scale Industrial Batch Plant, AIChE Annual Meeting, 2007, Salt Lake City, USA.
  14. Trehan, S. and Shaik, M. A. Improved Three-index Model for Short-term Scheduling of Multi-purpose Batch Plants, 13th Asia-Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineers (APCChE), 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
  15. Goel, A. and Shaik, M. A. Short-term Scheduling of Mixed-Production Facilities incorporating Utility aspects, 13th Asia-Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineers (APCChE), 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
  16. Narayani, A. and Shaik, M. A. Reactive Scheduling in Multipurpose Batch Plants, International Conference on Modeling, Optimization and Computing (ICMOC), 2010, NIT Durgapur, India.[AIP Conf. Proceedings, 1298, 368-373.]
  17. Vooradi, R., Shaik, M. A. and Gupta, N. M. Three-index Model for Short-term Scheduling of Westenberg-Kallrath Benchmark Problem, International Conference on Modeling, Optimization and Computing (ICMOC), 2010, NIT Durgapur, India.[AIP Conf. Proceedings, 1298, 380-385.]
  18. Yadav, S. and Shaik, M. A. Short-term Scheduling of Refinery Production Operations, 14th Asia-Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineers (APCChE), 2012, Singapore.
  19. Kabra, S., Shaik, M. A. and Rathore, A. S. Long-Term Scheduling of Multistage Multiproduct Bio-Pharmaceutical Process, accepted at 11th International Symposium in Process Systems Engineering (PSE), 2012, Singapore.

Presentations at Peer-Reviewed National Conferences:

  1. Babu, B.V. and Munawar, S.A. Differential Evolution for the Optimal Design of Heat Exchangers, Proceedings of All India Seminar on Chemical Engineering Progress on Resource Development: A Vision 2010 and Beyond, organized by Institution of Engineers (India), 2000, Bhuvaneshwar, India.
  2. Munawar, S.A. and Gudi, R.D. A Nonlinear Transformation based MINLP Solution Method, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), 2004, Mumbai, India.
  3. Munawar A. Shaik. Simplified State-Task-Network Representation and Improved Solution for Short-Term Scheduling of an Industrial Consumer Goods Manufacturing Process, 96th Indian Science Congress, 2009, Shillong, India.
  4. Agarwal, S. and Shaik, M. A. Stochastic vs Deterministic Approaches for Synthesis of Cost Optimal Heat Exchanger Networks, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), 2009, Visakhapatnam, India.
  5. Chauhan, R. and Shaik, M. A. Optimal Component Lumping using Differential Evolution Technique, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), 2010, Chidambaram, India.
  6. Joshi, N. and Shaik, M. A. Three-index Model for Scheduling of Single-stage Processes with Parallel Units, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), 2010, Chidambaram, India.
  7. Narayani, A. and Shaik, M.A. Reactive Scheduling in Multiproduct Batch Plants with Machine Breakdown, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), 2010, Chidambaram, India.
  8. Yadav, S. and Shaik, M. A. Short-term Scheduling of Refinery Crude-oil Operations, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), 2010, Chidambaram, India.
  9. Bhatt, S., Gupta, A. K., and Shaik, M.A. Energy Saving and Production Enhancement Through Scheduling Optimization of Displacement Batch Digesters, Indian Pulp & Paper Technical Association (IPPTA) Annual Seminar, 2011, Mumbai, India.
  10. Shaik, M. A. and Benawat, M. Short-term Scheduling of Conventional Batch Digesters for Pulp Production, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), 2011, Bangalore, India.
  11. Alauddin, M. and Shaik, M. A. Genetic Algorithms for Optimization of Water using Networks with Multiple Contaminants, Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), 2011, Bangalore, India.