Shaofeng Liu

Teaching interests

At undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA levels:
(1) Management Decision Making
    - Decision trees
    - Analytical Hierachy Process (AHP)
    - Analytical Network Process (ANP)
    - Linear Programming
    - Group and organisational decision making
     - Multi-criteria decision making
    - Intelligent decision support: AI for decision making  
 (2) Operations Management
    - Manufacturing and service processes
    - Resource management
    - Quality management
    - Supply chain management
(3) Business in Context
    - Business activities
    - Business strategic decisions (strategy, management and leadership models)
    - Business organisation (size, ownership)
    - Business environment (culture, economy, state and social influences)
(4) Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
 

Research interests

Knowledge-based techniques in business and management, particularly:
    - Decision making and intelligent decision support 
    - Business intelligence and ERP systems
    - Knowledge management (reuse and learning)
    - Business process improvement
    - Resource management
    - Quality management 
    - Project management
    - Multi-criteria decision analysis and life cycle assessment
    - Green operations management and reverse logistics
    - Global manufacturing strategies and global supply chain management 

Current PhD projects: 
- Knowledge management competence for ERP implementation success,  Uchitha Jayawickrama.
- Consumer perception on e-service quality in the context of online luxury shopping, Hawazen Alamoudi.
- Capacity management decision making for containership sector - case of 2008 financial crisis. Bunyamin Kamal.
- Modelling proactive resilient supply chains in fast moving consumer goods industry,  Karim Mohamed Soliman.
- Performance management in retail supply chains, Ghada Elkady , DOR - J. Moizer.

International collaboration project:
Intelligent decision support systems, with Professor Isabelle Linden  from University of Namur , Belgium

     

UoP Research group membership

Grants & contracts
2012-2013, Lean-KM project (Enabling systematic elimination of production waste to achieve lean operations through decision-focused knowledge management: beyond know-how and know-what), awarded by Social Science Collaboration scheme through University of Plymouth.
2010-2012, GOM ( G reen Operations Management - integration challenges and decision support) project, awarded by International Research Networking and Collaboration (IRNC) Scheme through University of Plymouth.
2011, WEIR (Waste Elimination to Improve Resource Utilization for SMEs’ Sustainability) project , awarded by Research and Enterprise scheme through University of Plymouth.
2010, CoMPaSS (Cost Management in Production and Service Systems) project, awarded by Research and Enterprise scheme through University of Plymouth.
2009, International travel grant, awarded by UK Royal Academy of Engineering.
2008, Doctor Training Account (DTA), awarded by UK EPSRC through NECTISE project  (with Professor Alex Duffy) .
 

Publications

Published over 60 papers on refereed journals/ conferences and book chapters. Some recent journal papers:

S Liu, D Kasturiratne and J Moizer, 2012. A hub-and-spoke model for multi-dimensional integration of green marketing and sustainable supply chain management. Industrial Marketing Management (ABS 3* journal).

W Sun, G Zhang, J Scott and S Liu, 2013. Rural-urban migration decision making process: a whole and personal support network analysis. International Journal of Information and Decision Science 5(3). (in press) 

RI Whitfield, AHB Duffy, I Boyle, S Liu and I McKenna, 2011. An integrated environment for organisational decision support. Computers In Industry 62(8-9): 842-853. (journal impact factor: 1.620)

S Liu, RIM Young and L Ding, 2011. A decision support system for global manufacturing co-ordination in the automotive industry. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 24(4): 285-301. (ABS 2* journal)

S Liu, AHB Duffy, RI Whitfield and IM Boyle, 2010. Integration of decision support systems to improve decision support performance. Knowledge and Information Systems - An International Journal 22(3): 261-286. (journal impact factor: 1.733)

L Ding and S Liu, 2010. Metadata and mark-up in product and service design: a discourse. Journal of Future Internet 2(1): 74-95.

PJ Wild, CA McMahon, MJ Darlington, S Liu, and SJ Culley, 2010. A Diary Study of information needs and document usage in the engineering domain, Journal of Design Studies 31(1): 46-73. (journal 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.714)

S Liu, AHB Duffy, RI Whitfield, IM Boyle and I McKenna, 2009. Towards the realisation of an integrated decision support environment for organisational decision making. International Journal of Decision Support Systems Technology 1(4): 38-58. 

S Liu and IM Boyle, 2009. Engineering Design: perspectives, challenges and recent advances. Journal of Engineering Design 20(1): 7-19. (journal impact factor: 1.58)

 S Liu, CA McMahon, MJ Darlington, SJ Culley and PJ Wild, 2008. An automatic mark-up approach for structured document retrieval in engineering design. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 38: 418-425. (journal impact factor: 1.128)

S Liu, CA McMahon and SJ Culley, 2008. A review of structured document retrieval (SDR) technology to improve information access performance in engineering document management. Journal of Computers in Industry 59(1): 3-16. (journal impact factor: 2.014)

S Liu and RIM Young, 2007. An exploration of key information models and their relationships for global manufacturing decision support. Journal of Engineering Manufacture (IMechE Part B), 221(4): 711-724.

S Liu, CA McMahon, MJ Darlington, SJ Culley and PJ Wild, 2007. EDCMS: a content management system for engineering documents. International Journal of Automation and Computing  4(1): 56-70.

PJ Wild, SJ Culley, CA McMahon, MJ Darlington, S Liu, 2007. Towards a method for profiling engineering documentation. Journal of Strojarstvo 49(2): 61-70. ISSN 0562-1887.

S Liu, CA McMahon, MJ Darlington, SJ Culley and PJ Wild, 2006. A computational framework for retrieval of document fragments based on decomposition schemes in engineering information management. Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics 20(4): 401-413. (journal impact factor: 1.730)

S Liu and RIM Young, 2004. Utilizing information and knowledge models to support global manufacturing co-ordination decisions. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 17(6): 479-492.

S Liu and ZY Sun, 2001. A review on global manufacturing strategy. Journal of China Mechanical Engineering 37(1): 114-118.

Links


Pages of previous colleagues:

Alex Duffy        Bob Young       Chris McMahon    David Guerra Zubiaga     Ian Whitfield    Irina Neaga    Jason Mattews    Jie Zhao     John Hopkins     Lian Ding           Mansur Darlington      Peter Wild    Roberto Rosso     Steve Culley