Nishikant Mishra

Lecturer
Photograph of Nishikant Mishra .

Contact

Email: nim4@aber.ac.uk
Office: Room F10, Cledwyn Building.
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 62 2529

Teaching Areas

  • Supply Chain Management (Postgraduate)
  • Research Skills For Managers (Postgraduate)
  • Innovation and operations Management (Postgraduate)
  • Managing Biotechnology (Postgraduate)
  • Management and marketing research Methods (Undergraduate)
  • Contemporary Research In Management (Undergraduate)
  • Research Project In Management and Business (Undergraduate)

Research

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Radiotherapy Planning
  • Production Planning and Scheduling
  • Case-Based Reasoning
  • Multicriteria Decision Making
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Meta-heuristics and Hyper-Heuristics
  • Lean and Agile Systems
  • Service Operations

Current Grants:

  •  Technology Strategy Board (TSB), Improving efficiency and reducing waste in the beef supply chain, Amount Awarded: £2,790,015
  •  Meat Promotion Wales (HCC), Lamb Efficiency Calculator, Amount Awarded: £3,760
  •  Meat Promotion Wales (HCC), Lamb Feed Management Calculator, Amount Awarded: £3,760

Biography

Dr Nishikant Mishra is Lecture in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Aberystwyth Business School. He holds PhD in Computer Science from University of Nottingham, UK and a first Class distinction degree in Manufacturing Engineering from National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT), India.  His PhD research focuses on the development of decision support system for radiotherapy planning. He is working in collaboration with NHS (National Health Service) and developed several decision support systems for them. In recent years, he has contributed to several research projects including EPSRC, Rural development plan for Wales. Currently he is also working as consultant with various companies on different projects. He has been placed in the scientific committee and session chair of several international conferences. He has published about 30 papers in leading international journals and conferences.  He has also received two best paper awards in leading international conferences. He is also acting as a reviewer of 15 leading international journals.

In the last few years, he has conducted multi-disciplinary research into supply chain management, healthcare, mathematical modelling, heuristics and algorithms, lean and agile systems, and general operations management.  His research interest includes the fields of case-based reasoning, multi-criteria decision analysis, modelling of uncertainty by fuzzy sets, meta-heuristics, hyper-heuristics and multi-agent systems.

Staff Publications

Recent Journal Articles

  • N. Mishra, S. Petrovic, and S. Sundar. (2011) A Self-Adaptive Case-Based Reasoning System for Dose Planning in Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy, Medical Physics Journal. (In Print)
  • N. Mishra, S. Petrovic, and S. Sundar,  (2011) A novel case based reasoning approach to radiotherapy planning, Expert Systems with Applications, 38 (9), 10759-10769. (ABS ranking 3*)
  • V. Kumar, N. Mishra, F.T.S. Chan, A. Verma, (2011) Managing Warehousing in Agile Supply Chain Environment: An F-AIS algorithm based Approach. International Journal of Production Research, 49 (21), 6407-6426. (ABS ranking 3*)
  • N. Mishra, V. Kumar, F.T.S Chan, M.K. Tiwari (2011) A CBFSA Approach to Resolve Distributed Manufacturing Process Planning Problem in Supply Chain Environment. International Journal Of Production Research, (In Print), (ABS ranking 3*)
  • N. Mishra, V. Kumar, N. kumar, M. kumar, M.K.Tiwari  (2011) Addressing lot sizing and warehousing scheduling problem, Expert Systems with Applications, 38 (9), 11751-11762. (ABS ranking 3*)
  • Yadav, S.; Mishra, N.; Kumar, V. Tiwari, M K.  (2011) A Framework for Designing Robust Supply Chains considering Product Development Issues. International Journal of Production Research, 49 (20), 6065-6088. (ABS ranking 3*)
  • A. Verma, N. Mishra, and M.K.Tiwari, (2011) Minimizing time risk in on-line bidding: adaptive information retrieval based approach, Expert Systems with Applications, 38(4), 3679-3689. (ABS ranking 3*)
  • N. Mishra, V. Kumar, F.T.S. Chan, (2011) A Multi-Agent Architecture for Reverse Logistics in Green Supply Chain. International Journal Of Production Research, (In Print) (ABS ranking 3*)
  • V. Kumar, and N. Mishra, (2011) A Multi-Agent Self Correcting Architecture for Distributed Manufacturing Supply Chain. IEEE Systems Journal,  (In print)
  • A. Verma, N. Mishra, and R.K.Singh (2011) Effect of machine flexibility on the performance of FMS subjected to frequent breakdowns, Int. J. Services Operations and Informatics, 6(2), 45-70.
  • N. Mishra, A. K. Choudhary, M.K.Tiwari, R. Shankar, (2010) Rollout Strategy Based Probabilistic Causal Model Approach for the Multiple Fault Diagnosis, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM), 26(4),325-332
  • N. Mishra, A. K. Choudhary, and M. K. Tiwari, (2008) Modelling the Planning and Scheduling Across the Outsourcing Supply Chain: A Chaos Based Fast Tabu-SA Approach, International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), 46(13), 3683-3715. (ABS ranking 3*)


Conference Articles

  • S. Sundar,  C. Richard,  N.Mishra and  S. Petrovic and A decision aid for radiotherapy dose selection in prostate cancer based on non-linear Case Based Reasoning, UK Radiation Oncology Conference April 2011, Manchester University. (To be presented)
  • V. Kumar, N. Mishra, F. T. S. Chan, M. Kumar, and N. Kumar (2011), A Leagile Inspired Supply Chain Model to Improve the Performance of Steel Industries, The 21st International Conference of Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2011), June 26-29, 2011 – Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan (To be presented)
  •  Kumar, V., Mishra, N., Kumar, V. V., Chan, F. T. S. and Gnanasekar, B., Warranty Failure Analysis in Service Supply Chain: A Multi-agent Framework, In: Dr. Tommy K.L. CHOY, Prof. Angappa GUNASEKARAN,Prof. Lenny S.C. KOH,Dr. George HO and Dr. F. T. S. CHAN ed.The 8th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS 2010), 06-OCT-10 - 08-OCT-10, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 22 –
  • Kumar, V.  Chan, F. T. S., Mishra, N. and Kumar, V., Environmental Integrated Closed loop Logistics Model: An Artificial Bee Colony Approach, In: Dr. Tommy K.L. CHOY, Prof. Angappa GUNASEKARAN,Prof. Lenny S.C. KOH,Dr. George HO and Dr. F. T. S. CHAN ed.The 8th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS 2010), 06-OCT-10 - 08-OCT-10, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 57 –
  • N.Mishra, S. Petrovic and S. Sundar, Self-adaptive case based reasoning for dose planning in radiotherapy, in book  of the 36th annual  Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS) conference Leuven Belgium, july 18 – 23, 2010, PP. 28-46
  • N.Mishra, S. Petrovic and S. Sundar, A non-linear case based reasoning approach to radiotherapy dose planning, in Proceedings of the 35th annual  Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS) conference Leuven Belgium, july 12 – 17 2009, PP. 24
  • N. Mishra, S. Petrovic and S. Sundar,  A knowledge-light nonlinear case-based reasoning approach to radiotherapy planning, in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott Newark (NYC Metropolitan Area), New Jersey, USA, November 2-5, 2009, pp. 776 – 783
  • N. Mishra, S. Petrovic and S. Sundar, A Novel Case Based Reasoning Approach to Radiotherapy Planning, in Proceedings of the 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS'08), Sandton, South Africa, 13-18 July, 2008, pp. 66.
  • V. Kumar, N. Mishra, and F.T.S. Chan, Resolving Multi Plant Supply Chain Problem: A Novel Swarm Intelligence based Approach, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, 21-24 September 2008, Bangkok, Thailand

Book Chapters

  • N. Mishra and V. Kumar and F.T.S. Chan, A Multiple Ant Colony Optimization (MACO) Approach for a Multi-Objective Manufacturing Rescheduling Problem, Springer book, multi-objective evolutionary optimisation for product design and manufacturing, (accepted for publication)
  • N. Mishra, V. Kumar and F. T. S. Chan. A Multi-Agent Framework for Agile Outsourced Supply Chain. Enterprise Networks and Logistics for Agile Manufacturing, 2010, pp207-223.
  • F. T. S. Chan, V. Kumar, and N. Mishra. A CMPSO Algorithm Based Approach to Solve the Multi-plant Supply Chain Problem. Swarm Intelligence, Focus on Ant and Particle Swarm Optimization, 2007, pp447-474.