George Tsinarakis

Dr. Georgios Tsinarakis has been a Laboratory Teaching Staff (LTS) at the Department of Production and Management Engineering, School of Production and Management Engineering, Technical University of Crete since December 2009. He holds a Diploma in Production and Management Engineering from the Technical University of Crete since 2000, a Master's Degree since 2002 and a Ph.D. in Engineering since 2007. At the Department of Production Engineering and Management he has been teaching since 2009 the workshops of the courses "Production Engineering I", "Stochastic Processes", "Simulation" and "Production Networks - CAM", while he has been teaching independently the courses "Simulation", "Production Organisation and Project Planning" and "Production Systems" according to PD 407/80. He has supervised and co-supervised numerous diploma theses at the Department of Production Engineering and Management and has participated in 6 research projects.

During the period 2008-2009 and 2002-2007, he worked as a Contract Laboratory Assistant with Full Qualification and as an Hourly Lecturer, respectively, in the Departments of Electronics and Natural Resources and Environment of TEI of Crete - Chania Branch.

Since 2009, she has been working with the Hellenic Open University as a member of the Associate Teaching Staff (ACS). He has been assigned to teach the Thematic Unit "Principles of Project Organisation and Management" in the Master's Programme "Technical Project Management" (3 academic years), the Thematic Module "Introduction to Business and Organisational Management" in the Bachelor's Programme "Business and Organisational Management", while in the current academic year he is teaching the Thematic Module "Basic Principles of Management" in the Bachelor's Programme "Public Administration". In addition, he has supervised the preparation of about 20 Master's theses in the Master's Programme in Technical Project Management. Since the academic year 2016 - 2017 (4 academic years) he has been teaching the subject "Operations and Production Management" in the Postgraduate Programme "Economics and Management for Engineers - ODM" of the Department of "Engineering Economics and Management" of the University of the Aegean.

He has published papers in scientific journals and in the proceedings of international peer-reviewed scientific conferences with the study and optimisation of production systems and renewable energy sources (RES) systems as his main research topic, while he has served as a reviewer in international scientific conferences and journals and as an independent evaluator - expert in actions of the Hellenic Ministry of Education. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Applied Management Science (IJAMS) and is included in the Register of Principal Faculty of the National Centre for Public Administration and Self-Government. He is a member of the Technical Chamber and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Research Interests: Generation systems, Petri nets and their extensions, hybrid systems, supervisory control, mathematical modelling, digital twins, discrete event systems, renewable energy, project organisation and scheduling.

Main publications:

1. Tsinarakis G. J., Tsourveloudis N. C. and Valavanis K. P., “Modular Petri Net Based Modeling, Analysis, Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Random Topology Dedicated Production Systems”, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, vol. 16, pp. 67–92, 2005.

2. Tsinarakis G. J., Tsourveloudis N. C. and Valavanis K. P., “Modeling, Analysis, Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Multi-Operational Production Systems with Hybrid Timed Petri Nets”, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 3,  Issue 1,  pp. 29 – 46, Jan. 2006

3. Katsigiannis J., Georgilakis P. and Tsinarakis G., “Introducing a coloured fluid stochastic Petri net based methodology for reliability and performance evaluation of small isolated power systems including wind turbines”, IET Renewable Power Generation, vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 75 – 88, June 2008.

4. Katsigiannis J., Georgilakis P. and Tsinarakis G., “A Novel Colored Fluid Stochastic Petri Net Simulation Model for Reliability Evaluation of Wind /PV / Diesel Small Isolated Power Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Part A, vol. 6, issue 6, pp. 1296 – 1309, November 2010.

Recent publications: 

1. Vrontakis Κ. E., Kampianakis Α. Ν., and Tsinarakis G. J., “PN modelling, simulation, performance evaluation and production forecast of a tanning industry”, in Proceedings of 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation –MED 2016, Athens, Greece, pp. 1284 – 1289,  June 2016.

2. Vrontakis Κ. E., Kampianakis Α. Ν., and Tsinarakis G. J., “A Petri Net Based Methodology for Modelling, Analysis, Demand Forecast and Optimal Planning of Batch Production Systems”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - SMC 2016, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 1136 – 1141, October 2016.

3. Tsinarakis G. J. and Vrontakis Κ. E., “Modelling, Supervisory Control and Simulation of a Tanning Industry: A resource-oriented modular Timed Petri Net Approach”, in Proceedings of 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation – MED 2017, Valletta, Malta, pp. 297 – 302, June 2017.

4. Tsinarakis G. J., “Modeling Task Dependencies in Project Management using Petri nets with arc extensions”, accepted to the 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation – MED 2018, Zadar, Croatia, pp. 84 – 89, June 2018.

Email: gtsinarakis@fme.aegean.gr