Stelios Tsafarakis

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 974 citations indexed

About

Stelios Tsafarakis is a scholar working on Marketing, Management of Technology and Innovation and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Stelios Tsafarakis has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 974 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Marketing, 8 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 7 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Stelios Tsafarakis's work include Product Development and Customization (8 papers), Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (8 papers) and Supply Chain and Inventory Management (7 papers). Stelios Tsafarakis is often cited by papers focused on Product Development and Customization (8 papers), Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (8 papers) and Supply Chain and Inventory Management (7 papers). Stelios Tsafarakis collaborates with scholars based in Greece, United Kingdom and Denmark. Stelios Tsafarakis's co-authors include Konstantinos Zervoudakis, Angelos Pantouvakis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Andreas Andronikidis, Efthymios Altsitsiadis, Kleanthi Lakiotaki, George Baltas, Charalampos Saridakis, Dimitrios Nalmpantis and Evangelos Grigoroudis and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Expert Systems with Applications and Journal of the Operational Research Society.

In The Last Decade

Stelios Tsafarakis

29 papers receiving 944 citations

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Pradeep Varakantham Singapore

Gholam Ali Montazer Iran

Abdul Razak Hamdan Malaysia

Xuening Chu China

Lei Lin China

Abdullah Al-Barakati Saudi Arabia

James A. Rodger United States

Sébastien Thomassey France

R. T. Mohammed Malaysia

Jorge Casillas Spain

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stelios Tsafarakis

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Zervoudakis, Konstantinos & Stelios Tsafarakis. (2024). Fuzzy Self-tuning Bees Algorithm for designing optimal product lines. Applied Soft Computing. 167. 112228–112228. 2 indexed citations

Tsafarakis, Stelios, et al.. (2024). Extracting knowledge from customer reviews: an integrated framework for digital platform analytics. International Transactions in Operational Research. 32(4). 2061–2086. 3 indexed citations

Zervoudakis, Konstantinos, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Impact of ICT on Higher Education Teaching During COVID-19: Identifying Barriers and Opportunities Through Advanced Text Analysis on Instructors’ Experiences. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 16(3). 11896–11926. 5 indexed citations

Zervoudakis, Konstantinos, et al.. (2023). Evaluating Principals’ Satisfaction with Selection Processes in Second Chance Schools: A Multicriteria Approach. Journal of the Knowledge Economy. 15(2). 6312–6338. 2 indexed citations

Zervoudakis, Konstantinos, et al.. (2023). A bio-inspired computational classifier system for the evaluation of children’s theatrical anxiety at school. Education and Information Technologies. 28(9). 11027–11050. 10 indexed citations

Zervoudakis, Konstantinos & Stelios Tsafarakis. (2022). A global optimizer inspired from the survival strategies of flying foxes. Engineering With Computers. 39(2). 1583–1616. 55 indexed citations

Tsafarakis, Stelios, et al.. (2022). The use of ICT during lockdown in higher education and the effects on university instructors. Heliyon. 8(11). e11214–e11214. 6 indexed citations

Tsafarakis, Stelios, et al.. (2021). Clonal selection algorithms for optimal product line design: A comparative study. European Journal of Operational Research. 298(2). 585–595. 10 indexed citations

Tsafarakis, Stelios, Konstantinos Zervoudakis, & Andreas Andronikidis. (2021). Optimal product line design using Tabu Search. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 73(9). 2104–2115. 5 indexed citations

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Tsafarakis, Stelios, et al.. (2019). Investigating the preferences of individuals on public transport innovations using the Maximum Difference Scaling method. European Transport Research Review. 11(1). 33 indexed citations

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Tsafarakis, Stelios. (2015). Redesigning product lines in a period of economic crisis: a hybrid simulated annealing algorithm with crossover. Annals of Operations Research. 247(2). 617–633. 12 indexed citations

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Tsafarakis, Stelios, Charalampos Saridakis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis, & George Baltas. (2015). Private labels and retail assortment planning: a differential evolution approach. Annals of Operations Research. 247(2). 677–692. 10 indexed citations

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Saridakis, Charalampos, Stelios Tsafarakis, Pavlos Delias, George Baltas, & Nikolaos Matsatsinis. (2014). Optimizing differentiation and commonality levels among models in car line-ups: An empirical application of a nature-inspired heuristic mechanism. Expert Systems with Applications. 42(5). 2323–2335. 11 indexed citations

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Tsafarakis, Stelios, et al.. (2013). Consumer-oriented new product development: a review of recent developments. International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences. 5(4). 364–364. 3 indexed citations

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Tsafarakis, Stelios, Charalampos Saridakis, George Baltas, & Nikolaos Matsatsinis. (2013). Hybrid particle swarm optimization with mutation for optimizing industrial product lines: An application to a mixed solution space considering both discrete and continuous design variables. Industrial Marketing Management. 42(4). 496–506. 29 indexed citations

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Baltas, George, Stelios Tsafarakis, Charalampos Saridakis, & Nikolaos Matsatsinis. (2012). Biologically Inspired Approaches to Strategic Service Design. Journal of Service Research. 16(2). 186–201. 9 indexed citations

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Tsafarakis, Stelios & Nikolaos Matsatsinis. (2010). Designing Optimal Products: Algorithms and Systems. Studies in fuzziness and soft computing. 295–336. 1 indexed citations

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Tsafarakis, Stelios, Yannis Marinakis, & Nikolaos Matsatsinis. (2010). Particle swarm optimization for optimal product line design. International Journal of Research in Marketing. 28(1). 13–22. 4 indexed citations

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Tsafarakis, Stelios, Pavlos Delias, & Nikolaos Matsatsinis. (2010). Optimal product line design workflows using a service oriented architecture. 38. 18–23. 1 indexed citations

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Lakiotaki, Kleanthi, Stelios Tsafarakis, & Nikolaos Matsatsinis. (2008). UTA-Rec. 219–226. 38 indexed citations

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