Journal publications

  • Paté-Cornell, M.E. and G. Tagaras, “Risk Costs for New Dams: Economic Analysis and Effects of Monitoring,” Water Resources Research, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 5-14, 1986.
  • Lee, H.L., K. Moinzadeh, and G. Tagaras, “A Model for Continuous Production Control with Warning Signals to Fault Occurrences,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 515-523, 1986.
  • Tagaras, G. and H.L. Lee, “Optimal Bayesian Single Sampling Plans with Modified Beta Prior Distribution,” Naval Research Logistics, Vol.34, No.6, pp. 789-801, 1987.
  • Paté-Cornell, M.E., H.L. Lee, and G. Tagaras, “Warnings of Malfunction: The Decision to Inspect and Maintain Production Processes on Schedule or on Demand,” Management Science, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 1277-1290, 1987.
  • Tagaras, G., “An Integrated Cost Model for the Joint Optimization of Process Control and Maintenance,” Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 39, No. 8, pp. 757-766, 1988.
  • Tagaras, G. and H.L. Lee, “Economic Design of Control Charts with Different Control Limits for Different Assignable Causes,” Management Science, Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 1347-1366, 1988.
  • Tagaras, G. and H.L. Lee, “Approximate Semieconomic Design of Control Charts with Multiple Control Limits,” Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 337-353, 1989.
  • Tagaras, G., “Effects of Pooling on the Optimization and Service Levels of Two-Location Inventory Systems,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 250-257, 1989.
  • Lee, H.L. and G. Tagaras, “On the Robustness of the Modified Beta Distribution for Acceptance Sampling in Statistical Quality Control,” Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 447-461, 1989.
  • Tagaras, G., “Economic X Charts with Asymmetric Control Limits,” Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 147-154, 1989.
  • Tagaras, G., “Power Approximations in the Economic Design of Control Charts,” Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 639-654, 1989.
  • Paté-Cornell, M.E., G. Tagaras, and K.M. Eisenhardt, “Dynamic Optimization of Cash Flow Management Decisions: A Stochastic Model” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 203-212, 1990.
  • Tagaras, G. and M.A. Cohen, “Pooling in Two-Location Inventory Systems with Non-Negligible Replenishment Lead Times,” Management Science, Vol. 38, Νο. 8, pp. 1067-1083, 1992.
  • Lee, H.L. and G. Tagaras, “Economic Acceptance Sampling Plans in Complex Multi-Stage Production Systems,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 30, No. 11, pp. 2615-2632, 1992.
  • De la Mare, R.F., Y.L. Bakouros and G. Tagaras, “Understanding Pipeline Failures Using Discriminant Analysis: The North Sea Application,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol.39, pp. 71-80, 1993.
  • Tagaras, G., “A Dynamic Programming Approach to the Economic Design of X-Charts,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 48-56, 1994.
  • Tagaras, G., P. Georgiadis and D. Psoinos, “Developing a Quality Assurance System for a Wine Producer in Greece,” Interfaces, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 1-13, 1994.
  • Tagaras, G., “Economic Acceptance Sampling by Variables with Quadratic Quality Costs,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 29-36, 1994.
  • Tagaras, G., “Dynamic Control Charts for Finite Production Runs,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 38-55, 1996.
  • Tagaras, G. and H.L. Lee, “Economic Models for Vendor Evaluation with Quality Cost Analysis,” Management Science, Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 1531-1543, 1996.
  • Nikolaidis, Y., D. Psoinos and G. Tagaras, “A more accurate formulation for a class of models for the economic design of control charts,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 1031-1037, 1997.
  • Tagaras, G. “A Survey of Recent Developments in the Design of Adaptive Control Charts,” Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 212-231, 1998.
  • Tagaras, G. “Pooling in multi-location periodic inventory distribution systems,” Omega, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 39-59, 1999.
  • Tagaras, G. and D. Vlachos, “A periodic review inventory system with emergency Replenishments,” Management Science, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 415-429, 2001.
  • Vlachos, D. and G. Tagaras, “An inventory system with two supply modes and capacity constraints,” International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 72, No. 1, 41-58, 2001.
  • Tagaras, G. and D. Vlachos, “Effectiveness of stock transshipment under various demand distributions and nonnegligible transshipment times,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 183-198, 2002.
  • Tagaras, G. and Y. Nikolaidis, “Comparing the effectiveness of various Bayesian control charts,” Operations Research, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 878-888, 2002.
  • Aronis, K.-P., Magou, I. Dekker, R. and G. Tagaras, “Inventory control of spare parts using a Bayesian approach: a case study”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 154, No. 3, pp. 730-739, 2004.
  • Nenes, G. and G. Tagaras, “The Economically Designed CUSUM Chart for Monitoring Short Production Runs,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 1569-1587, 2006.
  • Georgiadis, P, Vlachos, D. and G. Tagaras, “The Impact of Product Lifecycle on Capacity Planning of Closed-Loop Supply Chains with Remanufacturing,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 514-527, 2006.
  • Nikolaidis, Y., Rigas, G. and G. Tagaras, “Using Economically Designed Shewhart and Adaptive – Charts for Monitoring the Quality of Tiles,” Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 233-245, 2007.
  • Panagiotidou, S. and G. Tagaras, ”Optimal preventive maintenance for equipment with two quality states and general failure time distributions,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 180, No.1, pp. 329-353, 2007.
  • Zikopoulos, C. and G. Tagaras, “Impact of uncertainty in the quality of returns on the profitability of a single-period refurbishing operation,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 182, No. 1, pp. 205-225, 2007.
  • Nenes, G. and G. Tagaras, “The economically designed two-sided Bayesian control chart,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 183, No.1, pp. 263-277, 2007.
  • Nenes, G. and G. Tagaras, “An Economic Comparison of CUSUM and Shewhart Charts,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 133-146, 2008.
  • Zikopoulos, C. and G. Tagaras, “On the Attractiveness of Sorting before Disassembly in Remanufacturing,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 313-323, 2008.
  • Panagiotidou, S. and G. Tagaras, “Evaluation of maintenance policies for equipment subject to quality shifts and failures,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 40, No. 20, pp. 5761-5779, 2008.
  • Tagaras G. and C. Zikopoulos, “Optimal Location and Value of Timely Sorting of Used Items in a Remanufacturing Supply Chain with Multiple Collection Sites,” International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 115, No. 2, pp. 424-432, 2008.
  • Kapetanopoulou, P. and G. Tagaras, “An empirical investigation of value-added product recovery activities in SMEs using multiple case studies of OEMs and independent remanufacturers, Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 2009.
  • Panagiotidou, S. and G. Tagaras, “Statistical process control and condition-based maintenance: a meaningful relationship through data sharing,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 19, No.2, pp. 156-171, 2010.
  • Nenes, G. and G. Tagaras, “Evaluation of CUSUM Charts for Finite-Horizon Processes,” Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 578-597, 2010.
  • Nenes, G., Panagiotidou, S. and G. Tagaras, “Inventory management of multiple items with irregular demand: A case study,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 205, No. 2, pp. 313-324, 2010.
  • Kapetanopoulou, P. and G. Tagaras, “Drivers and Obstacles of Product Recovery Activities in the Greek Industry”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 148-166, 2011.
  • Panagiotidou, S. and G. Tagaras, “Optimal integrated process control and maintenance under general deterioration,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 104, pp. 58-70, 2012.
  • Gu, Q. and G. Tagaras, “Optimal collection and remanufacturing decisions in reverse supply chains with collector’s imperfect sorting,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 52, No. 17, pp. 5155-5570, 2014.
  • Zikopoulos, C. and G. Tagaras, “Reverse supply chains: Effects of collection network and returns classification on profitability,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 246, No. 2, pp. 435-449, 2015.
  • Panagiotidou, S., Nenes, G., Zikopoulos, C. and G. Tagaras, “Joint optimization of manufacturing/remanufacturing lot sizes under imperfect information on returns quality,” European Journal of Operational Research, 258, No. 2, pp. 537-551, 2017.
  • Nikolaidis, Y. and G. Tagaras, “New indices for the evaluation of the statistical properties of Bayesian  control charts for short runs,” European Journal of Operational Research, 259, No. 1, pp. 280-292, 2017.

Book chapters

  • Tagaras, G., “Economic Design of Time-Varying and Adaptive Control Charts,” in Optimization in Quality Control, K.S. Al-Sultan and M.. Rahim (eds.), pp. 145-173, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
  • Georgiadis, P., Tagaras, G. and D. Vlachos, “Long-term Analysis of Closed-loop Supply Chains”, in Reverse Logistics, Quantitative Models for Closed Loop Supply Chains, R. Dekker, M. Fleischmann, K. Inderfurth, and L.N. van Wassenhove (eds.), pp. 313-331, Springer, 2004.
  • Panagiotidou, S. and G. Tagaras, “End-of-life tire recovery: the Thessaloniki initiative,” in Managing Closed-Loop Supply Chains, S.D.P. Flapper, J.A.E.E. van Nunen, L.N. van Wassenhove (eds.), pp. 183-193, Springer, 2005.
  • Tagaras, G. and G. Nenes, “Two-Sided Bayesian Control Charts for Short Production Runs,” Bayesian Monitoring, Control and Optimization, B. M. Colosimo and E. del Castillo (eds.), pp. 167-186, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2006.
  • Fleischmann, M., Galbreth, M.R. and G. Tagaras, “Product Acquisition, Grading, and Disposition Decisions,“ in Closed Loop Supply Chains: New Developments to Improve the Sustainability of Business Practices, M.E. Ferguson and G.C. Souza (eds.), pp. 99-118, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, 2010.

International conference proceedings

  • Tagaras, G. and H.L. Lee, “Acceptance Sampling in Serial Production Systems,” 41st ASQC Quality Congress Transactions, Minneapolis, pp. 120-124, 1987.
  • Tagaras, G. and Y. Nikolaidis, “Economic Evaluation of Alternative Adaptive Control Charts for Variables,” 1998 MSOM Conference Proceedings, Seattle, pp. 24-29, 1998.
  • Reilly B., Vlachos D. and G. Tagaras, “A web-based innovative approach for teaching Reverse Logistics,” 17th International Logistics Congress, Thessaloniki, 401-409, 2001.
  • Nenes, G. and G. Tagaras, “The CUSUM Chart for Monitoring Short Production Runs,” Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Analysis of Manufacturing Systems – Production Management, Zakynthos, pp. 43-50, 2005.
  • Ζikopoulos, C. and G. Tagaras, “On the Location of Sorting Operations in a Single-Period Remanufacturing Setting,” Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Analysis of Manufacturing Systems – Production Management, Zakynthos, pp. 145-152, 2005.
  • Tagaras, G. and C. Zikopoulos, “Optimal Location and Value of Timely Sorting of Used Items in a Remanufacturing Supply Chain with Multiple Collection Sites,” Proceedings of International Workshop on Institutional View of SCM, Tokyo, pp. 290-315, 2006.
  • Kapetanopoulou, P. and G. Tagaras, “Drivers, obstacles, and future prospects of product recovery in four industrial sectors in Greece,” 7th International Logistics and Supply Chain Congress «Creating Difference in Information Era via Value Chains», Istanbul, pp. 513-519, 2009.
  • Kapetanopoulou, P. and G. Tagaras, “Practices, policies and perceptions of value recovery from used products: a comparison between SMEs and Large Enterprises,” 9th International Logistics and Supply Chain Congress «International Retail Logistics in the Value Era», Izmir, Vol. 1, pp. 187-195, 2011.