Dr. József Váncza

Senior Research Associate, Deputy Head of Laboratory

Address:	MTA SZTAKI, H-1111 Budapest XI. Kende u. 13-17, Hungary
Phone:	(36-1) 279-6299
Fax:	(36-1) 466-7503
E-mail:	vancza [at] sztaki [dot] mta [dot]hu

Current positions

Deputy Head of the Research Laboratory of Engineering and Management Intelligence, SZTAKI

Scientific Adviser, Fraunhofer Project Center for Production Management and Informatics, a joint initiative of Fraunhofer and SZTAKI

Associate Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Manufacturing Science and Technology

Education, scientific degrees

PhD. in Technical Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1994

MSc in Electrical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 1984

Fields of interest

General interest in Artificial Intelligence, Combinatorial Optimization and their application in Engineering and Production

Particular fields of interests: Computer-Aided Process Planning, Production Planning and Scheduling, Production Networks, Multi-Agent Systems, Coordination and Cooperation, Evolutionary Algorithms, Constraint Programming and Optimization

Organizations

International Academy for Production Engineering, (CIRP), Fellow

Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Representative of the Doctors of MTA

Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Committee of Automation and Computing, Member

International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) TC5.2 Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control, Member

International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) TC9.1 Economic, Business, and Financial Systems, Member

Awards

Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, Knight Cross (2008)

SZTAKI Award for outstanding research results (1995, 1998, 2004, 2009)

SZTAKI Publication Award (2007)

Bolyai Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1998)

Editorial boards

European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Inderscience, Associate editor

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, Associate editor

Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier

CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, Elsevier

Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, SAGE

Teaching activity

Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Manufacturing Science and Technology

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (I, II)
Production Planning and Control

Board of the Doctoral Schools, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, Member

József Hatvany Doctoral School of Information Science, Engineering and Technology, University of Miskolc, Hungary, Member

Board of the Doctoral Schools, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Informatics, University of Miskolc, Hungary, Member

Selected publications

Coordination and cooperation in production networks

Egri, P., Váncza, J.: A distributed coordination mechanism for supply networks with asymmetric information. European Journal of Operational Research, online, (2013).[doi][pdf]
Váncza, J., Monostori, L., Lutters, D., Kumara, S.R., Tseng, M., Valckenaers, P., Van Brussel, H.: Cooperative and responsive manufacturing enterprises. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 60:(2), 797-820, (2011). [doi]
Váncza, J., Egri, P., Karnok, D.: Planning in concert: A logistics platform for production networks. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 23(4), 297-307, (2010).[doi]
Ueda, K., Takenaka, T., Váncza, J., Monostori, L.: Value creation and decision-making in sustainable society. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 58:(2), 681-700,(2009).[doi]
Monostori, L, Kis, T., Váncza, J., Kádár, B. and Erdös, G.: Real-time, cooperative enterprises for customized mass production. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 22(1), 55-68, (2009). [doi]

Inventory control in supply chains

Kovács, A., Egri, P., Kis, T., Váncza, J.: Inventory control in supply chains: Alternative approaches to a two-stage lot-sizing problem. International Journal of Production Economics, accepted, (2012).[doi][pdf]
Egri, P., Váncza, J.: Channel coordination with the newsvendor model using asymmetric information. International Journal of Production Economics, 135:491-499, (2012).[doi]
Egri, P., Váncza, J.: Supply network coordination by vendor managed inventory -- A mechanism design approach, AILog 2011: 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Logistics at IJCAI 2011 (2011).[pdf]
Váncza, J., Egri, P., Monostori, L.: A Coordination mechanism for rolling horizon planning in supply networks. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 57(1), 455-458, (2008).[doi]
Váncza J., Egri, P.: Coordinating supply networks in customized mass production – A contract-based approach. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 55(1), 489-492, (2006).[doi]

Production scheduling

Nonaka, Y., Erdős, G., Kis, T., Nakano, T., Váncza, J.: Scheduling with alternative routings in CNC workshops. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 61(1), 449-454, (2012).[doi]
Tolio, T., Urgo, M., Váncza, J.: Robust production control against propagation of disruptions. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 60(1), 489-492, (2011).[doi]
Kovács, A., Váncza, J.: Progressive solutions: a simple but efficient dominance rule for practical RCPSP. Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems: Third International Conference, CPAIOR 2006 (eds. Beck, Ch., Smith, B.), Springer LNCS 3990, 139-151 (2006). [doi]
Kovács, A., Váncza, J.: Completable partial solutions in constraint programming and constraint-based scheduling. Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Proc. of CP2004 (ed. Wallace, M.), Springer LNCS 3258, 332-346, (2004). [doi]

Coordination in the European automotive industry

Egri, P., Döring, A., Timm, T., Váncza, J.: Collaborative planning with benefit balancing in Dynamic Supply Loops. CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, 4(3), 226-233, (2011). [doi]
Ericsson, R., Becker, R., Döring, A., Eckstein, H., Kopp, Th., Poslu, I., Váncza, J. (eds): From Build-to-Order to Customize-to-Order: Advancing the automotive industry by collaboration and modularity. Code of Practice findings of the EU-FP6 Project AC/DC—Automotive Chassis Development for 5-Days Cars, (2010) [pdf] (large file, save before opening)
Egri, P., Döring, A., Timm T., Váncza, J.: Collaborative Planning with Dynamic Supply Loops. In: Sustainable Production and Logistics in Global Networks (Sihn, W., Kuhlang, P. eds.), Proc. of the 43rd CIRP International Conference on Manufacturing Systems, 26-28 May, 2010, Vienna, pp. 844-851 [pdf]

Production systems

Tolio, T., Ceglarek, D., Elmaraghy, H.A., Fischer, A., Hu, S.J., Laperričre, L., Newman, S.T., Váncza, J.: SPECIES-Co-evolution of products, processes and production systems. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 59(2), 672-693 (2010).[doi]

Agents in manufacturing, agent-based planning and scheduling

Monostori, L., Váncza, J., Kumara, S.R.T.: Agent-based systems for manufacturing. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 55(2), 697-720, (2006), key-note paper. [doi]
Egri P., Váncza, J.: Cooperative planning in the supply network – A multiagent organization model. Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV (eds. Pechoucek, M., Petta, P., Varga, L. Zs.), Springer LNAI 3690, 346-356, (2005). [doi]
Váncza, J., Márkus, A.: An agent model for incentive-based production scheduling. Computers in Industry, 43(2), 173-187, (2000).[doi]
Márkus, A., Kis, T., Váncza, J., Monostori, L.: A market approach to holonic manufacturing. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 45(1), 433-436, (1996).[doi]
Kis, T., Váncza, J., Márkus, A.: Controlling distributed manufacturing systems by a market mechanism. Proc. of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ed. Wahlster, W.), Budapest, August 1996, Wiley, 534-538, (1996).

Production planning -- a project scheduling approach

Monostori, L., Erdős, G., Kádár, B., Kis, T., Kovács, A., Pfeiffer,. A., Váncza, J.: Digital enterprise solution for integrated production planning and control. Computers in Industry 61, (2010). [doi]
Kovács, A., Egri P., Kis, T., Váncza, J.: Proterv-II: An integrated production planning and scheduling system. Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Proc. of CP2005 (ed. van Beek, P.), Springer LNCS 3709, 880, (2005).[doi]
Váncza, J., Kis, T. Kovács, A.: Aggregation - the key to integrating production planning and scheduling. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 53(1), 377-380 (2004).[doi]
Márkus A., Váncza J., Kis, T., Kovács, A.: Project scheduling approach to production planning. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 52(1), 359-362, (2003).[doi]

Product line design

Márkus, A., Váncza, J.: Product line design with customer preferences. Proc. of the Fourteenth Int. Conf. on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, Budapest, 4-7, June 2001 (eds. Monostori, L., Váncza, J., Ali, M.), Springer LNAI 2070, 846-855, (2001).[doi]
Márkus, A., Váncza, J.: Product line development with customer interaction. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 47(1), 361-364, (1998).[doi]

Computer-assisted Process Planning (CAPP)

Nonaka, Y., Erdős, G., Kis, T., Kovács, A., Monostori, L., Nakano, T., Váncza, J.:Generating alternative process plans for complex parts, CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, online (2013), [doi]
Duflou, J.R., Váncza, J., Aerens, R.: Computer aided process planning for sheet metal bending: A state of the art. Computers in Industry, 56(7), 747-771 (2005).[doi]
Márkus, A., Váncza, J., Kovács, A.: Constraint-based process planning in sheet metal bending. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 51(1), 425-428, (2002).[doi]
Márkus, A., Váncza, J.: Process planning with conflicting and conditional advice. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 50(1), 327-330, (2001).[doi]
Váncza, J., Márkus, A.: A constraint engine for manufacturing process planning. Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – Proc. of CP 2001, 7th Int. Conf. (ed. Walsh, T.), Springer LNCS 2239, 745-759, (2001).[doi]
Márkus, A., Váncza, J., Horváth, M.: Process planning by retrieval and adaptation. Computers in Industry, 33, 47-60, (1997).[doi]
Váncza, J., Márkus, A.: Experiments with the integration of reasoning, optimization and generalization in process planning. Advances in Engineering Software, 25(1), 29-39, (1996).[doi]
Horváth, M., Márkus, A., Váncza, J.: Process planning with genetic algorithms on results of knowledge-based reasoning. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 9(2), 145-166, (1996).
Váncza J., Márkus A.: Genetic algorithms in process planning. Computers in Industry, 17(2-3), 181-194, (1991).[doi]

The complete list of publications and references can be accessed in the Publication Repository of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, here.

Key projects

RLW NAVIGATOR, Remote laser welding system navigator for eco & resilient automotive factories, Seventh Framework Project of the EU, (2012-2014), Principal investigator

VISIONAIR, A World-class infrastructure for advanced 3D visualization-based research, Seventh Framework Project of the EU, (2011-2014), Principal investigator

AC/DC, Automotive chassis development for the 5-days car, Sixth Framework Project of the EU, (2006-2010), Principal investigator

Supplier Collaboration Tool, GE Consumer and Industrial, Hungary (2008), Consultant, team leader

VRL KCiP NoE: Virtual Research Lab for Knowledge Community in Production, Sixth Framework Project of the EU (2004-2008), Principal investigator

Logistics Platform, GE Consumer and Industrial, Hungary (2007), Project leader

VITAL, Real-time cooperative enterprises, National Office for Research and Technology (2004-2007), Principal investigator

New project scheduling based approach to production planning, National Scientific Research Foundation, Hungary (2004-2006), Project leader

Digital factory and production networks, National Research and Development Programme (2001-2004), Principal investigator

FIRE, Plan of a cooperative bankcard fraud detection system, 11 banks operating in Hungary (2000), Project leader