This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held on September 23, 2019, in Gazimagusa, North Cyprus, Turkey. It covers a wide range of topics, including decision analysis, supply chain management, systems modelling and quality control. Further, special emphasis is placed on the state of the art and the challenges of digital disruption, as well as effective strategies that can be used to change organizational structures and eliminate the barriers that are keeping industries from taking full advantage of today's digital technologies.

Reports on cutting-edge topics in engineering and technology management Describes business strategies for the digital transformation Merges a diverse range of perspectives, e.g. industrial, academic, and economic

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3-D Printing a Non-Disrupting Technology for Sales, Distribution, and Logis-tics.- A Comparative Study of Multiple Objectives for Disaster Relief Logistics.- An Integrated Employability Aptitude Survey-Cognitive Test Model for As-sessing Students' Skills Retention Threshold.- Optimal Order Quantity for the Mean-Variance Newsvendor Problem with Stockout.- Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Students' Perceptions and Attitudes.- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines.- Research Areas and Suggestions for Sustainable Manufacturing Systems.- Binary Satin Bowerbird Optimizer for the Set Covering Problem.- Crew Constrained Home Health Care Routing Problem with Time Windows and Synchronized Visits.- Multi-Criteria Group Decision Making in the Selection of CNC Woodworking Machinery.- A Mathematical Model and an Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for In-Plant Milk-Run Design.- Predicting the Medical Tourism Demand of Turkey.- Effects of the Awareness of University's CSR on Students' Word-of-Mouth Intentions.- The Effect of Working from Home on Work and Private Life: Automotive Sector Application.- Selection of Optimum Maintenance Strategy using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approaches.- Strategy Proposals for the Preference of SMEs as Workplace.- Ergonomic Review of University Library Furniture: A Case Study of Cyprus International University.- Digital Twins for Industry 4.0: A Review.- Simulation of Factory 4.0: A Review.- Operator 4.0 and Cognitive Ergonomics.- A Study on the Adoption of Smart Home Devices: PLS Structural Equation Modeling.- Segmentation of Social Media Users: A Means-End Chain Approach.- Motivators for the Second-hand Shopping through Mobile Commerce.- Profit Allocation in the Turkish Electricity Industry Based on Cooperative Game Theory.- Open Data Availability and Suitability for Financial Analyses.- The Moderating Effect of Long-Term Orientation on the Relationship among Human Capital Research, Business Sophistication, and Knowledge & Tech-nology Outputs.- Analysis of the Relationship between Strategic Management Application and Innovation Level.- Research on the Interaction between Patient Satisfaction, Service Quality, Organizational Image and Trust in a Training and Research Hospital.- Gamification of Upper Limb Tangible-Wearable Rehabilitation Devices.- Prioritization of Factors of Breast Cancer Treatment Using Fuzzy AHP.- Mathematical Models of HIV: Methodologies and Applications.- Modelling Hepatitis C Infections Among People Who Inject Drugs in Turkey: Is HCV Elimination Possible?.