E-Business Centre of Excellence

Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Principal Investigators: Prof. M K Tiwari & Prof M Jenamani
VISION: MISSION:
To act as a hub of E-Business research and applications with specific To realize our vision through interdisciplinary research, education and consultation in
interest in manufacturing and logistics the area of E-Business, manufacturing and logistics aligned with National Interest

OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES SO FAR UPCOMING EVENTS

Research and Development Central Theme Research Domains  Digital strategies for procurement,
 Development of E-business sales and marketing : An exclusive
research leadership Web Data Analytics Supply Chain Analytics training program designed for industries
 Solving real-life industry problems and academic researchers
Recommender
Green Supply Chain
Systems  Workshop on Decision Support Models
Skill Development
for E-Business and Supply Chain: A
Opinion Mining Cloud Manufacturing lecture series with complete blend of
 New course in general curriculum
 Short term courses experts from industry and academia
 Invited lecture series Information Diffusion Public Transportation
 Providing Internship opportunities
 UPYOGITA:
Social Network City Logistics, RFID in Crowd sourcing for knowledge
Industry Support accumulation and of E-Business
Analysis Supply Chain
innovations for manufacturing SMEs
 Development of Customized E-
Business models & applications Skill Development Activities Outreach Activities
Software
 Consultancy support Solutions
 Skill development programs Activities Delivered Activities Delivered
Regular Courses 1 Conference 1
Social Impact Analysis
UPYOGITA
Short Term Courses 1 Workshop 1 (Interest
 Study on ICT adoption issues and of MSMEs)
its Impact analysis in SMEs Invited/Guest Lectures 9 Technical Support to Industries 3 Websites and
 Study on applicability of latest E- Social E-business
Networking Solutions
business innovations in Internship Opportunities 4 MSME Connect 4 Application
manufacturing and supply chain

The Team
Principal Investigators Doctoral Students
Prof. MK Tiwari Yerasani Sinjana
Prof M Jenamani Sube Singh
Amit Singh
Co-Principal Investigators Juvvala Rambabu
Prof. B Mohanty Amit Ranjan
Prof. SP Sarmah Suman Banerjee
Prof. J.J Thakkar Sandeep Kumar Singh
Prof. JK Jha
Prof SK Kumar Master’ s Students
Prof. DK Pratihar Sujoy Bag
Prof. P Mitra Shashi Bhushan Jha
Prof. M Sarma Atanu Dey
Samridha Kumar
Bithika Pal
 Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering,
Participating  Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Departments  Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
 Center of Reliability Engineering
 E-Business Centre of Excellence
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Research Activities
WORK-IN-PROGRESS RESEARCH AREAS AND METHODOLOGIES WORK-IN-PROGRESS

 A decision support model for public transit Methodology/  A procedure to construct user network for
route network design and frequency setting Functional Area item recommendation and study of
problem
Technologies
information diffusion
Lean, Multi Criteria Decision

Supply Chain Analytics

Input Output Logistics, Public Input Output
(Bus Network) (Pareto front diagram) Making Tools, Evolutionary (User-Item Bipartite Graph) (User Network)
Transportation
Algorithm

Green Supply Chain Game Theory

Optimization & Soft

Cloud Manufacturing
Computing

RFID in Supply Chain Big data analytics

 A mathematical model for the realization of
Recommender
cloud manufacturing to facilitate resource Machine learning
Web Data Analytics

Systems  Development of domain specific N-Gram

pooling for SMEs lexicon for consumer review analysis
Graph Theory & Machine
Social Networking
Learning
Sentiment Analysis, Natural Language
Opinion Mining Processing
Stochastic Processes &
Information Diffusion
Simulation

 A Simulation model for vehicle’s waiting RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

time minimization during logistics
operations

 An algorithm to improve recommendation

accuracy and aggregate diversity

Nearest Neighbor
PUBLICATIONS 5 20 Different
Accuracy Diversity Accuracy Diversity Similarity
(%) (Number) (%) (Number)
Journals Conferences +28.82 +266 +22.47 +57 Cosine

Published 1 10 +27.07 +286 +21.21 +143 Pearson

+27.88 +244 +21.00 +66 Constrained
Submitted 3 1 Pearson

CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP
International Conference on E-Business and
Supply Chain Competitiveness (EBSCC 2016)
February 12-14, 2016
Workshop on Supply Chain Excellence
through E-Business
May 22, 2015
in collaboration with The Bengal Chamber
Commerce & Industry
BCCI Workshop
E-Business Centre of Excellence
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Outreach Activities
INDUSTRIAL SUPPORT
TECHNICAL SUPPORT CONSULTANCY SUPPORT
 Cost Structure of Road Transport Services  Multiple Truck Packing Cost  ZAPDEL:
An web application to estimate the cost of hiring An application to selecting trucks with An optimization toolkit has been developed to
trucks from delivery source to destination. optimal packing pattern for each while find the route with minimum expenditure to
minimizing the cost to the customer handle a crew of delivery boys with a fixed load
capacity
SOCIAL IMPACT STUDY
 Impact analysis of ICT adoption Barriers in
MSMEs
Cause Group Barriers Effect Group Barriers
Lack of ICT personnel at Insufficient technological
affordable cost infrastructure
Lack of group decisions Privacy and security concerns
Lack of customized
Lack of management vision
applications
Lack of confidence on service Resistance to organizational
provider changes
Lack of pressure from business
Financial constraints
partners
Lack of awareness about Unbalanced investment and
policies return benefits
Lack of awareness about exact
Low profitability
technological solutions
Lack of awareness about Frequent updates
benchmarking and its funding
MSME CONNECT
UPYOGITA
 Manufacturing SMEs from Aadityapur, Kolkata
and Ranchi will be invited to share their E-
business issues
 A crowd sourcing of young academic brains
with solution to selected problems with
customized software solutions and innovative
EBSCC 2016 E-Business models is proposed
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Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Skill Development

REGULAR COURSES GUEST LECTURES

REGULAR
COURSES
RECCOMENDER SYSTEM IN E-BUSINESS
(IM61023) A talk on "BigData: A game changer for
security and privacy.“
• Collaborative filtering by Prof. R K Shyamsundar,
• Content-based filtering
INTERNSHIP SHORT Senior Professor, (J.C. Bose National
• Model-based approaches OPPORTUN- TERM Fellow) School of Technology & Computer
• Knowledge-based recommender systems ITIES COURSES Science, TIFR Bombay
• Hybrid systems
ACADEMICS

INVITED LECTURES
A lecture on “User Generated Contents
Analysis”
by Prof. P Goyal,
Dept. of Computer Science and
•Key note lecture on GUEST INVITED Engineering,
Distributed Manufacturing at LECTURES LECTURES
National Institute of Advanced Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Studies (NIAS) by Prof. M K
Tiwari

•Invited lecture on Digital

Manufacturing in International
Conference organised by
Defence Research and A lecture on “Social Network Analysis”
Development Organisation by Mr. Vamsi Mohan,
(DRDO) by Prof. M K Tiwari.
Data Scientist,
Fidelity Investment, Bengaluru

SHORT TERM COURSE

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
WEB DATA ANALYTICS USING R AND
PYTHON
Centre provides internships opportunity on
• Introduction to Python and R interdisciplinary research areas like –
• Web Log Analytics Data Analytics, RFID Applications in supply
• Recommender Systems chain, Text Analytics, Meta-Heuristics and
• Social Network Analysis its applications
• User Generated Content Analysis