OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Scheduling is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Scheduling computations with provably low synchronization overheads	27
An efficient model-based branch-and-price algorithm for unrelated-parallel machine batching and scheduling problems	25
The flexibility of home away pattern sets	20
A graphical evaluation and review technique for scheduling construction projects	19
A quest for a fair schedule: The International Young Physicists’ Tournament	17
Real-world university course timetabling at the International Timetabling Competition 2019	17
Single-machine scheduling with resource-dependent processing times and multiple unavailability periods	16
Complexity of scheduling few types of jobs on related and unrelated machines	13
Scheduling of Earth observing satellites using distributed constraint optimization	11
Preface: the practice and theory of automated timetabling (2022)	11
Approximation algorithms for scheduling monotonic moldable tasks on multiple platforms	8
Scheduling with non-renewable resources: minimizing the sum of completion times	8
Task assignments with rotations and flexible shift starts to improve demand coverage and staff satisfaction in healthcare	8
In memoriam Gerhard Woeginger	7
Well-behaved online load balancing against strategic jobs	7
Introducing UniCorT: an iterative university course timetabling tool with MaxSAT	7
An improved approximation algorithm for a scheduling problem with transporter coordination	7
Hybrid-sched: a QoS adaptive offline–online scheduler for real-time tasks on multi-cores	7
A fix-and-optimize heuristic for the ITC2021 sports timetabling problem	6
A hybrid local search algorithm for the continuous energy-constrained scheduling problem	6
An exact solution with an improved running time for the routing flow shop problem with two machines	6
A cut-and-branch algorithm for the external candidates examination scheduling problem	6
Plant shutdown maintenance workforce team assignment and job scheduling	6
Selection hyper-heuristics and job shop scheduling problems: How does instance size influence performance?	6
Continuity of care in home health care scheduling: a rolling horizon approach	5

A note on the shifting bottleneck procedure for job shop scheduling	5
Project scheduling in a lean environment to maximize value and minimize overruns	5
Minimizing the expected waiting time of emergency jobs	5
On variants of a load-balancing problem with unit-load jobs	5
Serial batching to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs	5
A reinforcement learning algorithm for rescheduling preempted tasks in fog nodes	4
Mixed-model moving assembly line material placement optimization for a shorter time-dependent worker walking time	4
Optimizing rest times and differences in games played: an iterative two-phase approach	4
Tabu search for a parallel-machine scheduling problem with periodic maintenance, job rejection and weighted sum of completion times	4
Online scheduling to minimize total weighted (modified) earliness and tardiness cost	4
Routing two stacking cranes with predetermined container sequences	4
Scheduling of e-commerce packaging machines: blocking machines and their impact on the performance–waste tradeoff	4
The price of anarchy for a berth allocation game	4
A general scheme for solving a large set of scheduling problems with rejection in FPT time	4
Equitable scheduling on a single machine	4
A parallel ruin and recreate heuristic for personnel scheduling in a flexible working environment	4
Simulated annealing with penalization for university course timetabling	4
Advances in the practice and theory of automated timetabling	3
Joint replenishment meets scheduling	3
A multivariate complexity analysis of the material consumption scheduling problem	3
Scheduling with periodic availability constraints to minimize makespan	3
Network routing on regular digraphs and their line graphs	3
Calibrations scheduling with arbitrary lengths and activation length	3
Scheduling periodic I/O access with bi-colored chains: models and algorithms	3
Scheduling periodic messages on a shared link without buffering	3
Makespan minimization with OR-precedence constraints	3
Scheduling to maximize the weighted number of on-time jobs on parallel machines with bounded job-rejection	3
Maximizing barrier coverage lifetime with static sensors	3
Recoverable robust single machine scheduling with polyhedral uncertainty	3
A buffer allocation evolutionary algorithm for resource-constrained projects with activity clusters	3
A memetic algorithm to address the multi-node resource-constrained project scheduling problem	2
Single machine rescheduling for new orders with maximum and total time disruption constraints	2
Resource leveling: complexity of a unit execution time two-processor scheduling variant and related problems	2
Approximation algorithms for batch scheduling with processing set restrictions	2
A constructive branch-and-bound algorithm for the project duration problem with partially renewable resources and general temporal constraints	2
New Perspectives in Scheduling Theory	2
Local search approaches for the test laboratory scheduling problem with variable task grouping	2
Scheduling the repair and replacement of individual components in operating systems: a bi-objective mathematical optimization model	2
A large neighborhood search approach for the paint shop scheduling problem	2
Exact algorithms and approximation schemes for proportionate flow shop scheduling with step-deteriorating processing times	2
Correction to: Broadcasting a file in a communication network	2
Quick and situ-aware spatiotemporal scheduling for shipbuilding manufacturing	2
An analysis of the parameterized complexity of periodic timetabling	2
A polynomial-time dynamic programming algorithm for an optimal picking problem in automated warehouses	2
Mathematical challenges in scheduling theory	2
Preemptive scheduling of parallel jobs of two sizes with controllable processing times	2
Graph representation of the fixed route dial-a-ride problem	2
Scheduling a pick and place packaging line	2
Exact and metaheuristic methods for a real-world examination timetabling problem	1
Block-based state-expanded network models for multi-activity shift scheduling	1

Theoretical and practical issues in single-machine scheduling with two job release and delivery times	1
Competitive algorithms for demand response management in a smart grid	1
Investigating constraint programming and hybrid methods for real world industrial test laboratory scheduling	1
A solution framework for multi-skilled project scheduling problems with hierarchical skills	1
Tight approximation bounds for the LPT rule applied to identical parallel machines with small jobs	1
Approximating weighted completion time via stronger negative correlation	1
Fixed-parameter tractability of scheduling dependent typed tasks subject to release times and deadlines	1
A review and classification of scheduling objectives in unpaced flow shops for discrete manufacturing	1
Special Issue on papers from the 2019 Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems	1
Online algorithms to schedule a proportionate flexible flow shop of batching machines	1
Further connections between contract-scheduling and ray-searching problems	1
A mixed-integer programming approach for solving university course timetabling problems	1
Quantifying and enforcing robustness in staff rostering	1
Minimizing the earliness–tardiness for the customer order scheduling problem in a dedicated machine environment	1
Bi-criteria simulated annealing for the curriculum-based course timetabling problem with robustness approximation	1
A parallelized matheuristic for the International Timetabling Competition 2019	1
Scheduling a single machine with multiple due dates per job	1
The preemptive resource allocation problem	1
Minimizing the total tardiness and job rejection cost in a proportionate flow shop with generalized due dates	1
Twin-crane scheduling during seaside workload peaks with a dedicated handshake area	1
Editorial: Journal of Scheduling (2023)	1
A hybrid evolutionary approach to job-shop scheduling with generic time lags	1
More on ordered open end bin packing	1
Integrated break and carryover effect minimization	1
Exact and meta-heuristic approaches for the production leveling problem	1
Three notes on scheduling unit-length jobs with precedence constraints to minimize the total completion time	1