OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility in a closed-loop supply chain under government subsidy and used products collection strategies	21
Robust berth scheduling using machine learning for vessel arrival time prediction	16
Order review and release in make-to-order flow shops: analysis and design of new methods	15
Condition-based maintenance strategy optimization of meta-action unit considering imperfect preventive maintenance based on Wiener process	14
Robust container slot allocation with uncertain demand for liner shipping services	13
Subsidy policies and operational strategies for multiple competing photovoltaic supply chains	12
Sustainable partial backordering inventory model under linked-to-order credit policy and all-units discount with capacity constraint and carbon emissions	12
Robust scheduling and dispatching rules for high-mix collaborative manufacturing systems	12
The integrated orderline batching, batch scheduling, and picker routing problem with multiple pickers: the benefits of splitting customer orders	11
Integrating preventive maintenance to two-stage assembly flow shop scheduling: MILP model, constructive heuristics and meta-heuristics	11
Defining accurate delivery dates in make to order job-shops managed by workload control	11
A heuristic algorithm for identical parallel machine scheduling: splitting jobs, sequence-dependent setup times, and limited setup operators	11
Addressing consistency and demand uncertainty in the Home Care planning problem	10
A multi-objective mathematical model and evolutionary algorithm for the dual-resource flexible job-shop scheduling problem with sequencing flexibility	10
Revenue management with two fare classes in synchromodal container transportation	10
Deep learning models for vessel’s ETA prediction: bulk ports perspective	9
Order and rack sequencing in a robotic mobile fulfillment system with multiple picking stations	9
A Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm for the flexible job-shop scheduling in manufacturing systems	9
Balancing earliness and tardiness within workload control order release: an assessment by simulation	9
Solving the picker routing problem in multi-block high-level storage systems using metaheuristics	9
To team up or not: single versus team driving in European road freight transport	8
A bi-objective multi-population biased random key genetic algorithm for joint scheduling quay cranes and speed adjustable vehicles in container terminals	8
Simulation optimization iteration approach on traffic integrated yard allocation problem in transshipment terminals	7
Machine-based identification system via optical character recognition	7
Anticipatory approach for dynamic and stochastic shipment matching in hinterland synchromodal transportation	7

Determining the optimal piecewise constant approximation for the nonhomogeneous Poisson process rate of Emergency Department patient arrivals	7
Ramping up a heuristic procedure for storage location assignment problem with precedence constraints	7
Tiered prediction models for port vessel emissions inventories	6
Self-adaptive memetic algorithms for multi-objective single machine learning-effect scheduling problems with release times	6
Leasing or selling? The channel choice of durable goods manufacturer considering consumers’ capital constraint	6
Integrated optimization on production scheduling and imperfect preventive maintenance considering multi-degradation and learning-forgetting effects	6
Information sharing in decentralised supply chains with partial collaboration	5
Integrated production and maintenance planning under uncertain demand with concurrent learning of yield rate	5
Data-driven dynamic stacking strategy for export containers in container terminals	5
Choice-driven location-allocation model for healthcare facility location problem	5
AI for in-line vehicle sequence controlling: development and evaluation of an adaptive machine learning artifact to predict sequence deviations in a mixed-model production line	5
Demand modelling for emergency medical service system with multiple casualties cases: k-inflated mixture regression model	5
Integrated task sequence planning and assignment for human–robot collaborative assembly station	4
Flexible master surgery scheduling: combining optimization and simulation in a rolling horizon approach	4
Physician scheduling for outpatient department with nonhomogeneous patient arrival and priority queue	4
Maritime inventory routing with transshipment: the case of Yamal LNG	4
Integrated optimization of electric vehicles charging location and allocation for valet charging service	4
Bullwhip effect in closed-loop supply chains with multiple reverse flows: a simulation study	4
Berth planning and real-time disruption recovery: a simulation study for a tidal port	4
Balancing and sequencing of mixed-model assembly line considering preventive maintenance scenarios: mathematical model and a migrating birds optimization algorithm	3
Social equity in supplier–buyer relationships in smallholder agri-food supply chains	3
Optimizing production levels in maritime inventory routing with load-dependent speed optimization	3
Sequencing and routing in a large warehouse with high degree of product rotation	3
Efficient heuristics to minimize the total tardiness of chemotherapy drug production and delivery	3
A memetic NSGA-II for the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with real-time energy tariffs	3
A performance model for mobile robot-based part feeding systems to supermarkets	3
A new method for a class of parallel batch machine scheduling problem	3
Robotic stochastic assembly line balancing	3
A reinforcement learning/ad-hoc planning and scheduling mechanism for flexible and sustainable manufacturing systems	3
A review of current trends and future directions in reverse logistics research	3
Assigning orders and pods to picking stations in a multi-level robotic mobile fulfillment system	3
Elite solutions and Tabu assisted variable neighbourhood descent for rescheduling problems in the steelmaking-refining-continuous casting process	3
Energy-efficient on/off control in serial production lines with Bernoulli machines	3
A two-step evolutionary algorithm for the distributor’s pallet loading problem with multi-size pallets	2
Capacity planning in a decentralized autologous cell therapy manufacturing network for low-cost resilience	2
A data-driven multi-fidelity simulation optimization for medical staff configuration at an emergency department in Hong Kong	2
Dynamic planning with reusable healthcare resources: application to appointment scheduling	2
Decision modeling of the challenges to human–robot collaboration in industrial environment: a real world example of an emerging economy	2
Integrated maintenance and production scheduling for unrelated parallel machines with setup times	2
Improving coordination in assembly job shops: redesigning order release and dispatching	2
The shunting scheduling of EMU first-level maintenance in a stub-end depot	2
Determining the pricing strategy for different preference structures for the earth observation satellite scheduling problem through simulation and VIKOR	2
Performance optimization of supply chain based on cooperative contract with disappointment-aversion strategic consumers	2
The emergency department physician rostering problem: obtaining equitable solutions via network optimization	2
Quick dispatching-rules-based solution for the two parallel machines problem under mold constraints	2
Computationally efficient approximate dynamic programming for multi-site production capacity planning with uncertain demands	2
Digital Twins in the Context of Seaports and Terminal Facilities	2
Modeling and scheduling of production systems by using max-plus algebra	2
A tabu-based adaptive large neighborhood search for scheduling unrelated parallel batch processing machines with non-identical job sizes and dynamic job arrivals	2
A prediction model of patient satisfaction: policy evaluation and sensitivity analysis	1

Assessment of coal supply chain under carbon trade policy by extended exergy accounting method	1
Lean and Industry 4.0 mitigating common losses in Engineer-to-Order theory and practice: an exploratory study	1
Robust multi-period capacity, location, and access of rural cardiovascular services under uncertainty	1
Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	1
A three-stage matheuristic for home blood donation appointment reservation and collection routing	1
Improving access to emergency medical services using advanced air mobility vehicles	1
Matheuristic approaches to the green sequencing and routing problem	1
Train maintenance personnel shift scheduling: case study	1
Multi-objective-based differential evolution for balancing production cost, diversity and aggregated performance attributes in product family design	1
Optimal product service system configuration considering pairing utility and uncertain customer behavior	1
Flexible scheduling of diagnostic tests in automotive manufacturing	1
A heuristic for the critical chain scheduling problem based on left shifts of activities	1
Concurrent scheduling of jobs and AGVs in a flexible job shop system: a parallel hybrid PSO-GA meta-heuristic	1
Cost optimization in the $$(S-1, S)$$ backorder inventory model with two demand classes and rationing	1
Modeling and data analytics in manufacturing and supply chain operations	1
Decision support for managing assortments, shelf space, and replenishment in retail	1
Formulations and exact solution approaches for a coupled bin-packing and lot-sizing problem with sequence-dependent setups	1
Designing a computer-vision-based artifact for automated quality control: a case study in the food industry	1
Mathematical models for mobile network member’s coordination through coverage development-based contract	1
Cooperative and non-cooperative algorithms for distributed parallel jobs scheduling	1
Data-driven aggregate modeling of a semiconductor wafer fab to predict WIP levels and cycle time distributions	1
Sparse flexible design: a machine learning approach	1
A digital twin-driven flexible scheduling method in a human–machine collaborative workshop based on hierarchical reinforcement learning	1
Capacity management of CT department with service time differences and emergency nonpreemptive priority	1
DSS approach for sustainable system design of shuttle-based storage and retrieval systems	1
Design of empty container depot layouts using data and analytics	1
A real options approach to value manufacturing flexibilities with regime-switching product demand	1