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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A comprehensive review of quay crane scheduling, yard operations and integrations thereof in container terminals	64
Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility in a closed-loop supply chain under government subsidy and used products collection strategies	19
Optimizing construction schedules and material deliveries in city logistics: a case study from the building industry	17
Order review and release in make-to-order flow shops: analysis and design of new methods	14
Condition-based maintenance strategy optimization of meta-action unit considering imperfect preventive maintenance based on Wiener process	14
Robust berth scheduling using machine learning for vessel arrival time prediction	13
Subsidy policies and operational strategies for multiple competing photovoltaic supply chains	12
A heuristic algorithm for identical parallel machine scheduling: splitting jobs, sequence-dependent setup times, and limited setup operators	11
Robust container slot allocation with uncertain demand for liner shipping services	10
Integrating preventive maintenance to two-stage assembly flow shop scheduling: MILP model, constructive heuristics and meta-heuristics	10
Robust scheduling and dispatching rules for high-mix collaborative manufacturing systems	9
Defining accurate delivery dates in make to order job-shops managed by workload control	9
Supply chain information sharing under consideration of bullwhip effect and system robustness	9
The integrated orderline batching, batch scheduling, and picker routing problem with multiple pickers: the benefits of splitting customer orders	8
Revenue management with two fare classes in synchromodal container transportation	8
A multi-objective mathematical model and evolutionary algorithm for the dual-resource flexible job-shop scheduling problem with sequencing flexibility	8
Deep learning models for vessel’s ETA prediction: bulk ports perspective	8
To team up or not: single versus team driving in European road freight transport	7
Planning hinterland container transportation in congested deep-sea terminals	7
Addressing consistency and demand uncertainty in the Home Care planning problem	7
Improving emergency department performance by revising the patient–physician assignment process	6
Ramping up a heuristic procedure for storage location assignment problem with precedence constraints	6
Sustainable partial backordering inventory model under linked-to-order credit policy and all-units discount with capacity constraint and carbon emissions	6
Simulation optimization iteration approach on traffic integrated yard allocation problem in transshipment terminals	6
Determining the optimal piecewise constant approximation for the nonhomogeneous Poisson process rate of Emergency Department patient arrivals	6

A Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm for the flexible job-shop scheduling in manufacturing systems	6
Order and rack sequencing in a robotic mobile fulfillment system with multiple picking stations	6
Integrated optimization on production scheduling and imperfect preventive maintenance considering multi-degradation and learning-forgetting effects	6
Solving the picker routing problem in multi-block high-level storage systems using metaheuristics	6
Self-adaptive memetic algorithms for multi-objective single machine learning-effect scheduling problems with release times	5
Demand modelling for emergency medical service system with multiple casualties cases: k-inflated mixture regression model	5
Machine-based identification system via optical character recognition	5
Integrated production and maintenance planning under uncertain demand with concurrent learning of yield rate	5
Balancing earliness and tardiness within workload control order release: an assessment by simulation	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
Leasing or selling? The channel choice of durable goods manufacturer considering consumers’ capital constraint	5
Anticipatory approach for dynamic and stochastic shipment matching in hinterland synchromodal transportation	5
A bi-objective multi-population biased random key genetic algorithm for joint scheduling quay cranes and speed adjustable vehicles in container terminals	5
Tiered prediction models for port vessel emissions inventories	4
Optimizing production levels in maritime inventory routing with load-dependent speed optimization	4
Flexible master surgery scheduling: combining optimization and simulation in a rolling horizon approach	4
Information sharing in decentralised supply chains with partial collaboration	4
Choice-driven location-allocation model for healthcare facility location problem	4
Bullwhip effect in closed-loop supply chains with multiple reverse flows: a simulation study	4
Maritime inventory routing with transshipment: the case of Yamal LNG	3
Social equity in supplier–buyer relationships in smallholder agri-food supply chains	3
Modeling the effect of imperfect staggering in product inflow using queuing theory: revisiting block stacking layout	3
Sequencing and routing in a large warehouse with high degree of product rotation	3
Integrated optimization of electric vehicles charging location and allocation for valet charging service	3
Physician scheduling for outpatient department with nonhomogeneous patient arrival and priority queue	3
Energy-efficient on/off control in serial production lines with Bernoulli machines	3
Integrated task sequence planning and assignment for human–robot collaborative assembly station	3
Berth planning and real-time disruption recovery: a simulation study for a tidal port	3
A new method for a class of parallel batch machine scheduling problem	3
Data-driven dynamic stacking strategy for export containers in container terminals	3
Modeling and scheduling of production systems by using max-plus algebra	2
Balancing and sequencing of mixed-model assembly line considering preventive maintenance scenarios: mathematical model and a migrating birds optimization algorithm	2
Scheduling and loading problem for multiple, identical dry kilns	2
The emergency department physician rostering problem: obtaining equitable solutions via network optimization	2
Improving coordination in assembly job shops: redesigning order release and dispatching	2
A data-driven multi-fidelity simulation optimization for medical staff configuration at an emergency department in Hong Kong	2
A reinforcement learning/ad-hoc planning and scheduling mechanism for flexible and sustainable manufacturing systems	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
Incorporating shifting bottleneck identification in assembly line balancing problem using an artificial immune system approach	2
A two-step evolutionary algorithm for the distributor’s pallet loading problem with multi-size pallets	2
Quick dispatching-rules-based solution for the two parallel machines problem under mold constraints	2
Robotic stochastic assembly line balancing	2
Dynamic planning with reusable healthcare resources: application to appointment scheduling	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
A performance model for mobile robot-based part feeding systems to supermarkets	2
Elite solutions and Tabu assisted variable neighbourhood descent for rescheduling problems in the steelmaking-refining-continuous casting process	2
Capacity planning in a decentralized autologous cell therapy manufacturing network for low-cost resilience	2
The shunting scheduling of EMU first-level maintenance in a stub-end depot	1
A three-stage matheuristic for home blood donation appointment reservation and collection routing	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
A review of current trends and future directions in reverse logistics research	1
Mathematical models for mobile network member’s coordination through coverage development-based contract	1
Assigning orders and pods to picking stations in a multi-level robotic mobile fulfillment system	1
Robust facility location with structural complexity and demand uncertainty	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
Computationally efficient approximate dynamic programming for multi-site production capacity planning with uncertain demands	1
Concurrent scheduling of jobs and AGVs in a flexible job shop system: a parallel hybrid PSO-GA meta-heuristic	1
Efficient heuristics to minimize the total tardiness of chemotherapy drug production and delivery	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
Decision modeling of the challenges to human–robot collaboration in industrial environment: a real world example of an emerging economy	1
Performance analysis of a drop-swap terminal to mitigate truck congestion at chemical sites	1
Optimal product service system configuration considering pairing utility and uncertain customer behavior	1
A heuristic for the critical chain scheduling problem based on left shifts of activities	1
Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	1
The max–min newsvendor pricing problem under conditional value-at-risk criterion	1
A digital twin-driven flexible scheduling method in a human–machine collaborative workshop based on hierarchical reinforcement learning	1
Modeling and data analytics in manufacturing and supply chain operations	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
Integrated maintenance and production scheduling for unrelated parallel machines with setup times	1
A prediction model of patient satisfaction: policy evaluation and sensitivity analysis	1
Cooperative and non-cooperative algorithms for distributed parallel jobs scheduling	1
Flexible scheduling of diagnostic tests in automotive manufacturing	1
Capacity management of CT department with service time differences and emergency nonpreemptive priority	1
Cost optimization in the $$(S-1, S)$$ backorder inventory model with two demand classes and rationing	1