OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility in a closed-loop supply chain under government subsidy and used products collection strategies	22
Robust berth scheduling using machine learning for vessel arrival time prediction	19
Order and rack sequencing in a robotic mobile fulfillment system with multiple picking stations	14
The integrated orderline batching, batch scheduling, and picker routing problem with multiple pickers: the benefits of splitting customer orders	13
Subsidy policies and operational strategies for multiple competing photovoltaic supply chains	13
A multi-objective mathematical model and evolutionary algorithm for the dual-resource flexible job-shop scheduling problem with sequencing flexibility	13
Condition-based maintenance strategy optimization of meta-action unit considering imperfect preventive maintenance based on Wiener process	13
Robust container slot allocation with uncertain demand for liner shipping services	13
Addressing consistency and demand uncertainty in the Home Care planning problem	12
Robust scheduling and dispatching rules for high-mix collaborative manufacturing systems	12
Integrating preventive maintenance to two-stage assembly flow shop scheduling: MILP model, constructive heuristics and meta-heuristics	12
Sustainable partial backordering inventory model under linked-to-order credit policy and all-units discount with capacity constraint and carbon emissions	12
A Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm for the flexible job-shop scheduling in manufacturing systems	12
A heuristic algorithm for identical parallel machine scheduling: splitting jobs, sequence-dependent setup times, and limited setup operators	11
Deep learning models for vessel’s ETA prediction: bulk ports perspective	11
Ramping up a heuristic procedure for storage location assignment problem with precedence constraints	10
A bi-objective multi-population biased random key genetic algorithm for joint scheduling quay cranes and speed adjustable vehicles in container terminals	10
Solving the picker routing problem in multi-block high-level storage systems using metaheuristics	9
Balancing earliness and tardiness within workload control order release: an assessment by simulation	9
Integrated production and maintenance planning under uncertain demand with concurrent learning of yield rate	8
To team up or not: single versus team driving in European road freight transport	8
Integrated optimization on production scheduling and imperfect preventive maintenance considering multi-degradation and learning-forgetting effects	8
Tiered prediction models for port vessel emissions inventories	7
Machine-based identification system via optical character recognition	7
Bullwhip effect in closed-loop supply chains with multiple reverse flows: a simulation study	7

Determining the optimal piecewise constant approximation for the nonhomogeneous Poisson process rate of Emergency Department patient arrivals	7
Anticipatory approach for dynamic and stochastic shipment matching in hinterland synchromodal transportation	7
Integrated task sequence planning and assignment for human–robot collaborative assembly station	6
Digital Twins in the Context of Seaports and Terminal Facilities	6
Information sharing in decentralised supply chains with partial collaboration	6
Self-adaptive memetic algorithms for multi-objective single machine learning-effect scheduling problems with release times	6
A reinforcement learning/ad-hoc planning and scheduling mechanism for flexible and sustainable manufacturing systems	6
Assigning orders and pods to picking stations in a multi-level robotic mobile fulfillment system	6
Leasing or selling? The channel choice of durable goods manufacturer considering consumers’ capital constraint	6
A performance model for mobile robot-based part feeding systems to supermarkets	6
Data-driven dynamic stacking strategy for export containers in container terminals	6
Integrated optimization of electric vehicles charging location and allocation for valet charging service	5
Flexible master surgery scheduling: combining optimization and simulation in a rolling horizon approach	5
Efficient heuristics to minimize the total tardiness of chemotherapy drug production and delivery	5
Demand modelling for emergency medical service system with multiple casualties cases: k-inflated mixture regression model	5
Choice-driven location-allocation model for healthcare facility location problem	5
Maritime inventory routing with transshipment: the case of Yamal LNG	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
Elite solutions and Tabu assisted variable neighbourhood descent for rescheduling problems in the steelmaking-refining-continuous casting process	4
A memetic NSGA-II for the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with real-time energy tariffs	4
Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	4
Robotic stochastic assembly line balancing	4
Berth planning and real-time disruption recovery: a simulation study for a tidal port	4
Improving coordination in assembly job shops: redesigning order release and dispatching	4
A digital twin-driven flexible scheduling method in a human–machine collaborative workshop based on hierarchical reinforcement learning	4
Physician scheduling for outpatient department with nonhomogeneous patient arrival and priority queue	4