Computers & Operations Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Computers & Operations Research 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
A multi-algorithm approach for operational human resources workload balancing in a last mile urban delivery system450
A Graph Reinforcement Learning Framework for Neural Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search146
Novel mathematical formulations for parallel-batching processing machine scheduling problems119
Optimizing price, order quantity, and backordering level using a nonlinear holding cost and a power demand pattern112
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Addendum to “FPBH: A feasibility pump based heuristic for multi-objective mixed integer linear programming” [Comput. Oper. Res. 112 (2019) 104760]83
Arc routing with trip-balancing and attractiveness measures — A waste collection case study79
Using machine learning to identify hidden constraints in vehicle routing problems75
Logic-based Benders decomposition with a partial assignment acceleration technique for avionics scheduling74
Effective constructive heuristics for distributed no-wait flexible flow shop scheduling problem71
ILS-based algorithms for the profit maximizing uncapacitated hub network design problem with multiple allocation64
VNSMAS: A constraint-based portfolio profit maximization61
Integrated packing and routing: A model and its solutions59
Multi-objective shipment consolidation and dispatching problem58
A slope scaling heuristic for the multi-period strategic planning of carbon capture and storage56
Collaborative optimization of last-train timetables for metro network to increase service time for passengers55
Hybrid genetic search for the traveling salesman problem with hybrid electric vehicle and time windows52
On some lower bounds for the permutation flowshop problem52
An investigation of nature inspired algorithms on a particular vehicle routing problem in the presence of shift assignment51
Time window optimization for attended home service delivery under multiple sources of uncertainties51
Offline approximate value iteration for dynamic solutions to the multivehicle routing problem with stochastic demand50
Home healthcare staff dimensioning problem for temporary caregivers: A matheuristic solution approach50
A proactive aircraft recovery approach based on airport spatiotemporal network supply and demand coordination50
A logic-based Benders decomposition solution approach for two covering problems that consider the underlying transportation50
Sequential customers’ decisions in facility location with comparison-shopping49
Digital twin-enabled dynamic scheduling with preventive maintenance using a double-layer Q-learning algorithm49
Reducing disease spread through optimization: Limiting mixture of the population is more important than limiting group sizes47
Stochastic production routing problem for perishable products: Modeling and a solution algorithm47
Branch-and-price algorithms for large-scale mission-oriented maintenance planning problems47
Decentralized online integer programming problems with a coupling cardinality constraint46
Q-learning based hyper-heuristic with clustering strategy for combinatorial optimization: A case study on permutation flow-shop scheduling problem46
Stochastic inventory routing with dynamic demands and intra-day depletion44
Manufacturing rescheduling after crisis or disaster-caused supply chain disruption44
Approximate Condorcet Partitioning: Solving large-scale rank aggregation problems44
Coordinating visit interval and safety stock decisions in a two-level supply chain with shelf-life considerations43
MILP-based local search procedures for minimizing total tardiness in the No-idle Permutation Flowshop Problem43
Logic-based Benders decomposition for bi-objective parallel machine selection and job scheduling with release dates and resource consumption41
Intra-facility equity in discrete and continuous p-facility locati40
A genetic algorithm to solve the production lot-sizing problem with capacity adjustment39
Selection hyper-heuristics for the multi and many-objective quadratic assignment problem39
Scheduling jobs with shared additional operations on parallel identical machines38
High quality timetables for Italian schools38
Parallel branch-and-price algorithms for the single machine total weighted tardiness scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times38
Models and algorithms for configuring and testing prototype cars38
A risk index model for uncertain portfolio selection with background risk37
Exact algorithms for a parallel machine scheduling problem with workforce and contiguity constraints37
Two-stage multi-neighborhood simulated annealing for uncapacitated examination timetabling37
A graph theoretic approach to non-anticipativity constraint generation in multistage stochastic programs with incomplete scenario sets37
The pollution-routing problem with speed optimization and uneven topography37
Feature and functional form selection in additive models via mixed-integer optimization36
An efficient optimisation procedure for the Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem: Lagrangian relaxation and iterated local search36
Efficient arc-flow formulations for makespan minimisation on parallel machines with a common server36
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Batch processing machine scheduling problems using a self-adaptive approach based on dynamic programming35
An ALNS metaheuristic for the family multiple traveling salesman problem35
Hybrid-biased genetic algorithm for packing unequal rectangles into a fixed-size circle34
A threshold search based memetic algorithm for the disjunctively constrained knapsack problem34
Benders decomposition applied to profit maximizing hub location problem with incomplete hub network34
Revisiting the development trajectory of parallel machine scheduling34
Managing hospital inpatient beds under clustered overflow configuration33
A reinforcement learning guided hybrid evolutionary algorithm for the latency location routing problem33
Metaheuristics for the bi-objective resource-constrained project scheduling problem with time-dependent resource costs: An experimental comparison33
Project scheduling cost optimization based on resource transfer costs and robustness33
The integrated on-demand bus routing problem: Combining on-demand buses with a high-frequency fixed line public transport network32
A variable neighborhood search-based algorithm with adaptive local search for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and multi-depots aiming for vehicle fleet reduction31
A hub-and-spoke network design for relocating emergency service vehicles31
A multi-objective linear programming model for scheduling part families and designing a group layout in cellular manufacturing systems30
A hybrid metaheuristic for smart waste collection problems with workload concerns30
Collaborative optimization of routing and storage strategy of multi-period multimodal transport in an uncertain environment30
A strategic oscillation simheuristic for the Time Capacitated Arc Routing Problem with stochastic demands30
Minimizing the makespan on two parallel machines with a common server in charge of loading and unloading operations30
An exact two-phase approach to re-optimize tours in home care planning29
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Heterogeneous fleet management for one-way electric carsharing system with optional orders, vehicle relocation and on-demand recharging29
A heuristic approach for the integrated production–transportation problem with process flexibility29
Optimal sequencing using a scheduling heuristic29
Branch-and-refine for solving time-expanded MILP formulations29
Rectangle packing with a recursive Pilot Method28
Symmetric projection group approach for promoting homogeneity in the analytic hierarchy process28
Optimization of a stochastic joint replenishment inventory system with service level constraints28
Optimal area polygonization problems: Exact solutions through geometric duality28
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Data-driven project portfolio selection: Decision-dependent stochastic programming formulations with reliability and time to market requirements28
Location and routing of armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and carrier platforms against mobile targets27
Compact integer linear programming formulations for the temporal bin packing problem with fire-ups27
Optimisation of steel rolling schedule based on evolutionary multi-tasking transfer algorithm27
Fleet and charging infrastructure decisions for fast-charging city electric bus service27
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A fast algorithm for quadratic resource allocation problems with nested constraints27
Improving energy aware nanosatellite task scheduling by a branch-cut-and-price algorithm27
On serial and parallel evaluation functions for Job Sequencing and Tool Switching problems27
Multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling based on feature information optimization algorithm27
Lexicographic optimization-based approaches to learning a representative model for multi-criteria sorting with non-monotonic criteria26
Exact and approximate heuristics for the rectilinear Weber location problem with a line barrier26
A hybrid genetic algorithm based on a two-level hypervolume contribution measure selection strategy for bi-objective flexible job shop problem26
An implementor-adversary approach for uncertain and time-correlated service times in the nurse-to-patient assignment problem26
Multistage adaptive robust optimization for the hydrothermal scheduling problem26
Closed-loop supply chain network design with price-greenness-sensitive demand: A distributionally robust chance-constrained optimization approach25
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Multistage adaptive distributionally robust optimization for the medical supplies distribution problem with uncertain demand in humanitarian aid25
Data-driven integrated home service staffing and capacity planning: Stochastic optimization approaches25
Benders decomposition algorithms for minimizing the spread of harmful contagions in networks25
Efficient iterative optimization to real-time train regulation in urban rail transit networks combined with Benders decomposition method25
Solving the 1-median problem on a network with continuous demand and demand surplus25
Revenue optimization in energy networks involving self-scheduled demand and a smart grid25
Scheduling identical serial-batching machines in the engine manufacturing supply chain by an integrated variable neighborhood search algorithm25
A feature correlation reinforce clustering and evolutionary algorithm for the green bike-sharing reposition problem25
Heuristic and metaheuristic procedures for the buffer sizing problem in parallel assembly lines balancing problem with multi-line workstations and different cycle times24
Heuristic and metaheuristic procedures for the Parallel Assembly Lines Balancing Problem with multi-line workstations and buffer sizing24
Robustness evaluation of trust and reputation systems using a deep reinforcement learning approach24
A hybrid algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with AND/OR Precedence Constraints and time windows24
Robust optimization for lot-sizing problems under yield uncertainty23
Off-line approximate dynamic programming for the vehicle routing problem with a highly variable customer basis and stochastic demands23
An improved genetic algorithm for the integrated satellite imaging and data transmission scheduling problem23
Two-echelon collaborative routing problem with heterogeneous crowd-shippers23
Automatic generation of algorithms for robust optimisation problems using Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming23
Multi- and many-objective path-relinking: A taxonomy and decomposition approach23
An improved decomposition-based heuristic for truck platooning22
Collaborative vehicle-drone distribution network optimization for perishable products in the epidemic situation22
New method for solving Ivanov regularization-based support vector machine learning22
A branch-cut-and-price approach for the two-echelon vehicle routing problem with drones22
The container premarshalling problem under limited crane time: A constraint programming approach22
Model and metaheuristic for human–robot collaboration assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem22
The ethical shortlisting problem22
Location and two-echelon inventory network design with economies and diseconomies of scale in facility operating costs22
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A decomposition approach for the stochastic asset protection problem22
Robust optimization for the electric vehicle pickup and delivery problem with time windows and uncertain demands21
Flexible electricity market clearing zones21
Solving the Capacitated Dispersion Problem with variable neighborhood search approaches: From basic to skewed VNS21
Epsilon Oscillation Algorithm for the bi-objective green identical parallel machine scheduling problem21
The aquaculture service vessel routing problem with time dependent travel times and synchronization constraints21
Vehicle routing problem for omnichannel retailing including multiple types of time windows and products21
The exam location problem: Mathematical formulations and variants21
A new composite heuristic to minimize the total tardiness for the single machine scheduling problem with variable and flexible maintenance21
Minimum cost consensus model considering dual behavior preference21
Integer programming approaches to the multiple team formation problem21
Simultaneous predictive maintenance and inventory policy in a continuously monitoring system using simulation optimization21
Heuristic algorithm for nested Markov decision process: Solution quality and computational complexity21
A numerical optimization approach for pricing components in customer defined bundles in a B2B market21
Fair allocation of personal protective equipment to health centers during early phases of a pandemic21
Approximation algorithms for job scheduling with block-type conflict graphs21
Railway disruption management: Designing bus bridging services under uncertainty20
A comparison of alternative models for solving a non-linear single plant Hydro Unit Commitment problem20
A modified variable neighborhood search algorithm for dynamic lot-sizing with supplier selection under varying delivery time quotation20
The Impact of Partial Production Capacity Sharing via Production as a Service20
A hybrid genetic algorithm for the min–max Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem20
Automatic design of constructive heuristics for a reconfigurable distributed flowshop group scheduling problem20
Benders decomposition for the large-scale probabilistic set covering problem20
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Erratum to “Benders decomposition for a period-aggregated resource leveling problem with variable job duration” [Comput. Oper. Res. 132 (2021) 105258]20
The low-carbon vehicle routing problem with dynamic speed on steep roads20
A robust ordered weighted averaging loss model for portfolio optimization20
Benders decomposition for a period-aggregated resource leveling problem with variable job duration20
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A MaxSAT approach for solving a new Dynamic Discretization Discovery model for train rescheduling problems19
Chance constrained unit commitment approximation under stochastic wind energy19
Newton-based approach to solving K-SVCR and Twin-KSVC multi-class classification in the primal space19
Strip based compact formulation for two-dimensional guillotine cutting problems19
An efficient iterated local search for the minimum quasi-clique partitioning problem19
Faster Maximum Feasible Subsystem solutions for dense constraint matrices19
A constraint programming-based iterated greedy algorithm for the open shop with sequence-dependent processing times and makespan minimization19
The continuous delayed distribution problem19
Hub location problem considering spoke links with incentive-dependent capacities18
UAV routing for reconnaissance mission: A multi-objective orienteering problem with time-dependent prizes and multiple connections18
An algorithm for the microaggregation problem using column generation18
Towards green manufacturing: Co-optimizing capacity expansion planning of production and renewable energy generation with endogenous uncertainty18
The vehicle routing problem with drones and drone speed selection18
Minimizing passenger waiting time in the multi-route bus fleet allocation problem through distributionally robust optimization and reinforcement learning18
Multistage robust discrete optimization via quantified integer programming18
A simheuristic algorithm for the portfolio optimization problem with random returns and noisy covariances18
A graph-based constraint programming approach for the integrated process planning and scheduling problem18
A branch-and-bound algorithm for the proactive resource-constrained project scheduling problem with a robustness maximization objective18
Dock assignment and truck scheduling problem; consideration of multiple scenarios with resource allocation constraints18
Designing a portfolio-based closed-loop supply chain network for dairy products with a financial approach: Accelerated Benders decomposition algorithm18
A multi-tiered vehicle routing problem with global cross-docking18
The effect of different mathematical formulations on a matheuristic algorithm for the production routing problem18
Reducing the feasible solution space of resource-constrained project instances18
Multi-period hub location problem considering polynomial time-dependent demand18
Dynamic parcel pick-up routing problem with prioritized customers and constrained capacity via lower-bound-based rollout approach18
A survey of adaptive large neighborhood search algorithms and applications18
A family of hybrid conjugate gradient method with restart procedure for unconstrained optimizations and image restorations17
Stochastic mixed-integer programming for a spare parts inventory management problem17
Perishable inventory control with backlogging penalties: A mixed-integer linear programming model via two-step approximation17
A Large Neighbourhood Search Algorithm for Solving Container Loading Problems17
Interval scheduling with economies of scale17
An improved MOEA/D for multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling by considering efficiency and cost17
Balancing U-type assembly lines with human–robot collaboration17
Verifying new instances of the multidemand multidimensional knapsack problem with instance space analysis17
A branch-and-cut-and-price algorithm for shared mobility considering customer satisfaction17
A reduced variable neighborhood search for the just in time job shop scheduling problem with sequence dependent setup times17
Two-echelon supply chain network design with trade credit17
Reentrant open shop scheduling problem with time lags and no-wait constraints17
Integrated lot sizing and blending problems17
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Exact method to optimize the total electricity cost in two-machine permutation flow shop scheduling problem under Time-of-use tariff17
A relax-and-fix and fix-and-optimize algorithm for a Maritime Inventory Routing Problem17
A unified exact approach for Clustered and Generalized Vehicle Routing Problems16
The Ordered Median Tree Location Problem16
An exact algorithm for the preemptive single machine scheduling of equal-length jobs16
A combinatorial optimization approach to scenario filtering in portfolio selection16
The static ridesharing routing problem with flexible locations: A Norwegian case study16
Solving binary-constrained mixed complementarity problems using continuous reformulations16
Project scheduling to minimize the makespan under flexible resource profiles and marginal diminishing returns of the resource16
Improving the efficiency of patient diagnostic specimen collection with the aid of a multi-modal routing algorithm16
Adaptive large neighborhood search for drayage routing problems involving longer combination vehicles16
A discrete-event simulation model for the Bitcoin blockchain network with strategic miners and mining pool managers16
Solution algorithms for dock scheduling and truck sequencing in cross-docks: A neural branch-and-price and a metaheuristic16
Online optimisation for ambulance routing in disaster response with partial or no information on victim conditions16
Robust MILP formulations for the two-stage weighted vertex p-cente16
A new mixed integer programming approach for inverse correspondence analysis16
Shore hydrogen deployment problem in green ports16
Distributionally robust chance-constrained kernel-based support vector machine16
Stochastic resource leveling in projects with flexible structures15
An iteratively doubling binary search for the two-dimensional irregular multiple-size bin packing problem raised in the steel industry15
A variable neighborhood search for parcel delivery by vehicle with drone cycles15
Using VRPSolver to efficiently solve the Differential Harvest Problem15
A fuzzy correlation based heuristic for Dual-mode integrated Location routing problem15
Self-adaptive randomized constructive heuristics for the multi-item capacitated lot sizing problem15
A two-stage integer programming model considering transaction equivalence for privacy preservation15
A comparative cost assessment of coalescing epidemic control strategies in heterogeneous social-contact networks15
Dynamic community partitioning for e-commerce last mile delivery with time window constraints15
A column generation-based algorithm for midterm nurse scheduling with specialized constraints, preference considerations, and overtime15
Adjusting the order crossover operator for capacitated vehicle routing problems15
Optimal fleet deployment for electric vehicle sharing systems with the consideration of demand uncertainty15
An accelerated Benders decomposition method for distributionally robust sustainable medical waste location and transportation problem15
Minimizing the sum of completion times on a single machine with health index and flexible maintenance operations15
Integrating order picking and vehicle routing decisions in a dynamic e-commerce setting15
Assembly planning by disjunctive programming and geometrical reasoning15
Disruption recovery for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows—A scenario-based approach for online food delivery15
A value function-based approach for robust surgery planning15
Routing and scheduling of platform supply vessels in offshore oil and gas logistics15
A systematic review of permutation flow shop scheduling with due-date-related objectives15
Shelter location–allocation problem for disaster evacuation planning: A simulation optimization approach14
Mixed integer programming approaches to partial disassembly line balancing and sequencing problem14
Integrated optimization of pilot and pilot carrier routing in seaports14
A computational study on ant colony optimization for the traveling salesman problem with dynamic demands14
Reinforcement learning-enhanced variable neighborhood search strategies for the k14
Computing representations using hypervolume scalarizations14
Portfolio optimisation: Bridging the gap between theory and practice14
Distributionally robust single machine scheduling with release and due dates over Wasserstein balls14
Planning and design of intermodal hub networks: A literature review14
Scattered storage assignment: Mathematical model and valid inequalities to optimize the intra-order item distances14
Satellite Scheduling Problems: A survey of applications in Earth and outer space observation14
N-NEH+ algorithm for solving permutation flow shop problems14
Can efficiency evaluation be applied to power plant operation improvement? A combined method with modified weighted russell directional distance model and pattern matching14
A double-oracle, logic-based Benders decomposition approach to solve the K14
Big data efficiency analysis: Improved algorithms for data envelopment analysis involving large datasets14
One-dimensional stock cutting resilient against singular random defects14
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