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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Scheduling computations with provably low synchronization overheads	27
The flexibility of home away pattern sets	26
An efficient model-based branch-and-price algorithm for unrelated-parallel machine batching and scheduling problems	21
A graphical evaluation and review technique for scheduling construction projects	19
A quest for a fair schedule: The International Young Physicists’ Tournament	18
Single-machine scheduling with resource-dependent processing times and multiple unavailability periods	17
Real-world university course timetabling at the International Timetabling Competition 2019	17
Complexity of scheduling few types of jobs on related and unrelated machines	13
Scheduling of Earth observing satellites using distributed constraint optimization	13
Preface: the practice and theory of automated timetabling (2022)	12
Task assignments with rotations and flexible shift starts to improve demand coverage and staff satisfaction in healthcare	10
Approximation algorithms for scheduling monotonic moldable tasks on multiple platforms	10
In memoriam Gerhard Woeginger	8
An improved approximation algorithm for a scheduling problem with transporter coordination	8
Scheduling with non-renewable resources: minimizing the sum of completion times	8
Well-behaved online load balancing against strategic jobs	7
A hybrid local search algorithm for the continuous energy-constrained scheduling problem	7
Hybrid-sched: a QoS adaptive offline–online scheduler for real-time tasks on multi-cores	7
An exact solution with an improved running time for the routing flow shop problem with two machines	7
Introducing UniCorT: an iterative university course timetabling tool with MaxSAT	7
A cut-and-branch algorithm for the external candidates examination scheduling problem	7
Selection hyper-heuristics and job shop scheduling problems: How does instance size influence performance?	7
A fix-and-optimize heuristic for the ITC2021 sports timetabling problem	6
Plant shutdown maintenance workforce team assignment and job scheduling	6
Serial batching to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs	6

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

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