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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A genetic algorithm for seafood processing with flexible flow shops and sequence-dependent setups	26
Energy-efficient on/off control in serial production lines with Bernoulli machines	21
Predicting donations and profiling donors in a blood collection center: a Bayesian approach	17
Analytics and Optimization in Healthcare Management	17
Real-time rescheduling for smart shop floors: an integrated method	16
The impacts of stockout cost on a stochastic production-inventory system in minimizing total cost conditional value-at-risk	14
Integrated storage assignment for an E-grocery fulfilment centre: accounting for day-of-week demand patterns	14
A digital twin modeling method of production lines based on flexible manufacturing	14
Fixturing-driven determination of multi-product assembly plans in the context of product variety and reconfiguration	13
Dynamic optimal pricing considering advertising and improvement quality strategies over product life-cycle horizon	13
An integrated scheduling method for AGVs in an automated container terminal considering battery swapping and battery degradation	13
Solving the picker routing problem in multi-block high-level storage systems using metaheuristics	12
Deep learning models for vessel’s ETA prediction: bulk ports perspective	12
A Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm for the flexible job-shop scheduling in manufacturing systems	12
The shunting scheduling of EMU first-level maintenance in a stub-end depot	12
Computationally efficient approximate dynamic programming for multi-site production capacity planning with uncertain demands	10
Sustainable partial backordering inventory model under linked-to-order credit policy and all-units discount with capacity constraint and carbon emissions	10
Quick dispatching-rules-based solution for the two parallel machines problem under mold constraints	9
Modelling forgetting due to intermittent production in mixed-model line scheduling	9
Sequencing and routing in a large warehouse with high degree of product rotation	9
Capacity planning in a decentralized autologous cell therapy manufacturing network for low-cost resilience	9
Clusters of floor locations-allocation of stores to cross-docking warehouse considering satisfaction and space using MOGWO and NSGA-II algorithms	9
The max–min newsvendor pricing problem under conditional value-at-risk criterion	9
Decision support for managing assortments, shelf space, and replenishment in retail	8
Data-driven dynamic stacking strategy for export containers in container terminals	7

Reliable multiple allocation hub location problem under disruptions	7
Design and calibration of a DRL algorithm for solving the job shop scheduling problem under unexpected job arrivals	7
A variable neighborhood search algorithm for the location problem of platoon formation center	7
Multi-resource constrained scheduling considering process plan flexibility and lot streaming for the CNC machining industry	7
Robotic stochastic assembly line balancing	7
A material handling system modeling framework: a data-driven approach for the generation of discrete-event simulation models	6
Fluid models for customer service web chat systems with interactive automated service	6
Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	6
Capacity management of CT department with service time differences and emergency nonpreemptive priority	6
Sparse flexible design: a machine learning approach	6
Material flow control in make-to-stock production systems: an assessment of order generation, order release and production authorization by simulation	6
MOBI-Qual: a common framework to manage the product-service system quality of shared mobility	5
Improving coordination in assembly job shops: redesigning order release and dispatching	5
Extending ConWIP by flexible capacity and WIP-Cap adjustment for a make-to-order multi-item multi-stage production system	5
On a bi-objective distributed permutation flow shop problem with batch processing machines	5
Elite solutions and Tabu assisted variable neighbourhood descent for rescheduling problems in the steelmaking-refining-continuous casting process	5
Data-driven aggregate modeling of a semiconductor wafer fab to predict WIP levels and cycle time distributions	5
Managing premature idleness in high-variety manufacturing	5
Lean and Industry 4.0 mitigating common losses in Engineer-to-Order theory and practice: an exploratory study	5
Improving access to emergency medical services using advanced air mobility vehicles	5
Correction: A memetic NSGA‑II for the multi‑objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with real‑time energy tariffs	5
Benchmark for multi-agent pickup and delivery problem in a robotic mobile fulfillment system	5
A Benders decomposition approach for planning home blood donations	5
Exploring the adoption and long-term effects of ChatGPT in a sustainable supply chain	4
Cost optimization in the $$(S-1, S)$$ backorder inventory model with two demand classes and rationing	4
Improved swarm-based metaheuristics for optimizing human–robot collaborative assembly lines with multi-type collaborative robots	4
Continuous-time monitoring of queueing processes	4
Obituary for Professor Carlo Meloni (1970–2023)	4
Correction to: Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	4
Quantitative assessment of the profitability of next shoring strategy in global supply chains	3
Central intake optimization and decentralized decomposition for appointment scheduling and sequencing	3
Algorithms for minimization of total flow time to achieve resilience in a flow shop environment	3
A machine learning framework for explainable knowledge mining and production, maintenance, and quality control optimization in flexible circular manufacturing systems	3
Physician scheduling for outpatient department with nonhomogeneous patient arrival and priority queue	3
A heuristic for the critical chain scheduling problem based on left shifts of activities	3
In the driver’s seat: the role of transformational leadership in safe and productive truck cargo transport	3
Outsourcing and authorized remanufacturing under voluntary emission reduction mechanism	3
Potentials of using real-time data to increase the update frequency of production planning and control strategies in MTO: a discrete event simulation study	3
Optimization of a fleet of reconfigurable robots	3
A new method for a class of parallel batch machine scheduling problem	3
Robust container slot allocation with uncertain demand for liner shipping services	3
Storage prioritization by redistributing wafer lot transfers to enhance real-world fab throughput	2
Correction to: Robust multi-period capacity, location, and access of rural cardiovascular services under uncertainty	2
A two-step evolutionary algorithm for the distributor’s pallet loading problem with multi-size pallets	2
Truck scheduling with fixed outbound departures in a closed-loop conveyor system with shortcuts	2
Ramping up a heuristic procedure for storage location assignment problem with precedence constraints	2
Optimal product service system configuration considering pairing utility and uncertain customer behavior	2
Optimizing production levels in maritime inventory routing with load-dependent speed optimization	2
Flexible scheduling of diagnostic tests in automotive manufacturing	2
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	2

The emergency department physician rostering problem: obtaining equitable solutions via network optimization	2
Cooperative and non-cooperative algorithms for distributed parallel jobs scheduling	2
Energy efficient scheduling of a two machine robotic cell producing multiple part types	1
Stakeholder requirement-oriented prioritization method of quality characteristics based on probabilistic linguistic term set	1
Balancing and sequencing of mixed-model parallel robotic assembly lines considering energy consumption	1
The integrated orderline batching, batch scheduling, and picker routing problem with multiple pickers: the benefits of splitting customer orders	1
Human-Robot collaboration in the next generation manufacturing and logistics system	1
Balancing earliness and tardiness within workload control order release: an assessment by simulation	1
Smart scheduling of hanging workshop via digital twin and deep reinforcement learning	1
Exact algorithms and resilient heuristic approaches to minimize the completion time variance of jobs on a single machine	1
Assigning orders and pods to picking stations in a multi-level robotic mobile fulfillment system	1
Performance analysis of a drop-swap terminal to mitigate truck congestion at chemical sites	1
Enhancing the cost performance in regular humanitarian logistics: location-routing and delivery frequency optimization	1
Multi-objective restarted simulated annealing algorithm for assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots considering ergonomics risks	1
Multi-neighborhood simulated annealing for the integrated patient-to-room and nurse-to-patient assignment problem	1
Balancing picking and outbound loading efficiency in an SBS/RS through a digital twin	1
Machine-based identification system via optical character recognition	1
Integrated production and maintenance planning under uncertain demand with concurrent learning of yield rate	1
Energy-oriented crane scheduling in a steel coil storage	1
Constraint programming models for parallel robotic assembly line balancing problems considering energy-efficiency	1
Dynamic product planning for online service platform coordinating with service agents and operations resource providers: a three-level optimization approach	1
Performance optimization of supply chain based on cooperative contract with disappointment-aversion strategic consumers	1
Assessment of coal supply chain under carbon trade policy by extended exergy accounting method	1
Evolutionary game analysis of governments, enterprises and consumers in resilient food supply chains during emergencies	1
A performance model for mobile robot-based part feeding systems to supermarkets	1
Anticipatory approach for dynamic and stochastic shipment matching in hinterland synchromodal transportation	1
A multi-objective mathematical model and evolutionary algorithm for the dual-resource flexible job-shop scheduling problem with sequencing flexibility	1
Three-stage service network design in rail-road networks with demand and capacity uncertainty	1
Combinatorial optimization methods for yarn dyeing planning	1
A bi-objective multi-population biased random key genetic algorithm for joint scheduling quay cranes and speed adjustable vehicles in container terminals	1
Aircraft final assembly line scheduling with user preferences and equity of work distribution	1