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Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Fernando Peres
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2
Emilio Singh
University of Pretoria
3
Di Wu
Sanming University
4
Qichen Deng
Maastricht University Medical Centre
5
Junbo Jacob Lian
Zhejiang A & F University
6
Sana Ikli
Capgemini (France)
7
Mariem Belhor
Université Pédagogique Nationale
8
Mei Ching Chen
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
9
Mohammed Bazirha
Ministry of Transport
10
Xiangping Xu
Hohai University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Parrot optimizer: Algorithm and applications to medical problems
Computers in Biology and Medicine|2024
425 cit.
2
The educational competition optimizer
International Journal of Systems Science|2024
111 cit.
3
Trend-Aware Mechanism for Metaheuristic Algorithms
Applied Soft Computing|2025
15 cit.
4
Capacitated Colored Traveling Salesman Problem With Time Windows
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering|2024
7 cit.
5
Discrimination of Chinese prickly ash origin place using electronic nose system and feature extraction with support vector boosting machine
Cogent Food & Agriculture|2025
6 cit.
6
A single-wavelength laser relaxation spectroscopy-based machine learning solution for apple mechanical damage detection
Multimedia Tools and Applications|2024
5 cit.
7
Extended Zero-Gradient-Sum Approach for Constrained Distributed Optimization With Free Initialization
IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems|2025
5 cit.
8
NeuHH: A Neuromorphic-Inspired Hyper-Heuristic Framework for Solving the Capacitated Single-Allocation p-Hub Location Routing Problem
Vehicles|2025
4 cit.
9
Enhanced RF-based 3D UAV Outdoor Geolocation: from Trilateration to Machine Learning Approaches
Unknown Journal|2024
2 cit.
10
Twisted convolutional networks (TCNs): Enhancing feature interactions for non-spatial data classification
Neural Networks|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Khodakaram Salimifard
Persian Gulf University
2
Oussama Barakat
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
3
Liwen Guo
China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
4
Jin-ling Lv
Northeast Electric Power University
5
Muhammad Yousaf Shad
Quaid-i-Azam University
6
Showkat Gani
University of Kashmir
7
T. Nakkeeran
Tamil University
8
Wenjuan Fan
Hefei University of Technology
9
César Augusto Henao
Universidad del Norte
10
Mustafa Servet Kıran
Konya Technical University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
A tree seed algorithm with multi-strategy for parameter estimation of solar photovoltaic models
Applied Soft Computing|2024
34 cit.
2
Multiskilled personnel assignment problem under uncertain demand: A benchmarking analysis
Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering|2022
17 cit.
3
Optimization of Butterworth and Bessel Filter Parameters with Improved Tree-Seed Algorithm
Biomimetics|2023
16 cit.
4
Multiskilled personnel assignment with k-chaining considering the learning-forgetting phenomena
International Journal of Production Economics|2023
11 cit.
5
Tree-Seed Programming for Modelling of Turkey Electricity Energy Demand
International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering|2022
10 cit.
6
X-ray image analysis for explosive circuit detection using deep learning algorithms
Applied Soft Computing|2023
10 cit.
7
When should shelf stocking be done at night? A workforce management optimization approach for retailers
Computers & Industrial Engineering|2024
10 cit.
8
A New Approach Based on Collective Intelligence to Solve Traveling Salesman Problems
Biomimetics|2024
8 cit.
9
On E-Bayesian analysis of the hierarchical normal and inverse gamma model using different loss functions and its application
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation|2023
5 cit.
10
A benchmark dataset for the retail multiskilled personnel planning under uncertain demand
Data Science|2024
5 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Rong Qu
University of Nottingham
2
Jin‐Kao Hao
Université d'Angers
3
Edmund Burke
Bangor University
4
Greet Vanden Berghe
KU Leuven
5
Erwin Pesch
University of Siegen
6
Stan Matwin
Dalhousie University
7
D. de Werra
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
8
Andrea Schaerf
University of Udine
9
Alain Hertz
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
10
François Soumis
Group for Research in Decision Analysis

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Addressing the Curse of Imbalanced Training Sets: One-Sided Selection.
Unknown Journal|1997
2.2k cit.
2
Resource-constrained project scheduling: Notation, classification, models, and methods
European Journal of Operational Research|1999
1.5k cit.
3
A Survey of Deep Learning-Based Object Detection
IEEE Access|2019
1.3k cit.
4
Machine Learning for the Detection of Oil Spills in Satellite Radar Images
Machine Learning|1998
1.3k cit.
5
Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art
Journal of the Operational Research Society|2013
1.2k cit.
6
The State of the Art of Nurse Rostering
Journal of Scheduling|2004
933 cit.
7
Optimization approaches for civil applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or aerial drones: A survey
Networks|2018
921 cit.
8
Using tabu search techniques for graph coloring
Computing|1987
660 cit.
9
The pickup and delivery problem with time windows
European Journal of Operational Research|1991
641 cit.
10
An introduction to timetabling
European Journal of Operational Research|1985
575 cit.

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