{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7160772273","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.123602","title":"A Bi-Level structured decomposition algorithm for intelligent Multi-Factory scheduling with batch delivery","display_name":"A Bi-Level structured decomposition algorithm for intelligent Multi-Factory scheduling with batch delivery","publication_year":2026,"publication_date":"2026-05-10","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7160772273","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.123602"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1016/j.ins.2026.123602","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.123602","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S192650101","display_name":"Information Sciences","issn_l":"0020-0255","issn":["0020-0255","1872-6291"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320990","host_organization_name":"Elsevier BV","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320990"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Elsevier BV"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Information Sciences","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5112432925","display_name":"Fateme Marandi","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I12870472","display_name":"Birmingham City University","ror":"https://ror.org/00t67pt25","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I12870472"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Fateme Marandi","raw_affiliation_strings":["Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3963-1171","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I12870472"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5006813623","display_name":"Madjid Tavana","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-1723"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I206945453","display_name":"Paderborn University","ror":"https://ror.org/058kzsd48","country_code":"DE","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I206945453"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I47652572","display_name":"La Salle University","ror":"https://ror.org/02beve479","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I47652572"]}],"countries":["DE","US"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Madjid Tavana","raw_affiliation_strings":["Business Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany","Business Systems and Analytics Department, Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics, La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-1723","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Business Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I206945453"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Business Systems and Analytics Department, Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics, La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I47652572"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5135820267","display_name":"Ying Xie","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I82284825","display_name":"Cranfield University","ror":"https://ror.org/05cncd958","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I82284825"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Ying Xie","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Management, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Management, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I82284825"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":3,"institutions_distinct_count":3,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5006813623"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I206945453","https://openalex.org/I47652572"],"apc_list":{"value":3330,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3330},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.89410581,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"753","issue":null,"first_page":"123602","last_page":"123602"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10551","display_name":"Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms","score":0.9276000261306763,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2209","display_name":"Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10551","display_name":"Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms","score":0.9276000261306763,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2209","display_name":"Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12176","display_name":"Optimization and Packing Problems","score":0.010499999858438969,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2209","display_name":"Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12782","display_name":"Assembly Line Balancing Optimization","score":0.00419999985024333,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2209","display_name":"Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/scheduling","display_name":"Scheduling (production processes)","score":0.565500020980835},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/decomposition","display_name":"Decomposition","score":0.525600016117096},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/job-shop-scheduling","display_name":"Job shop scheduling","score":0.454800009727478},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/decomposition-method","display_name":"Decomposition method (queueing theory)","score":0.3084999918937683},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/job-scheduler","display_name":"Job scheduler","score":0.3041999936103821}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7700999975204468},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C206729178","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2271896","display_name":"Scheduling (production processes)","level":2,"score":0.565500020980835},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124681953","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q339062","display_name":"Decomposition","level":2,"score":0.525600016117096},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C55416958","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6206757","display_name":"Job shop scheduling","level":3,"score":0.454800009727478},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C11413529","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8366","display_name":"Algorithm","level":1,"score":0.4002000093460083},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C126255220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141495","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","level":1,"score":0.38370001316070557},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C79403827","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3988","display_name":"Real-time computing","level":1,"score":0.3292999863624573},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778258933","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16918986","display_name":"Decomposition method (queueing theory)","level":2,"score":0.3084999918937683},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111873713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1641413","display_name":"Job scheduler","level":3,"score":0.3041999936103821},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31689143","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q733809","display_name":"Fair-share scheduling","level":3,"score":0.2989000082015991},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C120314980","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180634","display_name":"Distributed computing","level":1,"score":0.28870001435279846},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124101348","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172491","display_name":"Data mining","level":1,"score":0.2651999890804291},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C158336966","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3074426","display_name":"Flow shop scheduling","level":4,"score":0.2581999897956848},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107568181","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5319000","display_name":"Dynamic priority scheduling","level":3,"score":0.2563999891281128}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1016/j.ins.2026.123602","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.123602","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S192650101","display_name":"Information Sciences","issn_l":"0020-0255","issn":["0020-0255","1872-6291"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320990","host_organization_name":"Elsevier BV","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320990"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Elsevier BV"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Information Sciences","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":38,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W193809727","https://openalex.org/W1955908099","https://openalex.org/W1965957502","https://openalex.org/W1966523365","https://openalex.org/W1969819746","https://openalex.org/W1970049815","https://openalex.org/W1976564109","https://openalex.org/W1980958784","https://openalex.org/W1981499402","https://openalex.org/W1992333088","https://openalex.org/W2001994964","https://openalex.org/W2008013109","https://openalex.org/W2017931905","https://openalex.org/W2043092926","https://openalex.org/W2044456402","https://openalex.org/W2059216261","https://openalex.org/W2072406267","https://openalex.org/W2075076850","https://openalex.org/W2125411986","https://openalex.org/W2144566232","https://openalex.org/W2155791680","https://openalex.org/W2259975103","https://openalex.org/W2467688606","https://openalex.org/W2486348843","https://openalex.org/W2605042950","https://openalex.org/W2737844259","https://openalex.org/W2791594770","https://openalex.org/W2884414339","https://openalex.org/W2884811718","https://openalex.org/W3011291618","https://openalex.org/W3046048052","https://openalex.org/W3203275924","https://openalex.org/W4220708482","https://openalex.org/W4230961951","https://openalex.org/W4283277068","https://openalex.org/W4402350204","https://openalex.org/W4403145082","https://openalex.org/W4409244711"],"related_works":[],"abstract_inverted_index":null,"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-05-17T06:04:21.649783","created_date":"2026-05-11T00:00:00"}