Mathematical Methods and Operations Research for Sustainable Planning, Scheduling and Supply Chain
A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "E1: Mathematics and Computer Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 38
Special Issue Editors
Interests: combinatorial optimization: heuristics and meta-heuristics design for discrete problems; scheduling and applications: mixed blocking, health systems, non-identical parallel machines; mathematical modelling of coupled problems and optimization; supply chain; facility location; allocation problems; financial investments; decision support
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Interests: development of methods for optimizing supply chains and organizing production and maintenance activities; scheduling; industrial logistics; quantitative techniques; management information technology
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Interests: optimization and modelling of industrial systems; repair and maintenance area; development of innovative maintenance strategies; systems performance and efficiency enhancing; systems reliability; maintenance planning; industrial optimization; industrial engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, mathematical methods and operation research tools have been used to solve numerous industrial problems, such as supply chain design, planning or scheduling issues. Through the development of new technologies, today’s industries are experiencing the fourth revolution, upon which the anticipated fifth revolution, referred to as Industry 5.0, is built upon, facilitating the integration of smart, precise and accurate machinery with human creativity and ingenuity.
This has had a significant impact on industrial management processes; with human–robot/smart machine collaboration, we will need efficient tools to make the most of the technologies and intelligence integrated throughout the supply chain.
This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in the following areas:
- Scheduling optimization under multiple industrial constraints;
- Supply chain operations management;
- Production planning in a sustainable supply chain;
- Planning optimization under uncertainties and human aim considerations;
- Emergency/e-commerce/reverse/green/metropolitan/5.0 logistics;
- Scheduling in sustainable manufacturing;
- Optimal decisions, hybrid optimization and multi-objective optimization;
- Sustainable logistics systems design;
- The modelling and optimization of complex industrial processes;
- Digital technologies support for logistics and supply chain management adaptation.
Prof. Dr. Christophe Sauvey
Dr. Wajdi Trabelsi
Dr. Jérémie Schutz
Prof. Dr. Nathalie Sauer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- operations research
- logistics management
- supply chain management
- sustainability and sustainable issues
- planning under carbon footprint constraints
- green manufacturing
- Industry 5.0
- mathematical methods
- optimization
- internet of things
- population-based intelligent algorithms
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