Symmetries in Operations Management: Algorithms and Optimization
A Special Issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994) belonging to the section "B: Mathematics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 10
Editor
Interests: optimization algorithms; combinatorial optimization; scheduling; timetabling; operations research; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Operations management is driven by complex optimization problems arising in manufacturing, production planning, scheduling, transportation, logistics, supply chains, healthcare, energy systems, and service operations. Many of these problems exhibit inherent structural symmetries that can be exploited to develop stronger mathematical models, improve algorithmic efficiency, reduce computational complexity, and gain deeper theoretical insights. This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers from operations research, computer science, artificial intelligence, industrial engineering, and related disciplines to present recent advances in symmetry-aware optimization methods and their applications to real-world operations management problems.
We welcome original contributions on exact, heuristic, metaheuristic, and AI-assisted optimization methods, including mathematical programming, constraint programming, decomposition techniques, machine learning-based optimization, and hybrid approaches. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, production planning and scheduling, timetabling, routing and logistics, supply chain optimization, inventory management, facility location, workforce planning, manufacturing systems, autonomous and robotic systems, energy-aware scheduling, smart grid optimization, renewable energy integration, energy management systems, and sustainable operations. Papers addressing symmetry detection and breaking, theoretical advances, computational studies, benchmark instances, high-performance computing, digital twins, and practical industrial applications are particularly encouraged. Both theoretical and applied contributions from academia and industry are welcome.
Dr. Christos Gogos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- optimization
- discrete optimization
- scheduling
- industrial scheduling
- timetabling
- problem decomposition
- mathematical modeling
- energy modelling
- constraint programming
- heuristics
- metaheuristics
- hybrid optimization approaches
- matheuristics
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