Armando Walter Colombo

7.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
146 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Armando Walter Colombo is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Armando Walter Colombo has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 48 papers in Management Information Systems and 37 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Armando Walter Colombo's work include Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (105 papers), Digital Transformation in Industry (57 papers) and Business Process Modeling and Analysis (44 papers). Armando Walter Colombo is often cited by papers focused on Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (105 papers), Digital Transformation in Industry (57 papers) and Business Process Modeling and Analysis (44 papers). Armando Walter Colombo collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Portugal and France. Armando Walter Colombo's co-authors include Stamatis Karnouskos, Paulo Leitão, José Barata, Jay Lee, François Jammes, Yang Shi, Luís Ribeiro, Gonçalo Cândido, Francisco Restivo and Okyay Kaynak and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Armando Walter Colombo

141 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Industrial automation based on cyber-physical systems tec... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2020 2016 2017 2021 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Industrial automation based on cyber-physical systems technologies: Prototype implementations and challenges
    2015 457 citations Paulo Leitão, Armando Walter Colombo et al. profile →
  2. Industrial Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0 - Systematic Review, Challenges and Outlook
    2020 346 citations Jay Lee, Armando Walter Colombo et al. profile →
  3. Smart Agents in Industrial Cyber–Physical Systems
    2016 318 citations Paulo Leitão, Stamatis Karnouskos et al. profile →
  4. Industrial Cyberphysical Systems: A Backbone of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
    2017 280 citations Armando Walter Colombo, Stamatis Karnouskos et al. IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine profile →
  5. A Survey on Edge and Edge-Cloud Computing Assisted Cyber-Physical Systems
    2021 181 citations Armando Walter Colombo, Stamatis Karnouskos et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Armando Walter Colombo Germany 32 2.7k 883 804 778 702 146 4.5k
Paulo Leitão Portugal 33 3.9k 1.4× 637 0.7× 499 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 669 1.0× 286 6.0k
Birgit Vogel‐Heuser Germany 35 4.8k 1.7× 539 0.6× 773 1.0× 937 1.2× 843 1.2× 564 7.3k
José L. Martínez Lastra Finland 28 1.7k 0.6× 370 0.4× 550 0.7× 320 0.4× 527 0.8× 233 2.9k
Jiewu Leng China 37 4.2k 1.5× 680 0.8× 1.2k 1.5× 442 0.6× 495 0.7× 139 6.5k
Behrad Bagheri United States 11 3.0k 1.1× 603 0.7× 456 0.6× 633 0.8× 646 0.9× 14 4.6k
Hung-An Kao United States 9 2.7k 1.0× 553 0.6× 421 0.5× 516 0.7× 569 0.8× 9 4.1k
László Monostori Hungary 34 4.6k 1.7× 363 0.4× 294 0.4× 517 0.7× 825 1.2× 188 6.5k
Alexander Fay Germany 26 2.1k 0.8× 221 0.3× 333 0.4× 705 0.9× 410 0.6× 402 3.3k
Pingyu Jiang China 34 2.6k 1.0× 349 0.4× 610 0.8× 273 0.4× 383 0.5× 202 4.2k
Damien Trentesaux France 36 2.8k 1.0× 360 0.4× 225 0.3× 487 0.6× 420 0.6× 154 3.9k

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All Works

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Leitão, Paulo, et al.. (2023). Alignment of the IEEE Industrial Agents Recommended Practice Standard With the Reference Architectures RAMI4.0, IIRA, and SGAM. IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society. 4. 98–111. 7 indexed citations
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Colombo, Armando Walter, et al.. (2023). Analytics for the Optimization of the Soybean Oil Purification Process. Hochschulschriftenserver der Hochschule Emden/Leer. 1–7.
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Yu, Xinghuo, Changbing Tang, Peter Pálenský, & Armando Walter Colombo. (2021). Blockchain: What Does It Mean to Industrial Electronics?: Technologies, Challenges, and Opportunities. IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. 16(2). 4–14. 12 indexed citations
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Leitão, Paulo, Flávia Pires, Stamatis Karnouskos, & Armando Walter Colombo. (2020). Quo Vadis Industry 4.0? Position, Trends, and Challenges. IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society. 1. 298–310. 23 indexed citations
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Colombo, Armando Walter, et al.. (2017). Specification and design of an industrial manufacturing middleware. 1160–1166. 18 indexed citations
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Leitão, Paulo, et al.. (2016). Specification of the PERFoRM architecture for the seamless production system reconfiguration. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 30 indexed citations
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Leitão, Paulo, Juan Carlos Fraile, Vidal Moreno, et al.. (2015). Transnational lifelong education course in robotic systems. 4181–4186. 1 indexed citations
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Colombo, Armando Walter, et al.. (2015). Impact of new ICT trends for the educational curriculum in the area of Industrial Automation and engineering. 3643–3648. 9 indexed citations
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Colombo, Armando Walter & Stamatis Karnouskos. (2014). Cloud-Based Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems.. ERCIM news/ERCIM news online edition. 2014. 6 indexed citations
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Karnouskos, Stamatis, Armando Walter Colombo, Thomas Bangemann, et al.. (2012). A SOA-based architecture for empowering future collaborative cloud-based industrial automation. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 59 indexed citations
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Taisch, Marco, et al.. (2012). Towards an energy management system of systems: An industrial case study. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 5811–5816. 8 indexed citations
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Harrison, R., et al.. (2011). Configuration of SoA-based devices in virtual production cells. International Journal of Production Research. 49(24). 7397–7423. 2 indexed citations
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Cândido, Gonçalo, François Jammes, José Barata, & Armando Walter Colombo. (2010). Semantic SOA approach to support agile reengineering at device level. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 43(4). 156–161. 1 indexed citations
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Restivo, Francisco, et al.. (2009). Customizable service-oriented Petri net controllers. 71. 4341–4346. 5 indexed citations
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Leitão, Paulo, et al.. (2009). ENGINEERING TOOLS FOR THE INTEGRATION OF SERVICE-ORIENTED PRODUCTION SYSTEMS. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 42(4). 1772–1777. 4 indexed citations
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Colombo, Armando Walter & François Jammes. (2009). Integration of Cross-layer Web-based Service-oriented Architecture and Collaborative Automation Technologies: The SOCRADES Approach. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 42(4). 2101–2106. 3 indexed citations
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Lobov, Andrei, et al.. (2008). Integration of Multi-Agent Systems and Service-Oriented Architecture for industrial automation. 768–773. 26 indexed citations
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