Billy E. Gillett

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 973 citations indexed

About

Billy E. Gillett is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Billy E. Gillett has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 973 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 3 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 2 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Billy E. Gillett's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (5 papers), Optimization and Packing Problems (5 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (2 papers). Billy E. Gillett is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (5 papers), Optimization and Packing Problems (5 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (2 papers). Billy E. Gillett collaborates with scholars based in United States and Israel. Billy E. Gillett's co-authors include Leland R. Miller and Ralph Butler and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, Water Resources Research and European Journal of Operational Research.

In The Last Decade

Billy E. Gillett

10 papers receiving 888 citations

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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.

A Heuristic Algorithm for the Vehicle-Dispatch Problem

1974 736 citations Billy E. Gillett, Leland R. Miller Operations Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Billy E. Gillett United States	7	886	423	351	125	79	11	973
Leland R. Miller United States	3	691 0.8×	383 0.9×	282 0.8×	92 0.7×	65 0.8×	8	750
Barrie M. Baker United Kingdom	9	547 0.6×	237 0.6×	167 0.5×	137 1.1×	86 1.1×	15	713
José Brandão Portugal	12	1.0k 1.2×	533 1.3×	404 1.2×	123 1.0×	82 1.0×	12	1.1k
G Laporte Canada	6	746 0.8×	403 1.0×	243 0.7×	103 0.8×	77 1.0×	7	811
Niklas Kohl Denmark	7	906 1.0×	399 0.9×	186 0.5×	80 0.6×	58 0.7×	8	1.1k
Hélène Mercure Canada	11	811 0.9×	387 0.9×	219 0.6×	99 0.8×	38 0.5×	15	952
Pierre Trudeau Canada	12	1.1k 1.3×	585 1.4×	427 1.2×	46 0.4×	39 0.5×	16	1.3k
Yves Nobert Canada	17	1.4k 1.6×	558 1.3×	469 1.3×	175 1.4×	113 1.4×	24	1.5k
J-F Cordeau Canada	8	1.3k 1.5×	619 1.5×	416 1.2×	175 1.4×	112 1.4×	9	1.5k
François Guertin Canada	7	1.2k 1.3×	748 1.8×	387 1.1×	184 1.5×	141 1.8×	12	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Billy E. Gillett

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Billy E. Gillett. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Billy E. Gillett based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Billy E. Gillett. Billy E. Gillett is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Gillett, Billy E., et al.. (1993). Genetic Algorithm with 3-parent Uniform Crossover. 1 indexed citations

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Gillett, Billy E., et al.. (1991). A Comparison of Two Simulated Annealing Algorithms Applied to the Directed Steiner Problem on Networks. INFORMS Journal on Computing. 3(3). 213–225. 19 indexed citations

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Gillett, Billy E., et al.. (1990). In search of the optimal adaptive load sharing policy for distributed systems.

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Butler, Ralph, et al.. (1988). A parallel integer linear programming algorithm. European Journal of Operational Research. 34(3). 393–398. 16 indexed citations

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Gillett, Billy E., et al.. (1982). Parametric integer linear programming: A synthesis of branch and bound with cutting planes. European Journal of Operational Research. 10(2). 183–189. 14 indexed citations

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Gillett, Billy E., et al.. (1981). Use of Interactive Computer Graphics to Solve Routing Problems. 14(4). 189–194. 1 indexed citations

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Gillett, Billy E., et al.. (1980). Parametric Integer Programming Analysis: A Contraction Approach. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 31(3). 257–262. 15 indexed citations

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Gillett, Billy E., et al.. (1976). Multi-terminal vehicle-dispatch algorithm. Omega. 4(6). 711–718. 120 indexed citations

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Gillett, Billy E. & Leland R. Miller. (1974). A Heuristic Algorithm for the Vehicle-Dispatch Problem. Operations Research. 22(2). 340–349. 736 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gillett, Billy E., et al.. (1974). Statistical analysis of water temperature residuals. Water Resources Research. 10(6). 1127–1132. 4 indexed citations

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Gillett, Billy E., et al.. (1970). Modular Allocation Technique (MAT). Management Science. 17(3). 161–169. 47 indexed citations

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