Frank Plastria

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Frank Plastria is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Plastria has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 36 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 27 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Frank Plastria's work include Facility Location and Emergency Management (56 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (26 papers) and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (19 papers). Frank Plastria is often cited by papers focused on Facility Location and Emergency Management (56 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (26 papers) and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (19 papers). Frank Plastria collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Spain and France. Frank Plastria's co-authors include Emilio Carrizosa, Lieselot Vanhaverbeke, Boglárka G.-Tóth, José Fernández, Denis Bouyssou, Silvano Martello, Blas Pelegrı́n, Nenad Mladenović, Dragan Urošević and José Manuel Gordillo and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research and Pattern Recognition.

In The Last Decade

Frank Plastria

119 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Nonlinear programming: Theory and algorithms 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Nonlinear programming: Theory and algorithms
    1994 1.2k citations Frank Plastria European Journal of Operational Research profile →

Peers

Frank Plastria
Horst W. Hamacher Germany
Justo Puerto Spain
Jack Brimberg Canada
Arie Tamir Israel
Rainer E. Burkard Austria
George O. Wesolowsky Canada
Ivana Ljubić France
Richard T. Wong United States
Gérard Cornuéjols United States
Richard L. Francis United States
Horst W. Hamacher Germany
Frank Plastria
Citations per year, relative to Frank Plastria Frank Plastria (= 1×) peers Horst W. Hamacher

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Plastria

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frank Plastria

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Plastria

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Frank Plastria. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Frank Plastria 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 Frank Plastria. Frank Plastria is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Church, Richard L., Zvi Drezner, Frank Plastria, & Arie Tamir. (2024). Reviewing extensions and solution methods of the planar Weber single facility location problem. Computers & Operations Research. 173. 106825–106825. 1 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank. (2018). Pasting gauges II: Balls in pasted halfplanes. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 256. 138–156. 1 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank. (2018). Pasting gauges I: Shortest paths across a hyperplane. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 256. 105–137. 4 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank, José Manuel Gordillo, & Emilio Carrizosa. (2013). Locating a semi-obnoxious covering facility with repelling polygonal regions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 161(16-17). 2604–2623. 10 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank, et al.. (2011). Continuous location of an assembly station. Top. 21(2). 323–340. 3 indexed citations
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Bouyssou, Denis, Silvano Martello, & Frank Plastria. (2009). Plagiarism again: Sreenivas and Srinivas, with an update on Marcu. 4OR. 7(1). 17–20. 15 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank, et al.. (2008). On the point for which the sum of the distances to n given points is minimum. Annals of Operations Research. 167(1). 7–41. 150 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank. (2007). S. Nickel and J. Puerto, Location Theory: A Unified Approach, Springer (2005) ISBN 3-540-24321-6 XXI+437p.. European Journal of Operational Research. 181. 523–525. 1 indexed citations
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Carrizosa, Emilio, José Manuel Gordillo, & Frank Plastria. (2007). Support Vector Regression for imprecise data. 9 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank, et al.. (2004). Improved results for the k-centrum straight-line location problem. Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet. 1 indexed citations
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Mladenović, Nenad, Frank Plastria, & Dragan Urošević. (2004). Reformulation descent applied to circle packing problems. Computers & Operations Research. 32(9). 2419–2434. 61 indexed citations
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Bouyssou, Denis, Silvano Martello, & Frank Plastria. (2004). 4OR Quarterly Journal of the Belgian, French and Italian Operations Research Societies. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 12 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank. (2003). Models for competitive location with foresight. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 27–37. 2 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank & Emilio Carrizosa. (2003). LOCATION AND DESIGN OF A COMPETITIVE FACILITY FOR PROFIT MAXIMISATION. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 3 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank, et al.. (2002). El problema del anti-k-centrum en grafos. 110–113. 1 indexed citations
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Krarup, Jakob, David Pisinger, & Frank Plastria. (2002). Discrete location problems with push–pull objectives. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 123(1-3). 363–378. 30 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank. (1996). Profit maximising location in the plane of a single competitive facility with deterministic gravity-type consumer behaviour. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 3 indexed citations
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Carrizosa, Emilio & Frank Plastria. (1995). On minquantile and maxcovering optimisation. Mathematical Programming. 71(1). 101–112. 10 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank. (1992). When facilities coincide: Exact optimality conditions in multifacility location. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 169(2). 476–498. 8 indexed citations
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Plastria, Frank. (1991). The effects of majority in Fermat-Weber problems with attraction and repulsion in a pseudometric space. Yugoslav journal of operations research. 1(2). 141–146. 6 indexed citations

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