Patrick R. McMullen

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Patrick R. McMullen is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick R. McMullen has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 6 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 5 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Patrick R. McMullen's work include Assembly Line Balancing Optimization (19 papers), Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (17 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (13 papers). Patrick R. McMullen is often cited by papers focused on Assembly Line Balancing Optimization (19 papers), Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (17 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (13 papers). Patrick R. McMullen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Latvia. Patrick R. McMullen's co-authors include John E. Bell, Peter Tarasewich, Gregory V. Frazier, Paul F. Buller, Matthew W. Rutherford, M. David Albritton, Terry Anthony Byrd, Victor Mbarika, Lorraine R. Gardiner and Philip F. Musa and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, European Journal of Operational Research and International Journal of Production Economics.

In The Last Decade

Patrick R. McMullen

38 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Ant colony optimization techniques for the vehicle routing problem

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick R. McMullen United States	19	1.2k	243	194	139	130	42	1.8k
Chinyao Low Taiwan	23	1.2k 1.0×	316 1.3×	255 1.3×	67 0.5×	88 0.7×	48	2.4k
Jorge Pinho de Sousa Portugal	25	784 0.6×	247 1.0×	263 1.4×	157 1.1×	196 1.5×	88	2.0k
Shunsheng Guo China	21	817 0.7×	138 0.6×	179 0.9×	125 0.9×	51 0.4×	74	1.5k
Brian Rodrigues Singapore	23	1.1k 0.9×	134 0.6×	296 1.5×	45 0.3×	89 0.7×	79	1.7k
Habib Chabchoub Tunisia	21	445 0.4×	224 0.9×	348 1.8×	71 0.5×	152 1.2×	134	1.6k
Albert Jones United States	19	709 0.6×	153 0.6×	388 2.0×	74 0.5×	55 0.4×	72	1.5k
Ronald G. Askin United States	30	2.0k 1.6×	112 0.5×	395 2.0×	243 1.7×	47 0.4×	89	2.9k
K. S. Al-Sultan Saudi Arabia	16	505 0.4×	390 1.6×	166 0.9×	89 0.6×	42 0.3×	27	1.5k
Helena Ramalhinho Spain	18	662 0.5×	160 0.7×	134 0.7×	29 0.2×	175 1.3×	61	1.1k
Hyunbo Cho South Korea	18	513 0.4×	129 0.5×	188 1.0×	180 1.3×	67 0.5×	83	1.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

McMullen, Patrick R.. (2019). A Markov Simulation Approach to Balancing Bike-Sharing Systems. 9(1). 12–17. 2 indexed citations

Pendse, Salil N., Rebecca A. Clewell, Alina Efremenko, et al.. (2017). PLETHEM – An interactive open-source platform for bridging the source-to-outcome continuum. Toxicology Letters. 280. S288–S288. 3 indexed citations

McMullen, Patrick R.. (2017). Ant-Colony Optimization for the System Reliability Problem with Quantity Discounts. American Journal of Operations Research. 7(2). 99–112. 3 indexed citations

McMullen, Patrick R.. (2015). Using Baseball Data as a Gentle Introduction to Teaching Linear Regression. Creative Education. 6(14). 1477–1483. 1 indexed citations

McMullen, Patrick R.. (2013). A Genetic Algorithm for Multiple Inspections with Multiple Objectives. American Journal of Operations Research. 3(6). 463–473. 1 indexed citations

Mbarika, Victor, et al.. (2005). Teledensity technological growth strategy for Africa's LDCs: 'viagra' development strategy or sustainable development strategy?-The African telecommunications stakeholders speak. 10–10. 1 indexed citations

McMullen, Patrick R.. (2004). Using Correlation Matrices and Optimization to Add Practical Functionality to Spreadsheet Simulation for MBA‐Level Quantitative Analysis Courses. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. 3(1). 161–168. 2 indexed citations

Rutherford, Matthew W., Paul F. Buller, & Patrick R. McMullen. (2003). Human resource management problems over the life cycle of small to medium‐sized firms. Human Resource Management. 42(4). 321–335. 141 indexed citations

McMullen, Patrick R.. (2003). Sequencing for minimal tooling replacements via a variety of objective functions. International Journal of Production Research. 41(10). 2183–2199.

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McMullen, Patrick R.. (2002). The permutation flow shop problem with just in time production considerations. Production Planning & Control. 13(3). 307–316. 5 indexed citations

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Tarasewich, Peter & Patrick R. McMullen. (2002). Swarm intelligence. Communications of the ACM. 45(8). 62–67. 80 indexed citations

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McMullen, Patrick R.. (2001). A Kohonen self-organizing map approach to addressing a multiple objective, mixed-model JIT sequencing problem. International Journal of Production Economics. 72(1). 59–71. 60 indexed citations

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McMullen, Patrick R.. (2001). An efficient frontier approach to addressing JIT sequencing problems with setups via search heuristics. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 41(3). 335–353. 52 indexed citations

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McMullen, Patrick R., et al.. (2000). Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Select Efficient Large Market Cap Securities. Journal of business and management.. 7(2). 31–42. 29 indexed citations

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McMullen, Patrick R. & Gregory V. Frazier. (2000). A simulated annealing approach to mixed-model sequencing with multiple objectives on a just-in-time line. IIE Transactions. 32(8). 679–686. 87 indexed citations

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McMullen, Patrick R., Peter Tarasewich, & Gregory V. Frazier. (2000). Using genetic algorithms to solve the multi-product JIT sequencing problem with set-ups. International Journal of Production Research. 38(12). 2653–2670. 44 indexed citations

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McMullen, Patrick R. & Gregory V. Frazier. (2000). . IIE Transactions. 32(8). 679–686. 14 indexed citations

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McMullen, Patrick R. & Gregory V. Frazier. (1999). Using Simulation and Data Envelopment Analysis to Compare Assembly Line Balancing Solutions. Journal of Productivity Analysis. 11(2). 149–168. 27 indexed citations

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McMullen, Patrick R.. (1997). Assessment of MBA Programs via Data Envelopment Analysis. Journal of business and management.. 5(1). 77–91. 3 indexed citations

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McMullen, Patrick R. & Gregory V. Frazier. (1997). A heuristic for solving mixed-model line balancing problems with stochastic task durations and parallel stations. International Journal of Production Economics. 51(3). 177–190. 73 indexed citations

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