Willy Herroelen

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Willy Herroelen is a scholar working on Management Science and Operations Research, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Willy Herroelen has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Management Science and Operations Research, 75 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 12 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Willy Herroelen's work include Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling (80 papers), Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (69 papers) and Construction Project Management and Performance (28 papers). Willy Herroelen is often cited by papers focused on Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling (80 papers), Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (69 papers) and Construction Project Management and Performance (28 papers). Willy Herroelen collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Netherlands. Willy Herroelen's co-authors include Erik Demeulemeester, Roel Leus, Bert De Reyck, Stijn Van de Vonder, Mario Vanhoucke, Olivier Lambrechts, Francisco Ballestı́n, Jan de Wit, Bajis Dodin and Robert Boute and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research and Journal of Operations Management.

In The Last Decade

Willy Herroelen

104 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Project scheduling under uncertainty: Survey and research potentials
    2004 680 citations Willy Herroelen, Roel Leus European Journal of Operational Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Willy Herroelen Belgium 37 4.7k 3.4k 1.2k 277 251 106 5.5k
Rainer Kolisch Germany 32 4.5k 1.0× 3.9k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 261 0.9× 143 0.6× 106 5.7k
Mario Vanhoucke Belgium 45 5.2k 1.1× 2.7k 0.8× 1.7k 1.5× 470 1.7× 269 1.1× 242 6.4k
Andreas Drexl Germany 33 3.1k 0.7× 3.9k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 587 2.1× 280 1.1× 99 5.3k
Roel Leus Belgium 28 2.4k 0.5× 2.0k 0.6× 606 0.5× 268 1.0× 238 0.9× 137 3.5k
Salah E. Elmaghraby United States 30 1.6k 0.3× 2.0k 0.6× 325 0.3× 687 2.5× 275 1.1× 104 3.3k
Sönke Hartmann Germany 18 2.7k 0.6× 2.3k 0.7× 950 0.8× 52 0.2× 76 0.3× 30 3.1k
Leon F. McGinnis United States 25 582 0.1× 2.9k 0.8× 873 0.7× 478 1.7× 255 1.0× 132 3.8k
Dirk Briskorn Germany 24 909 0.2× 1.9k 0.6× 620 0.5× 89 0.3× 197 0.8× 109 2.7k
A.G. de Kok Netherlands 37 735 0.2× 2.1k 0.6× 465 0.4× 2.2k 7.9× 231 0.9× 169 4.1k
Iraj Mahdavi Iran 32 568 0.1× 1.6k 0.5× 283 0.2× 330 1.2× 534 2.1× 162 3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Willy Herroelen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Demeulemeester, Erik, et al.. (2012). Public Private Partnerships: Look before you Leap into Marriage. Lirias (KU Leuven). 14 indexed citations
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Demeulemeester, Erik, et al.. (2010). Reactive scheduling in the multi-mode RCPSP. Computers & Operations Research. 38(1). 63–74. 86 indexed citations
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Demeulemeester, Erik, et al.. (2010). Generating Proactive Execution Policies for Resource-Constrained Projects with Uncertain Activity Durations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Herroelen, Willy, et al.. (2007). Efficient and Effective Solution Procedures for Order Acceptance and Capacity Planning. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Vonder, Stijn Van de, Erik Demeulemeester, & Willy Herroelen. (2007). Proactive heuristic procedures for robust project scheduling: An experimental analysis. European Journal of Operational Research. 189(3). 723–733. 175 indexed citations
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Vonder, Stijn Van de, Francisco Ballestı́n, Erik Demeulemeester, & Willy Herroelen. (2006). Heuristic Procedures for Reactive Project Scheduling. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Vonder, Stijn Van de, Erik Demeulemeester, & Willy Herroelen. (2004). An investigation of efficient and effective predictive-reactive project scheduling procedures. Lirias (KU Leuven). 11(1). 1–29. 15 indexed citations
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Herroelen, Willy & Roel Leus. (2003). Solution and quality robust project scheduling: a methodological framework. Lirias (KU Leuven). 185(4). 319–22. 1 indexed citations
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Herroelen, Willy & Roel Leus. (2001). On the merits and pitfalls of critical chain scheduling. Journal of Operations Management. 19(5). 559–577. 248 indexed citations
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Demeulemeester, Erik, Bert De Reyck, & Willy Herroelen. (2000). The discrete time/resource trade-off problem in project networks: a branch-and-bound approach. IIE Transactions. 32(11). 1059–1069. 69 indexed citations
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Demeulemeester, Erik, Willy Herroelen, & Mario Vanhoucke. (1998). On maximizing the net present value of projects under resource constraints. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 5 indexed citations
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Reyck, Bert De & Willy Herroelen. (1998). An optimal procedure for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with discounted cash flows and generalized precedence relations. Computers & Operations Research. 25(1). 1–17. 12 indexed citations
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Herroelen, Willy, et al.. (1991). The Jit Gospel. 369–386. 2 indexed citations
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Wit, Jan de & Willy Herroelen. (1990). An evaluation of microcomputer-based software packages for project management. European Journal of Operational Research. 49(1). 102–139. 44 indexed citations
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Demeulemeester, Erik & Willy Herroelen. (1989). A decision support system for resource-constrained project scheduling. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1 indexed citations
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Herroelen, Willy. (1987). Proceedings of the 2nd ORSA TIMS conference on flexible manufacturing systems - Operations-research models and applications, University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, MI, USA, August 12-15, 1986 (Stecke, K. - Suri, R.). European Journal of Operational Research. 29(3). 387–387. 9 indexed citations
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Herroelen, Willy. (1983). Automation of small batch production. Lirias (KU Leuven). 139–163. 1 indexed citations
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Herroelen, Willy, et al.. (1983). Management aspects of computerized manufacturing. Lirias (KU Leuven). 37(6). 723–743. 4 indexed citations
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Herroelen, Willy, et al.. (1979). The generation of random activity networks. Lirias (KU Leuven). 6 indexed citations
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Herroelen, Willy. (1977). Plant layout methoden. Verleden, heden en toekomst. Lirias (KU Leuven). 51–85. 1 indexed citations

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