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Overview

John W. Fowler is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. The primary academic and research focus lies in the field of Engineering, with particular emphasis on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, as well as related subfields such as Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, and Modeling and Simulation.

The scientist's research spans multiple topics including Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms, Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, Manufacturing Process and Optimization, Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization, and Assembly Line Balancing Optimization.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by John W. Fowler include:

  • How simulation modelling can help reduce the impact of COVID-19, 2020, Journal of Simulation
  • A survey of scheduling with parallel batch (p-batch) processing, 2021, European Journal of Operational Research
  • Simulation optimization applied to production scheduling in the era of industry 4.0: A review and future roadmap, 2024, Journal of Industrial Information Integration
  • Bi-criteria parallel batch machine scheduling to minimize total weighted tardiness and electricity cost, 2020, Journal of Business Economics
  • Exact and heuristic algorithms for the parallel machine total completion time scheduling problem with dual resources, ready times, and sequence-dependent setup times, 2022, Computers & Operations Research

Frequent coauthors in their research include Lars Mönch, Esma S. Gel, Karl G. Kempf, Chen-Fu Chien, and Hans Ehm.

Publication activity is distributed among several venues, with notable frequency in IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, British Journal of Nursing, Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) events in 2021 and 2022, and the Journal of Simulation.

Best Publications

  • A survey of problems, solution techniques, and future challenges in scheduling semiconductor manufacturing operations

    Lars Mönch;John W. Fowler;Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès;Scott J. Mason

  • How simulation modelling can help reduce the impact of COVID-19

    Christine S.M. Currie;John W. Fowler;Kathy Kotiadis;Thomas Monks

  • A multi-population genetic algorithm to solve multi-objective scheduling problems for parallel machines

    Jeffery K. Cochran;Shwu-Min Horng;John W. Fowler

  • Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Manufacturing Systems

    John W. Fowler;Oliver Rose

  • A modified shifting bottleneck heuristic for minimizing total weighted tardiness in complex job shops

    Scott J. Mason;John W. Fowler;W. Matthew Carlyle

  • Heuristic scheduling of jobs on parallel batch machines with incompatible job families and unequal ready times

    Lars Mönch;Hari Balasubramanian;John W. Fowler;Michele E. Pfund

  • Production Planning and Control for Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facilities: Modeling, Analysis, and Systems

    John W. Fowler;Scott J. Mason;Lars Mönch

  • Genetic algorithm based scheduling of parallel batch machines with incompatible job families to minimize total weighted tardiness

    Hari Balasubramanian;Lars Mönch;John W. Fowler;Michele E. Pfund

  • Bi-Criteria Scheduling of Surgical Services for an Outpatient Procedure Center

    Serhat Gul;Brian T. Denton;John W. Fowler;Todd Huschka

  • A new scheduling approach using combined dispatching criteria in wafer fabs

    R.M. Dabbas;J.W. Fowler

  • Production Planning and Control for Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facilities

    Lars Mönch;John W. Fowler;Scott J. Mason

  • Mixed integer programming formulations for single machine scheduling problems

    Ahmet B. Keha;Ketan Khowala;John W. Fowler

  • A survey of scheduling with parallel batch (p-batch) processing

    John W. Fowler;Lars Mönch

  • Real-time control of multiproduct bulk-service semiconductor manufacturing processes

    J.W. Fowler;D.T. Phillips;G.L. Hogg

  • Heuristics for workforce planning with worker differences

    John W. Fowler;Pornsarun Wirojanagud;Esma Senturk Gel

  • Scheduling jobs on parallel machines with setup times and ready times

    Michele Pfund;John W. Fowler;Amit Gadkari;Yan Chen

  • A survey of semiconductor supply chain models part I: semiconductor supply chains, strategic network design, and supply chain simulation

    Lars Mönch;Reha Uzsoy;John W. Fowler

  • Minimizing total weighted tardiness on a single batch process machine with incompatible job families

    Imelda C. Perez;John W. Fowler;W. Matthew Carlyle

  • Heuristics for minimizing regular performance measures in unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems

    Y. K. Lin;M. E. Pfund;J. W. Fowler

  • Genetic algorithm-based subproblem solution procedures for a modified shifting bottleneck heuristic for complex job shops

    Lars Mönch;Rene Schabacker;Detlef Pabst;John W. Fowler

  • Workload control in the semiconductor industry

    John W Fowler;Gary L Hogg;Scott J Mason

  • A hybrid approach using the analytic hierarchy process and integer programming to screen weapon systems projects

    M.A. Greiner;J.W. Fowler;D.L. Shunk;W.M. Carlyle

  • A combined dispatching criteria approach to scheduling semiconductor manufacturing systems

    Russ M. Dabbas;Hung-Nan Chen;John W. Fowler;Dan Shunk

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Mönch
Lars Mönch University of Hagen
Douglas C. Montgomery
Douglas C. Montgomery Arizona State University
Barry L. Nelson
Barry L. Nelson Northwestern University
Teresa Wu
Teresa Wu Arizona State University
George C. Runger
George C. Runger Arizona State University
Chen-Fu Chien
Chen-Fu Chien National Tsing Hua University
Reha Uzsoy
Reha Uzsoy North Carolina State University
Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès
Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
Jyrki Wallenius
Jyrki Wallenius Aalto University
Izak Duenyas
Izak Duenyas University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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