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Roel Leus

Roel Leus

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
30
Citations
5892
World Ranking
3442
National Ranking
46

Computer Science

D-Index
32
Citations
6684
World Ranking
12931
National Ranking
122

Roel Leus publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roel Leus sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 195 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Roel Leus D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roel Leus sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 174 scientists 31 D-Index: 151 scientists 32 D-Index: 174 scientists 33 D-Index: 117 scientists 34 D-Index: 136 scientists 35 D-Index: 127 scientists 36 D-Index: 145 scientists 37 D-Index: 153 scientists 38 D-Index: 150 scientists 39 D-Index: 150 scientists 40 D-Index: 138 scientists 41 D-Index: 136 scientists 42 D-Index: 93 scientists 43 D-Index: 108 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 112 scientists 46 D-Index: 103 scientists 47 D-Index: 75 scientists 48 D-Index: 59 scientists 49 D-Index: 67 scientists 50 D-Index: 60 scientists 51 D-Index: 57 scientists 52 D-Index: 59 scientists 53 D-Index: 62 scientists 54 D-Index: 60 scientists 55 D-Index: 50 scientists 56 D-Index: 42 scientists 57 D-Index: 54 scientists 58 D-Index: 50 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 41 scientists 61 D-Index: 35 scientists 62 D-Index: 40 scientists 63 D-Index: 21 scientists 64 D-Index: 31 scientists 65 D-Index: 27 scientists 66 D-Index: 29 scientists 67 D-Index: 19 scientists 68 D-Index: 25 scientists 69 D-Index: 17 scientists 70 D-Index: 18 scientists 71 D-Index: 12 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 13 scientists 74 D-Index: 18 scientists 75 D-Index: 9 scientists 76 D-Index: 11 scientists 77 D-Index: 10 scientists 78 D-Index: 9 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 10 scientists 82 D-Index: 5 scientists 83 D-Index: 5 scientists 84 D-Index: 13 scientists 85 D-Index: 6 scientists 86+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 30 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Overview

Roel Leus is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and specializes in the field of Engineering, with a focus on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research, Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, and Building and Construction. Their research covers a wide array of topics related to optimization and scheduling within these domains.

The scientist's main research areas include:

  • Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Assembly Line Balancing Optimization
  • Optimization and Packing Problems
  • Auction Theory and Applications

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • INFORMS journal on computing
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • Transportation Science

Some of Roel Leus's recent research papers are:

  • "Recovery from demand disruption: Two-stage financing strategy for a capital-constrained supply chain under uncertainty," 2022, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "Scheduling a single parallel-batching machine with non-identical job sizes and incompatible job families," 2022, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "The Traveling Salesman Problem with Drones: The Benefits of Retraversing the Arcs," 2023, Transportation Science
  • "Parallel Machine Scheduling Under Uncertainty: Models and Exact Algorithms," 2022, INFORMS journal on computing
  • "Minimizing makespan on a single machine with release dates and inventory constraints," 2020, European Journal of Operational Research

Roel Leus has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Ben Hermans
  • Hande Yaman
  • Guopeng Song
  • Nicola Morandi
  • Boshuai Zhao

Best Publications

  • Project scheduling under uncertainty: survey and research potentials

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • On the merits and pitfalls of critical chain scheduling

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • Robust and reactive project scheduling: a review and classification of procedures

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • A hybrid scatter search/electromagnetism meta-heuristic for project scheduling

    Dieter Debels;Bert De Reyck;Roel Leus;Mario Vanhoucke;Mario Vanhoucke

  • The use of buffers in project management: The trade-off between stability and makespan

    Stijn Van de Vonder;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • The construction of stable project baseline schedules

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • A hierarchical approach to multi-project planning under uncertainty

    EW Hans;Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus;G Wullink

  • Critical Chain Project Scheduling: Do Not Oversimplify:

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus;Erik Demeulemeester

  • The trade-off between stability and makespan in resource-constrained project scheduling

    S. Van De Vonder;E. Demeulemeester;W. Herroelen;R. Leus

  • Stability and resource allocation in project planning

    Roel Leus;Willy Herroelen

  • Resource‐Constrained Project Scheduling for Timely Project Completion with Stochastic Activity Durations

    Francisco Ballestín;Roel Leus

  • Robust optimization for resource-constrained project scheduling with uncertain activity durations

    R. Leus;C. Artigues;F. Talla Nobibon

  • New competitive results for the stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problem: exploring the benefits of pre-processing

    Behzad Ashtiani;Roel Leus;Mir-Bahador Aryanezhad

  • Exact algorithms for a generalization of the order acceptance and scheduling problem in a single-machine environment

    Fabrice Talla Nobibon;Roel Leus

  • New strategies for stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling

    Salim Rostami;Salim Rostami;Stefan Creemers;Stefan Creemers;Roel Leus

  • R&D project scheduling when activities may fail

    Bert De Reyck;Roel Leus

  • The generation of stable project plans

    Roel Leus

  • Self-imposed time windows in vehicle routing problems

    Ola Jabali;Roel Leus;Tom Woensel;Ton Kok

  • The complexity of machine scheduling for stability with a single disrupted job

    Roel Leus;Willy Herroelen

  • Scheduling Markovian PERT networks to maximize the net present value

    Stefan Creemers;Roel Leus;Marc Lambrecht

  • Scheduling Markovian PERT networks to maximize the net present value

    Stefan Creemers;R. Leus;M. Lambrecht

  • A hybrid scatter search / Electromagnetism meta-heuristic for project scheduling

    Dieter Debels;B. De Reyck;R. Leus;Mario Vanhoucke

  • Sequential testing policies for complex systems under precedence constraints

    Wenchao Wei;Kris Coolen;Roel Leus

  • The trade-off between stability and makespan in resource-constrained project scheduling

    Stijn Van de Vonder;Erik Demeulemeester;Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

  • On the construction of stable project baseline schedules

    Willy Herroelen;Roel Leus

Frequent Co-Authors

Frits C. R. Spieksma
Frits C. R. Spieksma Eindhoven University of Technology
Mario Vanhoucke
Mario Vanhoucke Ghent University
Tom Van Woensel
Tom Van Woensel Eindhoven University of Technology
Xiaoming Wang
Xiaoming Wang Florida State University
Yves Crama
Yves Crama University of Liège
Hussein A. Abbass
Hussein A. Abbass University of New South Wales
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela Sapienza University of Rome
Salah E. Elmaghraby
Salah E. Elmaghraby North Carolina State University

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