Publications

International refereed journals

1. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari, Mohamed Labidi (2014), "An Exact Approach for Single Machine Scheduling with Unavailability Periods", European Journal of Industrial Engineering, in press.
2. Mohamed Labidi, Mehdi Mrad, Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Aly Louly (2014), "Scheduling IT Staff at a Bank: A Mathematical Programming Approach", The Scientific World Journal, doi:10.1155/2014/768374.
3. Anis Gharbi, Talel Ladhari, Mohamed Kais Msakni, Mehdi Serairi (2013), " The Two-Machine Flowshop Scheduling Problem with Sequence-Independent Setup Times: New Lower Bounding Strategies", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol 231, pp. 69-78.
4. Anis Gharbi (2013), "Scheduling Maintenance Actions for Gas Turbines Aircraft Engines", International Journal of Mechanical, Industrial Science and Engineering, Vol 7, pp. 224-226.
5. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari, Talel Ladhari, Mohamed Ali Rakrouki (2013), "An Effective Genetic Algortihm for a Complex Real-World Scheduling Problem", International Journal of Mechanical, Industrial Science and Engineering, Vol 7, pp. 281-284.
6. Anis Gharbi, Amira Mahjoubi (2013), "New Lower Bounds for Flow Shop Scheduling", International Journal of Humanities and Management Sciences, Vol 1, pp. 28-32.
7. Anis Gharbi, Abdurrahman Al-Ahmari, Mohamed Kais Msakni, Hisham Al-Khalefah (2012), "A New Genetic Algorithm for Designing Cellular Manufacturing Systems with Labor and Tools Issues", Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vols. 110-116, pp. 4307-4314.
8. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Labidi (2010), "Jackson's Semi-Preemptive Scheduling on a Single Machine", Computers and Operations Research, Volume 37, pp. 2082–2088.
9. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Naceur Azaiez, Mohamed Kharbech (2010), "Minimizing Expected Attacking Cost in Networks", Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, Volume 36, pp. 947–954.
10. Anis Gharbi, Talel Ladhari, Mohamed Kais Msakni, Mehdi Serairi (2010), "Polynomial Lower Bounds for the Two-Machine Flowshop Problem with Sequence-Independent Setup Times", Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, Volume 36, pp. 1089–1096.
11. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Labidi (2010), "Extending the single machine-based relaxation scheme for the job shop scheduling problem", Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, Volume 36, pp. 1057–1064.
12. Lotfi Hidri, Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari (2008), "Energetic Reasoning Revisited: Application to Parallel Machine Scheduling", Journal of Scheduling, Volume 11, pp. 239-252.
13. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari (2007), "An Approximate Decomposition Algorithm for Scheduling on Parallel Machines with Heads and Tails", Computers and Operations Research, Volume 34, pp. 868-883.
14. Mohamed Haouari, Anis Gharbi, Mahdi Jemmali (2006), "Tight Bounds for the Identical Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem", International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 13, pp. 529-548.
15. Mohamed Haouari, Lotfi Hidri, Anis Gharbi (2006), "Optimal Scheduling of a Two-Stage Hybrid Flow Shop", Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Volume 64, pp. 107-124.
16. Mohamed Haouari, Anis Gharbi (2005), "Fast Lifting Procedures for the Bin Packing Problem", Discrete Optimization, Volume 2, pp. 201-218.
17. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari (2005), "Optimal Parallel Machines Scheduling with Availability Constraints", Discrete Applied Mathematics, Volume 148, pp. 63-87.
18. Mohamed Haouari,  Anis Gharbi (2004), "Lower Bounds for Scheduling on Identical Parallel Machines with Heads and Tails", Annals of Operations Research, Volume 129, pp. 187-204.
19. Mohamed Haouari,  Anis Gharbi (2003), "An Improved Max-Flow Based Lower Bound for Minimizing Maximum Lateness on Identical Parallel machines"  Operations Research Letters, Volume 31, pp. 49-52.
20. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari (2002), "Minimizing Makespan on Parallel Machines Subject to Release Dates and Delivery Times", Journal of Scheduling, Volume 5, pp. 329-355.

Conference Proceedings

1. Anis Gharbi (2014), "Improving the Academic Environment through Computerized Optimization Tools: A Success Story at the Largest Gulf University", IBEA2014, Hong Kong, paper ID: 069MIX.
2. Anis Gharbi, Talel Ladhari, Mohamed Kais Msakni, Mehdi Serairi (2012), "Tight Lower Bounds for the Two-Machine Flowshop Scheduling Problem with Setup Times", PMS2012, Leuven, Belguim, pp. 152-155.
3. A. Gharbi, M. Louly, M. N. Azaiez, A. Bouras (2011), " Goal-Programming Models for Nurse Scheduling Assessment of Two Critical Intensive Care Units",  INFORMS Healthcare, Montreal, Canada, paper ID: 53591.
4. Anis Gharbi, Talel Ladhari, Mohamed Kais Msakni, Mehdi Serairi (2011),  "Bounding Schemes for Scheduling a Two-Machine Flowshop with Set-up Times", International Conference and Exhibition on Knowledge-Based Business, Industry and Education (KBIE 2011), Manama, Bahrain, paper ID: 114.
5. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Labidi (2009), "Jackson's Semi-Preemptive Schedule for the One Machine Problem", 10th Conference of the French Operations Research Society (ROADEF’09), Nancy, France, pp. 108-110.
6. Lotfi Hidri, Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari, and Chefi Triki (2008), "Enhanced Energetic Reasoning for Parallel Machine Scheduling", Eleventh International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling (PMS 2008), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 144-147.
7. Mahdi Jemmali, Mohamed Haouari, Anis Gharbi (2006), "Bounding Strategies for scheduling on Identical Parallel Machines", IEEE International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM'06), Troyes, France, pp. 1162-1166.
8. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari (2005), "Une nouvelle heuristique pour le problème d’ordonnancement à machines parallèles avec dates de disponibilité et temps de latence"  6th Conference of the French Operations Research Society (ROADEF’05), Tours, France.
9. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari (2004), "Optimal Parallel Machines Scheduling with Initial and Final Availability Constraints", Ninth International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling (PMS 2004), Nancy, France, pp. 218-221.

Submitted papers

1. Mehdi Mrad, Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Haouari, Mohamed Kharbeche, "An Optimization-Based Heuristic for the Machine Reassignment Problem", submitted to Annals of Operations Research.
2. Anis Gharbi, Mohamed Labidi, " The Non-Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling Problem: Adjustment and Bounding Procedures", submitted to The Scientific World Journal – Operations Research.