Table 1. Final selection article...

Table 1.

Final selection article research demographics

Method/study type	Sources
Quantitative (e.g. computational experiments, simulations, simulation-based case-studies)	Abdirad et al. (2021), Agrawal et al. (2022), Aylak et al. (2021), Benda et al. (2019), Bergès et al. (2021), Burggräf et al. (2021), Chen et al. (2021), Dias and Ierapetritou (2019), Duc and Nananukul (2020), Fang et al. (2019), Garbaya et al. (2022), Guo and Hesthaven (2019), Han et al. (2021), Hellas et al. (2019), Huu, Duc and Nananukul (2020), Jhaver et al. (2019), Leusin et al. (2018), Lin et al. (2022), Matsuoka et al. (2019), Moretti et al. (2021), Müller et al. (2022), Nahhas et al. (2018), Nie et al. (2019), Pisacane et al. (2021), Sun et al. (2021), van der Laan et al. (2022), Vithitsoontorn and Chongstitvatana (2022), Xu and Dang (2020), C. Zhang et al. (2021), J. Zhang et al. (2021)
Conceptual	Francalanza et al. (2018), Hobscheidt et al. (2021)
Literature review	Burggräf et al. (2021), Islam et al. (2020), Singh et al. (2021)
Research area
Electronics (e.g. “Electrical Engineering”, “Electronics”)	Bergès et al. (2021), Chen et al. (2021)
Engineering (e.g. “Production”, “Engineering Optimization”, “Applied Engineering”, “Engineering Software”)	Dias and Ierapetritou (2019), Fang et al. (2019), Han et al. (2021), Hellas et al. (2019), Hobscheidt et al. (2021), Islam et al. (2020), Matsuoka et al. (2019), Nie et al. (2019), Pisacane et al. (2021), Singh et al. (2021)
Computer science (e.g. “Computers and Materials”, Computer Methods in Applied Engineering”)	Agrawal et al. (2022), Duc and Nananukul (2020), Francalanza et al. (2018), Guo and Hesthaven (2019), Huu et al. (2020), C. Zhang et al. (2021)
Operations management (e.g. “Operations Research”, “Operations Management”, “Production Economics”	Benda et al. (2019), Lin et al. (2022), Moretti et al. (2021), Müller et al. (2022), Sun et al. (2021), van der Laan et al. (2022), Vithitsoontorn and Chongstitvatana (2022)
Information Systems (e.g. “Industrial Systems”, “Applied Innovation Systems”, “Enterprise Systems”)	Abdirad et al. (2021), de Jager and Nel (2019), Nahhas et al. (2018)
Multidisciplinary (e.g. “Applied Sciences”, “Technologies”, “Production Research”, “Agile Manufacturing”)	Aylak et al. (2021), Burggräf et al. (2021), Garbaya et al. (2022), Leusin et al. (2018), Xu and Dang (2020), J. Zhang et al. (2021)
Industrial focus
Logistics – distribution	Abdirad et al. (2021), Agrawal et al. (2022), Singh et al. (2021), Sun et al. (2021), J. Zhang et al. (2021)
Logistics – warehousing/inventory/facility	Aylak et al. (2021), Burggräf et al. (2021), Duc and Nananukul (2020), Islam et al. (2020), Lin et al. (2022), Singh et al. (2021), van der Laan et al. (2022)
Quality management	Bergès et al. (2021), Xu and Dang (2020)
Production planning/scheduling/manufacturing system/forecasting	Benda et al. (2019), Chen et al. (2021), Dias and Ierapetritou (2019), Fang et al. (2019), Francalanza et al. (2018), Han et al. (2021), Hellas et al. (2019), Huu et al. (2020), Leusin et al. (2018), Matsuoka et al. (2019), Moretti et al. (2021), Müller et al. (2022), Nahhas et al. (2018), Nie et al. (2019), Vithitsoontorn and Chongstitvatana (2022), C. Zhang et al. (2021)
Machinery	Pisacane et al. (2021)
Human resource	Jhaver et al. (2019)
Information technology	de Jager and Nel (2019)
General optimization/engineering design	Garbaya et al. (2022), Guo and Hesthaven (2019), Hobscheidt et al. (2021)
Problem-solving connection
Attempting solution for established optimization problem	Abdirad et al. (2021), Agrawal et al. (2022), Aylak et al. (2021), Benda et al. (2019), Chen et al. (2021), Dias and Ierapetritou (2019), Duc and Nananukul (2020), Fang et al. (2019), Garbaya et al. (2022), Guo and Hesthaven (2019), Han et al. (2021), Huu et al. (2020), Islam et al. (2020), Leusin et al. (2018), Lin et al. (2022), Matsuoka et al. (2019), Moretti et al. (2021), Müller et al. (2022), Nahhas et al. (2018), Nie et al. (2019), Pisacane et al. (2021), Sun et al. (2021), van der Laan et al. (2022), C. Zhang et al. (2021), J. Zhang et al. (2021)
Studying problem-solving process/method	Bergès et al. (2021), Burggräf et al. (2021), Francalanza et al. (2018), Hobscheidt et al. (2021), Xu and Dang (2020)
Studying/identifying problems	de Jager and Nel (2019), Hellas et al. (2019), Singh et al. (2021)
Discusses solution for practical business problems	Jhaver et al. (2019), Vithitsoontorn and Chongstitvatana (2022)

Method/study type	Sources
Quantitative (e.g. computational experiments, simulations, simulation-based case-studies)	Abdirad et al. (2021), Agrawal et al. (2022), Aylak et al. (2021), Benda et al. (2019), Bergès et al. (2021), Burggräf et al. (2021), Chen et al. (2021), Dias and Ierapetritou (2019), Duc and Nananukul (2020), Fang et al. (2019), Garbaya et al. (2022), Guo and Hesthaven (2019), Han et al. (2021), Hellas et al. (2019), Huu, Duc and Nananukul (2020), Jhaver et al. (2019), Leusin et al. (2018), Lin et al. (2022), Matsuoka et al. (2019), Moretti et al. (2021), Müller et al. (2022), Nahhas et al. (2018), Nie et al. (2019), Pisacane et al. (2021), Sun et al. (2021), van der Laan et al. (2022), Vithitsoontorn and Chongstitvatana (2022), Xu and Dang (2020), C. Zhang et al. (2021), J. Zhang et al. (2021)
Conceptual	Francalanza et al. (2018), Hobscheidt et al. (2021)
Literature review	Burggräf et al. (2021), Islam et al. (2020), Singh et al. (2021)
Research area
Electronics (e.g. “Electrical Engineering”, “Electronics”)	Bergès et al. (2021), Chen et al. (2021)
Engineering (e.g. “Production”, “Engineering Optimization”, “Applied Engineering”, “Engineering Software”)	Dias and Ierapetritou (2019), Fang et al. (2019), Han et al. (2021), Hellas et al. (2019), Hobscheidt et al. (2021), Islam et al. (2020), Matsuoka et al. (2019), Nie et al. (2019), Pisacane et al. (2021), Singh et al. (2021)
Computer science (e.g. “Computers and Materials”, Computer Methods in Applied Engineering”)	Agrawal et al. (2022), Duc and Nananukul (2020), Francalanza et al. (2018), Guo and Hesthaven (2019), Huu et al. (2020), C. Zhang et al. (2021)
Operations management (e.g. “Operations Research”, “Operations Management”, “Production Economics”	Benda et al. (2019), Lin et al. (2022), Moretti et al. (2021), Müller et al. (2022), Sun et al. (2021), van der Laan et al. (2022), Vithitsoontorn and Chongstitvatana (2022)
Information Systems (e.g. “Industrial Systems”, “Applied Innovation Systems”, “Enterprise Systems”)	Abdirad et al. (2021), de Jager and Nel (2019), Nahhas et al. (2018)
Multidisciplinary (e.g. “Applied Sciences”, “Technologies”, “Production Research”, “Agile Manufacturing”)	Aylak et al. (2021), Burggräf et al. (2021), Garbaya et al. (2022), Leusin et al. (2018), Xu and Dang (2020), J. Zhang et al. (2021)
Industrial focus
Logistics – distribution	Abdirad et al. (2021), Agrawal et al. (2022), Singh et al. (2021), Sun et al. (2021), J. Zhang et al. (2021)
Logistics – warehousing/inventory/facility	Aylak et al. (2021), Burggräf et al. (2021), Duc and Nananukul (2020), Islam et al. (2020), Lin et al. (2022), Singh et al. (2021), van der Laan et al. (2022)
Quality management	Bergès et al. (2021), Xu and Dang (2020)
Production planning/scheduling/manufacturing system/forecasting	Benda et al. (2019), Chen et al. (2021), Dias and Ierapetritou (2019), Fang et al. (2019), Francalanza et al. (2018), Han et al. (2021), Hellas et al. (2019), Huu et al. (2020), Leusin et al. (2018), Matsuoka et al. (2019), Moretti et al. (2021), Müller et al. (2022), Nahhas et al. (2018), Nie et al. (2019), Vithitsoontorn and Chongstitvatana (2022), C. Zhang et al. (2021)
Machinery	Pisacane et al. (2021)
Human resource	Jhaver et al. (2019)
Information technology	de Jager and Nel (2019)
General optimization/engineering design	Garbaya et al. (2022), Guo and Hesthaven (2019), Hobscheidt et al. (2021)
Problem-solving connection
Attempting solution for established optimization problem	Abdirad et al. (2021), Agrawal et al. (2022), Aylak et al. (2021), Benda et al. (2019), Chen et al. (2021), Dias and Ierapetritou (2019), Duc and Nananukul (2020), Fang et al. (2019), Garbaya et al. (2022), Guo and Hesthaven (2019), Han et al. (2021), Huu et al. (2020), Islam et al. (2020), Leusin et al. (2018), Lin et al. (2022), Matsuoka et al. (2019), Moretti et al. (2021), Müller et al. (2022), Nahhas et al. (2018), Nie et al. (2019), Pisacane et al. (2021), Sun et al. (2021), van der Laan et al. (2022), C. Zhang et al. (2021), J. Zhang et al. (2021)
Studying problem-solving process/method	Bergès et al. (2021), Burggräf et al. (2021), Francalanza et al. (2018), Hobscheidt et al. (2021), Xu and Dang (2020)
Studying/identifying problems	de Jager and Nel (2019), Hellas et al. (2019), Singh et al. (2021)
Discusses solution for practical business problems	Jhaver et al. (2019), Vithitsoontorn and Chongstitvatana (2022)

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