Debra Dobbs, PhD, professor and interim director of the School of Aging Studies and academic director of the Center for Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Studies, is one of the co-authors of a research paper that received the Commended Paper Award at the 11th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Conference on Manufacturing, Modelling, Management and Control (IFAC MIM2025) held June 30 through July 3 in Trondheim, Norway.
The paper, which Dobbs collaborated on with Marc F眉chtenhans, Niloofar Katiraee, and Christoph Glock, is titled "Considering Aging Workforce Characteristics in Production Scheduling: Literature Review and Extended Job Shop Modelling Approach." It presents a systematic review of existing research on how aging-related factors have been considered in job shop scheduling models. Building on this foundation, the authors proposed an extended dual resource-constrained job shop scheduling model that incorporates key aging workforce characteristics.