Title: Development of web-based portal for research synthesis on scheduling of batch processors and simple meta-analysis

Authors: M. Vimala Rani; M. Mathirajan

Addresses: Operations Management and Decision Sciences Area, IIM Tiruchirappalli 620024, India ' Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India

Abstract: This study develops a web-based portal on scheduling of batch processors (SBP) to synthesise the entire published research articles in this area and appropriately disseminate the same to research communities. This portal captures the vital parameters of each published SBP article and stores them in a database. Accordingly, the complete details of 315 published research articles on SBP are stored in the database. From this portal, users can get the list of research articles on SBP based on a predefined general query, and user's customised query. Further, user can add his/her published research article and/or send the update request to administrator. The administrator validates it and then adds/modifies the corresponding record in the database. Moreover, users can view the pre-defined simple meta-analysis of diffusion furnaces (BP) in semiconductor manufacturing industry based on machine environment, nature of scheduling, performance measures, methodology, data source used, benchmark procedure considered, journal, publisher, and year.

Keywords: web-based portal; batch processors; batch processing machines; BPM; research synthesis; meta-analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAOM.2025.147704

International Journal of Advanced Operations Management, 2025 Vol.16 No.2, pp.229 - 260

Received: 09 Nov 2024
Accepted: 15 May 2025
Published online: 25 Jul 2025 *

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