专著：急诊医疗资源运作管理方法，2024，欧宝app官方网站下载出版社， ISBN: 978-7-313-30956-3.
代表性论文：
1、论文Near-Optimal Pricing and Resource Allocation in a Large-Scale Service System, Operations Research：https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/opre.2024.1073
针对现代服务系统如医疗服务、智能配送等，考虑顾客具有异质的服务偏好和等待时间敏感性，研究服务定价和对服务资源的精准调度。基于对偶思想提出高效的闭环控制策略，实时确定服务价格与服务能力分配。
2、论文Physician Staffing for Emergency Departments with Time-Varying Demand, INFORMS Journal on Computing：https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/ijoc.2017.0799
针对大型医院急诊部高度时变、随机的环境特征，研究急诊医生排班优化问题。考虑时变的患者到达速率和医生排班的复杂约束，提出了结合经典排队论和数学优化的问题解析建模方法，设计了嵌入加速策略的启发式算法，对问题有效求解。
3、论文Service-level computation in time-varying queueing system with priorities: Application to physician staffing in the emergency department, IISE Transactions: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24725854.2024.2357782
针对医院急诊患者病情不同、严重程度不同的特点，考虑每个级别患者的高度时变、随机到达特征，以及不同级别患者排队优先规则，基于马尔可夫链和均匀化方法，提出患者服务水平的定量计算方法，并将其应用于急诊资源计划调度。
4、论文Exact Algorithm and Machine Learning-Based Heuristic for the Stochastic Lot Streaming and Scheduling Problem, IISE Transactions：https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24725854.2023.2294816
针对加工多类型工件的制造产线计划调度问题，将产品分批和批次调度集成考虑，考虑生产任务到达产线时间的随机特征，设计了求解随机规划的精确求解算法，以及结合机器学习的启发式算法，对问题有效求解。
发表论文列表：
1. Zerui Wu, Ran Liu, Xu Sun. Near-Optimal Pricing and Resource Allocation in a Large-Scale Service System. Operations Research, online: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/opre.2024.1073
2. Ran Liu, Bo Zhou, Shiming Wang, Huiyin Ouyang, Physician scheduling in case managers style emergency departments: machine learning-aided solution approaches, European Journal of Operational Research, 2025, 327(1): 326–339.
3. Ran Liu, Huiyin Ouyang, Chengkai Wang, Xiaolan Xie, Service-level computation in time-varying queueing system with priorities: Application to physician staffing in the emergency department, IISE Transactions, 2025, 57(5), 556–572.
4. Ran Liu, Chengkai Wang, Huiyin Ouyang, Zerui Wu, Exact Algorithm and Machine Learning-Based Heuristic for the Stochastic Lot Streaming and Scheduling Problem, IISE Transactions, 2025, 57(4), 408–422.
5. Ran Liu, Chengkai Wang. A constraint relaxation-based intelligence algorithm for workshop layouts with automated guided vehicle systems, Journal of Management Science and Engineering, 2025, 10(2), 225-244.
6. Ran Liu, Yue Zhang, Bo Zhou, Solving a real-life stochastic car batching and sequencing problem with dynamic programming approaches. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2025, 22, 5012-5028.
7. Liu Ran, Wang Zixiang, Wang Chengkai, Learning-based algorithm for physician scheduling for emergency departments under time-varying demand and patient return, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024, 128, 107477.
8. Liu Ran, Xie Xiaolei , Improve the Industrial Digital Transformation through Industrial Internet Platforms, Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2024, 11(1), 167–174.
9. Wang Chengkai, Liu Ran , Wu Zerui, Combining Benders Decomposition and Column Generation for Physician Scheduling in Fever Clinics during Covid-19 Pandemic. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024, 21(4), 5969-5982.
10. Wu ZeRui, Liu Ran, Pan Ershun, Server Routing-Scheduling Problem in Distributed Queueing System with Time-Varying Demand and Queue Length Control, Transportation Science, 2023, 57(5), 1209–1230.
11. Li Linman, Li Yuqing, Liu Ran, Zhou Yaoming, Pan Ershun, A Two-stage Stochastic Programming for AGV scheduling with random tasks and battery swapping in automated container terminals. Transportation Research Part E, 2023, 174, 103110.
12. Wang Zixiang, Liu Ran, Sun Zhankun, Physician Scheduling for Emergency Departments under Time-varying Demand and Patient Return. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2023, 20(1): 553-570.
13. Liu Ran, Liu Weiliang, Liu Yuxin, Pan Ershun, Xie Xiaolei, Modeling and Optimization for Emergency Medical Services Network. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022, 19(4): 3520-3535.
14. Wang Zixiang, Liu Ran, Managing appointments of outpatients considering the presence of emergency patients: the combination of the analytical and data-driven approach. International Journal of Production Research, 2022, 60(13): 4214–4228.
15. Jiang shan, Zhang Yilun, Liu Ran, Jafari Mohsen, Kharbeche Mohamed, Data-driven Optimization for Dynamic Shortest Path Problem Considering Traffic Safety. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022, 23(10): 18237-18252.
16. Liu Ran, Xu Jie, Liu Yuxin, Dynamic Patient Admission Control with Time-Varying and Uncertain Demands in Covid-19 Pandemic. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022, 19(2): 620-631.
17. Liu Ran, Fan Xiaoyu, Wu Zerui, Pang Bowen, Xie Xiaolei, The Physician Scheduling of Fever Clinic in the Covid-19 Pandemic. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022,19(2):709–723.
18. Liu Ran, Jiang Shan, A variable neighborhood search algorithm with constraint relaxation for the two-echelon vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pickup demands. Soft Computing, 2022, 26:8879–8896.
19. Liu Ran, Xie Xiaolan, Weekly scheduling of emergency department physicians to cope with time-varying demand. IISE Transactions, 2021,53(10):1109–1123.
20. Liu Ran, Yuan Biao, Jiang Zhibin. The large-scale periodic home health care server assignment problem: a region-partition-based algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2020,17(3): 1543-1554.
21. Liu Ran, Tao Yangyi, Xie Xiaolei. An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows and synchronized visits. Computers & Operations Research. 2019, 101: 250–262.
22. Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin. A hybrid large-neighborhood search algorithm for the cumulative capacitated vehicle routing problem with time-window constraints. Applied Soft Computing, 2019,80: 18-30.
23. Liu Ran, Yuan Biao, Jiang Zhibin. A branch-and-price algorithm for the home-caregiver scheduling and routing problem with stochastic travel and service times. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 2019, 31(4): 989–1011.
24. Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin. A constraint relaxation-based algorithm for the load-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 2019, 31：331-353.
25. Wang Peilian, Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin. The Optimization of Combination- Chemotherapy Schedules in the Presence of Drug Resistance. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2019,16(1):165-179.
26. Liu Ran, Xie Xiaolan. Physician Staffing for Emergency Departments with Time-Varying Demand. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2018, 30(3): 588-607.
27. Yuan Biao, Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin. Daily scheduling of home caregivers with stochastic times. International Journal of Production Research, 2018, 56(9): 3245–3261.
28. Wang Peilian, Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin. Optimization of combination chemotherapy with dose adjustment using a memetic algorithm. Information Sciences, 2018, 432:63–78.
29. Liu Ran, Tao Yangyi, Hu Qiaoyu, Xie Xiaolei. Simulation-based optimisation approach for the stochastic two-echelon logistics problem. International Journal of Production Research, 2017, 55(1):187-201.
30. Liu Ran, Yuan Biao, Jiang Zhibin. Mathematical model and exact algorithm for the home care worker scheduling and routing problem with lunch break requirements. International Journal of Production Research, 2017,55(2):558-575.
31. Geng Na, Chen Letian, Liu Ran, Zhu Yanhong. Optimal patient assignment for W queueing network in a diagnostic facility setting. International Journal of Production Research, 2017,55(19): 5609–5631.
32. Zhu Jianxu, Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin. Optimization of drug regimen in chemotherapy based on semi-mechanistic model for myelosuppression. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2015,57:20–27.
33. Yuan Biao, Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin. A branch-and-price algorithm for the home health care scheduling and routing problem with stochastic service times and skill requirements. International Journal of Production Research, 2015, 53(24): 7450-7464.
34. Liu Ran, Xie Xiaolan, Thierry Garaix. Hybridization of tabu search with feasible and infeasible local searches for periodic home health care logistics. Omega,2014,47:17-32.
35. Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin, Geng Na. A hybrid genetic algorithm for the Multi-depot Open Vehicle Routing Problem. OR Spectrum, 2014,36:401-421.
36. Liu Ran, Xie Xiaolan, Augusto Vincent, Rodriguez Carlos. Heuristic algorithms for a vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pickup and time windows in home health care. European Journal of Operational Research, 2013, 230: 475-486.
37. Fung Richard, Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin. A memetic algorithm for the open capacitated arc routing problem. Transportation Research Part E, 2013, 50:53-67.
38. Lin Wenjin, Jiang zhibin, Liu Ran, The bullwhip effect in hybrid supply chain. International Journal of Production Research, 2013, 28(11): 2062-2084.
39. Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin. The Close-Open Mixed Vehicle Routing Problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 2012, 220:349-360.
40. Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin, et al. Task selection and routing problems in collaborative truckload transportation. Transportation Research Part E, 2010, 46: 1071-1085.
41. Liu Ran, Jiang Zhibin, Fung Richard. Two-phase heuristic algorithms for full truckloads multi-depot capacitated vehicle routing problem in carrier collaboration. Computers & Operations Research, 2010, 37: 950-959.
部分中文论文
虎慧泽, 杨之涛, 陈尔真, 刘冉. 面向时变复杂环境的救护车布置和重定位, 欧宝app官方网站下载学报, 2019, 53 (10), 1165-1172.
李航, 章旸, 叶鸿庆, 曲子灵, 刘冉. 考虑批量流与换模时间的柔性生产线调度方法研究, 工业工程与管理, 2020, 25 (03), 179-187.
章旸, 王铖恺, 刘冉. 考虑复杂随机来料的批量流作业调度, 计算机集成制造系统, 2022, 28 (04), 1099-1111.
王子翔, 吴泽锐, 刘冉. 面向时变回诊患者需求的急诊周排班研究, 欧宝app官方网站下载学报, 2022 ,56 (02), 242-252.
徐捷, 王子翔, 刘玉欣, 刘冉, 杨之涛. 面向时变需求的多等级急诊患者入院控制, 欧宝app官方网站下载学报 . 2022 ,56 (08), 1067-1077.
王铖恺, 范晓宇, 徐捷, 刘冉, 杨之涛. 结合Benders分解和列生成的发热门诊排班数学建模和优化算法, 系统管理学报 . 2023 ,32 (03), 476-487.
