Metaheuristics for a Flexible Assembly System Design Problem. - Sheldon H. Jacobson; Alan W. Johnson; Kelly A. Sullivan; Mark A. Fleischer; Ashok Kumar (J. Heuristics, 1997)

Ordinal Hill Climbing Algorithms for Discrete Manufacturing Process Design Optimization Problems. - Kelly A. Sullivan; Sheldon H. Jacobson (Discret. Event Dyn. Syst., 2000)

A convergence analysis of generalized hill climbing algorithms. - Kelly A. Sullivan; Sheldon H. Jacobson (IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., 2001)