Fast Buffer Size Design of Production Lines for Meeting the Desired Throughput. - Sixiao Gao; Toshimitsu Higashi; Toyokazu Kobayashi; Kosuke Taneda; Jun Ota 001 (ROBIO, 2018)

Efficient Throughput Analysis of Production Lines Based on Modular Queues. - Sixiao Gao; Jose Ildefonso U. Rubrico; Toshimitsu Higashi; Toyokazu Kobayashi; Kosuke Taneda; Jun Ota 001 (IEEE Access, 2019)

Throughput analysis of conveyor systems involving multiple materials based on capability decomposition. - Sixiao Gao; Toyokazu Kobayashi; Akiko Tajiri; Jun Ota 001 (Comput. Ind., 2021)

A Bottleneck Detection-Based Tabu Search Algorithm for the Buffer Allocation Problem in Manufacturing Systems. - Sixiao Gao (IEEE Access, 2022)

Learning and knowledge-guided evolutionary algorithm for the large-scale buffer allocation problem in production lines. - Sixiao Gao; Fan Zhang; Shuo Shi (Comput. Ind. Eng., 2025)