About the Authors

Ali Khoshkhoo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

khoshkho@binghamton.edu

Affiliation Department of System Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, United States of America

Andres L. Carrano

Contributed equally to this work with: Andres L. Carrano, David M. Blersch, Kamran Kardel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

David M. Blersch

Contributed equally to this work with: Andres L. Carrano, David M. Blersch, Kamran Kardel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Kamran Kardel

Contributed equally to this work with: Andres L. Carrano, David M. Blersch, Kamran Kardel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.