Abstract

Industrial engineering (IE) is an application of engineering with vast research borders. The Computers &
Industrial (CaIE) journal used IE research since 1977 to develop new computer-enabled methodologies
for solving industrial engineering problems. Statistical topic models have been used to analyze the CaIE
publication collections. The collections are explored in a topic oriented manner and then modeled to a
given set of observed data items. The topic time trends are calculated and compared to a timeline of
current and historic events. The ability to relate and interpreting the topics will provide a successful
comparison of the results of the studies.