Author Archives: lena

Euro 2018

IMG_7305 IMG_7321Helena participates in the EURO 2018 – 29th European Conference on Operational Research at Valencia, Spain, 8-11 July, 2018. Many members of the Business Analytics Research Group participate in this fantastic conference. The organization hold the 1st Women in Science (WiS) event in the EURO Conference. The main goal was to highlight the role of WiS throughout history.

Marcelus Fabri and Helena Ramalhinho presented a paper on “Optimizing Factory Logistics in a Automotive Industry

Abstract: Logistics chains do not end at the entrance of a Factory. Optimizing the processes of provision and disposal of the materials and the components for production lines are becoming key way to increase efficiency and decrease costs in manufacturing. This research mainly focuses on studying and modeling the Warehouse Shipping Routing Problem at the internal Warehouse at SEAT S.A. We propose a mathematical model and an Iterated Local Search metaheuristic combined with Simulation to solve this problem. We present computational results with real data and conclude that our proposed approach improves the actual solution and provides a tool to be used in scenarios of production on new car models.

Doctoral School of ASOCIO

ED_Helena_1 ED_Helena_3Helena Ramalhinho participates as invited professor in the Doctoral School organized by  the Colombian Association of Operational Research (ASOCIO) (“Escuela Doctoral de la Asociación Colombiana de Investigación de Operaciones”) held in Cali, Colombia in June 2018. She gave a 6 hours course about Metaheuristics and Applications.

She also visit the ITM (Instituto Tecnologico Metropolitano) and University of Medellin at Medellin and gave a talk in both universities.

 

Iterated Local Search

Metaheuristics Graduate Course

21 – 23 February 2018, Campus Ciutadella, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Iterated Local Search by Helena Ramalhinho (UPF)

Lourenço H.R., Martin O. and Stützle T. (2010), Iterated Local Search: Framework and Applications. In Handbook of Metaheuristics, 2nd. Edition. Vol.146. M. Gendreau and J.Y. Potvin (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, pp. 363-397