2014

• Grasas A., Juan, A.A. and Lourenço H.R. (2014), SimILS: A Simulation-based extension of the Iterated Local Search metaheuristic for Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization, Journal of Simulation (advance online publication 3 October 2014) doi:10.1057/jos.2014.25. Web of Science 2013 JCR 0.38 Q4; Scopus). . Link

• Martins P., Ladrón A. and Lourenço H.R. (2014), Maximum Cut-Clique Problem: ILS Heuristics and a Data Analysis Application, International Transactions in Operational Research (accepted for publication  July 25, 2014; published online September 5, 2014). DOI: 10.1111/itor.12120. Web of Science 2012 JCR 0.588 Q4; Scopus).  Link

• Grasas A., Ramalhinho H., Pessoa L.S., Resende M.G.C., Caballé I. and Barba N. (2014) “On the Improvement of Blood Sample Collection at Clinical Laboratories”, BMC Health Services Research, 14:12 DOI:10.1186/1472-6963-14-12 (indexed in Web of Science, 2012 JCR IF = 1.77, Q2) ISSN: 1472-6963. Open access article.  Link

• Juan, A.; Lourenço, H.R.; Mateo, M.; Luo, R.; Castella, Q. (2014): “Using Iterated Local Search for solving the Flow-Shop Problem: parametrization, randomization and parallelization issues”. International  Transactions in Operational Research. 21:1, 103-126. DOI: 10.1111/itor.12028 (indexed in Web of Science, 2011 IF = 0.648, Q3). ISSN: 0969-6016. Link

• Cáceres-Cruz, J., Grasas, A., Ramalhinho, H., Juan, A.A. and Roca, M. (2014), A savings-based randomized heuristic for the heterogenous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem with multi-trips,  Journal of Applied Operational Research, 6(2):69-81. ISSN print: 1735-8523; ISSN online: 1927-0089. Link

• Ramalhinho H. (2014), A Polynomial Algorithm for a Special Case of the One-Machine Scheduling Problem with Time-Lags,  Proceedings of the 4^th of the International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal, edited by Taylor & Francis Group (CRC/Balkema) (accepted for publication).

2013

• Juan, A. A., Faulin, J., Ferrer, A., Lourenco H.R., and Barros, B. (2013), MIRHA: Multi-start biased randomization of heuristics with adaptive local search for solving non-smooth routing problem. TOP: Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 109-132. DOI 10.1007/s11750-011-0245-1 (indexed in Web of Science, 2011 IF = 0.765, Q3). ISSN: 1134-5764. Article. Link

• Grasas, A., Juan, A.A., Ramalhinho, H. (2013), "Operations Research and Simulation in Master’s Degrees: A Case Study Regarding Different Universities in Spain", Proceedings – Winter Simulation Conference (indexed in Web of Knowledge and Scopus, 2011 SJR = 0.372, Q2). ISSN: 08917736.

• Grasas A., Cáceres-Cruz, J., Lourenço H.R., Juan A.A. and Roca M. (2013) Vehicle routing in a Spanish distribution company: Saving using a savings-based heuristic, OR Insight. 26 (3): 191–202 doi:10.1057/ori.2013.2. ISSN: 0953-5543. Indexed at ABS. Link

• Coelho, V.N., Lourenço H.R., Grasas A., Coelho, I.M., Jamilson M., Souza F. & Cruz, R.C. (2013) “Um estudo de caso aplicado ao problema real de larga escala de Roteamento de Veículos com Frota Heterogênea e Múltiplas Viagens”, XLV Brazilian Symposium of Operational Research (SBPO), 16-19, september, 2013 Natal, Brasil. (Article)

• Cruz, R.C., Lourenço H.R., Coelho, V.N., Jamilson M., Souza F. & Grasas A. (2013) “TWTJSSP-ILS: Um Algoritmo Heurístico para Resolver o Problema Job-Shop Scheduling com Penalidade pelo Tempo de Atraso”, XLV Brazilian Symposium of Operational Research (SBPO), 16-19, september, 2013 Natal, Brasil. (Article)

2012

• Lourenço H.R. and Ribeiro R. (2012), Strategies for an Integrated Distribution Problem, in Hybrid Algorithms for Service, Computing and Manufacturing Systems: Routing, Scheduling and Availability Solutions, Montoya-Torres J.R., Juan A.A., Huaccho L., Faulin J. and Rodriguez-Verjan G.(eds) IGI Global Books, Hershey, PA. pp. 98-121. Article. Link

  • Data Files for the "Strategies for an Integrated Distribution Problem" : Examples.zip

• Cáceres J., Grasas A., Lourenço H.R., Juan A.A., Roca M. and Colomé R. (2012), Aplicación de un algoritmo randomizado a un problema real de enrutamiento de vehículos heterogéneos.  In Proceeding of the VIII Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados, MAEB’2012 F. Rodriguez, B. Mélian, J.A. Moreno, J.M. Moreno (Eds.) Albacete, Spain, February 8-10, pp. 767-773. ISBN 978-84-615-6931-1. Article.

• Juan A.A., Lourenço H.R., Mateo M., Grasas A. and Agustín A. (2012), Combinando Randomización Sesgada y Búsqueda Local Iterativa para Resolver Problemas de Flow-Shop.  In Proceeding of the VIII Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados, MAEB’2012 F. Rodriguez, B. Mélian, J.A. Moreno, J.M. Moreno (Eds.) Albacete, Spain, February 8-10, pp. 779-784. ISBN 978-84-615-6931-1. Article.

2010

• 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.Article. Link

2009

• Lourenço H.R., Paixão J.P. and Portugal R. (2009), Driver Scheduling Problem Modelling. Public Transport: Planning and Operations. 1(2):103-120, DOI: 10.1007/s12469-008-0007-0. ISSN: 1613-7159. Article. Link

2008

• Giménez C. and Lourenço H.R. (2008), e-SCM: Internet’s impact on Supply Chain Processes. International Journal of Logistics Management 19(3): 309-343. ISSN 0957-4093. Article. Link

• Fernandes, S. and Lourenço H.R. (2008). Optimised Search Heuristic Combining Valid Inequalities and Tabu Search. In Hybrid Metaheuristics, M.J. Blesa, C. Blum, C. Cotta, A.J. Fernández, J.E. Gallardo, A. Roli, M.Sampels (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5296: 87-101. ISSN: 0302-9743. Article. Link

• Fernandes S. and Lourenço H.R. (2008), A Simple Optimized Search Heuristics for the Job-Shop Scheduling. In Recent Advances in Evolutionary Computation for Combinatorial Optimization, Studies in Computational Intelligence, C. Cotta and J. van Hemert (Eds.) Springer, 153:203-218. ISBN 978-3-540-70806-3. Article. Link

2007

2005

• Lourenço  H.R. (2005), Logistics Management: an opportunity for Metaheuristics. In Metaheuristics Optimization via Memory and Evolution, C. Rego and B. Alidaee (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 329-356.  ISBN 978-1-4020-8134-7. Article. Link  

• Lourenço  H.R. (2005), e-logística. In La logística empresarial en el nuevo milenio (Business Logistics for the new millennium), Daniel Serra (editor), Gestión 2000, Barcelona. ISBN 84-8088-981-0. (in Spanish). Article. link

• Lourenço H.R. (2005), Multiobjective metaheuristics for integrated logistics problems. In Proceeding of the CEDI’2005 (I Congreso Español de Informática), IV Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados, MAEB’2005, G. Arenas, F. Herrera, M. Lozano, J.J. Merelo, G. Romero, A.M. Sánchez (Eds.) Granada, Spain, September 13-16, pp. 263-270. ISBN 84-9732-440-4. Article.

• Soto J.P. and Lourenço H.R. (2005), An heuristic for the collaborative production planning model with returns. In Proceeding of the CEDI’2005 (I Congreso Español de Informática), IV Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados, MAEB’2005, G. Arenas, F. Herrera, M. Lozano, J.J. Merelo, G. Romero, A.M. Sánchez (Eds.) Granada, Spain, September 13-16, pp. 297-304. ISBN 84-9732-440-4. Article.

• Giménez C. and Lourenço H.R. (2005), A review on e-SCM topics. In Proceeding of the Decision Sciences Institute International Conference, IESE, Barcelona, Spain, July 3-6, pp. 805-815. ISBN 0-9667118-2-3.

• Ribeiro R. and Lourenço H.R. (2005), A new model and heuristic for a multi-period inventory-routing problem. In Proceeding of the Decision Sciences Institute International Conference, IESE, Barcelona, Spain, July 3-6, pp. 403-414. ISBN 0-9667118-2-3. Article.

• Soto J.P., Giménez C. and Lourenço H.R. (2005), Reverse Logistics in the editorial sector: an exploratory study. In Proceeding of the 10^th International Symposium on Logistics, Lisbon, Portugal, July 3-5, pp. 590-595. ISBN 0-85358-216-5. Article.

• Soto J.P. and Lourenço H.R. (2004), Caso: La logística inversa en el sector editorial. In Logística Inversa y Medioambiente, Díaz Fernández, B.A.; Alvarez, M.J. & Gonzalez, P. (authors), McGraw-Hill, 2004. ISBN 84-481-4180-6. (in Spanish) Link

• Giménez C. and Lourenço H.R. (2004), e-Supply Chain Management: review, implications and directions for future research. In Proceeding of the EUROMA conference, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, 27-29 June, pp. 1021-1031. ISBN 2-9522210-0-6. Link to the working paper.

• Lourenço H.R. (2004), Enseñar metaheurísticas en Facultades o Departamentos de Economía y Empresa (Teaching Metaheuristics at Business and Economic Schools). In Proceedings of The Third Spanish Congress in Metaheuristics, Evolutive and Bioinspired Algorithms, MAEB’2004, C. Hervás, N. García, F.J.Martínez, D. Ortiz & S. Ventura (Eds) Córdoba, Spain, February 4-6, pp. 322-328. ISBN 84-688-4224-9.

• Colomé R., Serra D. and Lourenço H.R. (2003), A new chance-constrained maximum capture location problem. Annals of  Operations Research 122 (1-4): 121-139. ISBN 0254-5330. Article. Link

• Lourenço H.R., Martin O. and Stützle T. (2003), Iterated Local Search. In Handbook of Metaheuristics, F. Glover and G. Kochenberger, (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, pp. 321-353. ISBN 978-1-4020-7263-5. Article.  Link

• Soto J.P. and Lourenço H.R. (2003), A recoverable production planning model. In Proceedings of the XXVII Congreso SEIO de Estadística e Investigación Operativa. pp.2731-2776.

• Ribeiro R. and Lourenço H.R. (2003), Inventory-Routing Problem, for a multi-period problem with stochastic and deterministic demand. In Proceedings of The Second Spanish Congress in Metaheuristics, Evolutive and Bioinspired Algorithms, MAEB’2003, Gijón, Spain, February 5-7, pp. 257-265. ISBN 84-607-65-26-1. Article.

• Finger M., Stützle T. and Lourenço H.R. (2002), Exploiting fitness distance correlation of set covering problems. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing, S. Cagnoni, J. Gottlieb, E. Hart, M. Middendorf, and G.R. Raidl (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2279:61-71. ISSN: 0302-9743. Article. Link  

• Lourenço H.R. and Serra D. (2002), Adaptive search heuristics for the generalized assignment problem. Mathware and Soft Computing  9(2-3): 209-234. ISSN 1134-5632. Article. Link

• Lourenço H.R. (2002), Heurísticas adaptativas para el problema de asignación generalizada (Adaptive heuristics for the generalized assignment problem). In Proceedings of The First Spanish Congress in Evolutive and Bioinspired Algorithms, Merida, Spain, February 6-7, pp. 267-257. ISBN 84-607-3913-9. Article.

• Lourenço H.R., Paixão J.P. and Portugal R. (2001), Multiobjective metaheuristics for the bus-driver scheduling problem. Transportation Science 35(3): 331-343. ISSN: 00411655. Article. Link 

• Ribeiro R. and Lourenço H.R. (2001), A multi-objective model for a Multi-period Distribution Management Problem. In Proceeding of the First International Conference on Integrated Logistics, Singapore, pp. 463-471, August.  ISBN: 981-04-4562-8. Article.

• Lourenço H.R., Martin O. and Stützle T. (2001), A beginner’s introduction to Iterated Local Search. In Proceeding of the 4th Metaheuristics International Conference, Porto, Portugal, pp. 1-11. Article.

• Martí R., Lourenço H.R. and Laguna M. (2000), Assigning Proctors to Exams with Scatter Search. In Computing Tools for Modeling, Optimization and Simulation, M. Laguna and J.L. González Velarde (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 215-228. ISBN: 978-0-7923-7718-4. Article. Link

• Lourenço H.R., Paixão J.P. and Portugal R. (2000), Geração de Serviços de Motoristas através de Metaheurística- Sistema GIST (The GIST system for public transportation: the bus-driver scheduling module), in Casos de Aplicação da Investigação Operacional (Industrial Applications of Operations Research), L. Valadares Tavares and C. Henggeler Antunes (Eds.), McGraw-Hill, pp. 168-184. ISBN 972-773-075-2.  (in Portuguese). Link to the Working Paper in English.

• Lourenço H.R. and Bruno P.M. (1998), New ramification rules in a branch-and-bound method to solve the job-shop scheduling problem. Investigação Operacional (Journal of the Portuguese Operations Research Society) 18: 3-16. ISSN 0874-5161 Link

• Lourenço H.R. (1996), Sevast’yanov algorithm for the flow-shop scheduling problem. European Journal of Operational Research 91(1): 176-189. ISSN 0377-2217. Article. Link

• Lourenço HR. and Zwijnenburg M. (1996), Combining the large-step optimization with tabu-search: application to the job-shop scheduling problem. In Meta-Heuristics: Theory and Applications, I.H. Osman and J.P. Kelly (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 219-236. ISBN: 978-0-7923-9700-7. Article. Link

• Lourenço H.R. (1995), Job-Shop Scheduling: computational study of local search and large-step optimization methods. European Journal of Operational Research 83(2): 347-364. ISSN 0377-2217. Link

• Bjorndal M.H., Caprara A., Cowling P.I., Della-Croce F., Lourenço H.R., Malucelli F., Orman A.J., Pisinger D., Rego C. and Salazar J.J. (1995), Some thoughts on combinatorial optimization. European Journal of Operational Research 83(2): 253-270. ISSN 0377-2217. Link