The most important publications

• 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.

• Lourenço H.R., Paixão J.P. and Portugal R. (2009), Driver Scheduling Problem Modelling. Public Transport: Planning and Operations. 1(2):103-120.

• 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.

• 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 & Management Science, pp. 321-353. cited more than 625 times (google scholar)

• Lourenço H.R., Paixão J.P. and Portugal R. (2001), Multiobjective metaheuristics for the bus-driver scheduling problem. Transportation Science 35(3): 331-343. cited more than 55 times (google scholar)

• 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.  cited more than 79 times (google scholar)

Main Research Projects

• 2010-2013 - “Quantitative decision methods for logistics and operations management” (Métodos cuantitativos de decisión en entornos logísticos y productivos), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain. Research director: Daniel Serra.
• 2006-2009 - “Quantitative decision methods for logistics and operations management” (Métodos cuantitativos de decisión en entornos logísticos y productivos). Research Project:  SEJ2006-12291/ECON, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain. Research director: Daniel Serra.

Research Interests

• Operations Research
• Logistics
• Metaheuristics
• Combinatorial Optimization
• Scheduling 
• Operations Management

Research Centers

• BAR GROUP - Business Analytics Research Group
• CRES - Research Center on Economics and Health 
• CIO - Operations Research Center.  University of Lisbon, Portugal.

• Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
• The Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO)
• Production and  Operations  Management Society (POMS)
• European Operations Management Association (EUROMA)
• Portuguese Association of Operations Research (ApdiON-LINE)