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A Variable Neighbourhood Search for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Constantino, A. A., Tozzo, E., Pinheiro, R. L., Landa-Silva, D., & Romão, W. (2015). A Variable Neighbourhood Search for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction.

The nurse scheduling problem (NSP) is a combinatorial optimisation problem widely tackled in the literature. Recently, a new variant of this problem was proposed, called nurse scheduling problem with balanced preference satisfaction (NSPBPS). This pa... Read More about A Variable Neighbourhood Search for nurse scheduling with balanced preference satisfaction.

Term frequency with average term occurrences for textual information retrieval (2015)
Journal Article
Ibrahim, O., & Landa-Silva, D. (2016). Term frequency with average term occurrences for textual information retrieval. Soft Computing, 20(8), 3045-3061. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-015-1935-7

In the context of Information Retrieval (IR) from text documents, the term-weighting scheme (TWS) is a key component of the matching mechanism when using the vector space model (VSM). In this paper we propose a new TWS that is based on computing the... Read More about Term frequency with average term occurrences for textual information retrieval.

A variable neighbourhood search for the workforce scheduling and routing problem (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pinheiro, R. L., Landa-Silva, D., & Atkin, J. (2015). A variable neighbourhood search for the workforce scheduling and routing problem. In N. Pillay, A. P. Engelbrecht, A. Abraham, M. C. du Plessis, V. Snášel, & A. K. Muda (Eds.), Advances in nature and biologically inspired computing: proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, NaBIC2015, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, held December 01-03, 2015 (247–259). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27400-3_22

The workforce scheduling and routing problem (WSRP) is a combinatorial optimisation problem where a set of workers must perform visits to geographically scattered locations. We present a Variable Neighbourhood Search (VNS) metaheuristic algorithm to... Read More about A variable neighbourhood search for the workforce scheduling and routing problem.

A hybrid GRASP-VNS for Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Discretized Time Windows (2015)
Journal Article
Armas, J. D., Lalla-Ruiz, E., Expósito-Izquierdo, C., Landa-Silva, D., & Melián-Batista, B. (2015). A hybrid GRASP-VNS for Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Discretized Time Windows. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 45, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2015.07.013

This paper addresses the Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Discretized Time Windows. Being one of the most relevant and challenging problems faced by decision makers from shipping companies, this tramp shipping problem lies in determining the... Read More about A hybrid GRASP-VNS for Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem with Discretized Time Windows.

(1+1)-Evolutionary gradient strategy to evolve global term weights in information retrieval (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ibrahim, O. A. S., & Landa-Silva, D. (2016). (1+1)-Evolutionary gradient strategy to evolve global term weights in information retrieval. In P. Angelov, A. Gegov, C. Jayne, & Q. Shen (Eds.), Advances in computational intelligence systems: contributions presented at the 16th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, September 7–9, 2016, Lancaster, UK (387–405). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46562-3_25

In many contexts of Information Retrieval (IR), term weights play an important role in retrieving the relevant documents responding to users' queries. The term weight measures the importance or the information content of a keyword existing in the doc... Read More about (1+1)-Evolutionary gradient strategy to evolve global term weights in information retrieval.

Analysis of objectives relationships in multiobjective problems using trade-off region maps (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pinheiro, R. L., Landa-Silva, D., & Atkin, J. (2015). Analysis of objectives relationships in multiobjective problems using trade-off region maps.

Understanding the relationships between objectives in many-objective optimisation problems is desirable in order to develop more effective algorithms. We propose a techniquefor the analysis and visualisation of complex relationships between many (thr... Read More about Analysis of objectives relationships in multiobjective problems using trade-off region maps.

A study of genetic operators for the Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Algethami, H., & Landa-Silva, D. (2015). A study of genetic operators for the Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem.

The Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem (WSRP) is concerned with planning visits of qualified workers to different locations to perform a set of tasks, while satisfying each task time-window plus additional requirements such as customer/workers... Read More about A study of genetic operators for the Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem.

A greedy heuristic for workforce scheduling and routing with time-dependent activities constraints (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castillo-Salazar, J. A., Landa-Silva, D., & Qu, R. (2015). A greedy heuristic for workforce scheduling and routing with time-dependent activities constraints.

We present a greedy heuristic (GHI) designed to tackle five time-dependent activities constraints (synchronisation, overlap, minimum difference, maximum difference and minimum-maximum difference) on workforce scheduling and routing problems. These ty... Read More about A greedy heuristic for workforce scheduling and routing with time-dependent activities constraints.