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Iterated Local Search: Applications and Extensions

 

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Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço is an Full Professor at the Economics and Business Department at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. She has a B.A. and Master degree in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University, New York, USA. She has been involved in different research projects and consulting for firms in the area of Operations Research and Logistics. Helena has published several articles in prestigious international scientific journals and has presented her work at international congresses and conferences. Helena teaches at various undergraduate, master’s and PhD`s programs. She is currently the director of the Business Analytics Research Group and a researcher at the Center for Operational Research at the University of Lisbon. Her research interests include Operations Research, Scheduling, Combinatorial Optimization, Metaheuristics, Iterated Local Search, Heuristic Search Optimization, Vehicle Routing, Job-Shop Scheduling, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Production and Operations Management.

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Dr. Ronald E. Giachetti, is the Chair and Professor of Systems Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. He teaches and conducts research in the design of enterprise systems, systems modeling, and system architecture. He has published over 50 technical articles on these topics including a textbook on the Design of Enterprise Systems: Theory, Methods, and Architecture. At the Naval Postgraduate School he leads the systems engineering department consisting of 45 faculty and staff serving 450 students in resident and distance learning programs. In addition to managing the department, he teaches courses in system of systems engineering and system architecture. He is internationally known for his work in enterprise systems, having lectured in Colombia, Peru, Mexico and other countries, participating in the National Research Foundation of Chile, and as a member of IFAC’s technical committee on enterprise integration. Prior to joining NPS, he was an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Florida International University in Miami, FL. At FIU he developed and led the MS in Information Systems program and actively taught in external programs in Jamaica, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. He has conducted $1M in externally funded research for the Navy, NSF, US Army, US Air Force, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Carnival Cruise Lines, and other Florida companies. He was a National Research Council postdoctoral researcher in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. He earned a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC in 1996; a MS in Manufacturing Engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY in 1993; and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 1990.