PhD Students
- Joel Carvalho, Decision support systems for integrated operations planning in the automotive industry (provisional title)
Started (tutor): Sept 2011 - Bruna Silva, Models and algorithms for integrated optimization problems in operations management and supply chains
Started: Sept 2013
FCT Grant: SFRH/BD/90558/2012, co-supervision with José Valério de Carvalho - Telmo Pinto, Models and advanced optimization algorithms for the integrated management of logistics operations
Started: Jan 2011
FCT Grant: SFRH/BD/73584/2010, co-supervision with José Valério de Carvalho - Pedro Brás, Algorithms for the placement of irregular shapes: an application to a real case in the automotive industry
Started: Jul 2007; Finished: Sept 2011
FCT Grant: SFRH/BDE/15650/2007, co-supervision with José Valério de Carvalho - Rita Macedo, Models and algorithms
for hard optimization problems
Started: Jan 2008; Finished: Jul 2011
FCT Grant: SFRH/BD/39607/2007, co-supervision with José Valério de Carvalho
Honorable Mention - Best PhD Thesis, by the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, Oct 2011
MSc Students
- Ivo Macedo, S-OLAP in the georeferencing of business indicators
Started: Jan 2011
Co-supervision with Orlando Belo - João Guedes, Optimization of stereotomy processes
Started: Dec 2011; Finished: Dec 2012 - João Amorim, Hybrid approaches for integrated optimization problems in the supply chains: the case of facility location and vehicle routing
Started: Sept 2011 - Bruna Silva, Integrated planning and management of operations in the industry of automotive components
Started: Sept 2011; Finished: June 2012 - Itilde Martins, Using balanced scorecards to evaluate the utility of data warehousing systems
Started: Sept 2010
Co-supervision with Orlando Belo - Elsa Sousa, Decision support systems for the location of meteorological masts in wind farms
Started: Sept 2009; Finished: Apr 2011 - Telmo Pinto, Heuristic methods for the placement of irregular shapes
Started: Sept 2009; Finished: Jul 2010
Best MSc Dissertation Award by the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, Oct 2011
Prize APDIO/IO2013 for the best MSc dissertation in Operations Research in the period 2009-2010.
- Carlos Peixoto, Models and algorithms for the pattern minimization problem
Started: Sept 2007; Finished: May 2009 - Vítor Barbosa, DCGSolver: decomposition and column generation for linear programming
Started: May 2005; Finished: Oct 2009
Co-supervision with Filipe Alvelos - António Jorge Leal, Operations research algorithms for a project scheduling problem
Started: Dec 2005; Finished: Nov 2007
Co-supervision with Filipe Alvelos - Pedro Brás, Automatic placement of irregular shapes
Started: Nov 2005; Finished: Jan 2007