Journals

2025

  • Portell, L., Rodríguez-Pereira, J., Ramalhinho, H. (2025). Optimization of Shared Trips in the Door-to-Door Transportation Service for People with Disabilities: A Case Study in Barcelona. In: Juan, A.A., Faulin, J., Lopez-Lopez, D. (eds) Decision Sciences. DSA ISC 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14779. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78241-1_23

2024

2023

2022

  • J. Castro, C. Gentile, E. Spagnolo-Arrizabalaga, An algorithm for the microaggregation problem using column generation, Computers & Operations Research, 144 (2022), 105817.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2022.105817. Also available as Research Report RR 20-02, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica "Antonio Ruberti", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italia, 2020.
  • G. Laporte, M.È. Rancourt, J. Rodríguez-Pereira and S. Silvestri. Optimizing access to drinking water in remote areas. Application to Nepal. Computers and Operations Research 105669. DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2021.105669.

2021

  • J. Castro, F. Sarachaga, An online optimization-based procedure for the assignment of airplane seats, TOP, 29 (2021), 204-247. Also available as Research Report UPC-DEIO-JC-2020-02, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020.

  • J. Castro, S. Nasini, A specialized interior-point algorithm for huge minimum convex cost flows in bipartite networks, European Journal of Operational Research, 290 (2021), 857-869. Also available as Research Report DR 2018/01, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018.

  • P. Fermín Cueto, I. Gjeroska, A. Solà Vilalta, M.F. Anjos (2021). A Solution Approach for Multi-Trip Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows, Fleet Sizing and Depot Location. Networks 78(4):503-522.

  • J. Rodríguez-Pereira, B. Balcik, M.È. Rancourt and G. Laporte. A Cost-Sharing Mechanism for Multi-Country Partnerships in Disaster Preparedness. Production and Operations Management 30:12 4541-4565. DOI: 10.1111/poms.13403.

  • J. Rodríguez-Pereira and G. Laporte. The target visitation arc routing problem. TOP (Accepted, available online). DOI: 10.1007/s11750-021-00601-5.

  • J. de Armas, J. Rodríguez-Pereira, B. Vieira and H. Ramalhinho. Optimizing Assistive Technology Operations for Aging Populations. Sustainability 13:12. 6925. DOI: 10.3390/su13126925.

2020

  • D. Baena, J. Castro, A. Frangioni, Stabilized Benders methods for large-scale combinatorial optimization, with application to data privacy, Management Science, 66 (2020), 3051-3068. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2017/03, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017.

  • G. Casanellas, J. Castro, Using interior point solvers for optimizing progressive lens models with spherical coordinates, Optimization and Engineering, 21 (2020), 1389-1421. Free view-only version available from this link: https://rdcu.be/b8dmr . Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2019/01, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019.

2019

  •  J. Castro, J. A. González, A linear optimization based method for data privacy in statistical tabular data, Optimization Methods & Software, 34 (2019), 37-61. DOI:10.1080/10556788.2017.1332620. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2017/02, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017.

  • J. Rodríguez-Pereira, E. Fernández, G. Laporte, E. Benavent and A. Martínez-Sykora. The Steiner Traveling Salesman Problem and Its Extensions. European Journal of Operation Research 278:2,615-628. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.04.047.

  • J. Rodríguez-Pereira, E. Fernández, G. Laporte, E. Benavent and A. Martínez-Sykora. Steiner Traveling Salesman Problems: when not all vertices have demand. Proceedings of the IX International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems.

  • E. Fernández, G. Laporte, and J. Rodríguez-Pereira. Exact Solution of Several Families of Location-Arc Routing Problems. Transportation Science 53:5, 1213-1499. DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2018.0881.

  • Superchi, C; González, J.A.; Solà, I; Cobo, E; Hren, D; Boutron, I (2019). Tools used to assess the quality of peer review reports: a methodological systematic review, BMC Med Res Methodol. 2019;19(48):1–14. DOI: 10.1186/s12874-019-0688-x

2018

  • J. Armas, A. Ferrer, A.A. Juan, E. Lalla-Ruiz, Modeling and solving the non-smooth arc routing problem with realistic soft constraints, Expert System With Applications, 2018, (98) 205-220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.01.020
  • E. Fernández, G. Laporte, and J. Rodríguez-Pereira. A branch-and-cut algorithm for the multi-depot rural postman problem. Transportation Science 52:2, 353-369. DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2017.0783.

2017

  • J. Castro, S. Nasini, On geometrical properties of preconditioners in IPMs for classes of block-angular problems, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 27 (2017), 1666-1693. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2016/03, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016.

  • J. Castro, S. Nasini, F. Saldanha-da-Gama, A cutting-plane approach for large-scale capacitated multi-period facility location using a specialized interior-point method, Mathematical Programming (series A), 163 (2017), 411-444. Free view-only version available from this link: http://rdcu.be/nkAz . Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2015/01, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015.
  • L. Marí, N. Nabona, A. Pagès, Medium-term power planning in electricity markets with pool and bilateral contracts, European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, 1-12, in press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.02.003.

  • E. Fernández and J. Rodríguez-Pereira. Multi-depot rural postman problems. TOP 25, 340-372. DOI: 10.1007/s11750-016-0434-z.

  • Castro, J.; González, J.A. (2017). A linear optimization-based method for data privacy in statistical tabular data, Optimization Methods and Software, DOI: 10.1080/10556788.2017.1332620.

2016

  • J. Castro, Interior-point solver for convex separable block-angular problems, Optimization Methods & Software, 31 (2016) 88-109. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2014/03, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014.
  • A. Ferrer, M. A. Goberna, M. Teodorov and E. González, A comparative note on the relaxation algorithms for the linear semi-infinite feasibility problem. Annals of Operations Research.First online: 16 February 2016. DOI:10.1007/s10479-016-2135-2

  • E. Fernández, G. Laporte, and J. Rodríguez-Pereira. A branch-and-cut algorithm for the multi-depot rural postman problem. Proceedings of the 19th International Multiconference Information Society – IS 2016, Volume H, 51-53.

2015

  • J. Castro, S. Nasini, Mathematical programming approaches for classes of random network problems, European Journal of Operational Research, 245 (2015) 402-414. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2013/01, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013.
  • D. Baena, J. Castro, J. A. González, Fix-and-relax approaches for controlled tabular adjustment, Computers & Operations Research, 58 (2015) 41-52. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2013/02, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013.
  • S. Nasini, J. Castro, P. Fonseca, A mathematical programming approach for different scenarios of bilateral bartering, Statistics and Operations Research Transactions - SORT, 39 (2015) 85-108. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2013/07, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013.
  • L. Marí, N. Nabona, Renewable energies in medium-term power planning, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 30 (2015) 88-97.

2014

  • L. Igualada, C. Corchero, M- Cruz-Zambrano, F.J. Heredia Optimal Energy Management for a Residential Microgrid Including Vehicle-to-Grid System. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 4, 2163-2172, July 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2014.2318836. Preprint: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20642.
    • J. Castro, A. Frangioni, C. Gentile, Perspective reformulations of the CTA problem with L2 distances, Operations Research, 62(4) (2014) 891-909. Previously appeared as Technical Report IASI CNR 11-19 2011. Also available as Research Report DR 2014/02, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014.

    • A. Auslender, A. Ferrer, M.A. Goberna, M.A. López, Comparative study of RPSALG algorithm for convex semi-infinite programming.  Computational Optimization and Applications, Springer, (2014). DOI: 10.1007/s10589-014-9667-7.

    • S. Gonzalez-Martin, A. Ferrer, Angel A. Juan, and D. Riera, Solving non-smooth arc routing problems throughout biased-randomized heuristics. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 262 (2014) 451-462,  ISSN: 2194-5357, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-04630-3_33.

    • A. Ferrer, A. Bagirov and G. Beliakov, Solving DC programs using the Cutting Angle Method. Journal of Global Optimization, Springer, (2014). DOI: 10.1007/s10898-014-0159-1.

    2013

    • M. Pilar Munyoz, Cristina Corchero, F.-Javier Heredia, Improving Electricity Market Price Forecasting with Factor Models for the Optimal Generation Bid. International Statistical Review, 81: 289–306. 2013. DOI: 10.1111/insr.12014. Preprint:  http://hdl.handle.net/2117/3047.
    • S. Bocanegra, J. Castro, A.R.L. Oliveira, Improving an interior-point approach for large block-angular problems by hybrid preconditioners, European Journal of Operational Research, 231 (2013) 263-273 . Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2012/06, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012.
    • C. Corchero, Eugenio Mijangos, F. J. Heredia, A new optimal electricity market bid model solved though perspective cuts, Top, vol. 21, Issue 1, pp 84-108, 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s11750-011-0240-6. Preprint: Report DR 2011/04.
    • J. Castro, J. Cuesta, Solving $L1$-CTA in 3D tables by an interior-point method for primal block-angular problems, TOP, 21 (2013) 25-47. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2011/01, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011.
    • Angel, J.A., Faulin, J., Ferrer, A., Ramalhinho, H., Ionescu, D., MIRHA: multi-start biased randomization of heuristics with adaptive local search for solving non-smooth routing problems. TOP, 21(2013) 109-132, DOI 10.1007/s11750-011-0245-1. (Indexed in ISI SCI. 2010 FI =0.756 , Q3[49/75], Third Quartile, Operations Research & Managment Science).

    2012

    • N. Nabona, Medium term load matching in power Planning, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. To appear. DOI: 00.1109/TPWRS.2012.2220788

    • J. Castro, On assessing the disclosure risk of controlled adjustment methods for statistical tabular data, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 20 (2012) 921-941. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2012/07, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012.

    • F. J. Heredia, M. J. Rider, C. Corchero, A stochastic programming model for the optimal electricity market bid problem with bilateral contracts for thermal and combined cycle units, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 193, Number 1, 107-127, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s10479-011-0847-x. Preprint:  http://hdl.handle.net/2117/2282.

    • J. Castro, J. Cuesta, Improving an interior-point algorithm for multicommodity flows by quadratic regularizations, Networks, 59 (2012) 117-131. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2009/09, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009.

    • J. Castro, Recent advances in optimization techniques for statistical tabular data protection, European Journal of Operational Research, 216 (2012) 257-269. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2011/03, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011.

    • E. Mijangos, Lagrangian Relaxations on Networks by ε-Subgradient Methods, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 152:51-74, 2012.

      2011

      • J. Castro, J. Cuesta, Quadratic regularizations in an interior-point method for primal block-angular problems, Mathematical Programming, 130 (2011) 415-445. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2008/07, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008.

      • D. Baena, J. Castro, Using the analytic center in the feasibility pump, Operations Research Letters, 39 (2011) 310-317. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2010/03 , Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010.

      • J. Castro, Extending controlled tabular adjustment for non-additive tabular data with negative protection levels, Statistics and Operations Research Transactions - SORT, 35 (2011) 3-20. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2010/01, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010.

      • C. Corchero, F. J. Heredia, A Stochastic Programming Model for the Thermal Optimal Day-Ahead Bid Problem with Physical Futures Contracts, Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 38, Issue 11, November 2011, pages 1501-1512 . DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2011.01.008. Preprint: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/14109. 2011.

      • J. A. González, J. Castro, A heuristic block coordinate descent approach for controlled tabular adjustment, Computers & Operations Research, 38 (2011) 1826-1835. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2010/06, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010.

      •  Sainz, L., Mesas, J.J., Ferrer, A., Deterministic and stochastic assessment of the harmonic currents consumed by discharge lamps. Electric Power Systems Research,  Vol. 81(2011), pp. 10–18 (Indexed in ISI SCI. 2011 FI = 1.259, Q2, Second Quartile, Engineering, Electrical & Electronic).

      2010

      2009

      • A. Alabi, J. Castro, A mathematical model of refinery operations characterised by complete horizontal integration of subsystems from purchase to product distribution, Hydrocarbon World, 4(2) (2009) 55-56.
      • A. Alabi, J. Castro, Dantzig-Wolfe and block coordinate-descent decomposition in large-scale integrated refinery-planning, Computers and Operations Research, 36 (2009) 2472-2483. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2008/01, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008.
      • J. Castro, A stochastic programming approach to cash management in banking, European Journal of Operational Research, 192 (2009) 963-974. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2004/14, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2004.
      • A. Ferrer et alt., Combining Discrete Event Simulation and Fuzzy Sets to Analyze Structural Reliability & Availability in Building and Civil Engineering. Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems, Springer.
      • A. Ferrer,  J. E.  Martínez, Improving the efficiency of dc global optimization methods by improving the DC representation of the objective function. Journal of Global Optimization, (2009) Springer, 43 (4):513-531.

      • A. Pàges, J. Gondzio, N. Nabona, Warmstarting for interior point methods applied to the long-term power planning problem. European journal of operational research. 197-1. pp. 112-125. 07/2009. ISSN 0377-2217.

      • D. Rosas, J. Castro, L. Montero, Using ACCPM in a simplicial decomposition algorithm for the traffic assignment problem, Computational Optimization and Applications, 44 (2009) 289-313. Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2002/04, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2002.

      • L. Sainz, J. J. Mesas, A. Ferrer,  Three-phase full-wave rectifier study with experimental measurements. Electric Power Systems Research, (2009) Elsevier, Science S.A, 79:521- 530.

      • M. Tesser, A. Pàges, N. Nabona, An oligopoly model for medium-term power planning in a liberalized market. IEEE transactions on power systems. 24-1, pp. 67-77, 02/2009. ISSN 0885-8950.

      2008

      • J. A. Angel, C. Serrat, M. Sorroche, A. Ferrer, A simulation-based algorithm to predict time-dependent structural reliability. Advances in simulation for production and logistics applications, (2008) Fraunhofer Irb Verlag, Stuttgart, 555-564.
      • L. Sainz, J. J.  Mesas, A.  Ferrer,  Charectizazation of non-linear load behavior. Electric Power Systems Research, (2008) Elsevier, Science S.A, 78:1773- 1783.
      • L. Sainz, J. J.  Mesas, A. Ferrer, Deterministic and Stochastic Study of the Single-Phase Non-Linear Load Behavior. Power and Energy Systems,  (2009) Acta Press, Zurich, 44-49.

      2007

      2006

      2005

      2004

      2003

      2002

      • J. A. González, Probabilistic Production Costing Modeled With AMPL, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, (2002). V17(2), 277-282. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2002.1007893.

      2001

      • A. Ferrer,  Representation of a polynomial function as a difference of convex polynomials, with an application. Lectures Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer, 502(2001) 189-207.

      • E. Mijangos, N. Nabona, On the first-order estimation of multipliers form Kuhn-Tucker systems, Computers and Operations Research. Vol. 28 (2001) 243 – 270.


      • N. Nabona, C. Gil, J. Albrecht, Long-Term Thermal Power Planning at VEW ENERGIE Using a Multi-Interval Bloom and Gallant Method. IEEE Trans. on Power Systems. Vol. 15 (2001) 69 – 77.

      2000

      • J. A. González, N. Nabona, Multicommodity long-term hydrogeneration optimization with capacity and energy constraints, TOP, (2000). V8, 73-96.

      1999

      1998

      1996

      1995

      • F. J. Heredia, N. Nabona, "Optimum Short-Term Hydrothermal Schedulling with Spinning Reserve through Network Flows", IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 10, issue 3: The Institue of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, pp. 10, 1995. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/59.466476.

      1994

      • J. A. González, N.  Nabona.(1994). Long-term hydrothermal coordination with natural inflows modelled through a pdf and simulation results, Top. V2, 59-84.

      1993

      • N. Nabona, Multicommodity Network Flow Model for Long-Term Hydrogeneration Optimization. IEEE Trans. On Power Systems. Vol. 8 (1993) 395 - 404.  Research Report DR 2011/01, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011.