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Elena Fernández is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain and has a research focus primarily within the field of engineering. Their work spans several subfields including industrial and manufacturing engineering, automotive engineering, building and construction, artificial intelligence, and transportation.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics associated with optimization and transportation, with particular attention to vehicle routing and transportation innovations. Key topics include:

  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Facility Location and Emergency Management
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Optimization and Packing Problems
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

Elena Fernández has contributed to several publications, frequently appearing in reputable scientific venues. They have published multiple papers in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • Transportation Science
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Annals of Surgical Oncology

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Elena Fernández include:

  • The Heterogeneous Flexible Periodic Vehicle Routing Problem: Mathematical formulations and solution algorithms, 2022, published in Computers & Operations Research
  • Arc Routing with Electric Vehicles: Dynamic Charging and Speed-Dependent Energy Consumption, 2022, published in Transportation Science
  • Hub location with congestion and time-sensitive demand, 2024, published in European Journal of Operational Research
  • New formulations and solutions for the strategic berth template problem, 2021, published in European Journal of Operational Research
  • A Standard Set of Value-Based Patient-Centered Outcomes for Pancreatic Carcinoma: An International Delphi Survey, 2020, published in Annals of Surgical Oncology

The scientist has collaborated with multiple frequent co-authors over their publication history, including:

  • Ivana Ljubić
  • Manuel Muñoz-Márquez
  • Claudia Archetti
  • Dorota Kuziak
  • Ismael G. Yero

Best Publications

  • Heuristic solutions to the problem of routing school buses with multiple objectives

    Ángel Corberán;Elena Fernández;Manuel Laguna;Rafael Martí

  • A compact model and tight bounds for a combined location-routing problem

    Maria Albareda-Sambola;Juan A. Díaz;Elena Fernández

  • A reactive GRASP for a commercial territory design problem with multiple balancing requirements

    Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado;Elena Fernández

  • A Tabu search heuristic for the generalized assignment problem

    Juan A. Dı́az;Elena Fernández

  • The Tree of Hubs Location Problem

    Iván A. Contreras;Elena Fernández;Alfredo Marín

  • REACTIVE GRASP AND TABU SEARCH BASED HEURISTICS FOR THE SINGLE SOURCE CAPACITATED PLANT LOCATION PROBLEM

    Hugues Delmaire;Juan A. Díaz;Elena Fernández;Maruja Ortega

  • General network design: A unified view of combined location and network design problems

    Iván A. Contreras;Elena Fernández

  • Solving an urban waste collection problem using ants heuristics

    Joaquín Bautista;Elena Fernández;Jordi Pereira

  • HYBRID SCATTER SEARCH AND PATH RELINKING FOR THE CAPACITATED P-MEDIAN PROBLEM

    Juan A. Díaz;Elena Fernández

  • Lagrangean relaxation for the capacitated hub location problem with single assignment

    Iván A. Contreras;Juan A. Díaz;Elena Fernández

  • Heuristic and lower bound for a stochastic location-routing problem

    Maria Albareda-Sambola;Elena Fernández;Gilbert Laporte

  • Branch and Price for Large-Scale Capacitated Hub Location Problems with Single Assignment

    Ivan Contreras;Juan A. Díaz;Elena Fernández

  • Tight bounds from a path based formulation for the tree of hub location problem

    Ivan Contreras;Elena Fernández;Alfredo Marín

  • The multi-period incremental service facility location problem

    Maria Albareda-Sambola;Elena Fernández;Yolanda Hinojosa;Justo Puerto

  • The Shared Customer Collaboration Vehicle Routing Problem

    Elena Fernández;Mireia Roca-Riu;M. Grazia Speranza

  • The dynamic multiperiod vehicle routing problem with probabilistic information

    Maria Albareda-Sambola;Elena Fernández;Gilbert Laporte

  • Multiobjective Solution of the Uncapacitated Plant Location Problem

    Elena Fernández;Justo Puerto

  • A branch-and-price algorithm for the single source capacitated plant location problem

    Juan A. Díaz;Elena Fernández

  • Minimizing the maximum travel time in a combined model of facility location and network design

    Ivan Contreras;Elena Fernández;Gerhard Reinelt

  • Privatized rural postman problems

    Julián Aráoz;Elena Fernández;Cristina Zoltan

  • Exact solutions to a class of stochastic generalized assignment problems

    Maria Albareda-Sambola;Maarten H. van der Vlerk;Elena Fernandez

Frequent Co-Authors

Justo Puerto
Justo Puerto University of Seville
Gilbert Laporte
Gilbert Laporte HEC Montréal
Stefan Nickel
Stefan Nickel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Luis Puigjaner
Luis Puigjaner Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Gerhard Reinelt
Gerhard Reinelt Heidelberg University
M. Grazia Speranza
M. Grazia Speranza University of Brescia
Laureano F. Escudero
Laureano F. Escudero King Juan Carlos University
Rafael Martí
Rafael Martí University of Valencia
Ángel Corberán
Ángel Corberán University of Valencia

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