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2025

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68
Citations
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301
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Nenad Mladenović was affiliated with Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. Their research primarily focused on engineering and computer science, with a significant body of work in industrial and manufacturing engineering, artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, organizational behavior and human resource management, and management science and operations research.

Mladenović contributed to a variety of topics with a focus on optimization and search problems. The main research themes involved vehicle routing optimization methods, facility location and emergency management, scheduling and optimization algorithms, advanced manufacturing and logistics optimization, advanced clustering algorithms research, and metaheuristic optimization algorithms research.

Their most cited papers included:

  • How to Use K-means for Big Data Clustering?, 2022, Pattern Recognition
  • A Survey on the Applications of Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm in Healthcare Management, 2021, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Energy-efficient Rescheduling with Time-of-Use Energy Cost: Application of Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm, 2021, Computers & Industrial Engineering
  • Development of Comfortable and Eco-Friendly Cellulose Based Textiles with Improved Sustainability, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Solving the Capacitated Dispersion Problem with Variable Neighborhood Search Approaches: From Basic to Skewed VNS, 2021, Computers & Operations Research

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Raca Todosijević
  • Dragan Urošević
  • Rustam Mussabayev
  • Bassem Jarboui
  • Pãnos M. Pardalos

Mladenović had multiple publications in well-known venues, such as:

  • Optimization Letters
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • Computers & Industrial Engineering
  • Journal of Global Optimization
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

They authored a book titled Variable Neighborhood Search published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021.

The scientist was recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2012.

Best Publications

  • Variable neighborhood search

    N. Mladenović;P. Hansen

  • Variable neighborhood search: Principles and applications

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović

  • Variable Neighborhood Search: Methods and Applications

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;José A. Moreno Pérez

  • Variable neighbourhood search: methods and applications

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;José A. Moreno Pérez

  • An Introduction to Variable Neighborhood Search

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović

  • The p-median problem: A survey of metaheuristic approaches

    Nenad Mladenović;Jack Brimberg;Pierre Hansen;José A. Moreno-Pérez

  • Variable neighborhood search for the p-median

    P. Hansen;N. Mladenović

  • Variable Neighborhood Decomposition Search

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;Dionisio Perez-Britos

  • Variable Neighborhood Search

    Jack Brimberg;Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;José A. Moreno Pérez

  • J-Means: a new local search heuristic for minimum sum of squares clustering

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović

  • Variable neighborhood search: basics and variants

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;Raca Todosijević;Saïd Hanafi

  • Improvement and Comparison of Heuristics for Solving the Uncapacitated Multisource Weber Problem

    Jack Brimberg;Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mlandinovic;Eric. D. Taillard

  • Variable neighbourhood search: methods and applications

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;José A. Moreno Pérez

  • Variable Neighbourhood Search

    P. Hansen;N. Mladenovic;J.A. Moreno

  • Variable neighborhood search for minimum cost berth allocation

    Pierre Hansen;Ceyda Oğuz;Nenad Mladenović;Nenad Mladenović

  • Variable neighborhood search

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;Jos´e A. Moreno Pérez

  • Solving the p-center problem with tabu search and variable neighborhood search

    Nenad Mladenović;Nenad Mladenović;Martine Labbé;Pierre Hansen

  • Variable neighborhood search and local branching

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;Dragan Urošević

  • Cooperative Parallel Variable Neighborhood Search for the p -Median

    Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Michel Gendreau;Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović

  • Pooling Problem: Alternate Formulations and Solution Methods

    Charles Audet;Jack Brimberg;Pierre Hansen;Sébastien Le Digabel

  • Variable Neighborhood Search.

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenovic

  • Variable Neighborhood Decomposition Search

    Pierre Hansen;Nenad Mladenović;D Perez-Brito

  • The p -Median Problem: A Survey of Metaheuristic Approaches

    Nenad Mladenović;Jack Brimberg;Pierre Hansen;José A. Moreno Pérez

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Hansen
Pierre Hansen HEC Montréal
Jack Brimberg
Jack Brimberg Royal Military College of Canada
Emilio Carrizosa
Emilio Carrizosa University of Seville
Said Salhi
Said Salhi University of Kent
Abraham Duarte
Abraham Duarte King Juan Carlos University
Brigitte Jaumard
Brigitte Jaumard Concordia University
Zvi Drezner
Zvi Drezner California State University, Fullerton
Panos M. Pardalos
Panos M. Pardalos University of Florida
Kenneth Sörensen
Kenneth Sörensen University of Antwerp
Eric W.T. Ngai
Eric W.T. Ngai Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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