Alysson Machado Costa

Multi-period two-echelon location routing problem for disaster waste clean-up

Cheng Cheng, Rui Zhu, Alysson M Costa, Russell G Thompson, Xiang Huang

Journal article  |  2021  |  TRANSPORTMETRICA A-TRANSPORT SCIENCE

Waste clean-up after a disaster is one of the most critical tasks in the response stage of disaster management. We develop a model..

Optimisation of wste clean-up after large-scale disasters

Cheng Cheng, Rui Zhu, Alysson M Costa, Russell George Thompson

Journal article  |  2021  |  WASTE MANAGEMENT

Disaster waste clean-up after large disasters is one of the core activities at the recovery stage of disaster management, which ai..

A note to: A multiple-rule based constructive randomized search algorithm for solving assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem

Adalberto Sato Michels, Alysson M Costa

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING

Some of the solutions reported in a recent paper (Akyol and Baykasoglu in J Intell Manuf 30(2):557–573, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1..

Pattern-based models and a cooperative parallel metaheuristic for high school timetabling problems

Landir Saviniec, Maristela O Santos, Alysson M Costa, Lana MR dos Santos

Journal article  |  2020  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

High school timetabling problems consist in building periodic timetables for class-teacher meetings considering compulsory and non..

A co-evolutionary matheuristic for the car stochastic problem

Beatriz B Oliveira, Maria Antonia Carravilla, Jose F Oliveira, Alysson M Costa

Journal article  |  2019  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

When planning a selling season, a car rental company must decide on the number and type of vehicles in the fleet to meet demand. T..

Examining Trade-Offs in Piggybacking Flow Events while Making Environmental Release Decisions in a River System

Simranjit Kaur, Avril C Horne, Rory Nathan, Joanna M Szemis, Laura Gibson, Alysson M Costa, J Angus Webb, Michael Stewardson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

High flow pulses (or spells or freshes) play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological health of a river system. Impoundment of..

Output maximization container loading problem with time availability constraints

Pedro B Castellucci, Franklina MB Toledo, Alysson M Costa

Journal article  |  2019  |  OPERATIONS RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES

Research on container loading problems has helped increase the occupation rate of containers in different practical situations. We..

Active Management of Environmental Water to Improve Ecological Outcomes

Avril C Horne, Simranjit Kaur, Joanna M Szemis, Alysson M Costa, Rory Nathan, J Angus Webb, Michael J Stewardson, Natashia Boland

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

Environmental water is being embraced by governments around the world as a means to partly restore rivers impacted by excessive ri..

A sequential stochastic mixed integer programming model for tactical master surgery scheduling

Ashwani Kumar, Alysson M Costa, Mark Fackrell, Peter G Taylor

Journal article  |  2018  |  European Journal of Operational Research

In this paper, we develop a stochastic mixed integer programming model to optimise the tactical master surgery schedule (MSS) in o..

Improved integer programming models for simple assembly line balancing and related problems

Marcus Ritt, Alysson M Costa

Journal article  |  2018  |  International Transactions in Operational Research

We propose a stronger formulation of the precedence constraints and the station limits for the simple assembly line balancing prob..