Publications

 

Journal Articles

Yagmur S. Gok, Silvia Padrón, Maurizio Tomasella, Daniel Guimarans, Cemalettin Ozturk. Constraint-based Robust Planning and Scheduling of Airport Apron Operations through Simheuristics. Annals of Operations Research (ANOR), 320, pp. 795-830, 2023.

Daniel Guimarans, Silvia Padrón. A Stochastic Approach for Planning Airport Ground Support Resources. International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR), 29 (6), pp. 3316-3345, 2022.

Carlos L. Quintero-Araujo, Daniel Guimarans, Àngel A. Juan. A Simheuristic Algorithm for the Capacitated Location Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands. Journal of Simulation (JOS), 15 (3), pp. 217-234, 2021.

Silvia Padrón, Daniel Guimarans. An Improved Method for Scheduling Aircraft Ground Handling Operations from a Global Perspective. Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR), 36 (4), pp. 1-25, 2019.

Daniel Guimarans, Oscar Domínguez, Javier Panadero, Àngel A. Juan. A Simheuristic Approach for the Two-Dimensional Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Travel Times. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT), 89, pp. 1-14, 2018.

Oscar Domínguez, Daniel Guimarans, Àngel A. Juan, Ignacio de la Nuez. A Biased-Randomised Large Neighbourhood Search for the Two-Dimensional Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls. European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), 255, pp. 442-462, 2016.

Silvia Padrón, Daniel Guimarans, Juan José Ramos, Salma Fitouri-Trabelsi. A Bi-objective Approach for Scheduling Ground Handling Vehicles in Airports. Computers & Operations Research (COR), 71, pp. 34-53, 2016.

Albert Ferrer, Daniel Guimarans, Helena Ramalhinho, Àngel A. Juan. A BRILS Metaheuristic for Non-Smooth Flow-Shop Problems with Failure-Risk Costs. Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), 44, pp. 177-186, 2016.

Àngel A. Juan, Iñaki Pascual, Daniel Guimarans, Barry Barrios. Combining Biased Randomization with Iterated Local Search for Solving the Multi-depot Vehicle Routing Problem. International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR), 22 (4), pp. 647-667, 2015.

José Cáceres-Cruz, Pol Arias, Daniel Guimarans, Daniel Riera, Àngel A. Juan. Rich Vehicle Routing Problem: Survey. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 47 (2), pp. 1-28, 2014.
 

Daniel Guimarans, Rosa Herrero, Daniel Riera, Àngel A. Juan, Juan José Ramos. Combining Probabilistic Algorithms, Constraint Programming and Lagrangian Relaxation to Solve the Vehicle Routing Problem. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI), 62 (3-4), pp. 299-315, 2011.

Daniel Guimarans, Rosa Herrero, Juan José Ramos, Silvia Padrón. Solving Vehicle Routing Problems Using Constraint Programming and Lagrangian Relaxation in a Metaheuristics Framework. International Journal of Information Systems & Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM), 4 (2), pp. 61-81, 2011.

Working Papers

Daniel Guimarans, Daniel Harabor, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Simulation and Analysis of Container Freight Train Operations at Port Botany. Available in arXiv.

 

Books

Miguel Mújica Mota, Idalia Flores, Daniel Guimarans (Eds.). Applied Simulation and Optimization: In Logistics, Industrial and Aeronautical Practice. ISBN 978-3-319-15032-1. Springer, 2015.

Book Chapters

Daniel Guimarans, Pol Arias, Maurizio Tomasella, Cheng-Lung Wu. A review of sustainability in aviation: a multidimensional perspective. In Javier Faulin, Scott Grasman, Àngel A. Juan, Patrick Hirsch (Eds.), Sustainable Transportation and Smart Logistics, Chapter 4 (pp. 91-121). ISBN 978-0-128-14242-4. Elsevier, 2019.

Daniel Guimarans, Pol Arias, Miguel Mújica Mota. Large Neighbourhood Search and Simulation for Disruption Management in the Airline Industry. In Miguel Mújica Mota, Idalia Flores, Daniel Guimarans (Eds.), Applied Simulation and Optimization: In Logistics, Industrial and Aeronautical Practice, Chapter 6 (pp. 169-201). ISBN 978-3-319-15032-1. Springer, 2015.

Daniel Guimarans, Rosa Herrero, Juan José Ramos, Silvia Padrón. Solving vehicle routing problems using constraint programming and lagrangian relaxation in a metaheuristics framework. In John Wang (Ed.), Management Innovations for Intelligent Supply Chains, Chapter 7 (pp. 123-143). ISBN 978-1-466-62461-0. IGI Global, 2013.

 

Conference Articles

Yagmur S. Gok, Maurizio Tomasella, Daniel Guimarans, Cemalettin Ozturk. A simheuristic approach for robust scheduling of airport turnaround teams. In proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2020). Online venue; December, 2020.

Yagmur S. Gok, Daniel Guimarans, Peter J. Stuckey, Maurizio Tomasella, Cemalettin Ozturk. Robust resource planning for aircraft ground operations. In proceedings of International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR 2020). Online venue; September, 2020.

Maurizio Tomasella, Alexandra Clare, Yagmur S. Gok, Daniel Guimarans, Cemalettin Ozturk. STTAR: A simheuristics-enabled scheme for multi-stakeholder coordination of aircraft turnaround operations. In proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2019). National Harbor, USA; December, 2019.

John M. Betts, David L. Dowe, Daniel Guimarans, Daniel D. Harabor, Heshan Kumarage, Peter J. Stuckey, Michael Wybrow. Peak-hour rail demand shifting with discrete optimisation. In proceedings of International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2019). Stamford, USA; October, 2019.

Andrés San Antonio, Àngel A. Juan, Pau Fonseca, Daniel Guimarans, Laura Calvet. Using simulation to estimate critical paths and survival functions in aircraft turnaround processes. In proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2017). Las Vegas, USA; December, 2017.

Daniel Guimarans, Pol Arias, Wenjing Zhao. A simheuristic approach for solving the Aircraft Recovery Problem with stochastic delays. In proceedings of Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2017). Barcelona, Spain; July, 2017.

Pol Arias, Daniel Guimarans, Àngel A. Juan. A simple and efficient metaheuristic for the Dynamic Flight Scheduling Problem. In proceedings of Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2017). Barcelona, Spain; July, 2017.

Daniel Guimarans, Oscar Domínguez, Àngel A. Juan, Enoc Martínez. A multi-start simheuristic for the stochastic two-dimensional vehicle routing problem. In proceedings of Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2016). Washington, USA; December, 2016.

Ammar Al-Bazi, Yagmur S. Gok, Cemalettin Ozturk, Daniel Guimarans. Developing a mathematical model for scheduling of turnaround operations (low cost airline as a case study). In proceedings of International Aviation Management Conference (IAMC 2016). Dubai, United Arab Emirates; November, 2016.

Negar Zakerinejad, Daniel Riera, Daniel Guimarans. ACO and CP working together to build a flexible tool for the Rich VRP. In proceedings of International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2016). Rome, Italy; February, 2016.

Oscar Domínguez, Daniel Guimarans, Àngel A. Juan. A hybrid heuristic for the 2L-VRP with clustered backhauls. In proceedings of Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (CAEPIA 2015). Albacete, Spain; September, 2015.

Wei Sun, Daniel Guimarans, Alan Fekete, Vincent Gramoli, Liming Zhu. Multi-objective optimisation for rolling upgrade allowing for failures in clouds. In proceedings of 34th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2015). Montreal, Canada; September, 2015.

Daniel Guimarans, Silvia Padrón, Juan José Ramos, Salma Fitouri-Trabelsi. Scheduling ground-handling services: a bi-objective approach. In proceedings of International Conference on Applied Operational Research (ICAOR). Vienna, Austria; July, 2015.

Miguel A. Mújica Mota, Idalia Flores, Daniel Guimarans. CPN-Simulation methodology for the boarding process of aircraft. In proceedings of European Modelling and Simulation Symposium 2014. Bourdeaux, France; September, 2014.

Pol Arias, Daniel Guimarans, Miguel A. Mújica, Geert Boosten. A methodology combining optimisation and simulation for real applications of the Stochastic Aircraft Recovery Problem. In proceedings of EUROSIM 2013. Cardiff (Wales), United Kingdom; September, 2013.

Pol Arias, Daniel Guimarans, Miguel A. Mújica. A new methodology to solve the Stochastic Aircraft Recovery Problem using optimisation and simulation. In proceedings of International Conference on Interdisciplinary Science for Innovative Air Traffic Management (ISIATM). Toulouse, France; July, 2013.

Daniel Guimarans, Julija Petuhova, Yuri Merkuryev, Juan José Ramos. Supply chain simulation methods analysis: an application to the Beer Game. In proceedings of International Conference on Harbour, Maritime & Multimodal Logistics Modelling and Simulation. Fez, Morocco; October, 2010.

Juan José Ramos, Silvia Padrón, Laura Guillén, Miquel Àngel Piera, Daniel Guimarans, Rosa Herrero. Intelligent platform for sustainable routing. XV Summer School `Francesco Turco’. Porto Giardino, Italy; September, 2010.

Rosa Herrero, Juan José Ramos, Daniel Guimarans. Lagrangian metaheuristic for the Travelling Salesman Problem. In proceedings of Operations Research Society Annual Conference (OR52). Surrey, United Kingdom; September, 2010.

Rosa Herrero, Daniel Guimarans, Juan José Ramos, Silvia Padrón. A Variable Neighbourhood Search combining Constraint Programming and Lagrangian Relaxation for solving routing problems. In proceedings of Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2010. Ottawa, Canada; July, 2010.

Daniel Guimarans, Rosa Herrero, Daniel Riera, Àngel A. Juan, Juan José Ramos. Combining Constraint Programming, Lagrangian Relaxation and probabilistic algorithms to solve the Vehicle Routing Problem. In proceedings of RCRA International Workshop 2010 (CP-AI-OR’10). Bologna, Italy; June, 2010.

Daniel Guimarans, Juan José Ramos, Mark Wallace, Daniel Riera. A hybrid Constraint Programming / local search approach to the Pick-up and Delivery Problem with Time Windows. In proceedings of European Modelling and Simulation Symposium 2009. Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife), Spain; September, 2009.

Rosa Herrero, Daniel Guimarans, Juan José Ramos. Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows by Lagrangian Relaxation. In proceedings of European Modelling and Simulation Symposium 2009. Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife), Spain; September, 2009.

Daniel Riera, Àngel A. Juan, Daniel Guimarans, Estel·la Pagans. A Constraint Programming-based library for the Vehicle Routing Problem. In proceedings of European Modelling and Simulation Symposium 2009. Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife), Spain; September, 2009.

Pedro Balaguer, Asier Ibeas, Carles Pedret, Daniel Guimarans, Roman Buil. Expanding virtual laboratories through guiding and assessment: an expert system approach. In proceedings of 5th IADAT International Conference on Education. Bilbao, Spain; June, 2009.

Daniel Guimarans, Juan José Ramos. A two-stage approach for the emergency services coordination problem in a road accident. In proceedings of European Modelling and Simulation Symposium 2007. Genova, Italy; October, 2007.

Daniel Guimarans, Juan José Ramos, Miquel Àngel Piera, Antoni Guasch. Un entorno de simulación para el diseño de herramientas de toma de decisiones en logística de transporte. In proceedings of Congreso Español De Informática (CEDI 2007) – Simposio de Modelado y Simulación de Sistemas Dinámicos. Zaragoza, Spain; September, 2007.

Juan José Ramos, Daniel Guimarans, Miquel Àngel Piera, Antoni Guasch. A technological platform for designing real-time decision tools in transportation logistics. In proceedings of European Modelling and Simulation Symposium 2006. Barcelona, Spain; October, 2006.

Daniel Guimarans, Juan José Ramos, Miquel Àngel Piera, Antoni Guasch. A simulation based decision tool to coordinate emergency services in a road accident. In proceedings of Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2006. Calgary, Canada; July, 2006.

 

Conference and Workshop Presentations

Charupriya Sharma, George Iosifidis, Daniel Guimarans, Amit Kumar, Georgios Paschos. A scalable solution to joint routing and sorting problems. European Conference on Operational Research (EURO). Copenhagen, Denmark; July, 2024.

Silvia Padrón, Maurizio Tomasella, Elisa Guardo, Daniel Guimarans, Cemalettin Ozturk. Cross-organisational Coordination in Apron Operations. European Conference on Operational Research (EURO). Copenhagen, Denmark; July, 2024.

Cansu Agrali, Onur Can Saka, Faheem Zafari, Daniel Guimarans, George Iosifidis, Amit Kumar. Long-term Capacity and Topology Planning for a Large Delivery Network. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Phoenix, USA; October, 2023.

Yagmur S. Gok, Silvia Padrón, Maurizio Tomasella, Daniel Guimarans, Cemalettin Ozturk. Constraint-Based Robust Scheduling of Apron Operations through Simheuristics. INFORMS Annual Meeting. Anaheim, USA; October, 2021.

Yagmur S. Gok, Maurizio Tomasella, Daniel Guimarans, Cemalettin Ozturk. A simheuristic approach to solve tactical airport ground service equipment planning. Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). National Harbor, USA; December, 2019.

Carlos Quintero-Araujo, Daniel Guimarans, Àngel A. Juan. A Simheuristic Algorithm for the Capacitated Location Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands. Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC). Cartagena, Colombia; July, 2019.

Yagmur S. Gok, Maurizio Tomasella, Daniel Guimarans, Cemalettin Ozturk, Silvia Padrón. A hybrid simulation-optimisation approach for scheduling airport ground service equipment. European Conference on Operational Research (EURO). Dublin, Ireland; June, 2019.

Daniel Guimarans, Arjen Peters, Younes Boulaksil. A decision support system to assist airport operators solving terminal disruptions ASAP. European Conference on Operational Research (EURO). Valencia, Spain; July, 2018.

Yagmur S. Gok, Maurizio Tomasella, Daniel Guimarans, Cemalettin Ozturk. New efficient heuristics to solve tactical airport check-in allocation problems. European Conference on Operational Research (EURO). Valencia, Spain; July, 2018.

Silvia Padrón, Daniel Guimarans. Using simulation for evaluating ground handling solutions reliability under stochastic conditions. ROADEF 2018. Lorient, France; February, 2018.

Daniel Guimarans. A Constraint Programming approach for the airport gate assignment problem considering regular and disrupted operations. Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) 2017. Quebec City, Canada; July, 2017.

Daniel Guimarans, Pol Arias, Gilbert Laporte. A hybrid approach for the two-dimensional vehicle routing problem with balanced load (2BL-VRP). Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) 2017. Quebec City, Canada; July, 2017.

Hanna Grzybowska, Daniel Guimarans. Real-Time Field Service Engineer Scheduling Problem with Emergencies and Collaborations: a Simulation-Optimization Approach. Transportation Research Board 2017 Annual Meeting (TRB). Washington, USA; January, 2017.

Daniel Guimarans, Hanna Grzybowska. Real-Time Field Service Engineer Scheduling Problem with Emergencies and Collaborations: a Simulation-Optimisation Approach. European Conference on Operational Research (EURO). Poznan, Poland; July, 2016.

Yagmur S. Gok, Ammar Al-Bazi, Cemalettin Ozturk, Daniel Guimarans. Scheduling ground operations for improved aircraft turnaround performance: A Turkish low-cost airline case study. European Conference on Operational Research (EURO). Poznan, Poland; July, 2016.

Daniel Guimarans. Simulation and Optimisation: We are here to help! Keynote presentation at International Conference on Air Transport (INAIR) 2015. Amsterdam, Netherlands; November, 2015.

Philip Kilby, Ignasi Abio, Daniel Guimarans, Daniel Harabor, Patrik Haslum, Valentin Mayer-Eichberger, Fazlul Siddiqui, Sylvie Thiebaux, Tommaso Urli. There’s more than one way to solve a long-haul transportation problem. EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization (VeRoLog). Vienna, Austria; June, 2015.

Negar Zakerinejad, Daniel Riera, Daniel Guimarans. Ant Colony Optimization and Constraint Programming Working Together for Routing in Smart Cities. Second Workshop on Optimization for Smart Cities – Opt4SmartCities (CP-AI-OR’15). Barcelona, Spain; May, 2015.

Daniel Guimarans, Daniel Harabor, Pascal Van Hentenryck. A simulation approach to analyse rail capacity at SydneyÕs Port Botany. Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) 2014. Barcelona, Spain; July, 2014.

Daniel Guimarans, Daniel Harabor, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Scheduling container trains at Port Botany. Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) 2014. Barcelona, Spain; July, 2014.

Daniel Guimarans, Pol Arias, Miguel A. Mújica Mota. A large neighbourhood search combined with Monte Carlo simulation to cope with airlines operational disruptions. Invited talk at Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) 2014. Barcelona, Spain; July, 2014.

Albert Ferrer, Daniel Guimarans, Helena Ramalhinho, Àngel A. Juan. Solving non-smooth flow-shop problems with failure-risk penalties using biased-randomized local search. Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) 2014. Barcelona, Spain; July, 2014.

Daniel Riera, Daniel Guimarans, Pol Arias, José Cáceres, Àngel A. Juan. Solving the R2VRP (Real Rich VRP). CYTED-HAROSA Workshop. Valparaíso, Chile; November, 2012.

Daniel Guimarans. On the use of Constraint Programming and metaheuristics for solving routing problems. IN3-HAROSA International Workshop for Junior Researchers. Barcelona, Spain; July, 2012.

Daniel Guimarans. Hybrid algorithms for solving routing problems. IN3-HAROSA International Workshop. Barcelona, Spain; June, 2012.

Daniel Guimarans, Juan José Ramos, Rosa Herrero, Silvia Padrón. Combining metaheuristics, Constraint Programming and Lagrangian Relaxation to tackle routing problems. IN3-HAROSA International Workshop. Barcelona, Spain; November, 2010.

 

Public Media Articles

Daniel Harabor, Daniel Guimarans, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Port Botany doesn’t need another expensive rail project – here is the evidence. The Conversation. February 10th, 2016.

 

Software Licenses

ITSLogisim Optimisation Suite 1.0, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain). Licensed company: Digital Aeronautics Engineering Services. 2010.

ITSLogisim Simulation Suite 1.0, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain). Licensed company: Digital Aeronautics Engineering Services. 2010.