Publications
Books, chapters, journal articles
2012
- Consoli S, Mladenovic N and Moreno-Perez JA. Solving the minimum labelling spanning tree problem using intelligent optimization (submitted).
- Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Brimberg J. Sequential clustering with radius and split criteria (submitted).
- Duarte A, Escudero LF, Marti R, Mladenovic N, Pantrigo JJ, Sanchez-Oro J. Variable Neighborhood Search for the Vertex Separation Problem (submitted).
- Almoustafa S, Hanafi S and Mladenovic N. Multistart branch and bound for large asymmetric distance-constrained vehicle routing problem (submitted).
- M'Hallah R, Alkandari A, Mladenovic N. Packing unit spheres into the smallest sphere using VNS and NLP (submitted).
- Nikolic N, Grujicic I, Mladenovic N. New Greedy and Reduction Algorithms for Covering Designs (submitted).
- Davidovic T, Lazic J, Maras V and Mladenovic N. Routing of barge container ships using MIP heuristics (submitted).
- Sheikh-Rajab R, Drazic M, Mladenovic N and Yu K. Fitting censored quantile regression by variable neighbourhood search (submitted).
- Lazic J, Mitra G, Mladenovic N and Zverovich V. Variable neighborhood decomposition search for the two-stage stochastic Mixed integer programming problem (submitted).
- Mladenovic N, Kratica J, Kovacevic-Vujcic V, Cangalovic M. Metric dimension and related problems (in revision).
- Carrizosa E, Al-Guwaizani A, Hansen P, Mladenovic N. Degeneracy of harmonic means clustering (in revision).
- Jarboui B, Derbel H, Hanafi S and Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood search approaches for a Location routing problem (in revision).
- Mladenovic N, Urosevic D, Hanafi S, Ilic A. A General variable neighborhood search for the One-commodity pickup-and-delivery travelling salesman problem (in revision).
- Carrizosa E, Drazic M, Drazic Z, Mladenovic N. Gaussian Variable Neighborhood Search for Continuous Optimization. Computers and Operations Research 39 (2012) 2206-2213.
- Zhao Q, Mladenovic N, and Urosevic D.
A Parametric Simplex Search for Unconstrained Optimization
Problem, Transactions on Advanced Research 8 (2012) 22-27.
2011
- Carrizosa E, Mladenovic N, Todosijevic R. Sum-of-squares clustering on networks, Yugoslav Journal of Operations research 21 (2011) 157-161.
- Noble S, Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Maximizing edge-ratio is NP-hard. Discrete Applied Mathematics 159 (2011) 2276-2280.
- Liberti L, Mladenovic N and Nannicini G. A recipe for solving Mixed integer nonlinear programming problems, Mathematical Programming Computation 3 (2011) 349-390.
- Tintor V, Urosevic D, Andjelic B, Radulovic J, Mladenovic N, Variable neighbourhood search for resolving RWA problem in optical WDM networks, IET Communications 5 (2011) 2028-2034.
- Alguwaizani A, Hansen P, Mladenovic N, Ngai E. Variable neighbourhood search for harmonic means clustering, Applied Mathematical Modelling 35 (2011) 2688–2694.
- Derbel H, Jarboui B, Chabchoub B, Hanafi S and Mladenovic
N: A varible neighborhood search for the capacitated
location-routing problem, LOGISTIQUA, 4th international
conference on logistics, 10.1109/Logistiqua. 2011.5939452,
pages: 514-519 (IEEE Conferences).
2010
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Hanafi S, Lazic J, Mladenovic N , Wilbaut C and Crévits I. New Hybrid Matheuristics for Solving the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6373 (2010) 118-132.
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Mladenovic N, Hanafi S and Lazic J. Variable neighborhood search pump and diving for MIP initialization, Plenary talk, Proceedings of Discrete Optimization and Operational Research, ISBN 978-5-86134-172-1, pp 40-43, Novosibirsk, 2010.
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Zhao QH, Brimberg J and Mladenovic N. A Variable neighborhood search based algorithm for finite-horizon Markov decision processes Applied Mathematics and Computation 217 (2010) 3480-3492.
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Hanafi S, Lazic J, Mladenovic N. Variable neighbourhood pump heuristic for 0-1 Mixed integer programming feasibility. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics: 36 (2010) 759-766.
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Hanafi S, Lazic J, Mladenovic N, Wilbaut C and Crévits I. Hybrid variable neighbourhood decomposition search for 0-1 MIP. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics: 36 (2010) 883-890.
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N, Brimberg J and Moreno Pérez JA. Variable neighbourhood search, Handbook of Metaheuristics, 2nd edition (Gendreau and Potvin Eds), International Series in Operations Research & Management Sciences 146, pp 61-- 86, Kluwer, 2010.
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Brimberg J, Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Attraction probabilities in variable neighborhood search 4OR 8 (2010) 181-194.
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Consoli S, Moreno-Perez JA, Darby-Dowman K, Mladenovic N. Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for the minimum labelling Steiner tree problem Natural Computing 9 (2010) 29-46.
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Ilic A, Urosevic D, Brimberg J and Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood search for solving the uncapacitated single allocation p-hub median problem. European J of Operational Research 206 (2010) 289-300.
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Moreno Pérez JA. Variable neighbourhood search: algorithms and applications Annals of Operations Research 175 (2010) 367-407.
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Lazic J, Hanafi S, Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. Variable neighborhood decomposition search for 0-1 Mixed integer programs. Computers and Operations Research 37 (2010) 1055-1067.
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Perron S, Hansen P, Le Digabel S and Mladenovic N. Transfer pricing in a global supply chain. European J of Operational Research 202 (2010) 864-879.
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Mladenovic N, Urosevic D, Perez-Brito D and Garcia-Gonzalez CG. Variable neighborhood search for bandwidth reduction. European J of Operational Research 200 (2010) 14-27.
2009
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood search methods, Encyclopedia of Optimization , 2nd Edition, (Floudas, Pardalos eds), (Part 22), pp 3975-3989, doi. 10.1007/978-0-387-74759-0, Springer 2009.
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Liberti L, Nannicini G and Mladenovic N. A good recipe for solving MINLPs. In Matheuristics: Hybridizing metaheuristics and mathematical programming (Maniezo, Stuetzle, Voss Eds). Book series Annals of Information Systems 10 (2009) 231-244, Springer Verlag, New York, 2009.
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Consoli S, Darby-Dowman K, Mladenovic N and Moreno J. Variable neighbourhood search for the minimum labelling Steiner tree problem Annals of Operations Research 172 (2009) 71-96.
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Brimberg J, Love R and Mladenovic N. Extension of the Weiszfeld procedure to a single facility minisum location model with mixed norms. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 70 (2009) 269-283, DOI: 10.1007/s00186-008-026-z
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Brimberg J, Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. Solving large p-median clustering problems by primal-dual variable neighborhood search Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 19 (2009) 351-375.
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Zhao Q, Urosevic D, Mladenovic N, Hansen P. A restarted and modified simplex search for unconstrained optimization Computers and Operations Research 36 (2009) 3263-3271.
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Brimberg J, Mladenovic N, Urosevic D and Ngai E. Variable neighborhood search for the heaviest k-subgraph. Computers and Operations Research 36 (2009) 2885-2891.
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Consoli S, Darby-Dowman K, Mladenovic N and Moreno J. Greedy randomized adaptive search and variable neighbourhood search for the minimum labelling spanning tree problem European J of Operational Research 196 (2009) 440-449.
2008
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Consoli S, Moreno J, Darby-Dowman and Mladenovic N. Discrete particle swarm optimization for the Minimum labelling Steiner tree problem. Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (Book series Studies in Computational Intelligence 129) pp 313-322, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2008.
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N and JA Moreno Pérez. Variable neighbourhood search: methods and applications (invited survey) 4OR, Vol 6 (2008) 319-360.
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Brimberg J, Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. Variable Neighborhood Search for the k-cardinality subgraph problem, Journal of Heuristics 14 (2008) 501–517.
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Mladenovic N. Dražic M, Kovacevic-Vujcic V, Cangalovic M. General variable neighborhood search for the continuous optimization, European J of Operational Research 191 (2008) 753-770.
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N, Jose A. Moreno Pérez. Variable neighborhood search European J of Operational Research 191 (2008) 593-595.
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Hansen P, Oguz C and Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood search for minimum cost berth allocation, European J of Operational Research 191 (2008) 636-649.
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Brimberg J, Hansen P, Laporte G, Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. The maximum return-on-investment plant location problem with market share, J of Operational Research Society 59 (2008) 399-406.
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Brimberg J, Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Salhi S. A survey of solution methods for the continuous location - allocation problem, International Journal of Operations Research (IJOR) 5 (2008) 1-12. ISSN 0711-2440.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Complement to a comparative analysis of heuristics for the p-median problem, Statistics and Computing 18 (2008) 41-44.
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Drazic M, Lavor C, Maculan N and Mladenovic N. A continuous variable neighborhood search heuristic for the three-dimensional structure of a molecule, European J of Operational Research 185 (2008) 1265–-1273.
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Jovanovic D, Mladenovic N and Ognjanovic Z. Variable neighborhood search for the probabilistic satisfiability problem, in Metaheuristics - Progress in Complex Systems Optimization , (K.F Doerner et al Eds), pp 173-188, Springer, 2007.
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Moreno Pérez JA, Mladenovic N. Búsqueda por Entornos Variables para Planificación Logística, Procedimientos Metaheuristicos en Economia y Empresa (Crespo E, Marti R, Pacheco J Eds), pp 239-263, Tiran lo Blanch, Valencia 2007.
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Hansen P, Brimberg J, Urosevic D and Mladenovic N. Primal-dual variable neighborhood for the simple plant location problem, INFORMS J on Computing 19 (2007) 552-564.
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Mladenovic N. , Plastria F. and Urosevic D. Formulation space search for circle packing problems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4638 (2007) 212--216.
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Hansen P, Lazic J and Mladenovic N. Variable neighbourhood search for colour image quantization IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 18 (2007) 207--221.
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Mladenovic N , Brimberg J, Hansen P and Moreno-Perez J. The p-median problem: A survey of metaheuristic approaches, European J Operational Research 179 (2007) 927 -- 939.
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Moreno-Pérez JA, Mladenovic N, Melián Batista B, García del Amo I. Variable Neighbourhood Search, (in Alba E, Marti R Eds.) Metaheuristic Procedures for Training Neural Networks Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series , Vol. 36 Chapter 4, pp. 71-86, 2006.
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Drazic M, Kovacevic-Vujcic V, Cangalovic M and Mladenovic N. GLOB - A new VNS-based software for global optimization, in Global optimization - from theory to implementation (Liberti L and Maculan N eds), 135-154, Springer 2006.
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Brimberg J, Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Decomposition strategies for large scale continuous location-allocation problems, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 17 (2006) 307-316.
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Mladenovic N, Brimberg J and Hansen P. A note on duality gap in the simple plant location problem. European J Oper Res 174 (2006) 11-22.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. First vs best improvement: An empirical study. Discrete Applied Mathematics 154 (2006) 802-817.
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Hansen P Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. Variable neighborhood search and local branching. Computers and Operations Research, 33 (2006) 3034-3045.
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Brimberg J, Urosevic D and Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood search for the vertex weighted k-cardinality tree, European J. of Operational Research 171 (2006) 74--84.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood search, in Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques, (E.K.Burke and G.Kendall eds.) pp. 211-238, Springer 2005.
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Moreno-Perez JA, Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Parallel variable neighborhood search, in Parallel Metaheuristics: A new class of algorithms (E. Alba eds.) pp. 247-266, Wiley, 2005.
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Hansen P, Ngai E, Cheung B and Mladenovic N. Analysis of global k-means, an incremental heuristic for minimum sum-of-squares clustering, Journal of Classification 22 (2005) 287-310.
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Ognjanovic Z, Midic U and Mladenovic N. A hybrid genetic and variable neighborhood descent for probabilistic SAT problem. Lecture notes in Computer Science 3636 (2005) 42--53.
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Davidovic T, Hansen P, Mladenovic N., Permutation based genetic, tabu and variable neighborhood search heuristics for multiprocessor scheduling with communication delays, Asian Pacific Journal of Operations Research , 22 (2005) 297--326.
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Dominques-Marin P, Nickel S, Hansen P and Mladenovic N , Heuristic procedures for solving the discrete ordered median problem, Annals of Operations Research 136 (2005) 145-173.
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Mladenovic N, Plastria F and Urosevic D. Reformulation descent applied to circle packing problems. Computers and Oper. Res. 32 (2005) 2419-2434.
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Desrosiers J, Mladenovic N and Villeneuve D. Design of balanced MBA student teams, Journal of Operational Research Society 56 (2005) 60-66
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Mladenovi N Continuous Location, Mathematical Institute, SANU, Belgrade, Serbia, 2004. (in Serbian)
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Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. Variable neighborhood search for the k-cardinality tree, in Metaheuristics computer decision-making,(M. Resende and J. de Sousa eds.), pp. 481-500, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2004.
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. Variable neighborhood search for the Maximum clique problem, Discrete Applied Math. 145 (2004) 117-125.
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Audet C, Brimberg J, Hansen P, Le Digabel S and Mladenovic N. Pooling problem: Alternate Formulations and Solution Methods, Management science, 50 (2004) 761--776.
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Brimberg J, Mladenovic N and Salhi S. The multi-source Weber problem with constant fixed cost, J. of Oper. Res. Society. 55 (2004) 640--646.
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Urosevic D, Brimberg J and Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood decomposition search for the edge weighted k-cardinality tree problem, Computers and Operations Research 31 (2004) 1205-1213.
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Crainic T, Gendreau M, Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Cooperative parallel variable neighborhood search for the p-median, J. of Heuristics 10 (2004) 289--310.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N , Variable neighborhood search in Hanbook of Metaheuristics (Glover and Kochenberger eds.), pp. 145 --184, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2003.
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Mladenovic N, Labbe M and Hansen P. Solving the p-Center problem with Tabu search and Variable neighborhood search Networks 42 (2003) 48-64.
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Mladenovic N, Petrovic J, Kovacevic-Vujic ic V and Cangalovic M. Solving Spread spectrum radar polyphase code design problem by Tabu search and Variable Neighborhood search, European Journal of Operational Research 151 (2003) 389-399.
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Kochetov Y, Mladenovic N and Hansen P. Lokalni poisk s chereduysimisy okrestnostyami, Diskretaja Matematika, 10 (2003) 11-43.
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Moreno Perez J. Busqueda Entorno Variable, Artificial Inteligence 19 (2003) 77--92.
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Brimberg J, Hansen P, Lih K-W, Mladenovic N and Breton M. An oil pipeline design problem Operations Research, 51 (2003) 228--239.
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Belacel N, Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Fuzzy J-Means: a new heuristic for fuzzy clustering, Pattern Recognition 35 (2003) 2193--2200.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Recherche voisinage variable in Optimisation approch‰e en recherche op‰rationnelle, (J. Teghem and M. Pirlot eds.), pp. 81-100, Lavoiser, Herm‰s Science Publications, Paris, 2002.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N., Variable Neighbourhood Search in Handbook of Applied Optimization,. (P. Pardalos and M. Resende eds.) pp. 221-234, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Developments in Variable Neighbourhood Search, in Esseys and Surveys in Metaheuristics (C. Ribeiro and P. Hanasen eds.), pp. 415-439, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2002.
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N A separable approximation dynamic programming algorithm for economic dispatch with transmission losses, Yugoslav J. Oper. Res 12, 157--166, 2002.
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Brimberg J, Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Reduction and reformulation of quadratic programs with equality constraints, Journal of Global Optimization, 22, 39--47 2002.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N., Industrial Applications of Variable Neighbourhood Search, in Decision and Control in Management Science. (G. Zaccour eds.) pp. 261-274, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2001.
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Perez-Brito D. Variable neighborhood decomposition search, Journal of Heuristics 7 (4) 335-350, 2001.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood search: principles and applications (invited review) European Journal of Operational Research, 130, 449-467, 2001.
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Hansen P. and Mladenovic N. J-Means: A new local search heuristic for minimum sum-of-squares clustering, Pattern Recognition, 34 405-413, 2001.
Before 2001
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. An introduction to Variable neighborhood search, in: Metaheuristics, Advances and Trends in Local Search Paradigms for Optimization, (S. Voss {et al.} eds.), pp.433-458, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1999.
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Vujosevic M, Stanojevic M and Mladenovic N., Optimization methods, DOPIS, Belgrade, 1996. (in Serbian)
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Hansen P, Jaumard B and Mladenovic N. How to choose k entities among n, in: Partitioning Data Sets (I. Cox, P. Hansen, B. Julesz eds.) pp. 105-116, DIMACS, Rutgers, USA, 1994.
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Vuic S and Mladenovic N. Location-allocation theory and the problem of selecting a location for development of building-materials open pits, in Application of computers and Operations research in the mineral industry (Kim YC eds) pp. 137-143, Soc Mining Metalurgy & Exploration Inc., Littleton, 1992.
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Mladenovic N. Numerical methods in Fortran 77, ITRIS Belgrade, 1990 (in Serbian).
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Mladenovic N, Spasic V and Jovanovic N. Numerical methods, Tehnicka knjiga, Belgrade, 1986 (in Serbian).
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Mladenovic N. Nonlinear Programming, in book: Algorithms and Programs in Operations Research, S. Krcevinac at al., Naucna knjiga, Belgrade, 1983. (in Serbian)
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du Merle O, Hansen P, Jaumard B and Mladenovic N. An interior point algorithm for minimum sum of squares clustering, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 21, 1485-1505, 2000.
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Brimberg J, Hansen P, Mladenovic N, Taillard E. Improvements and Comparison of Heuristics for solving the Multisource Weber Problem, Operations Research, 48, 444-460, 2000.
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Mladenovic N, Plastria F. A note on Continuous p-defense-sum problems, Yugoslav J. Oper. Res 10, 299-302, 2000.
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Brimberg J and Mladenovic N. Degeneracy in the multi-source Weber problem, Mathematical Programming, 85, 13-220, 1999.
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Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Taillard E., Heuristic solution of the multisource Weber problem as a p-median problem, Operations Research Letters, 22, 55-62, 1998.
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Hansen P, Jaumard B, and Mladenovic N. Minimum sum of squares clustering in a low dimensional space, Journal of Classification, 15, 37-56, 1998.
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Perez D, Mladenovic N and Moreno P. A note on spanning trees for network location problems, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research , 8, 141-145, 1998.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Variable neighbourhood search for the p-median, Location Science, 5, 207-226, 1997.
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Mladenovic N and Hansen P. Variable neighbourhood search, Computers and Operations Research, 24, 1097-1100, 1997.
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Brimberg J and Mladenovic N. A variable neighbourhood algorithm for solving the continuous location-allocation problem, in: Studies in Location Analysis, Edited by D. Hamacher, pp.1-12, Athens, Greece, 1996.
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Brimberg J and Mladenovic N. Solving the continuous location - allocation problem with Tabu search, in: Studies in Location Analysis, Edited by C. Reeves, pp.23-32, Athens, Greece, 1996.
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Mladenovic N., Perez M, Vega J, A chain-interchange heuristic method, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 6, 41-54, 1996.
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Brimberg J and Mladenovic N. A descent-ascent technique for solving the multi-source Weber problem, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 5, 211-219, 1995.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. A comparison of algorithms for the maximum clique problem, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 2, 3-13, 1992.
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Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Two algorithms for maximum cliques in dense graphs, GERAD Report G-92-18, University of Montreal, Canada (1992) (accepted in European Journal of Operational Research).
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Petric J, Krcevinac S, Martic M and Mladenovic N. Some expirience in human nutrition and institutional menu planning and programming - models, solution methods, applications, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research , 2, 147-159, 1991.
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Mladenovic N and Petric J. Some properties of transportation manifold, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 1, 5-71, 1991.
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Permanent Positions
- 2005- : Reader School of Mathematics, Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom.
- 2005 : Senior Lecturer School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- 2002-2005 : Research Professor (Scientific canceller), Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Science, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
- 2000-2002 : Higher Scientific Associate, Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Science, Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
- 2000- : Associate Member of GERAD, (Group d'études et de recherche en analyse des décisions), University of Montreal, Canada.
- 1993-2000: Professional Researcher, GERAD, University of Montreal, Canada.
- 1988-1993: Associate professor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, for the following subjects: Optimization Models and Methods, Econometrics and Decision Making.
- 1985-1988: Assistant professor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade for Econometrics Methods and Decision Making.
- 1976-1985: Teacher at Mathematical High School (students 17-19 years old) for several subjects: Mathematical Modeling, Statistics, Computer Science, BASIC and FORTRAN, Cybernetics, Mathematical logic, Linear algebra.
Part-Time Positions
- 1992-1994 Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada;
- 1991-1992 Visiting Professor, GERAD, University of Montreal, Canada (sabbatical).
Visiting Positions
- 2008-2009 Visiting Professor, LAMIH-Recherche Operationnelle et Informatique, Universite de Valenciennes, France (2 times one month visit);
- 2003-2009 Visiting Professor, School of Management, Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada (seven times one month visit).
- 2002-2007 Visiting Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dept. of Management, Hong Kong (five times one month visit).
- 1999-2002 Visiting Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Princ Edwards Island, Canada (four times one month visit);
- 2001 Visiting Professor, Service de Mathématiques de la Gestion, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (three months);
- 1994-1996 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, University of La Laguna, Spain (three times one month visit);
Professional Activities
- Leadership, grants, awords,...
- Lecturing at in ASMaMod, the Advance School on Mathematical Modelling at IMUS held in Seville, June 22-26 (2009).
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique - France grant Global supply chain and constrained vehicle routing (2009).
- EPSRC small grant Variable neighborhood search for clustering and data mining (2008).
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant reviewer (2008-).
- Advisory Editorial Board Member of Elsevier journals (2008 --).
- Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews (AMS) (2007-)
- Reviewer of the several international journals such as Math Progr, INFORMS J on Computing, EJOR, JOGO, COR, JOH, OR Spectrum, JORS, DAM, etc.
- Leader of the scientific project "Mathematical optimization models and methods with applications" granted by the Serbian Ministry of Science (from 2002-2005);
- President of Yugoslav Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (from 2001-2005);
- Visiting member of GERAD , University of Montreal, Canada (from 2000 -);
- Winner of the International grant competition Research in Brussels, Service de Mathématiques de la Gestion, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 1998-1999 (nine months);
- Winner of 1999 award (with professor P. Hansen) for the best paper given by Yugoslav Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics;
- Vice-dean for Research, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1989-1991);
- Editorial Board member of
- International Journal of Metaheuristics (IJMHeur) (2008-);
- International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research (IJMOR) (2008-);
- Romai Journal (2006-)
- Computers and Operations Research (2005-);
- IeJEMTA (2005 -)
- Computer Science and Information System (COMSIS) (2003-);
- Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (1991-);
- Editor (special issues):
- European Journal of Operational Research Volume 191, Number 3 (2008) 593--1254;
- IMA Journal of Management Mathematics Volume 18, Number 2 (2007).
- Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research Volume 15, Number 1 (2005).
- Program Committee Member of the following conferences:
- Matheuristics workshop, to be held in Vienna (Austria) June 28 - 30, (2010);
- SDM09 - SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (2008);
- INCOM2009 - Matheuristics in Production and Logistics (2008);
- Balcan Conference of Operations Research (2007-);
- Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION II, LION III) (2007-);
- Matheuristics (2007-).
- Yugoslav Symposium of Operations Research (1990-) (OC chair in 1990 and PC chair in 2003 and in 2009);
- 18th Mini EURO conference on VNS (Nov. 2005) (PC chair);
- EURO Working Group Location Analysis (1986) (organizer of the 2nd meeting);
- Plenary or tutorial talks at the following conferences:
- XIV International Baikal Conference - Optimization methods and Applications, 2-8 July, Irkutsk-Severobaikalsk, Russia 2008;
- Discrete optimization and Operations Research (DOOR'07), 7-14 September, Vladivostok, Russia 2007;
- Workshop on "Data Mining and Mathematical Programming", October 10-13, Montreal, Canada 2006;
- Yugoslav Symposium of Operations Research (Sym-Op-Is'05), 27-30 September, V. Banja, Serbia 2005;
- Optimization methods and their applications, Irkutsk-Severobaikalsk, July, 2-8, Russia 2005.
- Discrete Analysis and Oper. Res. (DAOR'02), Novosibirsk, Russia 2002;
- Yugoslav Mathematical Congress, Belgrade, Yugoslavia 2001;
- 3rd Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC'99), Rio, Brasil 1999;
- 2nd Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC'97), Nice, France 1997;
- Yugoslav Symposium of Operations Research, D. Milanovac, Yugoslavia 1995;
- Industrial projects. Coordinator and member of more than 20 industrial projects. Some of them that lasted several years are:
- ULTRAMAR oil company - Pooling problem
- Hydro Quebec Unit commitment and spinning reserve problems.
- Human Nutrition problem: (a) for Yugoslav Army; (b) for hospitals; (c) for chains of hotels at Adriatic coast;
- AVIS Rent a car - complete IS for countries with a licence;
- Operations Research in Mining and Geology.
Research Interest
- Metaheuristic Methods (Variable Neighborhood Search, Tabu Search, etc.) in Combinatorial and Global Optimization;
- Numerical Algorithms and Mathematical Programming Methods.
- Location, Transportation, Clustering and Data Mining;
Education
- Doctorate in Mathematics (Operations Research), Faculty of Organisational Sciences,
University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988.
Thesis: New nonlinear programming methods with application in location, allocation and transportation problems
- MSc degree in Mathematics (Operations Research), Faculty of Organisational Sciences,
University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1982.
Thesis: Comparative analysis of some nonlinear programming methods
- BSc degree in Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics,
University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1976.
