Publications

Books, chapters, journal articles

    2012

  1. Xiao YY, Zhao QH, Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood simulated annealing algorithm for Capacitated vehicle routing problems (submitted).
  2. Consoli S, Mladenovic N and Moreno-Perez JA. Solving the minimum labelling spanning tree problem using intelligent optimization (submitted).
  3. Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Brimberg J. Sequential clustering with radius and split criteria (submitted).
  4. Almoustafa S, Hanafi S and Mladenovic N. Multistart branch and bound for large asymmetric distance-constrained vehicle routing problem (submitted).
  5. M'Hallah R, Alkandari A, Mladenovic N. Packing unit spheres into the smallest sphere using VNS and NLP (submitted).
  6. Nikolic N, Grujicic I, Mladenovic N. Level reduction algorithm for Covering Designs (submitted).
  7. Davidovic T, Lazic J, Maras V and Mladenovic N. Routing of barge container ships using MIP heuristics (submitted).
  8. Sheikh-Rajab R, Drazic M, Mladenovic N and Yu K. Fitting censored quantile regression by variable neighbourhood search (submitted).
  9. Lazic J, Mitra G, Mladenovic N and Zverovich V. Variable neighborhood decomposition search for the two-stage stochastic Mixed integer programming problem (submitted).
  10. Mladenovic N, Urosevic D and Hanafi S. Variable neighborhood search for the travelling deliveryman problem (in revision).
  11. Carrizosa E, Al-Guwaizani A, Hansen P, Mladenovic N. Degeneracy of harmonic means clustering (in revision).
  12. Jarboui B, Derbel H, Hanafi S and Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood search approaches for a Location routing problem (in revision).
  13. Zhao QH, Xiao YY, Mladenovic N. Local Search Meta-heuristics (in Chinese), Science Press, Beijing, China (in press), 2012.
  14. Duarte A, Escudero LF, Marti R, Mladenovic N, Pantrigo JJ, Sanchez-Oro J. Variable Neighborhood Search for the Vertex Separation Problem, Computers and Operations Research (Available online 18 April 2012).
  15. Mladenovic N, Kratica J, Kovacevic-Vujcic V, Cangalovic M. Metric dimension and related problems European J of Operational Research 220(2012) 328-337.
  16. Mladenovic N, Urosevic D, Hanafi S, Ilic A. A General variable neighborhood search for the One-commodity pickup-and-delivery travelling salesman problem, European J of Operational Research 220 (2012) 270-285.
  17. Carrizosa E, Drazic M, Drazic Z, Mladenovic N. Gaussian Variable Neighborhood Search for Continuous Optimization. Computers and Operations Research 39 (2012) 2206-2213.
  18. Zhao Q, Mladenovic N, and Urosevic D. A Parametric Simplex Search for Unconstrained Optimization Problem, Transactions on Advanced Research 8 (2012) 22-27.

    2011

  19. Carrizosa E, Mladenovic N, Todosijevic R. Sum-of-squares clustering on networks, Yugoslav Journal of Operations research 21 (2011) 157-161.
  20. Noble S, Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Maximizing edge-ratio is NP-hard. Discrete Applied Mathematics 159 (2011) 2276-2280.
  21. Liberti L, Mladenovic N and Nannicini G. A recipe for solving Mixed integer nonlinear programming problems, Mathematical Programming Computation 3 (2011) 349-390.
  22. 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.
  23. Alguwaizani A, Hansen P, Mladenovic N, Ngai E. Variable neighbourhood search for harmonic means clustering, Applied Mathematical Modelling 35 (2011) 2688–2694.
  24. 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

  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. Brimberg J, Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Attraction probabilities in variable neighborhood search 4OR 8 (2010) 181-194.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Moreno Pérez JA. Variable neighbourhood search: algorithms and applications Annals of Operations Research 175 (2010) 367-407.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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

  38. Hansen P, Mladenovic N. Variable neighborhood search methods, Encyclopedia of Optimization , 2nd Edition, (Floudas, Pardalos eds), (Part 22), pp 3975-3989, Springer 2009, doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-74759-0_694.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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

  46. 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.
  47. Hansen P, Mladenovic N and JA Moreno Pérez. Variable neighbourhood search: methods and applications (invited survey) 4OR, Vol 6 (2008) 319-360.
  48. Brimberg J, Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. Variable Neighborhood Search for the k-cardinality subgraph problem, Journal of Heuristics 14 (2008) 501–517.
  49. Mladenović 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.
  50. Hansen P, Mladenovic N, Jose A. Moreno Pérez. Variable neighborhood search European J of Operational Research 191 (2008) 593-595.
  51. Hansen P, Oguz C and Mladenović N. Variable neighborhood search for minimum cost berth allocation, European J of Operational Research 191 (2008) 636-649.
  52. 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.
  53. 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.
  54. Hansen P and Mladenovic N. Complement to a comparative analysis of heuristics for the p-median problem, Statistics and Computing 18 (2008) 41-44.
  55. 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.

    56. 2007

  56. 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.
  57. 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.
  58. Hansen P, Brimberg J, Urosević D and Mladenović N. Primal-dual variable neighborhood for the simple plant location problem, INFORMS J on Computing 19 (2007) 552-564.
  59. Mladenovic N. , Plastria F. and Urosevic D. Formulation space search for circle packing problems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4638 (2007) 212--216.
  60. Hansen P, Lazic J and Mladenovic N. Variable neighbourhood search for colour image quantization IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 18 (2007) 207--221.
  61. 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.

    62. 2006

  62. 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.
  63. Drazić M, Kovacević-Vujcić V, Cangalović M and Mladenović 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.
  64. 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.
  65. Mladenović 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.
  66. Hansen P and Mladenovic N. First vs best improvement: An empirical study. Discrete Applied Mathematics 154 (2006) 802-817.
  67. Hansen P Mladenović N and Urosevic D. Variable neighborhood search and local branching. Computers and Operations Research, 33 (2006) 3034-3045.
  68. 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.

    69. 2005

  69. 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.
  70. 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.
  71. Hansen P, Ngai E, Cheung B and Mladenović N. Analysis of global k-means, an incremental heuristic for minimum sum-of-squares clustering, Journal of Classification 22 (2005) 287-310.
  72. 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.
  73. Davidović T, Hansen P, Mladenović 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.
  74. 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.
  75. Mladenovic N, Plastria F and Urosević D. Reformulation descent applied to circle packing problems. Computers and Oper. Res. 32 (2005) 2419-2434.
  76. Desrosiers J, Mladenovic N and Villeneuve D. Design of balanced MBA student teams, Journal of Operational Research Society 56 (2005) 60-66

    77. 2004

  77. Mladenovi N Continuous Location, Mathematical Institute, SANU, Belgrade, Serbia, 2004. (in Serbian)
  78. Mladenovic N and Urosević 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.
  79. Hansen P, Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. Variable neighborhood search for the Maximum clique problem, Discrete Applied Math. 145 (2004) 117-125.
  80. 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.
  81. 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.
  82. Urosević 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.
  83. Crainic T, Gendreau M, Hansen P and Mladenović N. Cooperative parallel variable neighborhood search for the p-median, J. of Heuristics 10 (2004) 289--310.

    84. 2003

  84. Hansen P and Mladenovic N , Variable neighborhood search in Hanbook of Metaheuristics (Glover and Kochenberger eds.), pp. 145 --184, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2003.
  85. Mladenović N, Labbe M and Hansen P. Solving the p-Center problem with Tabu search and Variable neighborhood search Networks 42 (2003) 48-64.
  86. Mladenović N, Petrović J, Kovačević-Vujič ić V and Čangalović 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.
  87. Kochetov Y, Mladenović N and Hansen P. Lokalni poisk s chereduysimisy okrestnostyami, Diskretaja Matematika, 10 (2003) 11-43.
  88. Hansen P, Mladenović N and Moreno Perez J. Busqueda Entorno Variable, Artificial Inteligence 19 (2003) 77--92.
  89. Brimberg J, Hansen P, Lih K-W, Mladenović N and Breton M. An oil pipeline design problem Operations Research, 51 (2003) 228--239.
  90. Belacel N, Hansen P and Mladenović N. Fuzzy J-Means: a new heuristic for fuzzy clustering, Pattern Recognition 35 (2003) 2193--2200.

    91. 2002

  91. 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.
  92. Hansen P and Mladenović N., Variable Neighbourhood Search in Handbook of Applied Optimization,. (P. Pardalos and M. Resende eds.) pp. 221-234, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002.
  93. Hansen P and Mladenović 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.
  94. Hansen P, Mladenović N A separable approximation dynamic programming algorithm for economic dispatch with transmission losses, Yugoslav J. Oper. Res 12, 157--166, 2002.
  95. Brimberg J, Hansen P and Mladenović N. Reduction and reformulation of quadratic programs with equality constraints, Journal of Global Optimization, 22, 39--47 2002.

    96. 2001

  96. Hansen P and Mladenović 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.
  97. Hansen P, Mladenović N and Perez-Brito D. Variable neighborhood decomposition search, Journal of Heuristics 7 (4) 335-350, 2001.
  98. Hansen P and Mladenović N. Variable neighborhood search: principles and applications (invited review) European Journal of Operational Research, 130, 449-467, 2001.
  99. Hansen P. and Mladenović N. J-Means: A new local search heuristic for minimum sum-of-squares clustering, Pattern Recognition, 34 405-413, 2001.

    Before 2001

  100. Hansen P and Mladenović 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.
  101. Vujosević M, Stanojević M and Mladenović N., Optimization methods, DOPIS, Belgrade, 1996. (in Serbian)
  102. Hansen P, Jaumard B and Mladenović 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.
  103. 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.
  104. Mladenović N. Numerical methods in Fortran 77, ITRIS Belgrade, 1990 (in Serbian).
  105. Mladenović N, Spasić V and Jovanović N. Numerical methods, Tehnicka knjiga, Belgrade, 1986 (in Serbian).
  106. Mladenović N. Nonlinear Programming, in book: Algorithms and Programs in Operations Research, S. Krcevinac at al., Naucna knjiga, Belgrade, 1983. (in Serbian)
  107. du Merle O, Hansen P, Jaumard B and Mladenović N. An interior point algorithm for minimum sum of squares clustering, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 21, 1485-1505, 2000.
  108. Brimberg J, Hansen P, Mladenović N, Taillard E. Improvements and Comparison of Heuristics for solving the Multisource Weber Problem, Operations Research, 48, 444-460, 2000.
  109. Mladenović N, Plastria F. A note on Continuous p-defense-sum problems, Yugoslav J. Oper. Res 10, 299-302, 2000.
  110. Brimberg J and Mladenović N. Degeneracy in the multi-source Weber problem, Mathematical Programming, 85, 13-220, 1999.
  111. Hansen P, Mladenović N and Taillard E., Heuristic solution of the multisource Weber problem as a p-median problem, Operations Research Letters, 22, 55-62, 1998.
  112. Hansen P, Jaumard B, and Mladenović N. Minimum sum of squares clustering in a low dimensional space, Journal of Classification, 15, 37-56, 1998.
  113. Perez D, Mladenović N and Moreno P. A note on spanning trees for network location problems, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research , 8, 141-145, 1998.
  114. Hansen P and Mladenović N. Variable neighbourhood search for the p-median, Location Science, 5, 207-226, 1997.
  115. Mladenović N and Hansen P. Variable neighbourhood search, Computers and Operations Research, 24, 1097-1100, 1997.
  116. Brimberg J and Mladenović 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.
  117. Brimberg J and Mladenović 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.
  118. Mladenović N., Perez M, Vega J, A chain-interchange heuristic method, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 6, 41-54, 1996.
  119. Brimberg J and Mladenović N. A descent-ascent technique for solving the multi-source Weber problem, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 5, 211-219, 1995.
  120. Hansen P and Mladenović N. A comparison of algorithms for the maximum clique problem, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 2, 3-13, 1992.
  121. Hansen P and Mladenović 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).
  122. Petrić J, Krčevinac S, Martić M and Mladenović 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.
  123. Mladenović N and Petrić J. Some properties of transportation manifold, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 1, 5-71, 1991.

Articles in Edited Proceedings

  1. N. Mladenovic, Q. Zhao, D. Urosevic, P. Hansen. A note on simplex search method for optimization (plenary talk), Proc. of XIV Baikal International School "Optimization methods and their applications" (Math Programming), pp. 136-146, July, 2-8, 2008, Irkutsk-Severobaikalsk, Russia.
  2. Mladenovic N. Formulation space search – a new approach to optimization (plenary talk). Proc. of XXXII SYMOPIS’05, pp. 3 (Vuleta J. eds.), September 2005, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia.
  3. Plastria F, Mladenovic N and Urosevic D. Variable neighborhood formulation space search for circle packing. 18th Mini Euro Conference on VNS, November 2005, Tenerife, Spain
  4. V. Kovacevic-Vujicic, M. Cangalović, M. Drazić and N. Mladenović. VNS-based heuristics for continuous global optimization, in Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences (L. T. Hoai An and P. D. Tao eds.), pp. 215-222, Hermes Science Publishing Ltd, Paris.
  5. P. Hansen, Y. Kochetov and N. Mladenović. Lower bounds for the uncapacitated facility location problem with user preferences, Proc. 2nd International Workshop Discrete optimization methods in production and logistics, (V. Eremeev eds) pp. 50-55, Omsk-Irkutsk (2004).
  6. T. Davidović, P. Hansen and N. Mladenović. Neighborhood reduction in VNS for multiprocessor scheduling problem, Proceedings on 31th Yugoslav Symposium on Operations Research, (S. Vujić ed.), pp. 225-228, FruÜka Gora, Serbia (2004).
  7. T. Davidovic, N. Maculan, N. Mladenovic, Mathematical Programming Formulation for the Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem with Communication Delays, Proc. XXX Yug. Symp. on Oper. Res., N. Mladenovic, Dj. Dugosija (eds.) pp. 331-334, Herceg--Novi, Sept. 30-Oct. 03 (2003).
  8. N. Mladenovic, M. Drazic, M. Cangalovic, V. Kovacevic-Vujcic, Variable neighborhood search for global optimization, Proc. XXX Yug. Symp. on Oper. Res., N. Mladenovic, Dj. Dugosija (eds.) pp. 327 -- 330, Herceg-Novi, Sept. 30-Oct. 03 (2003).
  9. D. Urosevic, J. Brimberg, N. Mladenovic, Variable Neighborhood Decomposition Search for the Edge Veighted k-cardinality tree problem, Proc. XXIX Yugoslav Symposium on Operations Research, SYM-OP-IS 2002, J. Todorovic et al. pp. IX-9 -- IX-12, Tara, Oct. 9-12 (2002).
  10. Hansen P., N. Mladenović. Fundamentals of Variable Neighborhood Search (invited lecture) Proceedings of 10th congress of Yugoslav mathematicians, pp. 57-72, Edited by N. Bokan et al., Belgrade 2001.
  11. T. Davidović and N. Mladenovic. Genetic algorithms for task scheduling with communication delays, Proceedings of 10th congress of Yugoslav mathematicians, pp. 321-324, Edited by N. Bokan et al., Belgrade 2001.
  12. Mladenović N. and UroÜević D., Finding the minimum k-cardinality tree by basic VNS, Proceedings of 10th congress of Yugoslav mathematicians, pp. 361-364, Edited by N. Bokan et al., Belgrade 2001.
  13. Desrosiers J., N. Mladenović and D. Villenueve: Design of balnced MBA student teams, in Proceedings of 4th Metaheuristics International Conference, MIC'2001, Edited by J. Sousa, Porto, Portugal, July 2001.
  14. Crainic T., M. Gendreau, P. Hansen, N. Hoeb and N. Mladenović, Parallel VNS for the p -median, in Proceedings of 4th Metaheuristics International Conference, MIC'2001, Edited by J. Sousa, Porto, Portugal, July 2001.
  15. Davidović T., P. Hansen and N. Mladenović, VNS for multiprocessor scheduling with communication delaysö, in Proceedings of 4th Metaheuristics International Conference, MIC'2001, Edited by J. Sousa, Porto, Portugal, July 2001.
  16. Mladenović N. and D. UroÜević, VNS for the k-cardinality tree in Proceedings of 4th Metaheuristics International Conference, MIC'2001, Edited by J. Sousa, Porto, Portugal, July 2001.
  17. Hansen P. and N. Mladenović: Variable Neighbourhood Search: Methods and Recent Applications (plenary talk) in Proceedings of 3th Metaheuristics International Conference, MIC'99, Edited by C. Ribeiro and P. Hansen, Angos des Rios, Brasil, July 1999.
  18. T. Davidović and N. Mladenović: Variable Neighborhood search for task scheduling, Proceedings of XXVI Yugoslav Symposium of Operations Research, Edited by S. Krcevinac et al. pp. 195-198, Beograd 1999.
  19. Hansen P. and N. Mladenović: Variable Neighborhood Search: Principles and Applications, Proceedings of Tutorial talks at XVII European Conference of Operational Research, Brussels, Belgium, 1998.
  20. Hansen P. and N. Mladenović: Variable neighbourhood search: Principles and Extensions, Proceedings of XXV Yugoslav Symposium of Operations Research, Edited by R. Petrović and D. Radojević, pp.314-317, 1998.
  21. Hansen P., M. Martić and N. Mladenović: 2-Opt based Variable neighborhood search for TSP, Proceedings of XXIV Yugoslav Symposium of Operations Research, Edited by J. Vuleta, pp. 426-429, 1997.
  22. Hansen P. and N. Mladenović: An introduction to Variable neighborhood search, (plenary talk) in Proceedings of 2nd Metaheuristics International Conference, MIC'97, Sophia-Antipolis, France, Edited by C. Roucairol, pp. 9-11, 1997.
  23. Suknović M. and M. Cupić and N. Mladenović, Perspectives and Applications of Group Decision Support Systems Proceedings of 3rd Balkan Conference on Operational Research, Thessaloniki, Greece, Edited by J. Papatanasiu, and K. Paparrizos, pp.127-140, 1995.
  24. Gledhill R., W. Ellis and N. Mladenović, An improved VLSI heuristic for dynamic system job allocation, Proceedings of 2nd Balkan Conference on Operational Research, Thessaloniki, Greece, Edited by J. Papatanasiu, pp.960-965, 1993.
  25. Martić M., J. Petrić, S. Krcevinac and N. Mladenović, Knowledge based goal and heuristic programming in nutritional planning, Proceedings of 2nd Balkan Conference on Operational Research, Thessaloniki, Greece, Edited by J. Papatanasiu, pp. 267-280, 1993.
  26. Mladenović N., J. Petrić and R. Gledhill, Spanning tree and arborescence at random, Proceedings of 2nd Balkan Conference on Operational Research, Thessaloniki, Greece, Edited by J. Papatanasiu, pp.611-620, 1993.
  27. Vujić S. and N. Mladenović, Selecting Location for Development of the Building Materials of Open Pits, Procedeengs of XIX Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Belgrade, Edited by D. Teodorović pp.321-324, 1992.
  28. Vuic S and Mladenovic N. Selecting a location for development of building-materials open pits, in 23rd International Sym on the application of computers and Operations research in the mineral industry (APCOM), Tuscon, AZ, Apr 07-11, Edited by Kim YC, pp. 137-143, 1992.
  29. Vujić S, M. Grujić and N. Mladenović, Application of PROMETEE method in solving some mining problems, Proceedings of XVIII Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, pp. 323-326, 1991.
  30. Mladenović N., Weber problem with block semi-norm, Proceedings of XVII Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Edited by J. Petrić, et al., pp. 475-479, 1990.
  31. Mladenović N. and J. Petrić, Exterior point method for solving classical transportation problem, Proceedings of Modelling, Identification and Control, Edited by M. H. Hamza, pp.337-381, 1989.
  32. Stokić Z., N. Mladenović, I. Nikolić and J. Petrić, Project management in restauration of a steel factory, Proceedings of 1st Yugoslav symposium of organizational sciences, Edited by P. Kozić, pp 113-122, 1989.
  33. Martić M., N. Mladenović and J. Petrić, Information system for planning and programming of human nutrition, Proceedings of XVI Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Edited by D. Teodorović, pp.207-211, 1989.
  34. Mladenović N., Hill-climbing heuristic in solving location-allocation problem, Proceedings of XVI Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Edited by D. Teodorović, pp 475-479, 1989.
  35. Mladenović N. and J. Vidergar, Computer aided layout of diagrams used in network planning, Proceedings of XI international symposium "Computers at University", Edited by D. ®erić, pp 7.11.4 - 7.11.11, 1989.
  36. Mladenović N. and J. Petrić, Simulation in solving nonlinear allocation problems, Proceedings of XIII Yugoslav Symposium  on Information technologies, Book 2, pp. 263.1-263.4, 1989.
  37. Mladenović N. Information system AVIS - rent a car, Proceedings of XV Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Edited by R. Petrović, pp. 179-182, 1988.
  38. Mladenović N. A new method in solving convex allocation problem, Proceedings of X international symposium "Computer at University", Edited by D. ®erić, pp. 7.11.4 - 7.11.11, 1988.
  39. Petrić J. N. Mladenović and I. Nikolić, Optimization of plans for production, finishing process and distribution of hybrid corn seed, Proceedings of 1st Balkan conference on Operational research, Edited by T. Papathanasiu, pp. 415-426, 1988.
  40. Petrić J. and N. Mladenović, Models and solution methods for human nutrition problem, Proceedings of 1st Balkan conference on Operational research, Edited by T. Papathanasiu, pp. 19-24, 1988.
  41. Mladenović N. and J. Petrić, Projection of a point onto a classical transportation polyhedron, Proceedings of Modelling, Identification and Control, Grindelwald, Switzerland, Edited by M. Hamza pp. 406-409, 1987.
  42. Petrić J. and N. Mladenović, Solving of human nutrition problems by application of iterative variant of Monte-Carlo method and hyper-geometric distribution, Proceedings of Modelling, Identification and Control, Grindelwald, Switzerland, Edited by M. Hamza pp.139-142, 1987.
  43. Mladenović N. and J. Petrić, Choosing of p cooperative companies in production: p-median model, Proceedings of XI Yugoslav Symposium  Information Technologies, Sarajevo, pp. 326-332, 1987.
  44. Mladenović N. Number of copies of the book to be published - decision under uncertainty, Proceedings of XIII Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Herceg Novi, pp. 91-99, 1986.
  45. Jovanović M. and N. Mladenović, Modification of the elipsoid algorithm for Linear Programming, Proceedings of XIII Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Herceg Novi, pp. 81-90, 1986.
  46. Mladenović N. Nonlinear transportation problem, Proceedings XII Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Herceg Novi, pp. 1-8, 1985.
  47. Mladenović N. and J. Petrić, Heuristic methods in solving human nutrition problem, Proceedings of XI Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Herceg Novi, pp.143-151, 1984.
  48. Mladenović N Ranking of nonlinear programming methods - multi-atribute approach, Proceedings of X Yugoslav Symposium of Operational Research, Herceg Novi, pp.231-239, 1983.