Organizing Conference

  • International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL 2022), September 21-23, 2022 Barcelona, Spain.
  • 12th Metaheuristics International Conference, MIC’2017, 2017, Barcelona, Spain.
  • International Conference on Risk Analysis ICRA6 / RISK 2015, May 26-29, 2015, Barcelona, Spain. (Organization Committee).
  • 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, July 13-18, 2014, Barcelona, Spain. (IFORS 2014) (Co-Chair of the Organization Committee .

Conference Presentations

(just more recent and relevant ones)

  • "The rich heterogeneous dial-a-ride problem with trip time”. 53rd Annual Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) Conference. 25-28 August 2024, Skukuza, South Africa.

  • “Optimizing the door-to-door transport of people with reduced mobility in the city of Barcelona” (invited talk and chair of the session “Metaheuristics for Social Impact”). The 23rd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2023), July 10-15, 2023, Santiago, Chile.

  • “Optimization for Helping Vulnerable Groups”, SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23), May 31 - June 3, 2023, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Invited talk (Analytics for a Better World).

  • “Optimization for Social Good”, 51st Annual Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA 2022). Invited Conference Tutorial. September 11-14, 2022, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • “Iterated Local Search: Applications and Extensions” Invited Speaker at workshop organized by the Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA), September 11, 2022, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • “Optimization for Societal Impact” French German Portuguese 2022 Optimization Conference, September 7-10, 2022, Porto, Portugal. Invited Keynote Speaker.

  • “Optimization in Assistive Technology programs: case study “Banc de Moviments” in Barcelona”, INFORMS Healthcare Conference 2021, July 21-23, 2021, Online, Indianapolis, USA.

  • “Routing Solutions to help in Pandemic Outbreaks: A Case Study”, 31st European Conference in Operational Research (EURO 2021), July 11-14 , 2021, Athens, Greece.  Watch VIDEO (time 5:04:45).

  • “Home Health and Social Care: Operations Research Applications” the 52nd Brazilian Society of Operations Research (SOBRAPO), November 3-5, 2020, João Pessoa, Brazil. Invited Plenary Speaker.  Watch VIDEO

  • “A Simulation-based Iterated Local Search for The In-house Logistics Routing Problem” INFORMS 2019 Annual Meeting (INFORMS 2019), October 20-23, 2019, Seattle, Washington, USA.

  • “Internal Logistics Routing Optimization” XIII Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2019), July 28-31, 2019, Cartagena, Colombia.

  • “Iterated Local Search: Applications and Extensions” the 8th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), February 19 – 21, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.“  Watch VIDEO, Invited Plenary Speaker. “Iterated Local Search and Applications” Metaheuristics Summer School – from Design to Implementation – MESS 2018, 21-25 July 2018, Achireale Italy (invited Speaker). 

  • “From ILS to Hybrid ILS … and other extensions” in 10th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, June 8-10, 2016, Plymouth, UK. (HM 2016). Invited Plenary Speaker.