The Operations Research field has its origins decades ago by early attempts to implement scientific approaches in the management of organizations having to deal with different problems such as:
- Manufacturing: optimization, distribution, supply chain management.
- Transportation, infrastructure and logistics.
- Energy, power systems, cost/benefit generation.
- Construction: eficiente use of materials and man-hours.
- Telecommunications: networks, radars, “bundling“.
- Planning and Production Control: the planning of production and manufacturing modules in a company or industry.
- Finance: financial return, risk analysis.
- Health: allocation of scarce resources, control of diseases such as dengue fever and other infectious diseases.
- Military sector: the need to allocate scarce resources to various military operations and internal activities of each operation.
- Layout: analysis of the relative position of the departments, sections or offices within the set of a factory, workshop or manual desktop besides intellectual or within each department or section.
The Group of Operations Research (Operations Research) at the University of Brasilia has dealt with different projects involving the fields mentioned above. The following projects already undertaken in these fields, among other ones, can be highlighted:
- Models of derivatives for risk analysis of transmission lines financing.
- Financial models to determine “triggering times” (best time to invest) and the return on investment in Transmission lines.
- Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in the transportation systems and, the dynamic control of traffic congestion.
- Risk analysis of the financing of new infrastructure projects in the transport system.
- E-Commerce and Business to Business (B2B): effects of E-Commerce applications in the logistics sector.
Talks and Selected Publications:
Talks and in the News.
- A Cost Reduction Model for the Management of Pipe Cars in the Brazilian Northeast, R. C. Garcia, M. G. Costa, D. Samy, A. L. Oliveira, C. Neumann and R. M. Balduíno, presented in the TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA, USA, November 2019.
- A Cost Reduction Model for the Management of Pipe Cars in the Brazilian Northeast, R. C. Garcia, and A. L. Oliveira, interview (in portuguese) given for the Brazilian Television Network Record, April 19, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjLrR0jMpU4
- A partnership project between the University of Brasilia and Finatec mitigates the problem of water distribution in the Brazilian Northeast communities (in portuguese), news published in June, 2019: https://www.finatec.org.br/noticias/projeto-da-unb-e-finatec-facilita-a-distribuicao-de-agua-em-municipios-nordestinos
- The research reduces the costs of the pipe cars project, O Estado, news published in May 06, 2019: https://www.oestadoce.com.br/geral/projeto-otimiza-percursos-dos-carros-pipa/
- Conflict Detection and Resolution with Local Search Algorithms for 4D-Navigation in ATM, V. F. Ribeiro, H. T.A. Rodrigues, V. B. F., L. Weigang and R. C. Garcia, ISDA – 2018 Conference, Velore, India, December 2018.
- Finding multiple equilibria in a dynamic energy bilateral contract scheduling, R.C.Garcia, J. Contreras, M. Barbosa, B. Macedo, D. Monteiro, TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, November 2018.
- Feasibility analysis of the implementation of a High Speed Rail Line, R.C.Garcia, R. V. G. Vianna, A.Goulart presented in the TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, November 2018.
- Analysis of the Waste of a Lean Service in a Consulting Enterprise, T.C.P. Ribeiro, A. Affonso Neto, C. Neumann, presented in XXV SIMPEP, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2018.
- Analysis of the Waste of Central Concrete Plants: a Case Study, H. D. Souza, R.C. Garcia, A. Affonso Neto, presented in XXV SIMPEP, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2018.
- Applying a Game Theory approach for a Dynamic Energy Bilateral contract scheduling, R.C.Garcia, . J.Contreras, J., J. E. C. S. Custodio, P. Vinicius, F. Toledo and M. Barbosa presented in the TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Houston, Texas, USA, October 2017.
- Applying the Modern Portfolio Theory for a Dynamic Energy Portfolio Allocation in the Electricity Markets, R.C.Garcia, . J.Contreras, J., J. E. C. S. Custodio and V. González presented in the TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, November 2016.
- A Dynamic Garch Model for Energy Portfolio Allocation in Electricity Markets, R.C.Garcia, . J.Contreras, J., J. E. C. S. Custodio and V. González presented in the TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 2015.
Selected Publications and Patents.
- Raiffa-Kalai-Smorodinski Bargaining Solution for Bilateral Contracts in Electricity Markets, R. C. Garcia, J. Contreras, M.L. Barbosa, F.S. Toledo, P. V. A. Cunha, Energies Journal, 13, 2397, 2020.
- Detecting Violation of Aircraft Separation Requirements, I. R. de Oliveira, V. F. Ribeiro, L. Weigang and R. C. Garcia, The Boeing Company and the University of Brasilia (applicants), United States Patent, Patent No. US 10,553.121 B1, Feb. 4, 2020.
- Conflict Detection and Resolution with Local Search Algorithms for 4D-Navigation in ATM, V. F. Ribeiro, H. T.A. Rodrigues, V. B. F., L. Weigang and R. C. Garcia, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp.129-139, April 14, 2019.
- Stable two-sided matching of slot allocation in airport collaborative decision making by top trading cycles mechanism, M.A.S. Souza, L. Weigang, R.C.Garcia, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, Vol. 31, Issue 3, 534-545, March 2018.
- Applying modern portfolio theory for a dynamic energy portfolio allocation in electricity markets, R.C.Garcia, V. González, J.Contreras and J. E. S. C. Custodio, Electric Power Systems Research 150, 11–23, 2017.
- Development of a Feasibility model for a High Speed Rail Line, R.C.Garcia, A.Goulart, T. C. Veiga, L. V. Cunha and M. Vilarindo, Transport Literature Journal 10,2, 20-24, 2015.
- Transmission Assets Investment Timing Using Net Present Value Curves, R.C.Garcia, Contreras, P.F. Correia, Muñoz, J.I. Energy Policy 38, pp. 598-605, 2010.
- A Framework for Assessing Public Private Partnerships, D. Levinson, R.C.Garcia, K.Carlson, Institutions and Sustainable Transport – Regulatory Reform in Advanced Economies, Piet Rietveld and Roger Stough, (eds.), Ch. 13, 285-304, Edgar Blücher Inc, July 2007.
- A Garch Forecasting Model to Predict Day-Ahead Electricity Prices, R.C.Garcia, Contreras, M.van Akkeren and J.B.C.Garcia, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Journal 20, 2, 867-874, May 2005.
- A Pareto Improving Strategy for the Time-Dependent Morning Commute Problem, C.F. Daganzo and R. C. Garcia, Transportation Science Journal, 34, 303-312, 2000.