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Ana Maria Rodrigues

Ana Maria Rodrigues

Sou Ana Maria Rodrigues, natural da Maia, distrito do Porto, licenciada em Matemática Aplicada e Computação pela Universidade de Aveiro, Mestre em Métodos Quantitativos Aplicados à Gestão pela Escola de Gestão do Porto da Universidade do Porto (UP) e Doutorada, desde 2014, em Engenharia Industrial e Gestão pela Faculdade de Engenharia da UP com a tese intitulada “Sectores e Rotas na Recolha de Resíduos Sólidos Urbanos”.

Presentemente, sou Professora Adjunta no Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ISCAP-PPorto), onde exerço funções desde Dezembro de 1998, e investigadora no INESC TEC – CESE.

Tenho especial interesse de investigação em problemas de otimização combinatória em particular problemas de setorização e problemas de localização e rotas. 

Projects

StoSS

Sectorization Problems (SP) often arise related to geographical issues, dividing a large region into smaller regions respecting specific conditions. Examples include designing political districts, sales territories or health care and policing zones, or determining Municipal Waste Collection (MWC) and street cleaning zones or locating schools and maintaining operations. The main objectives of Project StoSS are the study and in depth analysis of SP and the development of a decision support system (DSS) which, by taking into account criteria and constraints identified by a decision maker (AD), suggests an appropriate sectorization. The DSS should have the capability to deal with diverse types of SP, implying that the project will consider different applications and learn from them. However, and due to the team's experience, particularly in previous projects, special emphasis will be placed on environmental transport problems, associated with MWC. With such vast and relevant applications, SP study is of great interest to society and to science. Solving SP is a difficult assignment and the methods used are generally very dependent on the application, as the publications in the area illustrate. The approaches described range from the exact ones, using mathematical programming, to general and/or dedicated heuristics. In a first phase, StoSS proposes to analyze a set of SP already referenced in the literature and to describe others that, not considered as such, can benefit from a sectorization approach - dividing a large problem into smaller problems. This study will allow analyzing, structuring and characterizing SP, as well as existing and potential real applications. Subsequently, StoSS will dedicate special attention to the evaluation of the quality of the sectors. For such, a multiple criteria approach will be followed, because various criteria are normally involved, and changing according to the applications. However, some criteria are common to several cases, meaning that they should be contemplated earlier in the construction of the sectors. Examples are the Equilibrium (parts as identical portions of the whole), the Compactness (regular forms like circles avoiding "tentacles") and the Contiguity (sector divided into portions are avoid). The project will also envisage a procedure, integrated in the DSS, that may allow a comparison of the qualities of sectors obtained by different methods, what usually is very difficult to do. The establishment of general quality measures may achieve this. Besides considering typical measures, others associated with different criteria will be suggested to reflect the purpose of DA. This procedure will introduce the DA as a fundamental actor of the process. The work will culminate in the development of a DSS that will allow solving a wide range of PS, according to the specific purposes and needs of a DA, who is welcome to participate in the resolution procedure.

Sectorization to simplify and solve

PortoAmbiente

The project deals with a first part - PHASE I - of a more complete proposal. PHASE I: Survey of requirements and description of the current operation in Baixa and Ribeira (pilot areas) Collection and processing of data from the “As Is” situation of the pilot areas. Identification and description of the current situation of the pilot areas. In this phase, all the requirements and constraints inherent to the operation of collecting urban waste in commercial establishments will be detailed, analyzing not only what is currently done but also the possible alternatives. All the resources that can be used will have to be described, as well as their specifications and the advantages and disadvantages associated with each one. Identification of the scenarios to be analyzed in Phase II.

ESTUDO SOBRE A RECOLHA SELETIVA DE RESÍDUOS URBANOS COMERCIAIS
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Publications

Many-objective sectorization for last-mile delivery optimization: A decision support system

Torres, G;Fontes, T;Rodrigues, AM;Rocha, P;Ribeiro, J;Ferreira, JS;

2024

EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS

How to know it is "the one"? Selecting the most suitable solution from the Pareto optimal set. Application to sectorization

Öztürk, EG;Rodrigues, AM;Ferreira, JS;Oliveira, CT;

2024

OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND DECISIONS

D3S: Decision support system for sectorization

Öztürk, EG;Rocha, P;Rodrigues, AM;Ferreira, JS;Lopes, C;Oliveira, C;Nunes, AC;

2024

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Parcel Delivery Services: A Sectorization Approach with Simulation

Lopes, C;Rodrigues, AM;Ozturk, E;Ferreira, JS;Nunes, AC;Rocha, P;Oliveira, CT;

2023

OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, IO 2022-OR

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Supervised theses

Automatic detection of gastric precancerous lesions on endoscopy images

Ana Sofia Correia Ferreira

M - 2022

UTAD-ECT