| Publications: |
| Work in Progress |
| [?] |
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado.
Computational experience with a reactive GRASP for a large
scale commercial territory design problem from the beverage
distribution industry.
February 2008 (submitted).
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| Book Chapters |
| Journal Papers |
| [1] |
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and E. Fernández.
A reactive GRASP for a sales territory design problem with multiple balancing requirements.
Computers & Operations Research, 36(3):755-776, 2009.
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| [2] |
E. Fernández, J. Kalcsics, S. Nickel, and
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado.
A novel maximum dispersion territory design model arising in the
implementation of the WEEE-directive.
Journal of the Operational Research Society, 61(3):503-514, 2010.
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| [3] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and J. L. González-Velarde.
A bi-objective programming model for
designing compact and balanced territories in commercial
districting.
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 19(5):885-895, 2011.
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| [4] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and M. Cabrera-Ríos.
New models
for commercial territory design.
Networks and Spatial Economics, 11(3):487-507, 2011.
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| [5] |
Jaime Cano-Belmán, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and M. A. Salazar-Aguilar.
Commercial territory
design for a distribution firm with
new constructive and destructive heuristics.
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 5(1):126-147, 2012.
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| [6] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, J. L. González-Velarde,
and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado.
A divide-and-conquer
approach to commercial territory design.
Computación y Sistemas, 16(3):309-320, 2012.
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| [7] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
J. L. González-Velarde, and J. Molina.
Multiobjective
scatter search for a commercial territory design problem.
Annals of Operations Research, 199(1):343-360, 2012.
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| [8] |
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and J. F. López-Pérez.
Commercial territory
design planning with realignment and disjoint assignment requirements.
Omega, 41(3):525-535, 2013.
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| [9] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and J. L. González-Velarde
GRASP strategies for a bi-objective commercial territory design problem.
Journal of Heuristics, 19(2):179-200, 2013.
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| Magazine Articles |
| [10] |
R. Flores Rivas and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado.
Estudio computacional sobre un problema de
división de territorios comerciales.
Ingenierías, 12(42):41-47, 2009.
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| [11] |
N. Solis García, R. Z. Ríos Mercado,
and A. M. Álvarez Socarrás.
Modelando sistemas
territoriales con programación entera
Ingenierías, 12(44):7-15, 2009.
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| [12] |
D. R. Quevedo Orozco and R. Z. Ríos Mercado.
Uso de búsqueda tabú en la
solución del problema de asignación cuadrática.
Ingenierías, 13(48):40-48, 2010.
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| Conference Proceedings Papers |
| [13] |
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and E. Fernández.
A GRASP for a sales territory design problem with multiple balancing
planning criteria.
In Proceedings of the XIII Latin Ibero American Conference on Operations,
CD-ROM ISBN: 9974-7699-9-X. Montevideo, Uruguay, November 2006.
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| [14] |
S. I. Caballero Hernández, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and
F. López.
Solución heurística a un
problema de diseño de territorios comerciales con restricciones
de asignación conjunta mediante GRASP.
In E. Alba, F. Chicano, F. Herrera, F. Luna, G. Luque, and
A. J. Nebro (editors), Proceedings of the I Spanish Meeting on
Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics (JAEM'07), pp. 145-153.
Zaragoza, Spain, September 2007.
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| [15] |
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado.
Computational experience with a reactive GRASP for a large
scale commercial territory design problem.
In M. J. Geiger and W. Habenicht (editors), Proceedings of EU/ME 2007
"Metaheuristics in the Service Industry", pp. 72-79. ISBN: 978-3-00-022976-3.
Stuttgart, Germany, October 2007.
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| [16] |
S. I. Caballero-Hernández, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
F. López, and S. E. Schaeffer.
Empirical evaluation of a metaheuristic
for commercial territory design with joint assignment constraints.
In J.E. Fernandez, S. Noriega, A. Mital, S.E. Butt, and T.K. Fredericks (editors),
Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Industrial
Engineering Theory, Applications, and Practice (IJIE'07), pp. 422-427.
ISBN: 978-0-9654506-3-8. Cancun, Mexico, November 2007.
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| [17] |
J. A. Segura-Ramiro, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
A. M. Álvarez-Socarrás, and K. de Alba Romenus.
A location-allocation heuristic for
a territory design problem in a beverage distribution firm.
In J.E. Fernandez, S. Noriega, A. Mital, S.E. Butt, and T.K. Fredericks (editors),
Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Industrial
Engineering Theory, Applications, and Practice (IJIE'07), pp. 428-434.
ISBN: 978-0-9654506-3-8. Cancun, Mexico, November 2007.
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| [18] |
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
E. Fernández, J. Kalcsics, and S. Nickel.
Computational experience with GRASP for a maximum dispersion
territory design problem.
In Proceedings of EU/MEeting 2009, pp. 89-94,
Porto, Portugal, April 2009.
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| [19] |
D. L. Huerta Muñoz, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
E. Schaeffer, and R. Ruiz.
Diseño de planes
eficientes para la segmentación de clientes
con múltiples atributos.
In J. C. Leyva López (editor), Proceedings of the
XIV Latin-American Summer School on Operations Research
(ELAVIO'09). Paper 5-3, pp. 1-5. ISBN: 978-607-7834-02-01.
El Fuerte, Mexico, August 2009.
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| [20] |
J. R. Maldonado Flores and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado.
Búsqueda tabú
para un problema de diseño territorial de máxima
dispersión.
In J. C. Leyva López (editor), Proceedings of the
XIV Latin-American Summer School on Operations Research
(ELAVIO'09). Paper 21-3, pp. 1-4. ISBN: 978-607-7834-02-01.
El Fuerte, Mexico, August 2009.
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| [21] |
J. C. Salazar Acosta and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado.
Diseño de
territorios comerciales con costos de ruteo.
In J. C. Leyva López (editor), Proceedings of the
XIV Latin-American Summer School on Operations Research
(ELAVIO'09). Paper 16-3, pp. 1-5. ISBN: 978-607-7834-02-01.
El Fuerte, Mexico, August 2009.
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| [22] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and J. L. González-Velarde.
Procedimiento GRASP
multiobjetivo para el diseño de territorios
comerciales.
In J. C. Leyva López (editor), Proceedings of the
XIV Latin-American Summer School on Operations Research
(ELAVIO'09). Paper 10-2, pp. 1-6. ISBN: 978-607-7834-02-01.
El Fuerte, Mexico, August 2009.
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| [23] |
D. L. Huerta-Muñoz, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and R. Ruiz.
A heuristic approach to
a market segmentation problem with multiple attributes.
In J. M. Sautto Vallejo, R. Peña Galeana,
P. Baldivia Noyola, and N. I. Peña Galeana (editors),
Proceedings of the 3rd Latin-Iberian-American Workshop on
Operations Research (TLAIO3). Paper 073107, pp. 1-56.
ISBN: 978-607-7760-20-7. Acapulco, Mexico, October 2009.
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| [24] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
J. L. González-Velarde, and J. Molina.
Diseño de
territorios comerciales con múltiples objetivos
In Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the Ibero-american
Network on Multicriteria Decision and Evaluation (RED-M'09),
pp. 1-4. ISBN: 978-970-764-849-4.
Zapopan, Mexico, November 2009.
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| [25] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and J. L. González-Velarde.
GRASP strategies for a
bi-objective commercial territory design problem.
In B. Melián Batista, J. A. Moreno Pérez,
and E. Carrizosa Priego (editors),
Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Metaheuristics
for Logistic Planning (MHIPL), pp. 63-74.
Sevilla, Spain, November 2009.
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| [26] |
J. R. Maldonado Flores and R. Z. Ríos Mercado.
Búsqueda tabú
para un problema de diseño territorial con
máxima dispersión.
In V. Campos, A. Duarte, M. Gallego, F. Gortázar, and R. Martí
(editors),
Proceedings of the VII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics,
Evolutionary and Bioinspired Algorithms, pp. 751-757.
ISBN: 978-84-92812-58-5. Valencia, Spain, September 2010 (In Spanish).
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| [27] |
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and J. C. Salazar-Acosta.
A GRASP with strategic oscillation
for a commercial territory design problem with a routing
budget constraint.
In I. Batyrshin and G. Sidorov (editors), MICAI 2011, Part II,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7095, pp. 307--318.
Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.
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| Thesis |
| [28] |
S. I. Caballero Hernández.
Un Procedimiento de Búsqueda Voraz Aleatorizado y
Adaptativo para el Diseño Eficiente de
Territorios de Atención Comercial con
Requerimientos de Asignacióon Conjunta.
Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL,
May 2008.
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| [29] |
N. Solis García.
Evaluación de la Calidad de Métodos de
Optimización Exacta para Modelos de Diseño
Territorial.
Lic. (BS) thesis, School of Physics and Mathematics, UANL,
June 2008.
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| [30] |
J. A. Segura Ramiro.
Un Algoritmo de Localización-Asignación para el
Diseño Eficiente de Planes Territoriales de Uso Comercial.
Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL,
June 2008.
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| [31] |
D. L. Huerta Muñoz.
Diseño de Planes Eficientes para la Segmentación de
Clientes con Múltiples Atributos.
Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL,
July 2009.
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| [32] |
J. C. Salazar Acosta.
Diseño de Territorios Comerciales con Costos de Ruteo.
Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL,
July 2009.
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| [33] |
M. A. Salazar Aguilar.
Models, Algorithms, and Heuristics for Multiobjective
Commercial Territory Design.
Doctoral dissertation, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL,
May 2010.
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| [34] |
M. G. Elizondo Amaya.
Un Esquema de Acotamiento Dual para un Problema de Diseño
Territorial.
Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL,
July 2010.
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| [35] |
J. R. Maldonado Flores.
Un Método de Búsqueda Tabú con
Oscilación Estratégica para la Optimización de
Diseño de Zonas de Recolección de Aparatos
Electrodomésticos.
Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL,
July 2010.
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| Technical Reports |
| [36] |
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and E. Fernández.
A reactive GRASP for a sales territory design problem with multiple balancing requirements.
Technical Report PISIS-2006-12, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering,
UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, September 2006.
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| [37] |
E. Fernández, J. Kalcsics, S. Nickel, and
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado.
A novel territory design model arising in the
implementation of the WEEE-directive.
Technical Report PISIS-2008-03, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering,
UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, October 2008.
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| [38] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and M. Cabrera-Ríos.
New models
for commercial territory design.
Technical Report PISIS-2009-07, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering,
UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, December 2009.
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| [39] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and J. L. González-Velarde.
Constructing
efficient commercial territory design plans
for a beverage distribution firm with a bi-objective
programming model.
Technical Report PISIS-2009-08, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering,
UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, December 2009.
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| [40] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and J. L. González-Velarde.
GRASP strategies for a bi-objective commercial territory design problem.
Technical Report PISIS-2010-01, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering,
UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, January 2010.
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| [41] |
Jaime Cano-Belmán, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
and M. A. Salazar-Aguilar.
Commercial territory
design for a distribution firm with
new constructive and destructive heuristics.
Technical Report PISIS-2010-02, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering,
UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, February 2010.
|
| [42] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado,
J. L. González-Velarde, and J. Molina
Multiobjective
scatter search for a commercial territory design problem.
Technical Report PISIS-2010-04, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering,
UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, September 2010.
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| [43] |
M. A. Salazar-Aguilar, J. L. González-Velarde,
and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado.
A divide-and-conquer
approach to commercial territory design.
Technical Report PISIS-2010-05, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering,
UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, December 2010.
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| [44] |
R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and J. F. López-Pérez.
Commercial territory
design planning with realignment and disjoint assignment requirements.
Technical Report PISIS-2011-06, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering,
UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, May 2011.
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