RZRM: Research
Optimization of Environment-Oriented Territory Design Systems
Funding: SEP-CONACYT, Basic Research Project Program (Grant No. CB-2011-01-166397, 2012-2015 + 2)
UANL, Scientific and Technological Research Support Program (Grant No. IT511-10, 2011-2012)
(Grant No. CE728-11, 2012-2013)
(Grant No. CE331-15, 2016-2017)
Dates: 2011 - 2015 (2017)
People: Principal Investigator:
Dr. Roger Z. Ríos (PISIS, UANL)

Collaborators:
Dra. Ada M. Álvarez (PISIS, UANL)
Dra. Angélica Salazar (CIRRELT, Canada)
Dra. Elena Fernández (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Dra. Elisa Schaeffer (FIME, UANL)
Dr. Fabián López (Grupo ARCA, Monterrey)
Dr. Franciso Rodríguez y Silva (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain)
Dr. Hugo J. Escalante (INAOE)
Dr. Jaime Cano (Institute for Supply Chain Management - Procurement and Logistics, Germany)
Dr. José L. González (Tec de Monterrey)
Dr. Juan A. Díaz (UDLA, Mexico)
Dr. Julián Molina (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Dra. Karla B. Valenzuela (Tec de Monterrey - Toluca)
Dr. Mauricio Cabrera-Ríos (U of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico)
Dr. Óscar A. Aguirre (FCF, UANL)
Dr. Rubén Ruiz (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
M.C. Diana L. Huerta (UPC, Spain)

Postdoctoral Research Associate:
Gabriela García (Tec de Monterrey)

Graduate Research Assistants:
Minerva A. Díaz (PISIS, UANL)
B. Adriana Esparza (PISIS, UANL)
Carlos Beltrán (PISIS, UANL)
Andrés Castrillón (PISIS, UANL)
Mónica G. Elizondo (PISIS, UANL)
Ana L. González (PISIS, UANL)
Dagoberto R. Quevedo (PISIS, UANL)
Emmanuel Herrera (Tec de Monterrey)
Luis A. Maltos (PISIS, UANL)
Rodolfo Mendoza (Tec de Monterrey - Toluca)

Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Brenda A. Peña (FIME, UANL)
Sanzon Mendoza (UMSNH)

Publications:
Work in Progress
[?] R. Mendoza-Gómez, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and K. B. Valenzuela-Ocaña. TBA. June 2017 (submitted).
[?] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, J. L. González-Velarde, and J. R. Maldonado-Flores. TBA. May 2017 (submitted).
[?] R. Mendoza-Gómez, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and K. B. Valenzuela-Ocaña. TBA. Aug 2016 (submitted).
Book Chapters
[1] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado. Metaheuristics for natural gas pipeline networks. In R. Martí, P. Pardalos, and M. G. C. Resende (editors), Handbook of Heuristics, pp. 1-19, ISBN: 978-3-319-07153-4. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2017.
Journal Papers
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] J. F. López-Pérez and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado. Embotelladoras ARCA uses operations research to improve territory design plans. Interfaces, 43(3):209-220, 2013.
[6] 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.
[7] M. G. Elizondo-Amaya, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and J. A. Díaz. A dual bounding scheme for a territory design problem. Computers & Operations Research, 44:193-205, 2014.
[8] D. R. Quevedo-Orozco and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado. Improving the quality of heuristic solutions for the capacitated vertex p-center problem through iterated greedy local search and variable neighborhood descent. Computers & Operations Research, 62:133-144, 2015.
[9] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and H. J. Escalante. GRASP with path relinking for commercial districting. Expert Systems with Applications, 44:102-113, 2016.
[10] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado. Assessing a metaheuristic for large scale commercial districting. Cybernetics and Systems, 47(4):321-338, 2016.
[11] D. L. Huerta-Muñoz, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and R. Ruiz. An iterated greedy heuristic for a market segmentation problem with multiple attributes. European Journal of Operational Research, 261(1):75-87, 2017.
Magazine Articles
[12] 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.
[13] B. A. Peña Cantú, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and H. J. Escalante. Comparación de métricas de dispersión en optimización de sistemas territoriales. Ingenierías, 15(55):23-31, 2012.
[14] S. Mendoza Armenta, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and M. A. Díaz Romero. Optimizando el despliegue de recursos en el ataque a un incendio forestal: Un caso exitoso de la investigación de operaciones. Ingenierías, 15(55):58-64, 2012.
[15] R. Z. Ríos Mercado, M. A. Salazar Aguilar, and M. Cabrera Ríos. Formulaciones y técnicas exactas de solución para el diseño óptimo de territorios comerciales. Ciencia UANL, 16(62):46-55, 2013.
[16] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and J. F. López-Pérez. Planificando sistemas territoriales comerciales en gran escala mediante modelos y métodos de programación entera. Ingenierías, 17(65):6-14, 2014.
[17] R. Z. Ríos Mercado. Mejorando la planificación de sistemas territoriales con optimización metaheurística. Nova Scientia, 7(15):81-95, 2015.
[18] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and J. F. López-Pérez. Planificación inteligente de territorios comerciales bajo requerimientos de realineación y asignación disjunta. Ciencia UANL, 18(71):91-101, 2015.
Conference Proceedings Papers
[19] B. A. Peña Cantú, R. Z. Ríos Mercado, and H. J. Escalante. Comparación de métricas en sistemas territoriales. In Proceedings of the VII FIME Conference on Industrial and Systems Engineering, pp. 36-49. San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, September 2011 (in Spanish).
[20] A. Castrillón Escobar, R. Z. Ríos Mercado, and A. M. Álvarez Socarrás. Experiencia computacional con un algoritmo de localización-asignación para un problema de optimización de sistemas territoriales. In Proceedings of the VII FIME Conference on Industrial and Systems Engineering, pp. 99-109. San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, September 2011 (in Spanish).
[21] C. Beltrán Pérez, R. Z. Ríos Mercado, and O. A. Aguirre Calderón. Un problema de gestión forestal con requerimientos de adyacencia de rodales. In Proceedings of the VII FIME Conference on Industrial and Systems Engineering, pp. 189-201. San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, September 2011 (in Spanish).
[22] B. A. Rivera Aguilar, R. Z. Ríos Mercado, and M. A. González Tagle. Un procedimiento de asignación de recursos para un problema estocástico de incendios forestales. In Proceedings of the VII FIME Conference on Industrial and Systems Engineering, pp. 202-212. San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, September 2011 (in Spanish).
[23] 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), Advances in Soft Computing: Proceedings of the 10th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2011), Part II, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7095, pp. 307-318. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.
[24] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, J. F. López-Pérez, and A. Castrillón-Escobar. A GRASP for a multi-depot multi-commodity pickup and delivery problem with time windows and heterogeneous fleet in the bottled beverage industry. In D. Pacino, S. Voß, and R.M. Jensen (editors), Computational Logistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8197, pp. 143-157, ISBN: 978-3-642-41018-5. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2013.
[25] D. R. Quevedo-Orozco and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado. A new heuristic for the capacitated vertex p-center problem. In C. Bielsa, A. Salmerón, A. Alonso-Betanzos, J.I. Hidalgo, L. Martínez, A. Troncoso, E. Corchado, and J.M. Corchado (editors), Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2013, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 8109, pp. 279-288, ISBN: 978-3-642-40642-3. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2013.
[26] M. Elizondo-Amaya, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, D. P. Morton, and E. Kutanoglu. A tabu search approach for a territory design problem with stochastic demands. In A. Alonso-Betanzos, C. Bielza, A. Salmerón, A. Duarte, J. I. Hidalgo, L. Martínez, E. Barrenchea, A. Troncoso, E. Corchado, J. M. Corchado, F. Herrera, and J. C. Riquelme (editors), Proceedings of the Multiconference CAEPIA'13, pp. 179-188. ISBN: 978-84-695-8348-7. Madrid, Spain, September 2013.
[27] A. L. González-Estrada, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and O. A. Aguirre-Calderón. Un método multi-arranque aleatorizado para un problema de diseño de una red de caminos y ubicación de maquinaria y patios forestales con consideraciones ambientales. In F. Chávez de la O, M. R. Luque Baena, F. Luna, and F. Fernández de la Vega (editors), Proceedings of the X Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Evolutionary and Bioinspired Algorithms, pp. 143-150. ISBN: 978-84-697-2150-6. Merida, Spain, February 2015 (in Spanish).
[28] R. Mendoza-Gómez, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and K. B. Valenzuela-Ocaña. Un procedimiento basado en GRASP para un problema de asignación de equipos médicos de diagnóstico en una red de hospitales públicos. In F. Chávez de la O, M. R. Luque Baena, F. Luna, and F. Fernández de la Vega (editors), Proceedings of the X Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Evolutionary and Bioinspired Algorithms, pp. 135-142. ISBN: 978-84-697-2150-6. Merida, Spain, February 2015 (in Spanish).
Thesis
[29] M. A. Díaz Romero Un Marco Integrado de Gestión para el Control y Gestión de Incendios Forestales. Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, April 2011.
[30] B. A. Peña Cantú. Evaluación de Métricas de Dispersión en Sistemas Territoriales. Lic. (BS) thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UANL November 2011.
[31] B. A. Rivera Aguilar. Un Esquema Integrado para la Administración de Recursos de Contención de Incendios Forestales desde un Enfoque Estocástico. Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, June 2012.
[32] C. Beltrán Pérez. Un Problema de Gestión Forestal con Requerimientos de Adyacencia en Unidades Territoriales. Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, June 2012.
[33] A. Castrillón Escobar. Una Metaheurística para un Problema de Carga y Descarga en la Repartición de Bebidas Embotelladas. Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, April 2013.
[34] D. R. Quevedo Orozco. Optimización del Problema de p-Centro Capacitado. Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, June 2014.
[35] E. Herrera Santana. Optimización de la Cosecha para un Bosque Mixto mediante Programación Dinámica. Master thesis, Program in Quality and Productivity, Tecnológico de Monterrey, December 2015.
[36] L. A. Maltos Ortega. Optimal Location of Car Wreck Adjusters. Master thesis, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, July 2016.
Technical Reports
[37] 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.
[38] J. F. López-Pérez and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado. Embotelladoras ARCA uses operations research to improve territory design plans. Technical Report PISIS-2011-08, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, June 2011.
[39] D. Huerta-Muñoz, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and R. Ruiz. An iterated greedy heuristic for a market segmentation problem with multiple attributes. Technical Report PISIS-2012-02, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, April 2012.
[40] M. G. Elizondo-Amaya, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and J. A. Díaz. A dual bounding scheme for a territory design problem. Technical Report PISIS-2012-03, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, September 2012.
[41] D. R. Quevedo-Orozco and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado. Improving the quality of heuristic solutions for the capacitated vertex p-center problem through iterated greedy local search and variable neighborhood descent. Technical Report PISIS-2013-04, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, November 2013.
[42] H. J. Escalante and R. Z. Ríos-Mercado. GRASP with path relinking for commercial districting. Technical Report PISIS-2014-02, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, March 2014.
[43] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado and C. Borraz-Sánchez. Optimization problems in natural gas transportation systems: A state-of-the-art review. Technical Report PISIS-2014-04, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, September 2014.
[44] S. E. Schaeffer, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and E. Fernández. The windy prize-collecting rural postman problem: An ant-colony based heuristic. Technical Report PISIS-2014-05, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, April 2014.
[45] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado. Assessing a metaheuristic for large scale commercial districting. Technical Report PISIS-2015-02, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, August 2015.
[46] R. Mendoza-Gómez, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and K. B. Valenzuela-Ocaña. TBA. Technical Report PISIS-2016-01, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, April 2016.
[47] R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, J. L. González-Velarde, and J. R. Maldonado-Flores. TBA. Technical Report PISIS-2017-01, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, May 2017.
[48] R. Mendoza-Gómez, R. Z. Ríos-Mercado, and K. B. Valenzuela-Ocaña. TBA. Technical Report PISIS-2017-02, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico, June 2017.