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Conrado Borraz Sánchez, Ph. D.

Optimering (Mathematical Programming)

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PUBLICATIONS
BOOK CHAPTERS



Work in Progress

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C.  Borraz-Sánchez, J. Ma, D. Klabjan, R. Fourer, E. Pasalic, and M. Aref. Algebraic Modeling in Datalog.
(Ongoing work, 2011)
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C.  Borraz-Sánchez and R.  Z. Ríos-Mercado. Models and Solution Approaches for Natural Gas Transmission Network Problems: A State-of-the-Art Survey.
(Ongoing work, 2011)
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C.  Borraz-Sánchez, D. Yang, and D. Klabjan. Strategic Gang Scheduling for Railroad Maintenance Production.
(To be submitted, 2011)
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C.  Borraz-Sánchez and D. Klabjan. Locating EV Charging Stations based on Trip Generation Choices in the Chicago Area.
(Ready for submission, 2011)
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C.  Borraz-Sánchez and D. Haugland. Modeling Line-Pack Management in Natural Gas Transportation Pipeline Systems.
(Submitted, August 2010)

JOURNALS & BOOK CHAPTERS

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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Haugland, D. (2011) Optimization methods for pipeline transportation of natural gas with variable specific gravity and compressibility. TOP, Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research. (Article in press)
doi: 10.1007/s11750-011-0210-z
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Haugland, D. (2010) Minimizing fuel cost in gas transmission networks by dynamic programming and adaptive discretization. Journal of Computers and Industrial Engineering. (Article in press)
doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2010.07.012
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Haugland, D. (2009) A Tree Decomposition Algorithm for Minimizing Fuel Cost in Gas Transmission Networks. IEEE Conference Proceedings, pp. 244-249. ISBN 978-1-4244-4136-5
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2009) Improving the Operation of Pipeline Systems on Cyclic Structures by Tabu Search. Journal of Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering: Computers & Chemical Engineering, 33(1):58-64. Copyright(c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2005) A Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Approach for Natural Gas Pipeline Network Optimization. In: M. J. Blesa, C. Blum, A. Roli, and M. Sampels (editors), Hybrid Metaheuristics, pp. 54-65, Springer, Berlin, Germany. ISBN: 3-540-28535-0.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2004) A Non-Sequential Dynamic Programming Approach for Natural Gas Network Optimization. Transactions on Systems, 3(4):1384-1389.

INTERNATIONAL PROCEEDINGS PAPERS

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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2004) A Tabu Search Approach for Minimizing Fuel Consumption on Cyclic Natural Gas Pipeline Systems . In: Proceedings of the XII Latin-Ibero-American of Operations Research (CLAIO) Conference, Havana, Cuba, October.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2004) A Procedure for Finding Initial Feasible Solutions on Cyclic Natural Gas Networks. In: Proceedings of the 2004 NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, Dallas, USA, January.
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Villalobos-Morales, Y., Cobos-Zaleta, D., Flores-Villarreal, H.J., Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2003) On NLP and MINLP Formulations and Preprocessing for Fuel Cost Minimization of Natural Gas Transmission Networks. In: Proceedings of the 2003 NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, Birmingham, USA, January.

THESES

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Borraz-Sánchez, C. (2010) Optimization Methods for Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway, December.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. (2004) Una Metodología de Solución basada en Programación Dinámica No Secuencial y Búsqueda Tabú para la Operación Eficiente de Sistemas de Transporte de Gas Natural en Estado Estable. M. Sc. Thesis. Graduate Program in Systems Engineering (PISIS), Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, México, August. [Download PDF (in Spanish)].

TECHNICAL REPORT(S)

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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2005) Improving the Operation of Pipeline Systems on Cyclic Structures by Tabu Search. Technical Report PISIS-2005-04, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, UANL, San Nicolás de los Garza, México, November.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2009) "Técnicas Avanzadas de Optimización en Sistemas de Transporte de Gas Natural". Ciencia UANL, 12(4):438-450.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2009) "Mejorando el Transporte de Gas Natural mediante un Método Híbrido de Búsqueda Tabú y Programación Dinámica". Ingenierías, 12(45):54-65.

SCIENTIFIC POSTER(S)

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Borraz-Sánchez, C. (2006) "Advanced optimization techniques applied to FCMP on cyclic structures". Award to Best Scientific Poster at the XVI National School of Optimization and Numerical Analysis (Premio al mejor poster científico en la XVI Escuela Nacional de Optimización y Análisis Numérico - XVI ENOAN). Apizaco, Tlaxcala, México, Marzo.

MEMORIES IN WORKSHOPS, SYMPOSIUMS AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Haugland, D. (2009) "Un Algoritmo de Descomposición de Árbol basado en DP aplicado a los Sistemas de Transmisión de Gas Natural". XIV Latin-American Association of Operations Research Societies Summer School for Young Scholar (XIV ELAVIO). "El Fuerte", Sinaloa, México, August.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. (2007) "Problema multi-objetivo para servicios públicos de emergencia y prevención del crimen". XVII National School of Numeric Analysis and Optimization (ENOAN). Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (UJED), Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Gómez Palacio, Durango, April.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. (2006) "Técnicas no tradicionales: Programación Dinámica no secuencial y téecnica de reducción convergente sobre redes cíclicas de gas natural". XXXIX Mexican Mathematics Society (SMM) National Meeting. Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT), México, October.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. (2004) "Usando programación dinámica no secuencial para minimizar el consumo de combustible en redes de gasoductos". XXXVII Mexican Mathematics Society (SMM) National Meeting . Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California Norte, México, October.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. (2004) "Usando búsqueda tabú para minimizar el consumo de combustible en redes de gasoductos en sistemas cíclicos". XXXVII Mexican Mathematics Society (SMM) National Meeting . Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California Norte, México, October.
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Borraz-Sánchez, C. and Ríos-Mercado, R.Z. (2004) "A Non-Sequential Dynamic Programming Technique for Minimizing Fuel Consumption on Cyclic Pipeline System: A computational study". X Latin-American Association of Operations Research Societies Summer School for Young Scholar (X ELAVIO) . Montevideo, Uruguay, February.