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Citation metrics:

Scopus (self-citations excluded) | 54 entries | h-index=24 | 2909 citations | i20-index=29.
Google scholar | 77 entries | h-index=31 | 5576 citations | i20-index=36.
Web of Science (ResearcherID)| 47 entries | h-index=22 | 2370 citations | i20-index=24.

Edition of special issues in international journals with peer review:

OR Spectrum 31(3), 461-705, 2009.

Books:

G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama (editors), "Location Science", Springer International Publishing, 2nd edition, 2019, 767 pages (link).
G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama (editors), "Location Science", Springer, 2015, 644 pages (link).
A. Paias, F. Saldanha da Gama (editors), "EURO Winter Institute on Location and Logistics, Collection of papers", ISBN 978-989-20-0489-1, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2007.

Book chapters:

S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Multi-period facility location", in G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama (editors), "Location Science", 2nd edition, chapter 11, Springer International Publishing, 2019.
I. Correia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Facility location under uncertainty" ", in G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama (editors), "Location Science", 2nd edition, chapter 8, Springer International Publishing, 2019.
G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Introduction to Location Science", in G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama (editors), "Location Science", 2nd edition, chapter 1, Springer International Publishing, 2019.
S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Multi-period facility location", in G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama (editors), "Location Science", chapter 11, Springer International Publishing, 2015.
I. Correia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Facility location under uncertainty" ", in G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama (editors), "Location Science", chapter 8, Springer International Publishing, 2015.
G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Introduction to Location Science", in G. Laporte, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama (editors), "Location Science", chapter 1, Springer International Publishing, 2015.
I. Correia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "A Modeling Framework for Project Staffing and Scheduling Problems", In C. Schwindt and J. Zimmermann (editors), "Handbook of Project Management and Scheduling", chapter 31, Springer, 2014.
M. T. Melo, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Network Design Decisions in Supply Chain Planning" in Optimization of Logistics Systems: Models and Experiences, Symposium of the Collaborative Research Center 559 "Modelling of Large Logistics Networks", P. Buchholz and A. Kuhn (editors), pages 1-19, Verlag Praxiswissen Dortmund 2008.

Articles in international journals with peer review:

Yuchen Li, Zixiang Li, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "(Data-Driven) New approaches for rebalancing an assembly line with disruptions" International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2021.1925967.
Antonio Diglio, Juanjo Peiró, Carmela Piccolo, FranciscoSaldanha-da-Gama, "Solutions for districting problems with chance-constrained balancing requirements", Omega, 103, 102430, 2021.
Zehranaz Dönmez, Bahar Y.Kara, Özlem Karsu, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Humanitarian Facility Location under Uncertainty: Critical Review and Future Prospects", Omega, 102393, 2021.
Antonio Diglio, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Towards a stochastic programming modeling framework for districting", Annals of Operations Research, 292, 249–285, 2020.
Ángel Corberán, Mercedes Landete, Juanjo Peiró, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "The facility location problem with capacity transfers", Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 101943, 2020.
Juanjo Peiró, Ángel Corberán, Rafael Martí, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Heuristic solutions for a class of stochastic uncapacitated p-hub median problems", Transportation Science, 53, 1126–1149, 2019.
Ángel Corberán, Mercedes Landete, Juanjo Peiró, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Improved polyhedral descriptions and exact procedures for a broad class of uncapacitated p-hub median problems", Transportation Research Part B 123, 38–63, 2019.
Pu Li, Hongjie Lan, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "A bi-objective capacitated location-routing problem for multiple perishable commodities", IEEE Access 7, 136729–136742, 2019.
Elena Fernández, Yolanda Honojosa, Justo Puerto, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "New algorithmic framework for conditional value at risk: application to stochastic fixed-charge transportation", European Journal of Operational Research 277, 215–226, 2019.
Bernardo F. Almeida, Isabel Correia, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "On multicriteria chance-constrained capacitated single-source discrete facility location problems", Modeling frameworks for the multiskill resource-constrained project scheduling problem: a theoretical and empirical comparison, International Transactions in Operational Research 26, 946–967, 2019.
Ömer Burak Kınay, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, Bahar Y. Kara, "On multicriteria chance-constrained capacitated single-source discrete facility location problems", Omega 83, 107–122, 2019.
Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Comments on: Extensive facility location problems on networks: An updated review", TOP 26, 229–232, 2018.
Bernardo F. Almeida, Isabel Correia, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "A biased random-key genetic algorithm for the project scheduling problem with flexible resources", TOP 26, 283–308, 2018.
Ömer Burak Kınay, Bahar Y. Kara, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, Isabel Correia, "Modeling the shelter site location problem using chance constraints: A case study for Istanbul", European Journal of Operational Research 270, 132–145, 2018.
Alfredo Marín, Luisa I. Martínez-Merino, Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Multi-period Stochastic Covering Location Problems: modeling framework and solution approach", European Journal of Operational Research 268, 432–449, 2018.
Sibel Alumur, Stefan Nickel, Brita Rohrbeck, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Modeling congestion and service time in hub location problems", Applied Mathematical modelling 55, 13–32, 2018.
Isabel Correia, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "A stochastic multi-period capacitated multiple allocation hub location problem: formulation and inequalities", Omega 74, 122–134, 2018.
Fabian Dunke, Stefan Nickel, Iris Heckmann, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Time Traps in Supply Chains: is Optimal Still Good Enough?", European Journal of Operational Research 264, 813–829, 2018.
Maria Albareda-Sambola, Elena Fernández, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Heuristic solutions to the facility location problem with general Bernoulli demands", INFORMS Journal on Computing 29, 737–753, 2017.
Jordi Castro, Stefano Nasini, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "A cutting-plane approach for large-scale capacitated multi-period facility location using a specialized interior-point method", Mathematical Programming, Series A, 163, 411–444, 2017.
Sibel A. Alumur, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, Yusuf. Seçerdin, "Multi-period hub network design problems with modular capacities", Annals of Operations Research 246, 289–312, 2016.
Bernardo F. Almeida, Isabel Correia, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Priority-based heuristics for the multi-skill resource constrained project scheduling problem", Expert Systems with Applications 57, 91–103, 2016.
Stefan Nickel, Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Ambulance Location under Stochastic Demand: A Sampling Approach", Operations Research for Health Care 8, 24–32, 2016.
Isabel Correia, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "A note on 'Branch-and-price approach for the multi-skill project scheduling problem'", Optimization Letters 9, 1255–1258, 2015.
Yolanda Hinojosa, Justo Puerto, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "A two-stage stochastic transportation problem with fixed handling costs and a priori selection of the distribution channels", TOP 22, 1123–1147, 2014.
Isabel Correia, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "The impact of fixed and variable costs in a multi-skill project scheduling problem: an empirical study", Computers & Industrial Engineering 72, 230–238, 2014.
Isabel Correia, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Multi-product capacitated single-allocation hub location problems: Formulations and inequalities", Networks and Spatial Economics 14, 1–25, 2014.
Maria Teresa Melo, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "An efficient heuristic approach for a multi-period logistics network redesign problem", TOP 22, 80–108, 2014.
Isabel Correia, Maria Teresa Melo, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Comparing classical performance measures for a multi-period, two-echelon supply chain network design problem with sizing decisions", Computers & Industrial Engineering 64, 366–380, 2013.
Joaquim A. S. Gromicho, Jelke J. van Hoorn, Francisco Saldanha da Gama, Gerrit Timmer, "Solving the job-shop scheduling problem optimally by dynamic programming", Computers & Operations Research, 39, 2968–2977, 2012.
Isabel Correia, Lídia Lampreia-Lourenço, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Project scheduling with flexible resources: formulation and inequalities", OR Spectrum, 34, 635–663, 2012.
Sibel A. Alumur, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, Vedat Verter, "Multi-Period Reverse Logistics Network Design", European Journal of Operational Research, 220, 67–78, 2012.
Sibel A. Alumur, Stefan Nickel, Francsico Saldanha-da-Gama, "Hub location under uncertainty", Transportation Research Part B 46, 218–230, 2012.
Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, Hans-Peter Ziegler, "A multi-stage stochastic supply chain network design problem with financial decisions and risk management", Omega 40, 511–524.
Maria Teresa Melo, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "A tabu search heuristic for redesigning a multi-echelon supply chain network over a planning horizon", International Journal of Production Economics 136, 218–230, 2012.
Isabel Correia, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Hub and spoke network design with single-assignment, capacity decisions and balancing requirements", Applied Mathematical Modelling 35, 4841–4851, 2011.
Maria Albareda-Sambola, Elena Fernández, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "The facility location problem with Bernoulli demands", Omega 39, 335–345, 2011.
Isabel Correia, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "The capacitated single-allocation hub location problem revisited: A note on a classical formulation", European Journal of Operational Research 207, 92–96, 2010.
Isabel Correia, Stefan Nickel, Francsico Saldanha-da-Gama, "Single-assignment hub location problems with multiple capacity levels", Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 44, 1047–1066, 2010.
Isabel Correia, Luís Gouveia, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Discretized formulations for capacitated location problems with modular distribution costs", European Journal of Operational Research 204, 237–244, 2010.
Maria da Conceição Fonseca, Álvaro García-Sánchez, Miguel Ortega-Mier, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "A Stochastic Bi-objective Location Model for Strategic Reverse Logistics", TOP 18, 158–184, 2010.
Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Logistics Network Design", OR Spectrum 31, 461–463, 2009.
Maria Teresa Melo, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Facility location and supply chain management: A review", European Journal of Operational Research 196, 401–412, 2009 (Invited review).
Isabel Correia, Luís Gouveia, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Solving the variable size bin packing problem with discretized formulations", Computers & Operations Research 35, 2103–2113, 2008.
Luís Gouveia, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "On the capacitated concentrator location problem: a reformulation by discretization", Computers & Operations Research 33, 1242–1258, 2006.
Maria Teresa Melo, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, "Dynamic multi-commodity capacitated facility location: a mathematical modelling framework for strategic supply chain planning", Computers & Operations Research 33, 181–208, 2006.
Franciscio Saldanha-da-Gama, Maria Eugénia Captivo, "A heuristic approach for the discrete dynamic location problem", Location Science 6, 211–223, 1998.
Pasquale Avella, Stefano Benati, Lázaro Cánovas-Martinez, Kevin Dalby, Donatella Di Girolamo, Branka Dimitrijevic, Ioannis Giannikos, Nili Guttman, Tim H. Hultberg, Jörg Fliege, Manuel Muñoz-Márquez, Malick M. Ndiaye, Stefan Nickel, Peter Peeters, Dionisio Pérez-Brito, Silvia Policastro, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama, Pietro Zidda, "Some personal views on the current state and the future of Locational Analysis", European Journal of Operational Research 104, 269–287, 1998.

Articles in open source journals without peer review:

Castro, J., S. Nasini, F. Saldanha da Gama, "A cutting-plane approach for large-scale capacitated multi-period facility location using a specialized interior-point method", Optimization Online, 2015, available at http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2015/06/4955.html

Albareda-Sambola, M, E. Fernández, F. Saldanha-da-Gama, "The facility location problem with Bernoulli demands", Optimization Online, 2008, available at http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2008/08/2075.html

Articles published in conference proceedings with peer review:

I. Correia, T. Melo, F. Saldanha-da-Gama, "A two-echelon facility location problem with layout selection", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Computational Techniques and Intelligent Systems - MACMECTIS'12, pp 79-84, 2012.
Correia, I., S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Single-allocation hub location problems with capacity decisions and balancing requirements", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science and Engineering - MACMESE-06, pp 51-56, 2010.
I. Correia, L. Gouveia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Discretized reformulations for a capacitated network loading problem arising in a facility location context", INOC Proceedings 2007 - International Network Optimization Conference, Pisa, Italy, 26-29 April, 2009.
I. Correia, L. Gouveia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "On capacitated location problems with modular links and general distribution costs", INOC Proceedings 2007 - International Network Optimization Conference, Spa, Belgium, 22-25 April, 2007.
F. Saldanha da Gama, M. M. da Silva, "A decomposition scheme for a multi-period phase-in/phase-out location problem", INOC Proceedings 2005 - International Network Optimization Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-23 March, 2005.
M. T. Melo, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Dynamic multi-commodity facility location: a mathematical modelling framework for strategic supply chain planning", Operations Research Proceedings 2003, D. Ahr, R. Fahrion, M. Oswald, G. Reinelt (editors), 95-102, Springer, Berlin, 2004.

Articles published in conference proceedings without peer review :

L. J. Fernandes, F. Saldanha-da-Gama, "Contingency planning: a literature review", In Proceedings of SCMCC-08 Supply Chain Management and Competitiveness.

Technical reports:

F. Dunke, I. Heckmann, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha-da-Gama, "Is optimal still good enough? Time traps in supply chains", Technical Report 01/2016, FZI, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, available at https://www.fzi.de/en/our-offer/mediacenter/%20publications/.
B. F. Almeida, I. Correia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "A biased random-key genetic algorithm for the multi-skill resource constrained project scheduling problem", preprint, Centro de Matemática, Aplicações fundamentais e Investigação Operacional, 2015, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, available athttp://cmafcio.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/node/33.
B. F. Almeida, I. Correia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "An instance generator for the multi-skill resource-constrained project scheduling problem", preprint, Centro de Matemática, Aplicações fundamentais e Investigação Operacional, 2015, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, available at http://www.fc.ul.pt/sites/default/files/fcul/unidinvestig/cmaf-cio/SGama.pdf.
Castro, J., S. Nasini, F. Saldanha da Gama, "A cutting-plane approach for large-scale capacitated multi-period facility location using a specialized interior-point method", Research Report UPC-DEIO, June 2015, available at http://www-eio.upc.es/~jcastro.
Correia, I., S. Gelareh, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha-da-Gama, "Multi-period hub location problems in transportation networks", Working paper 9/2012, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2012.
I. Correia, M. T. Melo and F. Saldanha da Gama, "Comparing classical performance measures for a multi-period, two-echelon supply chain network design problem with sizing decisions", Technical reports on Logistics of the Saarland Business School, Nr 1 (2012). Available at http://www.htw-saarland.de/wiwi.
M. T. Melo, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Redesigning multi-echelon supply chain networks", Working paper 05/2010, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2010.
S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, H.-P. Ziegler, "Stochastic Programming approaches for risk aware supply chain network design problems", Technical Report 181, ITWM - Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2010. Available at http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/zentral/download/berichte/bericht_181.pdf.

J. A. S. Gromicho, J. J. van Hoorn, F. Saldanha da Gama, G. Timmer, "Exponentially better than brute force: solving the Job-shop scheduling problem optimally by dynamic programming", Working paper 12/2009, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2009.
I. Correia, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Single-allocation hub location problems with capacity choices", Working paper 09/2009, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2009.
M. T. Melo, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "An LP-rounding heuristic to solve a multi-period facility relocation problem", Technical Report 168, ITWM - Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2009. Available at http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/zentral/download/berichte/bericht_168.pdf.

I. Correia, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "The capacitated single-allocation hub location problem revisited: A note on a classical formulation", Technical Report 164, ITWM - Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2009. Available at http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/zentral/download/berichte/bericht164.pdf.

I. Correia, L. Lampreia-Lourenço, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Multi-skill resource constrained project scheduling: Formulation and inequalities", Working paper 17/2008, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2008.
M. T. Melo, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Network design decisions in supply chain planning", Technical Report 140, ITWM - Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2008. Available at http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/zentral/download/berichte/bericht140.pdf.

M. T. Melo, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Facility Location and Supply Chain Management: A review", Working paper 15/2007, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2007.
M. T. Melo, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Facility Location and Supply Chain Management: A Comprehensive review", Technical Report 130, ITWM - Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2007. Available at http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/zentral/download/berichte/bericht130.pdf.

I. Correia, L. Gouveia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Discretized formulations for capacitated location problems with modular distribution costs", Working paper 07/2007, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2007.
I. Correia, L. Gouveia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Solving the variable size bin packing problem with discretized formulations", Working paper 05/2006, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2006.
M. T. Melo, F. Saldanha da Gama, M. M. Silva, "A primal decomposition scheme for a dynamic capacitated phase-in/phase-out location problem", Working paper 09/2005, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2005.
L. Gouveia, F. Saldanha da Gama, "On the capacitated concentrator location problem: A reformulation by discretization", Working paper 02/2004, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2004.
M. T. Melo, S. Nickel, F. Saldanha da Gama, "Large-scale models for dynamic multi-commodity capacitated facility location", Technical Report 58, ITWM - Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2003. Available at http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/zentral/download/berichte/bericht58.pdf.

F. Saldanha da Gama, M. E. Captivo, "A Branch-and-bound procedure for the multi-period capacitated location problem", Working paper 08/2002, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2002.
F. Saldanha da Gama, M. E. Captivo, "A Note on "A Dual-Based Procedure for Dynamic Facility Location", Working paper 11/1996, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1996.
F. Saldanha da Gama, M. E. Captivo, "New approaches for the Discrete Dynamic Location Problem", Working paper 10/1996, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1996.
F. Saldanha da Gama, M. E. Captivo, "A Study about Dynamic Location Problems", Working paper 01/1995, Centro de Investigação Operacional, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1995.

Theses:

F. Saldanha da Gama, "Modelos e algoritmos para o problema de localização dinâmica" (in Portuguese), Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, 2002.
F. Saldanha da Gama, "Um estudo sobre o problema de localização dinâmica" (in Portuguese), M.Sc. Thesis, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, 1994.

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