Optimizing Public Policies for Urban Planning
Another possible title would be "Marrying an urban planner up to her research problems". It all happened when I started hearing my fiancée explaining the problems of Brazilian housing policy and ended...
View ArticleRevisiting operations research elements – part I: problem, model and solution
People often admit that they have just discovered to know nothing about something they thought they knew. I felt that about terms like “problem”, “model” and “solution” during the last year. At a...
View ArticleDrug discovery optimization: a meeting point for data mining, graph theory...
How can I help finding the best compound to save a life? In a glance, the answer is what research in optimizing drug design is about. Its main goal is to cheapen and speed-up drug development whilst...
View ArticleRevisiting operations research elements – part II: results, research... and...
This post resumes the discussion about key concepts of operations research started previously in this blog. However, instead of focusing only on the meaning of terms, this time I’d like to discuss...
View Article4 summer activities you must do before graduating + late remarks about ICAPS...
I recently attended to the 2012 International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), which was held at a car distance from São Paulo (what a rare opportunity!). It was the first time...
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