Abstract
Ph.D. Victor M. Albornoz has a degree in Mathematics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He also has postgraduate studies, being M.Sc. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Since 1999, he is a full-time professor in the Departamento de Industrias of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, where he usually teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Operations Research and Management Science. He has been distinguished several times as “Maestro de Excelencia” in recognition by the opinion of his own students.
His research areas are in the field of Operations Research, with special emphasis on optimization under uncertainty and numerical optimization techniques, especially for modeling and solving operation management problems. He is author of more than 30 publications in scientific journals, series and book chapters, and more than 80 contributions in national and international conference proceedings. He has participated and directed research projects with internal and external financial support. He is a member of the Chilean Institute of Operations Research (ICHIO), currently occupying the position of Past President, and he integrates the Board of the Latin American Association of Operations Research (ALIO) as the Representative of ICHIO for the IFORS 2023 triennial conference. He is currently Associate Editor of Pesquisa Operacional (Scielo journal) and regularly participates of ICHIO, ALIO, EURO and INFORMS meetings and conferences.
Academic Background
- Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (1998).
- M.Sc. in Mathematics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (1993).
- B.Sc. in Mathematics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (1989).
Refereed Publications
- Albornoz, V. M. & Vera, P. (2023). Coordinating harvest planning and scheduling in an agricultural supply chain through a stochastic bilevel programming. International Transactions in Operational Research 30, 1819-1842.
- Nadal-Roig, E., Plà-Aragonés, L. M. & Albornoz, V. M. (2023). Pig Supply Chains: planning transportation of animals among facilities. Sustainability 15(3), 2523.
- Albornoz, V.M., Araneda, L. & Ortega R. (2022). Planning and scheduling of selective harvest with management zones delineation. Annals of Operations Research 316, 873-890.
- Testuri, C.E., Cancela, H. & Albornoz, V. M. (2021). A multistage stochastic lot-sizing problem with cancellation and postponement under uncertain demand. RAIRO – Operations Research 55(2), 861-872.
- Albornoz, V.M. & Zamora, G.E. (2021). Decomposition-based heuristic for the zoning and crop planning problem with adjacency constraints. TOP 29, 248–265.
- Nadal-Roig, E., Pagès-Bernaus, A., Plà-Aragonés, L.M. & Albornoz, V.M. (2020). A two-stage stochastic model for pig production planning in vertically integrated production systems. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 176, September 2020, 105615.
- Albornoz, V.M., Véliz, M.I., Ortega, R. & Ortíz-Araya, V. (2020). Integrated versus hierarchical approach for zone delineation and crop planning under uncertainty. Annals of Operations Research 286, 617-634.
- Albornoz, V.M., Ñanco, L.J. & Sáez, J.L. (2019). Delineating robust rectangular management zones based on column generation algorithm. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 61, 194-201.
- Testuri, C.E., Cancela, H. & Albornoz, V.M. (2019). Stochastic discrete lot-sizing with lead times for fuel supply optimization. Pesquisa Operacional 39 (1), 37-55.
- Palomo-Martínez, P. J., Salazar-Aguilar, M. A. & Albornoz, V. M. (2017). Formulations for the orienteering problem with additional constraints. Annals of Operations Research, 258(2), 503-545.
- Albornoz, V. M. & Ortiz-Araya, V. (2016). Proposal of a hierarchical production plan to optimize a supply chain. DYNA91 (2), 128.
- Cid-Garcia, N. M., Albornoz, V., Rios-Solis, Y. A. & Ortega, R. (2013). Rectangular shape management zone delineation using integer linear programming. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 93, 1-9.
- Rodríguez-Sánchez, S. V., Plà-Aragonés, L. M. & Albornoz, V. M. (2012). Modeling tactical planning decisions through a linear optimization model in sow farms. Livestock Science, 143(2-3), 162-171.
- Vallejos, R., Zapata, A., Albornoz, V. & Tarifeño, M. (2009). Joint routing and dimensioning of optical burst switching networks. Photonic Network Communications 17 (3), 266-276.
- Rodríguez, S. V., Albornoz, V. M. & Plà, L. M. (2009). A two-stage stochastic programming model for scheduling replacements in sow farms. Top, 17(1), 171-189.
- Albornoz, V. M. & Canales, C. M. (2006). Total allowable catch for managing squat lobster fishery using stochastic nonlinear programming. Computers & Operations Research, 33(8), 2113-2124.
- Albornoz, V. M., Benario, P. & Rojas, M. E. (2004). A two‐stage stochastic integer programming model for a thermal power system expansion. International Transactions in Operational Research, 11(3), 243-257.
Selected Proceedings
- Albornoz, V. M. & Zamora, G.E. (2024). A Precision Agriculture Approach for a Crop Rotation Planning Problem with Adjacency Constraints. In: Albornoz, V.M., Mac Cawley, A., Plà-Aragonés, L.M. (eds.) Optimization Under Uncertainty in Sustainable Agriculture and Agrifood Industry. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 161-178.
- Torres, T., Albornoz, V. M. & Ortega. A (2023). Novel integrated approach for locating agricultural sensors based on the zoning and p-median problems. Proceedings of the XII International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems. Edinburgh, Scotland, 67-68.
- Albornoz V .M., Kharrat K. A. & Ñanco L. J. (2021). Optimal Dispatch of Electric Buses Under Uncertain Travel Times. In: Rossit D.A., Tohmé F., Mejía Delgadillo G. (eds) Production Research. ICPR-Americas 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1408. Springer, Cham.
- González, C., Jara, N. & Albornoz, V. (2021). A Regeneration Placement, Routing and Spectrum Assignment Solution for Translucent Elastic Optical Networks: A Joint Optimization Approach. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2021), 467-474.
- Testuri, C.E., Cancela, H., Albornoz, V.M. (2019). Undominated valid inequalities for a stochastic capacitated discrete lot-sizing problem with lead times, cancellation and postponement. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2019) – Volumen I, 390-397.
- Albornoz, V. M., Urrutia-Gutiérrez, C. (2018). A mixed-integer linear optimization model for a two-echelon agribusiness supply chain. In Joint EURO/ALIO International Conference 2018 on Applied Combinatorial Optimization (EURO/ALIO 2018), Cachiani V., Malaguti, E., Mauttone, A., Toth, P. (Eds.). Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 69, 253-260.
- Albornoz, V. M., Sáez, J. L. & Véliz, M. I. (2017). Delineation of Rectangular Management Zones and Crop Planning Under Uncertainty in the Soil Properties. In: Vitoriano B., Parlier G. (Eds.) Operations Research and Enterprise Systems. ICORES 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 695, 117-131.
- Bustos, J. A., Olavarria, S. H., Albornoz, V. M., Rodríguez, S. V. & Jiménez-Lizárraga, M. A. (2017). A Stackelberg Game Model between Manufacturer and Wholesaler in a Food Supply Chain. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2017), 409-415.
- Meza, C., Jara, N., Albornoz, V. M. & Vallejos, R. (2016). Routing and spectrum assignment for elastic, static, and without conversion optical networks with ring topology. In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (pp. 1-8).
- Leiva, J. C. & Albornoz, V. M. (2016). Short-term Production Scheduling in the Soft Drink Industry. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2016), 416-423.
- Villegas, P. A. & Albornoz, V. M. (2016). Large Scale Petrol Station Replenishment Problem with Time Windows: A Real Case Study. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2016), 408-415.
- Saez, J. & Albornoz, V M.. (2016). Delineation of Rectangular Management Zones Under Uncertainty Conditions. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2016), 271-278.
- Albornoz, V. M. & Ñanco, L. J. (2016). An empirical design of a column generation algorithm applied to a management zone delineation problem. In Computational Management Science. State of the Art 2014. Fonseca, R. J., Weber, G. W. and Telhada, J. (Eds). Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 682, 201-208
- Albornoz, V. M., González-Araya, M., Gripe, M. C., Rodríguez, S. V. & Treviño, E. J. (2015). An optimization model for planning operations in a meat packing plant. In Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2015). De Werra, D., Parlier G. H., Vitoriano, B. (Eds.). Communications in Computer and Information Science 577, 136-146.
- Albornoz, V. M., González-Araya, M., Gripe, M. & Rodríguez, S. (2015). A Mixed Integer Linear Program for Operational Planning in a Meat Packing Plant. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2015), 254-261.
- Blanco, H., Guirado, F., Lérida, J. L. & Albornoz, V. M. (2013). MIP model scheduling for multi-clusters. Euro-Par 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7640, 196-206.
- Blanco, H., Guirado, F., Lérida, Ll. & Albornoz, V. M. (2012). MIP Model Scheduling for BSP Parallel Applications on Multi-Cluster Environments. Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2012), 8pp.
Research Projects
- Project PI_M_2021_99. Programación óptima de cosecha bajo incertidumbre: desde el procesamiento de imágenes a la toma de decisiones en cadenas de suministro agrícola. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (2021 – 2023), Principal Researcher.
- Project PIM172. Formulation and algorithmic resolution of optimization models in selective harvesting. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (2017-2019), Principal Researcher.
- Project CYTED P515RT0123. Ibero-American agro-bigdata network and decision support systems for a sustainable agricultural sector. Spain (2016-2019), Co-researcher.
- Project The MIT – Chile PUC Seed Fund. Facilitating the use of advanced optimization tools in Chile, PUC and USM. USA-Chile (2018-2019), Co-researcher.
- Project USM 28.15.20. Decisión conjunta para la delineación de terreno y selección de cultivos. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (2015). Principal Researcher.
- Project PCCI12041. Cooperación bilateral para el estudio de la cadena de suministro de carne roja y el apoyo a su toma de decisión, mediante el empleo de investigación de operaciones. Programa de Cooperación Científica Internacional, CONICYT (2013 – 2015). Principal Researcher.
- Project USM 28.13.69. Decomposition algorithms for planning problems in agriculture. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (2013 – 2014). Principal Researcher.
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