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Paulo Bárcia
Paulo Bárcia
Retired Professor
Economics
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Besides his academic life Paulo Bárcia worked, in several occasions, as a consultant for REN (Rede Eléctrica Nacional, S.A.) developing and maintaining software for Optimization and Design of Power Systems Networks.


From 1975 to 1985 he worked fulltime for EDP (the Portuguese national power utility) as a systems engineer developing software for power systems management

1991- “Agregação”  in Mathematics and Operations Research - NovaSchool of Business and Economics 


1986- PhD in Systems Engineering - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon Technical University.


1972- Master in Statistics and Operations Research - Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI).


1969- Bachelor in Mathematics, University of Lisbon.

Combinatorial Optimization and Discrete Mathematics. Optimization of Power Systems Networks. 

  • Bárcia, Paulo, Pestana, Rui (2010). Tracing the flows of electricity. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 32 (4), 329-332.
  • Bugalho, Miguel N., Bárcia, Paulo, Caldeira, Maria C., Cerdeira, Jorge Orestes (2008). Stable isotopes as ecological tracers: an efficient method for assessing the contribution of multiple sources to mixtures. Biogeosciences, 5 (5), 1351-1359.
  • Bárcia, Paulo, Bugalho, Miguel N., Campagnolo, Manuel Lameiras, CERDEIRA, JO (2007). Using n-alkanes to estimate diet composition of herbivores: a novel mathematical approach. Animal, 1 (1), 141-149.
  • Bárcia, Paulo, Cerdeira, Jorge Orestes (2005). k-Colour partitions of acyclic tournaments. Electronic Journal Of Combinatorics, 12 (1), 1-12.
  • Bárcia, Paulo, Cerdeira, Jorge Orestes (2005). The k-track assignment problem on partial orders. Journal Of Scheduling, 8 (2), 135-143.
  • Bárcia, Paulo, Cerdeira, Jorge Orestes (2003). Node packings on cocomparability graphs. Operations Research Letters, 31 (5), 341-342.
  • Aboudi, Ronny, Bárcia, Paulo (1998). Determining cutting stock patterns when defects are present. Annals Of Operations Research, 82, 343-354.
  • Amado, Lígia, Bárcia, Paulo (1996). New polynomial bounds for matroidal knapsacks. European Journal of Operational Research, 95 (1), 201-210.
  • Cerdeira, Jorge Orestes, Bárcia, Paulo (1996). Ordered matroids and regular independence systems. Discrete Mathematics, 154 (1-3), 255-261.
  • Cerdeira, J. Orestes, Faria, Isabel, Bárcia, Paulo (1995). Establishing determinantal inequalities for positive-definite matrices. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 63 (1), 13-24.
  • Barcia, P., Coelho, J. D. (1994). Bound-improving approach to discrete programming problems. Mathematical Programming, Series B, 66 (2), 205-209.
  • Bárcia, Paulo, Coelho, J. D. (1994). A bound-improving approach to discrete programming problems. Mathematical Programming, 66 (1-3), 205-209.
  • Amado, Lígia, Bárcia, Paulo (1993). Matroidal relaxations for 0-1 knapsack problems. Operations Research Letters, 14 (3), 147-152.
  • Bárcia, Paulo, Jörnsten, Kurt (1990). Improved Lagrangean decomposition: An application to the generalized assignment problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 46 (1), 84-92.
  • Bárcia, Paulo, Holm, Soren (1988). A revised bound improvement sequence algorithm. European Journal of Operational Research, 36 (2), 202-206.
  • Bárcia, Paulo (1987). Constructive dual methods for discrete programming. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 18 (2), 107-117.
  • Tavares, L. Valadares, Vieira, Vitor, Bárcia, Paulo (1986). A decision support system (DSS) for power generation. European Journal of Operational Research, 25 (3), 373-394.
  • Bárcia, Paulo (1985). The bound improving sequence algorithm. Operations Research Letters, 4 (1), 27-30.
  • Bárcia, P., Baptista, J. (1983). Computation of steady-state equivalents for electrical networks. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 5 (1), 17-21.
  • Bárcia, Paulo, Coelho, José Dias (1989). Um novo algoritmo de programação inteira na selecção óptima de investimentos. 1ª ed. NOVA ECONOMIA EM PORTUGAL. : Estudos em Homenagem a António Manuel Pinto Barbosa. Sousa, Alfredo de, Moura, Francisco Pereira de, Reis, Jaime, Macedo, Jorge Braga de, Ribeiro, José Joaquim Teixeira, Beleza, Luis Miguel, Nunes, M. Jacinto, Constâncio, Victor (Eds.), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 287-293.