Paulo Sérgio Amaral de Sousa

Journal articles

Ramping up a heuristic procedure for storage location assignment problem with precedence constraints,
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Forthcoming [with Alice Trindade and Maria R.A. Moreira]
Lean direction in literature: a bibliometric approach,
Production & Manufacturing Research, Vol. 9(1), pp. 241-263, 2021 [with Maria R.A. Moreira, Wenxuan Jiang and G. M. Amaro]
Defining a storage-assignment strategy for precedence-constrained order picking,
Operations Research and Decisions, Vol. 31(2), pp. 147-160, 2021 [with Alice Trindade and Maria R.A. Moreira]
Improving Order-picking Operations with Precedence Constraints through Efficient Storage Location Assignment,
U.Porto Journal of Engineering, Vol. 7(3), pp. 34-52, 2021 [with Alice Trindade and Maria R.A. Moreira]
Product allocation planning with handling constraints: a case study analysis,
International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management, Vol. 16(3), pp. 175-183, 2021 [with Alice Trindade and Maria R.A. Moreira]
A bibliometric view on the use of total quality management in services,
Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, Forthcoming [with Chen Zhang and Maria R.A. Moreira]
Assessment of the Lean effect on business performance: the case of manufacturing SMEs,
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 31(3), pp. 501-523, 2020 [with Catarina M. Valente and Maria R.A. Moreira]
Do Supply Chain Management Practices Influence Firm Performance?: A Meta-Analytical Approach,
International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM), Vol. 13(3), pp. 1-22, 2020 [with Maria R.A. Moreira, C. D. Silva and G. M. Amaro]
Does lean practices implementation impact on company performance? A meta-analytical research,
Management and Production Engineering Review, Vol. 10(4), pp. 11-24, 2019 [with Maria R.A. Moreira and Telma Gonçalves]
The Effect of Temporal Aggregation on the Estimation Accuracy of ARMA Models,
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, Vol. 47(10), pp. 2865-2885, 2018 [with Paulo Teles]
Supplementary material
The relationship between leadership style and the success of Lean management implementation,
Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 39(6), pp. 807-824, 2018 [with Maria R.A. Moreira and Daniela Nogueira]
Does Innovation Influence the Performance of Healthcare Organizations?,
Innovation: Organization & Management, Vol. 19(3), pp. 335-352, 2017 [with Maria R.A. Moreira and Mãdãlina Gherman]
The Effect of Temporal Aggregation on the Estimation Accuracy of Time Series Models,
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, Vol. 46(9), pp. 6738-6759, 2017 [with Paulo Teles]
Supplementary material
International Outsourcing: a process approach to the apparel industry,
Review of Business Management, Vol. 17(58), pp. 1444-1463, 2015 [with Maria R.A. Moreira and Sofia R.S. Andrade]
Applying Goldratt's Framework to the Banking System,
Social and Management Sciences, Vol. 22(2), pp. 107-117, 2014 [with Maria R.A. Moreira and Raquel F.Ch. Meneses and Julian D. Castaño]
Note on ergodic chaos in the RSS model,
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 17(7), pp. 1519-1524, 2013
Theory of Constraints in the Service Sector: Characterization for Banking and Analysis of the Factors Involved in its Adoption,
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 143, pp. 58-72, 2013 [with Maria R.A. Moreira and Raquel F.Ch. Meneses and Julian D. Castaño]
Factors Influencing the Internationalization of Services Firms: The Case of Design, Engineering and Architecture Consulting Firms,
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 143, pp. 246-262, 2013 [with Maria R.A. Moreira and Raquel F.Ch. Meneses and Miguel A. S. Maia]
Universities and authors: a ranking for international finance,
Economics Bulletin, Vol. 31(1), pp. 507-518, 2011 [with Pedro C. C. Vieira]
A genetic algorithm for lot size and scheduling under capacity constraints and allowing backorders,
International Journal of Production Research, [with José Fernando Gonçalves]
Uncertainty and information accuracy in adverse selection,
Economics Letters, Vol. 100(3), pp. 321-325, 2008 [with Samuel C. A. Pereira]
"Universities and authors: a ranking for International Finance",
International Journal of Finance and Economics, forthcoming [with Pedro C. C. Vieira]

Conferences proceedings

Sousa, P. S. A. and Samuel C. A. Pereira (2008), "Uncertainty and information accuracy in adverse selection", in XVIII Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de Gestão Científica - Innovation, Entrepreneurialship, Knowledge and Enterprise in Competetiveness, 543-549, Porto, Portugal, February 7-8
Sousa, P. S. A. and Moreira, M. R. (2007), "Performance analysis of job-shop production systems under different order release control parameters", WCE2007 - International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, 1056-1061, London, UK, July 2-4. [Proceedings indexed in ISI]
Sousa, P. S. A. and Vieira, P. C. C. (2007), "Controlo de congestionamento caótico em gestão de operações sequenciais", in XVII Jornadas Hispano-Lusas de Gestión Científica - Conocimiento, Innovación y Emprendedores, 3068-3072, Logroño, Spain, February 8-9

Communications in international conferences

Sousa, P. S. and Moreira, M. R. (2007). "An experimental model for investigating the sensitivity of job-shop performance to order release parameters", OPTIMIZATION 2007, Porto, Portugal, July 22-25

IBM Challenges

When I have some spare time and like the problems, I try to solve the mathematically-oriented challenges proposed by the IBM research team:

Work in progress on

Genetic Algorithms and Operational Research [with José Fernando Gonçalves]
Contract theory
Optimal growth models
Game theory
Planning and scheduling of production systems [with M. Rosário A. Moreira]

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