Workplan

To aid the development of this master thesis, the author will follow some important steps:

  1. Involvement with existing projects.
  2. Analysis and study of the fundamental in state of art in graphs/networks optimization.
  3. Modelation of the specific problem(s) with practical interest in collection services on environmental field.
  4. Complementation study of the combinatorial optimization methods, namely metaheuristics.
  5. Selection of the best method to the resolution of the problem. Algorithm development.
  6. Results tests and evaluation.
  7. Thesis writing.

The Gantt Chart related to the steps described above can be found here.