Elkin Castro (Ph.D.)
ASAP research group
School of Computer Science

Contact information
e-mail: edc at cs.nott.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)115 846 6520
Fax: +44 (0)115 846 7813
Address: School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB
United Kingdom
Room C82
Ph.D. project
Novel Approaches to Radiotherapy Planning and Scheduling in the NHS (Ref No. EP/C549511/1)

Teaching

Graduate teaching assistant for:

Research interests

Education

Journal papers

  1. Castro, E. and Petrovic, S. Combined mathematical programming and heuristics for a radiotherapy pre-treatment scheduling problem. Journal of scheduling, 2011.
  2. Mejia, G. and Castro, E. Optimización del proceso logístico en una empresa de colombiana de alimentos congelados y refrigerados (Logistics Optimization in a Colombian Frozen and Refrigerated Food Company). Revista de ingeniería, Universidad de los Andes, (26):47-54, 2007.

Book chapters

  1. Petrovic, S. and Castro, E. A Genetic Algorithm for Radiotherapy Pre-treatment Scheduling. In C. Chio, A. Brabazon, G. Di Caro, R. Drechsler, M. Farooq, J. Grahl, G. Greenfield, C. Prins, J. Romero, G. Squillero, E. Tarantino, A. Tettamanzi, N. Urquhart, and A. Uyar, editors, Applications of Evolutionary Computation, volume 6625 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 454–463. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011.

Working papers

  1. Invited chapter with Petrovic, D., Petrovic, S. and Kapamara, T. on Radiotherapy Scheduling for the book provisionally entitled “Automated Scheduling”, Springer, Studies in Computational Intelligence series. In Ozcan, E., Urquhart, N., and Uyar, S. editors. (Submitted on March 29, 2012)

Conference proceedings

  1. Segura, A., Castillo, M., Medaglia, A. L., and Castro, E. Optimización del proceso de asignación de turnos de acceso al sistema de elaboraciín de horarios vía Web en una universidad (Optimization of the student access to a university Web-based course scheduling system). XIII Latin-Ibero-American Congress on Operations Research (CLAIO), Montevideo, Uruguay, 2006.
  2. Castro, E. and Medaglia, A. L. Heurística basada en programación entera binaria para el problema de asignación de salones en una universidad (Integer programming-based heuristic for a university classroom assignment problem). XII Latin-Ibero-American Congress on Operations Research (CLAIO), La Habana, Cuba, 2004.
  3. Castro, E. and Restrepo, A. Descomposición de señales periódicas discretas en sumas de dos señales discretas periódicas (Decomposition of discrete periodic signals into sums of two periodic discrete signals). V Symposium on signal and image processing, and artificial vision. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 1998.

Conference talks

  1. Petrovic, S. and Castro, E. A genetic algorithm for radiotherapy pretreatment scheduling. Evo Star Conference, Turin, Italy, 2011.
  2. Castro, E. and Petrovic, S. A multi-objective genetic algorithm for the radiotherapy pretreatment scheduling problem using a dispatching rule-based representation. In Book of abstracts of the Student Conference on Operational Research (SCOR), page 20. University of Nottingham, 2010.
  3. Castro, E. and Petrovic, S. A mathematical programming model for the radiotherapy pretreatment scheduling problem. In Book of Abstracts of the European Conference on Operational Research (EURO), page 49, Bonn, Germany, 2009.
  4. Castro, E. Sefair, J. and Medaglia, A. L. SAPS: A University decision support system for campus expansion planning. IIE Annual Conference and Exposition 2007, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 2007.
  5. Castro, E. and Medaglia, A. Integer programming-based heuristic for a university classroom assignment problem. National seminar on applications of operations research, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia, 2006.
  6. Castro, E. and Medaglia, A. Integer programming-based heuristic for a university classroom assignment problem. XI Latin American Summer School on Operations Research (ELAVIO), Villa de Leyva, Colombia, 2005.

Workshops and seminars

  1. Castro, E. Patient scheduling in radiotherapy pretreatment. Talk given at the Faculty of Environment and Technology (FET) Seminar, University of the West of England, 2012.
  2. Castro, E. and Petrovic, S. Radiotherapy pretreatment scheduling: A mathematical programming model. Talk given at the LANCS healthcare modelling Ph.D. symposium, Cardiff University, 2009.
  3. Castro, E. and Petrovic, S. Radiotherapy pretreatment scheduling: A mathematical programming model. Talk given at the workshop organised wthin the EPSRC grand "Novel Approaches to Radiotherapy Planning and Scheduling in the NHS", University of Nottingham, 2008.
  4. Castro, E. and Petrovic, S. A survey on radiotherapy treatment scheduling and possible scheduling approaches. Talk given at the workshop organised wthin the EPSRC grand "Novel Approaches to Radiotherapy Planning and Scheduling in the NHS", Coventry University, 2008.
  5. Castro, E. and Medaglia, A. Integer programming-based heuristic for a university classroom assignment problem. International Course on Advanced Optimisation, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2006.

Supervision of graduate students

  1. A. Beech (M.Sc.), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, "User interface for radiotherapy scheduling enriched with propagation techniques for manual manipulation of the schedule", September 2011 (Supervisors: Petrovic, S. and Castro, E.)

Supervision of undergraduate students

  1. Huertas, I. (B.Sc.), Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, "Optimización del manejo de inventarios de materias primas en la empresa AGP Colombia (Optimization of the raw materials inventory for AGP Colombia (American Glass Products, a bullet resistant glass manufacturer))", May 2007 (Supervisors: Mejia, G. and Castro, E.)
  2. Vergara, N. (B.Sc.), Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, "Desarrollo e implementación de una política de inventario para el manejo de los repuestos de motos en la empresa AMC Colombia (Development and implementation of an inventory policy for a motorcycle spare parts importer and distributor)", December 2006 (Supervisors: Mejia, G. and Castro, E.)

Supervision of professional engineering program students

  1. Castillo, M. and Segura, A. Information Systems Professional Program - ESIO). Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, "Módulos de optimización para asignación de turnos de acceso al sistema de elaboración de horarios vía Web en la Universidad de los Andes (Optimisation of the Assignment of Access Turns to the Universidad de los Andes Web-based Teaching Timetable System)", October 2005 (Supervisors: Medaglia, A. and Castro, E.)

Editorial service

  1. European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR). Ad-hoc reviewer.

Awards

  1. School of Computer Science Ph.D. Studentship, University of Nottingham, UK, (2007-2011)
  2. Research Studentship, Département automatique et productique, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Nantes, France, (1998)

Last updated: May 9, 2012