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Daniela Scherer dos Santos

About Me

I received a B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from the University of Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brazil, in 2000, and an MSc degree in Computer Science from UFRGS, RS, Brazil, in 2009. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where I am part of the ALGorithms and Optimization (ALGO) Lab. My research focuses on developing algorithms for graph-related problems, with a particular emphasis on their multiobjective formulations.

Publications

Journal Articles
Solving the Multiobjective Quasi-Clique Problem
D. S. dos Santos, K. Klamroth, P. Martins, L. Paquete
European Journal of Operational Research, 2024.

Distributed clustering for group formation and task allocation in multiagent systems: A swarm intelligence approach
D. S. dos Santos, A. L. C. Bazzan
Applied Soft Computing, 12(8):2123-2131, 2012.

Conference Papers
A Path-Relinking-based Heuristic for the Multiobjective Subgraph Problem
D. S. dos Santos, K. Klamroth, P. Martins, L. Paquete
Proceedings of the 2025 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2025), 2025.

Preprints
Solving the Multiobjective Quasi-Clique Problem
D. S. dos Santos, K. Klamroth, P. Martins, L. Paquete
arXiv:2403.10896, 2024.

Ensuring connectedness for the Maximum Quasi-Clique and Densest k-Subgraph problems
D. S. dos Santos, K. Klamroth, P. Martins, L. Paquete
arXiv:2403.08534, 2024.

Books chapters
A Multiagent, Multiobjective Clustering Algorithm
D. S. dos Santos, D. Oliveira, A. L. C. Bazzan
Data Mining and Multi-agent Integration, 239-249, Springer, 2009.

Abstracts
Ensuring connectedness for the Maximum Quasi-Clique and Densest k-Subgraph problems
D. S. dos Santos, K. Klamroth, P. Martins, L. Paquete
Optimization Conference, 2023.

A Dynamic Local Search algorithm for the Maximum Quasi-clique Problem
D. S. dos Santos, P. Martins, L. Paquete
European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO) XXXV - Combinatorial Optimization (CO) 2022 Joint Conference, 2022.

Contact Information

E-mail: dssantos (at) dei.uc.pt
Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra
Polo II, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal