João Pedro De Carvalho

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Cahiers du GERAD

Dec 2022

G-2022-61
Integrating short-term stochastic production planning updating to mining fleet management in industrial mining complexes: An actor-critic reinforcement learning approach

João Pedro De Carvalho and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

Short-term production planning in mining complexes involves a series of decisions concerning activities and processes to accomplish the long-term planning ...

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Apr 2021

G-2021-18
Towards real-time mining: Integrating production planning with truck-dispatching decisions through reinforcement learning while managing uncertainty

João Pedro De Carvalho and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

This paper presents a new truck dispatching policy approach that is adaptive given different mining complex configurations in order to deliver supply materia...

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Oct 2018

G-2018-85
High-order block support spatial simulation and application at a gold deposit

João Pedro De Carvalho, Roussos Dimitrakopoulos, and Ilnur Minniakhmetov

High-order sequential simulation methods have been developped as an alternative to existing frameworks to facilitate the modelling of spatial complexity of...

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Articles

Oct 2024

Integrating geometallurgy in the simulation of processing plant responses and applying policy gradient for shovel allocation in operating mining complexes

João Pedro De Carvalho and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

To appear in: International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, 2024 BibTeX reference

Jan 2024

Simultaneous shovel allocation and grade control decisions for short-term production planning of industrial mining complexes – an actor-critic approach

João Pedro De Carvalho and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, 38(1), 53–78, 2024 BibTeX reference

Oct 2023

Integrating short-term stochastic production planning updating to mining fleet management in industrial mining complexes: An actor-critic reinforcement learning approach

João Pedro De Carvalho and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

Applied Intelligence, 53, 23179–23202, 2023 BibTeX reference

Jun 2021

Integrating production planning with truck-dispatching decisions through reinforcement learning while managing uncertainty

João Pedro De Carvalho and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

Minerals, 11(6), Paper no: 587, 2021 BibTeX reference

Aug 2019

High-order block support spatial simulation and application at a gold deposit

João Pedro De Carvalho, Roussos Dimitrakopoulos, and Ilnur Minniakhmetov

Mathematical Geosciences, 51(6), 793–810, 2019 BibTeX reference

Apr 2019

Effects of high-order simulations on the simultaneous stochastic optimization of mining complexes

João Pedro De Carvalho and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

Minerals, 9(4), page 210, 2019 BibTeX reference

Proceedings

Jun 2023

Reinforcement learning applied to fleet allocation and informed short-term production planning of industrial mining complexes

João Pedro De Carvalho and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

Proceedings, Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Mineral Industry (APCOM), SME, Rapid City, SD, USA, 1–15, 2023 BibTeX reference

Sep 2021

Smart equipment allocation decisions and short-term stochastic production planning updating in mining complexes through reinforcement learning

João Pedro De Carvalho and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

Proceedings, Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Mineral Industry (APCOM), Johannesburg, South Africa, 35–44, 2021 BibTeX reference