Transcript Edmund Burke

LANCS Initiative
Scientific and Industrial Advisory Board
November 28-29 2011, Cumberland Lodge
Investing the LANCS Resources
Edmund Burke
Nottingham / Stirling
Sanja Petrovic
Automated Scheduling, Optimisation
and Planning Group (ASAP)
School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham
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ASAP Group
7 members of academic staff
8 research fellows
1 industrial research associate
38 PhD students
1 MRes student
1 member of administrative
support staff
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LANCS Members
• 4 Lecturers
• 1 Transitional Fellow
• To be appointed: 1 Professor
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Collaboration with Stirling
• Apply together for research funding
in relevant research areas.
• Common supervision of PhD students
and post-doctoral research students.
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Collaboration with Stirling
(cont)
EPSRC Programme Grant Application
• A joint application for £6.7M between UCL,
Stirling/Nottingham, Birmingham and York
• Successfully through to the final stage;
interview in February
• Will address the challenge of adaptivity in
search based software engineering by
exploring hyper-heuristic methods
• Close synergy with LANCS 'Systems to Build Systems' cluster
• Strong support from partner universities
• Stirling and Nottingham plan to work closely together
- joint supervisions
- potential funding for both institutions
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Sustainability of
Research Capacity
 How to ensure the sustainability of
research capacity beyond the grant support ?
• MSc course on Operational Research
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Unique feature: offered by the School of Computer
Science
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Syllabus would reflect our expertise in Operational
Research, and Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence
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Research Between/Within
Clusters
Healthcare
 + Southampton & Lancaster
Understanding heuristics for communication of
optimisation and simulation with application
to A&E staffing
 + Cardiff, Staff Rosters Solutions
Better understanding of heuristics for nurse rostering
 +City Hospital Nottingham
Optimisation
Heuristic Understanding
Radiotherapy planning and scheduling
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Systems to Build Systems
+ Southampton & Portsmouth cooperative search
+ Turkish university (hyper-)heuristics in dynamic environments
Transport
and ofLogistics
Landscape
analysis
heuristics for stochastic optimisation problems
Formulation and understanding the landscape and heuristics for timetabling problems
Stochastic Modelling
 + Southampton, NATS and EUROCONTROL
Improvement of airport operations
 + Southampton have joined SINTEF in a consortium
 Work on the real airport problems at Heathrow
 +Optrak
Real world vehicle routing problems
 Computer-based search methodologies
available at reasonable cost
to small organisations
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Questions ?
All comments are very welcome!
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