The LANCS (Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton) Initiative in Foundational Operational Research: Building Theory for Practice
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: School of Computer Science
Abstract
The United Kingdom is the home of Operational Research (OR) and itmaintains an application-oriented research tradition which is both trueto its roots and which is also highly distinctive, if not unique. Manyindustries and public services are the beneficiaries of this effort, notleast healthcare, finance, transport and defence. However, the EPSRC/ESRC 2004 International Review of the Research Status of OR in the UK warned thatthis leading position in applied work in OR could be jeopardised in theabsence of a critical mass of researchers developing underpinning theory.In the LANCS (Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff, Southampton) initiative,four universities, which have been at the forefront of UK research inOR, have committed to a major expansion of research capacity in itstheoretical foundations, supported by the additional resources availableas a result of the current Science and Innovation call. The universitiesconcerned have already worked together in the creation of NATCOR, anEPSRC-supported initiative aimed at strengthening doctoral programmes inthe mathematics of OR. They have also evidenced their commitment to thesubject by recent decisions (in advance of this call) to investsubstantially in it.In total, the LANCS initiative will oversee additional new investment ofapproximately 12M through the five year period of the award, of whichmore than half comes from the institutions themselves. All theinstitutions have also committed to sustaining this additional capacitybeyond the five year EPSRC funded period. This will have a major impacton the subject. The initiative aims to build and maintain a substantialnew national capacity in its theoretical base by establishing this majorcross-institutional and multi-disciplinary collaboration. Such aprogramme is crucial to support the health of the application orientedresearch which was highlighted as such a strength by the 2004international review. Indeed, the main motivation of this proposal is tounderpin the health of the UK research base in this critically importantarea. This far sighted initiative aims to establish theoreticaladvances in the field which are informed by, and which feed into, realapplications.
Organisations
Publications
Ender Özcan (Author)
(2008)
A Greedy-Gradient - Simulated Annealing Hyper-heuristic
Ender Özcan (Author)
(2008)
A Comprehensive Analysis of Hyper-heuristics
in Intelligent Data Analysis
Edmund K. Burke (Author)
(2008)
A Study of Simulated Annealing Hyperheuristics
Edmund K. Burke (Author)
(2008)
Learning Heuristic Selection in Hyperheuristics for Examination Timetabling
Murat Birben (Author)
(2008)
Grouping Hyper-heuristics
Özcan E
(2008)
A case study of memetic algorithms for constraint optimization
in Soft Computing
Ender Özcan (Author)
(2009)
Multilevel search for choosing hyper-heuristics
Asik Ö
(2009)
Bidirectional best-fit heuristic for orthogonal rectangular strip packing
in Annals of Operations Research
Ender Özcan (Author)
(2009)
A Self-Organising Hyper-heuristic Framework
Matthew Hyde (Author)
(2009)
Multilevel Search for Evolving the Acceptance Criteria of a Hyper-Heuristic
Burke E
(2009)
Computational Intelligence
Ozcan E
(2009)
A greedy hyper-heuristic in dynamic environments
Ibrahim Maden (Author)
(2009)
Landscape Analysis of Simple Perturbative Hyper-Heuristics
Gibbs J
(2010)
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN XI
Syariza Abdul Rahman (Author)
(2010)
A Construction Approach for Examination Timetabling based on Adaptive Decomposition and Ordering
Andrew Parkes (Author)
(2010)
Properties of Yeditepe Examination Timetabling Benchmark Instances
Jason A. D. Atkin (Author)
(2010)
The Airport Ground Movement Problem: Past and Current Research and Future Directions
Burke E
(2010)
Handbook of Metaheuristics
Atkin J
(2010)
TSAT allocation at London Heathrow: the relationship between slot compliance, throughput and equity
in Public Transport
Özcan E
(2010)
A Reinforcement Learning - Great-Deluge Hyper-Heuristic for Examination Timetabling
in International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing
Ortiz-Bayliss J
(2010)
Mapping the performance of heuristics for Constraint Satisfaction
Burke E
(2010)
Monte Carlo hyper-heuristics for examination timetabling
in Annals of Operations Research
Atkin J
(2011)
A comparison of two methods for reducing take-off delay at London Heathrow airport
in Journal of Scheduling
Özcan E
(2011)
Policy matrix evolution for generation of heuristics
John H. Drake (Author)
(2011)
Controlling Crossover in a Selection Hyper-heuristic Framework
Li J
(2011)
Evolutionary squeaky wheel optimization: a new framework for analysis.
in Evolutionary computation
Ortiz-Bayliss J
(2011)
Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Kiraz B
(2011)
Applications of Evolutionary Computation
Abdul-Rahman S
(2011)
A constructive approach to examination timetabling based on adaptive decomposition and ordering
in Annals of Operations Research
Amadeo Asco (Author)
(2011)
The Airport Baggage Sorting Station Allocation Problem
Swan J
(2011)
Learning and Intelligent Optimization
Ender Özcan (Author)
(2011)
A Dominance based Hyper-heuristic
Ruibin Bai (Author)
(2011)
A Game Theoretic Approach for the Taxi Scheduling Problem with Street Hailing
Jason Atkin (Author)
(2011)
A Statistical Approach for Taxi Time Estimation at London Heathrow Airport
Özcan E
(2011)
Computer and Information Sciences II
Pieter Smet (Author)
(2012)
Investigation of Fairness Measures for Nurse Rostering
Drake J
(2012)
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XII
Ender Ozcan (Author)
(2012)
A study of hyper-heuristics for examination timetabling
Per Kristian Lehre (Author)
(2012)
A Time-Complexity Analysis of Hyper-Heuristics
Özcan E
(2012)
The Interleaved Constructive Memetic Algorithm and its application to timetabling
in Computers & Operations Research
Ahmed Kheiri (Author)
(2012)
HySST: Hyper-heuristic Search Strategies and Timetabling
Jerry Swan (Author)
(2012)
Co-evolving Add and Delete Heuristics
Parkes A
(2012)
Genetic Programming
Uludag G
(2012)
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XII
Bai R
(2012)
Tabu assisted guided local search approaches for freight service network design
in Information Sciences
Ender Ozcan (Author)
(2012)
Round-robin strategy-based selection hyper-heuristic
| Description | Strategic growth of operational research in the UK |
| Exploitation Route | Strategic growth of operational research in the UK |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Energy Environment Financial Services and Management Consultancy Healthcare Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Transport |