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
Özcan E
(2008)
A case study of memetic algorithms for constraint optimization
in Soft Computing
Ravizza S
(2017)
A combined statistical approach and ground movement model for improving taxi time estimations at airports
in Journal of the Operational Research Society
Atkin J
(2011)
A comparison of two methods for reducing take-off delay at London Heathrow airport
in Journal of Scheduling
Ender Özcan (Author)
(2008)
A Comprehensive Analysis of Hyper-heuristics
in Intelligent Data Analysis
Syariza Abdul Rahman (Author)
(2010)
A Construction Approach for Examination Timetabling based on Adaptive Decomposition and Ordering
Abdul-Rahman S
(2011)
A constructive approach to examination timetabling based on adaptive decomposition and ordering
in Annals of Operations Research
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
Kalender M
(2013)
A greedy gradient-simulated annealing selection hyper-heuristic
in Soft Computing
Ozcan E
(2009)
A greedy hyper-heuristic in dynamic environments
Ender Özcan (Author)
(2008)
A Greedy-Gradient - Simulated Annealing Hyper-heuristic
Uludag G
(2013)
A hybrid multi-population framework for dynamic environments combining online and offline learning
in Soft Computing
G Secme (Author)
(2012)
A Hyper-heuristic Approach to Parallel Assembly Line Balancing Problems
Tim Pigden (Author)
(2012)
A Library of Vehicle Routing Problems
Ravizza S
(2013)
A more realistic approach for airport ground movement optimisation with stand holding
in Journal of Scheduling
Bai R
(2017)
A novel approach to independent taxi scheduling problem based on stable matching
in Journal of the Operational Research Society
Özcan E
(2010)
A Reinforcement Learning - Great-Deluge Hyper-Heuristic for Examination Timetabling
in International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing
Lehre P
(2013)
A runtime analysis of simple hyper-heuristics
Ender Özcan (Author)
(2009)
A Self-Organising Hyper-heuristic Framework
Bayliss C
(2016)
A simulation scenario based mixed integer programming approach to airline reserve crew scheduling under uncertainty
in Annals of Operations Research
Jason Atkin (Author)
(2011)
A Statistical Approach for Taxi Time Estimation at London Heathrow Airport
Bykov Y
(2016)
A Step Counting Hill Climbing Algorithm applied to University Examination Timetabling
in Journal of Scheduling
Kheiri A
(2014)
A stochastic local search algorithm with adaptive acceptance for high-school timetabling
in Annals of Operations Research
Ender Ozcan (Author)
(2012)
A study of hyper-heuristics for examination timetabling
Edmund K. Burke (Author)
(2008)
A Study of Simulated Annealing Hyperheuristics
Per Kristian Lehre (Author)
(2012)
A Time-Complexity Analysis of Hyper-Heuristics
He F
(2014)
A two-stage stochastic mixed-integer program modelling and hybrid solution approach to portfolio selection problems
in Information Sciences
Abdul Rahman S
(2014)
Adaptive linear combination of heuristic orderings in constructing examination timetables
in European Journal of Operational Research
Atkin J
(2013)
Addressing the Pushback Time Allocation Problem at Heathrow Airport
in Transportation Science
Ortiz-Bayliss J
(2011)
Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Kiraz B
(2011)
Applications of Evolutionary Computation
Kiraz B
(2013)
Applications of Evolutionary Computation
Atkin J
(2013)
Automated Scheduling and Planning
Özcan E
(2013)
Bidirectional best-fit heuristic considering compound placement for two dimensional orthogonal rectangular strip packing
in Expert Systems with Applications
Asik Ö
(2009)
Bidirectional best-fit heuristic for orthogonal rectangular strip packing
in Annals of Operations Research
Lehre P
(2012)
Black-Box Search by Unbiased Variation
in Algorithmica
Asta S
(2016)
CHAMP: Creating heuristics via many parameters for online bin packing
in Expert Systems with Applications
Jerry Swan (Author)
(2012)
Co-evolving Add and Delete Heuristics
Asta S
(2016)
Combining Monte-Carlo and hyper-heuristic methods for the multi-mode resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem
in Information Sciences
Burke E
(2009)
Computational Intelligence
Özcan E
(2012)
Computer and Information Sciences II
Pappa G
(2013)
Contrasting meta-learning and hyper-heuristic research: the role of evolutionary algorithms
in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
John H. Drake (Author)
(2011)
Controlling Crossover in a Selection Hyper-heuristic Framework
Martin S
(2013)
Cooperative search for fair nurse rosters
in Expert Systems with Applications
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 |