The LANCS (Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton) Initiative in Foundational Operational Research: Building Theory for Practice
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Management Science
Abstract
The United Kingdom is the home of Operational Research (OR) and it maintains an application-oriented research tradition which is both true to its roots and which is also highly distinctive, if not unique. Many industries and public services are the beneficiaries of this effort, not least healthcare, finance, transport and defence. However, the EPSRC/ESRC 2004 International Review of the Research Status of OR in the UK warned that this leading position in applied work in OR could be jeopardised in the absence 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 in OR, have committed to a major expansion of research capacity in its theoretical foundations, supported by the additional resources available as a result of the current Science and Innovation call. The universities concerned have already worked together in the creation of NATCOR, an EPSRC-supported initiative aimed at strengthening doctoral programmes in the mathematics of OR. They have also evidenced their commitment to the subject by recent decisions (in advance of this call) to invest substantially in it.In total, the LANCS initiative will oversee additional new investment of approximately 12M through the five year period of the award, of which more than half comes from the institutions themselves. All the institutions have also committed to sustaining this additional capacity beyond the five year EPSRC funded period. This will have a major impact on the subject. The initiative aims to build and maintain a substantial new national capacity in its theoretical base by establishing this major cross-institutional and multi-disciplinary collaboration. Such a programme is crucial to support the health of the application oriented research which was highlighted as such a strength by the 2004 international review. Indeed, the main motivation of this proposal is to underpin the health of the UK research base in this critically important area. This far sighted initiative aims to establish theoretical advances in the field which are informed by, and which feed into, real applications.
Organisations
Publications
Aboudi R
(2008)
Inequality comparisons when the populations differ in size
in The Journal of Economic Inequality
Letchford A
(2008)
Odd Minimum Cut Sets and b -Matchings Revisited
in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Giandomenico M
(2008)
An application of the Lovász-Schrijver M(K, K) operator to the stable set problem
in Mathematical Programming
Kaut M
(2009)
Shape-based scenario generation using copulas
in Computational Management Science
Glazebrook K
(2009)
A Generalized Gittins Index for a Class of Multiarmed Bandits with General Resource Requirements
in Mathematics of Operations Research
Fleten S
(2009)
Optimization in the Energy Industry
Aas B
(2009)
The role of supply vessels in offshore logistics
in Maritime Economics & Logistics
Archibald T
(2009)
Indexability and Index Heuristics for a Simple Class of Inventory Routing Problems
in Operations Research
Burer S
(2009)
On Nonconvex Quadratic Programming with Box Constraints
in SIAM Journal on Optimization
Argon N
(2009)
DYNAMIC ROUTING OF CUSTOMERS WITH GENERAL DELAY COSTS IN A MULTISERVER QUEUING SYSTEM
in Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Glazebrook K
(2009)
Index Policies for the Admission Control and Routing of Impatient Customers to Heterogeneous Service Stations
in Operations Research
Fletcher A
(2009)
What is a 'generic' hospital model?--a comparison of 'generic' and 'specific' hospital models of emergency patient flows.
in Health care management science
Thapalia B
(2009)
Using inventory to handle risks in the supply of oil to Nepal
in International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling
Letchford A
(2009)
Exploiting sparsity in pricing routines for the capacitated arc routing problem
in Computers & Operations Research
Wallace S
(2009)
Stochastic programming and the option of doing it differently
in Annals of Operations Research
Letchford A
(2010)
On a class of metrics related to graph layout problems
in Linear Algebra and its Applications
Fortini M
(2010)
Computing compatible tours for the symmetric traveling salesman problem
in Mathematical Programming Computation
Caprara A
(2010)
New techniques for cost sharing in combinatorial optimization games
in Mathematical Programming
Meissner J
(2010)
Pricing structure optimization in mixed restricted/unrestricted fare environments
in Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management
D J Worthington (Co-Author)
(2010)
Operations research diffusion in healthcare management
in Journal of Health Care Finance
Aas B
(2010)
Management of Logistics Planning
in International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
Letchford A
(2010)
Binary positive semidefinite matrices and associated integer polytopes
in Mathematical Programming
Feng Y
(2010)
Dynamic coordination of production planning and sales admission control in the presence of a spot market
in Naval Research Logistics (NRL)
Zografos K
(2010)
A decision support system for total airport operations management and planning
in Journal of Advanced Transportation
Jiang H
(2010)
Network capacity management under competition
in Computational Optimization and Applications
Letchford A
(2010)
Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
Kaparis K
(2010)
Separation algorithms for 0-1 knapsack polytopes
in Mathematical Programming
Galli L
(2010)
Small bipartite subgraph polytopes
in Operations Research Letters
Caprara A
(2011)
Decorous Lower Bounds for Minimum Linear Arrangement
in INFORMS Journal on Computing
Chen L
(2011)
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control in a Make-to-Stock Queue With Information on the Production Status
in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Thapalia B
(2011)
Single source single-commodity stochastic network design
in Computational Management Science
Glazebrook K
(2011)
General notions of indexability for queueing control and asset management
in The Annals of Applied Probability
Hodge D
(2011)
Dynamic resource allocation in a multi-product make-to-stock production system
in Queueing Systems
Wallace S
(2011)
Flexibility, information structure, options, and market power in robust supply chains
in International Journal of Production Economics
Galli L
(2011)
Gap inequalities for non-convex mixed-integer quadratic programs
in Operations Research Letters
Giandomenico M
(2011)
Integer Programming and Combinatoral Optimization
Shen H
(2011)
The component procurement problem for the loss-averse manufacturer with spot purchase
in International Journal of Production Economics
Letchford A
(2011)
On the membership problem for the -closure
in Operations Research Letters
Mu Q
(2011)
Disrupted capacitated vehicle routing problem with order release delay
in Annals of Operations Research
Vaagen H
(2011)
Modelling consumer-directed substitution
in International Journal of Production Economics
Crainic T
(2011)
Progressive hedging-based metaheuristics for stochastic network design
in Networks
Izady N
(2011)
Approximate analysis of non-stationary loss queues and networks of loss queues with general service time distributions
in European Journal of Operational Research
Feremans C
(2011)
Generalized network design polyhedra
in Networks
Pang Z
(2011)
Optimal dynamic pricing and inventory control with stock deterioration and partial backordering
in Operations Research Letters
Downing M
(2011)
Forecasting in airforce supply chains
in The International Journal of Logistics Management
Vaagen H
(2011)
The value of numerical models in quick response assortment planning
in Production Planning & Control
Amaral A
(2012)
A polyhedral approach to the single row facility layout problem
in Mathematical Programming
Letchford A
(2012)
Fast bounding procedures for large instances of the Simple Plant Location Problem
in Computers & Operations Research
Thapalia B
(2012)
Single-commodity network design with random edge capacities
in European Journal of Operational Research
King Alan J.
(2012)
Modeling with Stochastic Programming
Description | The LANCS Initiative has grown research capability in foundational OR in the UK. 22 permanent academic posts (lecturer, senior lecturer and professor) have been established in the four universities (Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton). Significant progress has been achieved in the six research clusters (Healthcare, Optimisation, Transport and Logistics, Heuristic Understanding, Stochastic Modelling and Systems to Build Systems). For details of collaboration, dissemination and research impact, please refer to the 60-month report at the URL below. |
Exploitation Route | Please refer to the LANCS Initiative 60-month report at the URL below. Please refer to the LANCS Initiative 60-month report at the URL below. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Transport |
URL | http://www.lancs-initiative.ac.uk/page/211/60-Month-Report.htm |
Description | Impact has been achieved in the following areas: Air transportation Health care Revenue Management Green logistics |
First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Education,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Retail,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |