1. Title: An investigation of the role of Genetic Programming in a Hyper-Heuristic Framework (EP/C523385/1 and EP/C523377/1)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded (Nottingham - EP/C523385/1): £227,675
   Amount Awarded (Essex - EP/C523377/1): £246,984
   Collaborator Suppoprt: BT Group plc (£15,300)
   Principal Investigator(Nottingham - EP/C523385/1): E.K.Burke
   Principal Investigator(Essex - EP/C523385/1): R.Poli
   Co-Investigators: G.Kendall, N.Krasnogor and E.Tsang
   Start Date: 1st October 2005
   End Date: 30th June 2009
   Notes: This was a joint project (worth a total of £489,959) between the University of Essex and the University of Nottingham. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
2. Title: PLATFORM: Towards More General Optimisation/Search Systems (GR/S70197/01)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £422,908
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigators: S.Petrovic, G.Kendall, J.M.Garibaldi and N.Krasnogor
   Recognised Researcher: K.A.Dowsland
   Start Date: 1st February 2004
   End Date: 31st May 2009
   Notes: This project was an EPSRC platform award. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
3. Title: DNA Mapping by Combinatorial Optimisation - A Visiting Fellowship (GR/S64530/01)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £10,224
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigators: J.Hirst, G.Kendall and N.Krasnogor
   Start Date: 1st September 2003
   End Date: 31st May 2007
   Notes: This was a visiting fellowship to enable Prof Jacek Blazewicz to visit the research group over a period of three years and nine months. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
4. Title: Novel Meta-heuristic Research Directions In Healthcare Personnel Rostering (GR/S31150)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £191,581
   Collaborator Support: ORTEC Consultants B.V. (£81,000), Gower optimal Algorithms Ltd (£22,500) and KaHo St-Lieven (£3,000)
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigators: S.Petrovic and G.Kendall
   Start Date: 1st October 2003
   End Date: 31st March 2007
   Notes: This project was supported by ORTEC Consultants B.V., Gower Optimal Algorithms Ltd and KaHo St.-Lieven. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
5. Title: Hybrid Metaheuristic Solutions for Runway Scheduling
   Funding Body:  NATS
   Amount Awarded: £7,900
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-investigator: Jason Atkin
   Start Date: 1st January 2007
   End Date: 31st March 2007
   Notes: This grant continued our collaborative research with National Air Traffic Services Ltd to explore metaheuristic methodologies for runway scheduling.
    
6. Title: Hybrid Meta-heuristics for Air Traffic Control Scheduling
   Funding Body:  EPSRC through the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering
   Amount Awarded: £40K
   Collaborator Support: National Air Traffic Services Ltd (£21K)
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Start Date: 1st October 2003
   End Date: 30th September 2006
   Notes: This project was a CASE studentship which was supported by National Air Traffic Services Ltd.
    
7. Title: An Investigation of Hyperheuristic Methods (Ref No: GR/N36837/01)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC.
   Amount Awarded: £196,343 (Nottingham) and £256,547 (Napier)
   Principal Investigator (Nottingham): E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigators (Nottingham): P.I.Cowling, S.Petrovic and G.Kendall
   Principal Investigator (Napier University): P.Ross
   Co-Investigator(Napier University): E.Hart
   Started: December 2000
   Finished: July 2004
   Notes: This was a joint project between the University of Nottingahm and Napier University. During the project, one of the co-investigators (P.I.Cowling) left the University of Nottingham and joined the University of Bradford where he retained an interest in the project. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
8. Title: An Inter-disciplinary Scheduling Network (Ref No: GR/R12268/01)
   Funding Body: EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £62,985
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigators: P.Cowling, S.Petrovic and G.Kendall
   Collaborators: 18 UK Universities across many disciplines
   Started: April 2001
   Finished: May 2004
   Notes: This project had 18 initial partner institutions from across the UK. We increased that number as the project progressed to over 100 people from over 70 institutions from across academia and industry. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
9. Title: A Case Based Approach to Heuristic Selection for Timetabling (Ref No: GR/M95516/01)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC.
   Amount Awarded: £190,545
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigators: S.Petrovic and P.I.Cowling
   Started: March 2000
   Finished: October 2003
   Notes: A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Port folio.
    
10. Title: Tutorials in Optimisation and Search Methodology: A Workshop at the Interface of Artificial Intelligence and Operational Research
    Funding Bodies:  EPSRC and the London Mathematical Society (LMS) under the Mathematics for IT (MathFIT) initiative.
    Amount Awarded: £5,000
    Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
    Co-Investigator: G.Kendall
    Co-Author: Dario Landa Silva
    Started: February 2003
    Finished: September 2003
    Notes: This grant supported the INTROS workshop, held at Nottingham in 2003.
     
11. Title: Automated Space Allocation (Ref No: JTAP-4/84)
    Funding Body:  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the HEFC's (Joint Technology Applications Programme)
    Amount Awarded: £110,800
    Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
    Co-Investigator: P.H.Ford 
    Award Notification Date: August 1996
    Started: October 1996
    Finished: September 1999
    Notes: This grant supported and underpinned our work on automated office space allocation.
     
12. Title: Timetabling to Please most of the Staff Most of the Time (Ref No: NTI/64)
    Funding Body:  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the HEFC's
    Amount Awarded: £88,015
    Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
    Co-Investigators: D.G.Elliman and P.H.Ford 
    Award Notification Date: June 1994
    Started: October 1994
    Finished: September 1997
    Notes: This grant provided a foundation for much of the work that we have since undertaken on automated timetabling.
     

1. Title: New Approaches to produce efficient nesting patterns (Ref No: 3047)
   Funding Body:  Teaching Company Directorate and Esprit Automation Ltd.
   Amount Awarded: £86,268 (Teaching Company) and £40,400 (Esprit)
   Lead Academic: E.K.Burke
   Academic Supervisor: G.Kendall
   Started: September 2000
   Finished: October 2003

1. Title: NETWORK: Interdisciplinary Cutting, Packing and Space Allocation (EP/D031079/01)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £63,212
   Principal Investigator: G.Kendall
   Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke
   Start Date: 1st March 2006
   End Date: 28th February 2009
   Notes: This is an inter-disciplinary network across academia and industry. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
2. Title: Towards a Framework for Modelling Variation in Automated Decision Support (EP/C542207/1)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £143,282 (Nottingham) and £145,356 (De Montfort)
   Principal Investigator (Nottingham): J.Garibaldi
   Principal Investigator (De Montfort): R.John
   Co-Investigators (Nottingham): E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigator (Coventry): F Chiclana Parrilla
   Start Date: 1st January 2006
   End Date: 30th June 2009
   Notes: This is a collaborative project with De Montfort University. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
3. Title: Robust Prediction with Explanatory Power for Protein Structure and Related Prediction Problems (GR/T07534/01)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £209,589
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and J.D.Hirst
   Start Date: 1st March 2005
   End Date: 30th April 2008
   Notes: This is a joint project between the School of Computer Science and IT and the School of Chemistry here at Nottingham. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
4. Title: Service Level Agreement Based Scheduling Heuristics (Ref No: GR/S67661/01)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £141,492
   Principal Investigator: J.Garibaldi
   Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and S.Petrovic
   Start Date: 1st February 2004
   End Date: 31st October 2007
   Notes: This was a collaborative project with the University of Manchester. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
5. Title: Collaborative Decision Making in Uncertain Environments
   Funding Body:  EPSRC through the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering.
   Amount Awarded: £40K
   Collaborator Support: Merlin Systems Corp Ltd (£27K)
   Principal Investigator: J.M.Garibaldi
   Co-Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Start Date: 1st October 2004
   End Date: 30th September 2007
   Notes: This project was a CASE studentship which was supported by Merlin Systems Corp Ltd.
    
6. Title: Hybrid Meta-heuristic Optimisation of Chiral Catalysts (GR/S75765/01)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £220,227
   Principal Investigator: J.Hirst
   Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and B.Lygo
   Recognised Researcher: J.L.Melville
   Start Date: 1st April 2004
   End Date: 30th September 2007
   Notes: This was a joint project between the School of Computer Science and IT and the School of Chemistry here at Nottingham. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
7. Title: An Investigation of Cutting/Packing and Planning using Automated Algorithm Selection (Ref No: GR/S52414/01)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £153,670
   Principal Investigator: G.Kendall
   Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and J.Bennel
   Start Date: 2nd February 2004
   End Date: 1st February 2007
   Notes: This was a collaborative project with the University of Southampton. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
8. Title: Fuzzy Multicriteria Approaches to Scheduling and Rescheduling Problems in Uncertain Environments (Ref No: GR/R95319/01
   Funding Body:  EPSRC, Sherwood Press Ltd and Denby Pottery Compnay Ltd.
   Amount Awarded: £211,594 (Nottingham) and £210,743 (Coventry)
   Collaborator Support: Sherwood Press Ltd (£60,000) and Denby Pottery Company Ltd (£70,000)
   Principal Investigator (Nottingham): S.Petrovic
   Principal Investigator (Coventry): D.Petrovic
   Co-Investigators (Nottingham): E.K.Burke and G.Kendall
   Co-Investigators (Coventry): C.Reeves and K.Burnham
   Start Date: 1st January 2003
   End Date: 30th September 2006
   Notes: This was a collaborative project with Coventry University which was supported by Sherwood Press Ltd and Denby Pottery Company Ltd. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
9. Title: Automated Grid-Aware, three-tier, Protocol for Protein Structure Comparison (BB/C511764/1)
   Funding Body:  BBSRC
   Amount Awarded: £66,3614
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke, J.D.Hirst, J. Garibaldi, H. Ashman, T. Brailsford
   Start Date: 1st Feb 2005
   End Date: 31st July 2006
   Notes: This was a joint project between the School of Computer Science and IT and the School of Chemistry here at Nottingham. External collaborators were Prof. G. Lancia and Dr. D.A. Pelta.
    
10. Title: An Investigation of Novel Methods for Optimising Shelf Space Allocation (Ref No: GR/R60577/01).
    Funding Body:  EPSRC
    Amount Awarded: £62,947
    Collaborator Support: Tesco (£30,000), Retail Vision (£8,0 00) and Space Software Solutions Ltd (£8,800)
    Principal Investigator: G.Kendall
    Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke, P.I.Cowling and S.Petrovic.
    Started: 31st July 2002
    Finished: 30th July 2005
    Notes: A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
     
11. Title: A Hybrid Meta-heuristic Approach to Simplified Sequence-Structure-Function Problems (Ref No: 42/BIO14458)
    Funding Body: The BBSRC/EPSRC Bio-informatics initiative.
    Amount Awarded: £134,844
    Principal Investigator: J.Hirst (Chemistry)
    Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke, P.I.Cowling, G.Kendall and S.Petrovic
    Started: 20th August 2001
    Finished: 3rd February 2005
    Notes: This was a joint project between the School of Computer Science and IT and the School of Chemistry at Nottingham.
     
12. Title: Case Based Reasoning in Personnel Rostering (Ref No: GR/N35205/01)
    Funding Body: EPSRC
    Amount Awarded: £58,684
    Collaborative Support: Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham (£24,000)
    Principal Investigator: S.Petrovic
    Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and P.Cowling.
    Started: 1st December 2000
    Finished: 31st August 2004
    Notes: This was a joint project between the School of Computer Science and IT,
    the Queens Medical Centre and the School of Nursing at Nottingham. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Port folio.
     
13. Title: Using real time information for effective dynamic scheduling (Ref No: GR/N04225/01 and GR/N04225/02)
    Funding Body:  EPSRC
    Amount Awarded: £48,939
    Collaborative Support: Dash Optimization (£43,500).
    Principal Investigator (University of Bradford): P.I.Cowling
    Co-Investigators (Nottingham): S.Petrovic and E.K.Burke
    Started: April 2000
    Finished: July 2004
    Notes: This project was supported by Dash Optimization. The grant was held at the University of Nottingham (GR/N04225/01) but following Peter Cowling's move to the University of Bradford, the grant was held there (GR/N04225/02) in the final stages. The PhD student who was supported by the grant remained at Nottingham throughoutand the project was carried out collaboratively between the two institutions. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
     
14. Title: Scheduling Agents for distributed timetabling and rostering - A Visiting Fellowship (Ref No: GR/S53459/01)
    Funding Body:  EPSRC
    Amount Awarded: £10,350
    Principal Investigator: G.Kendall
    Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and S.Petrovic
    Started: July 2003
    Finished: April 2004
    Notes: This was a visiting fellowship to enable Prof Amnon Meisels to visit the research group for 3 visits over a nine month period. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
     
15. Title: Representational design principles to humanise automated systems (Ref No: L328253012)
    Funding Body: The ESRC/EPSRC People At the Centre of Communication and Information Technologies (PACCIT) programme
    Amount Awarded: £264,650
    Principal Investigator (Sussex): P.Cheng (Psychology)
    Co-Investigators (Bradford): P.Cowling
    Co-Investigators (Nottingham): E.K.Burke
    Co-Investigators (Queen's): B.McCollum
    Started: December 2000
    Finished: March 2004
    Notes: This was originally a joint project between the School of Computer Science and IT (Nottingham), the School of Psychology (Nottingham) and the Queen's University of Belfast. During the project, Peter Cheng moved to the University of Sussex and Peter Cowling moved to the University of Bradford.
     
16. Title: A Dual Examination of Scheduling Problems - A Visiting Fellowship (GR/S07124/01)
    Funding Body:  EPSRC
    Amount Awarded: £7,800
    Collaborative Support: Sherwood Press Ltd (£17,000).
    Principal Investigator: S.Petrovic
    Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and G.Kendall
    Started: September 2002
    Finished: August 2003
    Notes: This project supported 3 visits by Prof Moshe Dror of the University of Arizona over a 1 year period. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
     
17. Title: Bringing Ceilidh Based Products to Market
    Funding Body:  HEFC's Teaching and Learning Technology continuation programme
    Amount Awarded: £50,000
    Principal Investigator: S.D.Benford
    Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke, E.Foxley and C.A.Higgins
    Award Notification Date: February 1996
    Started: 1st March 1996
    Finished: 28th February 1998
    Notes: This was a follow on grant to support our highly successful HEFC funded (see below) work on automated computer program assessment.
     
18. Title: An Intuitive Graphical User Interfaces Report Writer (Ref No.: GR/K40222/01)
    Funding Body:  EPSRC and Midland Software Ltd.
    Amount Awarded: £ 274,661
    Lead Academic: D.G.Elliman
    Co-Investigators: C.A.Higgins and E.K.Burke
    Award Notification Date: December 1994
    Started: 10th July 1995
    Finished: 1st October 1997
    Notes: This was a Teaching Company Scheme award in the days when they were administered through EPSRC.
     
19. Title: Courseware for the Automatic Assessment of Programming
    Funding Body:  Universities Funding Council's Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TTLP)
    Amount Awarded: £ 170,000
    Lead Academic: S.D.Benford
    Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and E.Foxley
    Award Notification Date: March 1992
    Started: October 1992
    Finished: September 1995
    Notes: This grant to explore methodologies for automated computer program assessment was awarded to a consortium of 5 universities led by us.  The whole consortium received £278,000, Nottingham’s share being £170,000.

1. Title: An Enquiry Management System (Ref No: 1734)
   Funding Body:  Teaching Company Directorate (TCD) and Soutron Ltd.
   Amount Awarded: £91,000 (TCD) and  £39,000 (Soutron)
   Lead Academic: C.A.Higgins
   Academic Supervisors: E.K.Burke and M.O'Brien
   Award Notification Date: March 1995
   Started: 1st April 1995
   Finished: 31st March 1997
   Notes: This was a teaching company project aimed at transferring university expertise into the company.

1. Title: Computational Intelligence for Biopattern Analysis in Support of e-healthcare (BIOPATTERN)
   Funding Body:  EU 6th Framework Network of Excellence
   Amount Awarded (to whole consortium): approx. 6.4M euro
   Amount Awarded (to Nottingham): approx 330K euro
   Network Co-ordinator (University of Plymouth): E.C.Ifeachor
   Lead Researcher at Nottingham: J.M.Garibaldi
   Other Named Research Staff at Nottingham: E.K.Burke, N.Krasnogor, J.Hirst, I.Symonds and J.Lowe
   Start Date: 1st January 2004
   End Date: 31st December 2007
   Contract Number: IST e-health 508803
   Notes: This was a network of excellence that involved 31 organisations across the EU. It was concerned with exploring emerging research issues and co-ordinating EU research efforts in the area of cancer and brain disease. Our contribution investigated and developed an optimisation engine to underpin decision support systems for investigating the role of protein folding in the early detection/progression of Alzheimer's disease.
    
2. Title: BIOPTRAIN - Research Training Network for Bioinformatics Optimisation
   Funding Body:  EU 6th Framework Marie Curie Early-Stage Training
   Indicative Amount Awarded (to whole consortium): approx. 2M euro
   Indicative Amount Awarded (to Nottingham): approx 800K euro
   Network Co-ordinator (University of Nottingham): J.M.Garibaldi
   Lead Researcher at Nottingham: J.M.Garibaldi
   Other Named Research Staff at Nottingham: E.K.Burke, N.Krasnogor and J.Hirst.
   Start Date: 1st September 2005
   End Date: 31st August 2009
   Other institutions in the Network: Poznan University of Technology (Poland), KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Firenze (Italy) and University of Boras (Sweden).
   Reference Number: Proposal:007597
   Notes: This is a research training network that supports 12 PhD studentships across the EU to address a wide variety of research issues in bioinformatics optimisation.
   

1. Title: Commercialisation of Internationally Leading Cutting and Packing Technologies
   Funding Body:  Nottingham Innovation and Regional Award (NIRA). NIRA is is funded by HEFCE under the HEROB aC Transitional Fund.
   Amount Awarded: £6,000
   Lead Award Holder: E.K.Burke
   Other Award Holders: G.Kendall and P.H.Ford.
   Start Date: 1st April 2004
   End Date: 30th September 2005
   Notes: This project supported the spin off of Aptia Solutions Ltd to commercially exploit new cutting/packing technologies in a range of industries.
    
2. Title: Decision Support for the Textile and Leather Industries - A HEROB C Innovation and Regional Fellowship (HIRF)
   Funding Body:  HIRF is funded by HEFCE under the HEROBC II Programme and the East Midlands Development Age ncy (EMDA).
   Amount Awarded: £12,330
   Lead Award Holder: E.K.Burke
   Other Award Holders: G.Kendall and P.H.Ford.
   Start Date: 1st April 2004
   End Date: 30th September 2005
   Reference Number: HIRF/084
   Notes: This project was concerned with taking to market the cutting/ packing research of the ASAP group in the leather/textile industries. It was conducted in conjunction with the NIRA award (see above) and was supported by it .
    

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