"Learning without thought is labor lost." -- Confucius.
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Dario Landa-Silva
BEng, MSc, PhD
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computer Science,
The University of Nottingham
Member of the ASAP Research Group,
ORS and INFORMS
See also Brief CV
Room C76, School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
Tel: +44 (0115) 846 6522, Fax: +44 (0115) 846 7877
Email: dario.landasilva nottingham.ac.uk
Skype Name: dario.landasilva
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Teaching and Supervision
Research Activities
Research Interests
Interface between operations research and artificial intelligence with particular interest
on the application of search and optimisation techniques (e.g. meta-heuristics, hyper-heuristics,
evolutionary algorithms, multi-objective and multi-criteria methods) to tackle combinatorial problems
(e.g. office space allocation, space planning, scheduling, timetabling,
vehicle routing and similar problems) in order to underpin the development of intelligent decision support
systems across a range of applications.
List of Publications
Office Space Allocation
Research Collaborators
Post-doctoral Researchers
Hui Li - Multi-objective Meta-Heuristics (Started June 2007)
German Terrazas Angulo - Nature-inspired Cooperative Hyper-heuristics (Started April 2008)
Research Students
Joe Henry Obit - Multi-objective Timetabling (Started July 2006)
Khoi Le - Multi-objective Personnel Scheduling (Started October 2006)
Juan Pedro Castro Gutierrez - Multi-objective Cooperative Meta-Heuristics (Started April 2008)
Ozgur Ulker - Office Space Allocation - Modelling and Decision Support System (Started January 2009)
Khoi Le - MRes Thesis "An Evolutionary Algorithm for Multi-Objective
Nurse Scheduling" (Completed in September 2006)
Industrial Research Associates
Jose Arturo Castillo Salazar (Midland HR KTP Project) - Developing Next Generation Rostering Software Using Advanced Scheduling Techniques (Started February 2009)
Yijun Wang (3T Logistics KTP Project) - Design, Develop and Implement Modern Heuristic Algorithms for Improved, Adaptive Carrier, Management and Strategic Scheduling (Started January 2010)
Visting Researchers
Prof Ademir Constantino - Visiting Professor from Maringa State University in Brazil (December 2009 - November 2010)
Takuma Kubo - Visting PhD Student from National Institute of Informatics in Japan (October - November 2009)
Nadarajen Veerapen - Visting Erasmus Student from University of Nantes in France (January - June 2009)
Prof Minaya Villasana - Visiting Professor from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela (August 2008 - April 2009)
Research Grants
Project: Design, Develop and Implement Modern Heuristic Algorithms for Improved, Adaptive Carrier, Management and Strategic Scheduling.
Funded by: KTP Scheme under Project No. KTP7449.
Investigators: D. Landa-Silva, G. Kendall.
Industrial Partner: 3T Logistics Ltd.
Duration: September 2009 - August 2011.
Project: Developing Next Generation Rostering Software Using Advanced Scheduling Techniques.
Funded by: KTP Scheme under Project No. KTP7074.
Investigators: D. Landa-Silva, E.K. Burke, R. Qu.
Industrial Partner: Midland Software Ltd.
Duration: February 2009 - January 2011.
Project: Towards More Effective Multi-objective Meta-Heuristics to Solve Complex Combinatorial Problems.
Funded by: EPSRC (EP/E019781/1).
Investigators: J.D. Landa-Silva (principal investigator).
Duration: June 2007 - May 2010.
Project: Next Generation Decision Support: Automating the Heuristic Design Process.
Funded by: EPSRC (EP/D061571/1).
Investigators: E.K. Burke (principal investigator), J. Garibaldi, G. Kendall, N. Krasnogor, J.D. Landa-Silva, S. Petrovic, R. Qu.
Duration: October 2006 - September 2011.
Project: Adaptive and Multi-objective Heuristic and Meta-heuristic Approaches to Space Allocation.
Funded by: EPSRC (GR/T26115/01).
Investigators: E.K. Burke (principal investigator), G. Kendall, J.D. Landa-Silva, G. Medjdoub.
Duration: April 2005 - October 2009.
Project: Tutorials in Optimisation and Search Methodology: A Workshop at the Interface of Artificial Intelligence and Operational Research.
Funded by: EPSRC and LMS.
Investigators: E.K. Burke (principal investigator), G. Kendall, J.D. Landa-Silva (co-author).
Duration: February 2003 - September 2003.
Professional Activities
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Referee for Scientific Journals
Annals of Operations Research
Computational Optimization and Applications
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Decision Support Systems
Evolutionary Computation
European Journal of Operational Research
IEEE Intelligent Systems
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Information Sciences
International Journal of Systems Science
International Transactions on Operational Research
Journal on Computing (INFORMS)
Journal of Heuristics
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Journal of Scheduling
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Book Reviewer for JORS
A First Systems Book: Technology and Management By M. Myers and A. Kaposi -- Review
Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms By F. Rothlauf -- Review
Spanning Trees and Optimization Problems By K-M Chao -- Review
An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal History By S.I. Gass and A.A. Assad -- Review
Project Management: A Strategic Planning Approach By P. Gardiner -- Review
Operations Management By T. Hill -- Review
Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services By M. Pinedo -- Review
Linear Programming and its Applications By Eiselt and Sandblom -- Review
Cellular Genetic Algorithms By Alba and Dorronsoro -- Forthcoming
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Scientific Committees Membership
Member of the Editorial Board for the Memetic Computing Journal published by Springer.
Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College for the period 2006-2009.
Invited international referee for the Belgium Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).
Invited international referee for the Council of Physical Sciences of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Guest Co-editor (with Jens Gottlieb, Nysret Musliu and Eric Soubeiga) of feature cluster in Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms (JMMA) Vol. 7(1) on selected papers from the 4th EU/ME International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of Advanced Hybrid Metaheuristics, Nottingham, November 2004.
Chair of the Stream on "Timetabling and Rostering", EURO 2010, Lisbon, July 2010.
Co-chair of the Special Session on "Multiobjective Metaheuristics (LION-MOME)", LION 4, Venice, January 2010.
Chair of the Stream on "Timetabling and Rostering", EURO 2009, Bonn, July 2009.
Co-chair (with Hana Rudova) of the Stream on "Timetabling and Rostering", EURO 2007, Prague, July 2007.
Chair of the Special Invited Session on "Heuristics for Timetabling and Rostering", EURO 2006, Reykjavik, July 2006.
Chair of the Special Invited Session on "Heuristic Methods for Timetabling and Rostering", INFORMS 2005, San Francisco, November 2005.
Co-chair (with Patrick De Causmaecker) of the 7th WATT workshop on "Multi-objective Timetabling and Rostering", IFORS 2005, Hawaii, July 2005.
Co-chair (with Eric Soubeiga) of the 4th EU/ME International Workshop on "Design and Evaluation of Advanced Hybrid Metaheuristics", Nottingham, UK, November 4-5, 2004.
Programme committee for the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2010).
Programme committee for the 4th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION 2010).
Programme committee for the International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2010).
Programme committee for the Workshop on 'Metaheurísticas Inteligentes en Planificación Logística' as part of 'Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial' (CAEPIA 2009).
Programme committee for the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched 2009).
Programme committee for the 'Congreso Español sobre Metaheuristicas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados' (MAEB 2009 - MAEB 2010).
Technical committee for the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2004 - CEC 2010).
Technical committee for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006 - GECCO 2010).
Programme committee for the International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (EMO 2005 - EMO 2009).
Programme committee for the Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG 2006).
Programme committee for the First Conference on OR Practice in Africa (ORPA 2005).
Programme committee of the 4th EU/ME International Workshop on Design and Evaluation of Advanced Hybrid Meta-heuristics, Nottingham, November 2004.
Programme committee for the 2nd EU/ME Workshop on Multiobjective Metaheuristics, Paris, November 2002.
Organising committee for the 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2003), Nottingham, 2003.
Organising committee for the International Simposium of Information and Computational Technology SIINCO 97, Chihuahua Mexico.
Organising committee for the International Congress in Electronic Engineering, ELECTRO 1992, ELECTRO 1993 and ELECTRO 1995, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Associations
ORS - The Operational Research Society.
INFORMS - Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences.
Euro-Watt - Working Group Group on Automated Timetabling.
EU/ME - European Chapter on Metaheuristics.
SIGAPP - ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing.
Red HEUR - Heuristics Network.
CPHC-CONF List - at JISCmail.
CPHC-JOBS List - at JISCmail.
Modern Heuristics List - at JISCmail.
Meta-Heuristics List - at JISCmail.
Evolutionary Computing List - at JISCmail.
ORNET List - at JISCmail.
IOMEX-L List - on Operations Research in Mexico.
SCHED-L List - on Sequencing and Scheduling.
Conferences of Interest
ANTS - Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
CEC - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
EA - Evolution Artificielle
ECAI - European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
EMO - Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization
EvoCOP - Evolutionary Commputation in Combinatorial Optimization
EURO - European Conference in Operational Research
GECCO - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
HAIS - International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems
HIS - International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems
HM - Workshop on Hybrid Meta-heuristics
ICAPS - International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
ICS - INFORMS Computing Society Conference
IJCAI - International Joint Conferences on Artifical Intelligence
INFORMS - Annual Meeting - Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
IS - IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems
MAPSP - Modelling and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling
MCDM - International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
MCO - Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Informations Systems and Management Sciences
META - Conference on Metaheuristics and Natue Inspired Computing
MIC - Meta-heuristics International Conference
MICAI - Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
MISTA - Multi-disciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications
NICSO - Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimisation
PATAT - Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling
PPSN - Parallel Problem Solving From Nature
SAC - ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SEA - Symposium on Experimental Algorithms
SEAL - Simulated Evolution and Learning
SLS - Stochastic Local Search
SMC - IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
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