I am currently reading for a PhD degree at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of Nottingham. The area of my interest is in multi-objective approaches to operational research with emphasis on personnel scheduling. My research project is under the supervision of Dr Dario Landa-Silva.
The project, which is funded by ORSAS, the School of Computer Science and Information Technology and the University of Nottingham, investigates a new approach to personnel scheduling.
We are currently developing a new evolutionary algorithm to tackle multi-objective optimsation problems. The new algorithm was initially tested on the QMC model which was designed as part of my MRes degree. We are currently working with the Bus Driver Problem to test the viability of the algorithm.
A full description of the QMC nurse scheduling problem is available at http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~kxl/research/QMC/qmc.html
Journals of Interest
- AOR/Springer - Annals of Operations Research
- EJOR - European Journal of Operational Research
- IEEE/EC - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- JoC/INFORMS - Journal on Computing (INFORMS)
- EVCO/MIT - Journal of Evolutionary Computation
- JoH/Springer - Journal of Heuristics
- JoS/Springer - Journal of Scheduling
- CEC - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
- EA - Evolution Artificielle
- EMO - Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization
- EuroGP - European Conference on Genetic Programming
- EUME - EU/MEeting on Metaheuristics in the Service Industry
- EURO - European Conference in Operational Research
- EvoCOP - Evolutionary Commputation in Combinatorial Optimization
- GECCO - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
- HM - International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics
- MIC - Meta-heuristics International Conference
- MISTA - Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications
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