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Theses:

Bai, R, An Investigation of Novel Approaches for the Optimising Retail Shelf Space Allocation. PhD Thesis, The University of Nottingham, 2005.
Bai, R, Nesting of Two-dimensional Irregular Shapes Utilising The No Fit Polygon. MSc Thesis, Northwestern Polytechnic University, 2002.

Journal papers:

  1. Ruibin Bai, Tom van Woensel, Graham Kendall and Edmund K. Burke, A new model and a hyper-heuristic approach for two-dimensional shelf space allocation, 4OR - A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research, 11(1):31-55, 2013. doi: 10.1007/s10288-012-0211-2, pdf, bibtex.
  2. Li, J., Davies, G.J., Kendall, G., Soanec, E., Bai, R., Rocks, S.A., Evidence and Belief in Regulatory Decisions Incorporating Expected Utility into decision modelling, Expert Systems with Applications, 39(10):8604-8610, 2012. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.193.
  3. Bai, R., Kendall, G., Qu, R., Atkin, J. Tabu assisted guided local search approaches for freight service network Design. Information Sciences, 189:266-281, 2012. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2011.11.028, pdf.
  4. Bai, R., J. Blazewicz, E. Burke, G. Kendall and B. McCollum, B. A Simulated Annealing Hyper-heuristic Methodology for Flexible Decision Support. 4OR - A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research, 10(1):43-66, 2012. doi: 10.1007/s10288-011-0182-8, pdf
  5. Bai, R., Burke, E. K., Kendall, G., Li, J. and McCollum, B. 2010. A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to the Nurse Rostering Problem. IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation, 14(4):580-590. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2009.2033583, pdf.
  6. Bai, R. and Kendall, G. 2008. A Model for Fresh Produce Shelf Space Allocation and Inventory Management with Freshness Condition Dependent Demand, INFORMS Journal on Computing 20(1):78-85. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.1070.0219, pdf.
  7. Bai, R. , Burke, E. K. and Kendall, G. 2008. Heuristic and Meta-heuristics for the Optimisation of Fresh Produce Inventory Control and Shelf Space Allocation Problem, Journal of the Operational Research Society 59:1387-1397. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602463, pdf.
  8. Bai, R., Modeling Issues of Multi-level Multi-Mode Freight Service Network Design and Fleet Scheduling, China Market-Logistics and Procurement Research , 41: 107-120, 2010, in Chinese.

Book Chapter

Bai, R. and Kendall, G., 2005. An Investigation of Automated Planograms Using a Simulated Annealing Based Hyper-heuristics, in: Ibaraki, T., Nonobe, K., and Yagiura, M. (Eds.), Metaheuristics: Progress as Real Problem Solvers - (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces, Vol. 32), Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp. 87-108. pdf

Refereed Conference Papers:

  1. Bai, R., J. Li and J. Atkin, G. Kendall,. 2011, A Game Theoretic Approach for the Taxi Scheduling Problem with Street Hailing, The 5rd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2011), 9-12 August, 2011, Arizona, US. pdf.
  2. Bai, R. and Kendall, G. 2010. "Tabu Assisted Guided Local Search Approaches for Freight Service Network Design". In the CD proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of of Automated Timetabling, 10th-13th August, 2010, Belfast, Northern Ireland, pp. 468-471. pdf.
  3. Bai, R., Kendall, G. and Li, J. An Efficient Guided Local Search Approach for Service Network Design Problem with Asset Balancing, 2010 International Conference on Logistics Systems and Intelligent Management (ICLSIM 2010), 9-10 January, 2010, Harbin, China, pp. 110-115. pdf .
  4. Li, J., Kendall, G., Pollard, S., Soane, E., Davies, G. and Bai, R. A Decision Support Approach for Group Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty, 2010 International Conference on Logistics Systems and Intelligent Management (ICLSIM 2010), 9-10 January, 2010, Harbin, China, pp. 1856-1860. pdf
  5. Woodward, J.R. and Bai, R., 2009. A Canonical Representation for Genetic Programming, Accepted by World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GEC Summit), June 12 - 14, 2009, Shanghai, China. ACM, pp. 582-592. This paper also won the best paper award (out of 108 full papers). pdf
    Woodward, J.R. and Bai, R.., 2009. Why Evolution Is Not a Good Paradigm For Program Induction; A Critique of Genetic Programming, Accepted by World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GEC Summit), June 12 - 14, 2009, Shanghai, China. ACM, pp. 593-600. pdf
  6. Bai, R., Burke, E. K., Gendreau M. and Kendall, G. 2007. A Simulated Annealing Hyper-heuristic: Adaptive Heuristic Selection for Different Vehicle Routing Problems. The 3rd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2007), Paris, France, August 28-31.
  7. Bai, R., Burke, E. K., Kendall, G. and McCollum, B., 2007. Memory Length in Hyper-heuristics: An Empirical Study. Accepted for publication in the proceeding of 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched2007), 1-5 April, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp.173-178. pdf
  8. Bai, R., Burke, E. K., Kendall, G. and McCollum, B., 2006. A Simulated Annealing Hyper-heuristic for University Course Timetabling Problem. In the Proceeding of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, 30 Aug.-1 Sept, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 345-350. pdf
  9. Bai, R. and Kendall, G., 2005. An Investigation of Automated Planograms Using a Simulated Annealing Based Hyper-heuristic. In the Proceedings of the 5th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2003), Kyoto, Japan, Aug. 25-28, 2003.

Presentations:

Bai, R. and Kendall, G., Designing Efficient Low-level Heuristics in the Hyper-heuristic Framework, OR47, 13-15 September 2005, Chester, UK.
Bai, R. and Kendall, G., Recent Advances in the Production of Automated Planograms. The CORS/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, 16-19 May 2004, Banff, Canada.
Bai, R. and Kendall, G., Optimisation of Supermarkets Shelf Space Allocation, The Third EPSRC PhD Student Workshop on Scheduling. 12 May 2003, University of Bradford, UK.

Invited seminars:

December 12th 2005. Optimising Retail Shelf Space Allocation, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), Eindhoven, Holland.
March 13-16th 2007. Two-dimensional Automated Shelf Space Allocation. Dagstuhl-Seminar 07112: Cutting, Packing, Layout and Space Allocation, Saarbruchen, Germany

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