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Timothy Curtois
ASAP, School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham
Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK
Tel: 0115 84 66521
Email: tim.curtois@nottingham.ac.uk
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| Research Interests |
| Healthcare planning and optimisation,
staff rostering, surgery scheduling, metaheuristics, hyperheuristics. |
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Research
I am a research fellow in the ASAP
group in the department of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham.
I am currently working on the project:
Next Generation Decision Support: Automating the heuristic design process.
Links
- Staff Roster Solutions (university spin-out company)
- Benchmark employee scheduling problems
- CHeSC 2011: Cross-domain Heuristic Search Competition
- WATT employee timetabling page
Publications
Technical reports
- Burke, E.K. and T. Curtois.
New computational results for nurse rostering benchmark instances.
Technical Report, 2011. pdf.
- Burke, E.K. and T. Curtois.
An ejection chain method and a branch and price algorithm applied to the
instances of the first international nurse rostering competition, 2010.
Technical Report, 2010. pdf.
Book chapters
- Burke, E.K., T. Curtois, T.E. Nordlander, and A. Riise.
Scheduling and Sequencing, in Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems, Y. Yih, Editor.
2010. CRC Press.
Journal articles
- Burke, E.K., T. Curtois, L. Fijn van Draat, J.-K. van Ommeren, and G. Post.
Progress Control in Iterated Local Search for Nurse Rostering.
Journal of the Operational Research Society, Accepted for publication 2010.
- Burke E.K., T. Curtois, R. Qu and G. Vanden Berge.
A Scatter Search Methodology for the Nurse Rostering Problem.
Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2010. 61: p. 1667-1679.
- Brucker, P., E.K. Burke, T. Curtois, R. Qu, and G. Vanden Berghe.
A Shift Sequence Based Approach for Nurse Scheduling and a New Benchmark Dataset.
Journal of Heuristics, 2009. 16(4): p. 559-573.
- Burke E.K., T. Curtois, G. Post, R. Qu and B. Veltman.
A Hybrid Heuristic Ordering and Variable Neighbourhood Search for the Nurse Rostering Problem.
European Journal of Operational Research, 2008. 188(2): p. 330-341.
Conference papers
- Burke, E.K., T. Curtois, M. Hyde, G. Kendall, G. Ochoa, S. Petrovic, J.A. Vazquez-Rodriguez, and M. Gendreau.
Iterated Local Search vs. Hyper-heuristics: Towards General-purpose Search Algorithms.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2010). 2010. IEEE Press. p. 3073-3080.
- Burke, E.K., T. Curtois, M. Hyde, G. Kendall, G. Ochoa, S. Petrovic, and J.A. Vazquez-Rodriguez.
HyFlex: A Flexible Framework for the Design and Analysis of Hyper-heuristics.
Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference (MISTA 2009). 2009. Dublin, Ireland.
- Burke, E.K., T. Curtois, M. Hyde, G. Kendall, G. Ochoa, S. Petrovic, and J.A. Vazquez-Rodriguez.
Towards the Decathlon Challenge of Search Heuristics.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009) - Workshop on Automated Heuristic Design. 2009. Montreal, Canada.
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