OR models for economic and sustainable passenger transport and supply chain activities

OR has a major role to play in healthcare, both in administrative logistics and in effectively and efficiently providing treatment

Systems to Build Systems

Underpinning and developing systems for the automated design and construction of low cost, general and effective systems

Heuristic Understanding

Developing insights to guide the choice of heuristics for real-world decision support problems

Stochastic Modelling

Modelling uncertainty in decision problems

Optimisation

Modelling optimisation problems with greater realism by correctly handling discrete and non-linear aspects

Who we are

The LANCS Initiative is built on a collaboration between four U.K. Universities: Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton. The U.K.'s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council granted £5.4 million to support the development of research.

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What we do

Research at four U.K. Universities (Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton - LANCS for short). This, together with additional support coming from the universities themselves, means that during the period 2008-2013, a £13 million investment will be made.

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What's happening

09 May 2013
The LANCS Postdoctoral training scheme

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06 April 2013
Seminar on Global Optimisation

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12 November 2012
Success of a LANCS initiative team at the Third International Timetabling Competition (ITC2011)

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Locations