Heuristics - Events

Last Updated on Monday, 18 January 2010 10:04

2nd LANCS Workshop on Heuristic Understanding

This meeting, organised by Jonathan Thompson and Andrew Parkes, took place on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th January 2010 at Cardiff University.  (Final timetable and list of attendees - requires standard LANCS username/password).

List of talks:

Wednesday:

Xin Yao (Birmingham) – How efficient is your evolutionary algorithm?
Adam Prugel-Bennett (Southampton) – Benefits of populations in combinatorial optimisation
Adam Letchford (Lancaster) – An introduction to approximation algorithms
Xiang Song (Cardiff) – An incomplete 2-exchange algorithm for the multi-scenario knapsack problem
Mike Wright (Lancaster) – Automated parameter setting for simulated annealing

Thursday:

Anatoly Zhigljavsky (Cardiff) - Stochastic global optimization
Anatoly Zhigljavsky (Cardiff) - Population-based algorithms and Markov chains
Michael Packianather (Cardiff) – A swarm based optimisation technique: the bees algorithm
Jingpeng Li (Nottingham) - A Markov chain model of evolutionary squeaky wheel optimization
Said Salhi (Kent)- Integration of heuristic and exact methods: application to location and routing problems.

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Meta-Heuristics Stream at OR51

Ender Ozcan and Andrew Parkes organised a stream on meta-heuristics at the 51st Operational Research Society conference, which took place in Warwick, 8th-10th September 2009.

See the OR51 web site for more information. 

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1st LANCS Workshop on Heuristics and Systems

Ender Ozcan and Andrew Parkes organised this workshop, which was joint with the "Systems to Build Systems" cluster. It took place on June 4th - 5th 2009 at the University of Nottingham.  It was aimed primarily at staff and doctoral students from the four LANCS institutions.  Details can be found here.