This page is an archive of the 2005-6 Simon Fraser University Operations Research Seminar.  The current seminar Web page is here.    

 


 

Summer 2006

 

August 10 

Health care delivery: current problems and future challenges
Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, SFU Surrey

August 3 

Applying systematic local search to job shop scheduling problems
Lei Duan, School of Computing Science, SFU

July 18 

A new approach to interrelated two way clustering of gene 
expression data
Distinguished Speaker: Prof. B. Chandra, Head 
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

July 13 

Neighborhood search heuristics

Abraham P. Punnen, SFU Surrey

July 6 

An efficient variable neighborhood search for

the generalized assignment problem

Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, SFU Surrey

June 29 

Using group theory to construct and characterize metaheuristic search neighborhoods

by Bruce W. Colleti and J. Wesley Barnes

Sandy Rutherford, IRMACS , SFU

June 8 

Controlled pool maintenance for metaheuristics

by Peter Greistorfer and Stefan Vos

Lei Duan, School of Computing Science, SFU

June 1 

Logistics management: An opportunity for metaheuristics

by Helena R. Lourenco

Arman Kaveh, SFU Surrey

May 25 

On the integration of metaheuristic strategies in constrained programming

by Mauro Dell’Amico and Andrea Lodi

Annie Ruonan Zhang, SFU Surrey

May 15 

Lessons from applying and experimenting with scatter search

by Manuel Laguna and Vinicius A. Armentano

Dan Benvenuti, SFU Surrey

May 8 

Scatter Search vs. Genetic Algorithms

by Rafael Marti, Manuel Laguna and Vicente Campos

Ron Ferguson, IRMACS, SFU

Spring 2006

 

April 3 

Second level local optimization approach to employee timetabling

by D. Bokal, G. Fijavz, D. Vodopivec, and S. Pintar

Drago Bokal, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

March 27

A Very Fast Tabu Search Algorithm for Job Shop Problem – Part 2

by Józef Grabowski and Mieczyslaw Wodecki

Sandy Rutherford, IRMACS, SFU

March 20 

Some New Ideas in Tabu Search for Job Shop Scheduling

by Eugeniusz Nowicki and Czeslaw Smutnicki

Lei Duan, School of Computing Science, SFU

March 13 

A Tabu Heuristic for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem

by Minghe Sun

Randall Pyke, SFU Surrey

March 6

Review session

February 27

Tabu Search Heuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem

by Jean-François Cordeau and Gilbert Laporte

Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, SFU Surrey

February 20

Cancelled due to the University Reading Break

February 13

A Very Fast Tabu Search Algorithm for Job Shop Problem

by Józef Grabowski and Mieczyslaw Wodecki

Sandy Rutherford, IRMACS, SFU

February 6

Scatter Search Methods for the Covering Tour Problem

by Roberto Baldacci, Marco A. Boschetti, Vittorio Maniezzo and Marco Zamboni

Annie Ruonan Zhang, SFU Surrey

January 27

A Multistart Scatter Search Heuristic for Smooth NLP and MINLP Problems

by Zsolt Ugray, Leon Lasdon, John C. Plummer, Fred Glover, Jim Kelly and Rafael Martí

Dan Benvenuti, SFU Surrey

January 23

A Scatter Search Tutorial for Graph-Based Permutation Problems

by César Rego and Pedro Leão

Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, SFU Surrey

 


 

 Some of this year’s seminar discussed topics from the following book:

  

Metaheuristic Optimization via Memory and Evolution: Tabu Search and Scatter Search,

César Rego and Bhram Alidaee (Eds.)

Kluwer, Boston, 2005.

 


Organizer: Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, e-mail: snezanam at sfu ca.

Modified: September 5th, 2007