Professor Mike Wright
BA, MSc Oxford
PhD Lancaster
Chair
Department
Management Science
Professional Role
Current Teaching
Strategic Management Simulation; supervision of placements, projects and dissertations. Recently also Heuristics, Optimisation, Introduction to OR, Project Management Skills, OR and its Context.
Research Interests
The development and analysis of metaheuristic methods and their implementation to practical problems including sports timetabling and employee scheduling.
The analysis of tactics in sports, especially football and cricket.
Current Research
Scheduling community nurses (with Kevin Martin).
Cricket umpire scheduling.
Analysis of parameters for Simulated Annealing.
Profile
Born in 1953 in Warwickshire. Worked for British Rail in York and London before serendipitously landing in Lancaster. Married with three children. Lives in central Lancaster, sings, plays cricket, walks, listens to music, goes to the theatre. Actively supports Lancaster City Football Club in a vaguely patriotic though largely masochistic fashion.
Journal article (31)
Conference contribution (1)
Working paper (16)
Conference paper (2)
Editorial (1)
Selected publications (25)
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Publications
- Fu Z, Eglese R W and Wright M B, 2007, 'A branch-and-bound algorithm for finding all optimal solutions of the assignment problem', Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, vol 24, no. 6, pp. 831-839.
View details - Wright M B, 2007, 'Case study: problem formulation and solution for a real-world sports scheduling problem', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 58, no. 4, pp. 439-445.
View details - Hirotsu N and Wright M B, 2006, 'Modeling tactical changes of formation in association football as a zero-sum game', Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, vol 2, no. 2, pp. Article 4.
View details - Wright M B, 2006, 'Scheduling fixtures for Basketball New Zealand', Computers and Operations Research, vol 33, no. 7, pp. 1875-1893.
View details - Hirotsu N and Wright M B, 2005, 'Modelling a baseball game to optimize pitcher substitution strategies incorporating handedness of players', IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, vol 16, no. 2, pp. 179-194.
View details - Wright M B, 2005, 'Scheduling fixtures for New Zealand Cricket', IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, vol 16, no. 2, pp. 99-112.
View details - Wright M B and Hirotsu N, 2004, 'Modeling a baseball game to optimize pitcher substitution strategies using dynamic programming', in Economics, Management and Optimization in Sports, Springer, Berlin, pp. 131-162, ISBN: 3540207120
View details - Hirotsu N and Wright M B, 2003, 'An evaluation of characteristics of teams in association football by using a Markov process model', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D, vol 52, no. 4, pp. 591-602.
View details - Wright M B and Hirotsu N, 2003, 'A Markov Chain approach to optimal pinch hitting strategies in a designated hitter rule baseball game', Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan, vol 46, no. 3, pp. 353-371.
View details - Wright M B and Hirotsu N, 2003, 'Determining the best strategy for changing the configuration of a football team', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 54, no. 8, pp. 878-887.
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