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Professor Richard Eglese

MA Lancaster, MA Cambridge

Chair

Department

Management Science

Contact

Room: A54
Tel: +44 1524 5 93869
Fax: + 44 (0)1524 844885
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External Roles

Member of Operational Research Society Council

Current Teaching

MSCI 222 Optimisation
MSCI 103 Introduction to Management Science/ Operational Research
MSCI 534 Optimisation & Heuristics

MSCI 252 Project Management and Consultancy Skills

MSCI 100 110 Introductory Statistics and Computing for Management

MSCI 506 Problem Solving & Consultancy Skills

 

Research Interests

Heuristic methods and integer programming for combinatorial optimisation problems, particularly with application to vehicle routing and scheduling and other logistics issues.

Current Research

Green Logistics, Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems

Publications

  • Eglese R W, Clark A, Letchford A N and Wright M B, 2008, 'Special Issue - Combinatorial Optimization 2004'
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  • Eglese R W, Fu Z and Li L Y O, 2008, 'A unified tabu search algorithm for vehicle routing problems with soft time windows', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 59, no. 5, pp. 663-673.
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  • Eglese R W and Brandao J, 2008, 'A deterministic tabu search algorithm for the capacitated arc routing problem', Computers and Operations Research, vol 35, no. 4, pp. 1112-1126.
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  • Eglese R W, Letchford A N and Lysgaard H, 2007, 'A branch-and-cut-algorithm for the capacitated open vehicle routing problem', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 58, no. 12, pp. 1642-1651.
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  • Eglese R W, Wright M B and Fu Z, 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.
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  • Eglese R W and Sbihi A, 2007, 'Combinatorial optimization and Green Logistics', 4OR (Quarterly Journal of the Belgian, French and Italian Operations Research Societies), vol 5, no. 2, pp. 99-116.
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  • Eglese R W and Aminu F U, 2006, 'A constraint programming approach to the Chinese Postman Problem with time windows', Computers and Operations Research, vol 33, no. 12, pp. 3423-3431.
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  • Eglese R W, Slater A and Maden W, 2006, 'A road timetable to aid vehicle routing and scheduling', Computers and Operations Research, vol 33, no. 12, pp. 3508-3519.
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  • Eglese R W, Fu Z and Li L Y O, 2005, 'A tabu search heuristic for the open vehicle routing problem', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 56, no. 3, pp. 267-274.
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  • Mercer A, Eglese R W and Sohrabi B, 2005, 'The grocery superstore vehicle scheduling problem', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 56, no. 8, pp. 902-911.
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