Professor Richard Eglese
MA Lancaster, MA Cambridge
Professor of Operational Research
Department
Management Science
Organisational Roles
Departmental Director of Undergraduate Studies
Member of Operational Research Society Council
Teaching
MSCI 222 Optimisation
MSCI 103 Introduction to Management Science/ Operational Research
MSCI 323 Dynamic Programming & Stochastic Processes
MSc in OR – MSCI 534 Optimisation & Heuristics
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
Selected publications (24)
View all publications (32)
Journal/Serial (18)
Book (1)
Chapter in Book (5)
Working Paper (8)
View all publications (32)
Journal/Serial (18)
Book (1)
Chapter in Book (5)
Working Paper (8)
Selected Publications
- Clark A, Eglese RW, Letchford AN and Wright MB, 2008, 'Special Issue - Combinatorial Optimization 2004', Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol 156(3), pp 289-290
- Fu Z, Eglese RW and Li LYO, 2008, 'A unified tabu search algorithm for vehicle routing problems with soft time windows', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 59(5), pp 663-673
- Brandao J and Eglese RW, 2008, 'A deterministic tabu search algorithm for the capacitated arc routing problem', Computers and Operations Research, vol 35(4), pp 1112-1126
- Letchford AN, Lysgaard H and Eglese RW, 2007, 'A branch-and-cut-algorithm for the capacitated open vehicle routing problem', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 58(12), pp 1642-1651
- Fu Z, Eglese RW and Wright MB, 2007, 'A branch-and-bound algorithm for finding all optimal solutions of the assignment problem', Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, vol 24(6), pp 831-839
- Sbihi A and Eglese RW, 2007, 'Combinatorial optimization and Green Logistics', 4OR: A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research, vol 5(2), pp 99-116
- Aminu FU and Eglese RW, 2006, 'A constraint programming approach to the Chinese Postman Problem with time windows', Computers and Operations Research, vol 33(12), pp 3423-3431
- Eglese RW, Maden W and Slater A, 2006, 'A road timetable to aid vehicle routing and scheduling', Computers and Operations Research, vol 33(12), pp 3508-3519
- Eglese RW, Fu Z and Li LYO, 2005, 'A tabu search heuristic for the open vehicle routing problem', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 56(3), pp 267-274
- Eglese RW, Mercer A and Sohrabi B, 2005, 'The grocery superstore vehicle scheduling problem', Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol 56(8), pp 902-911
