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Southampton: New Developments

Southampton: New Developments. Presented by Chris Potts University of Southampton. Context. Operational Research is based in Mathematics Management Science is based in Management

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Southampton: New Developments

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  1. Southampton: New Developments Presented by Chris Potts University of Southampton

  2. Context • Operational Research is based in Mathematics • Management Science is based in Management • CORMSIS (Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems) provide a single point of contact to the outside world • All LANCS appointees are members of CORMSIS but are formally 50% within OR and 50% within MS Chris Potts

  3. LANCS Appointments • Honora Smith (Lecturer) • Appointed in 2008 • Active in the Healthcare research cluster • Research on the location of healthcare facilities and on customer choice modelling • Tri-Dung Nguyen (Lecturer) • Appointed in 2010 • Research on applications of Optimization to different areas including statistics and problems in game theory Chris Potts

  4. LANCS Appointments (ctd) • Navid Izady (Lecturer) • Appointed in 2010 • Active in the Healthcare research cluster • Research on time dependent queues and their application in healthcare • Patrick Beullens (Senior Lecturer) • Appointed in 2011 • Research on green logistics and cost modelling in supply chains Chris Potts

  5. Enhancing the Academic OR Supply Chain • The standard supply chain follows the route undergraduate→masters→doctorate →postdoc →lecturer • A MORSE (Mathematics, OR, Statistics, Economics) BSc is being introduced in 2012 • Engagement with our multidisciplinary DTCs (Doctoral Training Centres) in Complex Systems Simulation, Web Science, Transport and the Environment provides projects and funding for PhD students Chris Potts

  6. Benefits from CORMSIS • Two Industrial Liaison Officers find industrial projects and form partnerships with companies • A Facilitator is employed to seek funding opportunities and help with funding applications • Joint supervision of PhD students is relatively common • Discussions about a possible application to EPSRC for a Programme Grant in the area of Transport has recently started Chris Potts

  7. Southampton’s Strategic Research • SIMM (Southampton Initiative for Mathematical Modelling) • SIMM was launched in 2010, with OR playing a significant role in its activities • Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute • This new Institute is to be launched in Spring 2012, with OR represented on the steering group Chris Potts

  8. Airport Operations • Southampton has just completed a research project funded by EUROCONTROL on airport runway scheduling • Southampton (and Nottingham) have joined a consortium, coordinated by SINTEF, that have become Associate Partners to the SJU (SESAR Joint Undertaking), meaning that projects will be offered periodically Chris Potts

  9. Vehicle Scheduling • A KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) was undertaken with Logical Transport (a transport scheduling software provider) to include various practical constraints that are not present in classical vehicle routing models • Current work to continue this collaboration is funded under a KTS (Knowledge Transfer Secondment) grant Chris Potts

  10. Railway Capacity • An EPSRC-funded project OCCASION (Overcoming Capacity Constraints: A Simulation Integrated with Optimization at Nodes) involves Southampton’s Transport Research Group and CORMSIS • Ways of improving capacity without resorting to major infrastructure changes are being investigated (partly by transferring production scheduling techniques to rail scheduling) Chris Potts

  11. Large Scale On-Line Business Communities • Southampton is a partner in an EU-FP7 project involving five universities and several companies including IBM and SAP which is investigating algorithms supporting community managers • The project will include an investigation of the probability of a substantial decrease of key-user activity, and forecasting the number of people in typical user states (new user, consumer, expert) Chris Potts

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