Optimising the scheduling and planning of urban milk deliveries.
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. B. (2015)
Optimising the scheduling and planning of urban milk deliveries. In A. M. Mora, & G. Squillero (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computation. , (604-615). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16549-3_49
This paper investigates the optimisation of the delivery of dairy products to households in three urban areas. The requirement for the optimisation to be part of the existing ...
Ontology Based Business Simulations
Journal Article
Farrenkopf, T., Guckert, M., Urquhart, N., & Wells, S. (2016)
Ontology Based Business Simulations. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.3266
Within business games there is a need to provide realistic feedback for decisions made, if such business games are to continue to remain relevant in increasingly complex busin...
Using MAP-Elites to support policy making around Workforce Scheduling and Routing
Journal Article
Urquhart, N., Hart, E., & Hutcheson, W. (2020)
Using MAP-Elites to support policy making around Workforce Scheduling and Routing. Automatisierungstechnik, 68(2), https://doi.org/10.1515/auto-2019-0107
English abstract: Algorithms such as MAP-Elites provide a means of allowing users to explore a solution space by returning an archive of high-performing solutions. Such an arc...
Minimization of incompletely specified mixed polarity Reed Muller functions using genetic algorithm.
Conference Proceeding
Al-Jassani, B. A., Urquhart, N. B., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2009)
Minimization of incompletely specified mixed polarity Reed Muller functions using genetic algorithm. https://doi.org/10.1109/12.67320
A New and efficient Genetic Algorithm (GA) based approach is presented to minimise the number of terms of Mixed Polarity Reed Muller (MPRM) single and multi output incompletel...
Optimising an Evolutionary Algorithm for Scheduling
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N., Chisholm, K., & Paechter, B. (2000)
Optimising an Evolutionary Algorithm for Scheduling. In Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2000. , (307-318
This paper examines two techniques for setting the parameters of an evolutionary Algorithm (EA). The example EA used for test purposes undertakes a simple scheduling problem. ...
Optimisation and Illumination of a Real-world Workforce Scheduling and Routing Application via Map-Elites
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N., & Hart, E. (2018)
Optimisation and Illumination of a Real-world Workforce Scheduling and Routing Application via Map-Elites. In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XV 15th International Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8–12, 2018, Proceedings, Part Ihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99253-2_39
Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problems (WSRP) are very common in many practical domains, and usually have a number of objectives. Illumination algorithms such as Map-Elites...
Carbon-friendly travel plan construction using an evolutionary algorithm
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N. B., & Urquhart, N. B. (2007)
Carbon-friendly travel plan construction using an evolutionary algorithm. In H. Lipson (Ed.), GECCO '07: Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (2269). https://doi.org/10.1145/1276958.1277404
This paper discusses the use of an evolutionary algorithm to design workplace travel plans, to promote car sharing and reduce carbon emissions from single-occupancy motor veh...
An Illumination Algorithm Approach to Solving the Micro-Depot Routing Problem
Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N., Hoehl, S., & Hart, E. (2019)
An Illumination Algorithm Approach to Solving the Micro-Depot Routing Problem. In GECCO '19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. , (1347-1355). https://doi.org/10.1145/3321707.3321767
An increasing emphasis on reducing pollution and congestion in city centres combined with an increase in online shopping is changing the ways in which logistics companies addr...
Routing using evolutionary agents and proactive transitions.
Book
Urquhart, N. B., Ross, P., Paechter, B., & Chisholm, K. (2002)
Routing using evolutionary agents and proactive transitions. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing, 696-705. Springer-Verlag
The authors have previously introduced the concept of building a delivery network using an agent-based system. The delivery networks are built in response to a real-world prob...
Techniques for Auditing the ICT Carbon Footprint of an Organisation
Journal Article
Mouchet, C., Urquhart, N., & Kemmer, R. (2014)
Techniques for Auditing the ICT Carbon Footprint of an Organisation. International Journal of Green Computing, 5(1), 44-61. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijgc.2014010104
This article has presents an extensive survey of the state of the art in Green IT/S. The findings of the survey suggest that there is scope for a reliable carbon footprint aud...