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Business

Phil Kilby Making The Most From Your Market
Simon Perkins Managing an R and D portfolio using Real Option Valuation

Communication

Mark Fackrell Characterization of matrix-exponential distributions using their Laplace transforms
Moshe Haviv Dynamic pricing for congestion
Phil Pollett A reduced load approximation accounting for link interactions in a loss network
Mark Westcott Queue Throughput When There is Blocking: or, the Maximum Bus-Stuffing Rate
Mark Westcott How Many Servers?

Education

Robin Nicholson Optimising Training: Building a Foundation
Moshe Sniedovich The tutOR Project

Environment

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Health Care

Adil Bagirov Iso-resource Grouping for Acute Health Care in Australia: A Global Optimization Based Clustering Approach
John T. Blake A Goal Programming Approach to Strategic Resource Allocation in Acute Care Hospitals
Leonid Churilov Iso-resource Grouping for Acute Health Care in Australia: A Neural Clustering Approach
Azuma Ohuchi Survey and Indexing of Utilizing Information Technology in Prefectural Medical Associations

Manufacturing

Nevin Aydin Holonic Manufacturing: A Survey
Nevin Aydin Agent-based Manufacturing: A Survey
Simon Dunstall An evaluation of heuristic methods for the identical parallel machine weighted flowtime problem with setup times.
Laszlo Nandor Kiss Multicriteria Optimization of a Single Cell Oil Production
Erhan Kozan An Integrated Production Planning and Control System for Mixed Model Multistage Assembly Processes: An Implementation at the VOLVO Truck Australia
D.N.P. Murthy Warranty Logistics
Pavel Spiridonov Optimisation of Two-Component Injection Moulding Process

Military

Sharon Boswell Scheduling a Mobile Training Facility
Dean Bowley Constructing a Matrix of Analytical Tools: A Case Study of Military Experimentation.
Alfred G. Brandstein Possibilities for Analysis to Answer Military Questions.
Louis Caccetta Two Defence Applications Involving Discrete Valued Optimal Control
Duncan Craig The Australian Global Hawk Deployment - Achieving the Paradigm Shift from Reconnaissance to Surveillance
Neville J. Curtis An Approach to Supporting Decision Makers on the Acquisition of Hard Target Weapon Systems for Dismounted Combat Units
Rowland Dickinson Stochastic Diffusion Processes Applied to Ad-Hoc Self Configuring Communications Networks
Peter Dortmans Matching Future Requirements with Current Capabilities – How the Australian Army performs Capability Development Planning
Richard Egudo Exploring Future Concepts through Agent Based Distillations
Mark G. Hazen The Use of Virtual Environments in a Layered Approach to OR Analysis: A Naval Perspective
Emma Hunt A Stochastic Analysis of Tracking Martime Targets with Imaging Sensors
Michael F. Ling An Operational Synthesis Approach to Military Operations Research
David Marlow Operational Analysis in support of project AIR 6000
Adrian Pincombe A Markov Decision Model for Tactical Military Engagements
Peng Shi Formulation of A Tactical Logistics Decision Analysis Problem Using Optimal Control Approach
Jadranka Sunde Threat Analysis Using Hugin - Bayesian belief network software

Software Tools

Helen Nott pwcdecision.com Internet-based strategic decision making
Rasika Suriyaarachchi emamo : An On-Line Self Learning Tool for LP Modelling

Sport

Kylie Bryant Optimisation Methods for the Construction of Soccer Match Schedules

Transportation

Mark Horn Vehicle routing and scheduling with network travel speeds varying over time
Houyuan Jiang Locomotive rostering with multiple locomotive classes and a central depot
Brian Kallehauge Stabilized Cutting-Planes for Vehicle Routing with Time Windows
Vicky Mak On the Asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problems with Replenishment Arcs
Stuart McDonald A Game Theoretic Resolution of the Braess Paradox
Patrick Tobin Loading Models for Container Freight Rail Terminals

Decision Theory

Rod Staker Decision Support for Complex Systems-of-Systems
Peter Williams The Surface Weighted Ordering Technique: A Multi Criteria Decision Making Technique

Fuzzy Sets

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Game Theory

Helen Nott Game theory as a tool for e-market design
Erling Pettersen A model for household electricity demand-side optimisation

Graph Theory

Rodney Beard Minimally Complex Tournaments
N. Boland Improving Methods for Constrained Shortest Path Problems
Louis Caccetta Tabu Search Algorithms for the Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problems
Irina Dumitrescu Algorithms for the Subset Disjoint Minimum Cost Cycle Problem

Linear and nonlin. programming

E. Grant Read LP Formulations for Pricing in the Australian Electricity Market
Dong Q. Wang A Method for Solving Quadratic Programming

Management science

Gregory Calbert Modeling Human-Computer interaction in an editorial task with Markov Decision Processes.
Ruhul Sarker Modelling Coal Preparation and Blending: A Case Study

Optimisation

Adil Bagirov A global optimization approach to data classification. II: Implementation and results of numerical experiments
Andreas Ernst Mathematical Programming Approaches for Solving Task Allocation Problems
Heng Soon Gan Telecommunication Networks Ownership Cost Optimisation
Lutfar R. Khan Optmisation of Constrained Non-Linear Problems using Evolutionary Computation
Laszlo Nandor Kiss Multicriteria Modelisation and Decision Engineering of an Chemical Process Engineering Problem
Musa A. Mamedov Sequential Separation of Sets with a Given Accuracy and its Applications to Data Classification
A. M. Rubinov A global optimization approach to data classification. I: Methods
Yoshihiro Tanaka Nonsmooth Analysis in Production Theory

Reliability

D N P Murthy Optimal Redundancy Design for Products Sold with Pro-Rata Warranty Policy

Search Algorithms

Andre Costa Analytic Modelling of Network Routing Algorithms which use Ant-like Agents.
Philip Kilby The Augmented Regret Heuristic for Staff Scheduling
Liam Merlot An Investigation into Improving Examination Timetabling using Constraint Programming, Simulated Annealing and Local Search Techniques
Tracy Truong Exploration a two sided rendezvous search problem using genetic algorithms.

Simulation

Vladimir Ivancevic TORSON Dynamical Engine
Naruaki Toma A proposal of an immune optimization for division-of-labor problems using immune cell-cooperation and tolerance
Koji Yamada Reinforcement Learning of Focal Points for Multi-Agent Agreement

OR at UniSA

Maria John A Comparison of Optimisation Techniques for Planning Regional Surveillance Missions.
Scott Mackenzie Long Haul Rail Scheduling Using Problem Space Search
P. Manyem Ground Holding Control Strategies: Model With Cancellations, Curfew Penalties, and Pseudo-Dynamic Decision Making
Peter Pudney Optimal operation of a solar-recharged car

Invited Speakers

Mohan Krishnamoorthy Formulations, Complexity and Heuristic Algorithms for Hub Center problems
Charles S. Newton Modern Optimisation Techniques at the Cutting Edge of Defence OR
K.L. Teo The Control Parametrization Enhancing Technique for Optimal Impulsive Control and Optimal Discrete-valued Control Problems

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