UC Spark

Dr Ross Jonathan William James

Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship

Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 7015
 Office: Homestead Ln L Block L165 Rm2

Fields of Research

  • Search heuristics (incl. Tabu search, simulated annealing & genetic algorithms)
  • Production/operations management
  • Scheduling problems
  • Multi-dimensional knapsack problems
  • Subset sum problems
  • Enumerative approaches
  • Early/tardy scheduling
  • Logistics

Researcher Summary

Research interests include scheduling problems, multi-dimensional knapsack problems, subset sum problems, search heuristics and enumerative approaches.

Subject Area: Disciplines

Publications


  • Dye, S., Jackson, P.R., James, R., Mahakalanda, I., Pinto, A., Raffensperger, J.F., Read, E.G., Read, R.A. and Starkey, S.R. (2012) Integrated Modelling of Electricity and Water Markets: A Progress Report From Canterbury. Auckland, New Zealand: EPOC Winter Workshop, 6 Jul 2012. http://www.epoc.org.nz/ww2012.html. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • James, R.J.W. and Almada-Lobo, B. (2011) Single and parallel machine capacitated lotsizing and scheduling: New iterative MIP-based neighborhood search heuristics. Computers & Operations Research 38(12): 1816-1825. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2011.02.005. (Journal Article)
  • Almada-Lobo, B. and James, R.J.W. (2010) Neighbourhood search meta-heuristics for capacitated lot-sizing with sequence-dependent setups. International Journal of Production Research 48(3): 861-878. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207540802446787. (Journal Article)
  • Smith-Miles, K.A., James, R.J.W., Giffin, J.W. and Tu, Y. (2009) A Knowledge Discovery Approach to Understanding Relationships between Scheduling Problem Structure and Heuristic Performance. In T. Stützle (Ed.), Learning and Intelligent Optimization: 89-103. Berlin: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11169-3_7. (Chapter in Book)
  • James, R. and Almada-Lobo, B. (2009) Iterative MIP-based Neighborhood Search for Multi-Machine Capacitated Lotsizing with Sequence-dependent Setups. Hamburg, Germany: 8th Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC 2009), 13-16 Jul 2009. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • James, R. and Giffin, J. (2007) Comparing Heuristic Performance using Problem Space Enumeration and Meta-Heuristics. Montreal, Canada: The Seventh Metaheuristics International Conference, June 25th-29th 2007. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Onishi, J., Kimura, S., James, R.J.W. and Nakagawa, Y. (2007) Solving the Redundancy Allocation Problem With a Mix of Components Using the Improved Surrogate Constraint Method. IEEE Transactions on Reliability 56(1): 94-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TR.2006.884602. (Journal Article)
  • Isada, Y., James, R.J.W. and Nakagawa, Y. (2005) An approach for solving nonlinear multi-objective separable discrete optimization problems with one constraint. European Journal of Operational Research 162(2): 503-513. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2003.09.022. (Journal Article)
  • James, R.J.W. and Nakagawa, Y. (2005) Enumeration Methods for Repeatedly Solving Multidimensional Knapsack Sub-Problems. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems E88-D(10): 2329-2340. (Journal Article)
  • James, R.J.W. (2005) Speeding Up Local Search Neighborhood Evaluation for a Multi-Dimensional Knapsack Problem. In T. Ibaraki, K. Nonobe and M. Yagiura (Ed.), Metaheuristics: Progress as Real Problem Solvers (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces ed.): 333-348. New York: Springer. (Chapter in Book)
  • James, R.J.W. and Storer, R.H. (2005) Techniques for Solving Subset Sum Problems within a Given Tolerance. International Transactions in Operational Research 12(4): 437-454. doi:10.1111/j.1475-3995.2005.00517.x. (Journal Article)
  • Kimura, S., James, R.J.W., Ohnishi, J. and Nakagawa, Y. (2004) The System Reliability Optimization Problems by using an Improved Surrogate Constraint Method. Hiroshima, Japan: 2004 Asian International Workshop (AIWARM 2004), 26-27 Aug 2004. In Advanced Reliability Modeling: Proceedings of the 2004 Asian International Workshop (AIWARM 2004) 261-268. http://eproceedings.worldscinet.com/9812388710/toc.shtml. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Isada, Y., James, R.J.W. and Nakagawa, Y. (2002) Application of Target Approach to Software Development Considering Risk Management. Chamonix, France: 2nd Euro-Japanese Workshop on Stochastic Risk Modeling for Finance, Insurance, Production and Reliability, 18-20 Sep 2002. 164-173. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • James, R.J.W. and Buchanan, J.T. (1998) Performance enhancements to tabu search for the early/tardy scheduling problem. European Journal of Operational Research 106: 254-265. (Journal Article)
  • James, R.J.W. and Buchanan, J.T. (1998) Robustness of single machine scheduling problems to earliness and tardiness penalty errors. Annals of Operations Research 76: 219-232. (Journal Article)
  • James, R.J.W. and Buchanan, J.T. (1997) A neighbourhood scheme with a compressed solution space for the early/tardy scheduling problem. European Journal of Operational Research 102: 513-527. (Journal Article)
  • James, R.J.W. (1997) Using Tabu search to solve the common due date early/tardy machine scheduling problem. Computers and Operations Research 24(3): 199-208. (Journal Article)