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Dr
Keshav Dahal
MOSAIC Research Centre
School of Informatics
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire
BD7 1DP, UK
Room: Horton A3.08
www.mosaic.ac
Tel: +44 (0) 1274 234019
Fax: +44 (0) 1274 233920
k.p.dahal@bradford.ac.uk
University
of Bradford - MOSAIC
The
MOSAIC research centre at the University of Bradford was formed last year with
the arrival of Professor Peter Cowling, Dr. Uwe Aickelin, Dr. Keshav Dahal and
Dr. Hongnian Yu as permanent members of staff. The research centre is committed
to the investigation and development of new modelling, optimisation and decision
support technologies, which bridge the gap between the theory and practice of
optimisation. Specific research areas are:
·
Investigation, modelling and solution of
real-world scheduling and optimisation problem in partnership with commercial,
scientific and governmental collaborators
·
The investigation of tailored and general
purpose algorithms, heuristics, meta-heuristics, evolutionary algorithms and
hyper-heuristics
·
The investigations and applications of
optimisation and simulation models for real-world problems, using techniques
including mathematical programming, graphs, Petri nets and object-oriented
software methodologies
·
The development of flexible and easy to use
decision support technologies (e.g., modelling languages, object libraries,
graphical user interfaces)
Members
of the MOSAIC research centre have been at the forefront of research in the area
with internationally recognised expertise on a wide range of optimisation
techniques and their applications to real-world problems. In addition to this,
the MOSAIC centre has extensive project management expertise, a wide range of
industrial & research contacts and dissemination expertise. Members of the
research centre have been investigators on grants worth over £1.6 million in
the last three years, with funding from EPSRC, ESRC, BBSRC, DTI and industrial
sources. The MOSAIC centre is working with a number of industrial collaborators,
including Innogy, Econnect, a.p.solve (British Telecom), Rolls-Royce, Nationwide
Building Society, Lanner Group and Dash optimisation, and a range of
Universities including Exeter University, Huddersfield University, Leeds
University, Napier University, Nottingham University, Sheffield University and
Strathclyde University. The members of the MOSAIC centre also have a breadth of
experience in consultancy services and commercial software development.
The
centre has recently recruited a post-doctoral researcher to start work on an
EPSRC-funded project (GR/R92899/01). Currently it has one internal and five
external RAs, and four internal and five externally supervised PhD students. The
centre has ambitious expansion plans. The research centre is involved in five
proposed EU Framework Programme VI consortia. The MOSAIC research centre is a
member of the EPSRC funded Inter-Displinary Scheduling Network (ISN) and the
European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing (EvoNet).
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The
Modelling Optimisation Scheduling And Intelligent Computing (MOSAIC) research
centre at the University of Bradford was formed in March 2002 and currently has
Professor Peter Cowling, Dr. Uwe Aickelin, Dr. Keshav Dahal and Dr. Hongnian Yu
as permanent members of staff. The centre currently has one Research Assistant
and eight PhD students. MOSAIC (see http://mosaic.ac
for publications etc) is committed to the investigation and development of new
modelling, optimisation and decision support technologies, which bridge the gap
between the theory and practice of optimisation. Specific areas of expertise are
the investigation of tailored and general-purpose models, algorithms,
heuristics, metaheuristics and hyperheuristics. Members of the MOSAIC centre
have been investigators on grants worth over £1.6 million collaborating with
a number of industrial partners and universities.
Professor Peter Cowling joined the University of Bradford in March
2002 as a Professor of Computer Science, to found the new MOSAIC research centre.
His research interests include the investigation of state of the art heuristic
and modelling techniques for solving complex real world scheduling problems. He
has been principal investigator or co-investigator on 12 recent externally
funded grants, investigating novel methods of decision support for scheduling of
people and production. He sits on the EPSRC college. He has been on the
programme/refereeing committee of 13 international computer science conferences
over the past three years. He has published over 50 refereed journal and
conference papers, and has been an investigator on grants worth over £1.1
million in the past three years. While at A. I. Systems, he was responsible for
managing project teams which developed the market leading SteelPlanner range of
steel scheduling decision support systems. He has project managed the
development and implementation of personnel scheduling systems currently in use
by Nationwide Building Society.
Dr Keshav Dahal joined the University of Bradford as a lecturer in
computing in August 2002. He is a founding member of the MOSAIC research centre.
Prior to this he was a research fellow within the Institute for Energy and
Environment at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He obtained his PhD for
research in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the
University of Strathclyde. He holds an MSc degree in Electrical Power
Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, and a masters degree in Electric
Power Systems from Byelorussian Polytechnic Institute in Minsk. His research
interests lie in the areas of evolutionary computation, scheduling and
optimisation, power systems modelling, electricity market modelling, discrete
event simulation, and technical software design and development. He has been
involved in a number of R&D projects funded by Scottish Power plc.,
Rolls-Royce plc., the European Union, the National Grid Company, Industrial
Systems and Control Ltd. and EPSRC. He has published 15 recent research
papers. He has presented his research work in national and international
conferences, seminars and workshops. He is also a reviewer for international
journals, such as IEE Proceedings, IEEE Power Engineering Society journals, and
Operations Research journal. He is a member of the Programme Committees of the
Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2001, CEC2003), Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO2002, GECCO2003). He is a Member of
Institute of Electrical Engineers (MIEE).
1.
P. Cowling, G.
Kendall, and E. Soubeiga (2002) Hyper-heuristics: A Tool for Rapid Prototyping
in Scheduling and Optimisation, Proceedings of European Workshop on Evolutionary
Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP2002), Springer.
2.
S. Cayzer and U. Aickelin (2002) On the Effects of Idiotypic Interactions
for Recommendation Communities in Artificial Immune Systems, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on ARtificial Immune
Systems (ICARIS-2002), Canterbury, UK, 154-160.
3.
A. Reyes Moro, H. Yu and G. Kelleher (2002) Hybrid Heuristic Search for
the Scheduling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems Using Petri Nets, IEEE
Trans on Robotics and Automation, 18 (2), 240-245.
4.
Galloway S.J., Dahal K.P., Burt G.M. and McDonald J.R. (2002):
"Minimizing Price-risk Exposure for Deregulated Electricity Market
Participants", in Probabilistic Methods in Power Systems (PMAPS),
Naples, Sept 2002, pp.831- 837 , Italy.
5.
Aldridge C.J., McKee S., McDonald J.R., Galloway S.J. and Dahal K.P.
(2001): "A knowledge-based genetic algorithm for unit commitment" IEE
proceedings Generation, Transmission and Distribution, 148 146-152.
6.
Dahal K.P., Burt G.M., McDonald J.R. and Moyes A. (2001): "A case
study of scheduling storage tanks using a hybrid genetic algorithm" IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary computation, 5 283-294.
7.
Dahal K.P., Aldridge C.J. and McDonald J.R. (1999): "Generator
maintenance scheduling using a genetic algorithm with a fuzzy evaluation
function" Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 102 21-29.
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