Andrew Parkes

Contact

• workRoom C40 Computer Science
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 9514210
• andrew.parkes@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajp/

Research Summary

Operational researech. Understanding of Heuristics. LANCS Initiative. Combinatorial optimisation. Space capacity planning. Timetabling and scheduling.

Selected Publications

• BARRY MCCOLLUM, PAUL MCMULLAN, ANDREW PARKES, EDMUND BURKE and RONG QU, 2011. A new model for automated examination timetabling Annals of Operations Research.
• EDMUND BURKE, JAKUB MAREČEK, ANDREW J. PARKES and HANA RUDOVÁ, 2010. Decomposition, reformulation, and diving in university course timetabling Comput. Oper. Res.. 37, 582-597
• EDMUND BURKE, JAKUB MAREČEK, ANDREW J. PARKES and HANA RUDOVÁ, 2010. A supernodal formulation of vertex colouring with applications in course timetabling Annals of Operations Research.
• JINGPENG LI, ANDREW J. PARKES and EDMUND BURKE, 2011. Evolutionary Squeaky Wheel Optimization: A New Framework for Analysis Evolutionary Computation. 19(3), 405-428

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Past Research

Combinatorial optimisation. Boolean Satisfiability. Space capacity planning. Timetabling and scheduling. Supersymmetry and superstrings a long long time ago.

• 2012. HyFlex: A Benchmark Framework for Cross-domain Heuristic Search In: European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation.
• BARRY MCCOLLUM, PAUL MCMULLAN, ANDREW PARKES, EDMUND BURKE and RONG QU, 2011. A new model for automated examination timetabling Annals of Operations Research.
• CAMILLE BEYROUTHY, EDMUND BURKE, BARRY MCCOLLUM, PAUL MCMULLAN and ANDREW PARKES, 2011. University Space Planning and Space-type Profiles Journal of Scheduling.
• JINGPENG LI, ANDREW J. PARKES and EDMUND BURKE, 2011. Evolutionary Squeaky Wheel Optimization: A New Framework for Analysis Evolutionary Computation. 19(3), 405-428
• ENDER ÖZCAN, ANDREW J. PARKES and ALPAY ALKAN, 2011. The Interleaved Constructive Memetic Algorithm and its application to timetabling Computers & Operations Research.
• ENDER ÖZCAN and ANDREW J. PARKES, 2011. Policy Matrix Evolution for Generation of Heuristics. In: Proc. of the 13th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
• EDMUND BURKE, JAKUB MAREČEK, ANDREW J. PARKES and HANA RUDOVÁ, 2010. Decomposition, reformulation, and diving in university course timetabling Comput. Oper. Res.. 37, 582-597
• EDMUND BURKE, JAKUB MAREČEK, ANDREW J. PARKES and HANA RUDOVÁ, 2010. A supernodal formulation of vertex colouring with applications in course timetabling Annals of Operations Research.
• 2010. Setting the Research Agenda in Automated Timetabling: The Second International Timetabling Competition INFORMS Journal on Computing.
• CAMILLE BEYROUTHY, EDMUND BURKE, DARIO LANDA-SILVA, BARRY MCCOLLUM, PAUL MCMULLAN and ANDREW J. PARKES, 2009. Towards improving the utilization of university teaching space Journal of the Operational Research Society.
• ASMUNI, HISHAMMUDIN, BURKE, EDMUND K., GARIBALDI, JONATHAN M., MCCOLLUM, BARRY and PARKES, ANDREW J., 2009. An investigation of fuzzy multiple heuristic orderings in the construction of university examination timetables At: Oxford, UK
• BEYROUTHY, C., BURKE, EDMUND K., LANDA SILVA, D. J., MCCOLLUM, B., MCMULLAN, P. and PARKES, ANDREW J., 2007. The Teaching Space Allocation Problem with Splitting In: Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI. Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2006). LNCS Vol. 3867. 228-247
• BEYROUTHY, C, BURKE, E. K., LANDA-SILVA, J. D., MCCOLLUM B, MCMULLAN, P. and PARKES, A. J., 2006. Understanding the Role of UFOs Within Space Exploitation In: The 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling. 359-362
• DIXON, H.E., GINSBERG, M.L. and PARKES, A.J., 2004. Generalizing Boolean Satisfiability I: Background and Survey of Existing Work Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 21, 193-243
• DIXON, H.E, GINSBERG, M.L., HOFER, D.K., LUKS, E.M. and PARKES, A.J., 2004. Implementing a Generalized Version of Resolution In: Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 55-60
• PARKES, A.J., 2002. Easy predictions for the easy-hard-easy transition In: Eighteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence. 688 - 694