Mathematics

Logistics and Management Mathematics Group (LMMG)

LMMG-Research faces  

Operational Research, Mathematical Programming, Multi-Objective Optimisation

  • Computer based decision support techniques for real world applications
  • Linear programming (LP), integer programming (IP), goal programming (GP), multi-objective programming (MOP), compromise programming (CP) and nonlinear programming (NLP)
  • Discrete event simulation: modelling and performance analysis
  • Multi-criteria decision making
  • Heuristics and meta-heuristics for combinatorial optimisation problems and compromise programming problems
  • Algorithm design, programming and implementation support

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

  • Logistics management concepts and techniques for companies in both the product and service sectors
  • Production planning and scheduling for continuous and discrete manufacturing
  • Distribution, transportation and vehicle routing
  • Inventory and supply chain management and coordination
  • Sustainable supply chains and reverse logistics, reuse, recycling, closed-loop supply chains
  • Risk management
  • Asset portfolio set-up management, budget allocation, resource allocation
  • Large data set analysis
  • Nonlinear dynamics and chaos

Resources Available

  • Suite of modelling software and optimisation packages
  • Suite of heuristic techniques for "hard" optimisation problems
  • Simulation software
  • Problem analysis and solving skills
  • Programming and prototype development skills
  • Fresh ideas
  • Funding opportunities