| Title: | Three Industrial Transportation Problems Solved with Constraint Logic Programming |
| Date: |
June 20, 2006 (Tuesday)
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| Time: |
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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| Venue: |
Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-hang Engineering Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. |
| Speaker: |
Prof. Mark Wallace
Chair Professor and Director of Research Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University (Clayton) Australia |
Constraint programming offers a toolbox of problem-solving techniques that enables us to separate problem definition from problem solving, and to experiment with the best mixture of techniques for the problem at hand. This is very useful for (typical) applications where the business problem and process changes, even while the solution is under development.
We discuss three applications - in logistics, transport scheduling, and emergency dispatch - and show how they were solved using a rapid application development methodology that goes hand-in-hand with constraint logic programming.
BIOGRAPHY:
Mark Wallace has worked for many years on constraint programming and its application to large scale industrial combinatorial problems. He led the ECLiPSe constraint programming team for some 10 years at Imperial College and was a founder of research into the combination of constraint programming and integer/linear programming.
He also worked with the transportation industry, running industrial collaborations between Imperial College and British Airways, and with the Royal Automobile Club.
Now at Monash University, he is managing a multi-university team developing a new constraint programming system called G12. He is a consultant with a University of Melbourne group (MORe), delivering optimisation solutions to local Australian companies.
Enquiries: Miss Temmy So at tel 2609 8444
For more information, please refer to http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/seminar