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Dr John Drake from University of Leicester will present a seminar to the Management Science Department

Abstract: This talk will introduce selection hyper-heuristics, a category of high-level computational search methods that seek to automate the heuristic design process. Although originally introduced with the intention of increasing the level of generality at which heuristic search methods operate, selection hyper-heuristics have also shown to be particularly effective in highly constrained optimisation problems, where preservation of solution feasibility is important. A number of real-world case studies will be presented, where selection hyper-heuristics have been deployed as intelligent decision support methods for combinatorial optimisation problems in airport operations, telecommunications network design, and railway maintenance scheduling.