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Professor Chris Potts

Professor of Operational Research

Professor Chris Potts is a Professor within Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton.

Education

University of Manchester, BSc in Mathematics
University of Hull, MSc in Operational Research
University of Birmingham, PhD in Operational research

Current Position

Professor of Operational Research

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

Teaching

Contact

Research interests

Research Interests

Combinatorial Optimization, especially scheduling in production and transport.

Research Projects

Air traffic management: scheduling of airport runways to improve throughput while maintaining minimum separation times between aircraft.

Train scheduling: increasing usage of the capacity imposed by the current infrastructure.

Vehicle routing and scheduling: design of local search methods for non-standard models that capture many of constraints that are present in real-world problems.

Production scheduling: design of models and development of algorithms for problems that are more closely related to industry practice than those of classical scheduling.

Research group

Operational Research

Affiliate research groups

Computational Optimisation, Transportation, Production Planning and Supply Chain

Research project(s)

Research work in rail capacity at Southampton was initiated with the OCCASION project (2010-2012), followed-up with a Knowledge Transfer Secondment with Arup (2013-14) and continues with the DITTO project (2014-2017). Research work on rail demand forecasting at Southampton was initiated with Rail Research UK (2003-2010) and has continued with a series of grants, contracts and consultancy studies.

Leading Southampton's contribution to the LANCS Initiative, a £13M project in collaboration with Lancaster, Nottingham and Cardiff to increase research capacity in foundational Operational Research

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Conferences

Smith, H. K., Harper, P. R., & Potts, C. N. (2008). Community healthcare facilities:location and demand modelling. Paper presented at Second International Health and Social Care Modelling Conference (HSCM)2008, United Kingdom.
Smith, H. K., Harper, P. R., & Potts, C. N. (2008). Location modelling for community healthcare facilities. In Operations Research for Health Care Delivery Engineering (pp. 101-112). Saint-Etienne, France: Publications de L'Universite de Saint-Etienne.
Lee, L-S., Potts, C. N., & Bennell, J. A. (2007). A genetic algorithm for symmetric Travelling Salesman Problem with due dates. Paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Research and Education in Mathematics (ICREM 3), .
Lee, L. S., Potts, C., & Bennell, J. A. (2007). A genetic algorithm for symmetric TSP with due dates. Paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Research and Education in Mathematics, .
Smith, H., Harper, P., & Potts, C. (2006). An OR approach to planning sustainable community health schemes in rural areas of developing countries. poster discussion presentations: planning sustainable community health schemes in rural areas of developing countries using hierarchical location modelling.. Poster session presented at EURO XXI, European Conference on Operational Research, .
Ni, J., Bennell, J., Thomas, L., & Potts, C. (2006). Feature selection and validation for mass spectral data in proteomics. Paper presented at 21st European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXI), .

Working Papers

Bennell, J., Pearson, N. A., & Potts, C. N. (2009). Driveable routes: solving shortest path problems in practice. (Discussion Papers in Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems; No. CORMSIS-09-15). Southampton, UK: University of Southampton.
Bennell, J. A., Lee, L. S., & Potts, C. N. (2008). A genetic algorithm for two-dimensional bin packing with due dates. (Discussion Papers in Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems; No. CORMSIS-08-16). Southampton, UK: University of Southampton.

MATH6002 Deterministic OR Methods

Professor Chris Potts
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