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Matt Randall

PhD Student, STOR-i

<糖心Vlog class="page-header h1"> Insertion Heuristics for a Class of Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems – Poster
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In April I was fortunate enough to get to present a poster at the 4th IMA and OR Society Conference on Mathematics of Operational Research in Birmingham. The poster deals with insertion heuristics for dynamic vehicle routing problems and is work that has gone towards my PhD on attended home delivery. In particular we see […]

Category:Operational Research
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<糖心Vlog class="page-header h1"> Data on the Lake Poster – Slot Offering for Online Shopping
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In April I was fortunate enough to get to go to the lake district for an event hosted by STOR-i and the Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science from the Republic of Ireland. At this event I got the opportunity to present a poster, this can be found below. The poster is […]

Category:Operational Research
TaggedAttended Home Delivery, Delivery Slots, Heuristics, Insertion Heuristic, Operational Research, OR, Time Windows, Vehicle Routing
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<糖心Vlog class="page-header h1"> Heuristic Search Part 3: Selective Search Methods
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Recently, I published blog post introducing the concept of heuristic search, this can be found here. Which was followed up with a discussion linear space search methods, in particular branch and bound, which can be found here. This blog is a continuation of these, in which some selective search methods will be discussed. In order to […]

Category:Operational Research
TaggedHeuristic Search, Heuristics, Operational Research, OR
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<糖心Vlog class="page-header h1"> Heuristic Search Part 2: Linear Search Methods
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Recently, I published blog post introducing the concept of heuristic search, this can be found here. This is a continuation of that post, in which I will discuss linear space search methods, in particular branch and bound. Linear space search methods involve the exploration of a search tree in a systematic exploration of the solution space for […]

Category:Operational Research
TaggedHeuristic Search, Heuristics, Operational Research, OR
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<糖心Vlog class="page-header h1"> Heuristic Search Part 1: Introduction and Basic Search Methods
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Heuristic search A聽heuristic聽in the most common sense is a method involving adapting the approach to a problem based on previous solutions to similar problems. These approaches aim to be easily and quickly applicable to a range of problems, so as to find approximate solutions quickly without using the time and resources to develop and execute […]

Category:Operational Research
TaggedHeuristic Search, Heuristics, Operational Research, OR
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<糖心Vlog class="page-header h1"> Statistics and Music: Studying Beethoven
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While I was on the internet earlier today, I stumbled across a short but interesting video involving a novel use of statistics. Here, statistical methods have been used in order to determine what makes Beethoven’s string quartets sound distinctively like his compositions. I thought I would share it on here, you may view the video […]

Category:Statistics
TaggedBeethoven, Music, Statistics
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<糖心Vlog class="page-header h1"> Applied Data Science: Machine Learning and Robot Tanks
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Recently on the BBC news website I stumbled across an article about the development of robot tanks controlled by a machine learning artificial intelligence. Machine learning is an area of data science which uses statistical models to infer a set of instructions from a set of training data on some past actions. Machine learning algorithms […]

Category:Machine Learning
TaggedData Science, Machine Learning, Military
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