Professor John E Beasley

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Mathematical Sciences John Crank 505 Brunel University Uxbridge UB8 3PH United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1895 266219 Fax: +44 (0)1895 269732 Email: john.beasley@brunel.ac.uk Web: Personal Website

Research Interests

My primary research interest is in combinatorial optimisation and I maintain an OR-Library a collection of test data sets for a variety of OR problems.

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Publications

Journal Papers

(2013) López, CO. and Beasley, JE., Packing unequal circles using formulation space search, Computers and Operations Research 40 (5) : 1276- 1288

(2013) Woodside-Oriakhi, M., Lucas, C. and Beasley, JE., Portfolio rebalancing with an investment horizon and transaction costs, Omega (United Kingdom) 41 (2) : 406- 420

(2012) Anken, F. and Beasley, JE., Corporate structure optimisation for multinational companies, Omega 40 (2) : 230- 243

(2011) Lopez, CO. and Beasley, JE., A heuristic for the circle packing problem with a variety of containers, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH 214 (3) : 512- 525

(2011) Pey, J., Prada, J., Beasley, JE. and Planes, FJ., Path finding methods accounting for stoichiometry in metabolic networks, Genome Biology 12 (5) : R49-

(2011) Woodside-Oriakhi, M., Lucas, C. and Beasley, JE., Heuristic algorithms for the cardinality constrained efficient frontier, European Journal of Operational Research 213 538- 550

(2011) Mitchell, G. and Beasley, JE., Optimisation of sludge treatment and transport, Journal of the Operational Research Society 62 (6) : 939- 948

(2011) Meade, N. and Beasley, JE., Detection of momentum effects using an index out-performance strategy, Quantitative Finance 11 (2) : 313- 326

(2010) Benjamin, AM. and Beasley, JE., Metaheuristics for the waste collection vehicle routing problem with time windows, driver rest period and multiple disposal facilities, Computers and Operations Research 37 (12) : 2270- 2280

(2009) de Figueiredo, LF., Podhorski, A., Rubio, A., Kaleta, C., Beasley, JE., Schuster, S. and Planes, FJ., Computing the shortest elementary flux modes in genome-scale metabolic networks, BIOINFORMATICS 25 (23) : 3158- 3165

(2009) Popjari, CA. and Beasley, JE., Improving benders decomposition using a genetic algorithm, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH 199 (1) : 89- 97

(2009) Planes, FJ. and Beasley, JE., An optimization model for metabolic pathways, BIOINFORMATICS 25 (20) : 2723- 2729

(2009) Planes, FJ. and Beasley, JE., Path finding approaches and metabolic pathways, Discrete Applied Mathematics 157 (10) : 2244- 2256

(2009) Canakgoz, NA. and Beasley, JE., Mixed-integer programming approaches for index tracking and enhanced indexation, European Journal of Operational Research 196 (1) : 384- 399

(2008) Planes, FJ. and Beasley, JE., A critical examination of stoichiometric and path-finding approaches to metabolic pathways, Briefings in Bioinformatics 9 (5) : 422- 436

(2008) Alonso, F., Alvarez, MJ. and Beasley, JE., A tabu search algorithm for the periodic vehicle routing problem with multiple vehicle trips and accessibility restrictions, Journal of the Operational Research Society 59 (7) : 963- 976

(2007) Beasley, JE. and Planes, FJ., Recovering metabolic pathways via optimization, Bioinformatics 23 (1) : 92- 98

(2007) Vogt, L., Poojari, CA. and Beasley, JE., A tabu search algorithm for the single vehicle routing allocation problem, Journal of the Operational Research Society 58 (4) : 467- 480

(2006) Pinol, H. and Beasley, JE., Scatter search and bionomic algorithms for the aircraft landing problem, European Journal of Operational Research 171 (2) : 439- 462

(2004) Richmond, AJ. and Beasley, JE., An iterative construction heuristic for the ore selection problem, Journal of Heuristics 10 (2) : 153- 167

(2004) Richmond, AJ. and Beasley, JE., Financially efficient dig-line delineation incorporating equipment constraints and grade uncertainty, International Journal of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Environment 18 (2) : 99- 121

(2004) Beasley, JE., Krishnamoorthy, M., Sharaiha, YM. and Abramson, D., Displacement problem and dynamically scheduling aircraft landings, Journal of the Operational Research Society 55 (1) : 54- 64

(2004) Beasley, JE., A population heuristic for constrained two-dimensional non-guillotine cutting, European Journal of Operational Research 156 (3) : 601- 627

(2003) Beasley, JE., Meade, N. and Chang, T-J., An evolutionary heuristic for the index tracking problem, European Journal of Operational Research 148 (3) : 621- 643

(2003) Cochrane, EM. and Beasley, JE., The co-adaptive neural network approach to the Euclidean travelling salesman problem, Neural Networks 16 (10) : 1499- 1525

(2003) Beasley, JE., Allocating fixed costs and resources via data envelopment analysis, European Journal of Operational Research 147 (1) : 198- 216

(2002) Beasley, JE., Howells, H. and Sonander, J., Improving short-term conflict alert via tabu search, JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY 53 (6) : 593- 602

(2002) Beasley, JE., Howells, H. and Sonander, J., Improving short-term conflict alert via tabu search, Journal of the Operational Research Society 53 (6) : 593- 602

(2001) Beasley, JE., Sonander, J. and Havelock, P., Scheduling aircraft landings at London Heathrow using a population heuristic, Journal of the Operational Research Society 52 (5) : 483- 493

(2001) Hoare, NP. and Beasley, JE., Placing boxes on shelves: a case study, Journal of the Operational Research Society 52 (6) : 605- 614

(2000) Chang, TJ., Meade, N., Beasley, JE. and Sharaiha, YM., Heuristics for cardinality constrained portfolio optimisation, COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH 27 (13) : 1271- 1302

(2000) Beasley, JE., Krishnamoorthy, M., Sharaiha, YM. and Abramson, D., Scheduling aircraft landings - The static case, Transportation Science 34 (2) : 180- 197 Download publication