Professor Ken DARBY-DOWMAN
Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences
Professor of Operational Research
Contact Details
| Telephone: |
+44 (0) 1895 203 273 |
| Fax: |
+44 (0) 1895 203 303 |
| Email |
mastkhd@brunel.ac.uk |
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Brunel University
Cleveland Road Uxbridge UB8 3PH
ENGLAND
Research
My research interests lie mainly in the following areas:
- Applications of mathematical programming in areas including finance, vehicle and crew scheduling, production planning, facility location.
- Solution methods for large scale Mathematical Programming
- Optimisation under uncertainty: Stochastic Programing and Risk Modelling
- Constraint Logic Programming, Integer Programming and Hybrid Systems.
- Development of modelling tools to aid the implementation and use of decision support systems.
- Multi-objective and stochastic modelling.
- User Profiling in www-based applications and e-commerce
Selected Recent Papers
- Darby-Dowman, K., Rodgers, G.J., 'Properties of a growing random directed network', European Physical Journal B, Vol. 23, pp 267-271, 2001
- Darby-Dowman, K., Barker, S., Audsley, E., and Parsons, D., 'A Two-Stage Stochastic Programming with Recourse Model for Determining Robust Planting Plans in Horticulture', Journal of Operational Research Society, Vol. 51, 2000.
- Darby-Dowman, K. and Little, J., 'Properties of Some Combinatorial Optimization Problems and their Effect on the Performance of Integer Programming and Constraint Logic Programming', INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 10, No 3, pp. 276-286, 199
8, ISSN 0899-1499.
- Darby-Dowman, K. and Rangel, S., 'The Application of Preprocessing and Cutting Plane Techniques to a Class of Production Planning Problems', Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 11, No 3, pp. 297-318, 1998, ISSN 0926-6003.
- Marins, F., Senne, E., Darby-Dowman, K., Machardo, A., and Perin, C., 'Algorithms for Network Piecewise - Linear Programs: A Comparative Study', European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 97, No 1, pp. 183-199, 1997, ISSN 0377-2217.
- Darby-Dowman, K., Little, J., Mitra, G. and Zaffalon, M., 'Constraint Logic Programming and Integer Programming Approaches and their Collaboration in Solving an Assignment Scheduling Problem ', Constraints, An International Journal, Vol. 1, No
3, pp. 245-264, 1998, ISSN 1383-7133.
- Darby-Dowman, K. and Little, J. , 'Critical Factors in the Evolution of Logic Programming and Prolog', European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 6, pp. 67-75, 1997, ISSN 0960-085X.