BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19440319T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:SAST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180304T192717Z UID:49069C87-28F7-11E7-8752-0050568D2FB3 DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170504T150000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20170504T160000 DESCRIPTION:The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society\, South African Cha pter\, invite you to the following event:\n\nA talk on "Optimising practic al problems - research and reality" by Dr Irene Moser\n\nComputational int elligence research aims to provide general-purpose heuristics for complex optimisation problems. In reality\, problems often have so many ramificati ons that no individual out-of-the box solver can be applied directly. In m ost cases\, even making adjustments to these general-purpose techniques do esn't provide the best possible solutions. This talk is about two practica l problems: A vehicle routing problem of an industry partner in Melbourne and a telescope scheduling problem in radio astronomy.\n\nLaminex is a com pany that produces\, imports and distributes laminates all over Australia. Their nightly challenge is to allocate laminate boards to customised truc ks for next-day delivery all over Melbourne.\n\nIn astronomy\, operating t elescopes has been a semi-automated process with astronomers in (at least remote) attendance when their sources are being observed. The imminent con struction of the Square Kilometre Array in South Africa and Australia asks for more automation - running three hundred telescopes\, some of which ha ve to be synchronised some of the time to observe the same source cannot b e achieved manually. Telescope time is scarce\, even in times of the SKA\, and the challenge is to minimise the movements of a telescope\, to achiev e a shortest possible path through a sky full of observable targets which 'move' thanks to the Earth's complex orbit and rotation patterns.\n\nIrene Moser completed her PhD and joined staff at Swinburne University of Techn ology\, Melbourne\, Australia\, in 2008. She is a Senior Lecturer in the D epartment of Computer Science and Software Engineering\, an Academic Direc tor of Researcher Training and Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Infor mation and Communication Technologies. Her research interests include opti misation algorithms and heuristics\, combinatorial\, single-\, multiobject ive and constrained optimisation and approaches to practical problems.\n\n Agenda: \n1. Talk\n\n2. Refreshments\n\nRoom: Seminar Room\, Bldg: Unisa\, Club 1 Building\, Level 1\, 18 Pinaster Avenue\, Hazelwood\, Gauteng\, So uth Africa LOCATION:Room: Seminar Room\, Bldg: Unisa\, Club 1 Building\, Level 1\, 18 Pinaster Avenue\, Hazelwood\, Gauteng\, South Africa ORGANIZER:malankm@unisa.ac.za SEQUENCE:17 SUMMARY:Optimising practical problems - research and reality URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45222 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The IEEE Computational Intelligence Societ y\, South African Chapter\, invite you to the following event:</p>\n<p>A t alk on "Optimising practical problems - research and reality" by Dr Irene Moser</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Computational intelligence research aims to provide general-purpose heuristics for complex optimisation problems. In r eality\, problems often have so many ramifications that no individual out- of-the box solver can be applied directly. In most cases\, even making adj ustments to these general-purpose techniques doesn't provide the best poss ible solutions. This talk is about two practical problems: A vehicle routi ng problem of an industry partner in Melbourne and a telescope scheduling problem in radio astronomy.</p>\n<p>Laminex is a company that produces\, i mports and distributes laminates all over Australia. Their nightly challen ge is to allocate laminate boards to customised trucks for next-day delive ry all over Melbourne.</p>\n<p><br /> In astronomy\, operating telescopes has been a semi-automated process with astronomers in (at least remote) at tendance when their sources are being observed. The imminent construction of the Square Kilometre Array in South Africa and Australia asks for more automation - running three hundred telescopes\, some of which have to be s ynchronised some of the time to observe the same source cannot be achieved manually. Telescope time is scarce\, even in times of the SKA\, and the c hallenge is to minimise the movements of a telescope\, to achieve a shorte st possible path through a sky full of observable targets which 'move' tha nks to the Earth's complex orbit and rotation patterns.<br /> <br /> Irene Moser completed her PhD and joined staff at Swinburne University of Techn ology\, Melbourne\, Australia\, in 2008. She is a Senior Lecturer in the D epartment of Computer Science and Software Engineering\, an Academic Direc tor of Researcher Training and Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Infor mation and Communication Technologies. Her research interests include opti misation algorithms and heuristics\, combinatorial\, single-\, multiobject ive and constrained optimisation and approaches to practical problems.</p> <br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>1. Talk</p>\n<p>2. Refreshments</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR