Associate Professor Andrew Wirth
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Teaching
Engineering Analysis, Optimisation.
Biography
Prior to his current appointment Associate Professor Andrew Wirth has worked at the Melbourne Business School. He has also held visiting positions at Monash University and Templeton College, University of Oxford. His PhD and BSc (Hons) are in mathematics. He also holds a formal teaching qualification.
Research interests
Dr Wirth’s research is in the development of effective and efficient heuristics for discrete optimisation problems in scheduling and telecommunication networks. Some of this work has been carried out in collaboration with colleagues at the Operations Research Group, CSIRO Mathematics and Information Sciences and Telstra Research Laboratories. More
Curriculum vitae
Publications
Pritchard, A.J and Wirth, A. – Unbounded control and observation systems and their duality, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal of Control and Optimization 16: 535-545 (1978)
Langfield-Smith, K. and Wirth, A. – Measuring differences between cognitive maps, Journal of the Operational Research Society 43: 1135-1150 (1992)
Parker, R. and Wirth, A. – Manufacturing flexibility: measures and relationships, European Journal of Operational Research 118(3): 429-449 (1999)
Ouveysi, I. and Wirth, A. – On design of a survivable network architecture for dynamic routing: optimal solution strategy and an efficient heuristic, European Journal of Operational Research 117: 30-44 (1999)
Khammuang, K., Abdekhodaee, A. and Wirth, A. - On-line scheduling with forbidden zones Journal of the Operational Research Society 58: 80-90 (2007)