Items where Author is "Wright, M B"

Wright, M B (2010) Automating Parameter Choice For Simulated Annealing. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Wright, M B (2010) OR/MS applied to cricket. In: Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science :. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester. ISBN 9780470400531

Wright, M B (2010) Timetabling the major English cricket fixtures. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Wright, M B (2009) Fifty years of operational research in sport. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60. pp. 161-168. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B (2009) OR in sport. IFORS Newsletter. pp. 4-5.

Wright, M B (2009) OR/MS applied to cricket. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Martin, K and Wright, M B (2008) Using particle swarm optimization to determine visit times in community nurse timetabling. In: 7th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automatic Timetabling (Montreal) - 2008 :. unknown, N/A.

Wright, M B (2007) Case study: problem formulation and solution for a real-world sports scheduling problem. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58 (4). pp. 439-445. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B (2007) Experiments to shed light on the best way to use Iterated Local Search for a complex combinatorial problem. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Fu, Z and Eglese, R W and Wright, M B (2007) A branch-and-bound algorithm for finding all optimal solutions of the assignment problem. Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 24 (6). pp. 831-839. ISSN 0217-5959

Hirotsu, N and Wright, M B (2006) Modeling tactical changes of formation in association football as a zero-sum game. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2 (2). Article 4. ISSN 1559-0410

Wright, M B (2006) Scheduling fixtures for Basketball New Zealand. Computers and Operations Research, 33 (7). pp. 1875-1893. ISSN 0305-0548

Hirotsu, N and Wright, M B (2005) Modelling a baseball game to optimize pitcher substitution strategies incorporating handedness of players. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 16 (2). pp. 179-194. ISSN 1471-678X

Hirotsu, N and Wright, M B (2005) Modelling tactical changes of formation in association football as a zero-sum game. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Wright, M B (2005) Scheduling fixtures for New Zealand Cricket. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 16 (2). pp. 99-112. ISSN 1471-678X

Camatta, A and Wright, M B and Amaral, A R S (2005) Subset moves based simulated annealing applied to the one-dimensional layout problem. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Wright, M B and Hirotsu, N (2004) Modeling a baseball game to optimize pitcher substitution strategies using dynamic programming. In: Economics, Management and Optimization in Sports :. Springer, Berlin, pp. 131-162. ISBN 3-540-20712-0

Fu, Z and Eglese, R W and Wright, M B (2004) A branch-and-bound algorithm for finding all optimal solutions of the assignment problem. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Wright, M B (2004) A rich model for scheduling umpires for an amateur cricket league. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Rand, G K and Wright, M B and Lewis, T (2003) Batty over cricket. Operations Research Management Science Today, 30 (2). pp. 42-45. ISSN 1085-1038

Wright, M B and Hirotsu, N (2003) Determining the best strategy for changing the configuration of a football team. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54 (8). pp. 878-887. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B (2003) Experiments with a plateau-rich solution space. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Wright, M B and Hirotsu, N (2003) A Markov Chain approach to optimal pinch hitting strategies in a designated hitter rule baseball game. Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan, 46 (3). pp. 353-371. ISSN 0453-4514

Wright, M B (2003) Metaheuristic techniques for the solution of complex combinatorial problems with more than one objective. PhD thesis, UNSPECIFIED.

Hirotsu, N and Wright, M B (2003) Modelling a baseball game to optimise pitcher substitution strategies incorporating handedness of players. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Wright, M B (2003) Scheduling fixtures for New Zealand cricket. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Wright, M B (2003) Scheduling fixtures for basketball New Zealand. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Hirotsu, N and Wright, M B (2003) A dynamic programming approach to finding optimal pitcher substitution strategies in a baseball game. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Hirotsu, N and Wright, M B (2003) An evaluation of characteristics of teams in association football by using a Markov process model. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician), 52 (4). pp. 591-602. ISSN 0039-0526

Hirotsu, N and Wright, M B (2003) An evaluation of characteristics of teams in association football using a Markov process model. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Wright, M B (2003) An overview of neighbourhood search metaheuristics. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Hirotsu, N and Wright, M B (2003) The professional foul in football - tactics and deterrents. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54 (3). pp. 213-221. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B (2003) The value of randomness in the acceptance criterion for simulated annealing. Working Paper. The Department of Management Science, Lancaster University.

Salimifard, K and Wright, M B (2002) Compositional modelling of workflow processes. In: Proceedings of the EurAsia-ICT 2002, the First Eurasian Conference on Information and Communication Technology (Shiraz, Iran ) - 2002 :. Springer, Berlin, pp. 289-297.

Hirotsu, N and Wright, M B (2002) Corrigendum - using a Markov process model of an association football match to determine the optimal timing of substitution and tactical decisions. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 53 (10). p. 1174. ISSN 1476-9360

Salimifard, K and Wright, M B (2002) Modelling and performance analysis of workflow management systems using timed hierachical Coloured Petri Nets. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (Ciudad Real, Spain ) - 2002 :. unknown, N/A, pp. 843-846.

Wright, M B and Hirotsu, N (2002) Using a Markov process model of an association football match to determine the optimal time of substitution and tactical decisions. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 53 (1). pp. 88-96. ISSN 1476-9360

Amaral, A R S and Wright, M B (2001) Experiments with a strategic oscillation algorithm for the pallet loading problem. International Journal of Production Research, 39 (11). pp. 2341-2351. ISSN 0020-7543

Salimifard, K and Wright, M B (2001) MORaD-net: a visual modelling language for business processes. In: Proceedings of the international workshop on New Models of Business: Managerial Aspects and Enabling Technology (St Petersburg, Russia ) - 2001 :. unknown, N/A, pp. 213-222.

Salimifard, K and Wright, M B (2001) Petri Net based modelling of workflow systems: an overview. European Journal of Operational Research, 134 (3). pp. 664-676. ISSN 0377-2217

Wright, M B (2001) Subcost-guided search - experiments with timetabling problems. Journal of Heuristics, 7. pp. 251-260. ISSN 1381-1231

Wright, M B (2001) Subcost-guided simulated annealing. In: Essays and Surveys in Metaheuristics :. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 631-639. ISBN 0-7923-7520-3

Amaral, A R S and Wright, M B (2001) An efficient algorithm for the constrained two-dimensional cutting problem. International Transactions in Operational Research, 8 (1). pp. 3-13. ISSN 0969-6016

Wright, M B and Amaral, A R S (1997) The one-dimensional facility layout problem: a genetic algorithm approach. In: Advances in Industrial Engineering Applications and Practice :. International Journal of Industrial Engineering, Florida, pp. 169-173. ISBN 0965459926

Wright, M B (1996) School timetabling using heuristic search. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 47 (3). pp. 347-357. ISSN 1476-9360

Marett, R C and Wright, M B (1996) A comparison of the neighborhood search techniques for multi-objective combinatorial problems. Computers and Operations Research, 23 (5). pp. 465-483. ISSN 0305-0548

Marett, R C and Wright, M B (1996) A preliminary investigation into the performance of heuristic search methods applied to compound combinatorial problems. In: Meta-heuristics Theory and Applications :. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 299-318. ISBN 0-7923-9700-2

Wright, M B (1994) Timetabling county cricket fixtures using a form of tabu search. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45 (7). pp. 758-770. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B and Fu, Z (1994) Train plan model for British Rail freight services through the Channel Tunnel. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45 (4). pp. 384-391. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B (1992) A fair allocation of county cricket opponents. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 43 (3). pp. 195-201. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B (1991) Scheduling English cricket umpires. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 42 (6). pp. 447-452. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B (1990) Speeding up the hungarian algorithm. Computers and Operations Research, 17 (1). pp. 95-96. ISSN 0305-0548

Wright, M B (1989) Applying stochastic algorithms to a locomotive scheduling problem. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 40 (2). pp. 187-192. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B (1988) Probabilities and decision rules for the game of squash rackets. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 39 (1). pp. 91-99. ISSN 1476-9360

Wright, M B (1987) The application of a surgical bed simulation model. European Journal of Operational Research, 32 (1). pp. 26-32. ISSN 0377-2217