MORe: Associate Professor Andrew Wirth

Short Biography

Consulting Activities

Technical Expertise

Research Activities

• Telecommunications
  • Fault Tolerant Network Design
  • Mixed Photonic/Electronic Network Design
• Machine Scheduling
• Processor Scheduling

Publications

Refereed journals

1. Wirth, A.- Convergence in partially ordered groups Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Series II) 18: 239-246 (1973)

2. Wirth, A.- Compatible tight Riesz orders Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society 15: 105-111 (1973)

3. Wirth, A.- Some Krein-Milman theorems for order-convexity Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society 18: 257-261 (1974)

4. Wirth, A.- Order and norm convergence in Banach lattices Glasgow Mathematics Journal 15: 13 (1974)

5. Wirth, A.- Locally compact tight Riesz groups Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society 19: 247-251 (1974)

6. Wirth, A.- Carriers and Archimedean classes in Banach lattices Journal of the London Mathematical Society 10: 121-124 (1975)

7. Wirth, A.- Relatively uniform Banach lattices Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 52: 178-180 (1975)

8. Wirth, A.(with Pritchard, A.J.) - Unbounded control and observation systems and their duality Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal of Control and Optimization 16: 535-545 (1978)

9. Wirth, A.(with Bedingfield, S.E.) -Norm and order properties of Banach lattices Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Series A) 29: 331-336 (1980)

10. Wirth, A.- Control of manpower systems by recruitment Zeitschrift fur Operations Research (Series A) 26: 1-6 (1982)

11. Wirth, A.- A note on a cash management model allowing for overdrafts Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 11: 557-561 (1984)

12. Wirth, A.- The accuracy of information New Zealand Operational Research 14: 93-100 (1986)

13. Wirth, A.(with Wright, F.K.) - New-issue costs and project evaluation: Ezzell and Porter revisited Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 14: 393-407 (1984)

14. Wirth, A.- Overdrafts and fully drawn advances Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Journal of Mathematics in Management 1: 67-75 (1987)

15. Wirth, A.(with Cowton, C.J.) - Discounts on company products sold to employees Personnel Review 17(5): 33-36 (1988)

16. Wirth, A.- Inventory control and inflation: a review International Journal of Operations and Production Management 9(1): 67-72 (1989)

17. Wirth, A.(with Samson, D. and Rickard, J.) - The value of information from multiple sources of uncertainty in decision analysis European Journal of Operational Research 39: 254-260 (1989)

18. Wirth, A.(with Sohal, A. and Tay, G.-S.) - Total quality control in an Asian division of a multinational corporation International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management 6(6): 60-74 (1989)

19. Wirth, A.(with Crouch, A.) - Managerial retention and performance under conditions of organizational merger Journal of Managerial Psychology 4(5): 3-5 (1989)

20. Wirth, A.(with Harber, D., Samson, D. and Sohal, A.) - Just-in-time: the issue of implementation International Journal of Operations and Production Management 10(1): 21-30(1990)

21. Wirth, A.(with Samson, D.) - Decision analysis models of futures options purchase decisions Omega The International Journal of Management Science 18(3): 259-267 (1990)

22. Wirth, A.(with Samson, D. and Rickard, J.) - The value of flexibility and control in decision analysis International Journal of Information and Management Sciences 1(2): 107-113 (1990)

23. Wirth, A.(with McGovern, J, and Samson, D.) - Applying artificial intelligence to decision analysis based decision support systems Decision Support Systems 7: 263-272 (1991)

24. Wirth, A.(with Oakland, J. and Sohal, A.) - A decision network application to batch size determination for single-stage systems Engineering Costs and Production Economics 21: 143-153 (1991)

25. Wirth, A.(with Crouch, A.) - Managerial responses to mergers and other job changes: a comparative study Journal of Managerial Psychology 6(2): 3-8 (1991)

26. Wirth, A.- Order picking from a two dimensional system International Journal of Information and Management Sciences 2(2): 35-45 (1991)

27. Wirth, A.(with Cowton, C.J.) - Discounting products to shareholders Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 19: 439-445 (1992)

28. Wirth, A.(with Langfield-Smith, K.) - Measuring differences between cognitive maps Journal of the Operational Research Society 43: 1135-1150 (1992)

29. Wirth, A.(with Cowton, C.J.) - On the economics of cutting tools International Journal of Production Research 31(10): 2441-2446 (1993)

30. Wirth, A.(with McGovern, J and Samson, D.) - Using case based reasoning for basis development in intelligent decision systems European Journal of Operational Research 74: 40-59 (1994)

31. Wirth, A.(with Williams, D.) - A new heuristic for a single machine scheduling problem with setup times Journal of the Operational Research Society 47: 175-180 (1996)

32. Wirth, A.(with Hayat, N.) - Genetic algorithms and machine scheduling with class setups International Journal of Computer and Engineering Management 5(2): 10-23 (1997)

33. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I.)- 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)

34. Wirth, A.(with Parker, R.)- Manufacturing flexibility: measures and relationships European Journal of Operational Research 118(3): 429-449 (1999)

35. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I.) - Fast heuristics for protection networks for dynamic routing Journal of the Operational Research Society 50: 262-267 (1999)

36. Wirth, A.(with Dunstall, S. and Baker, K.) - Lower bounds and heuristics for scheduling with sequence-independent setup times Journal of Scheduling 3: 51-69 (2000)

37. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I. and Safaei, F.) - Planning of transport networks based on photonic and electronic cross-connection Photonic Network Communications 2(2): 199-208 (2000)

38. Wirth, A.(with Langan-Fox J.,

39. Wirth, A.I., Code, S. and Langfield-Smith, K.)- Analyzing shared and team mental models International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 28(2): 99-112 (2001)

40. Wirth, A.(with Abdekhodaee, A.) - Scheduling parallel machines with a single server: some solvable cases and heuristics Computers & Operations Research 29: 295-315 (2002)

41. Wirth, A.(with Dunstall, S. and Suriyaarachchi, R.) - An on-line self learning tool for LP modelling Australian Society for Operations Research Bulletin 22(1): 2-7 (2003) (invited contribution)

42. Wirth, A.(with Abdekhodaee, A. and Gan, H.S.) - Equal processing and equal set-up times cases of scheduling parallel machines with a single server (29 pages) Computers & Operations Research (to appear)

43. Wirth, A.(with Dunstall, S.) - A comparison of branch-and-bound algorithms for a family scheduling problem with identical parallel machines European Journal of Operational Research. (Paper no. 102367) (to appear)

44. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I., Oguz, O. and Yeh, A.) - Large scale linear programs and heuristics for the design of survivable telecommunications networks Applied Mathematical Programming and Modelling 2000 Annals of Operations Research volume editors G. Mitra and C. Lucas ( 11 pages) (invited contribution) (to appear)

Book chapters

1. Wirth, A.(with McGovern, J. and Samson, D.) - Computerised decision tree analysis in Computer-aided Decision Analysis: Theory and Applications editor S. Nagel Quorum Books, New York pages 205-239 (1993)

2. Wirth, A.(with Dunstall, S.) - Models and algorithms for machine scheduling with setup times chapter 2 of 8 chapter book Systems techniques and computational methods: volume 1 of Computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing systems techniques and applications series editor C. Leondes CRC Press, Boca Raton Florida pages 2-1 to 2-86 (86 pages) (2001) (invited contribution)

3. Wirth, A.- Management science models chapter 5 of 16 chapter book Management for Engineers 3rd edition editor D. Samson Prentice Hall Frenchs Forest NSW pages 151-176 (2001) (invited contribution)

4. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I. and Sesana, L.) - The video placement and routing problem chapter in Operations research/management science at work: applying theory in the Asia Pacific region International Series in Operations Research and Management Science volume 43 editors E. Kozan and A. Ohuchi Kluwer Academic Publishers pages 53-71 (2002) (invited contribution)

Submitted

1. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I., Tham, Y.K. and Yeh, A.) - Network design for a multi-hour traffic profile (20 pages) European Journal of Operational Research

2. Wirth, A.(with Dunstall, S.) - Heuristic methods for the identical parallel machine flowtime problem with setup times Computers & Operations Research

Conference papers and invited seminars

1. Wirth, A.- Unbounded control and observation systems Australian Mathematical Society 21st Annual Meeting Melbourne (1977)

2. Wirth, A.- A manpower model of an Australian police force International Federation of Operational Societies 10th World Conference Washington D.C. (1984)

3. Wirth, A.(with Samson, D. and Rickard, J.) - The value of information from multiple sources of uncertainty in decision analysis Department of Decision Sciences National University of Singapore (1987) (invited seminar) and The Institute of Management Sciences/Operations Research Society of America Joint National Meeting Washington D.C. (1988)

4. Wirth, A.(with McGovern, J. and Samson, D.) - Building an expert decision analyst Proceedings of the 9th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research Canberra pages 57-84 (1988)

5. Wirth, A.(with Langfield-Smith, K.) - Quantitative measures of cognitive maps Proceedings of the 11th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research Gold Coast pages 67-86 (1991)

6. Wirth, A.- Management courses for engineers (and others) 1st Australian Conference for Engineering Management Educators Sydney (1992)

7. Wirth, A.(with Williams, D.) - An improved heuristic for a single machine scheduling problem with setup times Proceedings of the 12th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research Adelaide pages 696-720 (1993)

8. Wirth, A.(with Tharumarajah, A. and Wells, A.) - Scheduling in distributed production systems Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering Melbourne pages 87-94 (1995)

9. Wirth, A.(with Higgins, P.) - Interactive scheduling: how to combine operations research heuristics with human abilities Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering Melbourne pages 293-302 (1995)

10. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I.) - Survivability in multi-service telecommunications networks: large scale optimization and an efficient heuristic Proceedings of the 13th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research Canberra pages 341-352 (1995)

11. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I.) - Synthesis of a protection telecommunications networks for two link failures : large scale optimization and an efficient heuristic IEEE 1995 Global Communications Conference Globecom'95 Singapore pages 921-925 (1995)

12. Wirth, A.(with Parker, R.)- Developing manufacturing flexibility measures Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences Fall 1995 Meeting New Orleans (1995)

13. Wirth, A.(with Abdekhodaee, A. Dunstall, S. and Suriyaarachchi, R.) - Scheduling with setups Department of Decision Sciences National University of Singapore (1997) (invited seminar)

14. Wirth, A.(with Abdekhodaee, A.) - Parallel machine scheduling with setup times and a common server 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming Lausanne, Switzerland (1997)

15. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I. and Oguz, O.) - One and two stage Dantzig-Wolfe decompositions for survivability in multi-service telecommunications problem 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming Lausanne, Switzerland (1997)

16. Wirth, A.(with Dunstall, S.) - Scheduling single machines with changeovers and release dates 4th Conference of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies Melbourne (1997)

17. Wirth, A.(with Higgins, P.) - Interactive scheduling 4th Conference of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies Melbourne (1997)

18. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I.) - A minimal complexity heuristic for network survivability for dynamic routing 4th Conference of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies Melbourne (1997)

19. Wirth, A.(with Suriyaarachchi, R.) - Scheduling with due dates and family setups 4th Conference of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies Melbourne (1997)

20. Wirth, A.(with Abdekhodaee, A.) - Parallel machine scheduling with setup times and a single server 4th Conference of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies Melbourne (1997)

21. Wirth, A.(with Safaei, F. and Ouveysi, I.) - Multi-layer dimensioning of integrated ATM and SDH rings in telecommunication networks 4th Conference of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies Melbourne (1997)

22. Wirth, A.(with Safaei, F. and Ouveysi, I.) - Dynamic reconfiguration of hierarchical multi-service crossconnect platforms for multi-hour traffic profiles 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications Sydney (1997)

23. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I. and Safaei, F.) - Dimensioning and dynamic reconfiguration of hierarchical multi-service crossconnect platforms for multi-hour traffic profiles International Conference on Communications, ICC'98 Atlanta, Georgia (1998)

24. Wirth, A.(with Ouveysi, I. and Oguz, O.) - Survivable multi-service telecommunication network design: optimal and heuristic strategies IEEE 1998 Global Communications Conference Globecom'98 Sydney (1998)

25. Wirth, A.(with Dunstall, S. and Baker, K.) - Solving the weighted completion time problem with batch setups Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences National Meeting Cincinnati, Ohio (1999) (invited paper)

26. Wirth, A.(with Abdekhodaee, A.) - Scheduling parallel machines with a single server 15th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research Gold Coast: 66-78 (1999)

27. Wirth, A.(with Suriyaarachchi, R.) - Due window scheduling with family setups 15th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research Gold Coast: 1187-1200 (1999)

28. Wirth, A.(with Code, S. Eby, L., Langan-Fox J., Langfield-Smith, K. and

29. Wirth, A.I.) - Work team effectiveness: recent studies of context and composition 14th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Atlanta, Georgia (1999)

30. Wirth, A.(with Langan-Fox J.,

31. Wirth, A.I., Code, S. and Langfield-Smith, K.) - Analyzing mental models of teams, managers & experts 44th Annual Meeting Human Factors and Ergonomics Society San Diego, California (2000)

32. Wirth, A.(with Abdekhodaee, A. and Gan, H.S.) - Scheduling parallel machines with a single server: equal processing & equal setup time cases Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences International Meeting Hawaii (2001)

33. Wirth, A.(with Dunstall, S. and Suriyaarachchi, R.) - An on-line self learning tool for LP modelling 16th National Conference Australian Society for Operations Research Adelaide (2001)

34. Wirth, A.(with Dunstall, S.) - An evaluation of heuristic methods for the identical parallel machine weighted flowtime problem with setup times 16th National Conference Australian Society for Operations Research Adelaide (2001)

35. Wirth, A.(with Gan, H.S.) - Telecommunication networks ownership cost optimisation 16th National Conference Australian Society for Operations Research Adelaide (2001)

36. Wirth, A.(with Abdekhodaee, A.) - Tackling the general problem of scheduling parallel machines with a single server ICIAM 2003 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sydney 2003

37. Wirth, A.(with Gan, H.S.) - Robust scheduling ICIAM 2003 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sydney 2003

In preparation

1. Wirth, A.(with Abdekhodaee, A. and Gan, H.S.) - Scheduling two parallel machines with a single server: the general case

2. Wirth, A.(with Gan, H.S.) - The robustness of scheduling heuristics

3. Wirth, A.(with Khammuang, K.) - Single machine on-line scheduling