MORe: Natashia Boland's Research Interest - Expertise in the Telecommunications Industry
Hub location problems.
Optimising design of hubbing networks, for application to postal services and telecommunications. Collaboration with CSIRO CMIS plus PhD student.
Publications
- N. Boland, M. Krishnamoorthy, A. Ernst and J. Ebery. "Preprocessing and cutting for multiple allocation hub location problems", Proceedings of the 15th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research, Gold Coast, Australia, July 4-7 (1999): pp. 205-220.
- J. Ebery, A. Ernst, M. Krishnamoorthy and N. Boland. "The capacitated multiple allocation hub location problem: formulations and algorithms." European Journal of Operational Research, 120: 614-631, 2000.
- N. Boland, M. Krishnamoorthy, A. Ernst and J. Ebery. "Preprocessing and cutting for multiple allocation hub location problems." European Journal of Operational Research [In Press], accepted 3rd September 2002.
Optimising optical telecommunications ring network design.
Optimising placement of amplification equipment so as to minimise design cost. Begun under funding from SERC, RMIT, continued as collaboration with Dept. of Elec. Eng., U. of Melbourne plus Elec. Eng. PhD student.
Publications
- A.V. Tran, R.S. Tucker, W.D. Zhong and N.L. Boland "Efficient design of WDM ring networks with optical amplifiers." Proceedings of the Optoelectronic Communication Conference, 1-5 July 2001, Sydney, Australia, 58-59.
Subset disjoint minimum cost cycles in networks.
Theoretical analysis and development of new heuristic and exact algorithms for the problem, which arises in meta-heuristic methods for designing capacitated spanning networks. Collaboration with U. of Florida at Gainesville plus PhD student.
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