Dr Ross J.W. James

Department of Management

University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
Ph: +64 3 364 2987 Ext 7015
Fax: +64 3 364 2020
Room: 310B Commerce Building

Email: ross.james@canterbury.ac.nz

Welcome

Welcome to my home page. I'm a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management and Management Science in the Department of Management at the University of Canterbury. My research interests are in scheduling problems, multi-dimensional knapsack problems, subset sum problems, search heuristics and enumerative approaches.

Responsibilities

Lecturer in MSCI 221, MSCI321, MSCI453

Hot Research Topics

Enumerative approaches to the Subset Sum problem
Enumerative approaches to Multidimensional Knapsack problems
The use of new solution spaces and neighbourhood schemes for search heuristics
The calculation of earliness and tardiness penalty costs in scheduling problems

Other Research Interests

Early/Tardy Scheduling
Search Heristics including

Tabu Search
Simulated Annealing
Genetic Algorithms

Logistics

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Updated January 2003 (iaj)