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Professor Juergen Branke

Professor of Operational Research & Systems

Research Interests

Nature inspired optimisation; logistics and scheduling; organic computing; multiobjective optimisation and decision making; optimisation in presence of uncertainty; simulation-based optimisation.

Teaching in 2012-2013

Management Science and Operational Research

  • IB93Y0 Dissertation
  • IB9BS0 Supply Chain Management

Undergraduate

  • IB1220 Quantitative Analysis for Management II

Biography

Previously senior scientist at Icosystem Inc, France and lecturer/senior lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Associate editor for Evolutionary Computation Journal and for Journal of Heuristics. Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Solvelt Software Inc, Adelaide, Australia. Member of INFORMS. OR Society, ACM, IEEE.

Recent Publications [all...]

Journal Articles

  • Sabine Helwig, Juergen Branke, Sanaz Mostaghim. "Experimental Analysis of Bound Handling Techniques in Particle Swarm Optimization"
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 17 (2013): 259-271.
  • Pickardt, C.; Hildebrandt, T.; Branke, J.; Heger, J.; Scholz-Reiter, B.. "Evolutionary generation of dispatching rule sets for complex dynamic scheduling problems"
    International Journal Of Production Economics (2012)
  • Branke, J. and Pickardt, C.. "Analysing job shop dispatching rules by automatically constructing difficult problem instances"
    European Journal Of Operational Research 212 (2011): 22-32.
  • Branke, J., Greco, S., Slowinski, R. and Zielniewski, P.. "Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization driven by Robust Ordinal Regression"
    (2010)
  • Chick, S. E, Branke, J. and Schmidt, C.. "Sequential sampling to myopically maximize the expected value of information"
    INFORMS Journal on Computing 22 (2010): 71-80.
  • Branke, J., Scheckenbach, B., Stein, M., Deb, K. and Schmeck, H.. "Portfolio optimization with an envelope-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm"
    European Journal Of Operational Research 199 (2009): 684-693.
  • Deb, K., Gupta, S., Daum, D., Branke, J., Mall, A. K. and Padmanabhan, D.. "Reliability-based optimization using evolutionary algorithms"
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 13 (2009): 1054-1074.
  • Paenke, I., Jin, Y. and Branke, J.. "Balancing population- and individual-level adaptation in changing environments"
    Adaptive Behavior 17 (2009): 153-174.
  • Prothmann, H., Branke, J., Schmeck, H., Tomforde, S., Rochner, F., Haener, J. and Mueller-Schloer, C.. "Organic traffic light control for urban road networks"
    International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 2 (2009): 203-225.
  • Stein, M., Branke, J. and Schmeck, H.. "Efficient implementation of an active set algorithm for large-scale portfolio selection"
    Computers And Operations Research 35 (2008): 3945-3961.
  • Branke, J., Meisel, S. and Schmidt, C.. "Simulated annealing in the presence of noise"
    Journal of Heuristics 14 (2008): 627-654.
  • Branke, J, Funes, P and Thiele, F. "Evolving en/route caching strategies for the internet"
    Applied Soft Computing 7 (2007): 890-898.

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