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 Dr. Marcus Randall Bond University, Australia |
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| Title: Robust Temporal Optimisation for a Crop Planning Problem given Climate Change Uncertainty | |
| Abstract: Incorporating the dimension of time into optimisation problems is a practical and important consideration. This allows for the optimiser to deliver rolling solutions to complex real-world scheduling and planning problems. However, moving forward in time always brings uncertainty, and large margins for potential error into the solutions that are produced. For the multi-year (temporal) crop planning problem, the biggest variable, and hence uncertainty, is how the climate will change over the coming decades. Using novel temporally oriented robust optimisation concepts, this talk demonstrates how we can extend and add to the standard measures of robustness as well as defining the concept of relative robustness. Some experimental results will also be shared and discussed, as well as insights into the future of cropping. | |
| Biography: Associate Professor Randall is the Associate Dean – Student Affairs and Service Quality within the Bond Business School, Bond University. For the past seven years, he has had substantive leadership roles in the School and across the University. He obtained his doctorate from Griffith University in applied mathematics and has worked at Bond University since 1998. He has extensive expertise in evolutionary computation and optimisation applied to real-world problems (particularly water management and agriculture). AProf Randall has also published over ninety peer reviewed works including a number of books, chapters for books, journal and conferences articles. He has also had a number of research grants. He is Associate Editor of the international journal Applied Soft Computing, Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University’s Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems and a Justice of the Peace in the state of Queensland. | |
