Optimisation

Optimisation plays a pivotal role in the team's commitment to decision support, scheduling and timetabling technologies to improve efficiencies and cost saving to clients. The Workforce Analysis team has capability across a range of rigorous modern optimisation methodologies, both stochastic and deterministic, including Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing, (Integer) Linear and Convex Programming, and Dynamic Programming.

Additionally, it is investigating methods for analysing the behaviour of such optimisers to extract key challenges and identify constraints that are key to redesigning tasks.