Dr Michael Forbes

Senior Lecturer & Senior Lecturer Research Ops.

Mathematics

+61 7 336 56128

+61 7 336 57905

m.forbes@uq.edu.au

Building 69, Room 722

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Teaching and learning

Dr Forbes teaches 3rd and 4th year operations research

Featured projects	Duration
Applications of Approximate Dynamic Programming
BYOP - Bring Your Own Problem
Combinatorial Benders' Cuts for the Strip Packing Problem
Flinders Hamiltonian Cycle Project
Fundamental Tree Algorithm
Locomotive refuelling
Mathematical models for real time or turn based strategy games
Scheduling Arrivals to a Processor Sharing Congestion System with Linear Slowdown: Integer Programming Techniques
Scheduling Twin Yard Cranes in a Container Block
Two tier integer programming using Benders style objective estimates
World Championship Scrabble
Capacitated Minimum Spanning Tree
Algorithms for the Minimum Connected Dominating Set Problem

Publications

Journal Articles (19)

Conference Papers (2)

Journal Articles

Harris, Mitchell G., Forbes, Michael A. and Taimre, Thomas (2023). Logic-based benders decomposition for wildfire suppression. Computers & Operations Research, 160 106392, 106392. doi: 10.1016/j.cor.2023.106392

Forbes, M. A., Harris, M.G., Jansen, H.M., van der Schoot, F.A. and Taimre, T. (2023). Combining optimisation and simulation using logic based benders decomposition. European Journal of Operational Research. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.07.032

Harris, Mitchell and Forbes, Michael (2023). The Snake Eggs puzzle: preparing students for Benders decomposition. INFORMS Transactions on Education, 23 (3), 210-217. doi: 10.1287/ited.2023.0281

Rist, Yannik and Forbes, Michael (2022). A column generation and Combinatorial Benders Decomposition algorithm for the selective Dial-A-Ride-Problem. Computers and Operations Research, 140 105649, 105649. doi: 10.1016/j.cor.2021.105649

Rist, Yannik and Forbes, Michael A. (2021). A new formulation for the dial-a-ride problem. Transportation Science, 55 (5), 1113-1135. doi: 10.1287/trsc.2021.1044

Raygani, Saeid Veysi, Forbes, Michael and Martin, Daniel (2020). Robust risk-averse unit commitment with solar PV systems. IET Renewable Power Generation, 14 (15), 2966-2975. doi: 10.1049/iet-rpg.2019.1489

Jeuken, Rick, Forbes, Michael and Kearney, Michael (2020). Optimal blending strategies for coking coal using chance constraints. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 72 (12), 2690-2703. doi: 10.1080/01605682.2020.1811167

Alyasiry, Ali Mehsin, Forbes, Michael and Bulmer, Michael (2019). An exact algorithm for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows and last-in-first-out loading. Transportation Science, 53 (6) trsc.2019.0905, 1695-1705. doi: 10.1287/trsc.2019.0905

Pearce, Robin H. and Forbes, Michael (2019). Disaggregated benders decomposition for solving a network maintenance scheduling problem. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 70 (6), 941-953. doi: 10.1080/01605682.2018.1471374

Pearce, Robin H. and Forbes, Michael (2018). Disaggregated Benders decomposition and branch-and-cut for solving the budget-constrained dynamic uncapacitated facility location and network design problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 270 (1), 78-88. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.03.021

Liu, Haoquan, Austin, Kevin, Forbes, Michael and Kearney, Michael (2017). Monte-Carlo Tree Search in Dragline Operation Planning. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3 (1) 8053797, 419-425. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2017.2757964

Pearce, Robin and Forbes, Michael (2017). Puzzle - The Fillomino Puzzle. INFORMS Transactions on Education, 17 (2), 85-89. doi: 10.1287/ited.2016.0166

Ferris, Peter, Forbes, Chris, Forbes, Joe, Forbes, Michael and Kennedy, Paul (2015). Optimizing network designs for the world's largest broadband project. Interfaces, 45 (1), 83-97. doi: 10.1287/inte.2014.0785

Hollis, BL, Forbes, MA and Douglas, BE (2006). Vehicle routing and crew scheduling for metropolitan mail distribution at Australia Post. European Journal of Operational Research, 173 (1), 133-150. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.01.005

Al-Amin, M, Forbes, MA and Noble, DH (1999). Production of locomotive rosters for a multi-class single-locomotive problem. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 50 (10), 1004-1010. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600802

Forbes, MA, Holt, JN, Kilby, PJ and Watts, AM (1994). Budi - a Software System for Bus Dispatching. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45 (5), 497-508. doi: 10.1057/jors.1994.77

Forbes, MA, Holt, JN and Watts, AM (1994). Network Optimization Applied to Reclamation Works in Coal-Mining. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45 (2), 143-150. doi: 10.1057/jors.1994.20

Forbes, MA, Holt, JN and Watts, AM (1994). An Exact Algorithm for Multiple Depot Bus Scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research, 72 (1), 115-124. doi: 10.1016/0377-2217(94)90334-4

Forbes, MA, Holt, JN and Watts, AM (1991). Exact Solution of Locomotive Scheduling Problems. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 42 (10), 825-831. doi: 10.1057/jors.1991.163

Conference Papers

Liu, Haoquan, Kearney, Michael and Forbes, Michael (2017). Planning dragline positioning sequence with A* search algorithm. 20th World Congress of the International-Federation-of-Automatic-Control (IFAC), Toulouse, France, 9 - 14 July 2017. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Science BV. doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1924

D'Addio, Nathan, Abeygunawardana, Anula, Forbes, Michael, Ledwich, Gerard and Shafiei, Mehdi (2017). Approach to large distribution network optimisation using modern implementation of benders decomposition. 24th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution, CIRED 2017, Glasgow, Scotland, 12-15 June 2017. IEEE. doi: 10.1049/oap-cired.2017.0727

Areas of research

Applied mathematics

Operations research