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Dr Michael Forbes
Senior Lecturer & Senior Lecturer
Mathematics
+61 7 336 53807
m.forbes@uq.edu.au
Building 69, Room 624
View researcher profile
Teaching and learning
Dr Forbes teaches 3rd and 4th year operations research
Featured projects
Duration
BYOP - Bring Your Own Problem
Constraint programming techniques
Drayage problems
Squad Builder Challenge for EA FC 24
Land use optimisation
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
,
312
(
3
),
840
-
854
. 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
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
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
Areas of research
Applied mathematics
Operations research