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About me

Hello, everyone. I am Yujie Chen, a phD student studying at the university of York, UK. My research interests include operational research, machine learning techniques and general artificial intelligence.

  • Chen, Y., Cowling, P., & Remde, S. (2014). Dynamic Period Routing for a Complex Real-World System : A Case Study in Storm Drain Maintenance. In Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation.

  • Chen, Y., Polack, F., Cowling, P., Mourdjis, P., Remde, S. (2016). Risk driven analysis of maintenance for a large-scale drainage system. In International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems.

  • Chen, Y., Cowling, P., Remde, S., Polack, F. (2016). Efficient large-scale road inspection routing. In International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems.

  • Mourdjis, P., Polack, F., Chen, Y., Robinson, M., Cowling, P. (2016). The effect of cooperation in pickup and multiple delivery problems. In International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems.

  • Chen, Y., Mourdjis, P., Polack, F., Cowling, P.(2016). Evaluating hyperheuristics and local search operators for period routing problem. The 16th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation.

  • Mourdjis, P., Chen, Y., Polack, F., Cowling, P., Robinson, M. (2016) Variable Neighbourhood Descent with Memory: A Hybrid Metaheuristic for Supermarket Resupply,10th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics

  • Chen, Y., Polack, F., Cowling, P., Remde, S., Mourdjis, P. (2016). Dynamic optimization of preventative and corrective maintenance schedule for a large scale urban drainage system. European Journal of Operational Research

Publications

Under Review

  • Chen, Y., Cowling, P., Polack, F., Mourdjis, P. . A multi-arm bandit neighbourhood search for routing and scheduling problems. Submitted to the Journal of Heuristics.

  • Chen, Y., Polack, F., Cowling, P., Mourdjis, P., Remde, S. . Exploring Techniques to Improve Large-Scale Drainage System Maintenance Scheduling Using a Risk Driven Model. Submitted to Communications in Computer and Information Science.

  • Mourdjis, P., Polack, F., Cowling, P., Chen, Y., Robinson, M. . Competition and Cooperation in Pickup and Multiple Delivery Problems. Submitted to Communications in Computer and Information Science.

  • Chen, Y., Cowling, P., Remde, S., Polack, F. . A comparison of one-pass and bi-directional approaches applied to large-scale road inspection. Submitted to Communications in Computer and Information Science.

Research Interests

Education Background

Combinatorial Optimisation

 

Vehicle Routing Problems

 

Scheduling Problems

 

Dynamic Systems

 

Machine Learning

  • EngD of computer science, University of York, UK

    • Programme title: Doctor of engineering in Large-Scale Complex IT System, October 2012 - Present

    • Focusing on large scale real-world problem modelling, optimisation using heuristic and hyperheuristic based methods

  • Master of Science, University of Bristol, UK

    • Machine Learning and Data Mining, Sep. 2010 - October 2011

  • Bachelor of Science, Sichuan University, China

    • Software Engineering,Sep. 2006 - July 2010

  • ​Bachelor of Science, Sichuan University, China

    • Economics Sep. 2007 - January 2010

Computer Science

University of York

By Yujie Chen, 2016

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