You can contact me:
| by post: |
Tom Hinton Department of Computer Science University of Bristol Room 3.46 Merchant Venturers Building Woodland Road BRISTOL, BS8 1UB United Kingdom |
| by email: | hinton@cs.bris.ac.uk |
| by telephone: | ext. 15231 |
| with jabber/gtalk: | t@larkery.com |
In 2010 I completed a a PhD on the Vehicle Routing Problem, sponsored by EPSRC and eurobios. My thesis, available here, touches on some extensions to the No-Free-Lunch theorems, the interactions between constraints and correlation structures in vehicle routing landscapes for local search, develops an enhanced Clarke-Wright heuristic for quickly solving simple problems, and finally proves some interesting results about a simple distance constrained routing problem.
Right now (2011) I am working for a small company producing state-of-the-art optimisers for some very complex problems in shipping liquified natural gas. Email me if you'd like to know more about any of that.
Some Maths 1EM Tutorial Files might be useful. I'm supposed to manage the Machine Learning Group Website, so let me know if there are issues with that. Here's a presentation about No Free Lunch from April 19th MLBC meeting. Here's another presentation about EDAs from December's bridging the gaps affair. Another MLBC presentation about cross-entropy and routing from 11th March. Some code for measuring elapsed CPU time in Matlab and Java might be of use to people trying to time processes on shared computers.