Associate Professor Irene Moser

Biography

My interests lie in all aspects of combinatorial and continuous optimisation; single- and multiobjective optimisation, algorithm tuning and parametrisation, search space characterisation and constraint handling. In the academic context I have worked on shortest path problems, scheduling, cloud, aircraft sequencing for landing, clustering, road traffic optimisation, resource allocation problems and studies on search spaces and parametrisation of algorithms for maximum performance on different problems.

The industry-inspired problems I have worked on were the automotive deployment problem and a vehicle routing problem with 3-dimensional loading constraints. The automotive problem is an assignment problem where software components have to be deployed on the optimal hardware units that reside in a car and have varying access to sensors and fast communication to other hardware units.

The vehicle routing problem is a problem faced by our industry partner in Tullamarine who distributes fibre boards all over Melbourne. I have been working with colleagues and students in academy to provide software that automates the allocation of deliveries to trucks interactively.