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Name: Prof. Erhan Kozan
Position: Professor
Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD
Organisational Area: School of Mathematical Sciences
Teaching Discipline: Operations Research
Research Program: Statistics and Operations Research
Phone: +61 7 3138 1029
Fax: +61 7 3138 2310
Email: e.kozan@qut.edu.au
Postal Address: School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001

Teaching Areas

  • Operations Research

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Areas of Expertise

  • Scheduling
  • Transportation
  • Health
  • Logistics
  • Optimisation

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Professional Associations

  • Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR)
  • Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences,USA. (INFORMS)
  • The Operational Research Society, UK.

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Current Grants

  • ARC Linkage with Emergency Department of Princess Alexandra Hospital. Designing Robust Reactive Scheduling System for Emergency Medical Services. (2006-2009)
  • ARC Linkage with Queensland Rail. Hybrid Job Shop Techniques for Dynamic Train Scheduling. (2006-2008)
  • ARC Linkage with Princess Alexandra Hospital and The Prince Charles Hospital. Statistical and Mathematical Modelling to Improve Health Care Outcomes in Hospitals. (2003-2008)
  • Industrial Research Project wit AIScientific. Modelling of Puck Dynamics on Pathfinder US3. (2006)
  • The Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC). Reducing transport costs through the automation of schedule generation (2007-2009)

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Selected Research Projects

  • CRC Rail and Port of Brisbane Coporation. An Integrated System to Optimise Container Transfers at Multimodal Terminals.

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Selected Publications

  • Kozan E. & Preston P. (2006), Mathematical Modelling of Container Transfers and Storage Locations at seaport Terminals, OR Spectrum 28, 519-537.
  • Kozan E. & Casey B. (in press), Optimisation of Container Transfers at Multimodal Terminals, Journal of Operational Research Society.
  • Corry P & Kozan E. (2006), An asignment Model for Dynamic Load Planning of Intermodal Trains, Computers and Operations Research, 33, 1-17.
  • Burdett R. & Kozan E. (2006), Techniques for Absolute Capacity Determination in railways, Transportation Research Part B, 40, 616-632.
  • Kozan E. & Burdett R (2005), A Railway Capacity Determination Model and Rail Access Charging Methodologies, Transporation Planning and Technology, 28.1, 27-45.

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Current Postgraduate Students

Name Project
Brad Casey (PhD) An Integrated Model for High Tech Automated Multimodal Terminals
Mel Diefenbach (PhD) Designing Reactive Scheduling Systems for Emergency Departments
Shiqiang Liu (PhD) Modelling and Solving Coal Train Scheduling Problems under Network and Terminal Capacity Constraints
Sam McHardy (PhD) Modelling Intensive Care Units
Sam Pyke (PhD) Dynamic Train Planning
Kari Stuart (PhD) Optimisation of Patient Flows in Public Hospitals

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