Mark Wallace — Monash University

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Biography

Professor Mark Wallace is a leader in discrete optimisation in the Faculty of Information Technology.

Professor Wallace graduated from Oxford University in Mathematics and Philosophy. He worked for the UK computer company ICL for 21 years while completing a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of London and a PhD sponsored by ICL at Southampton University. For his PhD, Professor Wallace designed a natural language processing system which ICL turned into a product. He moved to Imperial College in 2002, taking a Chair at Monash University in 2004.

His research interests span different techniques and algorithms for optimisation and their integration and application to solving complex resource planning and scheduling problems. He was a co-founder of the hybrid algorithms research area and is a leader in the research areas of Constraint Programming (CP) and hybrid techniques (CPAIOR). The outcomes of his research in these areas include practical applications in transport optimisation.

He is passionate about modelling and optimisation and the benefits they bring. His focus both in industry and University has been on application-driven research and development, where industry funding is essential both to ensure research impact and to support sufficient research effort to build software systems that are robust enough for application developers to use.

He led the team that developed the ECLiPSe constraint programming platform, which was bought by Cisco Systems in 2004. Moving to Australia, he worked on a novel hybrid optimisation software platform called G12, and founded the company Opturion to commercialise it. He also established the Monash-CTI Centre for optimisation in travel, transport and logistics. He has developed solutions for major companies such as BA, RAC, CFA, and Qantas. He is currently involved in the Alertness CRC, plant design for Woodside planning, optimisation for Melbourne Water, and work allocation for the Alfred hospital.

Monash teaching commitment

Professor Mark Wallace has experience as the Lecturer for the following units in the Faculty of IT:

FIT5057 Project management
FIT2006 Business process modelling and workflow
FIT3022 Intelligent decision support systems
FIT4010 Advanced topics in algorithms and discrete structures

Keywords

Constraint Programming
Hybrid Techniques
Optimisation
Problem Modelling And Solving
Transport Applications

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Projects 2004 2021

3 Active
15 Finished

Personalised Public Transport

Wallace, M., Moser, I., Ronald, N. & Harabor, D. D.

1/01/19 → 31/12/21

Project: Research

Leverage Emerging Technologies To Drive Logistics and Warehousing Transformation

Nand, A. A., Wallace, M., Napper, R., Sohal, A. S. & Fridman, I.

Monash University – Internal University Contribution

1/07/18 → 30/06/19

Project: Research

Learning from learning solvers

Garcia De La Banda, M. J., Wallace, M. & Tack, G.

1/01/18 → 31/12/20

Project: Research

ICU Nurse Allocation Project

Wallace, M. & Senthooran, I.

18/06/18 → 18/12/18

Project: Research

Optimising Melbourne Water’s Bulk Water Supply System with a Five Year Horizon

Tack, G. & Wallace, M.

1/05/17 → 21/07/17

Project: Research

Research Output 1984 2018

38 Article
35 Conference Paper
6 Chapter (Book)
4 Editorial
8 More

A fast and scalable algorithm for scheduling large numbers of devices under real-time pricing

He, S., Wallace, M., Gange, G., Liebman, A. & Wilson, C., 2018, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming : 24th International Conference, CP 2018 Lille, France, August 27–31, 2018 Proceedings. Hooker, J. (ed.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 649-666 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; vol. 11008).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

Coordinated Transit Signal Priority Model Considering Stochastic Bus Arrival Time

Truong, L. T., Currie, G., Wallace, M., De Gruyter, C. & An, K., 22 Jun 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Process plant layout optimization: equipment allocation

Belov, G., Czauderna, T., de la Banda, M. G., Klapperstueck, M., Senthooran, I., Smith, M., Wybrow, M. & Wallace, M., 23 Aug 2018, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming : 24th International Conference, CP 2018 Lille, France, August 27–31, 2018 Proceedings. Hooker, J. (ed.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 473-489 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 11008 ).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

Analytical approach to estimate delay reduction associated with bus priority measures

Truong, L. T., Currie, G., De Gruyter, C. & Wallace, M., 25 Oct 2017, In : IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine. 9, 4, p. 91-101 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

An optimization model for 3D pipe routing with flexibility constraints

Belov, G., Czauderna, T., Dzaferovic, A., de la Banda, M. G., Wybrow, M. & Wallace, M., 2017, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming : 23rd International Conference CP 2017, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, August 28 – September 1, 2017 Proceedings. Beck, J. C. (ed.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 321-337 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 10416 ).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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