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Dr Alan Soper is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, affiliated with the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences within the Faculty of Engineering and Science. His research focuses on combinatorial optimization, scheduling theory, and algorithm design, particularly exploring pre-emption effects on parallel machines and scheduling under time-changing conditions. He has contributed to transportation scheduling and computational algorithms for graph partitioning and drawing.
Dr Soper holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (1982), an MSc in Foundations of Advanced Information Technology from Imperial College London (1989), and a Mathematics MA. His career spans theoretical physics research (1978), industry work at Digital Equipment Corporation (1984–1988), and academic research in algorithms and optimization. He has presented work at conferences like ECCO, EURO, and INFORMS, and his research addresses applications in graph partitioning, vehicle routing, and nuclear fuel management systems.
His recent publications analyze scheduling strategies on uniform and unrelated parallel machines, preemption efficiency, and cyclical optimization techniques. His work bridges theoretical foundations with applied computational challenges, emphasizing algorithmic innovation in operations research and combinatorial problems.
