In 2015, the SUnORE group consists of a total of 29 members. Of these, 11 are skripsie students, 10 are masters students, 6 are doctoral students and 2 are lecturers, as described below.
Skripsie Students
Thinus Appel
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to soil replenishment strategies for agricultural crops based on near real-time evapotranspiration data
Bernie Cronje
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to multi-objective optimisation of nuclear reactor in-core fuel management decision support
Carl du Plessis
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to multi-objective decision support in respect of inventory management decisions
Gerhard Jordaan
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to multi-objective optimisation of nuclear reactor in-core fuel management decision support
Danel Liebenberg
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to decision support in respect of the choice of a suitable packaging mode for inventory at a large retailer
Naomi Louw
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to decision support for the scheduling of outsourcing decisions at a manufacturing plant
Johannes Potgieter
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to multi-objective decision support for effective soccer club management in terms of playing formation selection
Ryan Reed
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to multi-objective decision support for firebase locations in nature reserves and national parks
Thorsten Schmidt-Dumont
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to multi-objective decision support for radio transmitter location in cellular telephone networks
Christiaan van der Walt
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to multi-objective decision support for irrigation reservoir water release strategy formulation
Christopher Willemse
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to decision support in respect of effective energy management requirements at a large retailer
Masters Students
Jancke Eygelaar
First year MEng student with a thesis topic related to failure analyses of the generating units of a national power utility and how this informs planned maintenance
Johan Janse van Rensburg
Second year MCom student with a thesis topic related to multi-attribute decision support with application to real-estate acquisition decisions
Janneke Lotter
First year MEng student with a thesis topic related to shelf space allocation and various associated inventory decisions for large retailers
Samantha Movius
First year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the evaluation of the effectiveness of self-organisation in traffic signal control strategies
Anthony Smith
First year MEng student with a thesis topic related to vehicle routing decision support with application to specimen collection in the health sector
Renier Steynberg
First year MEng student with a thesis topic related to decision support in respect of bursary applicant selection for financial support
Fanie Terblanche
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to decision support in respect of multi-objective mining excavation schedules
Louw Truter
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the evaluation of a ground-based air-defence threat evaluation and weapon assignment system
Brian van Vuuren
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the design of an agent-based simulation model of the sugarcane pest Eldana Saccharina Walker
Doctoral Students
Robert Bennetto
Second year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to generic learning in respect of variable propagation strategies in constraint programming
Alexandre Colmant
First year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to decision support in respect of maritime law enforcement response selection
Andries Heyns
Fourth year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to decision support in respect of multi-objective terrain-related facility location
Berndt Lindner
Second year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to the scheduling of planned maintenance of the generating units of a national power utility
Bernard Schlunz
Third year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to multi-objective optimisation of nuclear reactor in-core fuel management decision support
Lecturers
Danie Lotter
Lecturer in Operations Research with research interests in (multi-objective) optimisation, resource assignment problems and decision support systems
Jan van Vuuren
Professor of Operations Research with research interests in graph theory, (multi-objective) combinatorial optimisation and decision support systems