In 2016, the SUnORE group consists of a total of 27 members. Of these, 8 are skripsie students, 3 are exchange students, 9 are masters students, 5 are doctoral students and 2 are lecturers, as described below.
Skripsie Students
Janco Barnard
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to decision support for crop planning in pursuit of the maximisation of yield profit
Charl Cillie
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to decision support for final-year project management group allocation decisions
Hans-Werner Heuer
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to the design of an effective human-machine interface for military operators in a military context
Nicholas Jonker
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to the design of a decision support system for skripsie-topic assignment and examination scheduling
Johannes Scribante
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to the design of floor layout decision support for production facilities
Jacques Taljaard
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to a cost-benefit analysis in support of distribution centre location for large retailers
Shane van Heerden
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to decision support for stock keeping unit storage allocation in retail distribution centres
Ghiete van Zyl
Final year BEng student with a skripsie topic related to the metaheuristic solution of the Rubic’s Cube-related game Wrapslide
Exchange Students
Anton Avertoft (Sweden)
Undergraduate engineering student enrolled for a selection of undergraduate modules in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Adam Lundin (Sweden)
Undergraduate engineering student enrolled for a selection of undergraduate modules in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Honza Slegl (Czeck Republic)
Exchange (masters) student with a mini-thesis topic related to the numerical solution of two defective vertex colouring problems in graph theory
Masters Students
Jancke Eygelaar
Second 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
Third year MCom student with a thesis topic related to multi-attribute decision support with application to real-estate acquisition decisions
Johan Kellermann
First year MEng student with a thesis topic related to re-enforcement learning decision support for subjective choice/selection problems
Janneke Lotter
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to shelf space allocation and various associated inventory decisions for large retailers
Samantha Movius
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to the evaluation of the effectiveness of self-organisation in traffic signal control strategies
Anthony Smith
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to vehicle routing decision support with application to specimen collection in the health sector
Thorsten Schmidt-Dumont
First year MEng student with a thesis topic related to self-organising and cooperative traffic control for driverless vehicles
Renier Steynberg
Second year MEng student with a thesis topic related to decision support in respect of bursary applicant selection for financial support
Christiaan van der Walt
First year MEng student with a thesis topic related to a dynamical system model for credit extension in the financial sector
Doctoral Students
Robert Bennetto
Third year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to generic learning in respect of variable propagation strategies in constraint programming
Alexandre Colmant
Second year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to decision support in respect of maritime law enforcement response selection
Berndt Lindner
Third year PhD student with a dissertation topic related to the scheduling of planned maintenance of the generating units of a national power utility
Fanie Terblanche
First year PhD student with a thesis topic related to decision support in respect of multi-objective mining excavation schedules
Bernard Schlunz
Fourth 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