1. Title: Towards More Effective Computational Search (EP/H000968/1)
   Funding Body: EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £1,001,333
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigators: G.Kendall, N.Krasnogor, A.Parkes, S.Petrovic, R.Qu, J.D.Landa Silva
   Start Date: 22nd February 2010
   End Date: 21st February 2015
   Notes: This is a renewal of our platform grant. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
2. Title: Hybridising Exact and Heuristic Search Methods for Landing Operations at London Heathrow
   Funding Body: EPSRC through the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering
   Amount Awarded: £60,000
   Collaborator Support: NATS (£24,000)
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-investigator: Jason Atkin
   Start Date: 1st October 2009
   End Date: 31st March 2013
   Notes: This project is a CASE studentship which is being supported by National Air Traffic Services Ltd.
    
3. Title: Airport Systems – Surface Management
   Funding Body:  SESAR
   Amount Awarded: €97,147 (approx £83,900)
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-investigator: Jason Atkin
   Start Date: March 2010
   End Date: To be negotiated
   Notes: This project is funded under the SESAR initiative (Single European Sky ATM Research) which is funded by Eurocontrol, the European Commission and industry. We are working on three sub-projects ("10.9.2: Multiple airport arrival/departure management", “12.3.2: Enhanced Surface Safety Nets” and “12.3.3: Enhanced Surface Routing”) that are being undertaken by the NATMIG consortium which consists of SINTEF (Norway), Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems (Norway), SAAB (Sweden) and Airtel ATN (Ireland).  We are sub-contracted by SINTEF on this project.
    
4. Title: SANDPIT: Integrating and Automating Airport Operations (EP/H004424/1)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £659,805
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigators: P.Stewart, M.Eftekhari, Q.Zhong
   Collaborator Support: Manchester Airport plc (£10,000) and Zurich Airport (£11,160)
   Start Date: 21st December 2009
   End Date: 20th December 2013
   Notes: This EPSRC grant was awarded during an EPSRC sandpit event in November 2008. It represents a major collaboration between Manchester Airport, Zurich Airport and the Universities of Nottingham, Salford, Loughborough and Liverpool. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
5. Title: Enhanced Airport Collaborative Decision Making by integrating Passenger and Baggage Operations
   Funding Body:  NATS
   Amount Awarded: £27,000
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-investigator: Jason Atkin
   Start Date: 1st October 2009
   End Date: 31st March 2013
   Notes: National Air Traffic Services Ltd are providing CASE studentship funding to support a University of Nottingham DTA award.
    
6. Title: The LANCS (Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton) Initiative in Foundational Operational Research: Building Theory for Practice (EP/F033214/1)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC through the Science and Innovation (S and I) initiative
   Amount Awarded: £1,914,106
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Start Date: 1st September 2008
   End Date: 31 August 2013
   Notes: This major EPSRC award is part of a £12M+ initiative involving three other universities (Lancaster, Cardiff and Southampton). The initiative aims to build national capacity in Operational Research and to close the gap between theoretical OR and industrial practice. The consortium has received over £5.4M in total from EPSRC and the institutions have contributed over £7M. Nottingham's contribution is over £2.4M. More details about the Nottingham grant can be seen here. Details about the other consotium partner's grants can be seen at Lancaster, Cardiff and Southampton.
    
7. Title: Investigating Automated Methodologies to Generate the Target Start-up Approval Time at London Heathrow
   Funding Body: NATS
   Amount Awarded:  £30,500 so far
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-investigator: Jason Atkin
   Start Date: 1st April 2007
   End Date: Ongoing
   Notes: This is an investigation with National Air Traffic Services Ltd into how automated decision support could aid controllers at Heathrow with the start-up approval time allocation in advance.
    
8. Title: Optimisation Methods in Health Care Planning (182610/I40)
   Funding Body: Research Council of Norway (RCN)
   Amount Awarded: NOK 625,000 (£63,485)
   Collaborator Support: DIPS ASA (NOK 1,000,000) and GAT-Soft AS (NOK 1,500,000)
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Start Date: 1st October 2007
   End Date: 30th September 2012
   Notes: This is a collaborative project with SINTEF, in Norway. SINTEF are receiving NOK 9,375,000 from RCN.
    
9. Title: Next Generation Decision Support: Automating the Heuristic Design Process (EP/D061571/1)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £2,666,765
   Principal Investigator: E.K.Burke
   Co-Investigators: R.Qu, S.Petrovic, G.Kendall, J.Garibaldi, N.Krasnogor and J.D. Landa Silva
   Start Date: 1st October 2006
   End Date: 30th September 2011
   Notes: This major grant will take a broad strategic view of the challenging goal of exploring how to build search methodologies to automatically select and generate heuristic methods. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
   

1. Title: The Logistics of Small Things - A Crossdisciplinary Feasibility Account (EP/H024905/1)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £202,014
   Principal Investigator: N.Krasnogor
   Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and M. Camara Garcia
   Start Date: 1st November 2009
   End Date: 30th April 2011
   Notes: This is a feasibility account to explore the interface between OR and the NanoBio Sciences. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
2. Title: A National Taught Course Centre in Operational Research - NATCOR (EP/E502067/1)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £241,052
   Principal Investigator: K.Glazebrook
   Co-Investigators: K.Darby-Bowman, J.Griffiths, C.N.Potts, E.K.Burke, P.Podinivski
   Start Date: 1st October 2006
   End Date: 30th September 2011
   Notes: This grant represents the funding for a national centre for PhD training in Operational Research. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
    
3. Title: Hyper-heuristics for Scheduling, Rostering and Routing: An International Collaboration (EP/D027039/1)
   Funding Body:  EPSRC
   Amount Awarded: £31,828
   Principal Investigator: J.Garibaldi
   Co-Investigators: E.K.Burke and G.Kendall
   Start Date: 26th May 2006
   End Date: 25th May 2011
   Notes: This is a visiting fellowship to enable Prof Michel Gendreau to visit the research group over a five year period. A brief summary can be found in EPSRC's Research Portfolio.
   

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