{"id":30,"date":"2009-08-11T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2020-09-22T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T02:02:10","slug":"mista-conference-plenary-talk-raymond-kwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/mista-conference-plenary-talk-raymond-kwan\/","title":{"rendered":"MISTA Conference: Plenary Talk (Raymond Kwan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ijWUl1U6puI\/SoFlR_3KXOI\/AAAAAAAAADI\/kiOgnpgi-ec\/s1600-h\/IMGP0806.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ijWUl1U6puI\/SoFlR_3KXOI\/AAAAAAAAADI\/kiOgnpgi-ec\/s200\/IMGP0806.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368683590677322978\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Our second plenary talk took place this morning. Raymond Kwan, from The University of Leeds, gave a talk entitled &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Case Studies of Successful Train Crew Scheduling<\/span>.&#8221;<br \/>The talk was based on his spin out company (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracsis.com\/\">TrainTRACS<\/a>) that markets software to UK train operators across the UK and is used to schedule train crews. As well as giving an overview of the problem, his talk discussed how complex the problem is and the methodologies that they use to solve it.<br \/>In the picture is Raymond Kwan (foreground) and Barry McCollum (session chair).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second plenary talk took place this morning. Raymond Kwan, from The University of Leeds, gave a talk entitled &#8220;Case Studies of Successful Train Crew Scheduling.&#8221;The talk was based on his spin out company (TrainTRACS) that markets software to UK train operators across the UK and is used to schedule train crews. As well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}