Awards and Grants
Awards:
- Special Service Award (in recognition of
contribution to Operations Research), Australian Society for Operations Research,
2009.
- Best Paper Award for Management Science Division, 2008 Conference of the
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC2008), 24-27 May, Halifax, Canada,
for the paper: Zahir, Z. and Sarker, R. (2008) Optimizing Multi-Objective Decisions for Planned Relocation of People
In Surface Mining for a Densely Populated Environment.
- Honourable
Mention Award for the Production and Operations Management Division, 2007
Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC2007), for
the paper: S. Zahir and R. Sarker (2007) Optimizing Multi-Objective Decisions
about Distribution Centres and Plant Locations in Supply Chain Management,.
- Best
Paper Award of IEEE-ICNNSP 2003.
for the paper: J. Kamruzamman and R. Sarker (2003) Forecasting of Currency
Exchange Rates using ANN: A Case Study, IEEE International Conference on Neural
Networks & Signal Processing (ICNNSP03), December 12-15, Nanjing, Jiangsu,
China, pp793-797.
- Honourable
Mention Award, 1990 Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) National
Conference, May 22-24, Ottawa,
Canada. For the
paper: R. A. Sarker (1990) SLP Algorithm for Solving a Nonlinear Multiperiod
Coal Blending Problem.
Grants:
- R. Sarker and D. Essam
(2010) A New Task Partitioning Method for Solving Large Problems, UNSW@ADFA Silverstar Award, $20K.
- D. Essam and R. Sarker (2009) EA’s
for Solving Large Scale Multi-Objective Optimisation Problems, Research Training Scheme (RTS) for a Ph.D.
scholarship, $64,881 for 3
years.
- R. Sarker and D. Essam (2009)
Solving Large Industrial Problems through Task Parallelisation, UNSW@ADFA Silverstar Award,
$20K.
- R. Sarker, M. Barlow and R.
Hall (2008-2009) Firepower Study of Land 17, DSTO, Australia,
$94K.
- H. Abbass, M. Barlow, C. Lokan
and R. Sarker (2008-2009) Risk and Change Management Study, DSTO, Australia,
$181.50K
- H. Abbass, R. Sarker, B. Hall and A T Ross (2007-2008) Basis of
Provisioning, Evaluation, Refinement and Validation Study (BOPERVS),
DSTO, $242.9K.
- H. Abbass and R. Sarker (2007-2008) End-User FVM&T Scheduling and
Routing Tool, DSTO, $207.9K.
- R. Sarker and K. Rahman (2006) A Novel Hybride Algorithm for Solving Complex
Optimization Problems, UNSW Goldstar
Awards, $40K.
- H. Abbass and R. Sarker (2006) ADF Truck & Trailer Fleet Optimisation,
DSTO, Canberra, $112K.
- H. Abbass and R. Sarker (2005) ADF Truck & Trailer Fleet Optimisation,
DSTO, Canberra, $108K.
- S. Kara, B. Kayis, R. Sarker, H. Abbass, T. Ray and G. Freeman (2005)
Quantifying Forrester Effect in Manufacturing Supply Chain, UNSW-ADFA Research
Collaboration Ini. Fund, $12K.
- H. Abbass, R. Sarker and C. Newton (2004) Optimization of Fleet-mix -
Part-2, DSTO, Canberra, $80K.
- H. Abbass, R. Sarker and C. Newton (2002-2003) Optimization of Fleet-mix -
Part-1, DSTO, Canberra, $60K.
- H. Abbass and R. Sarker (2000-2001) Swarm Intelligence for Data Mining,
Special Research Grant, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra, $10K.
- R. Sarker (1999-2000) Concurrent Optimization of Multi-objective Constrained
Problems, Special Research Grant, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra, $10K.
- R. Sarker (1998-1999) Development of Heuristic for a Number of Batch Sizing
Problems, Special Research Grant, UNSW@ADFA, Canberra, $9.5K.