Optimization Modeling:

Engineering

• A Successful Implementation of Locating Passive Cooling Facilities: The Case of Northern Thailand, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol.40, No.9 (1989), pp.771-778. (SCK CHU)

• Design Optimization of Passively-Cooled Room, Journal of Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.1 (1992), pp.18-37. (SCK CHU and P Boon-Long)

Health-Care

• Simulation Modelling for the Operation of a Comprehensive Clinic, Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Operational Research Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 1992, pp.130-140. (SCK CHU, MPP Ho and YL Wong)

• A Modelling Framework for the Doctor Allocation Problem of a Multi-Branch Medical Practice, Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Operational Research Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 1993, pp.159-166. (SCK CHU, MPP Ho)

• An Application of Cluster Analysis in Health Centre Segmentation, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Operational Research Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, October 1994, pp.7-16. (SCK CHU, MPP Ho and KKY Lee)

• Operational Planning for a Specialist Out Patient Clinics in Hong Kong, Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Operational Research Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 1995, pp.173-182. (SCK CHU, MPP Ho, H Fung, and H Tinsley)

• A Multi-Criteria Multi-Period Scheduling Model of Medical Resources, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, Vol.6, No.1 (1996), pp.73-83. (SCK CHU, MPP Ho)

• Performance Analysis for a Hospital Pneumatic Tube System, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Cairo, Egypt, December 1997, pp.631-634. (SCK CHU)

• Goal Programming Models for MCH Nurses Allocation in Hong Kong, in Du, D-Z., Zhang, X.-S. and Cheng, K. (Ed.) Operations Research and Its Applications. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium, ISORA'98, Kunming, China, August 1998, Beijing World Publishing Corporation (ISBN 7-5062-3874-8), pp.296-308. (SCK CHU, MPP Ho, KKY Lee and HP Lo)

• Congestion Modeling and Multi-Criteria Smoothing Heuristics, in Stewart, T. and van der Honert, R. (Ed.) Trends in Multicriteria Decision Making. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol.465 , Sep 1998, Springer- Verlag (ISBN 3-540-64741-4), pp.400-411. (SCK CHU)

• Analyses of Operational Performance of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services in Hong Kong, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, Vol.9, No.1 (1999), pp.59-73. (SCK CHU, MPP Ho and KKY Lee)

• A Modeling Framework for Hospital Location and Service Allocation, International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol.7, No.6 (2000), pp.539-568. (SCK CHU and L CHU) [Download]

• Nurses Allocation Models for Maternal and Child Health Services, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol.51, No.10 (2000), pp.1193-1204. (SCK CHU, MPP Ho, KKY Lee and HP Lo) [Download]

• Data Modeling in Hospital Lift System Simulation, in Li, D. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA 2001), Hong Kong, 15-17 December 2001, Vol.4, World Scientific Publishing (ISBN 962-86475-4-7), pp.1682-1693. (SCK CHU, CKY Lin and SS Lam)

• Hospital Lift System Simulator: a Performance Evaluator-Predictor, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.146, No.1 (2003), pp.156-180. (SCK CHU, CKY Lin and SS Lam) [Download]

Service

• Centralized versus Decentralized Manpower Resource Planning: The Case of a Hong Kong Company, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 42, No. 7 (1991), pp.525-536. (SCK CHU, CKY Lin and KYK NG)

• Dispatch Policies and Their Operations Performance in Manpower Resource Planning and Management, Proceedings of the First Conference of the Operational Research Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 1991, pp.60-69. (SCK CHU and CKY Lin)

• Manpower Allocation Problem: an Approach of Mathematical Programming with Variable Coefficients, in Wu, C.P. (Ed.) OR: Making Decisions for Winning Victory. Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS'91) within IFORS, Beijing, China, August 1991, Peking University Press (ISBN 7-301-01892-4/0.289), pp.173-180. (SCK CHU and CKY Lin)

• A Manpower Allocation Model of Job Specialization, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol.44, No.10 (1993), pp.983-989. (SCK CHU and CKY Lin)

• On Spreadsheet Implementation of Non-Linear Extreme Point Solution to a Redistribution Model, Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Operational Research Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 1993, pp.1-10. (SCK CHU and BKP Tang)

• Cohort Analysis Technique for Long-Term Manpower Planning: the Case of a Hong Kong Tertiary Institution, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol.45, No.6 (1994), pp.696-709. (SCK CHU and CKY Lin)

• A Discrete Optimization Approach for Redistribution Model, in Su, Y. (Ed.) IWDMA'94. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms, Guangzhou, China, December 1994, Jinan University Press (ISBN 7-81029-369-9/O.18), pp.127-133. (SCK CHU)

• An Optimization Modeling for Customer Redistribution and Its Spreadsheet Implementation, Computers and Operations Research, Vol.22, No.3 (1995), pp.335-343. (SCK CHU and BKP Tang)

Transport

• Computerized Crew Scheduling for Hong Kong's Light Rail Transit: a decomposed optimization modeling approach, in Du, D.-Z., Zhang, X.-S. and Cheng, K. (Ed.) Operations Research and Its Applications. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium, ISORA'96, Guilin, China, December 1996, Beijing World Publishing Corporation (ISBN 7-5062-2023-7), pp.231-240. (SCK CHU and ECH Chan)

• Crew Scheduling of Light Rail Transit in Hong Kong: from modeling to implementation, Computers and Operations Research, Vol.25, No.11 (1998), pp.887-894. (SCK CHU and ECH Chan) [Download]

• Goal Programming Model for Airport Ground Support Equipment Parking, in Stewart, T. and Trzaskalik, T. (Ed.), to appear in Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer-Verlag (ISBN 3-540-64741-4). [Proceedings version in Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Multi-Objective Programming and Goal Programming: Theory & Applications (MOPGP'00), Ustron, Poland, May-June 2000] (SCK CHU) [Download]

• A Goal Programming Model for Crew Duties Generation, International Journal of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis, Vol. 10, No.3 (2001), pp.143-151. [Winner of Wiley Prize] (SCK CHU) [Download]

• Non-linear Optimisation and Traffic Demand Estimation, WSEAS Trans. on Systems, Vol. 1, (2002), pp.99-102. (W.K. CHING)

• Planning and Scheduling Staff Duties by Goal Programming, (2003) Multi-Objective and Goal-Programming, Advances in Soft Computing, Springer-Verlag (2003), pp.309-316. (SCK CHU & CSY Yuen) [Download]