Degrees

Ph.D. Operations Research, University of Arkansas, 1971
M.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, 1969
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1967

Research/Teaching Interests

Dr. Barnes specializes in applied probability and statistical analysis, and solving large-scale scheduling and routing problems in manufacturing and logistics. He has served on the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty since 1974. Dr. Barnes has published more than 70 technical articles and has authored or edited nine books..

1. Landscape theory in optimization.
2. Group theoretic metaheuristic search.
3. Heuristic methods of combinatorial optimization applied to military logistics problems, manufacturing engineering problems and species conservation.
4. Applied probability and statistics.

Courses Taught:

1. ME 390R Regression and Analysis of Variance
2. ORI 391Q.12 Metaheuristic Methods in Optimization
3. ME 335 Engineering Statistics
4. ME 390R1 Probability and Statistics
5. ORI 390R.6 Regression and Analysis of Variance
6. ORI 391Q.1 Nonlinear Programming
7. ORI 391Q.3 Network Flow Programming
8. ORI 391Q.4 Integer Programming
9. ORI 391Q.5 Linear Programming
10. ME 366L Operations Research Models
11. ME 353 Engineering Economics
12. ME 397 Probability, Statistics, Quality Control, and Forecasting

Publications

Recent Papers:

1. Local Search Structure in the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem under a General Class of Rearrangement Neighborhoods, Applied Mathematics Letters, 14, 2001. (With B. Colletti).
2. Using Group Theory and Transition Matrices to Study a Class of Metaheuristic Neighborhoods, European Journal of Operational Research, 138, 2002. (with B. Colletti and D. Neuway).
3. A Note on Distance Matrices Yielding Elementary Landscapes for the TSP, Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 31, 2002. (with Dokov, S., Acevedo, E. and Solomon, A.).
4. Weakly Symmetric Graphs, Elementary Landscapes and the TSP, Applied Mathematics Letters, 16, 2003. (with Dokov, S., Acevedo, E. and Solomon, A.)
5. A Theory of Elementary Landscapes, to appear Applied Mathematics Letters, 16, 2003. (with Dokov, S., Dimova, B., and Solomon, A.).
6. Solving the Aerial Fleet Refueling Problem using Group Theoretic Tabu Search, (with V. Wiley, J. Moore, and D. Ryer), Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 6-8, 2004.
7. Solving The Military Theater Distribution Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problem Using Group Theoretic Tabu Search, (with J. Crino, J. Moore, R. Hill), Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 6-8, 2004.
8. A Review of Strategic Mobility Models Supporting the Defense Transportation System, (with K. McKinzie and R. T. Brigantic), Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 6-8, 2004.
9. Adaptive Feature Selection for Hyperspectral Data Analysis Using a Binary Hierarchical Classifier and Tabu Search, (with D. Korycinski, M.Crawford, J. Ghosh), IGARSS, 2003.
10. Adaptive Feature Selection for Hyperspectral Data Analysis, (with D. Korycinski, M. Crawford), Image and Sensing Processing for Remote Sensing IX, Barcelona Spain.
11. Using Group Theory to Construct and Characterize Metaheuristic Search Neighborhoods, to appear in Adaptive Memory and Evolution: Tabu Search and Scatter Search, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Eds. Cesar Rego and Bahram Alidaee, 2004. (With B. Colletti).
12. Arbitrary Elementary Landscapes and AR(1) Processes, (B. Dimova, J.W. Barnes, and E. Popova), Applied Mathematics Letters, 18, 2005
13. An Adaptive Tabu Search Approach for 2-Dimensional Orthogonal Packing Problems, (J. Harwig and J.W. Barnes),to appear in Military Operations Research
14. The Characteristic Neighborhood Equation for an AR(2) Landscape, (B. Dimova, J.W.Barnes, and E.Popova), Applied Mathematics Letters, 2005.

 

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