Celia Glass

Celia A. Glass has worked as a Systems Analyst in Computer Aided Design at the GEC Laboratory, and as an Operational Research Analyst for the Mathematical Science Division HM Customs and Excise. She started her academic career as a senior lecturer in Operational Research at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, Thames Polytechnic London, and proceeded to a lectureship in the Faculty of Mathematical Studies of Southampton University. Celia Glass moved to City University London in 1999 as a senior lecturer before being granted a personal Chair of Operational Research in 2003, and then of Management Science in 2016, at Cass Business School.

Qualifications

• BSc, Kings College London, unknown
• PhD, Kings College London, unknown

Visiting Appointments

• Licence to Innovate, Scottish and Southern Energy, Jun 2008 – Jun 2009
• Visiting Professor, Electronic Department, Queen Mary London University, Oct 2006 – Sep 2015
• Discipline Hopping (mathematics-computing), Electronic Department, Queen Mary London University, Jan – Sep 2006

Memberships of Professional Organisations

• Fellow, Operational Research Society, Oct 2005 – present
• Fellow, London Mathematical Society, Aug 2003 – present
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Aug 2003 – present
• Member, referee & sit on grant selection panels, EPSRC College, 2001 – present
• Member of accreditation panel and Fellow of ORS, the Opertational Research Society, accreditation panel
• Member, advisory board of NATCOR, National (PhD), The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Expertise

Primary Topics

• Banking
• Corporate Governance
• Financial Institutions

Additional Topics

• Financial Regulation
• Financial Risk & Risk Management

Research Topics

Doctor Rostering

Software to provide optimised ergonomic doctor schedules for covering patient care with minimum risk. Provided as a customised service for the NHS by spin out company Nightglass Medical Rostering Ltd.

Operations Management for modern Call Centres

analytics for determining staffing levels and call routing to handle the complexities of diverse call types

Optimisation Algorithms of routing and scheduling in telecommunication

for wireless mesh networks, optical fibre networks, sensor networks - supported by various EPSRC grants

Combinatorics of acyclic graphs

theorems and algorithms for counting the number of acyclic orientations, and related parameters, of a graph - related to radio spectrum frequency assignment

Mathematics related to the Consecutive-Ones Matrix property

optimisation properties and algorithms - arising in the logistics of a food safety laboratory processing line and additionally useful in genome identification

Care Home Rostering

quality measures (HR) and user-interface (IT) - an entrepreneurial activity contained in RosterCare

Books (7)

• Glass, C.A., Kellerer, H. and Sugimoto, I. (2011). Aircraft departure Sequencing using Individual Constraint Position Shifting.
• Glass, C.A. and Levin, A. (2011). An efficient deployment algorithm for all-optical networks.
• Glass, C. and Mosheiov, G. (2011). Batch scheduling in a three-machine flow shop.
• Glass, C.A. and Knight, R.A. (2011). Call centre tour scheduling with employee preferences.
• Glass, C. and Davies, I.B. (2011). Restricted Frequency Assignment.
• Glass, C.A. (2011). The optimality gap in routing and wavelength assignment algorithms for pure-optical networks.
• Glass, C.A., Mason, S.C., Kutanoglu, E., Fowler, J.W. and Qu, P. (2011). The single machine multiple orders job scheduling problem.

Chapter

Glass, C., Anderson, E.A. and Potts, C.N. (1997). Machine Scheduling. In Aarts, E.H.L. and Lenstra, J.K. (Eds.), Local search in combinatorial optimization Chichester: Wiley.

Journal Articles (33)

• Glass, C.A. and Kim, E.-.S. (2015). Perfect periodic scheduling for binary tree routing in wireless networks. European Journal of Operational Research, 247(2), pp. 369–400. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2015.05.031.
• Kim, E.S. and Glass, C.A. (2014). Perfect periodic scheduling for three basic cycles. Journal of Scheduling, 17(1), pp. 47–65. doi:10.1007/s10951-013-0331-3.
• Chakhlevitch, K., Glass, C.A. and Shakhlevich, N.V. (2013). Minimising the number of gap-zeros in binary matrices. European Journal of Operational Research, 229(1), pp. 48–58. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2013.01.028.
• Alfieri, A., Glass, C. and van de Velde, S. (2012). Two-machine lot streaming with attached setup times. IIE Transactions, 44(8), pp. 695–710. doi:10.1080/0740817X.2011.649384.
• Glass, C.A. and Possani, E. (2011). Lot streaming multiple jobs in a flow shop. International Journal of Production Research, 49(9), pp. 2669–2681. doi:10.1080/00207543.2010.532935.
• Chakhlevitch, K., Glass, C.A. and Kellerer, H. (2011). Batch machine production with perishability time windows and limited batch size. European Journal of Operational Research, 210(1), pp. 39–47. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.10.033.
• Chakhlevitch, K., Glass, C.A. and Sadd, P.A. (2011). Alleviating bottlenecks in a microbiology laboratory. Journal of Food Engineering, 103(4), pp. 377–387. doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2010.11.007.
• Gazo Cervero, A., Glass, C.A. and Phillips, C.I. (2011). Threshold-based energy management for wired communication networks. IEEE Communications Letters .
• Glass, C.A. and Knight, R.A. (2010). The nurse rostering problem: A critical appraisal of the problem structure. European Journal of Operational Research, 202(2), pp. 379–389. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2009.05.046.
• Glass, C.A. and van Oostrum, J.M. (2010). Bun splitting: A practical cutting stock problem. Annals of Operations Research, 179(1), pp. 15–33. doi:10.1007/s10479-008-0458-3.
• Chakhlevitch, K. and Glass, C.A. (2009). Scheduling reentrant jobs on parallel machines with a remote server. Computers and Operations Research, 36(9), pp. 2580–2589. doi:10.1016/j.cor.2008.11.007.
• Glass, C., Phillips, C. and Dong, S. (2009). Layered connection management for dynamic all-optical networks. IET Communications, 3(9), pp. 1520–1520. doi:10.1049/iet-com.2008.0531.
• Glass, C.A. and Kellerer, H. (2007). Parallel machine scheduling with job assignment restrictions. Naval Research Logistics, 54(3), pp. 250–257. doi:10.1002/nav.20202.
• Glass, C.A. and Herer, Y.T. (2006). On the equivalence of small batch assembly line balancing and lot streaming in a flow shop. International Journal of Production Research, 44(21), pp. 4587–4606. doi:10.1080/00207540600607119.
• Glass, C.A. and Mills, H.R. (2006). Scheduling unit length jobs with parallel nested machine processing set restrictions. Computers and Operations Research, 33(3), pp. 620–638. doi:10.1016/j.cor.2004.07.010.
• Glass, C.A. and Prügel-Bennett, A. (2005). A polynomially searchable exponential neighbourhood for graph colouring. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 56(3), pp. 324–330. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601815.
• Glass, C.A. and Prügel-Bennett, A. (2003). Genetic Algorithm for Graph Coloring: Exploration of Galinier and Hao's Algorithm. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 7(3), pp. 229–236. doi:10.1023/A:1027312403532.
• Glass, C.A. (2002). Bag rationalisation for a food manufacturer. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 53(5), pp. 544–551. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601316.
• Gerodimos, A.E., Glass, C.A. and Potts, C.N. (2001). Scheduling of customized jobs on a single machine under item availability. IIE Transactions, 33(11), pp. 975–984. doi:10.1080/07408170108936888.
• Glass, C.A., Potts, C.N. and Strusevich, V.A. (2001). Scheduling Batches with Sequential Job Processing for Two-Machine Flow and Open Shops. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 13(2), pp. 120–137. doi:10.1287/ijoc.13.2.120.10521.
• Glass, C.A., Shafransky, Y.M. and Strusevich, V.A. (2000). Scheduling for parallel dedicated machines with a single server. NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS, 47(4), pp. 304–328. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(200006)47:43.3.CO;2-T.
• Gerodimos, A.E., Glass, C.A. and Potts, C.N. (2000). Scheduling the production of two-component jobs on a single machine. European Journal of Operational Research, 120(2), pp. 250–259. doi:10.1016/S0377-2217(99)00154-X.
• Glass, C.A., Gupta, J.N.D. and Potts, C.N. (1999). Two-Machine No-Wait Flow Shop Scheduling with Missing Operations. Mathematics of Operations Research, 24(4), pp. 911–924. doi:10.1287/moor.24.4.911.
• Glass, C., Anily, S. and Hassin, R. (1999). Scheduling maintenance services to three machines. Annals of Operations Research, 86(0), pp. 375–391. doi:10.1023/A:1018971222185.
• Glass, C., Gerodimos, A.E., Potts, C.N. and Tautenhahn, T. (1999). Scheduling multi-operation jobs on a single machine. Annals of Operations Research, 92(0), pp. 87–105. doi:10.1023/A:1018959420252.
• Glass, C.A. and Potts, C.N. (1998). Structural Properties of Lot Streaming in a Flow Shop. Mathematics of Operations Research, 23(3), pp. 624–639. doi:10.1287/moor.23.3.624.
• Anily, S., Glass, C.A. and Hassin, R. (1998). The scheduling of maintenance service. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 82(1-3), pp. 27–42. doi:10.1016/S0166-218X(97)00119-4.
• Chen, B., Glass, C.A., Potts, C.N. and Strusevich, V.A. (1996). A New Heuristic for Three-Machine Flow Shop Scheduling. Operations Research, 44(6), pp. 891–898. doi:10.1287/opre.44.6.891.
• Glass, C.A. and Potts, C.N. (1996). A comparison of local search methods for flow shop scheduling. Annals of Operations Research, 63(4), pp. 489–509. doi:10.1007/BF02156631.
• Glass, C.A., Potts, C.N. and Shade, P. (1994). Unrelated parallel machine scheduling using local search. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 20(2), pp. 41–52. doi:10.1016/0895-7177(94)90205-4.
• Glass, C.A. (1994). Feasibility of scheduling lot sizes of two frequencies on one machine. European Journal of Operational Research, 75(2), pp. 354–364. doi:10.1016/0377-2217(94)90080-9.
• Glass, C.A., Gupta, J.N.D. and Potts, C.N. (1994). Lot streaming in three-stage production processes. European Journal of Operational Research, 75(2), pp. 378–394. doi:10.1016/0377-2217(94)90082-5.
• Glass, C.A. (1992). Feasibility of Scheduling Lot Sizes of Three Products on One Machine. Management Science, 38(10), pp. 1482–1494.

Editorial Activities (5)

• Operations Research for Health Care, Referee, 2012 – present.
• European Journal of Operational Research, Referee, 2006 – present.
• Journal of Production Research, Referee, 2004 – present.
• Computing and Operations Research, Referee, 2002 – present.
• Operations Research, Referee, 1999 – 2010.