John Wilson

Honorary Professor

John Wilson retired from the Business School, Loughborough University in 2009, where he was Professor of Operational Research.  He was appointed Emeritus Professor, Loughborough from October 2009 and Honorary Professor, Aberystwyth University from June 2010.

He has been Joint-Editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society since 2002 and is the author of over 100 refereed papers on operational research topics in such journals as:  Computers & Operations Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Heuristics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Naval Research Logistics, and OMEGA.

Recent Publications

• K Katsaliaki, N Mustafee, Y K Dwivedi, T Williams and J M Wilson (2010).  A profile of OR research and practice published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society.  Journal of the Operational Research Society 61: 82–94. doi:10.1057/jors.2009.137
• G Papaioannou and  J M Wilson (2010).  The evolution of cell formation methodologies based on recent studies (1997-2008): review and directions for future research.  European Journal of Operational Research 206: 509-521.
• A Woodcock and J M Wilson (2010).  A hybrid tabu search/branch & bound approach to solving the generalized assignment problem.  European Journal of Operational Research 207:566-578.