Determining an upper bound for a class of rectangular packing problems. - Kathryn A. Dowsland (Comput. Oper. Res., 1985)

General Cooling Schedules for a Simulated Annealing Based Timetabling System. - Jonathan M. Thompson; Kathryn A. Dowsland (PATAT, 1995)

A family of genetic algorithms for the pallet loading problem. - Edward A. Herbert; Kathryn A. Dowsland (Ann. Oper. Res., 1996)

Variants of simulated annealing for the examination timetabling problem. - Jonathan M. Thompson; Kathryn A. Dowsland (Ann. Oper. Res., 1996)

Off-the-Peg or Made-to-Measure? Timetabling and Scheduling with SA and TS. - Kathryn A. Dowsland (PATAT, 1997)

A robust simulated annealing based examination timetabling system. - Jonathan M. Thompson; Kathryn A. Dowsland (Comput. Oper. Res., 1998)

Nurse scheduling with tabu search and strategic oscillation. - Kathryn A. Dowsland (Eur. J. Oper. Res., 1998)

Jostling for position: local improvement for irregular cutting patterns. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; William B. Dowsland; Julia A. Bennell (J. Oper. Res. Soc., 1998)

Solving a nurse scheduling problem with knapsacks, networks and tabu search. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; Jonathan M. Thompson (J. Oper. Res. Soc., 2000)

The irregular cutting-stock problem - a new procedure for deriving the no-fit polygon. - Julia A. Bennell; Kathryn A. Dowsland; William B. Dowsland (Comput. Oper. Res., 2001)

Hybridising Tabu Search with Optimisation Techniques for Irregular Stock Cutting. - Julia A. Bennell; Kathryn A. Dowsland (Manag. Sci., 2001)

An algorithm for polygon placement using a bottom-left strategy. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; Subodh Vaid; William B. Dowsland (Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2002)

Enhanced Direct and Indirect Genetic Algorithm Approaches for a Mall Layout and Tenant Selection Problem. - Uwe Aickelin; Kathryn A. Dowsland (J. Heuristics, 2002)

Diseño de Heurísticas y Fundamentos del Recocido Simulado. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; Belarmino Adenso-Díaz (Inteligencia Artif., 2003)

An indirect Genetic Algorithm for a nurse-scheduling problem. - Uwe Aickelin; Kathryn A. Dowsland (Comput. Oper. Res., 2004)

Ant colony optimization for the examination scheduling problem. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; Jonathan M. Thompson (J. Oper. Res. Soc., 2005)

Using tree search bounds to enhance a genetic algorithm approach to two rectangle packing problems. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; Edward A. Herbert; Graham Kendall; Edmund K. Burke (Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2006)

A simulated annealing based hyperheuristic for determining shipper sizes for storage and transportation. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; Eric Soubeiga; Edmund K. Burke (Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2007)

A local search approach to a circle cutting problem arising in the motor cycle industry. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; M. Gilbert; Graham Kendall (J. Oper. Res. Soc., 2007)

Exploiting problem structure in a genetic algorithm approach to a nurse rostering problem - Uwe Aickelin; Kathryn A. Dowsland (CoRR, 2008)

An improved ant colony optimisation heuristic for graph colouring. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; Jonathan M. Thompson (Discret. Appl. Math., 2008)

A grasp-knapsack hybrid for a nurse-scheduling problem. - Melissa D. Goodman; Kathryn A. Dowsland; Jonathan M. Thompson (J. Heuristics, 2009)

An investigation into two bin packing problems with ordering and orientation implications. - Rhyd Lewis; Xiang Song 001; Kathryn A. Dowsland; Jonathan M. Thompson (Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2011)

Hybridising GRASP and network flows in the solution of a medical school scheduling problem. - Melissa D. Goodman; Kathryn A. Dowsland; Jonathan M. Thompson (J. Sched., 2012)

Simulated Annealing. - Kathryn A. Dowsland; Jonathan M. Thompson (Handbook of Natural Computing, 2012)

A comparative review of 3D container loading algorithms. - Xiaozhou Zhao; Julia A. Bennell; Tolga Bektas; Kathryn A. Dowsland (Int. Trans. Oper. Res., 2016)