Time flies....

Almost one year already since the last update...Don't know where to start. As for study, how if I just cut and paste the report progress to the International Office, written by my supervisor recently...

Yati has made excellent progress. We have decided on a subject of study(/Scheduling of Malaysian Football/ in order to increase the interest inindividual fixtures).Yati visited the Malaysian Football League in order to collect detailsabout the problem, as well as some data. This followed an initial meeting I had with them the last time I visited Malaysia.The current focus of her PhD study is to develop a model that captures match importance that we will optimise over. Yati is also considering which search methodologies she will utilise. The modelling/solution methodology is a critical part of the research and will have a large effect on the rest of her studies. An abstract has been accepted at an international conference which describes the initial work in this research. We will develop this paper into a journal paper for a special issue of a journal associated with the conference. Of course, the literature review will continue and Yati will write thisup over the coming months and this will be followed by the mid-term review.