Conference Proceedings

Constrained path optimisation for underground mine layout

M Brazil, PA Grossman, DH Lee, JH Rubinstein, DA Thomas, NC Wormald

WORLD CONGRESS ON ENGINEERING 2007, VOLS 1 AND 2 | INT ASSOC ENGINEERS-IAENG | Published : 2007

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research has been conducted with financial support from the Australian Research Council and Newmont Australia Limited via a Linkage Collaborative Research Grant. Nicholas Wormald is also supported by the Canada Research Chairs program. We acknowledge the contributions of Andrew Fox, Nadine Wetzel and Simon Kusabs of Newmont Australia Limited for their work in clarifying Newmonts software requirements, providing valuable feedback on prototype versions of DOT2, and supplying us with real mine data to test DOT2. Addresses: M. Brazil, P.A. Grossman, D.A. Thomas: ARC Special Research Centre for UltraBroadband Information Networks (CUBIN), an affiliated program of National ICT Australia, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia; D.H. Lee, J.H. Rubinstein: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia; N.C. Wormald: Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON N2L 3G1, Canada. Contact Email: M. Brazil: brazil@unimelb.edu.au