The 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games
I have just arrived in Milan for the 2009 CIG (Computational Intelligence and Games) conference. This was a conference that Simon Lucas and I started in 2005. Simon is now editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in Games. The 2005 conference, I believe, was partly responsible for paving the way […]
MISTA Conference: Venue for 2011 announced
MISTA 2009 finished in the time honoured fashion of a social day. On this occasion it was a cruise down the River Liffey, followed by a two hour guided tour around Dublin, ending up at Trinity College Dublin (which, strangley enough is where MISTA 2009 started as it was the first place we visited when […]
MISTA Conference: Plenary Talk (Edmund Burke)
The MISTA conference had two plenary talks today (Raymond Kwan – see earlier blog) and Edmund Burke. Edmund’s talk was entitled A Comparison of Two Methods for Reducing Take-Off Delay at London Heathrow Airport and focussed on his work (and Jason Atkin and John Greenwood) that investigates scheduling aircraft at Heathrow in preparation for take […]
MISTA Conference: Plenary Talk (Moshe Dror)
The MISTA conference is now well underway, after a busy morning. Our first plenary talk was by Prof. Moshe Dror (University of Arizona) and co-authored with George Steiner. His talk was entitled ‘Strong’-‘Weak’ Precedence in Scheduling: Extended Order Implications.The picture shows Prof. Dror’s talk.
MISTA Conference: Almost There
The MISTA conference is almost upon us. It was an early start this morning (3am) in order to get to Dublin on the 06:35 flight out of East Midlands Airport. We were actually in the hotel by 09:00 and, thankfully, they had rooms ready so it was not too bad. We spent the day getting […]
MISTA Conference: Program
With the MISTA conference just a week away (this time next week we’ll be in the Guinness Storehouse for the reception) we have just released the scientific program. The list of papers is available at http://www.mistaconference.org/2009/programme/index.html A PDF (more detailed) version can be downloaded from the same page (see the link at the top of […]
MISTA Conference: Proceeedings
I wonder if there is a good (and I mean simple) way to produce conference proceedings? In a previous post, I was talking about the MISTA conference that I chair and that we were in the process of collecting all the papers and registrations. This is now done and, with the conference just a week […]
Research Assessment in the UK
Like it or not the academic world is slowly (or perhaps not that slowly) moving towards being judged by how highly cited our work is. Actually, it is not a bad measure as if you publish something and nobody ever reads it, or refers to it (i.e. cites it in their own work), then was […]
EURO 2009 Conference
I am at the EURO conference at the moment (see http://www.euro-2009.de) (the picture was taken during the opening ceremony). This is an annual conference for the European Operational Research Societies. This year it has attracted around 2000 delegates, which was a lot more than we had expected (I know as I am on the main […]
MISTA Conference
Since 2003 I have chaired the Multidiscplinary Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA). The first conference (2003) was held in Nottingham, the second (2005) was held in New York and the third conference (2007) took place in Paris. The 2009 conference (the 4th in the series) is due to take place in Dublin (10th […]