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Tracking Paper Downloads: Database

In my last post I outlined a few thoughts about tracking downloads of papers from the MISTA web site. Of course, the ideas can be used on any web site but I am particularly interested in MISTA at the moment. I have now started to develop the database, which will be a MySQL  database which […]

Tracking Paper Downloads for MISTA

The fifth MISTA conference  (www.mistaconference.org) has just taken place in Arizona. The web site, I think looks pretty good but there is a lot more that I would like to do with it. For example, I should have all the papers available for download and, over the next few months, I am going to put […]

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 […]