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.
Football Scheduling: News Story
The English football season has just started and, to coincide with the kick off, the Communications Office at The University of Nottingham offered to issue a press release about my work is this area. This resulted in an interview on BBC Radio Nottingham (broadcast 8th Aug 2009) and a colleague, from another university, sending me […]
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 […]
Football (Soccer) Prediction: Data Collection (#002)
If you have read previous versions of this blog you’ll know that a) I have an interest in trying to predict football (soccer) matches and b) I am currently developing a system (as a research project) that I hope to get up and running in the next month or so. What kept me busy for […]
Bin Packing Made Easier?
I have always found the following example interesting. I remember that it was Peter Ross who first showed me this during a presentation at a conferenec we were both attending. The example demonstrates that an algorithm can act in an unexpected way when you make a very small change to the input data. The example […]
Football (Soccer) Prediction: Development Framework (#001)
As the new football (soccer in the USA) season approaches I am trying to get a football prediction system up and running. I think I will struggle to get it ready for the start of the new season (which starts Aug 7th) but that is not so important as this is mostly a research project. […]
Football Prediction: Follow up
Whilst searching around the net looking for relevant resources for my plan to predict football matches, I came across The Sports Exchange. It looks like a relatively new web site, but seems very nice. I posted a comment in their blog (about football pools prediction), and received a number of replies. The blog entry can […]
Predicting the Results of Football Matches
I have recently become interested in trying to predict the results of football matches. The interest grew from wondering what else I could use the data for, that I had collected for generating football fixtures (see JORS paper). The data included the travel distances between all the teams in each division. I also maintained the […]