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 […]
Prediction of sporting events: A Scientific Approach
My final year undergraduate dissertation project (many years ago) attempted to predict the outcome of horse races using Neural Networks. I briefly blogged about it in June 2009 (https://graham-kendall.com/blog/?p=8/). The result of the project was (in my view) encouraging but was lacking in a couple of areas. The data was incomplete (the starting prices were […]
Tweeting from PHP
For a while I have been looking at ways of tweeting regularly (you can see my series of Twitter posts here). Not to annoy people, but just to have a presence a few times a day. Of course, I hope the tweets are also informative. A quick google will find many tools that are available […]
Displaying BibTeX on web site
For a long time I have been wanting to automate the way that I display my publications on my web site. There are facilites such as bib2html. They are very good at what they do but they never did exactly what I wanted. In fact, at the ALIO-INFORMS conference in June I recall having long […]
PATAT 2010: Googlemaps and Multimaps
In an earlier PATAT conference blog I described the multi-objective methodology that I used. I finished by saying that in basing any methodology on travel distances between football clubs you have to somehow calcuate the distances between all the clubs (or at least those in the same division). When I first started collecting all this […]
PATAT 2010: Multi-objective Sports (Football) Scheduling
At the recent PATAT (8th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling) conference I was fortunate enough to be invited to give a plenary presentation. My talk focussed on sports scheduling. Indeed, the title was “Scheduling Football (Soccer) Fixtures: Progress Made to Date and Future Challenges“. I focussed on the conflicting objectives […]
2010 Pac-Man Competition at CIG 2010
Last week I attended the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2010). This conference (it was actually a symposium in the early days) was started by Simon Lucas and myself in 2005. I also co-chaired the conference with Susil Louis in 2006. The conference has been run every year since 2005, with the […]
Summer Conferences
It’s been a busy couple of weeks as I have been attending two scientific conferences. Last week I was at the PATAT (Practise and Theory of Automated Timetabling) conference in Belfast and I have just returned from the IEEE Conference on Computational Inetlligence in Games (CIG 2010) in Copenhagen. Both conferences consider very different areas […]
SlideShare
It was only recently that I came across slideshare. It is one of those ideas (I suppose a bit like YouTube) that you have heard about, but you don’t really know how useful it is until you have used it.In essence, slideshare is a very simple concept (like most of the very succesful internet applications). […]
INFORMS 2010: Buenos Aires
I have just returned (well returning actually – I am at the airport) from the INFORMS conference in Buenos Aires. In fact, we stayed on a few days and a very good colleague of mine is Argentinian and we toured round the North of the country. The highlight, undoubtedly, being Iguazu Falls. They are spectacular […]