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Research Colloquium in Application of Analytics, Modelling and Simulation in Complex systems
Half-Day Workshop organised by the UK OR Society and Surrey Business School
Wednesday 4th July 2018 12:00-16:00pm in the Treetops, Wates House
INVITATION TO OUR RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
SPECIAL EVENT
UK Operational Research Society Simulation SIG
Roadtrip with Paul Fishwick
Sign up to this event for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/research-colloquium-in-application-of-analytics-modelling-and-simulation-in-complex-systems-tickets-46902044277
The Surrey Business School is pleased to invite you to its “Research Colloquium in Application of Analytics, modelling and simulation in complex systems” taking place on Wednesday 4th July 2018 12:00-16:00pm in Treetops, Wates House, University of Surrey, with our Keynote speakers:
Prof Paul Fishwick, Distinguished University Chair of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication, and Professor of Computer Science, UT Dallas, USA
Professor Nigel Gilbert, CBE, ScD, FREng, FAcSS, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK.
This colloquium series at the University of Surrey aims to highlight and discuss the challenges of business analytics in the real world, create awareness on relevant cutting-edge technologies, tools, methods and processes in business analytics and data science, thus offering participants an exposure to various research trends in the industry and enabling them to engage with real-world business problems.
Professor Paul Fishwick
Distinguished University Chair of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication, and Professor of Computer Science
Recipient of Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship award, supporting his Research Visit to UK including Surrey Business School.
BIOGRAPHY
Paul Fishwick is Distinguished University Chair of Arts and Technology (ATEC), and Professor of Computer Science. He has six years of industry experience as a systems analyst working at Newport News Shipbuilding and at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia. He was on the faculty at the University of Florida from 1986 to 2012, and was Director of the Digital Arts and Sciences Programs. His PhD was in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Fishwick is active in modelling and simulation, as well as in the bridge areas spanning art, science, and engineering. He pioneered the area of aesthetic computing, resulting in an MIT Press edited volume in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Society for Computer Simulation, served as General Chair of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), was a WSC Titan Speaker in 2009, and has delivered over 24 keynote addresses at international conferences. He was Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Simulation (SIGSIM) for four years from 2012 to 2016. Fishwick has over 230 technical publications and has served on all major archival journal editorial boards related to simulation, including ACM Transactions on Modeling and Simulation (TOMACS) where he was a founding area editor of modelling methodology in 1990. He is CEO of Metaphorz, LLC which assists the State of Florida in its catastrophe modelling software engineering auditing process for risk-based simulation for hurricanes and floods.
Programme:
12:00-13:00 Lunch and Registration
13:00-13:15 Welcome by Prof Ansgar Richter, Dean of Surrey Business School
13:15-13:45 Surrey Analytics and Industry-led Research by Prof Lampros Stergioulas (University of Surrey, UK)
13:45-14:15 A Data Analytics Framework for Capturing and Analysing Real-time Data on A&E Waiting Time using the NHSquicker Platform by Prof Navonil Mustafee (University of Exeter, UK)
Abstract: Right Hospital – Right Time (RH-RT) is the conceptualisation of the application of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics (including simulation) with Urgent Care/A&E wait time data; its objective is to derive the maximum value from wait time data for the benefit of both patients and the NHS. The paper presents an architecture for the implementation of RH-RT that is specific to the authors’ current work on a digital platform that makes available live waiting time data from multiple centres of urgent care (e.g., A&E departments, Minor Injury Units, etc.) in Devon and Cornwall (NHSquicker). The focus of the talk is on the prescriptive analytics component of RH-RT and which could be realised through a Hybrid Systems Model (HSM) comprising of business intelligence, forecasting techniques and computer simulation.
14:15-14:30 Coffee Break
14:30-14:45 KEYNOTE: The Art and Science of Modelling and Simulation by Prof Paul Fishwick (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Abstract: One of the characteristics of being human is to model. In our history, we began with representations of animals made from natural materials, and painted on cave walls. We also made regular marks on animal bones. While the modern accounting of these products is art (animal representations) and mathematics (bone marks), a more comprehensive understanding points to modelling in both cases. We saw or imagined things, and then we made models of our experience. This talk will be a non-technical, cross-disciplinary, introduction to modelling. Professor Paul Fishwick will discuss (1) the history of modelling, (2) a way of thinking about modelling using three broad categories, (3) the notion that computer and information science is a form of modelling, and (4) approaches to modelling across disciplines – from art and humanities to business, science, and engineering.
14:45-15:15 KEYNOTE: Simulating Societies: A Computational Approach to Social Science, by Prof Nigel Gilbert CBE, ScD, FREng, FAcSS (University of Surrey, UK)
Abstract: While the idea of computer simulation has had enormous influence on most areas of science, and even on the public imagination through its use in computer games, it has only recently had a significant impact in the social sciences. The breakthrough came when it was realised that computer programs offer the possibility of creating ‘artificial’ societies in which individuals and collective actors such as organisations could be directly represented and the effect of their interactions observed. This provided for the first time the possibility of using experimental methods with social phenomena, or at least with their computer representations; of directly studying the emergence of social institutions from individual interaction; and of using computer code as a way of formalising dynamic social theories. In this talk, these advances in the application of computer simulation will be illustrated with a number of examples of recent work, showing how this methodology is appropriate for analysing social phenomena that are inherently complex.
15:15-15:45 Panel Discussion on the Application of Analytics, modelling and simulation in complex systems with Prof Paul Fishwick, Prof Navonil Mustafee, Prof Nigel Gilbert and Prof Lampros Stergioulas, Chaired by Dr Masoud Fakhimi
15:45-16:00 Closing comments
Industry-led Research Colloquium: Business Analytics
The Techno- economic aspects of emerging NTN network models. Is it a one fit-for-all solution?
The Surrey Business School is hoting its “Industry-Led Research Colloquium in Business Analytics” taking place on Wednesday 25th April 2018 11-12am in Room 03DK02, Duke of Kent Building, University of Surrey, with the speaker Dr Mythri Hunukumbure of Samsung, London, UK.
There is renewed interest in Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), with the technological advancements and the emphasis to 'connect everyone in the world to the internet'. Today, there are more active mobile devices than the global human population, so it makes huge economic sense to facilitate viable NTN communications to these devices. Such an effort is underway in 3GPP standardization, where a study item is developing to see if the NTN models can fit into the developing 5G (called New radio, NR) standards. Today's NTN models span from low range drones (100m-1km altitude) to mid-range High altitude platforms (20-50 km altitude) to high range satellites (700-36000 km altitude). In this talk, Dr Mythri Hunukumbure (Samsung, UK) will investigate the technical and economic aspects of providing communications to mobile devices with each of these platforms, and highlight the fact that there will be considerable challenges still to overcome. The likelihood of specialized niche areas emerging, rather than NTN only being an enabler for 'internet for all' solutions will also be discussed, with some current example models.
Surrey Analytics Summer School - Introduction to Data Analytics and Business Analytics
Research Colloquium in Application of Analytics, Modelling and Simulation in Complex systems
Half-Day Workshop organised by the UK OR Society and Surrey Business School
Wednesday 4th July 2018 12:00-16:00pm in the Treetops, Wates House
INVITATION TO OUR RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
SPECIAL EVENT
UK Operational Research Society Simulation SIG
Roadtrip with Paul Fishwick
Sign up to this event for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/research-colloquium-in-application-of-analytics-modelling-and-simulation-in-complex-systems-tickets-46902044277
The Surrey Business School is pleased to invite you to its “Research Colloquium in Application of Analytics, modelling and simulation in complex systems” taking place on Wednesday 4th July 2018 12:00-16:00pm in Treetops, Wates House, University of Surrey, with our Keynote speakers:
Prof Paul Fishwick, Distinguished University Chair of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication, and Professor of Computer Science, UT Dallas, USA
Professor Nigel Gilbert, CBE, ScD, FREng, FAcSS, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK.
This colloquium series at the University of Surrey aims to highlight and discuss the challenges of business analytics in the real world, create awareness on relevant cutting-edge technologies, tools, methods and processes in business analytics and data science, thus offering participants an exposure to various research trends in the industry and enabling them to engage with real-world business problems.
Professor Paul Fishwick
Distinguished University Chair of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication, and Professor of Computer Science
Recipient of Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship award, supporting his Research Visit to UK including Surrey Business School.
BIOGRAPHY
Paul Fishwick is Distinguished University Chair of Arts and Technology (ATEC), and Professor of Computer Science. He has six years of industry experience as a systems analyst working at Newport News Shipbuilding and at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia. He was on the faculty at the University of Florida from 1986 to 2012, and was Director of the Digital Arts and Sciences Programs. His PhD was in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Fishwick is active in modelling and simulation, as well as in the bridge areas spanning art, science, and engineering. He pioneered the area of aesthetic computing, resulting in an MIT Press edited volume in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Society for Computer Simulation, served as General Chair of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), was a WSC Titan Speaker in 2009, and has delivered over 24 keynote addresses at international conferences. He was Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Simulation (SIGSIM) for four years from 2012 to 2016. Fishwick has over 230 technical publications and has served on all major archival journal editorial boards related to simulation, including ACM Transactions on Modeling and Simulation (TOMACS) where he was a founding area editor of modelling methodology in 1990. He is CEO of Metaphorz, LLC which assists the State of Florida in its catastrophe modelling software engineering auditing process for risk-based simulation for hurricanes and floods.
Programme:
12:00-13:00 Lunch and Registration
13:00-13:15 Welcome by Prof Ansgar Richter, Dean of Surrey Business School
13:15-13:45 Surrey Analytics and Industry-led Research by Prof Lampros Stergioulas (University of Surrey, UK)
13:45-14:15 A Data Analytics Framework for Capturing and Analysing Real-time Data on A&E Waiting Time using the NHSquicker Platform by Prof Navonil Mustafee (University of Exeter, UK)
Abstract: Right Hospital – Right Time (RH-RT) is the conceptualisation of the application of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics (including simulation) with Urgent Care/A&E wait time data; its objective is to derive the maximum value from wait time data for the benefit of both patients and the NHS. The paper presents an architecture for the implementation of RH-RT that is specific to the authors’ current work on a digital platform that makes available live waiting time data from multiple centres of urgent care (e.g., A&E departments, Minor Injury Units, etc.) in Devon and Cornwall (NHSquicker). The focus of the talk is on the prescriptive analytics component of RH-RT and which could be realised through a Hybrid Systems Model (HSM) comprising of business intelligence, forecasting techniques and computer simulation.
14:15-14:30 Coffee Break
14:30-14:45 KEYNOTE: The Art and Science of Modelling and Simulation by Prof Paul Fishwick (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Abstract: One of the characteristics of being human is to model. In our history, we began with representations of animals made from natural materials, and painted on cave walls. We also made regular marks on animal bones. While the modern accounting of these products is art (animal representations) and mathematics (bone marks), a more comprehensive understanding points to modelling in both cases. We saw or imagined things, and then we made models of our experience. This talk will be a non-technical, cross-disciplinary, introduction to modelling. Professor Paul Fishwick will discuss (1) the history of modelling, (2) a way of thinking about modelling using three broad categories, (3) the notion that computer and information science is a form of modelling, and (4) approaches to modelling across disciplines – from art and humanities to business, science, and engineering.
14:45-15:15 KEYNOTE: Simulating Societies: A Computational Approach to Social Science, by Prof Nigel Gilbert CBE, ScD, FREng, FAcSS (University of Surrey, UK)
Abstract: While the idea of computer simulation has had enormous influence on most areas of science, and even on the public imagination through its use in computer games, it has only recently had a significant impact in the social sciences. The breakthrough came when it was realised that computer programs offer the possibility of creating ‘artificial’ societies in which individuals and collective actors such as organisations could be directly represented and the effect of their interactions observed. This provided for the first time the possibility of using experimental methods with social phenomena, or at least with their computer representations; of directly studying the emergence of social institutions from individual interaction; and of using computer code as a way of formalising dynamic social theories. In this talk, these advances in the application of computer simulation will be illustrated with a number of examples of recent work, showing how this methodology is appropriate for analysing social phenomena that are inherently complex.
15:15-15:45 Panel Discussion on the Application of Analytics, modelling and simulation in complex systems with Prof Paul Fishwick, Prof Navonil Mustafee, Prof Nigel Gilbert and Prof Lampros Stergioulas, Chaired by Dr Masoud Fakhimi
15:45-16:00 Closing comments
Industry-led Research Colloquium: Business Analytics
The Techno- economic aspects of emerging NTN network models. Is it a one fit-for-all solution?
The Surrey Business School is hoting its “Industry-Led Research Colloquium in Business Analytics” taking place on Wednesday 25th April 2018 11-12am in Room 03DK02, Duke of Kent Building, University of Surrey, with the speaker Dr Mythri Hunukumbure of Samsung, London, UK.
There is renewed interest in Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), with the technological advancements and the emphasis to 'connect everyone in the world to the internet'. Today, there are more active mobile devices than the global human population, so it makes huge economic sense to facilitate viable NTN communications to these devices. Such an effort is underway in 3GPP standardization, where a study item is developing to see if the NTN models can fit into the developing 5G (called New radio, NR) standards. Today's NTN models span from low range drones (100m-1km altitude) to mid-range High altitude platforms (20-50 km altitude) to high range satellites (700-36000 km altitude). In this talk, Dr Mythri Hunukumbure (Samsung, UK) will investigate the technical and economic aspects of providing communications to mobile devices with each of these platforms, and highlight the fact that there will be considerable challenges still to overcome. The likelihood of specialized niche areas emerging, rather than NTN only being an enabler for 'internet for all' solutions will also be discussed, with some current example models.
Surrey Analytics Summer School - Introduction to Data Analytics and Business Analytics
- Summer 2018, 18-20 June from 9am to 6pm
- The Rik Medlik Building, University of Surrey
- The Surrey Analytics Research group is hosting a 3 day course this August to provide comprehensive introduction to Data Analytics and Business Analytics.
The Future of Digital Transformation in Urban Environments
DESIGNSCAPES Symposium at the University of Surrey, England, April 2018
Academy of Management Big data and Managing in a Digital Economy conference, Surrey, England
Track 2: Platforms, Ecosystems, Computational Social Science, and Big Data
On 20th April 2018, the DESIGNSCAPES project team organised a Symposium at the University of Surrey on the topic “The Future of Digital Transformation in Urban Environments”. The Symposium was part of the flagship Academy of Management Big data and Managing in a Digital Economy conference, which was organised by the Surrey Business School from the 18th to the 20th of April 2018, at the University of Surrey, Guildford.
The aim of the Symposium was to debate digital innovation urban challenges and bring together lead academics and practitioners, who are active in the area of Digital Transformation in Urban Environments, to discuss ideas and future research towards: (a) facilitating a better uptake, further enhancement and upscaling of digital transformation to support the growth of sustainable and smart (e.g. circular) economies in urban environments; and (b) exploring and fostering linkages between big data, digital innovation, transformation, strategy and practice.
The Symposium was organised and chaired by Professor Lampros Stergioulas in the form of an expert panel.
The focus of the panel was:
Co-innovation and open innovation through the application of digital technologies aiming to transform urban environments towards more sustainable futures.
The Project’s call for urban innovation proposals was disseminated at the Symposium:
The DESIGNSCAPES funding Open call will be published in June 2018 with three deadlines for feasibility studies, prototypes, and full innovations:
Interested applicants are asked to register online. The proposers can initiate the application process here.
DESIGNSCAPES Symposium at the University of Surrey, England, April 2018
Academy of Management Big data and Managing in a Digital Economy conference, Surrey, England
Track 2: Platforms, Ecosystems, Computational Social Science, and Big Data
On 20th April 2018, the DESIGNSCAPES project team organised a Symposium at the University of Surrey on the topic “The Future of Digital Transformation in Urban Environments”. The Symposium was part of the flagship Academy of Management Big data and Managing in a Digital Economy conference, which was organised by the Surrey Business School from the 18th to the 20th of April 2018, at the University of Surrey, Guildford.
The aim of the Symposium was to debate digital innovation urban challenges and bring together lead academics and practitioners, who are active in the area of Digital Transformation in Urban Environments, to discuss ideas and future research towards: (a) facilitating a better uptake, further enhancement and upscaling of digital transformation to support the growth of sustainable and smart (e.g. circular) economies in urban environments; and (b) exploring and fostering linkages between big data, digital innovation, transformation, strategy and practice.
The Symposium was organised and chaired by Professor Lampros Stergioulas in the form of an expert panel.
The focus of the panel was:
Co-innovation and open innovation through the application of digital technologies aiming to transform urban environments towards more sustainable futures.
The Project’s call for urban innovation proposals was disseminated at the Symposium:
The DESIGNSCAPES funding Open call will be published in June 2018 with three deadlines for feasibility studies, prototypes, and full innovations:
Interested applicants are asked to register online. The proposers can initiate the application process here.