Citation
(2003), "Institute of Mathematics and its Applications", Kybernetes, Vol. 32 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2003.06732dab.003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Conferences
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
A number of conferences organised by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) are of interest to systemists and cyberneticians. Currently, the following events concerning Modelling and Image Processing cover many aspects of the interdisciplinary approaches to quantitative policy, evaluation and decision making, as well as in mathematical modelling of systems.
Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Healthcare
The fourth conference on this topic will be held from 3 to 5 September 2003, at the University of Salford.
Conference-delegates will include those involved in quantitative policy, evaluation and decision making in health care relating to the National Health Service, private sector, and overseas experience. Previous conferences were held in 1994, 1997 and 2000. They attracted medical practitioners working in hospitals and general practice; health service managers; and operational research specialists, economists, statisticians, and mathematicians employed in health care and in universities. Special issues of the Health Care Management Science Journal contain papers presented at the conferences in 1997 and 2000.
This conference will have three main themes. The major theme is how to do the modelling of nuts and bolts – a discussion of how modellers can get started, and of what software and data are available, for example the hospital episodes statistics (HES) database. An exhibition of software (e.g. benchmarking and data analysis tools and simulation software) will support this theme. Other themes will be performance monitoring, which is of great current interest in the wake of Bristol, and flow modelling/system dynamics.
Papers covering experience with established methodologies and issues relating to their implementation are welcome together with those describing new methodologies. The conference will consist of keynote speeches, contributed papers and an exhibition of software.
Organising Committee: Rose Baker – Chair (University of Salford), Sally Brailsford (University of Southampton), Thierry Chassaulet (University of Westminster), Ruth Davies (University of Southampton), Peter Millard (St Georges Hospital Medical School), Gai Murphy (University of Salford).