MISTA 2011: Call for
Papers (Special Session on Healthcare)
(Multidisciplinary
International Scheduling Conference: Theory and
Applications)
URL: http://www.mistaconference.org/
Dates: 9th – 12th August 2011
Location: Arizona, USA
We are pleased to
announce a special session at MISTA 2011 on all areas of Healthcare and welcome
contributions in the form of a full paper, or an
abstract:
HEALTHCARE
Healthcare is a huge industry and a significant
consumer of resources. There is an increasing interest in employing Operational
Research methods to decrease waste and to improve efficiency. There are a
variety of scheduling and related problems arising in the area of Healthcare
including:
* Employee rostering - including nurse rostering,
doctor scheduling etc.
* Scheduling of appointments
* Scheduling of operations,
treatments etc.
* Rerostering as a result of sick leave,
last minute changes etc.
*
Medical student scheduling
*
Workforce planning and scheduling based on forecasted demand
* Exact, heuristic and hybrid
methods for scheduling problems in the healthcare field
We would welcome
papers on these topics or on any other applications of scheduling in the area of
healthcare.
This special session is chaired by Jonathan Thompson (email:
thompsonjm1@cardiff.ac.uk>) and is being held in conjunction with the LANCS
Initiative (see http://www.lancs-initiative.ac.uk/).
Please visit http://www.mistaconference.org/2011/sessions/index.html for more details of this special session, the
other special sessions being planned and how to submit a paper (or abstract) to
this session.
The main conference web site contains details of the general Call for Papers, and we provide some important details below:
Submission
Details
Authors are
invited to submit papers in one of two categories
Plenary
Talks
Kenneth Fordyce, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Title: The Ongoing Challenge: A Responsive Enterprise-Wide Demand Supply Network for Semiconductor and Package Operations - Something for Everyone
Kevin Glazebrook,Lancaster University and Director of the LANCS Initiative
Title: Stochastic scheduling: what everyone should know about index policies
Darrell Whitley, Colarado State University, USA
The venue will be announced shortly but it will be in Arizona
Conference
Proceedings
We will be providing the proceedings on CD or USB. Both papers and abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings. We will also make all the papers available on the conference web site after the conference.
Post Conference Special Issue
Both categories of papers will be invited to submit suitably revised and extended versions to a post conference issue of the Journal of Scheduling.
Formatting
Guidelines
We
provide both Word templates and Latex styles. We will only accept PDF file
that have been formatted using these formatting styles.
We do NOT want page numbers on the submissions as we will add these for the conference proceedings.
Conference
Chairs