The 55th  Annual Conference of the UK Operational Research Society (OR55)

Exeter, UK  September 3–5, 2013  

• Sport is big business and is consumed by billions worldwide
• Tournaments are packaged for light entertainment through the medium of television
• The management of sport is a subject of academic study
• Sport provides a rich and fascinating area in which to model decision problems
• There are open tactical questions e.g. given the state of a game, what playing strategy should a player or players adopt? 
• How can playing strategy be quantified? 
• Can a competitive advantage be gained through the use of modelling? 
• The design and scheduling of tournaments is an OR problem
• OR in sport generates good publicity for OR e.g. the “Duckworth Lewis method”

Contributions are invited to this stream on all topics relating to Sport. So far we have the following submissions:

• Developing decision making skills in youth football through targeted training 
• Strategy selection and outcome prediction in sport using dynamic learning for stochastic processes 
• Assessing the value of different models to sports analysts; the prediction of jump test scores
• Optimisation of the sport and exercise training process
• Rating test cricketers            

Please submit your abstract here www.theorsociety.com/OR55 by clicking on the red ‘Submit Title/Abstract’ box. Please note: the deadline for abstract submission is 14th June. If you would like to submit an abstract but cannot meet this deadline, drop me an email.

 

Thanks.