Research
Interests
- Markov modelling: Queueing processes and evolutionary dynamics
- Pedagogy: Active learning approaches
- Game Theory: Strategic behaviour in queues and the Iterated Prisoner's dilemma
- Healthcare: Applied modelling of patient flow
Publications
- 2016: Time-dependent stochastic methods for managing and scheduling Emergency Medical Services:
Julie Vile,
Jon Gillard,
Paul Harper,
Vincent Knight
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Operations Research for Health Care..
- 2016: Editorial: Health Systems ESI XXXI — OR applied to Health in a Modern World.:
Roberto Aringhieri,
Vincent Knight,
Honora Smith
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Operations Research for Health Care, 5, 3..
- 2016: Measuring the Price of Anarchy in Critical Care Unit Interactions.:
Vincent Knight,
Izabela Komenda,
Jeff Griffiths
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The journal of the operational research society.
- 2016: An Open Framework for the Reproducible Study of the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.:
Vincent Knight,
Owen Campbell,
Marc Harper,
Karol Langner,
James Campbell,
Thomas Campbell,
Alex Carney,
Martin Chorley,
Cameron Davidson-Pilon,
Kristian Glass,
Nikoleta Glynatsi,
Tomáš Ehrlich,
Martin Jones,
Georgios Koutsovoulos,
Holly Tibble,
Jochen Müller,
Geraint Palmer,
Piotr Petunov,
Paul Slavin,
Timothy Standen,
Luis Visintini,
Karl Molden.
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Journal of open research software..
- 2016: Measuring the Price of Anarchy in Critical Care Unit Interactions:
Vincent Knight,
Jeff Griffiths,
Izabela Komenda
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The journal of the operational research society.
- 2016: Editorial: Operations Research for Health Care ESI XXXI — OR applied to Health in a Modern World.:
Roberto Aringhieri,
Vincent Knight,
Honora Smith
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Operations Research for Health Care, 8, 22–23..
- 2016: Ambulance Allocations for Maximising Survival within a Heterogeneous Population using a Heterogeneous Fleet.:
Leanne Smith,
Paul Harper,
Vincent Knight
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Submitted to the journal of the operational research society.
- 2015: Compliance with National Guidelines for Stroke in Radiology.:
Izabela Komenda,
Hannah Williams,
Vincent Knight
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Operations Research for Health Care..
- 2015: Rostering staff at a mathematics support service using a finite-source queueing model:
Jon Gillard,
Vincent Knight,
Julie Vile,
Rob Wilson
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IMA Journal of Management Mathematics. 27 (2).
- 2015: Modelling of psoriasis patient flows for the reconfiguration of secondary care services and treatments:
Kayne Putman,
Alex Anstey,
Paul Harper,
Vincent Knight
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Health Systems..
- 2015: Playing games: a case study in active learning applied to Game Theory.:
Vincent Knight
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Connections.
- 2015: Containment of socially optimal policies in multiple-facility Markovian queueing systems.:
Rob Shone,
Vincent Knight,
Paul Harper,
Janet Williams,
John Minty
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Journal of the Operational Research Society..
- 2014: Tweeting the Terror: Modelling the Social Media Reaction to the Woolwich Terrorist Attack:
Peter Burnap,
Matthew Williams,
Luke Sloan,
Omer Rana,
Will Housley,
Adam Edwards,
Vincent Knight,
Rob Procter,
Alex Voss
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Social Network Analysis and Mining.
- 2014: Operational research ambassadors in schools:
Noel-Ann Bradshaw,
Paul Harper,
Vincent Knight,
Louise Orpin
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Proceedings of the HEA STEM, Edinburgh 2014.
- 2014: Mathematical modelling of patient flows to predict critical care capacity required following the merger of two district general hospitals into one.:
James Williams,
Steve Dumont,
Jack Parry-Jones,
Izabela Komenda,
Jeff Griffiths,
Vincent Knight
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Anaesthesia. 70 (1).
- 2013: Selfish routing in public services.:
Vincent Knight,
Paul Harper
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European Journal of Operational Research. 230 (1) 122-132.
- 2013: Comparisons between observable and unobservable M/M/1 queues with respect to optimal customer behavior:
Rob Shone,
Vincent Knight,
Janet Williams
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European Journal of Operational Research.
- 2013: Using Singular Spectrum Analysis to Obtain Staffing Level Requirements in Healthcare.:
Vincent Knight,
Jon Gillard
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Journal of the Operational Research Society.
- 2012: Ambulance Allocation for Maximal Survival with Heterogeneous Outcome Measures.:
Vincent Knight,
Paul Harper,
Leanne Smith
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OMEGA - The International Journal of Management Science. 40 (6) 918--926.
- 2012: Discrete Conditional Phase-Type Models Utilising Classification Trees: Application to Modelling Health Service Capacities.:
Paul Harper,
Vincent Knight,
Adele Marshall
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European Journal of Operational Research. 219 (3) 522--530.
- 2012: Modelling Emergency Medical Services with Phase Type Distributions.:
Vincent Knight,
Paul Harper
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Health Systems. 1 53-68.
- 2012: How Efficient can an Emergency Unit be? A Perfect World Model.:
Kesh Baboolal,
Jeff Griffiths,
Vincent Knight,
Andrew Nelson,
Cheryl Voake,
Janet Williams
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Emergency Medicine Journal..
- 2011: Cost-Effective Workforce Planning: Optimising the Dental Team Skill-Mix for England.:
Paul Harper,
E Kleinman,
Jenny Gallagher,
Vincent Knight
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Journal of Enterprise Information Management.
- 2011: Bed Management in a Critical Care Unit.:
Jeff Griffiths,
Vincent Knight,
Izabela Komenda
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IMA Journal of Management Mathematics..
- 2011: On the Peter Principle: An Agent Based Investigation into the Consequential Effects of Social Networks and Behavioural Factors.:
Angelico Fetta,
Paul Harper,
Vincent Knight,
Janet Williams,
Israel Vieira
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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications..
- 2011: Modelling Patient Choice in Healthcare Systems: Development and Application of a Discrete Event Simulation with Agent-Based Functionality.:
Vincent Knight,
Janet Williams,
Iain Reynolds
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Journal of Simulation..
- 2011: Operational Research Informing National Health Policy:
Paul Harper,
Vincent Knight,
Israel Vieira,
Janet Williams
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Cardiff University. ISBN: 978-0-9569158-0-1.
- 2011: Forecasting Welsh Ambulance Demand using Singular Spectrum Analysis.:
Janet Williams,
Jon Gillard,
Paul Harper,
Vincent Knight
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In Journal of the Operational Research Society.
- 2010: Forecasting Welsh Ambulance Demand using Singular Spectrum Analysis.:
Janet Williams,
Jon Gillard,
Paul Harper,
Vincent Knight
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In Proceedings of the XXXVI International ORAHS Conference.
- 2008: Higher Spin Alternating Sign Matrices:
Roger Behrend,
Vincent Knight
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Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.~14(1): R83, 38pp..
Students
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Lewis Parsons
(Summer): Building a framework for research excellence framework submission coordination
(2017 - 2017)
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James Campbell
(BSc): Fingerprinter prisoner's Dilemma strategies
(2016 - 2016)
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Cindy Huang
(Nuffield Research Placement): Investigating deadlock in queues with vacation and baulking
(2016 - 2016)
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Nikoleta Glynatsi
(PhD): Machine learning and the Prisoner's Dilemma
(2016 - present)
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Rhys Ward
(Summer): Building Game Theoretical Software in a Research Environment
(2015 - 2015)
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Tobenna Peter Igwe
(Google Summer of Code): Extending Game Theory in Sage
(2015 - 2015)
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Ffinian Sullivan
(Nuffield Research Placement): Understanding mixed behaviour in queue balking threshold policies
(2015 - 2015)
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James Campbell
(Summer): Building Game Theoretical Software in a Research Environment
(2015 - 2015)
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Hannah Lorrimore
(Summer): Building Game Theoretical Software in a Research Environment
(2015 - 2015)
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James Campbell
(Summer): Building Game Theoretical Software in a Research Environment
(2014 - 2014)
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Geraint Palmer
(PhD): Jackson networks and healthcare
(2014 - present)
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Imogen Dunne
(BSc.): The Effect of Personality Traits on Academic Achievement in Flipped versus Traditional Learning Environments
(2014 - 2015)
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Rhys Jones
(BSc.): Modelling Rugby Lineout Strategies Using Game Theory
(2013 - 2014)
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Jason Young
(MMath): Markov Decision Processes for the study a system of two queues in series.
(2013 - 2014)
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Ceri Morse
(BSc.): Modelling Lineout Strategies using Game Theory
(2012 - 2013)
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Jason Young
(Summer): Understanding the effect of selfish behaviour in a series of 2 queues
(2012 - 2012)
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Chappman Sin
(BSc.): Mathematical modelling of Risk (the board game)
(2011 - 2012)
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Iain Reynolds
(Summer): Modelling patient choice in healthcare systems development and application of a discrete event simulation with agent-based functionality
(2011 - 2011)
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Rob Shone
(PhD): Individually and Socially Optimal Policies in Queueing Systems with Multiple Heterogeneous Facilities
(2011 - 2014)
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Angelico Fetta
(PhD): Agent Based Simulation for Complex Health Systems Interventions
(2011 - 2014)
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Izabela Komenda
(PhD): Bed management in a critical care unit
(2010 - 2013)
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Stuart MacGregor
(BSc.): A study into two player hide and seek games verifying results from game theory using monte carlo simulation, with a particular application to anti-submarine warfare
(2010 - 2011)
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Catherine Fortune
(BSc.): Game Theory and the Lemke-Howson algorithm
(2010 - 2011)
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Tatjana Timofejeva
(BSc.): Impact of unscheduled care Modelling time varying activities at a Hospital
(2010 - 2011)
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Julie Vile
(PhD): Time-dependent stochastic modelling for predicting demand and scheduling of emergency medical services
(2009 - 2012)
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Fern Gould
(BSc.): Game Theory and the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
(2009 - 2010)
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Tamsin Griffiths
(BSc.): Troops to Task Tool and Refugee Estimation
(2009 - 2010)
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Leanne Smith
(PhD): Modelling emergency medical vehicle services
(2008 - 2013)
Funding
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EPSRC: Identifying and modelling victim, business regulatory and malware behaviours in a changing cyberthreat landscape,
£101659, (2013 - 2016)
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Cardiff University CUROP Award: Developing and Evaluating Mathematical Teaching Resources through Open Source Software,
£2200, (2012 - 2012)
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LANCS (EPSRC): Post-Doctoral Training Scheme Grant: Choice and Healthcare Investigation Project,
£2500, (2010 - 2011)
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Aneurin Bevan Health Board: Creation of a Mathematical/OR Modelling Unit to Support the Aneurin Bevan Health Board,
£319944, (2013 - 2015)
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Sustainable software institute: Fellowship,
£3000, (2013 - ongoing)
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LANCS (EPSRC): Post-Doctoral Training Scheme Grant: Investigating the Effects of Individual Behaviour on Hierarchical queueing Systems,
£5000, (2012 - 2012)
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Cardiff and Vale University Health Board: Operational Research Modelling to Support Cardiff and Vale UHB,
£371427, (2013 - 2018)
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ESRC: Hate speech? Understanding the modelling of social media identity formation and behaviour through the Cardiff Online Social Media Observatory (COSMOS),
£7015, (2013 - 2016)
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Health Foundation and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board: Estimating quality improvement and cost reduction for the patient and local health economy of transferring ENT/audiology services into a community setting,
£61237, (2013 - 2014)
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Cardiff University CUROP Award: Patient Choice: A Discrete Event Simulation,
£2500, (2010 - 2012)
Software
Projects
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Axelrod:
A Python library/github project that replicates Axelrod's tournament.
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Ciw:
A Python library for simulation queueing networks
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Conference Scheduler:
A Python library to schedule conferences using integer linear programming
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Game Theory in Sage:
A collection of code to continue the integration of Game Theoretic capabilities in to Sage.
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Nashpy:
A Python library to find equilibria in 2 player normal form games
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Virtual Microscope:
A web application to display and annotate scanned slides.
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ghtalks:
Organise and share talks with gh-pages
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sklDj:
A Django web app interface to machine learning algorithms
Communities
Engagement
Outreach activities
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Monmouth Science initiative.
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Speaking at the British Science festival 2015.
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STEM live: a university wide event.
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Regular workshops at the School of Mathematics.
Media appearances
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2017-03-23:
Talk Python to Me Podcast -
Game Theory and the Axelrod library
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2017-03-17:
Cardiff University YouTube Channel -
PyCon Namibia and the Phoenix project
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2017-01-09:
Pythagoras' trousers -
Mathematics in animation
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2017-01-02:
Pythagoras' trousers -
Alpha Go
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2016-09-26:
Pythagoras' trousers -
Election polling
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2016-01-27:
Namibia broadcasting company -
Discussing PyCon Namibia
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2015-06-16:
BBC Radio Wales -
Game Theory and Nash Equilibrium
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2015-04-16:
Sci screen screening -
The Imitation Game
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2014-05-05:
2014 Pythagoras Lecture -
Mathematics and Healthcare Management
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2014-03-19:
BBC Parliament -
Voice of the Future 2014