[Population Modeling] Is it time to develop a non technical biosketch index of group members.

Dammann, Olaf Olaf.Dammann at tufts.edu
Thu Mar 24 03:26:07 PDT 2016


Stefan, John, All:
Excellent suggestions. I fully support this.
Very best,
Olaf

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> On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:37 AM, Stefan Scholz <stefan.scholz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> 
> That is a very good idea! It is kind of hard to get a picture of the whole group as - thanks to Jacobs effort - it has become quite large. I think it would also help new members to get an idea, what the list is and who is participating. If you all like Johns idea, I could set up a wordpress-website where we could collect the short profiles and also post the papers/abstracts originating from this group.
> 
> Best,
> Stefan
> 
>> Am 24.03.2016 um 03:26 schrieb John Rice:
>> Jacobs collection of new member introductions is useful.  But only has the "new" members.  Could we, should we develops an easily searched personal profile format that members could easily complete and post the somewhere that they and the WORKING Group will be found by search engines.   Just:
>> - name,
>> - location,
>> - current employment, past employment,
>> - a paragraph on professional interests
>> - a paragraph on personal interests
>> - a short philosophical paragraph on state and future of computational modeling. (Or something to give readers an idea of "who you are".
>> - contact information
>> - and 10 references to your best work.
>> 
>> ???!
>> 
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>>> Today's Topics:
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>>>   1. Re: How about another collaborative review paper by group
>>>      members? (Jacob Barhak)
>>>   2. Collaborative paper (Tracy Comans)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:06:21 -0500
>>> From: Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak at gmail.com>
>>> To: Robin Gras <rgras at uwindsor.ca>
>>> Cc: popmodwkgrpimag-news at simtk.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Population Modeling] How about another collaborative
>>>    review paper by group members?
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>>> Thanks Robin,
>>> 
>>> You are the first to acknowledge.
>>> May there be many more.
>>> 
>>>        Jacob
>>>> On Mar 23, 2016 3:41 PM, "Robin Gras" <rgras at uwindsor.ca> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I am interesting in participating to this paper.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Robin
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Dr. Robin GRAS
>>>> Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair
>>>> School of Computer Science
>>>> Cross-appointed by the Biology Department
>>>> Cross-appointed by the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research
>>>> 8111 LAM, University of Windsor
>>>> 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, ON  N9B 3P4
>>>> Phone:  519.253.3000 ext. 2994
>>>> Fax: 519 973 7093, Email:rgras at uwindsor.ca
>>>> Web Page: http://sites.google.com/site/ecosimgroup/home
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* popmodwkgrpimag-news-bounces at simtk.org <
>>>> popmodwkgrpimag-news-bounces at simtk.org> on behalf of Jacob Barhak <
>>>> jacob.barhak at gmail.com>
>>>> *Sent:* March 23, 2016 2:02 AM
>>>> *To:* popmodwkgrpimag-news at simtk.org
>>>> *Subject:* [Population Modeling] How about another collaborative review
>>>> paper by group members?
>>>> 
>>>> Greeting to all those who introduced themselves to the group,
>>>> 
>>>> When many of you joined the group you introduced yourselves and how you
>>>> are related to population modeling.
>>>> 
>>>> Last year we published a review paper by collection around 20 of
>>>> our introductions together into a paper that covers population modeling by
>>>> examples. Here is a link to the paper:
>>>> 
>>>> Population Modeling Workgroup, Population Modeling by Examples (WIP) -
>>>> SpringSim 2015 , April 12 - 15, Alexandria, VA, USA. Paper:
>>>> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2887741&CFID=764108956&CFTOKEN=12623832
>>>> Also on:
>>>> https://simtk.org/docman/view.php/962/1892/PopModExample_Submit_2015_03_04.doc
>>>> Presentation:
>>>> https://simtk.org/docman/view.php/962/1897/SpringSim2015PopMod_Upload_2015_04_10.pptx
>>>> 
>>>> Many new people introduced themselves and did not participate in that
>>>> paper. I was wondering if we can assemble enough population modeling
>>>> examples for another such review paper - perhaps title it: "More Population
>>>> Modeling by Examples"
>>>> 
>>>> I went through our archives and pulled the following introductions:
>>>> 
>>>>   1.
>>>> 
>>>>   Neda Laiteerapong:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-January/000030.html
>>>>   2.
>>>> 
>>>>   Aristides Moustakas
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-January/000055.html
>>>>   3.
>>>> 
>>>>   Romualdo Santos:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-January/000057.html
>>>>   4.
>>>> 
>>>>   Nieko Punt:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-February/000087.html
>>>>   5.
>>>> 
>>>>   Andreas Ziegler:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-February/000060.html
>>>>   6.
>>>> 
>>>>   Marc Lavielle:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-February/000062.html
>>>>   7.
>>>> 
>>>>   William Jusko:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-February/000064.html
>>>>   8.
>>>> 
>>>>   Roger Jelliffe:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-February/000088.html
>>>>   9.
>>>> 
>>>>   Matthias Chung:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-February/000089.html
>>>>   10.
>>>> 
>>>>   Sixten Borg:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-March/000091.html
>>>>   11.
>>>> 
>>>>   Melanie Prague:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-April/000106.html
>>>>   12.
>>>> 
>>>>   Ayaz Hyder:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2015-October/000151.html
>>>>   13.
>>>> 
>>>>   Carl Asche:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2016-January/000170.html
>>>>   14.
>>>> 
>>>>   Jeljer Hoekstra:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2016-January/000173.html
>>>>   15.
>>>> 
>>>>   Robin Gras:
>>>>   https://simtk.org/pipermail/popmodwkgrpimag-news/2016-March/000194.html
>>>> 
>>>> Apologies if I missed an introduction, it is a long unstructured list.
>>>> 
>>>> If everyone on the list agrees to participate, we have enough for another
>>>> review paper like the last one. Participation in such a paper does not take
>>>> much effort and it will benefit the group and the participants.
>>>> 
>>>> At this point, I will try a count. Whoever is interested in such a paper,
>>>> please send me an email or respond to the list so we can assess if we can
>>>> go ahead with a paper now or have to wait for more people to join.
>>>> 
>>>> Also, if participants from the previous paper have new examples of
>>>> population modeling, please submit those to the list so we can consider
>>>> those for the review paper.
>>>> 
>>>> And please feel free to invite other population modelers to introduce
>>>> themselves and join the list of introductions.
>>>> 
>>>> Hopefully enough of you will be interested to allow assembling such
>>>> a paper.
>>>> 
>>>>                   Jacob
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>>> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:04:12 +1000
>>> From: Tracy Comans <t.comans at griffith.edu.au>
>>> To: popmodwkgrpimag-news at simtk.org
>>> Subject: [Population Modeling] Collaborative paper
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>>> Hi Jacob,
>>> 
>>> I have been on the list for sometime but haven't introduced myself.
>>> 
>>> I am a health economist and health services researcher. I am using
>>> simulation modelling to solve difficult problems in the delivery of health
>>> care services. My recent work involves using discrete event simulation to
>>> model the most efficient way of providing hospital orthopaedic outpatient
>>> services.
>>> 
>>> For the development of the model see:
>>> http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10198-015-0756-z
>>> 
>>> A further paper with results is currently under review.
>>> 
>>> This work was used to inform a service delivery change at a local hospital
>>> and has since been extended to a larger health district with four
>>> hospitals.
>>> 
>>> *Dr Tracy Comans*
>>> Principal Research Fellow in Health Economics
>>> Metro North Hospital  and Health Service District and
>>> Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
>>> LO3, Logan Campus, University Drive, Meadowbrook 4131 | Phone +61 7 338
>>> 21152 | Mobile 0401 021 091 | Fax +61 7 338 21160| Email
>>> t.comans at griffith.edu.au| Web  *http://www.healtheconomics.com.au/
>>> <http://www.healtheconomics.com.au/>* |Research archive
>>> http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/browse?value=Comans%2C+Tracy&type=author
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