Dr Vincent Knight
Senior Lecturer
- knightva@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5548
- M/1.30, 1st Floor, Mathematics Institute, Senghennydd Road, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
- Media commentator
Overview
My main research interests lie in the fields of Game Theory, Queueing Theory and Pedagogy. I am a keen member of the Python software community and help run the School's code club.
I am a fellow of the sustainable software institute and acting director of engagement for the School.
For more information on my research please see my personal website.
You can follow me on twitter: @drvinceknight and I blog about mathematicaly related things here.
Biography
Qualifications
- BSc – Cardiff University (First Class Honors, 2005)
- PhD Thesis – "Alternating Sign Matrices and Polytopes" (2009)
Positions held
- 2011-Present - LANCS Lecturer in Operational Research
- 2009-2011 - LANCS post-doctoral research associate in Operational Research
Honours and awards
- Rising Star Award, Cardiff University, 2014
Professional memberships
- OR society General council
- OR in schools task force
- PyCon UK Organising committee
Academic positions
- 2009-2011 - LANCS post-doctoral research associate in Operational Research
Publications
2021
- Palmer, G. I.et al. 2021. Modelling changes in healthcare demand through geographic data extrapolation. Health Systems (10.1080/20476965.2021.1906764)
- Glynatsi, N. E. and Knight, V. A. 2021. A bibliometric study of research topics, collaboration, and centrality in the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8(1), article number: 45. (10.1057/s41599-021-00718-9)
2020
- Shone, R., Knight, V. A. and Harper, P. R. 2020. A conservative index heuristic for routing problems with multiple heterogeneous service facilities. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 92, pp. 511-543. (10.1007/s00186-020-00722-w)
- Glynatsi, N. E. and Knight, V. A. 2020. Using a theory of mind to find best responses to memory-one strategies. Scientific Reports 10, article number: 17287. (10.1038/s41598-020-74181-y)
- Wilde, H., Knight, V. and Gillard, J. 2020. Evolutionary dataset optimisation: learning algorithm quality through evolution. Applied Intelligence 50, pp. 1172-1191. (10.1007/s10489-019-01592-4)
- Wilde, H., Knight, V. and Gillard, J. 2020. Matching: a Python library for solving matching games. Journal of Open Source Software 5(48), article number: 2169. (10.21105/joss.02169)
2019
- Palmer, G. I.et al. 2019. Ciw: An open-source discrete event simulation library. Journal of Simulation 13(1), pp. 68-82. (10.1080/17477778.2018.1473909)
- Morgan, J.et al. 2019. Determining patient outcomes from patient letters: A comparison of text analysis approaches. Journal of the Operational Research Society 70(9), pp. 1425-1439. (10.1080/01605682.2018.1506559)
2018
- Glynatsi, N. E., Knight, V. and Lee, T. E. 2018. An evolutionary game theoretic model of rhino horn devaluation. Ecological Modelling 389, pp. 33-40. (10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.10.003)
- Knight, V. and Campbell, J. 2018. Nashpy: A Python library for the computation of Nash equilibria. Journal of Open Source Software 3(30), article number: 904. (10.21105/joss.00904)
- Palmer, G. I., Harper, P. R. and Knight, V. A. 2018. Modelling deadlock in open restricted queueing networks. European Journal of Operational Research 266(2), pp. 609-621. (10.1016/j.ejor.2017.10.039)
- Fetta, A.et al. 2018. Predicting adolescent social networks to stop smoking in secondary schools. European Journal of Operational Research 265(1), pp. 263-276. (10.1016/j.ejor.2017.07.039)
2017
- Harper, M.et al. 2017. Reinforcement learning produces dominant strategies for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Plos One 12(12), article number: e0188046. (10.1371/journal.pone.0188046)
- Vile, J. L.et al. 2017. A queueing theoretic approach to set staffing levels in time-dependent dual-class service systems. Decision Sciences 48(4), pp. 766-794. (10.1111/deci.12236)
- Knight, V., Komenda, I. and Griffiths, J. 2017. Measuring the price of anarchy in critical care unit interactions. Journal of the Operational Research Society 68(6), pp. 630-642. (10.1057/s41274-016-0100-8)
- Arzpayma, P.et al. 2017. Creation and assessment of a computerized modelling tool for optimizing planning of home and hospital-based phototherapy. British Journal of Dermatology 176(5), pp. 1390-1391. (10.1111/bjd.14994)
2016
- Shone, R.et al. 2016. Containment of socially optimal policies in multiple-facility Markovian queueing systems. Journal of the Operational Research Society 67(4), pp. 629-643. (10.1057/jors.2015.98)
- Vile, J. L.et al. 2016. Time-dependent stochastic methods for managing and scheduling Emergency Medical Services. Operations Research for Health Care 8, pp. 42-52. (10.1016/j.orhc.2015.07.002)
- Gillard, J. W.et al. 2016. Rostering staff at a mathematics support service using a finite-source queueing model. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 27(2), pp. 201-209. (10.1093/imaman/dpu017)
- Knight, V. A.et al. 2016. An open framework for the reproducible study of the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Journal of Open Research Software 4(1), article number: e35. (10.5334/jors.125)
2015
- Putman, K.et al. 2015. Modelling of psoriasis patient flows for the reconfiguration of secondary care services and treatments. Health Systems (10.1057/hs.2015.4)
- Williams, J.et al. 2015. Mathematical modelling of patient flows to predict critical care capacity required following the merger of two district general hospitals into one. Anaesthesia 70(1), pp. 32-40. (10.1111/anae.12839)
2014
- Burnap, P.et al. 2014. Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack. Social Network Analysis and Mining 4, article number: 206. (10.1007/s13278-014-0206-4)
- Gillard, J. W. and Knight, V. A. 2014. Using singular spectrum analysis to obtain staffing level requirements in emergency units. Journal of the Operational Research Society 65(5), pp. 735-746. (10.1057/jors.2013.41)
2013
- Knight, V. A. and Harper, P. R. 2013. Selfish routing in public services. European Journal of Operational Research 230(1), pp. 122-132. (10.1016/j.ejor.2013.04.003)
- Vile, J.et al. 2013. Integrating demand forecasting and workforce planning strategies for emergency medical services. Presented at: Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013.
- Shone, R. W., Knight, V. A. and Williams, J. E. 2013. Comparisons between observable and unobservable M/M/1 queues with respect to optimal customer behavior. European Journal of Operational Research 227(1), pp. 133-141. (10.1016/j.ejor.2012.12.016)
- Griffiths, J. D., Knight, V. A. and Komenda, I. 2013. Bed management in a critical care unit. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 24(2), pp. 137-153. (10.1093/imaman/dpr028)
- Mustafee, N.et al. 2013. Cost-effective workforce planning: optimising the dental team skill-mix for England. Journal of Enterprise Information Management 26(1/2), pp. 91-108. (10.1108/17410391311289569)
2012
- Knight, V. A., Harper, P. R. and Smith, L. 2012. Ambulance allocation for maximal survival with heterogeneous outcome measures. OMEGA -The International Journal of Management Science. 40(6), pp. 918-926. (10.1016/j.omega.2012.02.003)
- Harper, P. R., Knight, V. A. and Marshall, A. H. 2012. Discrete conditional phase-type models utilising classification trees: application to modelling health service capacities. European Journal of Operational Research 219(3), pp. 522-530. (10.1016/j.ejor.2011.10.035)
- Knight, V. A., Williams, J. E. and Reynolds, I. T. 2012. Modelling patient choice in healthcare systems: development and application of a discrete event simulation with agent-based functionality. Journal of Simulation 6(2), pp. 92-102. (10.1057/jos.2011.21)
- Fetta, A. G.et al. 2012. On the Peter Principle: An agent based investigation into the consequential effects of social networks and behavioural factors. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391(9), pp. 2898-2910. (10.1016/j.physa.2011.12.053)
- Knight, V. A. and Harper, P. R. 2012. Modelling emergency medical services with phase-type distributions. Health Systems 1(1), pp. 58-68. (10.1057/hs.2012.1)
- Bareš, R.et al. 2012. Simulating bed capacity: evaluating the impact of healthcare service transfers. Presented at: 14th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Cambridge, UK, 28-30 March 201214th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 358-362., (10.1109/UKSim.2012.59)
- Knight, V. A.et al. 2012. How efficient can an emergency unit be? A perfect world model. Emergency Medicine Journal (10.1136/emermed-2011-200101)
- Vile, J. L.et al. 2012. Predicting ambulance demand using singular spectrum analysis. Journal of the Operational Research Society 63, pp. 1556-1565. (10.1057/jors.2011.160)
2011
- Harper, P. R.et al. 2011. Operational research informing national health policy. Cardiff University.
2010
- Vile, J. L.et al. 2010. Forecasting Welsh ambulance demand using singular spectrum analysis. Presented at: 36th International ORAHS conference, Genova, Italy, 18-23 July 2010 Presented at Testi, A. ed.Operations Research for Patient-Centered Health Care Delivery: Proceedings of the XXXVI International ORAHS Conference. Economia Vol. 5. Milan: Franco Angeli pp. 196-208.
2009
- Knight, V. A. 2009. Alternating sign matrices and polytopes. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2007
- Behrend, R. E. and Knight, V. A. 2007. Higher spin alternating sign matrices. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 14(1), article number: R83.
Teaching
I teach the following modules:
- MA1003 Computing For Mathematics
- MA1003 Computing For Mathematics (Continued)
- MA3600 Operational Research II
- MAT001 OR Methods
- MAT008 SAS Programming
Current PhD students
- Geraint Palmer
Research interests
My main research interests lie in the fields of:
- Game Theory
- Queueing Theory
- Healthcare Modelling
