Meeting 1, March 30th, Lancaster University
This was the first face-to-face meeting of the 6 partners in the network.
The meeting was deliberately kept small, since its aim was to discuss how
the activities of the network would proceed. Those present were as follows.
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Peter Checkland, Ruth Kowlaczyk, Nuno Melao, Mike Pidd and Mark Westcombe
from Lancaster University. Peter is emeritus Professor of Systems, Ruth
is a lecturer, Nuno was a PhD student (he has now completed his PhD), Mike
is Professor of Management Science and Mark is a research associate on
the Wisdom project. All are based in the Department of Management Science.
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Val Belton is Professor and then Head of the Department of Management Science
at the University of Strathclyde.
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Mike Lyons is Head of the Economic Modeling Group of BT Exact.
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George Paterson is a leader of the Global Infrastructure Project for Shell
Group.
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Alan Robinson is a senior project leader at the Centre for Defence Analysis (CDA),
part of the then Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA). CDA is now known as Dstl Analysis.
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Sue Holwell was in Australia and therefore was unable to be present. She
is a senior lecturer in the Department of Informatics and Simulation, RMCS,
Cranfield.
There was a large Lancaster contingent, since the meeting was based in
Lancaster.
Matters discussed
Mike Pidd opened the meeing by welcoming everyone and working through the
proposal on which EPSRC granted funds to support the network. (Some of
this can be found here). The aim was to hold a
series of meetings, initially small and with a restricted attendance, to
discuss ideas related to complementarity in systems modelling. The hope
was that substantive ideas for research proposals would result.
The network had been deliberately established with an equal number of
academic and industrial partners. It was intended that others would be
invited to join as work proceeded.
The main participants presented information about their backgrounds
and their expectations of the network. To keep the meeting informal, Powerpoint
sets were not used, however some had been used to prepare the talks and
these are provided below.
In addition, Val Belton and Peter Checkland presented their ideas but without
Powerpoint files.
Much of the latter part of the meeting was spent discussing how the
network should proceed and suitable topics for subsequent meetings.
Other INCISM meetings
