INSPIRE
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Nikolaos Argyris is Lecturer in Operational Research and can be reached on n.argyris@lboro.ac.uk
bandwidth achieved; yet everyone has spent money, and so bandwidth has to be allocated to everyone fairly. Another example is looking at equitable workload allocation amongst personnel at an organisation. Think of the case of a university. You might think that the best allocation would be to give the majority of the teaching load to the best teachers, but that wouldn’t necessarily be fair, would it? (laughs) Maybe for the students, but not for the employees! Your future research? I have a couple of papers in the pipeline. What I’m then hoping to do is go back to my contacts in the health sector and see whether I can get my hands on a dataset to help a Clinical Commissioning Group with this decision methodology to arrive at an allocation of their budget for the population.
INFORMS Finalist This November, Nikos was announced as a Finalist in the Decision Analysis Society Publication Awards – an award that is given annually to the best decision analysis journal article or book as judged by the awards committee – for his paper, “CUT: A multicriteria approach for concavifiable preferences”.
Just recently, I have been awarded some Newton funding through the British Council to work with a colleague in Turkey to, among other things, apply this research to fairness in the allocation of aid for helping refugees, in the content of the current refugee crisis. This is extremely topical of course, and I am very excited about starting this new stream of research.
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