I thought it was probably worth creating a section to outline some of my research (seeing as it's moving forwards these days). I am currently involved in an effort to create an Agent-Based Model of hospital emergency departments, and from there develop a simulator to test this model against real world system behaviour.

I'll add some more details later, but for now here's a (small) list of published and accepted papers. I promise I'll sort the formatting out at some stage, I'm aware this page looks horrible.

Towards an Agent-Based Simulation of Hospital Emergency Departments
Stainsby, Hayden; Taboada, Manel; Luque, Emilio
Services Computing, 2009. SCC '09. IEEE International Conference on (2009) pp. 536 - 539

Abstract: Hospital emergency departments are complex systems, characterised by uncertainty and variability, often operating with limited resources and high demands. Simulations of these departments have proven to be efficient tools in improving their performance in certain circumstances, however the human aspect is often overlooked in the application of modelling and simulation to this field. This paper describes an ongoing project which is applying agent-based modelling techniques to the simulation of hospital emergency departments. The work performed so far, including system analysis and a preliminary model, are shown and the advantages of this technique explored.

Agent-Based Simulation to Support Decision Making in Healthcare Management Planning
Stainsby, Hayden; Taboada, Manel; Luque, Emilio
Accepted to HEALTHINF 2010

Abstract: Simulation has proved to be a useful tool in healthcare operational management, although up until now does not appear to have reached its full potential within this area. An area in which simulation is increasingly useful is as in aiding decision making of healthcare managers when planning constructing new Emergency Departments or making changes to existing ones. A simulation based on Agent Based Modelling techniques is proposed with an aim to produce a Decision Support System that takes into account the human and social factors present within such departments and that can also be generalised to be used in multiple hospitals. Work on the creation of this model has already began, with many of its concepts and structures presented.