Publications

Publication (since 2007)

· 27 papers published in refereed journals

·       5 refereed book chapters, 1 contributed book and 1 edited book

· 40 papers in refereed international conferences

·       17 other (extended) abstracts/ posters/ presentations in conferences

· Google Scholar: H-Index: 9 (total 320 citations and 55 indexed publications)

·       The Scopus: H-Index: 8 (total 144 citations and 39 indexed publications)

·       The ISI Web of Science: H-Index: 7 (total 105 citations and 29 indexed publications).

Journal articles

Namachivayam K, MohanKumar K, Garg L, Torres B, Maheshwari A (2016) Neonatal Mice with Necrotizing Enterocolitis-like Injury Develop Thrombocytopenia despite Increased Megakaryopoiesis, Pediatric Research, In press.
Chukwu E, Garg L, Eze G (2016) Mobile Health Insurance System and Associated Costs: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Primary Health Centers in Abuja, Nigeria, JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2016 May 17;4(2):e37.
Tomaselli G, Melia M, Garg L, Gupta V, Xuereb P, Buttigieg S (2016) Digital and traditional tools for communicating corporate social responsibility: a literature review, International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking, 12(2): 1-15.
Gillespie J, McClean S, Garg L, Barton M, Scotney B, Fullerton K (2016) A Multi-phase DES modelling framework for patient-centred care, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 67(10): 1239:1249.
Garg R, Brennan L, Price RK, Wallace JM, Strain JJ, Gibney MJ, Shewry PR, Ward JL, Garg L, Welch RW (2016) Using NMR-Based Metabolomics to Evaluate Postprandial Urinary Responses Following Consumption of Minimally Processed Wheat Bran or Wheat Aleurone by Men and Women. Nutrients.8(2):96.
Audu EE, Garg L (2016) Networked control system for electrohydraulic flow control positioner using Neural Controller and Collaborative Network, International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, 7(8), 1829-1842.
Elshorbagy S, Garg L, Gupta V, Narayanamurthy G, Al Oraini YA (2015) The Impact of Information Systems on Management Performance in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT). 17(3): 30-40.
Shanmugam S, Garg L (2015) Model Employee Appraisal System with Artificial Intelligence Capabilities, Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT). 17(3): 56-73.
Garg L, Dauwels J, Earnest A, Pang L (2014). Tensor based methods for handling missing data in quality-of-life questionnaires . IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 18(5):1571 - 1580.
Gillespie J, McClean SI, Garg L, Barton M, Scotney B, Fullerton K (2014). Using Phase-type Models to Cost Stroke Patient Care across Health, Social and Community Services, European Journal of Operational Research 236(1): 190-199.
McClean SI, Garg L, Fullerton K (2014). Costing Mixed Coxian Phase-type Systems with Poisson Arrivals. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methodology. 43(7): 1437-1452.
Schiavone SL, Garg L, Summers K (2014) Ontology of Information Security in Enterprises, The Electronic Journal Information Systems Evaluation, Volume 17 Issue 1 2014, (071-087).
Garg L, McClean SI, Barton M (2014) Can Management Science methods do more to improve healthcare? International Journal of Inventions in Research, Engineering Science and Technology, Vol.1, No.1, April 2014.
Roumieh A, Garg L (2014) E-Marketing Strategies Exploiting Social Media for Islamic Banking, International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, Volume 4, Special Issue 2, February 2014.
Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, Barton M, Fullerton K (2012). Intelligent patient management and resource planning for complex, heterogeneous, and stochastic healthcare systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans 42(6): 1332 – 1345.
Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, Barton M, Fullerton K (2013). An Extended Mixture Distribution Survival Tree for Patient Pathway Prognostication. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methodology. 42(16):2912-2934.
Barton M, McClean SI, Gillespie J, Garg L, Wilson D, Fullerton K (2012). Is it beneficial to increase the provision of thrombolysis?- A discrete-event simulation model, QJM: An International Journal of Medicine.105(7),(art. no. hcs036):665-673.
Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, Millard PH (2011). Phase-type survival trees and mixed distribution survival trees for clustering patients’ hospital length of stay. INFORMATICA. 22(1): 57-72.
McClean SI, Barton M, Garg L, Fullerton K (2011). A Modeling Framework that Combines Markov Models and Discrete-Event Simulation for Stroke Patient Care. ACM Transactions on Modelling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), 21(4).
Jahangirian M, Eldabi T, Garg L, Jun T, Naseer A, Patel B, Stergioulas L, Young TP (2011). A Rapid Review Method For Extremely Large Corpora of Literature: Applications to the domains of Modelling, Simulation, and Management. International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), 31(3):234-243.
Gillespie J, McClean SI Scotney B, Garg L, Barton M, Fullerton K (2011). Costing Hospital Resources for Stroke Patients using Phase-type Models. Health Care Management Science. 14(3):279-291.
Papadapoulou A, Tsaklidis G, McClean SI, Garg L (2011). On the moments and the distribution of the cost of a semi Markov model for healthcare systems. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability.14(3):717-737.
Garg G, Prasad G, Garg L, Coyle D (2011). Gaussian Mixture Models for Brain Activation Detection from fMRI Data, International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism. 13(4):255-260.
Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, Millard PH (2010). A non-homogeneous discrete time Markov model for admission scheduling and resource planning in a cost or capacity constrained healthcare system. Health Care Management Science. 13(2):155–169.
Garg L., McClean SI, Barton M, Meenan BJ and Fullerton K (2010). The extended mixture distribution survival tree based analysis for clustering and patient pathway prognostication in a stroke care unit. International Journal of Information Sciences and Application. 2(4): 671-675.
Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, Millard PH (2009). Non-homogeneous Markov Models for Sequential Pattern Mining of Healthcare Data. IMA journal Management Mathematics. 20(4): 327-344.
Garg L, McClean SI, Barton M (2008). Is Management Science doing Enough to Improve Healthcare?. International Journal of Human and Social Sciences 3(2):99-103.

Book chapters

Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, Millard PH (2009). A phase type survival tree model for clustering patients' hospital length of stay. Proceedings of the XIII International Conference on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA 2009), pp. 497-502, Eds: Leonidas Sakalauskas, Christos Skiadas, Edmundas K. Zavadskas, ISBN: 978-9955-28-463-5, Publisher: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press. sc H olar citations: 7.
Barton M, McClean SI, Garg L, Fullerton K (2009). Modelling Stroke Patient Pathways using Survival Analysis and Simulation Modelling. Proceedings of the XIII International Conference on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA 2009), pp. 370-373, Eds: Leonidas Sakalauskas, Christos Skiadas, Edmundas K. Zavadskas, ISBN: 978-9955-28-463-5, Publisher: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press. sc H olar citations: 5.
McClean SI, Garg L, Barton M, Fullerton K, Millard PH (2009). Using Markov Systems to plan Stroke Services. In Intelligent Patient Management (Eds. McClean, S.; Millard, P.; El-Darzi, E.; Nugent, C.D.), Book Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 189. pp. 241-256. Scopus citations: 2, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations: 5, sc H olar citations: 3.
McClean SI, Millard PH, Garg L (2008). Using Markov Models for Decision Support in Management of High Occupancy Hospital Care. In Intelligent Techniques and Tools for Novel System Architectures (P. Chountas, I. Petrounias, J. Kacprzyk Eds), Springer’s book series Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI). Vol. 109/2008. pp. 187–199.
McClean SI, Garg L, Meenan BJ, Millard PH. (2007). Non-Homogeneous Markov Models for Performance Monitoring of Healthcare. (In C.H. Skiadas, Eds.) Recent Advances In Stochastic Modelling and Data Analysis. World Scientific Publishing, pp. 146-153. sc H olar citations: 5.

Conference papers

Sharma S, Garg L (2016) ACCUMULATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India .
Sharma S, Garg L (2016) INNOVATIVE HEALTH SERVICES FOR SENIORS, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India.
Vassallo K, Garg L (2016) Cross-Platform Development Frameworks: Review of contemporary technologies and methods for cross-platform application development, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India .
Vassallo K, Garg L, Layfield C (2016) Mobile Language Learning: Providing tools that allow the asynchronous, casual and sometimes gamified learning of languages on mobile devices, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India.
Tomaselli G, Garg L, Gupta V, Xuereb P, Buttigieg SC, Vassallo P (2016) Healthcare Systems and Corporate Social Responsibility Communication: A Comparative Analysis between Malta and India, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India.
Steer K, Garg L, Gupta V (2016) E-Marketing Strategy for an E-Business Analysing tools and media for the development of an E-Marketing strategy, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India.
Tomaselli G, Garg L, Gupta V, Xuereb P, Buttigieg SC (2016) A Review of Corporate Social Responsibility Application in the Healthcare Sector, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India.
Steer K, Garg L, Layfield C, Borg J (2016) Assessment in e-Learning for Higher Education, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India.
Roumieh A, Garg L, Gupta V, Singh G (2016) E-Marketing Strategies for Islamic Banking: a case-study, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India.
Caruana B, Theuma L, Garg L (2016) Dwell-Free Eye-Driven Typing: A review of literature, The International Conference on Computers and Management (ICCM-2016), December 28-29, 2016 at Kota, India.
Bonello J, Garg L, Garg G, Audu EE (2016) Effective data acquisition for machine learning algorithm in EEG signal processing, International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2016), December 28-30, 2016, Jaipur, India.
Bugeja S, Garg L, Audu EE (2016) A novel method of EEG data acquisition, feature extraction and feature space creation for Early Detection of Epileptic Seizures, 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC-2016). Orlando, Florida USA, August 16-20, 2016.
Scerri S, Garg L, Garg R, Scerri C, Tomaselli G, Xuereb P (2015) Understanding Human-Device Interaction Patterns within the Context of Mobile Nutrition, 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering and Computational Sciences, (RAECS-2015), Chandigarh, India, December 21-22, 2015.
Garg L, Mulvaney A, Gupta V, Calleja N (2015) Phase-Type Survival Trees for Hospital Bed Occupancy and Requirements Forecasting, the 22nd EurOMA International Annual Conference (EurOMA 2015), June 26th- July 1st. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, HOM-16.
Tomaselli G, Garg L, Gupta V, Xuereb P, Buttigieg S, Vassallo P (2015) Traditional Vs Interactive Technologies for Corporate Social Responsibility Communication in Health Care: A Study in Malta and India, the 22nd EurOMA International Annual Conference (EurOMA 2015), June 26th- July 1st. Neuchâtel, Switzerland, CSR-03.
Bugeja S, Garg L (2015) Application of Machine Learning Techniques for the modelling of EEG data for diagnosis of Epileptic Seizures, The 3rd Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS 2015) Valletta, Malta, September 5 2015.
Portelli C, Garg L (2015) Emotion-based music player, The 3rd Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS 2015) Valletta, Malta, September 5 2015.
Meilak C, Garg L, Attard C, Xuereb P (2015) Investigating different parking systems and issues, WCTRS SIG G3 – Urban Transport Planning and Policy, 1314 April 2015, Valletta, Malta
Attard N, Garg L, Calleja N, Distefano A (2015) Phase type survival tree analysis for characterising the weather effects on the patient's Length of Stay, The 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS 2015), Milano, Italy, August 25th-29th, 2015.
Scerri S, Garg L, Scerri C, Garg R (2014) Human-Computer Interaction Patterns within the Mobile Nutrition Landscape: A Review of Literature, 2014 International Workshop on Mobile Applications, 27-29 August 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
Papadopoulou A, McClean SI, Garg L (2014) Discrete semi Markov patient pathways through hospital care via Markov modelling, 3rd Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference (SMTDA2014), Lisbon Portugal 11-14 June 2014
Asif MT, Srinivasan K, Garg L, Dauwels J, Jaillet P (2013) Low-dimensional Models for Missing Data Imputation in Road Networks, ICASSP 2013, May 26 - 31, 2013, Vancouver, Canada. Scopus citations: 1, sc H olar citations: 5.
McClean SI, Garg L, Fullerton K (2013) Costing Mixed Coxian Phase-type Systems in a given time interval.The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2013), Porto, Portugal, 20-22 June 2013.
Schiavone SL, Garg L, Summers K (2013) Information Security in Enterprises – Ontology Perspective, The 7th European Conference on IS Management and Evaluation (ECIME 2013), Sopot, Poland, September 2013 12-13.
Agrawal A, Garg L, Dauwels J (2013) Application of empirical mode decomposition algorithm for epileptic seizure detection from scalp EEG, The 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’13) Osaka, Japan, 3-7 July 2013.
Garg L, Masala G, McClean SI, Micocci M, Cannas G (2012). Using phase type distributions for modelling HIV disease progression, Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2012 25th International Symposium on, 20-22 June 2012. doi: 10.1109/CBMS.2012.6266408.
Dauwels J, Garg L, Earnest A, Pang LK (2012). Tensor Factorization for Missing Data Imputation in Medical Questionnaires, The 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 25 - 30, 2012,
Dauwels J, Garg L, Earnest A, Pang LK (2011). Handling Missing Data in Medical Questionnaires Using Tensor Decompositions. The Eighth International Conference on Information, Communications, and Signal Processing (ICICS 2011). Singapore 13-16 December, 2011.
McClean SI, Garg L, Chaurasia P, Scotney BW, Nugent CD (2011). Using Model-based Clustering to Discretise Duration Information for activity recognition. The 24th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2011). Bristol, UK. June 27th - 30th, 2011.
McClean SI, Garg L, Barton M, Fullerton K (2011). A Mixed Coxian Phase-type Model for Stroke. In: 14th Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Conference, 7-10 June 2011 Rome Italy.
McClean SI, Garg L, Barton M, Fullerton K (2010). Using Mixed Phase-type Distributions to Model Patient Pathways. The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2010), Perth, Australia, October 12-15, 2010, pp.172-176.
Garg L, McClean SI, Barton M, Meenan BJ, Fullerton K (2010). Forecasting hospital bed requirements and cost of care using phase type survival trees. The 2010 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems (IEEE IS’10), London, UK, July 7-9, 2010, pp. 185-190.
Garg L, McClean SI, Barton M, Meenan BJ, Fullerton K (2010). Patient pathway prognostication using the extended mixed distribution survival tree based analysis, the Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis International Conference (SMTDA2010), Chania Crete Greece, June 8-11, 2010.
Garg L, McClean SI, Barton M, Meenan BJ, Fullerton K (2010). An extended phase type survival tree for patient pathway prognostication. The IEEE Workshop on Health Care Management (WHCM2010), Venice, Italy, February 18-20. DOI: 10.1109/WHCM.2010.5441242.
Barton M, McClean SI, Garg L, Fullerton K (2010). Modelling costs of bed occupancy and delayed discharge of post-stroke patients. The IEEE Workshop on Health Care Management (WHCM2010), Venice, Italy, February 18-20. DOI: 10.1109/WHCM.2010.5441244.
Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, El-Darzi E, Millard PH (2009). Clustering patient length of stay using mixtures of Gaussian models and phase type distributions. The 22nd IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2009), Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, August 3-4, 2009, pp. 1-7. doi:10.1109/CBMS.2009.5255245.
Garg L, McClean SI, Barton M (2008). Is management science doing enough to improve healthcare?. Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), Vol 40, pp. 76-80.
McClean SI, Papadapoulou A, Tsaklidis G, Garg L, Barton M, Millard PH (2008). Evaluating Strategies using non-homogeneous Markov and semi-Markov Systems. The 2008 International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP-2008), Compiegne, France, July 4-6.
Garg L, McClean, SI, Meenan, BJ, Millard, PH (2008). Optimal control of patient admissions to safisfy resource restrictions. The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2008), Jyväskylä, Finland, June 17 - 19, pp. 512-517.
McClean SI, Garg L, Meenan BJ, Millard PH (2007). Using Markov Models to Find Interesting Patient Pathways. The Twentieth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2007), Maribor, Slovenia, June 20-22, 2007, pp. 713-718.

Other publications / presentations/ abstracts/ extended abstracts

Gafa’ M, Garg L, Masala G, McClean SI, Micocci M, Cannas G (2015) HIV-Disease Progression Modelling Using Phase Type Survival Trees, 16th Conference of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA2015), June 30 - July 4, 2015, University of Piraeus, Greece.
McClean S, Garg L (2015) A Multi-phase Hierarchical Modelling Framework for Discrete Event Simulation, 16th Conference of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA2015), June 30 - July 4, 2015, University of Piraeus, Greece
Garg L, Dauwels J, Earnest A, Pang LK (2011). Tensor Decompositions based method for handling missing data in medical questionnaires. Second Singapore Conference on Statistical Science. Singapore. 19-20 September, 2011.
Garg L, McClean SI, Barton M, Meenan BJ and Fullerton K (2010). The extended mixture distribution survival tree based analysis for clustering and patient pathway prognostication in a stroke care unit. International Conference on Technology and Information Systems (ICTIS-2010), 20-21, November 2010, Amritsar, Punjab, India..pp 112.
Masala G, Garg L, McClean SI, Micocci M, Cannas G (2010), A phase type survival tree to model disease progression for HIV affected patients, Stochastic Prague 2010, August 30th- September 3rd, 2010.
Barton M, McClean SI, Garg L, Fullerton K (2010). The economic benefit of thrombolysis for post-stroke community care – A simulation model. The 36th Conference on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS 2010). Genova, Italy. (18-23 July). (Extended abstract) p52.
Garg L, McClean SI, Barton M, Meenan BJ, Fullerton K (2010). Better patient pathway prognostication using multiple splitting criteria for phase type survival tree construction. The 2010 Conference of Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI 2010). Portrush, (May 16-May 18), p46. (Abstract).
Barton M, McClean SI, Garg L, Fullerton K (2010). Modeling the cost of prolonged length of hospital stay for post-stroke patients. The 2010 Conference of Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI 2010). Portrush, (May 16-May 18), pp9-10. (Extended abstract).
Gillespie J, McClean SI, Scotney B, Barton M, Garg L, Fullerton K (1010) Optimising Hospital Resources using Markov Models and Queueing Theory for Stroke Patients. The 2010 Conference of Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI 2010). Portrush, (May 16-May 18), pp49-50. (Extended abstract).
Barton M, McClean SI, Garg L, Fullerton K (2009). Survival Analysis and Simulation Modelling of Length of Stay in Hospital for Post-Stroke Patients. The 2009 Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI 2009), Mullingar, Ireland. (May 13-15). pp52-53. (Extended abstract).
Garg L, McClean SI, Barton M, Meenan BJ and Fullerton K (2010). Phase type survival tree based analysis for capacity planning in a stroke care unit. 6th Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Healthcare (IMA-Health 2010), London, UK, (March 29-31). p.30 (Abstract).
Gillespie J, McClean S, Scotney B, Barton M, Garg L, Fullerton K (2010). Optimising Hospital Resources using Markov Models and Queueing Theory for Stroke Patients. 6th Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Healthcare (IMA-Health 2010), London, UK, (March 29-31). p14 (Abstract).
Barton M, McClean SI, Garg L, Fullerton K (2009). Survival Analysis and Simulation Modelling of Stroke Patient Hospital Pathways. The 35th Conference on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS 2009), Leuven, Belgium. (July 12-17). pp33-34 (Extended abstract).
Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, Millard PH (2008). Healthcare resource planning using a discrete time Markov model. The 2008 Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI 2008), Dublin, July 16, 2008. p12 (Abstract).
Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, Millard PH (2008). Admission Scheduling and Resource Planning using Non-Homogeneous Markov Model based Patient Pathways. The Second International Health and Social Care Modelling Conference (HSCM 2008), Portrush, Northern Ireland, March 18-20, 2008. p22. (Abstract).
McClean SI, Garg L, Barton M, Millard PH (2008). Using Non-Homogeneous Markov Systems to Model Stroke Disease. The Second International Health and Social Care Modelling Conference (HSCM 2008), Portrush, Northern Ireland, March 18-20, 2008. p30. (Abstract).
McClean SI, Garg L, Meenan BJ, Millard PH (2007). Non-Homogeneous Models for Healthcare Modelling. The Annual Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI 2007), Tipperary, Ireland, May 25-27, 2007. pp. 66-67 (Extended abstract).