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Philip Scarf
Prof Philip Scarf
postal addressMaxwell.
email addressP.A.Scarf@salford.ac.uk
telephone+44 (0)161 295 3817
Key Memberships
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Head of Research Centre: Operations Management, Management Sciences & Statistics
From September 2009 to present.
Full Member of Research Centre: Operations Management, Management Sciences & Statistics
From September 2009 to present.
Profile Summary

Philip Scarf is a statistician by training, but has increasingly worked on problems in operational research since joining the University as a lecturer. His main research interests are in decision modelling in sports, maintenance and reliability, capital replacement decision modelling, and extreme value theory. Philip is secretary to the Maintenance Research Group at Salford, was secretary to both the Scientific Committee and the Organising Committee of the EURO Summer Institute on OR models in maintenance, and has chaired a number of conferences on maintenance modelling. and "mathematics in sport". He obtained his BSc in Probability and Statistics from the University of Sheffield in 1984. His PhD was from the University of Manchester in 1989, where his thesis was based on the application of extreme value theory in corrosion engineering. He is editor in chief of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (ISI indexed; ABS 2 rated).

Key Qualifications
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1989
PhD (from University of Manchester).
Key Projects
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2007
Nov
Modelling training and performance in elite cyclists
EPSRC, £1,934.00.
Investigator: P Scarf (100%).
2007
Jun
Optimum Strategy in Sport
EPSRC, £68,816.00.
Investigators: I McHale (50%), P Scarf (50%).
Key Publications
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Refereed Journal Articles
2012
Jan
Scarf, P & Cavalcante, C 2012, 'Modelling quality in replacement and inspection maintenance', Intl. J.Prod. Economics, 135, pp.372-381.
2011
Jan
Scarf, P & Shi, X & Akhtar, S 2011, 'The distribution of runs scored and batting strategy in test cricket', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 174, pp.471-497.
2011
Jan
Scarf, P & Yusof, M M 2011, 'A numerical study of tournament structure and seeding policy for the soccer World Cup Finals', Statistica Neerlandica 65, 43-57, 65, pp.43-57.
2011
Jan
Scarf, P & Akhtar, S 2011, 'An analysis of strategy in the first three innings in test cricket: declaration and the follow-on', Journal of the Operational Research Society, 62, pp.1931-1940.
2011
Jan
McHale, I & Scarf, P 2011, 'Modelling the dependence of goals scored by opposing teams in international soccer matches', Statistical Modelling, 11, pp.219-236.
2011
Jan
Cavalcante, C & Scarf, P & Almeida, A D 2011, 'A study of a two-phase inspection policy for a preparedness system with a defective state and heterogeneous lifetime', Reliab. Eng. Sys. Safety, 69, pp.627-635.
2011
Jan
Zhang, K & Li, Y & Scarf, P & Ball, A 2011, 'Feature selection using multiple models and radial basis function networks for rotating machinery fault diagnosis', Neurocomputing , 74, pp.2941-2952.
2010
Jan
Scarf, P & Cavalcante, C 2010, 'Hybrid block replacement and inspection policies for a multi-component system with heterogeneous component lives', European Journal of Operational Research , 206, pp.384-394.
2009
Jan
Scarf, P & Yusof, M M & Bilbao, M 2009, 'A numerical study of designs for sporting contests', European Journal of Operational Research , 198, pp.190-198.
2009
Jan
Jobson, S & Passfield, L & Atkinson, G & Barton, G & Scarf, P 2009, 'The analysis and utilisation of cycling training data', Sports Medicine.
2009
Jan
Scarf, P & Cavalcante, C & Dwight, R & Gordon, P 2009, 'An age based inspection and replacement policy for heterogeneous components', IEEE Transactions on Reliability , 58, pp.641-648.
2008
Aug
Scarf, P 2008, 'A mathematical excursion in the isochronic hills', Mathematics Today, 44, pp.163-167.
2008
Jan
Scarf, P & Shi, X 2008, 'Measuring the importance of a match in a tournament', Computers and Operations Research, 35, pp.2406-2418.
Book Sections
2010
Jan
Laycock, N & Laycock, P & Scarf, P & Krouse, D 2010 'Applications of Statistical Analysis Techniques in Corrosion Experimentation, Testing, Inspection and Monitoring', in: Richardson, J (ed.), Schreir¿s Corrosion, volume 2, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp.1547-1580.
2008
Jan
Scarf, P & J.C.Hartman 2008 'Replacement of capital equipment', in: Complex Systems Maintenance Handbook (D.N.P Murthy & K.A.H. Kobbacy, eds.), Springer (under revision). , Springer, New York, USA, pp.287-319.
2008
Jan
Scarf, P 2008 'Maintenance Modeling and Management (Melnick and Everitt, eds.)', in: Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment and Analysis, Wiley, Chichester, UK, pp.1023-1029.
Key Presence
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External Examiner Duties
2010
Sep
University of Sheffield (United Kingdom, September 2010).
2009
Oct
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland, October 2009).
2009
Oct
University of Southampton (United Kingdom, October 2009).
Industrial Collaboration and Exploitation
2012
Adviser to FA Premier League and PA Sport on Actim Index--football player ranking system
Adviser to FA Premier League and PA Sport on Actim Index--football player ranking system
Other Evidence of External Esteem
2007
Oct
(October 2007).

Editor-in-chief, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (ISI indexed, ABS 2 rated