讲座内容：

Traditional system analysis and design approaches seem insufficient to model healthcare systems, given their complexity, the presence of uncertainty, and scale. To overcome these difficulties a System-of-Systems (SoS) approach is adopted. In this talk, a methodological framework for modeling healthcare systems and devising strategies that improve the health level of a population is presented. The problem is formulated as a nonlinear programming model in which the objective is to optimize the population’s health level, appropriately defined, taking into account several constraints. Specifically, given an amount of money to be allocated by a government, local or national, taking into account population growth and medical facilities’ constraints, an allocation strategy is devised to various levels of the healthcare system so that a proxy of life expectancy for a given population is maximized. The resulting policies could improve the sustainability of healthcare systems, and, consequently the well-being of people and the overall sustainability of corresponding countries.

 主讲人介绍：

 Yannis A. Phillis 1973年在希腊雅典国家技术大学取得机电工程学士学位，并在1978年、1979年和1980年分别获得美国加州大学洛杉矶分校硕士学位、工程师学位和博士学位。

 Yannis A. Phillis教授1980年-1986年在美国波士顿大学工作，1986年起在希腊克里特工业大学工作，曾担任12年校长职务，发表学术论文120余篇、4部专著，是美国科学促进会(AAAS)院士。

 他的研究兴趣集中在随机控制、离散事件系统以及生产控制与环境系统中的应用问题。