Publication (since 2007)

19 papers published in refereed journals

5 refereed book chapters, 1 contributed book and 1 edited book
22 papers in refereed international conferences
17 other (extended) abstracts/ posters/ presentations in conferences
Google Scholar: H-Index: 7 (total 193 citations and 40 indexed publications)
The Scopus: H-Index: 6 (total 77 citations and 31 indexed publications)
The ISI Web of Science: H-Index: 4 (total 56 citations and 24 indexed publications).

Journal articles
1. 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): 15711580. Impact Factor: 1.978, Journal H-Index(SJR:1996-2012): 55, SJR(2012):0.877. ISI Web of
Knowledge Citations: 1, Google Scholar Citations: 1.
2. 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. Impact Factor: 2.038, Journal H-Index (SJR:1977-2013):
133, Scopus SNIP (2011): 2.284.
3. 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. Impact Factor:
0.351, Journal H-Index (SJR:1996-2011): 24, SJR(2011):0.035, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.550.
4. Schiavone SL, Garg L, Summers K (2014) Ontology of Information Security in Enterprises, The
Electronic Journal Information Systems Evaluation, 17(1): 071-087.
5. 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 2014ISSN (Print):2348-7399, ISSN(Online):2348-8077.
6. 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
7. 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. Impact Factor: 2.093, Journal H-Index(SJR:1996-2011): 54, SJR(2011):0.085, Scopus
SNIP(2011):3.594, Scopus citations: 7, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations: 6, Google Scholar Citations:
8.
8. Garg L, McClean SI, Meenan BJ, Barton M, Fullerton K (2011). An Extended Mixture Distribution
Survival Tree for Patient Pathway Prognostication. Communications in Statistics: Theory and
Methodology. 42(16):2912-2934. Impact Factor: 0.351, Journal H-Index(SJR:1996-2011): 24,
SJR(2011):0.035, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.550.
9. 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. Impact Factor: 2.146, Journal H-Index(SJR:1993-2011):

71, SJR(2011):0.18, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.897, Scopus citations: 7, ISI Web

of Knowledge Citations: 5, Google Scholar Citations: 6.
10. 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. Impact
Factor: 1.786,Journal H-Index(SJR:1996-2010): 15, SJR(2011):0.048, Scopus
SNIP(2011):1.814, Scopus citations: 13, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations: 13, Google
Scholar Citations: 16.
11. 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). Impact Factor: 0.684, Journal H-Index(SJR:1991-2009): 26,
SJR(2011): 0.043, Scopus SNIP(2011):2.053, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations: 3, Scopus citations:
9, Google Scholar Citations: 12.
12. 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):234243. Impact Factor: 1.554, Journal H-Index(SJR:1986-2010): 32,SJR(2011):0.043, Scopus
SNIP(2011):2.517, Scopus citations: 4, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations: 3, Google Scholar Citations:
10.
13. 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):279291. Impact Factor: 0.394, SJI(2011): 0.063, Scopus SNIP(2011): 1.169, Journal H-Index(SJR:19982009): 23, Scopus citations: 3, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations: 2, Google Scholar Citations: 6.
14. 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. Impact Factor: 0.774, Journal H-Index(SJR:2004-2010):
11, SJR(2011):0.040, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.718. Scopus citations: 2, ISI Web of Knowledge
Citations: 2, Google Scholar Citations: 4.
15. 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, Google
Scholar Citations: 3.
16. 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):155169. Impact Factor: 0.394, Journal HIndex(SJR:1998-2009): 23, SJI(2011):0.063, Scopus SNIP(2011):1.169, Scopus citations: 14, ISI
Web of Knowledge Citations: 8, Google Scholar Citations: 32.
17. 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.
18. 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): 327344. Journal H-Index(SJR:2001-2009): 11,SJR(2011):0.033, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.671, Scopus
citations: 1, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations: 3, Google Scholar Citations: 5.
19. 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. Google
Scholar Citations: 4.

Book chapters
1. 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. Google Scholar Citations: 7.
2. 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. Google Scholar Citations: 5.
3. 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. Journal HIndex(SJR:1998-2010): 10, SJI(2011):0.029, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.310, Scopus citations: 2, ISI Web
of Knowledge Citations: 4, Google Scholar Citations: 3.
4. 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), Springers book series Studies in Computational
Intelligence (SCI). Vol. 109/2008. pp. 187199. Journal H-Index(SJR:1998-2010): 10,
SJI(2011):0.029, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.310.
5. 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. Google Scholar Citations: 5.
Conference papers
1. 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, 2729 August 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
2. 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
3. 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, Google Scholar Citations: 7.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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 (EMBC13) Osaka, Japan, 3-7 July 2013.

7. 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. Google
Scholar Citations: 2.
8. 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, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations:
2, Scopus citations: 1, Google Scholar Citations: 4.
9. 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. Google Scholar Citations: 3.
10. 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. Conference HIndex (SJR:1998-2010): 12, SJI(2011):0.031, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.357, Scopus citations: 1, Google
Scholar Citations: 3.
11. 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.
12. Garg G, Prasad G, Garg L, Coyle D (2011). Gaussian Mixture Models for Brain Activation Detection
from fMRI Data. In: Symp. on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging of the Brain & Heart and the
8th Intl. Conference on Bioelectromagnetism (NFSI & ICBEM 2011), Banff, Canada. Google
Scholar Citations: 2.
13. 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. Conference H-Index(SJR:19982010): 12, SJI(2011):0.031, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.357, Scopus citations: 1, Google Scholar Citations:
3.
14. 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 IS10), London, UK, July 7-9, 2010, pp. 185-190, Scopus citations:
3, Google Scholar Citations: 3.
15. 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.
16. 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. Google
Scholar Citations: 6.
17. 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. Google Scholar Citations: 6.

18. 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. Conference H-Index(SJR:1998-2010): 12,
SJI(2011):0.031, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.357, Google Scholar Citations: 16.
19. 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. 7680.SJI(2011):0.028, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.116. Google Scholar Citations: 4.
20. 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. Scopus citations: 1.
21. Garg L, McClean, SI, Meenan, BJ, Millard, PH (2008). Optimal control of patient admissions to satisfy
resource restrictions. The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
(CBMS 2008), Jyvskyl, Finland, June 17 - 19, pp. 512-517. Conference H-Index(SJR:1998-2010):
12, SJI(2011):0.031, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.357, Scopus citations: 3, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations:
2, Google Scholar Citations: 4.
22. 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. Conference H-Index(SJR:19982010): 12, SJI(2011):0.031, Scopus SNIP(2011):0.357, ISI Web of Knowledge Citations: 2, Scopus
citations: 6, Google Scholar Citations: 8.
Other publications / presentations/ abstracts/ extended abstracts
1. Garg L (2014) Tensor based Methods for Handling Missing Data in Medical Questionnaires, Plenary
Speech III, 2014 4th International Conference on Computer Communication and Management
(ICCCM 2014), May 21-22, 2014, Paris, France
2. Garg L, Dauwels J, Earnest A, Pang LK (2014). Handling missing data in quality-of-life
questionnaires using tensor based methods, the 6th Workshop in Information and Communication
Technology (WICT 2014), April 2-3, 2014, Malta.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Barton M, McClean SI, Garg L, Fullerton K (2010). The economic benefit of thrombolysis for poststroke 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.

7. 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).
8. 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).
9. 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).
10. 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).
11. 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).
12. 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).
13. 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).
14. 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).
15. 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).
16. 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).
17. 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).