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Awards:
Jackson was awarded
Nuseibeh was given an award for
Petre was awarded
Several papers at conferences by members of the department were given best paper awards: Dunckley 2, Petre 4, Price 4.
EPSRC:
Proposals to the EPSRC and other research bodies are evaluated regularly by various members of staff.
Keynote talks have been given by
Other invited talks at conferences and workshops have been given by Hall P to the Indian Computer Society’s annual conference in Ahmedabad (November 1997), Minocha to ‘Scenarios Management' Workshop at the International Conference and Research Centre for Computer Science in Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany (1998), Nuseibeh at the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2000) and 2nd Conference on Technological Education and National Development (TEND 2000) in Abu Dhabi, the Seminar on Requirements Capture, Documentation and Validation at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany, the International Symposium on "Software Engineering for the Next Generation" in Nagoya, Japan, 1996, and the 3rd International Conference on Concurrent Engineering & Electronic Design Automation (CEEDA-96); Thomas to the British Association for Advancement of Science (1999).
Members have participated as individual experts: Petre in the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, US (1997) and to the ICSE 2000 workshop ‘Beg, Borrow, or Steal: using Multidisciplinary Approaches to Empirical Software Engineering Research’ (2000), Pat Hall in the workshop Equity, Diversity, and Information Technology (EDIT) in Bangalore (1999, funded by the Ford Foundation).
Members serve as editors for various journals: ACM Trans on Software Engineering and Methodology (Jackson – Associate Editor), Automated Software Engineering (Nuseibeh – Editor-in-Chief, Jackson), Computer Science Education (Petre), Electronic Journal of Computer Science Education (Petre), Expert Systems (Petre – Associate Editor), Information and Software Technology (HallP, Ince), Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching (JCMST) (Petre – Associate Editor for Computer Science), Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (Petre), Journal of Software Maintenance (Ince), Requirements Engineering Journal (Nuseibeh), Science of Computer Programming (Jackson).
Members have edited special issues of IEEE Trans on Software Eng (Nuseibeh: special issues Nov 98 and Nov 99), International Journal for Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) (Petre: co-editor, special issue on empirical studies of programmers), Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching (Petre: Co-editor special issue on CS education research), Personal Technologies (Morse: Special issue on Situated Interaction and Context-aware Computing 2000),
Members have acted as Programme Chairs or equivalent for the following conferences and workshops:
Members have served on the committees for the following Conferences in various capacities: ACM/IEEE 21st and 22nd International Conferences on Software Engineering (ICSE-99, ICSE-2000) (Nuseibeh), ACM SIGCSE (Petre), CHI (Petre), AI 2001 (Garagnani), Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES-1998, 1999, 2000) (Barroca, Nuseibeh), Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-2000) (Nuseibeh), International Symposium on Principles of Software Evolution (ISPSE) (Nuseibeh), IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension (Petre), Information Technology, Plant Pathology and Biodiversity, CABI (Morse organiser), Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) (Petre, Segal), The Visual End-User workshop (Petre), Workshops of Empirical Studies of Programmers (Petre, Segal), and many others.
External doctoral examining Bournemouth (Ince), Cardiff (Holland), Leeds (Hall), Limerick (Hall), LSE (Hall), Imperial (Hall), La Trobe (Hall), Manchester (Nuseibeh), Monash (Nuseibeh), Newcastle (Ince), Pisa (Nuseibeh), Strathclyde (Nuseibeh), Sussex (Nuseibeh), Warwick (Morse).
Seminars have been given at: BCS (Ince), Berkeley (Garagnani), Brunel (Nuseibeh), BT Labs (Ince), Bologna (Garagnani), Cambridge (Holland), Université Catholique de Louvain (Nuseibeh), CMU/SEI (Nuseibeh), Cranfield at Shrivenham (Ince), De Montfort (Hall P), Durham (Nuseibeh), East Anglia (Ince), Fujitsu (Nuseibeh), Georgia Tech (Morse), Georgia Tech (Petre), Glasgow (Holland), Herriott-Watt (HallJ), Macquarie (Nuseibeh), Manchester (Nuseibeh), Maringa Brazil (Barroca), NASA (Nuseibeh), Natural History Museum (Morse), NEC (Nuseibeh), NTT (Nuseibeh), Oxford (Thomas, Petre, Price), Pisa (Garagnani), Santa Fe Institute(Morse), Sheffield-Hallam (Nuseibeh), SRI (Garagnani), Stanford (Garagnani), Surrey (Thomas), Uppsala (Petre), Vienna (Nuseibeh), Warwick (Morse), York (Holland), York (Nuseibeh).
Members undertake Reviewing of papers and books for a wide range of journals, conferences, and publishers: ACM-CHI Conference, Addison-Wesley, Automated Software Engineering, Expert Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, IEE Proceedings – Software, Information and Software Technology, IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Computer Algebra in Mathematics Education, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Journal of Cognitive Science, Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME), Journal of Interactive Media in Education, Journal of Visual Language and Computing, Science, SIGCSE, Software Practice and Experience, The Computer Journal, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets ’97,’98); and very many others.
Standards: Chris Dobbyn contributes an individual expert to ISO/IEC 13225-8 (MHEG XML) [Dobbyn 1]; Mike Newton contributes to database standardisation, Jon Hall contributes to the Z Standardisation Process [HallJ 3], Lynne Dunckley contributes to ISO usability metrics standards.
Members are also frequently invited as consultants to industrial concerns.
· the IEE Achievement Medals Senior Award in 1998 and
· the British Computer Society Lovelace Medal in 1998 (first recipient ).
· Nuseibeh to Australian Requirements Engineering Workshop (AWRE-2000)
· Petre to Empirical Assessment and Evaluation of Software Systems (EASE) (98) and to LINKS 98 in Stockholm.
· ECOOP'96, '97 and '98 (European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming) workshop on object-oriented real-time systems (Barroca),
· Empirical Studies of Programmers 8th workshop (Nov 2000) (Petre, conference co-chair)
· European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT-98) (Nuseibeh General Chair),
· ICSE 2000 Workshop on Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns in Software Engineering (Nuseibeh co-chair).
· ICSE-2000 Software Engineering Education and Training Programme (Nuseibeh)
· IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE-2001) (Nuseibeh),
· Information Technology, Plant Pathology and Biodiversity, CABI (Morse co-founder),
· International Workshop on the Internationalisation of Products an Systems (IWIPS 2001) (Dunckley co-chair),
· Joint 8th European Software Engineering Conference/9th ACM SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE-2001), Austria, Sept 2001 (Nuseibeh Workshops Chair)
· UK Planning and Scheduling SIG (Garagnani),
Prof. Diaper was Editor in Chief of Interacting with Computers (1989-1999). He is also Co-editor of the Springer-Verlag book series on Computer-Supported Co-operative Work.
Conferences:
Prof. Shepperd was General Chair for the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Evolution and on the Programme Committee for the European Software Engineering Conference (1999), IEEE International Metrics Symposium. (1998 -2001 and Programme Chair elect for 2002), International Conference on Empirical Assessment & Evaluation in Software Engineering (1997-) and European Software Control and Metrics Conference (1996-). He is Chair of the IEEE International Metrics Symposium Steering Committee (2001-).
Prof. Diaper has been on programme committees for HCI’97, HCI’98 & HCI2000 (British HCI group), Interact’99 (British HCI group & IFIP).
Journal Reviewing:
Members of ESERG (MHC, ML, KP, MJS) have reviewed papers for the following journals: Software Practice & Experience, IEE Proceedings (Software), Software Quality Journal, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Information & Software Technology, Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal, IEEE Computer and Automated Software Engineering.
Examining:
Prof. Shepperd has been external examiner for PhD candidates at the Universities of Strathclyde, Wolverhampton, Sunderland, Glamorgan and London (Birkbeck). Prof. Diaper was external examiner for a PhD candidate at City University and Dr Lefley examined at De Montfort University.
Invited Keynotes:
Prof. Shepperd gave the keynote talk to the 4th International Conference on Empirical Assessment & Evaluation in Software Engineering, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK, April 17th - 19th 2000.
Other:
Prof. Shepperd is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (1997-1999, 2000-2002). He was PI for the EPSRC grant (Grant GR/L37298 - rated alpha 5 and excellent management of resources) and GR/R31096 and CI for grants (GR/M02552) and (GR/M78083). He is a council member for the Centre for Software Reliability (1993-). The research group ESERG has been invited (2000-) to collaborate with the Software Engineering Research Center in the US (a NSF funded group of universities and industrial affiliates). We are the first non US University to receive such an invitation.
Prof. Light has been a member of the ESRC Research Grants Board and has been a senior scientist on the European Science Foundation Programme on Learning in Humans and Machines. He held a senior research fellowship (1996-97). He has received Nuffield Foundation and ESRC grants totalling £200K since 1996.
Prof. Diaper is a corporate member of the British Computer Society and has served on many of its committees, including Council. He also was Chair of the Department of Trade and Industry’s CSCW Special Interest Group.
Prof. Diaper's paper "One person and Their Dog Performing Electronic Lecturing" in Jin, Q., Li, J., Zhang, N., Cheng, J. Yu,C. and Noguchi, S. (Eds.) International Conference on Information Society and the 21st Century: Emerging Technologies and New Challenges (IS2000, Japan) pp596-602, won a "Special Award" at the conference for its presentation as an electronic lecture.
Dr Lefley's paper "Incorporating Fuzzy Resonance in Language Acquisition and Production" received a best presentation award at Computational intelligence - methods and applications (CIMA '99) in New York.
Membership of editorial boards of journals:
Computational Linguistics (van Deemter); Journal of Semantics (van Deemter);
Natural Language Engineering (Scott); AI Communications (Scott); European Student Journal of Language and Speech (Scott); Free Speech Journal (Scott).
Invited keynote addresses at international conferences:
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’99; Scott); 3
rd International Meeting on Computational Semantics (1999; van Deemter); Conference on Multimodal Communication (CMC’98; Scott); Theoretical and Methodical Issues in Machine Translation (TMI’99; Scott); Brazilian Society for Artificial Intelligence (SBIA’00; Scott); Translating and the Computer (ASLIB’96; Scott);Refereeing and reviewing for funding bodies:
BBSRC (Evans); EPSRC (van Deemter, Evans, Kilgarriff, Power, Scott); ESRC (Cahill, van Deemter, Evans, Kilgarriff, Power); EU Framework programme (Kilgarriff, Scott); NSF (Cahill, Evans). Scott is serving a second term on the EPSRC Peer College, and served on the committee of the joint EPSRC/ESRC PACCIT initiative.
Reviewing for international journals
Computer and the Humanities (Kilgarriff); Computational Linguistics (van Deemter, Kilgarriff, Power, Scott); International Journal of Lexicography (Kilgarriff); Journal of Linguistics (Cahill); Journal of Semantics (van Deemter); Linguistics and Philosophy (van Deemter); Natural Language Engineering (van Deemter, Evans, Piwek, Power, Scott, Tugwell).
Editorship of special issues
Computational Linguistics (on Natural Language Generation; Scott); Computers and the Humanities (on Word Sense Disambiguation; Kilgarriff).
Participation in the organization of international events
Members of ITRI have been involved in various capacities in the organisation of over forty international events in computational linguistics, language engineering, and related subjects. Evans chaired ECAI’98, and Scott was chair of INLG’96 and area chair for ACL’97, COLING’98, ECAI’99 and SBIA’00. Over the reporting period, members of ITRI have served on the programme committees of all the major international conferences in the field: AAAI, ACL, ANLP, COLING, Cognitive Science, EACL, ECAI, IJCAI, INLG, and NAACL. They are regularly invited to give tutorials at such events, and at the ESSLLI Summer Schools. They have organized a number of specialist international symposia on topics ranging from multimedia document representation (van Deemter), multilingual lexical representation (Evans), word sense disambiguation (Kilgarriff), layout in NLP (Power) and reference architectures for NLG (Scott).
Participation on international committees
Scott has been the chair of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) since 1998, and has just been voted to serve a second term; she has also served on the executive committee of the International Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) since 1998. Kilgarriff chairs the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX).
External examining for PhDs at other institutions
Brunel (Scott); Durham (Evans, Kilgarriff); Edinburgh (van Deemter, Evans, Power, Scott);
Eindhoven (van Deemter); Essex (Cahill); Federal Univ. of São Paulo (Scott); Salford (van Deemter); UMIST (Scott).
Other forms of recognition
In addition to the publications listed in RA2, members of the Institute have produced over two hundred articles in journals and proceedings of national and international conferences and workshops. We have also presented many invited seminars on our work to universities and institutes in Britain and overseas, including Cambridge, Edinburgh, Kings, Sussex, and Sheffield; Amsterdam, Dublin, Gothenburg, Stockholm, São Paulo and Stuttgart.
We believe another measure of our recognition by our peers is the high calibre of the people with whom we collaborate (see RA5) and the number and quality of researchers from other institutions here and abroad who speak at our weekly seminars. Over the past year alone, external speakers include: Anja Belz (SRI, Cambridge), Johan Bos (Edinburgh), Phil Edmonds (Sharp Laboratories), Chuck Fillmore (UCLA, Berkeley), Robert Gaizauskas (Sheffield), Claire Gardent (Saarbruecken), Josef van Genabith (Dublin City), Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre), Ruth Kempson (Kings), Alex Lascarides (Edinburgh), Inger Lytje (Aalborg), Katja Markert (Edinburgh), Sergei Nirenburg, (New Mexico), Vieri Samek-Ludovici (UCL), Frédérique Segond (Xerox Research Center), Mark Stevenson (Sheffield), Wolfgang Teubert (Birmingham), Krista Varantola (Tampere).
Staff
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Dr SA Amin
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· Session Chair, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 1997, and the International Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, 1999; · Member, Advisory Committee, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vienna, Austria, 1998; · Member, Programme Committee, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Marbella, Spain, 2000; · Invited Member of the IEEE UK and Ireland Chapter in Signal Processing, 2000. |
Dr AE James
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· Session Chair, European Workshop on Engineering Federated Information Systems, Dublin, Ireland, 2000, and Member, Programme Committee of the same Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2001; · Invited Presentation, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, Didcot, UK, 2000; · Member, Programme Committee, British National Conference on Databases; CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, 2001; · Member, Programme Committee, International Conference on Computer Supported Co-operative Work in Design, London, Ontario, Canada, 2001. |
Prof RNG Naguib
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· Fulbright Cancer Fellowship, 1996; · Elected to the Membership of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1996; · Invited Speaker, Cancer Research Centre, Hawaii, USA, 1996; · Elevated to the Senior Membership grade of the IEEE, 1997; · Awarded a subject of biographical record in Who’s Who in the World, 1997-2001; · Invited Speaker, Urology and Nephrology Centre, Mansoura University, Egypt, 1997; · Invited Review Paper, Artificial Neural Networks in Cancer Research, Pathobiology, 1997; · Elected to the Membership of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 1998; · Elected to the Membership of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), 1998; · Member, International Committee, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Hong Kong, 1998; · Invited Organiser and Session Chair, Cancer Research and Management, European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, Vienna, Austria (Sponsored by the UK IPEM), 1999; · Invited Organiser and Session Chair, Intelligent Systems in Cancer Research, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, USA, 2000; · Member, Advisory Committee, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Information Technology, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, USA, 2000; · Member, Advisory Committee, IEEE Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine Conference, Arlington VA, USA, 2000; · Invited Expert Member of the Multidisciplinary Assessment Panel of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, 2000; · Invited Member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) official international delegation to the People’s Republic of China, 2000; |
| · PhD External Examiner, Department of Computation, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 2000; · Special Area Editor and Member, Advisory Committee, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2001; · IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Representative to the European Society for Engineering and Medicine (ESEM), 2001; · IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Representative to the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy, 2001. · Invited Member, Technical Programme Committee, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Manitoba, Canada, 2002. |
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Dr RN Newman
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Session Chair and Invited Speaker on the Research Agenda for Multimedia Applications, IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Las Vegas, USA, 2000. |
Dr MO Odetayo
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· Member, International Programme Committee, International Mendel Conference on Genetic Algorithms, Brno, Czech Republic, 1994-2001; · Session Chair, International Mendel Conference on Genetic Algorithms, Brno, Czech Republic, 1996; · Member, International Programme Committee, International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, Optimisation Problems, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Rough Sets, Brno, Czech Republic, 1998; · Member, Programme Committee, International Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Košice, Slovakia, 2000. |
Dr D Petrovic
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Session Chair and Member, International Programme Committee, European Conference on Decision Support Systems, Groupware, Multimedia and Electronic Commerce, Bruges, Belgium, 1997. |
Dr A Todman
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· Organiser and Session Chair, BCS Special Interest Group in Pattern Analysis and Robotics, Birmingham, UK, 2000; · Invited Speaker, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2001. |
Since its inception in 1998, BIOCORE has enjoyed a continuous stream of media coverage for the novel work it pursued on intelligent systems in cancer diagnosis, prognosis and patient management. Professor RNG Naguib and his research featured as editorial reports in major national and international news media, e.g., The Independent on Sunday, BBC On-Line, the Press Association, BioMedNet and Al-Ahram (Egyptian newspaper). Professor Naguib was also interviewed on BBC Radio 4 in relation to this research.
Industrial take up continues to be very healthy. Rolls Royce, ESA and NAG, for example, continue to use algorithms developed at Hertfordshire, and the VHDL Cover tool produced within the STRC, cited in 96, has been developed into Verification Navigator (bringing in more than £100,000 in Royalties and used by most major companies including INTEL) and expanded via a TCS with Transeda into the test-case sorting tool VN-Optimizer. In System Engineering, a patent, developed jointly with BT Labs "Pattern Recognition with Segmental Weighting" (GB-9721876.2, EP-97308174.8), is currently being exploited by BT. Similarly, two patents initially developed during a research project with Nortel ["A Method and Apparatus for Determining How Many Input Values of a Time Series of Data are Required for Forecasting a Future Value of the Time Series" (US Patent IS 0636) plus one lodged in 95], together with various software tools developed for the application of neural networks to telecommunications (for a summary of these, see [Hunt(3)]), were instrumental in the formation of a group currently being spun off by Nortel, with a Hertfordshire PhD graduate as a key member of staff. Another spin-off company, part owned by the University, has arisen from the software development activity noted in 96, originally established as an in-house test-bed, developing bespoke systems for companies including Forte and Virgin. We also work closely with a number of local SMEs: for example, a TCS and subsequent Link project with Synapsis have led to close collaboration in the development of speech and language processing systems for automatic subtitling of television programmes [Hewitt(2)]. Work on parallel and distributed computing has benefited greatly from collaboration with nCube, including the donation of a 512 processor system (market value ~£500,000), which has circumvented the need for using EPSRC central facilities and allows all the laboratories ad hoc access to supercomputing facilities.
Links with the wider academic community have also grown significantly during the period. This was a strategic decision noted in 96, and reflects our philosophy that Computer Science research cannot afford to be narrowly focused within individual institutions, but must involve national and international collaboration. Some of these national collaborations lead to formalised visiting positions and significant involvement with the wider community. In 1996, for example, Professor Christianson was invited to participate in the Isaac Newton Institute Programme for Computer Security, and, in addition to his long-standing membership of the Security Group at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, was appointed a visiting member of the Centre for Communication Systems Research at Cambridge. These events led to a significant involvement for Professor Christianson and J. Malcolm with developing and redacting the annual workshop on Security Protocols, which has evolved into an international, invitation-only, conference bringing together key individuals from the security area in a highly interactive environment. Recent participants have included NSA, AT&T Laboratories, Microsoft Research, SRI, Hitachi and Goldman-Sachs. As another example of formal individual links, Dr Wernick is a visiting researcher at Imperial College, working on the FEAST project. There are also many examples of informal links, and the publications cited include co-authors at Edinburgh, York, Oxford and UCL, to name but a few. The three laboratories also participate in several national research networks, four of which are particularly relevant to our future plans. Professor Bolouri was involved in establishing CytoCom, an EPSRC funded network investigating the development of new models of computation and information processing inspired by cell and tissue levels of biology (involving Cambridge, UCL, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds. Kent and Manchester), and also the EPSRC funded network on emergent computing and new paradigms (involving York, Leeds, Cardiff and UMIST). Professor Loomes and Dr Nehaniv initiated an EPSRC funded network on evolutionary system design (involving BT, Warwick, QMW, UCL, Edinburgh and Sussex). The Algorithms Laboratory organises an informal network (meeting at least 3 times a year), bringing together the major UK researchers in the area of Automatic Differentiation (present participants include RMCS Shrivenham, Cranfield, Oxford University, Rutherford Appleton Labs, NAG, the Met Office, BAe and DERA), and acting as point of contact for European collaborators (including Dresden, INRIA, Aachen and Moscow).
Within Europe, there are also several examples of formal collaboration. For example, Professor Shafarenko holds a visiting Chair in the Faculty of Informatics at the Novosibirsk State University, Dr Ambrosiadou holds a visiting Chair in the Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessalonika, Athens, Dr Albrecht is a visiting researcher at the German National Research Centre for IT, and Dr Nehaniv holds a visiting Chair at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. Hertfordshire has been accepted as a full member of AgentLink II, the IST-funded Network of Excellence for agent-based computing, and has formal collaboration agreements with IRCAM and GRM (Radio France) for research on interactive systems in electronic music, which has been submitted to the Music Unit. Dr Ariyaeeinia is a member of the management committee for the European Co-operation in Speaker Recognition (COST-250), appointed by the OST, and is a member of the EC Telecommunications and Information Systems Technology Sub-committee. He has recently been asked to co-ordinate the formation of COST-275, a new action for "Biometrics-based Recognition of People over the Internet". Dr Dautenhahn has been invited to join the Strategic Planning Workshop on the Future of Emerging Technologies for Framework 6.
The most pleasing aspect of our collaborative portfolio, however, has been the dramatic increase in transatlantic links. The most significant of these, with Caltech, has already been described in detail in the RA5, but several other collaborations are in place. For example, Dr Nehaniv, Dr Dautenhahn and Dr Canamero have all spent periods as invited visiting researchers at MIT (in both the AI Laboratory and the Media Laboratory), and this collaboration continues to grow. Dr Bartholomew-Biggs is collaborating in a project at McGill University, where an algorithm developed within the Algorithms Laboratory at Hertfordshire is being exploited for the optimisation of treatment regimes for cancer, and has also acted as a research programme referee at the Argonne National Laboratory, where Professor Christianson also has research collaborations. Dr Nehaniv was the only UK academic invited to participate in the Sante Fe Institute working group on Evolvability, and has been an invited researcher at the University of California, Berkley, working with Professor Rhodes in the Department of Mathematics, and also at Yale, working within Professor Wagner in Biology. Professor Sotudeh is a visiting professor at Ryerson University, in Canada, where he has been instrumental in establishing a major doctoral training programme. Professor Bolouri was invited to participate in the NASA/US Cancer Institute Workshop on Sensors for Biomolecular Signatures.
In addition to these collaborations, researchers at Hertfordshire contribute to the wider academic community through activities such as editing journals and books, organising conferences and contributing to the UK research enterprise through work with the research councils and other agencies. Dr Bartholomew-Biggs is on the editorial board of Journal of Advanced Modelling and Optimization. Professor Dixon is an Associate Editor of Journal of Optimization Techniques and Applications. Professor Senior is an editor of European Transactions on Telecommunications. Dr Hall is on the editorial board for the Software Quality Journal. Professor Davis is an editor of the International Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications. Dr Nehaniv has just been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Biological and Information Processing Systems. Professor Christianson is on the editorial board of the Journal of Optimization Methods and Software. Dr Dautenhahn is associate editor of the Journal of Adative Behaviour, and on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Cognitive Technology and the Industrial Robot Journal. In addition to these long-standing appointments, submitted researchers have also edited several recent special editions of journals. Professor Bolouri edited a special edition of the IEEE Transactions on CPMT (on Innovative Systems in Silicon). Dr Bartholomew-Biggs was guest editor for special issue of the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (part of a millennial series reviewing the state-of-the-art of computational mathematics). Professor Davis edited a special edition of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements (on High Performance Computing and Boundary Elements). Dr Nehaniv edited special editions of Artificial Life (on Appropriate Mathematics for Developmental and Evolutionary Biology), Biosystems, (on Evolvability), and Theoretical Computer Science (on Semigroups and Algebraic Engineering). Dr Dautenhahn has edited special editions of Industrial Robot (on Robot Languages and Networking), Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (on Social Intelligence), Applied Artificial Intelligence (on Socially Intelligent Agents), Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (on the Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (on Socially Intelligent Agents), Artificial Life (on the Evolution of Sensors in Nature, Hardware and Simulation), Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (on the application of social analogies to computational systems) and, together with Dr Nehaniv, the Journal of Cybernetics and Systems (on Imitation in Natural and Artificial Systems).
Space does not permit a complete account of the numerous activities related to conference organisation. These range from well-established international events (e.g. Dr Hall – "IEEE Metrics 97" in New Mexico, Professor Davies – "Applications of High Performance Computing in Engineering" 97 in Spain and 2000 in Hawaii) to workshops where new ideas are emerging which are directly relevant to our future plans. (e.g. Professor Bolouri – "International Conference on Systems Biology" in Tokyo, "1st (and 2nd) International Workshop on Software Platforms for Systems Biology" in USA (and Japan), and the EPSRC funded "Computation in Cells Workshop" at Hertfordshire, Professor Christianson – "Automatic Differentiation 2000" in France, Professor Nehaniv – "Workshop on Evolvability" at ALife in USA and (with Dr Dautenhahn) "4th International Workshop on Cognitive Technology" at Warwick, Dr Adams – "1st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Medicine and Biology" in Sweden).
More than 20 books have also been edited. In the biologically inspired computing area, for example, Dr Nehaniv has edited "Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents" (Springer LNAI 1998), "Mathematical and Computational Biology" (American Mathematical Society1997), "Imitation in Animals and Artefacts" (MIT Press 2000); Dr Dautenhahn has edited "Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology" (John Benjamins 2000) and "Socially Intelligent Agents" (Taylor and Francis 1998); and Professor Bolouri has edited "Computational Modelling of Genetic and Biochemical Networks" (MIT Press 2000).
Professors Loomes, Bolouri, Christianson and Senior are all current members of the EPSRC college, with Professor Bolouri also serving on the Life Sciences Interface College. Professor Loomes and Professor Senior have both participated in several EPSRC panels during the period. Dr Hall is a member of the National Council for Software Reliability. Dr Ariyaeeinia is an invited member of the IEE Speech and Language Processing Professional Group Committee. Professor Christianson has become an adviser to the Data Protection Commissioner, as successor to Professor Needham, in 2000. There have also been several individual honours and prizes during the period. For example, Dr Lee’s thesis was selected as a Distinguished Dissertation in Computer Science in 1996. Dr Ambrosiadou was the BCS nominee for the Karen Burt Award as the most outstanding new female engineer, 2000. Professor Dixon is being honoured on the occasion of his 65th birthday by a special edition of the Journal of Optimization Methods and Software in recognition of his lifetime’s work in the field.
ITRG's RA2-entered staff:
· Dr Ward's activities include: member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT-J), member of the programme committee for the AISB-01 Symposium on Emotion, Cognition and Affective Computing; regular refereeing of journal and conference papers for Computers & Education, ALT-J, Active Learning, the biennial CAL conference, the CTI Computing Science Conference and the international CHI conference. Dr Ward has also made a significant contribution to CTI/LTSN workshops with invited talks at Teaching with the World Wide Web ('96), Multimedia in the Computing Curriculum ('97), Pedagogy v Technology: Striking the right balance ('00).
· Dr Marsden has strong links with industry and has produced several consultative documents dealing with the management of human error in technology environments for the Civil Aviation Authority, Korean Atomic Research Institute, the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Generation, Tokyo, Japan, and Jaguar Cars Ltd, amongst others. In 1996, Marsden was one of two investigators, the other being Professor Erik Hollnagel (Univ of Linkoping), commissioned to prepare a EURATOM technical Report for the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy entitled "Further Development of the phenotype-genotype classification of human error". In addition, Marsden was an invited speaker at the IBC Conference on Procedure Violations in Industry and is an active member of the NATO Working Party on Human Error.
Editorships and Refereeing Activity
WILKINSON is well known internationally for his major contributions to the analysis of remote sensing imagery and integration within geographical information systems. He is a member of the editorial boards of two international journals: International Journal of Geographical Information Science, and the Journal of Geographical Systems and has also frequently acted as a referee for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, for the International Journal of Remote Sensing and for Environment and Planning B. He was a guest editor for a special issue of the journal Geographical and Environmental Modelling (volume 4, no. 1, 2000, special issue on "Advances in Modelling and Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Environmental Data"). WILKINSON has co-edited two research monographs on remote sensing data analysis: "Neurocomputation in Remote Sensing Data Analysis" (Springer, 1997, ISBN 3-540-63316-2) and "Machine Vision and Advanced Image Processing in Remote Sensing" (Springer, 1999, ISBN 3-540-65571-9). Other staff of the unit have acted as reviewers for major journals during the period of this assessment such as: Image and Vision Computing (JONES); Proceedings of the IEEE (JONES and REMAGNINO), Optics Communications (BARMAN), Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (WERTHEIM).
Invited Lectures / Addresses / Articles
WILKINSON has given invited papers at the workshop on Soft Computing in Remote Sensing Data Analysis (Milan, 1996), and at the International Geographical Congress (The Hague, 1996). He was an invited expert lecturer at the Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute on Neural and Evolutionary Computation in Spatial Data Analysis, held in Hong Kong, June 2000. He has been an invited contributor to two research books, Parallel Processing Algorithms for GIS (Taylor and Francis, 1997, ISBN 0-7484-0509-7) and Recent Developments in Spatial Analysis - Spatial Statistics, Behavioural Modelling and Computational Intelligence (Springer, 1997, ISBN 3-540-63180-1). He contributed by invitation (on the subject of satellite image processing and interpretation) to the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry (Wiley, 2000, ISBN 0471 976709). REMAGNINO was invited to contribute a paper on his work in multi-agent frameworks for interpretation of dynamic scenes to a special issue of the IEEE Proceedings (to appear in 2001). He has given invited seminars on his work at the University of Genoa, Italy. WERTHEIM has given invited talks at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1998 and the University of Wales College of Medicine (on several occasions between 1996 and 1998) and in 1997 was invited to participate in a wound care "Master Class" at the Royal College of Physicians. BARMAN has given a number of invited lectures (Cranfield University, 1996; The Maxwell Society, King’s College London, 1996; Torun University, Poland, 1997; Essex University, 1998).
Conference Chair / Organisation / Committee Roles
JONES organized and chaired a technical meeting of the British Machine Vision Association on Intelligent Visual Surveillance in March 2000. REMAGNINO was appointed to the Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems of IASTED, the International Association of Science and Technology for Development and is a member of the international programme committee for the Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications to be held in Spain in September 2001. REMAGNINO is co-chair of the International Association of Pattern Recognition 2nd European Workshop on Advanced Video Based Surveillance Systems, which is being organized at Kingston in September 2001. WERTHEIM was co-chair of a colloquium at the Institution of Electrical Engineers on Innovative, Pressure, Force and Flow Measurements held in 1999. WILKINSON has participated in the organizing committees of the following international workshops and conferences: organizing committee, IEEE EUROCON (Bratislava, July, 2001); programme committee and invited keynote speaker, International Workshop on Geo-Spatial Knowledge Processing (Varese, Italy, June, 2001); co-chair, European Workshop on Machine Vision in Remote Sensing – A Future R & D Strategy for Europe (Leuven, Belgium, October, 1998); chair, European Workshop on Machine Vision and Advanced Image Processing in Remote Sensing (Kingston, May, 1998); co-chair, European Research Strategy Meeting on Neural Computation in Earth Observation (Cagliari, Sardinia, October, 1996); co-chair, European Workshop on Connectionist Methods for Preprocessing and Analysis of Remote Sensing Data (York, July, 1996). In 1996 he chaired a European Commission International Expert Panel Meeting which formulated a strategy for future European Geographical Information Systems (GIS) research as an input to the Fifth Framework Programme (report: Harding and Wilkinson, editors: A Strategic View of GIS Research and Technology Development for Europe, Commission Report EUR 17313 EN). In 1999, WILKINSON was invited to participate in a Commission organized strategy meeting to plan a European Virtual Interoperability Laboratory for geographical information handling (Commission Report EUR 18744 EN).
WILKINSON has also participated in the research working party on the UK National Spatial Data Infrastructure (Ordnance Survey, 1997).Memberships of Grant Awarding Committees / International Funding Committees
In both 1999 and 2000, WILKINSON participated in proposal evaluation committees of the European Commission’s Fifth Framework Programme both for the Information Society Technologies Programme (DG-IST) and for the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Programme (DG-Research). In 1998 he was invited to assist in the evaluation of national space research proposals for the Belgian Prime Minister’s Office of Scientific, Technical, and Cultural Affairs ("TELSAT" programme). He has acted as a proposal reviewer for EPSRC. In 2000, WILKINSON acted as an invited external expert assessor of national research institutes involved in space and remote sensing research in Greece on behalf of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of the Greek Ministry of Development, Athens.
Impact of Research
The research in visual surveillance (JONES, REMAGNINO and colleagues) has resulted in vehicle classification software, which has recently been incorporated within a video surveillance product developed by Primary Image Vision Systems Ltd. for the protection of sensitive sites. Work on feature detection (principally by JONES and GIACCONE) has been embedded within commercial tools for special effects and creation of 3D digital content by Dynamic Digital Depth Pty Ltd (in Australia) and by the Computer Film Company (UK and California) who have used the resulting tools in feature film post-production editing. By virtue of his widely recognized expertise in visual surveillance, JONES has been involved in helping to define the priorities of the new Intelligent Imaging Faraday Partnership organized by SIRA Ltd., the National Engineering Laboratory and the University of Glasgow.
BARMAN’s work in ophthalmology has directly contributed to the development of the "POCO" software system (developed in collaboration with King’s College London) which is used to measure the amount of Posterior Capsule Opacification (PCO) present on the lens of the human eye. The system underwent extensive repeatability and inter-operator tests leading to FDA (Federal Drug Administration) approval in the United States. Following FDA approval, it became legal to use POCO results to support marketing claims. Results obtained from the system have been cited in international advertisements for intra-ocular lenses by the ALCON Corporation (an intra-ocular lens manufacturer). The POCO system is also currently in use in worldwide clinical trials (two UK sites, one German site and one US site) to compare different intra-ocular lens materials and lens shapes for their effectiveness in preventing the growth of PCO.
WERTHEIM’s work on non-invasive diagnostic techniques has resulted in the development of instrumentation which is now used in the investigation of compression therapy for ulcers. He is also co-author of a current US patent (no. 5181520) on a technique for the analysis of EEGs.
International Collaborations
WILKINSON has been highly active in participating in, managing, and planning international research. He was a partner in two European Commission funded framework programme projects during the period of this assessment ("COMPARES" and "MAVIRIC" related to connectionist neurocomputation and machine vision techniques in remote sensing respectively. He was the overall coordinator for MAVIRIC, which involved a collaboration with the Catholic University of Leuven and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy). He participated in the steering committees for three other research projects at the Commission’s invitation: "FLIERS" (concerned with fuzzy mapping from satellite imagery), "SYNAP" (concerned with parallel neural computers for image analysis) and "ATLAS" (concerned with development of urban mapping techniques from space). REMAGNINO has received support from the British Council Acciones Integradas programme to foster collaborative research with Spain (where he collaborates with Dr. F. Ferri at the University of Valencia) and also from the British Council’s Alliance programme to foster collaborative research with France (where he collaborates with Dr. P. Sturm at INRIA, Grenoble). WERTHEIM has collaborations with the University of Pisa, Italy, on analysis of baby movements, and also with the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, on the analysis of neutrophil movements using dynamic imaging techniques.
WERTHEIM’s research on developments in medical imaging and signal processing systems has received outstanding international recognition. Besides having had work published in The Lancet, his paper on infrared imaging of diabetic foot ulceration, published in the European Journal of Thermology, won the Günter Bergmann Prize of the German Thermology Society in 1998. BARMAN was a co-author of a paper which won the best paper prize at the 1997 American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting in Boston.
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School Members Involved
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| EPSRC Peer College | Prof. G. Kelleher and Prof A. Taleb-Bendiab
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EU activities
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Profs Kelleher and Lisboa Long Term Research Projects (projects reviewers and expert evaluators 1995-2000).
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Advisory bodies
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· Prof. G. Kelleher Advisor to Regional Assembly (Knowledge Economy and the impact of ICT); Advisor to Government Office North West (ICT strategy); Advisor to Department for International Development
· Prof. Merabti Invited to advise on University Policy and IT Research Strategy, Cape Town Technicum, South Africa (July, August 2000). · JISC -JCIEL programme reviewer; ICT Advisory Panel - North-West Government Office, UK |
| Journal Editorships and Editorial Board | · Prof. M. Merabti (Member of Editorial Board for Computer Communications International Journal).
· Prof. M. Merabti, Dr Q. Shi (LJMU) and Dr R. Oppliger (Switzerland), Guest Editors for Special Issue on „Advances in Research and Applications in Security for Computer Networks“ Computer Communications Journal Vol 23(17), Nov 2000. · Prof A. Taleb-Bendiab, and Prof M. Tolleneare (France), Guest Editors for Special Issue on „Information Management in Design and Manufacturing“, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vol. 10(1), 1999. · Prof. D. Williams Inst MC Transactions Executive Editorial Board · Prof. Williams Inst MC Transactions Special Issue on Biotechnology,97 |
Key-Note Addresses
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Prof M. Merabti (GITIS’2000 Gulf Information Technology & Conference on Information Systems Conference, Dubai 13-15 March 2000).
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| Chair of (international conferences, and programme committees) | · Prof Madjid Merabti Conference and Programme Chair for IEEE IWNA 2002 (5th Int. Workshop on Networked Appliances, Liverpool, UK)
· Conference & Programme Chair for PGNet 2000 and PGNet 2001 · Prof. A. Taleb-Bendiab 4th International Conference on concurrent Engineering, ICE’97; 2nd TMCE98 · Prof. D. Williams Programme Chair IEE International Workshop on Multivariable Predictive Control, London, April 99 |
| Membership of Steering Groups, Associations Committees | · Prof. M. Merabti, steering committee of IEEE IWNA from July 2000
· Prof. P. Lisboa, Executive Committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK Focus for Biomedical Engineering (98-2000); Executive Committee of the IEE Professional Network on Medical Technologies (98 - 2000); Chair Association of Prof. Institutions in Medical Engineering(00- 1). · Prof. A. Taleb-Bendiab, Member of the ISO experts working group ISO/TC22/SC3/WG11 on Technical Documentation for Automotive Industry. · Prof. D. Williams Chairman of UK Biotechnological Control Forum (93-97) |
Invited Talks
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· Prof. Lisboa ANNIMAB-2000, Gothenburg; MEDSIP-2000, Bristol; NNESMED-98, Pisa.
· Prof. A. Taleb-Bendiab, „Knowledge Management and Evolving Systems for Virtual Teamworking in New Product Development, INRIA, Sofia Antipolis, France, June 1999. · Prof. G. Kelleher, Invited talks to the IEE, Daimler Benz Research in Berlin, SINTEF in Oslo and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. |
| Membership of programme Committees (International Conferences + Workshops) | · Prof. Merabti, WESIC’98, Girona, Spain, June 1999. ; IEEE - 2nd IWNA, New York, Nov-Dec 2000; Workshop on European Scientific and Industrial Collaboration (WESIC) held in 99 Girona, 2000 Cardiff, 2001 Enschede; TMCE’98, Manchester.
· Prof. A. Taleb-Bendiab 7th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications CE 2000. · Prof. P. Lisboa IPEM-2000, Southampton; MEDSIP’2000 Bristol; NNESMED-98, Pisa; IJCNN ’98 ’99 ’2000, Wash., Anchorage, Como. |
| PhD External examiners | Prof. G. Kelleher, Prof. P. Lisboa, Prof. M. Merabti, Prof. A. Taleb-Bendiab, Dr. R. Pereira, Dr Q. Shi, Prof. D. Williams
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Distributed Multimedia Systems Engineering Group Prof. Merabti has been working with Tubedale Communications for the last 5 years. First on EPSRC/DTI supported project, value £160,000 on Network Management software. The resulting product has benefited the company greatly. The collaboration has been further cemented by a further grant award to address the integration of VOIP in traditional telecommunications. This project again supported by the DTI, value £142,000 and involves Prof. Merabti and Dr R. Pereira. A further project led by Prof. Merabti and supported by the DTI addresses the integration of E-Commerce Infrastructure for Chemical Industry. The industrial collaborator is Chance & Hunt. Prof Merabti was awarded (June 2000) £3,000 by HP Labs, UK and BT Research Labs for the support of a research conference held within the School.
Prof Taleb-Bendiab has a number of initiatives that include industrial collaborators, in particular IMI Project, and other EPSRC supported Project. One of his earlier successful collaboration with Rolls Royce Aerospace funded project has resulted in a patent on „Acoustics for non-contact measurement for virtual testing“.
In addition, Prof. Merabti and Prof. Taleb-Bendiab have a proposal in the 2nd phase of evaluation by EPSRC/DTI Link programme investigation Mobile Command and Control for emergency services. The project involves a number of collaborators, including, Marconi, Emergency Services, and a number of smaller suppliers.
Applied Artificial Intelligence Group Prof. Paulo Lisboa has a long standing collaboration with Unilever who have provided full funding for a full-time research assistant for 1996/97 and 1998/20000 amounting to ~£100,000.
Prof. G. Kelleher has worked with a number of national and international industrial collaborators including Pirelli (Milan), Iberia Airlines (Spain), Fraser-Williams (UK), and one the biggest shipping companies in the world VoPak (NL). Prof D. Williams has ongoing collaboration with funding support from BNFL an North-West Water.
6.3 Inter-University Collaboration
Distributed Multimedia Systems Engineering Group Prof. M. Merabti and Dr Q. Shi have a long standing collaboration with Dr N. Zhang (now of Manchester University Computer Science). This very successful collaboration has resulted in a number of publications and research proposals. We expect this collaboration to continue and expand with the likely award of an EPSRC supported project on Active Networks that involves Prof. Merabti and Dr Q. Shi (LJMU) and Prof. S. Barton and Dr N. Zhang (Manchester University).
Prof. Merabti has had a long standing collaboration with Prof. David Hutchison (Lancaster University). The latest example is the organisation of an annual national conference for the training of UK PhD students in the Converging Areas of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting at Liverpool John Moores University. The conference has received wide support from the EPSRC, Industry, IEE, IoP, academics and PhD students as highlighted in RA5.
Prof. Taleb-Bendiab and Prof. Ian Sommerville (Lancaster University) have an on-going and successful collaboration on Software Systems Evolution. This project, supported by the EPSRC, involves a number of industrial collaborators. In addition, Prof Taleb-Bendiab has a further EPSRC supported project that includes Wolverhampton University. The Project is focusing on Framework for modelling and analysis of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Dr S. Ravindran, Prof. M. Patterson (Warwick University), and A. Gibbons (Liverpool University) have been collaborating over a number of years. The successful output of this collaboration is a paper on dense edge-disjoint embedding of complete binary tree in interconnection networks in Theoretical Computer Science year 2000.
Applied Artificial Intelligence Group Prof Lisboa has been collaborating with a number of outside organisations and in particular on breast cancer research with Christie Hospital, Manchester, and the marketing visualisation with the Liverpool Business School. In each case, the research was conducted under joint supervision.
6.5 International Collaboration
Distributed Multimedia Systems Engineering Group Prof M. Merabti is founder member of a series of European workshops on Industrial Collaboration. The gathering brings academics and industrialists from around Europe to enable European Collaboration between Industry and University. The first gathering was held in Girona Spain, the 2nd in Cardiff, UK, and the 3rd is planned for June 2001 in Holland.
Prof. Merabti and Dr Q. Shi collaborate with Dr. Rolf Oppliger, Swiss Federal Strategy Unit for IT, Switzerland, on the subject of Computer Networks Security. One output of this collaboration is Computer Communications Journal Special Issue on „Advances of Research in Computer Networks Security, Vol 23(17), November 2000.
In addition, Prof. Merabti is collaborating with colleagues from the Universities of Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid and Ovieda University, Spain on the development of a Software Engineering for Networked Appliances. As part of this collaboration, F. Domiguez-Mateos, Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, has spent 6 months (March - August 2000) at Liverpool John Moores University working with colleagues at LJMU.
Prof. Taleb-Bendiab has many international collaborations including; work on knowledge management for virtual teamworking for new product development, INRIA (Sofia Antipolis), France.
Applied Artificial Intelligence Group Prof. Lisboa’s research on medical decision support for diagnostic MR spectroscopy of brain tumours is a joint collaboration with the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, who provide all of the data and clinical evaluation of the results.
Applied Artificial Intelligence Group Prof Lisboa’s research in medical decision support is carried out at the interface between the clinical domain, machine learning and medical statistics, with consequent journal publications in all three areas. Likewise, marketing research on electronic commerce is also published in specialist neural network and electronic commerce journals. These factors reflect the positioning of the research at the interface between theory and practice, alongside an emphasis on developing new methodology for real-world applications, with the purpose of deriving maximum impact on quality of life and wealth creation. This is attested by the long-standing national and international collaboration with academia as well as with clinical and industrial research centres of high standing.
These examples show the high esteem that these staff are held in by their peers, in automated reasoning, temporal logics, agent-based systems, intelligent systems and Artificial Intelligence in general.
Invited Presentations Further evidence of this high regard is exhibited by the fact that the UoA staff have been invited to present at a range of international research events, for example the Workshop on Foundations of Arithmetic (Warsaw, Poland; April 1996), the Workshop on Applicative Theories, Explicit Mathematics, and Related Topics (Bern; June 1996: Fisher, Dixon), the Colloquium in honour of B. A. Trakhtenbrot (Jena; October 1997), the Deduction workshop (Dagstuhl; February 1999: Dixon), and the NASA Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (Washington D.C.; April 2000) World Conference on Semantics, Cybernetics and Informatics (Bandar, McLean). In addition, staff have been invited to provide tutorials at Agents World (Paris; July 1998) and at the prestigious 33rd Newcastle International Seminar on Teaching of Computer Science (Newcastle; September 2000).
Editorships and Chairing Conferences/Workshops - Fisher, Dixon, Hustadt, Bandar and McLean have also taken a leading role in developing and organising workshops, conferences and research publications. In particular, staff have been involved in chairing a number of conferences and workshops during the assessment period, for example, the IJCAI'97 workshop on Executable Modal and Temporal Logics, the UK Automated Reasoning Workshop in 1997, the Workshop of the UK Special Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS) in 1998 and the International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME) in 1999. Note also that staff of the UoA have been central in establishing the UKMAS workshop series (in 1998), which is now recognised as the primary UK forum for multi-agent systems research.
With respect to publications, the UoA has provided a member of the editorial board of the Mathematical Structures in Computer Science journal until the end of 1996, and guest editors of the Journal of Symbolic Computation (Winter 1996) and Annals of Mathematics and AI journal (forthcoming issue). Further, members of this submission have been responsible for a number of important and influential books during the period, such as "The Imperative Future" (May 1996), "Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning" (May 1999) and "Advances in Temporal Logic" (December 1999).
Membership of programme committees - Due to their international recognition, Fisher, Dixon, Schmidt, Bandar, McLean and Zhang have been invited to serve on numerous programme committees for a wide range of conferences and workshops, including e.g. International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (1998-2000, annually), International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (1996-2000, annually), UK Automated Reasoning Workshop (1996-2000, annually), UK Multi-Agent Systems Workshop (1996-2000, annually), International Conference on Temporal Logic (1997), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (1996), From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation, a workshop within the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (1998 and 2000), the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context (1999 and due in 2001), the Twelfth International Symposium on Languages for Intensional Programming (1999), the International Workshop on Agent-Based High Performance Computing (1999), the AAAI Fall Symposium on Temporal and Modal Logic Planning for Networked Multimedia Systems (1999), the International Workshop on First-Order Theorem-Proving (2000), Automated Deduction: Putting Theory into Practice, within the First International Conference on Computational Logic (2000), International Workshop on Agent-Based Information Systems (2000), KR'00 Workshop on Semantic Approximation, Granularity, and Vagueness (2000), the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (due in 2001), the International Conference on Data Base Theory (1997), the Andrei Ershov Third International Conference on Perspectives of System Informatics (1999), Sixth International Conference on Logic for Programming and Automated Reasoning (1999), International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (2000), and the Joint German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2001).
Awards: Chiara Ghidini: Best Paper Award for "Formalizing Belief Reports - The approach and a Case Study" in Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA'98). Volume 1480 of LNAI, Springer Verlag. (Joint work with M. Benerecetti and P. Bouquet).
Vladimir Sazonov: Visiting Professor at Siegen University, Germany (October 1999 - March 2000).
Ullrich Hustadt nominated for Foundation for Logic, Language and Information best PhD dissertation (in 1999) award.
International Collaboration: Recognition of the quality of research carried out within the UoA has led to a number of academic collaborations with leading international researchers from which research papers have been produced, for example with MPII, Saarbrucken (Meyer, de Nivelle, Stuber), University of Amsterdam (de Rijke), IRST, Trento (Guinchiglia), University of Naples (Benerecetti), Murdoch University, Australia (Reynolds), Utrecht University (Meyer, van der Hoek) Vilnius, Lithuania (Pliuskevicius), and University of Pereslavl-Zalesski, Russia (Lisitsa). Numerous international researchers have visited the UoA including the visits of Professor Raymond Reiter (University of Toronto, Canada) in 1998, under an EPSRC visiting fellowship jointly with Imperial College, Professor John-Jules Ch. Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) in 1998, under a British Council/NWO funded UK-Dutch Joint Scientific Research Project, and Professor Regimantus Pliuskevicius (Vilnius, Lithuania) in 2000 under an EPSRC visiting fellowship.
National Collaboration
HIES (6 staff)
OOA (Object-oriented architectures – 3 staff)
Formed late in 2000 to reflect interests of recent members of staff
Society memberships: Gillian Lovegrove: Fellow of the British Computer Society, Associate Member of the ACM, Fellow of Institute of Electrical Engineers, Chartered Engineer
Reviewing:
External responsibilities: Gillian Lovegrove: Chair CPHC, Member Benchmarking Panel for Computing 1999/2000, Member steering group EPSRC IGDS. 1992 – 1999, Programme Committee Women into Computing Conference 1997, Program Committee OT'93 - OT’99 (Object Technology: International Conference).
Dr Marir, leader of the Knowledge Management Research Group, has been involved into three funded research projects at the IT Institute and Department of Surveying (University of Salford) which contributed to their achievement of a 4 and 5* respectively in RAE 96:
At the school of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Kingston, Marir has won £25K for the VIIGILANT project and £26.4K from MATRA Marconi company for a MSc by Learning contract. He was also involved as a technical advisor in a £180K TCS funded project.
During that time Marir has published around 50 referred conference and journal papers including chapters in two books and contributed with around 20% to a third book on Case-Based Reasoning. He has supervised eleven PhD students and has acted as a referee to several journal papers and EPSRC proposals.
Dr. Wang invented a new concept of Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM). This high speed and high capacity digital media is a combination of traditional semiconductor media and magnetic hard disk storage. It shares the advantages of both media. He has been invited to give six public lectures on the invention by universities or institutes in Japan, UK, Portugal Netherlands and Belgium.
Prof. Yip chaired the session on Machine Learning and Case Based Reasoning in the First European Conference on Intelligent Management Systems in Operations, UK, March 1997. He has just started a TCS project with the Institution of Gas Engineers, worth £98,600, on reengineering their business in line with the latest development in Internet and mobile computing. Prof. Yip has obtained over £300,000 in external funding in three Teaching Company schemes.
Dr. Xue (not submitted in RAE 2) is a Charted Physicist (CPhys) and a member of Institute of Physics (MinstP), is a visiting professor in Chongqing University and the Chinese Academy. Dr. Yong is jointly supervising a Post-Doctoral Research Associate and a MPhil/PhD student in Peking University.
Members of the Communications and Software Systems Engineering Research Centre
Prof. Pakstas, the leader of the Communications and Software Systems Engineering Research Centre, is elected officer for the following IEEE Communications Society Committees:
1998-2002 Vice-chair, TC on Enterprise Networking
1999-2001 Secretary, TC on Communications Software
1999-2001 Vice-Chair, TC on Multimedia Communications
Pakstas is active in international conferences in various capacities:
He is currently involved into the editorial activity for the IEEE Communications Society: Technical Editor for Communications Interactive, http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/ci/comsoc/ (1996-) and IEEE Communications Magazine (Associated Technical Editor 1995-1997), and Associated Editor and Regional Correspondent for the Global Communications Newsletter (1995-). Pakstas also served in the following special editorial roles:
1. Guest-Editor: Evolving Communications Software: Techniques & Technologies, Feature Topic in the IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2001
2. Guest Editor: Telecommunications Research and Development in Croatia, Feature Topic in the IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2000, p.96-137.
3. Liaison Editor: Java in Telecommunications, Feature Topic in the IEEE Communications Magazine, January 2000.
Pakstas has been invited to prepare an article on Extranets for the Wiley Encyclopaedia of Telecommunications which will be published in 2001.
Dr. Galal joined UNL on 1 March 2001. He is the holder of an EPSRC grant worth £81,353 entitled ‘Using domain architecture to understand system evolution: a feasibility study’. He is a member of several conference committees: CEIRE ’98, ECOPO ’99, ECOOP ‘2000, BIT-World 2000, 5th Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering. He has given keynote talks at IEEE Symposium on Requirements Engineering and INCOSE ’99 and ‘2000. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Logistics Information Management. He is also member of the International Scientific Technical Committee (ISTC) for the2nd International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management (ICSTM-2002) to be held in 3rd-5th April 2002.
Dr. Jayaram is Chair of the Networks Specialist Group, British Computer Society, Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's U.K., and Coordinator of the IEEE Computer Society's Chapters in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He is also a Member of the Panel of Judges, U.K. Networking Industry Product Awards, and a member of the EC DGIII Panel for defining Trust and Confidence Work Programme. He was a Key Note Speaker, " Applications of the Internet ", International Telecommunications Union TELECOM INTERACTIVE '97 Conference, Geneva. Jayaram is also a member of several conference panels and programme committees -
· Third International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, L'Aquila, Italy, June 21-July1, 2001.
He has been invited to be the guest editor for the following special issues of journals:
Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI)
Two members of the Institute were submitted for UoA 25. Oriogun is a member of the programme committee for the Software Quality Management Conference organized by the BCS Quality SIG. Chalk is the principal organizer of the JICC (Java in the Computing Curriculum) conference series. The next JICC conference, in 2002, will be held at the University of North London. Chalk is also on the organizing committee of the second Annual Conference of the LTSN Subject Centre for the Information and Computing Sciences. This conference will be held at the University of North London in August 2001. Cook is an expert evaluator for the European Commission’s Multimedia Content and Tools Framework V panel, and member of a panel that reviewed annual project reports for EU Education and Training research programmes. He was invited speaker at the European Commission Open House event for Key Action 3, Multimedia Content and Tools (2000). Boyle gave an invited address to the Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing (1998) on deep learning on the Web. He is Assistant Director, with specific responsibility for pedagogy, of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) National Subject Centre for Information and Computing Sciences. This Centre covers all Computing and Library and Information Studies departments in the UK. Cook and Boyle are part of the LTRI contribution to the Education UoA submission.
Prof. Bargiela provided keynote addresses at ESS’98 and ICSIA’2000 international conferences. He was invited speaker at the Helsinki University of Technology and chaired plenary discussions at ESM’2000 and SCSC’2000. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a member of the European Council of the Society for Computer Simulation International (SCS). He was an IPC member of several SCS conferences (including the World Simulation Congress, WSC’97), a track chair at the IEEE-sponsored AFRICON’99, a track co-chair at ECC’99, an invited session chair at INFORMS’2000, the general conference and programme chair at ESS’98 and the general programme chair at ESS’2000. In 1999, he was elected to serve as Chairman of the SCS European Conference Board and is Associate Vice-President of the SCS Conference Board in the USA. Prof. Bargiela is the Editor of the SCS book series ‘Frontiers in Modelling’ and is the editor of the ‘Blue Sky Research’ section of the Simulation journal. He is involved in international research collaboration with a number of research centres in Europe, Japan, Canada and Mexico and is a member of the International Academic Advisory Council of the Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organisation. In 1997/8 he was invited to contribute to the work of the ESPRIT Simulation in Europe Working Group (WG1234), which advised on the strategy for the European simulation research. Subsequently, in 1999, he was invited by the Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) to draft the UK Research Strategy in Simulation and Modelling, which is a component part of the UK Computing Research Strategy document submitted to the EPSRC (http://www.doc.ntu.ac.uk/RTTS/2rtts-strategy.html). The application of his simulation and modelling research, which resulted in the implementation of the decision support demonstrator at the Nottingham Traffic Control Centre (GR/K16593), was singled out as an exceptional achievement in the independent review of the EPSRC Sustainable Cities Programme by Eclipse Research in 1998.
Dr Brown was conference chair for the Enter2000 conference held in November 2000 at the Millennium Dome, and is a member of the programme committee of the following conferences: International Conference on Disability Virtual Reality and Associated Technology (ICDVRAT), RARE 2001, AAATE 2003, and Virtual Reality Technical Steering Group for Mencap 2000. He is general conference co-chair of BCS IFIP 2001, conference chair for ICDVRAT 2004, and track chair at the European Simulation Symposium ESS’2000. His team is now co-ordinating the ‘Ability Now 2001’ Inclusion by Design Conference, organised in conjunction with the BCS Disability Group. Dr Brown is a member of the management committee for the latter group and of the Ann Craft Trust for the protection of people with disabilities from abuse.
Dr Claramunt is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of GIS and Spatial Analysis. He was the guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Geographical Information and Decision Analysis (Transport and GIS). He was an IPC member of the following international conferences: CASSINI’98, ESS’98, SDML’99, STDBM’99, DWACOS’99, WISE’2000 and TELEGEO’2000. He is involved in several international activities including the UN Program for GIS training and research, the World Bank GIS programme in Argentina, and participates as an international expert to a Canadian National Research Project (study of urban dynamics). Other collaborations include international research activities with institutions in Canada, France and Switzerland. He was awarded a one-month Merit Fellowship at the University of Quebec funded by the Ministry of Education of Quebec. His work has been referenced in many research papers on spatio-temporal databases and GIS, e.g. http://www.acm.org/sigmod .
Prof. Evans is the editor of the International Journal of Computer Mathematics and associate editor of the Journal of Neural Parallel and Scientific Computation, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, and Integrated Computer Aided Engineering. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bescanson, France, and Wuhan University, China, and an Honorary Professor at the Technical University IASI, Romania. He is associated, through the British Council Academic Link programme, with the Dept. of Electrotechnic, University of Lubljana, Slovenia, and the Dept. of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He participates in the British Commonwealth Fellowship Programme with the University Putra, Malaysia and is an L.T.R. Referee for E.V. Brussels. He is also editor of the Computer Mathematics series published by Gordon Breach Science Publishers.
Prof. Hopgood joined us as Head of Department on 1/1/2001 from the Open University (OU). He was founder and director of the OU’s Intelligent Computer Systems Research Group. He remains a Visiting Professor at the OU and he is principal investigator of an EPSRC project based there (GR/M71039). He is a Committee member for SGES, the British Computer Society’s Specialist Group on Knowledge-based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence. He was a Member of the Programme Committee for the ES2000 conference held at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, in December 2000 and he is now fulfilling the same role for ES2001. He is a member of the committee that is bidding to stage the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Edinburgh in 2005. In September 2000 he published the second edition of his best-selling text book Intelligent Systems for Engineers and Scientists, which has sold more than 11,000 copies worldwide (including edition 1).
Prof. Thomas co-ordinates dissemination of departmental research results in the industrial context. He has developed a number of TCS (Teaching Company Scheme) and SIS (Stimulation of Innovation in Small companies) programs. He is involved in collaborative work with larger companies and organisations including Rolls-Royce, NSK-RHP and Heidenhain. He is a director of three spin-off companies: Pacer Systems Ltd producing specialised computer controlled machines (20 staff; approx. £1.5m turnover), IC-Routing Ltd producing special purpose integrated circuits, and Axiomatic Technology Ltd providing innovative solutions for control systems and recognition. A recent successful defence of a patent challenge from a major European company highlights the technological advantage enjoyed by our spin-off companies (US Pat. No. 5596189/Jan.’97; Int. Patent PCT/GB92/00811). The national and international credibility of the Department’s applied research is reflected in the long-term collaborations such as NSK-RHP (since 1984) and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (since 1991), and through EPSRC funding (GR/K76559).
Invited Speakers
Ball: NOC'96 (June 1996), Heidelberg; IEE Colloquium on IP routing versus ATM switching (November 1997). Duce: Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems (DSV-IS'97 workshop); Sofsem'97; Eurographics UK Conference 2000; FM-Elsewhere workshop, part of FORTSE/PSTV 2000, Pisa, October 2000. Reed: Requirements Targeting Software and Systems Engineering, November 1997 (invitation only workshop, Bernreid, Germany); DERA Workshop on Modelling the Unbounded by the Finite, University College Oxford, March 1998; DERA Workshop on Modelling and Verification of Large and Unbounded Systems, University College Oxford, July 1999.
Conference Chairmanships/Programme Committee Memberships
Crook served on the PC for the International Conference on Simulation in Food and Bio Industries, Nantes, 2000; Reed for the 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Modelling and Proving Special Session, 2000; Wilson for ISIPTA'99; and Zhu for the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'97) and the 1st Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA1), San Antonio, USA, 1999. Nealon was Chair of the Technical Programme for the 16th International Conference on Expert Systems (ES96). Duce has served on the following Programme Committees: Eurographics conferences from 1997 to 2001; the DSV-IS workshops 1997 to 2001; WWW5 and 6; CHI reviewer from 1996 to 2000; and Associate Chair for CHI'98. He was Workshops Co-chair for WWW9 and was Conference Co-Chair for Eurographics'98 and 2000.
Journal Editorial Board Memberships
Duce serves on the Editorial Boards of Computers & Graphics and Formal Aspects of Computing.
Research Income
Three members of staff are principal investigators or co-investigators on EPSRC grants, in each case the funds for research assistants are located in the partner institution and the Brookes staff are named on the grant announcements. Duce and Cooper are named on a grant held by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, £167,399, "Role of Component Technologies and Open Implementation Techniques in Adaptable Cooperative Visualization", GR/M82011 (1 October 1999 to 30 September 2002). Reed and Cooper are named on a grant held by the University of Warwick, Dr Sinclair, £52,853, "Combining formal approaches for the analysis and verification of network protocols" (1 September 2000 to 31 August 2003). In addition, Mr Dobbyn (who left the School in September 2000) held a grant jointly with Dr Shrimpton now at the University of Kent. The remaining Brookes component of this (£48,440) will be transferred to his new institution, the Open University.
Zajicek has just been awarded equipment to the value of about £11,000 under the Hewlett-Packard Voice Web Initiative for a project to investigate the maximum benefit that voice can provide in Web access for severely disabled users, including accommodation of progression in debilitating illness, in conjunction with a care centre on the nearby Churchill Hospital Campus.
Contributions to Standards Bodies
Duce contributes to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) with the World Wide Web Consortium, and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) with ISO/IEC JTC1 for which he is joint document editor.
Impact and Awards
The BrookesTalk Web browser, a browser designed for the visually impaired, was awarded a medal for innovation in the British Computer Society IT Awards for 1998. This browser has been distributed widely and is used by other groups in the field. The Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford carried out a full hospital clinical trial of the intelligent patient advice system, clinic-based data collection and patient system configuration program developed by Nealon et al, with great success. The results of the 20-year UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), published in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal (1998/9), unambiguously placed this approach to insulin treatment optimisation at the forefront of diabetes treatment, worldwide.
Human Factors
Dr. Chris Roast has established a position within his field that is internationally recognised as a member of IFIP Working Group 2.7 (13.4). He is an executive member of the British HCI Group, and is responsible for conference planning. He was, with Prof. Siddiqi, Co-Guest editor of special issues of ‘Interacting with Computers 9(2) 1997’, and ‘IEE Proceedings in Software Engineering’ 144, (4) 1997. He was jointly with Jawed Siddiqi Technical Chair for Formal Aspects of Human Computer Interaction in 1996 and 1998, FAHCI 96 and FAHCI 98, both held at Sheffield Hallam University. He is an active member of the research community and plays a role in several programme committees; memberships include: the Human-Computer Interaction conferences; 9th Psychology of Programming Interest Group Workshop 1997; International Conference on Requirements Engineering 1998; Interact 1999. In 1998, Human-Computer Interaction 1998 (HCI’98) was held at Sheffield Hallam University and he was its Technical Program Chair and was the Editor of 'People and Computer XIII' (Springer Verlag, 1998). Dr. Roast has recently been invited to become an affiliate researcher with 'CRUCIBLE' - an inter-disciplinary design research institute within the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Dearden is a recently recruited promising young researcher. He was a member of the Programme Committee for HCI’98. He is a member of IFIP working Group (13.2) and a member of the Programme Committee for the forthcoming Anglo-French IHM-HCI 2001 conference in Lille.
Intelligent Systems
Requirements Engineering
Prof. Siddiqi has a national reputation in Formal Aspects of Human Computer Interaction. He and Roast, in 1997, were joint Guest Editors for special issues on Formal Aspects of Human Computer Interaction in two journals: IEE Proceedings Software Engineering, Vol. 144, No. 4, and Interacting with Computers Vol. 9 No. 2. They were responsible for organising the technical programme and they were the chairs of the BCS FACS Formal Aspects of the Human Computer Interface workshops in 96 and 98 at Sheffield Hallam University. They were also Editors of both proceedings, Siddiqi was a Co-editor of Short Paper Proceedings Conference Companion for BCS HCI 98, and Siddiqi has also been a long time committee member of the BCS Formal Aspects of Computer Science (FACS) Special Interest Group. He has been an elected committee member of the Conference of Professors and Heads in Computing (CPHC) since 1999 and their representative on the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee. He was also an invited attendee to the CPHC research strategy workshop. Since 1999 he has held DTI Teaching Company Scheme grants totalling £ 250,000 funded jointly by the DTI and four SME’s, programme numbers 2503, 2507, 2632 and 3377.
Prof. Siddiqi has an international reputation within the Requirements Engineering Community. He is a founding and permanent member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE). He was in 1996, jointly with Chandra Shekran of Microsoft, its technical Programme Chair and the Editor of its Proceedings IEEE ICRE ’96. He was also Guest Editor for IEEE Software in March 1996 with a special issue on Requirements Engineering. He served on the editorial board of IEEE Software. He has been an external technical assessor for promotions panels in universities in the UK and USA. More recently he has been responsible for setting up the IEEE Task Force on Requirements Engineering and is currently its Chair. He was also one of the lead chairs for IEEE Software Engineering initiative resulting in IEEE's first Dynabook 'Extreme Programming: No position but an exposition'. He was an invited panellist on Technology Transfer on Requirements Engineering at The ICRE 2000. He is an executive member on the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering. He will with Sol Greenspan of GTE be the general Co-chair for IEEE-CS ICRE 2002.
EPSRC
EC Framework Programmes
Other Research Awards and Research Consultancy
Teaching Company Scheme
Editorships of International Journals
Other National and International Committees
International Conference/Workshop Organisation
In addition, the School has been represented on a large number of programme committees.
MPhil/PhD External Examinerships
Keynote and Invited Addresses
In addition, members of staff have frequently given seminars at other institutions at home and abroad.
Miscellaneous
· Fogarty, principal investigator, Research Project GR/J71687, £59,585, 1994-97.
· Josephs, principal investigator, Research Project GR/M51567, £46,590, 1999-2000.
· Josephs, co-investigator, Research Project GR/H77736, £116,102, 1993-96.
· Nissanke, principal investigator, Research Project GR/L72459, £42,490, 1998-99.
· Whitty, member, Computing Peer Review College, since 1994 (re-elected 1996).
· Whitty, principal investigator, Research Project GR/K85025, £118,309, 1996-98.
· Whitty, principal investigator, Research Project GR/J18880, £333,791, 1993-96.
· Bowen, ProCoS, ESPRIT Working Group 8694, FP3, 120,000 ECU, 1994-97.
· Bowen, ProCoRSYS, ESPRIT KIT, EC-KIT142, 66,000 ECU, 1994-1997.
· Bowen, ProCoS-US, ESPRIT/NSF, EC-US027, 25,000 ECU, 1993-97.
· Bowen, UNU/IIST, ESPRIT KIT, EC-KIT010, 39,000 ECU, 1993-98.
· Fogarty, evaluator for FP4.
· Fogarty, DREAM, IST-1999-12679, FP5, 125,000 Euro, 2000-03.
· Fogarty, EvoNet, IST-1999-14087, FP5, 700,000 Euro, 2000-03.
· Fogarty, INGENET, Brite Euram subcontract, FP4, 36,000 ECU, 1997-2001.
· Fogarty, EvoNet, ESPRIT LTR Project 20.996, FP4, 650,000 ECU, 1996-2000.
· Fogarty, Surface Inspection of Rolled Steel, ECSC, FP4, 252,000 ECU, 1996-99.
· Hashim, evaluator and raporteur for FP4 and for the DTI.
· Hashim, TALENT, ESPRIT Project 22.151, FP4, 2,380,000 ECU, 1996-99.
· Hashim, PrOMInent, ESPRIT Project 23.009, FP3, 100,000 ECU, 1996-97.
· Josephs, ACiD-WG, IST-1999-29119, FP5, 465,000 Euro, 2000-04.
· Josephs, ACiD-WG, ESPRIT Microelectronics Project 21.949, FP4, 275,000 ECU, 1996-2000.
· Abdallah, British Council in Portugal Academic Research Collaboration grant with matching support from the Portuguese Ministry of Education, 1999-2000.
· Bowen, consultant to Collections Access project (DCF11) awarded £241,000 from UK Government Designation Challenge Fund, 1999-2002.
· Bowen, NATO Collaborative Grant (CARE4HW) for US/European travel, 1996-99.
· Fogarty, Hewlett-Packard External Research Programme, £138,000, 1995-97.
· Josephs, consultant to IBM UK Labs. on the development of formal specifications, 1990-96.
· Long, Debis IT Services UK Ltd., £12,000, 2000.
· Nissanke, Rockwell Collins (UK) Ltd., £26,000 and £30,000, 1996-97.
· Whitty, BT Laboratories, £33,000 and £19,500, 1996-97.
· Whitty, miscellaneous industrial consultancy, £8,000, 1996-97.
· Whitty, Engineering Foresight Award, Royal Academy of Engineering, £29,000, 1996-97.
· Long, six projects, based at the following companies: Accurate Business Solutions (TCS2482) £67,000, 1998-2002; Finsoft (TCS2603) £70,000, 1998-2000, and (TCS3403) £134,000, 2001-04; DPR Consulting (TCS2712), £142,000, 1999-2003; MediaTel (TCS2979), £134,000, 2000-03; New Information Paradigms (TCS3006), £123,000, 2000-04.
· Bowen, guest member of Editorial Board, special issue of Theoretical Computer Science on "Dependable Computing", 2000.
· Fogarty, member of Editorial Board of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, since 1999.
· Fogarty, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, since 1998.
· Fogarty, member of Editorial Board of the Soft Computing Research Journal, since 1996.
· Fogarty, member of Editorial Board of Evolutionary Computation, since 1993.
· Josephs, guest editor, special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE on "Asynchronous Circuits & Systems", 1999.
· Plaks, guest editor, special issue of Journal of Supercomputing on „Engineering of Reconfigurable Hardware/Software Objects", to appear in 2001.
· Plaks, guest editor, special issue of Parallel Algorithms and Applications on "Advanced Regular Array Design", 2000.
· Whitty, Reviews Editor of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, until 1998.
· Bowen, corresponding member, ANSI X3J21 Tech. Comm. on Formal Description Techniques.
· Bowen, corresponding member, EWICS TC7 Tech. Comm. on Safety, Reliability and Security.
· Bowen, invited member, IEEE Technical Segment Committee on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems.
· Bowen, invited member, IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee Safety Study Group.
· Bowen, invited member, IEEE Complexity in Computing Technical Committee.
· Bowen, member, IEEE Software Engineering Technical Council.
· Fogarty, member, Executive Board of the Int'l Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, since 1999.
· Fogarty, member, IEE Professional Committee on Neural and Evolutionary Computation, since 1999.
· Fogarty, member, Executive Committee of the Cluster of Networks of Excellence in Computational Intelligence (CoIL), since 1999.
· Josephs, member, Steering Committee of the IEEE Int'l Symposia on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits & Systems (Async), since 1996.
· Josephs, member, Steering Committee of the UK Asynchronous Forum, since 1997.
· Abdallah, co-chair, workshop on "Symbolic Computation", Euro-Par'98, Southampton, 1998.
· Bowen, conference and programme chair, Int'l Conf. of Z Users (now Z and B Users), since 1992 (Limerick ’95, Reading ’97, Berlin ’98, York 2000, Grenoble 2002).
· Bowen, publicity chair, FM’99 World Congress on Formal Methods, Toulouse, France, 1999.
· Bowen, honorary chair, 1st Museums and the Web Conf., Los Angeles, USA, 1997.
· Fogarty, co-ordinating chair, EvoWorkshops and EuroGP, and general chair, ICES, Edinburgh, 2000.
· Fogarty, publications chair, EuroGP and EvoIASP, Goteborg, 1999 and of EuroGP, Paris, 1998.
· Josephs, co-chair, 5th IEEE Async Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, April 1999.
· Josephs, programme committee co-chair, 3rd IEEE Async Symposium, Veldhoven, The Netherland, April 1997.
· Josephs, co-organiser, five ACiD-WG workshops, one ACiD-WG summer school and one UK Asynchronous Forum, since 1996.
· Plaks, co-chair, 1st Int'l Conf. on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms, Las Vegas, USA, June 2001.
· Plaks, co-chair, Int'l Workshop on Engineering of Reconfigurable Hardware/Software Objects, Las Vegas, USA, 1999, 2000.
· Selig, regional programme co-chair, IEEE/Robotics Society of Japan Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hawaii, USA, 2001.
· Selig, organiser, one-day tutorial on "Geometric Foundations of Robotics" at the IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Leuven, The Netherlands, 1998.
· Bowen, Fogarty, Hashim, Josephs, Nissanke and Whitty, 30 at UK universities: City (2x); East Anglia; Glasgow; Greenwich; Liverpool; London (Birkbeck, Imperial (11x) and University Colleges); Manchester; Open (2x); Strathclyde; Sunderland; Sussex (3x); Teeside; Ulster; York.
· Bowen, 1st Museums and the Web Conf., Los Angeles, USA, 1997.
· Bowen, 2nd Joint Workshop on System Development, Cheju, South Korea, 1999.
· Fogarty, EuroGEN Conf. on Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies in Engineering and Computer Science, Trieste, Italy, 1997.
· Fogarty, ERUDIT Conf. on Intelligent Technologies, Aachen, Germany, 1997.
· Selig, Int'l Workshop on Algebraic Frames for the Perception-Action Cycle, Kiel, 2000.
· Whitty, 5th Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Brighton, 1997.
· Bowen, elected to the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.
· Bowen, invited contributor (25 entries) to Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
· Bowen and Fogarty, both included in ResearchIndex’s listing of the top 10,000 most cited authors (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/allcited.html) in Computer Science (ranking 2,793 and 4,474, respectively, in January 2001).
· Josephs, elevated to the grade of Senior Member in the IEEE.
· Whitty, runner up in the 1999 THES/OUP science writing competition.
· Whitty, invited contributor (20-page chapter on Computing) to Graph Connections, OUP, 1997.
Intelligent Systems
Professor John MacIntyre has been a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College since 1997 and was a member of the evaluation panel for the EPSRC Programme "Neural Computing - The Key Questions" (NCTKQ). He is a member of EC Expert Evaluation Panel for in "Preserving the Ecosystem" Strand of Framework V. He is editor of the Journal of Neural Computer Applications and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of COMADEM. He acted as co-chair of the COMADEM conference in 1999 (with Professor Raj Rao, one of the School's Visiting Professors).
Professor John Tait is a founding editor of the journal of Natural Language Engineering, and executive editor from January 2001. He was an invited speaker at New Advances in Information Retrieval and Information Skills Development for Young People, A European Conference, in Athens in 2000. He is acting as Programme Committee Area Co-ordinator of Summarization and Question Answering for ACM SIGIR 2001.
Professor Peter Smith is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of COMADEM and acted as programme chair of the COMADEM 97 Conference.
Dr. Chris Bowerman was invited to deliver a keynote address at the Elsnet goes East workshop in Rhodes, 1997. He is a member of the British Standards Institute Committee on Learning Technology (no. IST-/43) and the Centre for European Norming/Information Society Standardisation System Learning Technology Workshop member.
Dr. Andrew Hunter was an invited workshop presenter at the COMPSAC98 conference in Vienna, June 1998 (on Data Analysis using Neural Networks), and ran a workshop on Genetic Algorithms applied to Neural Networks at GECCO2000, Las Vegas.
Ken McGarry has acted as grant proposal reviewer for the US National Science Foundation.
Decision Support Systems
Software Engineering
Professor Helen Edwards gave an invited lecture to the Computing & Medical Informatics Special Interest Group of Institute of Physics & Engineering In Medicine (IPEM) in March 1998. She was also an invited Panel Member at the 23rd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (compsac99) and at the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2000.
Barry. Member of the programme committee of the 99 and 2000 International Genetic and Evolutionary Computing conferences.
Le Goff. Staff member at CERN since 88 and has collaborated with UWE in the CICERO, CRISTAL, DIAMOND and WISDOM projects. He has recently been appointed a Visiting Professor with UWE. Invited talks at the 5th International AIHENP Conference, Lausanne 96; the ICALEPCS Conference China, 97 and keynote talk at the AIHENP’99 Conference, Crete, 99. Member of the programme committees of HICSS’32 (Hawaii) and CHEP 97-99. Invited to present the CRISTAL projects at the TOOLS Europe Conference at Zurich in March 2001.
Kovacs. Member of the programme committee of the DEXA Scientific and Engineering Workflow Management workshop, Toulouse, 97. Since 99 project co-ordinator for the OMFB (Hungary) DIAMOND Project. Co-chair of the Component Technologies workshop at the ECOOP conference in Budapest June 2001. Project Associate at CERN (98-99). Currently holds a CERN Fellowship (80%) and leads CRISTAL development. Contributes regularly to the OOPSLA series of conferences and workshops.
McClatchey. Awarded a Royal Society Study Fellowship to CERN in 96 and a Foresight Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering (CRISTAL research work). Program committee member of DEXA and the IDEAS conference series and invited speaker at the 97 NATO Advanced Studies Institute on Workflow Management and Interoperability and the 98 conference on Computing in High Energy Physics. Chaired an international workshop at DEXA 1997 on Scientific and Engineering Workflow Management Systems in Toulouse, France. Invited to present at IDEAS’99 in Montreal. Reviewer for the Information Systems Journal. Visiting Professor at the University of the Savoie, Annecy, France (98-99). External examiner for PhDs at the Technical University of Eindhoven (2000) and the University of the Savoie (2000).
Sa served as session chair for 'Software Engineering' and 'Service on Internet Media' at IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics conferences in 1996, Beijing and 1999, Tokyo respectively. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions, The Computer Journal and Software Practice and Experiences and IEE Proceedings - Software.
Solomonides. Secretary of the Association for Logic Programming UK, 94-00. External examiner for PhD at University College and leads the Travel Information Highway project for the Highways Agency.
Varga. CERN Scientific Associate (96) and chairman of the John von Neumann Computing Society (Hungary) in 99. Invited talk at 98 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Toronto, Canada. Currently an employee of the SzTAKI Institute in Budapest Visiting Fellow at UWE. Co-Chair ECOOP conference organisation in Budapest June 2001.
Yang. Invited to visit Fujitsu Labs, California, in September 2000 to discuss her work on Constraint Logic Programming and the language GOAL!.
Intelligent Computer Systems Centre
Bull. Keynote speaker at the International Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Biology, University of Aizu, Japan, in 97. Invited presentation at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA (98). Member of the programme committees for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, the International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, and the International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems. Reviewer for a number of international journals, including Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press), IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE), Artificial Life (MIT Press), Adaptive Behaviour (MIT Press), and Complexity (Wiley). Invited co-editor of a special issue of Soft Computing on 'Learning Classifier Systems' (2001).
Parmee. Chair of the biennial Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture conference since its inception in 94. Publicity chair of the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (97), workshop chair of IEEE International Congress on Evolutionary Computing (99) and applications chair of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference 2000. Invited keynote at the International Conference on Engineering Design and Automation (98), Optimisation in Industry II, US Engineering Foundation (99), NASA/DOD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (99) and International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation (2001). Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing, nominated for Executive Committee of the International Society of Genetic Algorithms, 99, and is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Evolutionary Optimisation and the International Journal of Design Computing.
J Smith. Co-organiser of the 2000 Workshop on Memetic Algorithms (in conjunction with the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2000). Member of the programme committees for GECCO, the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, and the EvoNet workshop on Image Analysis and Signal Processing. Reviewed for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing, Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press), Expert Systems, Information Processing Letters and the Journal of Complex Systems.
R Smith. Editor for Genetic Algorithm Methods for GECCO 99. Associate Editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Computation, and former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. Reviewer for Adaptive Behaviour, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Complex Systems, Computers and Mathematics, and the IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics. Served as a proposal referee for the National Science Foundation Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, the Division of International Programs, and The National Research Council (Twinning Program). Former Secretary of the University of Alabama Chapter of Sigma Xi, The National Scientific Research Society, serving from 96 to 97, and this Chapter's National Conference Delegate. Acted as a consultant to Boeing, The US Air Force, The US Navy and NASA. Served on the program committees of many of the major conferences in his field, including The First Annual Conference on Genetic Programming (Classifier Systems Section, 96), Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 98, and Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2000.
Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory
Adamatzky. Member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic (Gordon and Breach Publishers, USA) and Kybernetes, the International Journal of Systems and Cybernetics (MCB University Press, UK). Invited Guest Editor for special issues of the International Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic, on 'Philosophy and Logic' (2000), 'Collision Based Computing' (2001) and 'Advances in Nonclassical Logics' (2002). Founder editor and contributor to forthcoming monographs 'Biomolecular Computing' (MIT Press, USA, 2002) and 'Collision Based Computing' (Springer-Verlag, London, 2002). Invited Guest Editor for a special issue of Kybernetes on 'Artificial Life Software' (2001). Invited talks at the Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico, 96), and the Department of Engineering, Western Case University (Cleveland, 96). Invited plenary speaker at 'Boolean Functions and Complexity' (Moscow, 96), 'Distributed and Adaptive Parallel Computing' (Dayton, USA, 96) and 'Evolving Hardware' (Edinburgh, 2000). Invited to give a keynote address at the European Conference on Artificial Life, Prague (2001). Member of the programme committee of the International Conference on Logical and Mathematical Methods in Science, Engineering and the Economy (Penza, Russia, 99). Elected Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology (UK, 97).
Carse. Organiser and invited co-chair of the evolutionary computation session at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics in 98. Programme committee member for the International Conference on Adaptive computing for Design and Manufacture (99, 2000), the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) International Conference (99, 2000, 2001) and the Workshop on Evolutionary Computing applied to Telecommunications and Networks (ECTelNet). Session chair for the GECCO International Conference, Las Vegas, July 2000. Organising a special track on 'Fuzzy Logic Applications' for the Florida AI Conference (FLAIRS-2001), May 2001. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation; IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems; IEE Electronics Letters; International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems; International Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems and the Journal of Intelligent Systems.
Holland. Member of the programme committee for the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL97), session chair for Collective Robotics, ECAL99. Programme committee and a session chair for ANTS98. He was a session chair for 'Invertebrate Sensory Information Processing - Implications for Biologically Inspired Autonomous Systems', Woods Hole, April 2000, and for ANTS2000, Brussels, September 2000. Member of the organising committee for 'Can a machine be conscious?' Cold Spring Harbour, NY, May 2001 (a Banbury conference), member of the international technical committee, International Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems (ICAIS), March 2002. Reviewer for Adaptive Behaviour, Robots and Autonomous Systems, the Biological Bulletin and the Artificial Life Journal. Invited participant at the EPSRC Emerging Computer Paradigms Workshop, 97 and invited participant at DARPA/ONR Plume Tracing Symposium, Woods Hole, USA, 98. Invited talk 'A robot predator: approaching animal autonomy' at Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots, Northeastern University, May 2000, and an Invited talk at SAB2000 (Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour 2000), Paris, Sept 2000. Evaluator for the Future and Emerging Technologies programme, EU, Brussels (99). External examiner for PhD at University of Sussex and University of Wales. Visiting Associate in Electrical Engineering, Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering, California Institute of Technology (since 97).
McFarland. Organised and chaired the 2nd (2000) and the 3rd International Workshop on Biological Robotics in July 2001. In September 2000 an international 'Workshop to celebrate the Scientific Contributions of David McFarland' was held at Pembroke College, Oxford; keynote address by Prof Sir John Krebs FRS. Elected Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, Nov 2000. Invited to edit a special edition of Robotica on the subject of Biological Robotics, 2001.
Melhuish Invited lectures at the Micro-Machines group, California Institute of Technology (97), the Hokkaido Foundation for Science and Technology, Japan (98), Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory (99), University of Southern California (99), NASA JPL, Pasadena, California (99) and at the 7th International Symposium on Evolutionary Robotics, Tokyo (2000). Invited study visits to NASA JPL, Pasadena, and the University of Southern California, October 2000. Appointed visiting research fellow in the Department of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, and has been asked to give a keynote talk at a DERA micro-robotics seminar in 2001.
Pipe. Organiser and invited co-chair of a special track at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics in 1998. Programme committee member of the International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture (1999, 2000) and the AAAI International FLAIRS Conference (Florida AI Research Society, 1999, 2000, 2001). Organising a special track on 'Neural Network Applications' for the Florida AI Conference (FLAIRS-2001), May 2001. Reviewer for IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Systems - Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Journal of Soft Computing and Journal of Advances in Engineering Software.
Winfield. Invited public lecture at the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering, California Institute of Technology (96) and an invited address at the Digital Equipment Corporation Academy (Amsterdam, 97). Invited participant at the DARPA Plume Tracing Symposium, Quantico, USA in 99. Invited study visits to the electrical engineering department, California Institute of Technology in 99 and 2000. Reviewer for Microprocessors and Microsystems Journal (Elsevier) and has refereed for the Nuffield Foundation (UK).
Zhu. Visiting Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, the Central South University of Technology, Changsha, China and the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Session chair at the IEEE IECON 97 conference (New Orleans, 97). Reviewer for the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control; Automatica; IEE proceedings in Control Theory and Applications; IEE proceedings in Electric Power Applications; IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; IMechE journal of Systems and Control Engineering; the International Journal of Modelling and Simulation and the International Journal of Systems Science. External examiner for PhD at the University of Sheffield (96 and 2000) and the University of Reading (98).
Kacsuk was an invited speaker for the SGI Users’ Conference, Krakow, (2000); ERCIM 10th Anniversary Meeting, (1999); EuroPVM/MPI Conference, (1999); HPCN’99 Conference. ; PARELEC'98, International Conference on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, (1998); 2nd International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, (1997); Workshop on HPCN Technology and Tools: Take-up & Transfer (1996); NATO Advanced Research Workshop on High Performance Computing: Technology and Applications, (1996). He has been a Steering Committee member of EuroPar since 1999; He was the General Chair of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems in 1996, 1998 and 2000. He was the Program Chair of the 8th EUROMICRO Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, (2000); 7th EuroPVM/MPI conference, (2000). He is Program Committee member of the following events: 13th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, (2001); Supercomputing Asia'2001, EUROMICRO PDP Workshop since 1996, HPCN Conference since 1999, 4th IEEE International Conference on Algorithms and Architecture for Parallel Processing, (2000); 2nd International Conference on Parallel Computing in Electric Engineering, (2000); 1st International Symposium on Constructing Software Engineering Tools, (1999); 2nd Int.Conf. on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, (1999); PDCS-98, 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, (1998); 9th Int. Symp. on Programming Languages, Implementations, Logics, and Programs, (1997); 1st Int.Conf. on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, (1997); 2nd Int. Conf. on AI and Information-Control Systems of Robots, (1997); NATO Advanced Research Workshop on: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING: Technology and Applications, , (1996); He has given many other invited seminars across the world. In addition, he has been Editorial Board member of the "Computers and Artificial Intelligence" journal and "Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices" since 1997. He served as the chairman of the Performance Monitoring Working Group of the European Grid Forum in 2000. He currently serves as the co-chair of the Performance Monitoring Working Group of the Global Grid Forum, and is a member of both the COST D23 Committee on Metachem: Metalaboratories for Complex Computational Applications in Chemistry and theScientific Advisory Board of the Hungarian CERN Committee.
Kalantery has research links with Korea University in Seoul, Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul and Chungbuk National University in Chongju. He is a programme committee member for ICPADS’2001. He has also collaborated on several projects with Korea University (1997-1999), Institut Nationale de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), Sophia Antipolis, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP) and with the International McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences, Technical University of Budapest.
Konstantinou is on the scientific committee for the Hellenic European Research on Computer Mathematics & its Applications (HERCMA). He has been involved in the creation of several Teaching Company Schemes within the University that have resulted in the marketing of handwriting recognition systems for PDAs and the development of patient record systems used by NHS trusts. He has also been instrumental in creating close links with local industries and attracting funding from big industrial partners such as Hi-Grade and SGI for the establishment of the Centre for Computer Networks Engineering and the Advanced IT Centre of Excellence in North West London. He is also representing the University at the European Internet Foundation (European Parliament).
Psarrou won Best Scientific Paper award (with Romdhani and Gong) at the 1999 British Machine Vision Conference. She is a frequent referee for the international Journal IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.
Prof. Robert Moreton is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Management Studies and the International Journal of Information Systems. Both Profs. Moreton and Jackson were elected as Fellows of the British Computer Society in 1999.
Prof. Mike Jackson, is a long-standing member of the BNCOD programme committee. He was also a member of the International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium programme committee (IDEAS) '97, co-General Conference Chair for the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) '97, Finance Chair for the Very Large Database (VLDB) Conference 1999. He has been a member of the International Editorial Board of Information Software and Technology since 1994 and is a referee for the BBSRC/EPSRC Bioinformatics programme.
Prof. Norman Gough is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Engineering Simulation. He is General Programme Chair and an Editor of the Proceedings for the Society for Computer Simulation International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation, which takes place annually at Imperial College. He also acts as a referee for several journals including the IEE Proceedings, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems and the Journal of Electronic Imaging.
Dr Andy Sloane is chairman of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 9.3 (Home Informatics and Telematics) and is a member of Technical Committee 9 (Computers and Society). Dr Sloane was chair of the organising committee for the HOIT 2000 conference which was hosted at the University. He is also principal editor of the proceedings and a vice-chair of the programme committee for the conference. Dr Sloane is a frequent reviewer of papers, articles and books for IEEE journals and other international publications. He has recently edited a volume of research papers on Multimedia Internet Broadcasting for Springer-Verlag which brought together international experts in this new area of research having proposed the research to the publisher, with it having undergone peer review before acceptance. He is also on the International Programme Committee for the TC9 stream of the next IFIP World Computer Congress in Montreal in 2002.
Dr Qasim Mehdi is General Conference Chair and an Editor of the Proceedings for the Society for Computer Simulation International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation, which takes place annually at Imperial College. He has also been nominated as a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Computer Simulation International.
Because of her research in ethics, Dr Jenny Davies has recently been invited to join a small team to rewrite the BCS Code of Conduct.
Four members of staff have been external examiners for postgraduate research awards at other institutions, including University College London, Leicester, Bradford and Birmingham. Prof. Gough has examined 3 PhD candidates in Skopje, Macedonia.
Impact of the Research
The School organises three seminars per year, in conjunction with the British Computer Society, under the title of New Directions in Software Development. These seminars provide an opportunity for staff to participate as organisers, contributors and attendees in a state-of-the art forum. The 3 topics for 2000 are Data Visualisation, e-Commerce and the Supply Chain, and Digital Libraries.
During June 2000, the School hosted the IFIP HOIT 2000 International Conference, which attracted delegates from 12 countries.
SCIT activities in relation to the internet have a high profile. The ‘active map’ for Universities and Colleges, developed and maintained by the SEED group (URL: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/uk.map.html) has attracted attention worldwide. It has received over 4.5 million accesses since June 1995, with the current query rate at around 1 million per year and rising. The map is used by Student World as a significant part of its commercial web-pages, and the group is currently negotiating with the company on a number of collaborations, including funding of research programmes.
Medals and Prizes
The British Computer Society awarded two Medals to the CSRC (B.F.Jones and Plassmann in 1996 for the MAVIS project; C.B.Jones in 1997 for the MAPLEX software which became a Millennium product in 1999).
In 1996, Rees’ IEE Proceedings paper was awarded the IEE F C Williams Premium Prize which is the highest award of its Computing and Control Division. Two papers presented by El-Geresy (IEEE Conference on Tools in AI, 1996) were awarded prizes. Wilcox was awarded the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Donald Julius Groen Prize for the Best Journal of Engineering Manufacture Paper in 1997.
Visiting Professorships and Fellowships
Jiang was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Visiting fellowship tenable at the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratory in Bristol for six months in 1998 and was a Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. of China, during the summers of 1999 and 2000. Jiang was awarded the outstanding overseas Chinese scholarship by the Chinese National Science Foundation; the competition was open to all overseas Chinese scholars around the world, and only four were successful this year. The funding is equivalent to £40k to support visiting research from 2001 to 2003.
Taylor was awarded a full time two-year Royal Society Industry Fellowship in 1998, during which time he worked at Quality Engineering and Survey Technology Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne.
Editorships, Membership of Editorial Boards, Working Parties and Conference Committees
Tudhope and Cunliffe have been appointed as Editor and Associate Editor respectively of the Journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (formerly Hypermedia). B.F.Jones is Technical/Industrial Section Editor of the Thermology International Journal. M.D.Williams acted as guest editor of the Journal Topics in Health Information Management in 1996 and 1997. M.D.Williams and Beynon-Davies will be guest editors for the Journal New Review of Information Systems Research in 2001. B.F.Jones has been appointed Guest Editor for a special edition of Information and Software Technology in 2001. Beynon-Davies is on the editorial boards of New Review of Information Systems Research and Journal of Systems and Information Technology. M.D.Williams is a member of the editorial boards of four academic journals (New Review in Health Informatics, Annals of Information Technology and Librarianship, Topics in Health information Management and the Health Informatics Journal). Higgs is on the editorial board of the international journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Smith was a member of the Editorial Board for a special issue of the Journal Discrete Mathematics. Ward was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Institute of Energy. Ring is a member of the editorial Boards of Thermology International and Skin Research and Technology.
Beynon-Davies and M.D.Williams were the co-chairs of the UKAIS 2000 conference. M.D.Williams chaired the SHIMR conferences in 1996 and 1997. Tudhope, B.F.Jones and Smith organised workshops at prestigious conferences (including ICHIM97, ECDL2000, ICSE2000, ICSE2001). Kidner, Higgs and Taylor are all members of the national steering committee for GIS Research UK, the UK's national GIS research conference, established in 1993. Glamorgan University is co-chairing and hosting the 2001 GISRUK conference. Members of the CSRC served on the review and organising committees of fifteen other Conferences (including Tudhope: ACM Hypertext 2001 and Jiang: International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Conference ). R.J.Williams, Wilcox and Al-Nuaimi serve on the editorial boards of International Journals.
Al-Nuaimi chaired principal working groups in 2 European COST actions, leading the technical work of these groups and serving on the Editorial Board of both programmes. He served as the UK Deputy for COST 235. He is a member of the National Radio Propagation Programme and, with Smith, of the DTI Mobile and Terrestrial Propagation Technical Working Party. Ward was a member of the UK Government’s (DETR) Energy Efficiency Programme Committee and a Member of the Council of the Combustion Engineering Association.
Higgs takes over Chairmanship of the Quantitative Methods Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in January 2001. George is a Committee Member of the Scientific Society -The Infrared and Raman Discussion Group
Keynote Lectures
Smith delivered the keynote address at the NATO RTA SET/ISET Symposium on Frequency Assignment, Sharing and Conservation in Systems (Aerospace), Aalborg, Denmark, October 1998. B.F.Jones was an invited Lecturer at the British Association Festival of Science in Leeds in 1997. Beynon-Davies gave an invited lecture at the BCS presidential meeting. Ward Presented an invited Keynote Lecture at the 6th UK National Conference on Heat Transfer, Edinburgh, 1999 organised by I Mech E. Other members of the CSRC gave plenary and invited lectures at some 25 Conferences in the UK and other European countries, the USA, and China.
She is conference chair for the 6th European Conference on CBR (previously EWCBR) when we host it in 2002. She was an invited speaker at the 10th Int Conf on Computing and Information (2000) and chair for its Data and Knowledge Engineering stream. She is on the programme committees for ICCBR (2001), EWCBR (2000-) and IEEE ICDM (2001), and is a regular reviewer for international journals (e.g. Knowledge Based Systems, Machine Learning) and conferences (e.g. ECAI, IJCAI, BCS Expert Systems).
She spent 8 months on sabbatical (1999) as a visiting professor at UC Irvine working with Pazzani's eminent Machine Learning group, for which she gained a Fulbright Scholarship. During this time she was invited to be a seminar speaker at Stanford's prestigious Machine Learning Group (by Langley) and USC's famous Information Sciences Institute (by Minton).
She has links with Logica, IntelliCorp (a major US software house) and ISoft (Fr) to apply her knowledge engineering tools to applications developed using their KBS and CBR software.
Harper has a substantive collaboration with Union Bank of Switzerland's Ubilab from which a follow-on project (WebCluster) has been funded (£119K) in this period. His new PhD student has one of BT's EPSRC Industrial Case Awards.
He is European programme chair for the Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (2001), is the European Representative to the SIGIR Executive Committee (2000-), and has served on the programme committee since 1995. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Information Processing and Management, chaired the BCS IRSG Colloquim (1997) and co-chaired the Annual UK Conference on Image Retrieval (1998,1999).
He was a keynote speaker at the Institute of Information Scientists' Text Retrieval Conference (1997). Harper's IR group took part in the Esprit, pan-European MIRA group "Evaluation Frameworks for Interactive Multimedia IR Applications".
He was a visiting researcher during his 6 month sabbatical (1999) at UMass, an international centre of excellence for intelligent IR, during which he was invited to present a talk in the Distinguished Researcher Series at Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries.
Teahan was an invited researcher in the Information Theory Group at Lund, Sweden for 8 months prior to joining us. His publications demonstrate a long-standing collaboration with Witten and Cleary (Waikato, New Zealand), leaders of the Machine Learning & Digital Libraries group, with one being an invited paper in the Computer Journal special issue on Text Compression [Tea2].
McCall has an EPSRC JREI award with matched funding from SGI and Tenovus Scotland (£43K). His medical links are also important: expert practitioners are keen to be involved as user groups for the Oncology workbench; SHEFC-funded medical CAL applications developed with Aberdeen's MediCAL and Glasgow College of Art utilise web-based interaction. This is also the theme of a TCS (£61K) creating a virtual shop for a Highland Dress company where users view the outfit resulting from selected products.
He was Professeur Invité at the Institut d'Informatique, Université d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (1999) and an invited speaker at a multi-disciplinary cancer modelling workshop at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh. He is on the programme committee of the GA sub-strand of JCIS (2000) and is organising the Scottish Theoretical Biology Forum when we host it in May 2001.
Richardson had grants totalling £45K† from the SHEFC MANs initiative where networking technology was applied in CAL and telemedicine in collaborative projects with the MediCAL and CLUES units at Aberdeen University. Since September 2000, he has been adviser to a Scottish-based company developing internet-based video surveillance products.
He was programme chair of the International Workshop on Audio-Visual Services over Packet Networks when we hosted it in 1997.
Goker has a newly awarded EPSRC FastTrack award (£63K) in which the industrial collaborator Reuters gives her access to real Web data. She also has Nuffield funding under their Newly Appointed Lecturer Scheme.
She is chair of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group and was programme chair of its annual IRSG Colloquium (2000). She is organising a workshop at User Modelling 2001, and is a SIGIR reviewer.
Noble received a Royal Society Study Visit Award to establish a research exchange with Wyvill's group at the University of Calgary, and Nuffield funding for an undergraduate research project. His publications demonstrate a successful collaboration with Clapworthy (De Montfort) advancing virtual sculpting.
Compatangelo has a newly awarded EPSRC FastTrack grant (£62K)† building on an existing collaboration with Baker-Hughes applying enterprise models. With Arana, he holds a Carnegie Trust grant to extend research links with Donini (Rome), a long-standing co-author [Com1,Com3].
Arana collaborates with Fothergill (Aberdeen) developing the results from an earlier EU funded project [Ara2,Ara3]. This work is joint with AMEC Offshore Services acquiring re-design knowledge for oil-related engineering applications.
Brown has an on-going collaboration with Watt (Glasgow) in the formal semantics of Java and the use of OO design methods applied to programming language processors. Two jointly authored books appeared during the period; the one with the greater research focus is included [Bro4]. They also have a jointly authored invited talk on Action Semantics at AS2000 [Bro3].
Elder has a joint project with the Macaulay Research Institute (Sibbald) applying GAs to land-use planning [Eld1]. This work has been favourably received by domain experts as a useful tool to inform decision making.
Boswell is working with Logica to integrate automated knowledge refinement with their product formulation tool [Bos3]. This work targets tablet formulation but has wider application for formulation tasks generally.
† Not included in RA4
Chairmanships and Programme committee memberships of well-recognised conferences
and six international workshops; and will serve on
Professor Girolami has been
and will serve on International Scientific Committees for
Girolami has organised a post-ICANN’99 workshop, which he subsequently edited as a book by Springer in the Perspectives in Neural Computing Series, ISSN 1431-6854.
Lees served on the Programme Committee for the following:
and seven international workshops. He has reviewed papers for IJCAI-01 (Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence), and will serve on International Scientific Committees for: ES 2001 Cambridge December 2001 and EWCBR’2002 – European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, Aberdeen, Sept, 2002
Gabrys has been invited to the programme committees for the
· ICSC Symposium on Fuzzy Logic And Applications, CIMA2001, Bangor, UK.
McGlinchey served on the Scientific Committee for Simposio Español de Informatica Distribuida (SEID’2000), Ourense, Spain, September 2000.
Charles and Gabrys were on the Program Committee for ICNNAI'99, Brest, Belarus, 1999 and Darryl Charles is on the Program Committee for ESANN 2001.
Campbell is on the Scientific Organising Committee of the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for Vision and Hearing Impairment, Italy, 2001.
International collaborations
Girolami has been Visiting Professor at Laboratory of Computing and Information Science, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) May - December 2000 as TEKKES National Finnish Technlogy Agency Visiting Professor of Computing Science (this post is awarded in a national competition)
He has been a visiting researcher at
Editorships of Journals
Girolami is Editor of the Newsletter for the British Computer Society’s Information Retrieval Specialist Group. He is a reviewer for many journals including IEEE Transactions - Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions - Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions - Knowledge and Data Management, IEEE Transactions - Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Applied Intelligence (Kluwer), Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation (MIT Press) 1999 and 2001.
Campbell is a technical reviewer for: EPSRC, Defeating Deafness (The Hearing Research Trust), Speech Communication, IEE Electronics Letters, IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions - Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions - Speech and Audio Processing, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Lees is an Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Systems Studies, and Journal of Agile Manufacturing. He was Guest Editor of the Journal of Automation in Construction – Special Issue on Cyberdesign (co-editor), Spring 2000, guest editor for International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Special Issue on Agents and CSCW, Summer 2001; and guest editor for Expert Update, Special Issue on Case-Based Reasoning, May 2001. He has also reviewed articles for The Knowledge Engineering Review, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering Journal, Journal of Engineering Applications of AI, Journal of Applied Systems Studies.
Gabrys is a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems journal and the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems.
Gabrys and Fyfe co-edited a special issue of the Knowledge Based Systems Journal to appear in 2001.
Professor Huaglory Tianfield joined the Department of Computing as Professor in March 2001 from Gloucestershire Business School, having previously held academic and research posts in China, France and Germany. He has established an international reputation in a broad range of Intelligent Systems and Large Complex Systems research. Since 1996 he has been Principal Investigator on four projects funded by the Chinese Government’s Hi-Tech 863 programme and National Science Foundation of China (total value 458K Chinese Yuan), and a Co-Investigator on four further projects in China and Europe. He was awarded a highly competitive Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1996. He has served on numerous international conference committees and as Chair of several, including
Chair 1st International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA’00), Wollongong, Australia, December 11-13, 2000
Chair 1st International Symposium on Technology, Economic and Social Applications of Distributed Intelligence (TESADI’01), at the 2001 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC’01), Tucson, AZ Oct 2001
General Chair 2nd International ICSC Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications, Shanghai, China, Dec 2002
Prof Tianfield has been Guest Editor of the following Journal Special Issues:
(1) International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) (ISSN: 0218-1940), Special Issue on 'Multi-agent Systems and Mobile Agents', to appear Oct 2001.
(2) International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, (ISSN: 1327-2314): Special Issue on 'Agent Technology and Applications' to appear Dec 2001.
(3) Journal of Applied Systems Studies (ISSN 1466-7738) Special Issue on 'Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce Applications', to appear in early 2002.
He has acted as a referee for: Transport Research Part C – Emerging Technologies; International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. He has been an invited speaker at the universities of Grenoble (INPG) and Duisburg. Since 2000 he has been a Research Grants Evaluator in Computer Science/Information Technology for the Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee of Hong Kong. He has conducted a PhD examination at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
Julian Newman is Reader in Computing and has established an international reputation in collaborative computing. He has served on several international conference committees including ENCOM’98 (IEEE Enterprise Networking and Computing) Atlanta, June, 1998, INTERACT’99 and INTERACT 2001 (IFIP International Conferences on Human Computer Interaction) and organised several workshops including: CSCW Support for Learning at 5th European Conference on CSCW, Lancaster, September, 1998; Agent Support for CSCW, D-CSCW'98, German National Conference on CSCW, Dortmund, September, 1998; and-Intelligent Agents and CSCW: Technology and Risks, at Agents 2000, 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Barcelona, 2000. Proceedings of the latter will form a Special Issue of the Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. He has been an invited speaker at London Guildhall University, at the Technical University of Dresden and at the University of Toronto. His collaboration with Jean Bacon at University of Cambridge has led to a joint proposal to EPSRC under the Distributed Information Management Programme. He has conducted two PhD examinations. During the period 1996-2000 he was GCU’s Principal Investigator on four projects (total value £155,000) funded by British German ARC, SHEFC UMI, UKERNA and European Framework IV Esprit.
Helen Lowe is Senior Lecturer in AI. She has established an international reputation in AI. She has served on the programme committees of UITP (User Interfaces for Theorem Proving), INTERACT’99 and INTERACT 2001. She has also refereed papers for CHI, IJCAI, ECAI, and CADE. She has given several seminars on her work, at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Heriot Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde (Scottish Theorem Provers), and Liverpool JMU. Helen Lowe is an honorary fellow in AI at Edinburgh and a Co-Investigator on the EPSRC’s rolling programme on Computational Modelling of Mathematical Reasoning (GR/L/11724).
David Moffat has served on programme committees and refereed papers for SAB'98 (5th International Conference of the Society for Adaptive Behavior), and the journals of Applied Intelligence and Cognition and Emotion. He has been an invited speaker at the 13th Toyota conference (in Mikkabi, Shizuoka, Japan), at several university departments of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, including Toronto, Tokyo (Institute of Technology), and Vienna, and twice at the OFAI (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence).
Eddie Gray has has established an international reputation in software quality issues and, in particular, their application to software process improvement efforts. Between 1996-2000 he was an Organising Committee member of 9 international conferences in the field of software quality, and an invited speaker at the Universite Des Sciences et Technologies De Lille, France, at Kongsberg Engineering College, Kongsberg, Norway, and at the Instituto Politecnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal. He was a senior member of the VISCOUNT team (Esprit 25754). He has conducted two Research Masters examinations.
Zsolt Haag, having recently completed his PhD, is rapidly acquiring a reputation in the fields of CSCW, Distributed Systems and Software Engineering. He held an internship at UBILAB in Zurich, worked on the MIKKO project, is a programme committee member for a workshop on Agent Support for CSCW at Agents 2001, and is named as an academic supervisor on a TCS programme focusing on Distributed Information Management
International Invitations
International Collaborations
Ben Paechter is Chair of the EvoNet European Network of Excellence Working Group in Evolutionary Scheduling and Timetabling, and a founding member and Treasurer of The Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling Steering Committee (PATAT). Prof. Benyon was a member EC i3 (intelligence, information, interfaces) co-ordinating group from 1998 – 1999 and is Secretary of the IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) Working Group 13.2 (Methodologies for Human-Computer Interaction). Emma Hart is chair of EvoSTIM Working Group on Simulation and Timetabling.
Journals
Prof. Benyon is on the editorial board of the journals: User Models and User Adapted Interaction (until 99); Knowledge-Based Systems; Cognition, Technology and Work; and Universal Access to the Information Society . He has co-edited special issues of Interacting with Computers, Journal of Automated Systems Engineering, and Acta Psychologica. Prof. Ross is one of nine associate editors of the journal Evolutionary Computation published by MIT Press, the leading international journal in this research area.
International Conferences: Chairs
Prof. Kennedy was Organising Chair for 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 1999), Sponsorship Chair for the 13th International Conference on Data Engineering, 1997, Organising and Programme Chair for the 14th British National Conference On Databases 1996 and for the 3rd International Workshop on User Interfaces to Databases, 1996. Prof. Kennedy is Programme Chair for the 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management 2002. Prof. Kerridge was Programme Committee Chair for Research Issues in Data Engineering 97. Prof. Benyon was technical co-chair for the ACM conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI2000 and for the I3 Annual Conference in Siena in 1999. He was Panels co-chair for INTERACT ’99; Organiser and Co-chair for IFIP WG13.2 Working Conference, Geneva, May 1996 and Short papers co-chair for IHM-HCI 2001 in Lille. Prof. Ross is a founder and steering committee member of the conference series on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, and was co-chair of its first international conference. The School was host to the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering (2000).
International Conferences: Committees
Prof. Kennedy British National Conference on Database Systems, BNCOD (1996, 1997, 1998, 2000); International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI (1996, 1998, 2000); International Conference on Data Engineering (1999) International Databases Engineering and Applications Symposium (1997, 1998); User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems (1996, 1999); 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER ’98). Prof. Benyon International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (1997, 2000), User Modelling (1997, 1999), INTERACT (1997, 1999). Prof. Ross GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1999, 2000, World Conference on Evolutionary Computing 98; Parallel Problem Solving from Nature V 98; Pan-Asian Knowledge Discovery in Databases 98; Genetic Programming 97; International Conference on Genetic Algorithms 97; Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling 97. Dr. Smyth is on the Advisory Board for EUROPIA98, EUROPIA01 and AID98. Prof. Kerridge World Occam and Transputer User Group (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000), British National Conference on Database Systems, BNCOD (1997, 1998).
Other external activities
Professors Kennedy, Ross, Benyon, and Kerridge have all acted as external examiners for undergraduate, postgraduate or research degrees. They examine at universities across the UK and abroad and in total they have examined over fifty PhDs. Prof. Ross was a member of the EPSRC Computing College until the end of 2000 and has served on various panels. He was external assessor for reviews at Robert Gordon University and University of Sussex, 1998. Prof. Ross is external examiner for Masters courses in Knowledge Engineering and in Software Engineering at the Institute For Systems Sciences, National University of Singapore and at a number of UK universities.
Prof. Kennedy has been a member of the EPSRC Computing College from 1996 and a member of a prioritisation panel. Prof. Kennedy is a member of the BBSRC/EPSRC Bioinformatics Initiative Panel (from 1998 until the end of the programme in 2001). The panel was responsible for prioritising the research direction, allocating research grants and monitoring progress and reviewing final reports. Prof. Kerridge is a member of EPSRC Peer Review Computing College. During his time on this college he has been a member of five prioritisation panels and the EPSRC DIM programme working group. Prof. Benyon was invited to participate in the DERA workshop on Modeling for Interactive Systems, Nottingham (1996)and at the EPSRC workshop on Rehabilitation Technologies in 2000. He is Chair of the DTI sponsored Intelligent Interfaces Special Interest Group. Dr. Crerar is Chair of the Edinburgh BCS.
Visitors
Steve Talbot and Henry Luchian are Visiting Professors at the School. H. Yakota from the Japanese Advanced institute for Science and technology visited Prof. Kerridge for 6 months in 1996 to undertake collaborative work on parallel database machines. Ben Paechter is often host to visitors from the TRACS programme. Prof. Benyon had visiting students from University of Aarhus and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science
(M) Mathematical Foundations of CS
Invited/keynote talks/papers. Jung: Theory & Formal Methods (‘96), ESSLLI (‘97), MFPS (‘97), Workshop on Domains (Darmstadt, ‘99). Ritter: Workshop on Linear Logic & Typed Lambda Calculus (Marseille, ‘98).
Editorships. Jung: Algebra Universalis, Electronic Notes in Theoretical CS, Semantic Structures in Computation. Guest editorships. Jung: special issue of Electronic Notes in Theoretical CS (‘00), Mathematical Structures in CS (‘97), Applied Categorical Structures (‘99).
Conferences. Jung: chair, ESSLLI ’00; co-organizer, Dagstuhl workshop on OO Programming; on PC of 4 confs. Ritter/de Paiva: co-organizers, Dagstuhl Workshop on Linear Logic & Applications (‘99).
External grants/collaborations. Ritter/de Paiva (EPSRC). EU funded working groups APPSEM & TYPES; NATO funded project with Warsaw & Turin. Jung invited to Dresden Univ. (‘98), Tulane Univ., Masaryk Univ., & Chapman Univ. (‘00). Escardo: Visiting Professorship at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (‘00 & ‘01), also visited Risc-Linz, Austria (‘00). Ritter invited to Xerox Parc, Palo Alto (‘99, ‘00).
(P) Programming Languages
Invited/keynote talks/papers. Reddy: 5 internat. meetings incl. MFPS (‘99) and Dagstuhl workshops in ‘99, ‘00. Thielecke: invited to write introduction to Landin's historic article „A generalization of jumps and labels'' in Higher-Order & Symbolic Comp. journal and a Logic Column in SIGACT News.
Conferences. Reddy: organizer, special session at MFPS ’99; on PCs of Int. Conf. on Automated Deduction (‘96), Int. Logic Programming Symp. (‘97), Int. Conf. on Computer Languages (‘97), Foundations of Software Technology & Theoretical CS (‘00), and MFPS ’01. Thielecke: on PC of 3rd ACM Workshop on Continuations (‘01).
External grants/collaborations. Reddy invited to several universities in USA & UK with EPSRC & NSF funding. Thielecke invited several times to Japan, USA & Canada.
(D) Modeling and Analysis of Systems
Invited/keynote talks/papers. Kwiatkowska/Ryan: 7 tutorial & invited presentations at internat. confs incl. FORTE/PSTV‘00, ESSLLI‘00 & IFIP WG 2.2 on Formal Description of Programming Concepts. Theodoropoulos: invited papers for special issues of Proc. IEEE and J. Parallel & Distr. Comp.
Guest editorships. Kwiatkowska: Electronic Notes in Theoretical CS ('97, with Jung; '98, with Ryan).
Conferences. Kwiatkowska: chair, Steering Committee for PROBMIV Workshops (‘98, ‘99, ‘01); co-organizer of 4 other meetings. Ryan: co-organizer of 4 meetings, incl. Summer School on Modelling & Verification of Parallel Processes (‘00). Kwiatkowska & Ryan: on 10 PCs incl. CONCUR ’00, FOSSACS ‘00, 5th Int. Workshop on Feature Interactions in Telecom. & Software Systems.
External grants/collaborations. Ryan (1.5 EPSRC; BT), Kwiatkowska (2.5 EPSRC), totalling £750K awarded. Kwiatkowska is British co-ordinator of an internat. collaboration on Stochastic Modelling &Verification. Ryan co-ordinates EU-funded European Working Group FIREworks. Group collaborates with Clarke (CMU), Huth (KSU), Baier (Bonn), Segala (Bologna), de Alfaro (UC Berkeley), Schobbens (Namur), Ehrich (Braunschweig), Andreka (Budapest) et al. Theodoropoulos collaborates with companies in Greece on telecom. and industrial automation. EPSRC Vis. Fellows: R. Segala (Bologna), J-P. Katoen (Twente).
(A) Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
Invited/keynote talks/papers. Barnden: ICANN'98, 4th Int. Conf. on Researching & Applying Metaphor (‘01); Sloman: 50+ invited addresses (incl. ~12 abroad) incl. BT (‘98), Digital Biota II (Cambridge ‘98), IST99 (Helsinki,’99), Toyota (‘99), PPSN’00 (Paris, ‘00) & Nokia (‘01; Edmondson: invited paper for Semiotik; Jamnik (RF): CSLI Workshop on Visual Reasoning (Stanford,’99).
Editorships. Barnden: Knowledge & Info. Systems (European Ed.), Cognitive Systems Research, AI Review, Metaphor & Symbol, Handbook of Brain Theory & Neural Networks; Sloman: AIJ, Computational Intell., AI Review, New Ideas in Psychology. Guest editorships. Barnden/Lee: Metaphor & Symbol (‘01); Barnden/Peterson: Info. and Communication Technology in Law (‘01). Kerber: J. Symbolic Comp. (‘01).
Conferences Barnden/Lee: chairs, AISB’00; chairs, Metaphor workshop within AISB’99; chairs with Markert (Edinburgh) of Figurative Language workshop within Corpus Linguistics ‘01, Lancaster (workshop attracted most of the main players internationally, incl. Deignan & Cameron, UK, Semino & Steen, NL, Corts, USA; special issue of Metaphor & Symbol will result in 02/03.; Barnden: invited Vice-Chair/Chair (resp.) of 2 confs on metaphor ('02, '03), funded by EC Euro. Sci. fund, organized in collab. with researchers across Europe; Kerber co-chair, Calculemus (‘00), 8th Symp. on Integration of Symbolic Comp. & Mechanized Reasoning (‘00), Comp. Logic ('00); Lee: invited to chair panel on dialogue at 5th Mult-Conf. On Systemics, Cybernetics & Informatics, ’01; Sloman: chair, Functioning Mind workshop within AISB’00; Wyatt: co-chair, European Workshops on Learning Robots (‘99, ‘01).
External grants/collaborations. Barnden (EPSRC; ESRC with E. Robinson in Psychology), Kerber (2 EPSRC), Sloman (Leverhulme, DERA). Edmondson collaborates with M. Tatham (Essex) on syllable phonetics. Kerber is in EU CALCULEMUS project, with researchers in Saarbruecken, Trento, Lint, Edinburgh etc. Peterson worked with D.Bowler (Psychology, City U.) on autism. Rowe: joint EU grant with academic & industrial collaborators from France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Mexico & Brazil. Ryan: visit to N. Foo (Sydney). Reynolds (RS): CMU.
(E) Evolutionary Computation
Invited/keynote talks/papers. Sloman: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (Paris, ‘00).Yao: 9 keynote/plenary talks at internat. confs. Poli: invited tutorials at 7 confs. Miller: 2nd NASA/DoD EH‘00 workshop. Rowe: European Summer School on Theoretical Aspects of EC, ’99.
Editorships. Yao: IEEE Trans. on Evol. Comp., Knowledge & Info. Systems, Cognitive Systems Research and 4 other internat. journals. Poli: Evolutionary Comp., Genetic Prog. & Evolvable Machines. Miller: Genetic Prog. & Evolvable Machines. Guest editorships. Yao: 9 journal issues, incl. CACM; invited by World Scientific to edit new book series on natural computation.
Conferences. Yao: (co-)chair of 16 internat. confs (incl. major IEEE confs) and on PC of 29 others. Poli: (co-)chair of 6 internat. confs and on PC of 22 others. Miller: (co-)chair of 2 internat. confs and on PC of 9 others. Poli & McPhee: best paper award at EuroGP’01. Rowe: on PC of 6 internat. meetings. Yao's paper "Evolving artificial neural networks„ (Proc. IEEE, ’99) won IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize.
External grants/collaborations. Yao (Marconi, EPSRC, BT, Royal Society), Sloman (Leverhulme), Poli (DERA). Grouping collaborates with researchers in USA, Germany, India, Japan, Italy, Austria, Australia, S. Korea, PRC, Holland & Iceland. The grouping frequently hosts sabbatical visitors and Royal Society visitors from overseas. It won an EPSRC MTP in Natural Computation (£534K).
(I) Image Understanding and Computer Vision
Invited/keynote talks/papers. Claridge: Imaging-Oncology-Science Congress ‘00.
Conferences. Claridge: chair, MIUA ‘01; on PC of MIUA (‘98-’00), EvoAISP(‘99-’01). Poli: co-chair, EvoIASP'99, ’00, co-founded a working group on Evolutionary Image Analysis & Signal Processing of Europ. Network of Excellence in EC. Claridge received conference prizes at SPIE ‘96 & IPMI ‘97.
Impact on wealth/life. Claridge’s skin imaging research led to patent application (PCT/GB97/03177). A commercial clinical device won 2 awards, and is already clinically used in 12 hospitals world-wide. Patent on image-based detection of eye disorders filed and being taken up by a company.
External grants/collaborations. Claridge (EPSRC: competitive Healthcare Informatics II; EU; NHS; Leverhulme‘01). Claridge invited to visit leading skin cancer centres in Milan, Graz, Sydney, Vancouver & London; invited to collaborate with leading dermatologists in UK, Germany, Belgium, Denmark & Australia; long-term collaboration with medical consultants in Cambridge and Birmingham. Poli collaborates with: Cagnoni (Parma); Valli, Coppini (Florence); Yanch & Dobrzeniecki (MIT).
Nigel Smart (Cryptography and Information Security)
Steven Galbraith
Alan Chalmers (Digital Media)
Prof. Barry Thomas
Andrew Calway
Majid Mirmehdi
Prof. Richard Jozsa (Quantum Computing)
Prof. David May (Languages and Architecture)
John Gallagher
Nathan Sidwell
Peter Flach (Machine Learning and Data Mining)
Prof. Jim Baldwin
Trevor Martin
Christophe Giraud-Carrier
Colin Campbell
Henk Muller (Mobile Computing)
Prof. Dhiraj Pradhan (System Design and Verification)
Prof. Erik Dagless
Gordon Hughes
§ Scientific Committee for EU Framework 5 TMR networks in CS and Mathematics
§ Invited speaker: ECC 1998, ECC 2000, Illinois Cryptography Conference 1999, Foundations of Computational Mathematics 1999, Cryptography and Computational Number Theory 2000.
§ Organiser: Durham Conference on Computational Number Theory and Cryptography 2000, Computations on curves 1998, Mathematics of Cryptography 1997.
§ Invited speaker: Midwestern Conference on Algebraic Geometry in Cryptography, Illinois, 1999; LMS Symposium on Computational Number Theory, Durham, 2000; Public key cryptography and computational number theory, Warsaw, 2000; ECC 1998, Waterloo; ECC 1999, Waterloo; Secants 9, Secants 11
§ Invited Lecturer: Newton Institute, Cambridge, 1998.
§ Chair of Eurographics Workshop series (parallel graphics and visualisation) since 1996
§ Co-Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH-Eurographics Campfire on Graphics Archaeology.
§ Co-chair, IEEE Parallel Visualisation and Graphics symposium (since 1999)
§ Editorial Board, Parallel Computing (since 1999)
§ Programme Committees: IEEE Visualisation, Eurographics Conference, IEEE Parallel Visualisation Graphics
§ Keynote speaker, Image and Video Understanding using Neural Networks CIE 2000, Mexico
§ Programme committee, British Machine Vision Conference, 1998-2000
§ Co-Chairman, British Machine Vision Conference 2000
§ Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Image processing; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEE Electronics Letters
§ Member of IEE Professional Group E4 (Image and Vision)
§ Co-organiser and Co-Chair, Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2001
§ Programme Committee: IASTED Signal Processing and Communications 2000, 2001; IASTED Computer Graphics and Imaging 1999, 2000, 2001; Machine Vision and Image Processing Applications 2001; British Machine Vision Conference 2001
§ Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, IEE Electronics Letters, IEE Vision Signal and Image Processing Journal
§ Guest Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Image and Vision Computing
§ Royal Society Leverhulme Research Fellow
§ Steering Committee, ESF Programme on Quantum Information Theory
§ Co-organiser, Newton Institute conference on Complexity and Computation
§ Co-organiser, Royal Society discussion meeting on Quantum Computation
§ Visiting Professor, Institute for Experimental Physics, Innsbruck
§ Visiting Scientist: IBM Yorktown Heights; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Photonics Technology Division, Ministry of Telecommunications, Tokyo
§ Technical Advisory Board, Element 14 Incorporated
§ Scientific Advisory Board, Sandcraft Incorporated
§ Technology Foresight ITEC panel; also ICM panel
§ Advisor, Amadeus Capital, Atlas Venture, 3i
§ Expert Witness, Intel Corporation
§ Programme Chairman, Sixth International Workshop on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation, 1996
§ Referee: Journal of Logic Programming, Journal of Automated Reasoning, New Generation Computing, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
§ Invited Speaker, French Association of Logic Programing Annual Workshop
§ Visting Researcher, Technical University of Madrid 2000-01
§ Consultant on Compiler technology to open source software vendor CodeSourcery
§ One of the four leading Gnu G++ (GCC) open source compiler developers
§ Academic co-ordinator, EU Network of Excellence in Inductive Logic Programming ILPnet2
§ Editorial board: Artificial Intelligence Communications, Machine Learning Journal (also book review editor), Journal of Machine Learning Research
§ Invited speaker: Fifth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning 1999; Fifth International Conference on Deductive and O-O Databases 1997
§ Co-organiser: International Workshops on Abduction and Induction in Artificial Intelligence (at ECAI'96, IJCAI'97 and ECAI'98)
§ Tutorial speaker: First International Conference on Computational Logic (CL'2000); Thirteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98)
§ Editorial board: Fuzzy Sets and Systems; International Journal of Intelligent Systems; International Journal Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge Based Systems
§ Invited lecturer: Universities of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Santiago (1998); Hong Kong (1999)
§ Consultant to LIFE 2 Technology Committee, Japan 1998-9
§ Referee: Fuzzy Sets and Systems; IEEE Transactions Fuzzy Systems; IEEE Transactions Neural Networks; IEEE Transactions Systems Man Cybernetics; International Journal Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge Based Systems; Kybernetika
§ Organiser: Fuzzy logic in Artificial Intelligence (Japan, 1997); Intelligent Sensors, part of EUFIT’99, (Aachen, 1999)
§ Invited plenary talk, Practical Applications of Data Mining 1999
§ Member of steering group, European Network of Excellence in Uncertainty (ERUDIT)
§ BT Senior Research Fellowship on Intelligent Internet Technologies (2001-2004)
§ Programme Committee: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN99, ICANN01; Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference GECCO99, GECCO00
§ Best Technical Paper, Expert Systems 1996
§ Invited Speaker, COIL 2000 symposium
§ Organiser: International Workshops on Meta-Learning at ICML99, ECML00
§ Co-organiser: Workshop on Support Vector Machines, NIPS99; Workshop on Kernel Methods, NIPS00
§ Editor, Special issue of Machine Learning Journal on Support Vector Machines
§ EPSRC/RAE supported visitor to MIT, ATT New Jersey, Rensselaer Institute NY.
§ Technical Consultant, LME design automation
§ Technical consultant, JERA project (KPN Research Netherlands, UvA)
§ Reviewer: IEEE Software, Journal of Functional Programming; ACM/IEEE ISCA, ACM ASPLOS conferences
§ Fellow, IEEE
§ IEEE Transactions on CAD Best Paper Award, 1996
§ Fulbright Flad Chair in Computer Science, 1997
§ Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers
§ Keynote Speaker, 7th IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop
§ Expert Witness, Intel Corporation
§ Member of EPSRC Photonics and Electronics College
§ Organising Committee, IEEE Computer Architecture for Machine Perception 1997
§ Member research panel, IEETA, University of Aveiro
§ Technical Programme Committee and session Chairman, ESREL 2000 and SRA-Europe Annual Conference, 2000
§ Invited lecture, IFAC Mechatronics 2000
§ Keynote Speaker, BARQA 13th International Congress on Compliance and Computers, 1998
Group A: Transformation & Evolution Group
Keith Bennett International: General Conference Chair of IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Maintenance (ICSM 1999). Elected member and secretary, IEEE Steering Committee for ICSM (1995 – 2001). Invited author (maintenance chapter) for new ACM book on software engineering research roadmaps. Referee, overseas research councils e.g. Canada, HK, Italy. Co-editor (until 1998) and founder of J. of Software Maintenance. National: EPSRC College member, regular panel member, and panel Chair. Member of EPSRC SWOT committee (1997). Co-founder & Chair of UK Software Engineering Association (SEA) and member of BCS Engineering Board. Accreditor for ERNIE. Leverhulme Research Fellow 1999/2000.
Group G: Reverse Engineering & Software Visualisation Group
Malcolm Munro International: Steering Committee for IEEE Int. Workshop on Program Comprehension 1998-2002; PC for: IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Maintenance (1996-2000), IEEE Int. Workshop on Reverse Engineering (1996), IEEE Int. Workshop on Program Comprehension (1996-2000). National: Co-organiser of the Legacy Theme for the EPSRC SEBPC workshop series; EPSRC College member.
Elizabeth Burd International: PC of IEEE Int. Workshop on Reverse Engineering, and Software Transformation Systems workshop at ICSE99. National: member of exec. committee of BCS Reuse Special Interest Group.
Maria Fox International: PC member for IJCAI-2001(Int. Joint Conference on AI, Seattle, US). Invited to give distinguished paper presentation at IJCAI 2001. PC member for 2002 NASA Planning and Scheduling Workshop. Editorial Board member, J. of AI; Review Board member of J. of Applied Intelligence; Chair of 2000 Int. Summer School on AI Planning; Co-chair of European Conference on Planning 1999; Node representative for PLANET (PlAnning NETwork of excellence); PC member of 6 int. (3 European (ECP-97,ECP-99, ECP-2001) and 3 US (KR-2000,AIPS-2000,ICAPS-2002)) conferences; Refereeing for European and US conferences and journals (ECAI, ECP, IJCAI, KR, AIPS, AAAI, JAIR, KE Review, etc.). Invited talks at AIPS-98 workshop on "Planning as Combinatorial Search", Pittsburgh 1998, at the Institut fur Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, 1999, at Stanford Research Institute, California, 2000, at NASA Ames Research Centre, California, 2000. National: Member of the EPSRC college (2000-2003); Chair of 1997 UK SIG workshop on Planning and Scheduling; PC member of 6 UK Planning SIG workshops (UKSIG 95-2000); Refereeing for EPSRC.
Derek Long International: Member of organising committee of 2nd. Int. Planning Competition; PC for European workshop (co-located with ECAI-2000); Joint winner of "Outstanding Research Paper" award, AIPS-2000; Chair of the AIPS-2002 Int. Planning Competition; Refereeing for European and US conferences and journals (ECAI, ECP, IJCAI, AIPS, KE Review, etc). Invited to give distinguished paper presentation at IJCAI 2001. Member of organising committee of 2nd. Int. Planning Competition. Invited lecturer at the Int. Summer School on AI Planning, Cyprus, September 2000, and at NASA Ames Research Centre, California, 2000. National: Chair of UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group; PC of 4 UK Planning SIG workshops (UKSIG 1997-2000).
Julie Porteous International: Refereeing for European conferences (ECP, ECAI). National: PC member, AISB-2000 convention on Intelligent Systems.
Alex Coddington International: Refereeing for European Conferences (ECP, ECAI). National: Chair of 1999 PLANET Technical Coordination meeting, Salford; PC of UK Planning SIG workshop 1999.
Group C: Distributed Systems Engineering Group
Cornelia Boldyreff International: PC member for: IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Maintenance (1996-99), IEEE Int. Workshop on Program Comprehension (1997-99), IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Reuse (1999-00), ACM Symposium on Software Reusability (1999), Int. Workshop on Web Site Evolution (1999-00), Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (2000); Co-organiser for: Int. Workshop on Web Site Evolution (1999-00)); Co-chair of: Reverse Engineering and Legacy Systems Workshop at IEEE STEP'97. Workshop. Reviewer for the EU, DG III, (1993--to date).
Jie Xu International: Editor of IEEE Distributed Systems magazine, in charge of the subject of dependable systems and fault-tolerant computing; Chair of IEEE SRDS Workshop on Object-Oriented Reliable Distributed Systems (2000); invited lecture on „dependable enterprise computing“ in 9th. and 10th. Int. Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science with Applications (2000-01); tutorial on exception handling and software fault tolerance in IEEE Int. Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (2000); invited lecture on implementing software fault tolerance in C++ and Open C++ at Academia Sinica. Session Chair/PC member for: Int. Symposium on Special Topics of Computers; 16th. IEEE Int. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems and IEEE CS 50th. Anniversary celebration conference; 4th. Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems; Int. Workshop on CAD, Testing and Dependability Evaluation. Referee for: IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, Software P&E, IEE Software, IEEE FTCS, IFIP DCCA, EDCC etc. National: Referee Panel member of IEE Electronics Letters.
Steven Bradley International: refereeing for: IEE, SP&E; Automated Software Engineering; IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Maintenance (ICSM 98). National: Chair IEE 1999 Colloquium on Applicable Modelling, Verification and Analysis Techniques for Real-Time Systems.
Nigel Thomas International: tutorial presentation at 2nd. Int. Workshop on Software and Performance, 2000; tutorial presentation at 10th. Int. Conference on Computer Performance Evaluation - Modelling Techniques and Tools, 1998; paper reviewer for UKPEW 1998, PAPM 1998 and 1999, IEEE IPDS 1998, ACM Sigmetrics 1999. National: co-chair UK Performance Eng. Workshop 1998; general chair UK Performance Eng. Workshop 2000; guest editor for IEE Proceedings - Software, 146(1) 1999.
Group H: Computer Assisted Reasoning Group
Zhaohui Luo International: Co-ordinator of the TYPES Project, funded as Working Group by EU in 5th. framework IST programme. Chair of the 1st. Int. Workshop on Subtyping, Inheritance and Modular Development of Proofs; PC member of two Inter Confs/Workshops; Chair of the TYPES Annual Workshop held in Dec. 2000 at Durham; invited lecturer at two summer schools (Germany, France.). Referee for: Verlag research monograph on theoretical computer science; J. papers from Theoretical Computer Science, Information and Computation, J. of Logic and Computation, Mathematical Structures of Computer Science, J. of Functional Programming, etc.;
AWARDS
EXTERNAL ADVISORY ROLES, KEYNOTE AND INVITED ADDRESSES
EDITORSHIPS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL BODY MEMBERSHIPS
MEMBERSHIP OF GRANT AWARDING BODIES
BEST PAPER AWARDS
PATENTS
Impact
Relationship with companies set up as result of research, main international collaborations since last RAE
Academic members of staff have been invited to present their research work in Universities and at International Meetings throughout the world. Half of the staff have presented their work in the USA: highlights include Dr Singh’s presentations at MIT and NASA. Approximately 40 seminars have been presented in continental European institutions situated in various countries, including France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and Greece. In addition, invitations have been accepted in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (Dr Singh); in South America (Dr Galton); in Canada (Dr Henderson); in Ireland and Japan (Dr Jones); and in Korea (Dr Narayanan). Professor Partridge was invited to give the keynote talk at an ACM meeting at New Mexico State University. He also accepted an invitation to give the closing speech to a two-day Festschrift in the USA for a distinguished cognitive scientist, Professor Roger Schvaneveldt, and to talk on `Computation without Representation’ at a conference at the Universita degli Studi in San Marino, Italy. Professor Heather Brown served on the 1996 RAE panel for Computer Science, and gave an invited keynote talk at the Digital Media Futures Conference. She also serves regularly on the panel for the British Computer Society awards. Dr Yang has accepted several invitations to present his research to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA --- February 2000 in Atlanta, and June 2000 in Savanah.
Dr Jones was a contributing author on two papers that received Best Paper awards: one at the 19th ACM SIGIR Conference in August 1996 in Switzerland, and the other at the 4th ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Boston, USA, in November 1996. The research of Prof Peter Brown was nominated for a BCS award.
The Editor-in-Chief of Springer-Verlag’s Pattern Analysis and Applications journal (
www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/paa) is Dr Singh, who is also Chairman of the BCS special interest group on Pattern Analysis and Robotics. In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief of Springer-Verlag’s book series on Advances in Pattern Recognition. Dr Narayanan is an Associate Editor of Information and Communication Technology Law. Together with Professors Partridge and Peter Brown these four member of staff sit on the editorial boards of 9 international journals, including Automated Software Engineering, Software --- Practice & Experience, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical AI, Neural Computing & Applications and IEEE Trans. On Fuzzy Systems. Professor Partridge was co-editor of a special issue on Inductive Programming for the journal of Automated Software Engineering (March 2001).Every individual member of staff regularly review papers for a wide range of international conferences and journals, and serve on the Programme Committees of a variety of international conferences and workshops. Most staff also act as reviewers for various agencies (e.g., EPSRC and NSF) and Foundations (e.g. the Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong).
Dr Singh was the Conference Chair and Programme Chair for the International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR’98) in Plymouth, and is the Conference Chair and Programme Chair for ICAPR2001 to be held in Rio, Brazil in March 2001. Dr Lings was the Organizing Chair for 17th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD2000), and co-editor of the proceedings published in Springer-Verlag’s Lecture Notes series (LNCS 1832). Dr Narayanan organized and chaired the special theme on quantum computing at the World Congress on Evolutionary Computation in Washington, DC in July 1999. Professor Heather Brown was Chair of the Programme Committee for the international conference on Electronic Publishing, EP98.
A prestigious (EPSRC administered) Toshiba Fellowship Award was secured by Dr Jones, which enabled him to work as an engineer at the Toshiba Corporation Research and Development Center in Kawasaki, Japan during the academic year 1997-8. Professor Partridge was a Visiting Professor at the Science University of Malaysia in 1996, and at the Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg in 1997. He also accepted invitations as external assessor for chairs in Computer Science in the UK (Birkbeck) and in Sweden. Dr Henderson continues to develop his productive collaboration with research groups in Switzerland (University of Geneva and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) with whom he has obtained a Visiting Research Fellowship for the academic year 2000-2001. Dr Singh was a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales in 1996.
Between September 1995 and September 1999, Dr Wakeling acted as a consultant for Canon Research Europe Ltd on the feasibility of programming embedded computer systems using lazy functional programming languages. Professor Partridge and Dr Singh have acted as consultants on image processing strategies using neural computing for National Air-Traffic Services, and Prof Partridge has consulted for Nuclear Electric on the feasibility of diverse programming technologies for safety-critical applications. Much of Dr Lings’s work is done in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Skövde, Sweden, where he is a member of the Database Technology Group. He also collaborates with Skövde Systemutveckling AB (an IS development company) and with Volvo IT in Gothenburg. In 1999 Dr Jones acted as a consultant to Sharp Laboratories of Europe (Oxford) on spoken language processing for multimedia applications.
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Deen has been a member of the editorial boards of Data & Knowledge Engineering (North Holland) and Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Kluwer. He has been a committee member for the International Conferences on Cooperative Information Agents, Parallel Processing, and Methodologies for Intelligent Systems as well as the DEXA conference. In addition, he has given a keynote talk at the International Conference on Intelligent Information Agents (CIA) at Kiel, Germany in 1997 and will be giving a further keynote on the EU-funded Advanced Course on Multi-Agent Systems in Prague. He was a Panel Chair at VLDB-26 in Cairo in 2000 and chaired the special VLDB panel session on the future direction of database research. During this period he has also acted as a research evaluator for UCLA, the University of Calgary and the University of Helsinki.
Johnson gave, by invitation, a talk at the 9th Meeting of the International Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Consortium, San Sebastian, 1998.
Geoinformatics
Worboys has been a member of the editorial boards of the following journals: International Journal of Geographical Information Systems (Taylor & Francis); Transactions on GIS, (Longmans); Geoinformatica (Kluwer); Computers in Environmental and Urban Systems (Pergamon); Cartography and Geographic Information Science; Spatial Information Science (Oxford). He has been a member of the programme committee for eleven major conferences, including: Conference on Spatial Information Theory, International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases and the ACM International Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Keynote and invited talks include: Conference on Socio-economic Research and Geographic Information Systems (Italy, 1997); Ordnance Survey Guest Lecture Series (Southampton, 1998); Institute Geographique Nationale (Paris, 1998); SCANGIS’99 (Scandanavian Research Conference on GIS, Denmark, 1999); International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (Hong Kong, 1999); British Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (1999); DEXA International Workshop on Advanced Spatial Data Management (2000); and EURESCO Conference on ontology and Epistemology for Spatial Data Standards (France, 2000). He is a member of the EPSRC’s IT&CS College and has been a member of a number of other professional panels and award bodies including the Ordnance Survey Science and Technology Advisory Committee (1997-99) and Chair of the Research Working Group (WG3) of the National Geospatial Data Framework (1997-99). He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Provence, France, and at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
Stell has moved into Geoinformatics from a background in theoretical computing, in which he continues to be involved, having been organiser for the British Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS) in 1999. He is becoming well known in the international spatial reasoning community, as evidenced by his invitation to an NSF Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Dynamic Phenomena, in Pittsburgh, 1998; invitations to the Scientific Committee COSIT’01 (5th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory); and to the Programme Committee of SVUG’01 (Workshop on Spatial Vagueness, Uncertainty and Granularity).
Software Engineering
Four of the core members of the group (Budgen, Kitchenham, Brereton and Linkman) have been the founders and organisers of the series of EASE conferences (Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering) held at Keele each Easter since 1996. These conferences form a valuable focus for researchers and have attracted some prestigious international keynote speakers.
Budgen is a member of the IWCASE Board of the IEEE TCSE and as such was co-chair of the STEP’97 Conference in London 1997 and a Programme Committee member for STEP’99 in Pittsburgh, 1999; as well as being a member of the Steering Committee of the Conference on Software Education (originally sponsored by the SEI, then by IEEE) since 1996. He has been guest editor of a special issue of Journal of Systems & Software as well as contributing invited journal articles to IEEE Software and Automated Software Engineering. He is a member of the EPSRC’s IT&CS College and has refereed extensively for EPSRC.
Kitchenham was on the Editorial Board of IEEE Software (1995-1997). She has been a programme committee member of the International Software Metrics Symposium, The European Software Measurement Conference (FESMA) and the European Software Control and Metrics Conference. She was the Guest Editor of the Special Edition on the EASE Conference published in the Journal of Information and Software Technology (1997). In 1997, she gave three invited seminars at US universities (Howard University, Washington DC, University of Maryland and Drexel University, Philadelpia). She gave an invited keynote address to FESMA98. In 1998, she gave invited lectures to the NW and NE SPIN Groups. In 1999, she gave an invited lecture to the BCS NW Region Quality Assurance Group. In 2000, she gave a seminar at the University of Oslo. She also gave an invited lecture as part of the University of Austin’s Distinguished Speakers Lecture series. She has given two invited lectures at the Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) Reliability and Metrics Club meetings in 1997 and 2000). She is currently chair of the CSR Council. She is a member of the EPRSC IT and CS College. She is a Visiting Professor at both the University of Bournemouth and the University of Ulster and has given a series of three annual seminars at each university. She has acted as an external expert evaluating professional candidates for two Swedish Universities and two Norwegian Universities. She has also acted as an external examiner for the University of Oslo. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and a Chartered Mathematician.
Brereton was guest editor of a special issue of Empirical Software Engineering, and has been a Programme Committee member for the International Conference of Software Maintenance and for STEP. She has contributed invited papers to Information & Software Technology and to IEEE Transactions on Education, as well as providing an invited seminar for the DTI/EPSRC Outreach programme.
Cook has been a Programme Committee member for the WoTUG series of conferences and is a member of the EPSRC’s CDS college. His paper in the Communicating Process Architectures conference (CPA2000) was awarded the "Best Paper" award.
Linkman has been chair of the EASE organising committee on several occasions and has also been an invited editor for a special issue of the journal Information & Software Technology. He is a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil.
Networks and Distributed Systems (NDS) (Boiten, Bowman and Derrick are involved with the work of this group, but they are returned in detail under TCS)
Systems and Software Engineering (SSE)
Applied and Interdisciplinary Informatics (AII)
Concurrency (CC)
Computer Science Education (CSE)
In September 1999, Professor Don Knuth (Stanford) visited the Laboratory to give a seminar honouring the work of Professors Heather and Peter Brown.
Advisors to research funding bodies
| EPSRC | D. Hutchison, G. Blair, N. Davies, D. Shepherd, I. Sommerville, T. Rodden, A. Dix
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| European Commission | D. Hutchison, G. Blair, N. Davies, T. Rodden, I. Sommerville
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| Other UK Research Councils | T. Rodden (ESRC)
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| Proposal and project reviewing | |
| Membership of EPSRC | D. Hutchison, G. Blair (Communications College), I Sommerville, T. Rodden, A Dix (Computing College) Peer College
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| European Commission | G. Blair, D. Hutchison, N. Davies, A. Dix, T. Rodden, I. Sommerville
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| UK Research Councils (excluding EPSRC) |
K. Cheverst (ESRC), A. Dix (BBSRC), J. Mariani, (BBSRC), T. Rodden (ESRC), I. Sommerville (ESRC), H. Gellerson (ESRC), A. Parkes (ESRC)
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| Other international research councils |
G. Blair (Norway, Netherlands), G. Coulson (Norway), N Davies (Canada); D Hutchison (Australia, Israel, Netherlands, Norway), A. Dix (New Zealand, South Africa), D. Nichols (Belgium), T. Rodden (Australia); I. Sommerville (Australia, Ireland, Sweden), D. Shepherd (Austria)
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| International conferences | |
| Chairs of international conferences and workshops |
G. Blair: Middleware ’98, 3rd Int. Symp. On Distributed Objects and Applications |
| G. Coulson: Middleware 2000 | |
| N. Davies: Middleware '98, Mobicom 2000 (Tutorials), WMCSA 2000 | |
| D. Hutchison: EC ECMAST 96, 98; IEEE OpenArch, 2000, IEEE IwQoS, 2001 | |
| D. Shepherd: IDMS, 2001 | |
| A. Dix: CHI’96 Basic Research Symposium | |
| T. Rodden: ECSCW’97 | |
| I. Sommerville: 6th Int Workshop on Software Configuration Management, 1996
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| Keynote presentations | G. Blair: 7th Int. Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecomms. Services |
| K. Cheverst: W3C workshop on position dependent information services | |
| N. Davies: ICDP’96, IFIP/IEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Platforms, 1996, The Future of Communicating Appliances, co-located with HUC’99, PvCC 2000, the Pervasive Computing Conf., 2000 | |
| D. Hutchison: 1996 Int. Workshop on Open Signalling for Telecomms; IEEE HPCS’97 (High Performance Computer Systems); ACM Multimedia '98 -"celebrity panel" talk: Telecoms Employers Forum, 1999, Int. Comp. Sci. Seminar on Quality of Service 2000 | |
| L. Mathy: APCC 2000 | |
| A. Scott: IPv6 at Lancaster, IP Future ’98, Paris, Dec 1998, Implementing Mobile IPv6 for Real-time Multimedia, Network Management and Implementation of Mobile IP, Euro-Forum,Oct 1999 | |
| D. Shepherd: 5th Int. Workshop on Int. Distrib. Multimedia Sys. and Telecomms. Services, 1998 | |
| A. Dix: Advanced Visual Interfaces, 1996, ERCIM workshop -CSCW and the Web, 1996, IEEE Conf. on User Interfaces to Data-Intensive Systems, 1999, CVE2000 – Collaborative Virtual Environments, 2000 | |
| I. Sommerville: Empirical Evaluation in Software Engineering, 1999; 17th IEEE Int. Conf. In Software Maintenance, 1999; IEEE Conf. on Engineering of Computer-based Systems, 2000 | |
| H. Gellerson: IST'2000
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| Journals | |
| Journal editorships | D. Hutchison: Computer Communications Journal, 1990-; Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, 1994-99 |
| T. Rodden: CSCW Journal, 1995- | |
| I. Sommerville: IEE Proceedings – Software, 1996- |
| H. Gellerson: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 1999-
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| Journal guest editorships | N. Davies: Distributed Sys. Eng. J. |
| D. Hutchison: IEEE JSAC | |
| A. Dix: Interacting with Computers | |
| G. Kotonya: IEE Proceedings – Software | |
| P. Sawyer: Requirements Engineering J. | |
| H. Gellerson: Personal Technologies | |
| A. Rashid: IEE Proceedings – Software
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| Journal editorial board | G. Coulson: IEEE Distributed Systems |
| membership | N. Davies: ACM Wireless Networks |
| I. Sommerville: Interacting with Computers, Requirements Eng. J. Annals of Software Eng. | |
| G. Kotonya: Requirements Eng. J. | |
| M. Rouncefield: Sociological Research Online
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| Other activities | |
| Professional activities | D. Hutchison: Chair, IEE A3 group, 1997-99, dep. Chair, E14, 1998- |
| A. Scott: Member, IEE A3 group 1997-99 | |
| I. Sommerville: Chair, IEE Informatics Division, 1999-2000
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| Young Researcher Award | L. Mathy: CFIP 1999
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| Book series editor | D. Hutchison: Wiley Int. Series on Communications,2000- |
| I. Sommerville: Wiley, Worldwide Series in CS, 1997-1999 |
Although the vast majority of our research work is fundamental research, it is informed by real industrial problems and we have industrial collaborators in most of our research projects. Since 1996, we have also had a very significant increase in direct research funding by industry for fundamental research work and we have, in the past 5 years, received more than £1.5m in direct industrial funding. Current industrial sponsors of our research (excluding sponsors of CASE students) include: Microsoft (£268,000), British Telecom (£380,000), ETRI, Korea (£141,000), France Telecom (£73,000), Austria Telecom (£70,000) and Agilent technologies (£59,000).
Our participation in a large number of joint research project with industry has resulted in a significant exploitation of our research results. These are too numerous to describe in detail here but companies that are currently exploiting the results of research from the Computing Department include British Telecom (Quality of Service filtering code, modified scheduler for Windows NT), Ericcson (QoS streamimg code in IPv6 networks), Nokia (link level code for wireless ATM), HP and Alcatel (QoS mapping software), Telecom Italia and HP (QoS selection code), Simoco (middleware to support mobile multimedia applications), Lucent (UMTS demonstrator), CCS, Spain (requirements engineering tool), Adelard (requirements engineering method). Of particular note are:
International and external collaborations
Members of the department have been involved in a large number of international research collaborations in projects supported by the European Commission including 2 long-term research projects (COMIC and ESCAPE) where we were prime contractor.
We are also involved in standardisation bodies in multimedia and distributed systems (MPEG7 and ODP). As a result of our research on multimedia content, led by A. Parkes, one of our researchers (E. Hartley) has been UK Head of Delegation to the MPEG-7 standardisation committee and has authored a number of documents. D. Hutchison and G. Blair have been involved with the ODP standardistaion activity since 1998.
Cisco have awarded a personal fellowship to C. Edwards, a recently appointed lecturer in the department in conjunction with the work on mobile IPv6. G. Kotonya and P. Sawyer are knowledge area specialists in the IEEE/ACM Software Engineering Body of Knowledge Project - the basis for professionalising software engineering in North America. A. Dix, T. Rodden and D. Hutchison have been involved in international committees namely EC COST committees and IFIP committees. I. Sommerville, A. Dix, D. Hutchison and D. Shepherd have served on appointment and examining committees in several European universities.
Vuskovic Co-PI on NSF/CBMS Regional Conference Grant, Organizing Committee Chair for NSF/CBMS Regional Conf. in the Math. Sciences 1999. Two months lecture tour in Brazil, 1998, with Brazilian National Council for Research support. PI on NSF grant for US-Brazil Cooperative Research. Invited talks: DONET & Twelfth Cumberland Conf., three US seminars and EPFL Switzerland. Paper selected for special volume Discrete Mathematics, Editors' Choice Edition 1999.
Müller Invited talks at Journées d'Informatique Messine (JIM'2000) Metz and Dagstuhl Seminar No. 99231,"Graph Decompositions and Algorithmic Applications", 1999. Habilitation Jena, 1999.
Birtwistle Three invited lectures on the specification and verification of asynchronous processors at Frontiers in Microelectronics International Workshop, Argentina, 1998. Invited Faculty reviewer Thessaloniki, 1997 and Canterbury, NZ, 1998. Ph.D. examiner for University of Waterloo, Canada.
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR)
Cohn EPSRC College. Promoted to Professor of Automated Reasoning (1996). Elected Founding Fellow of ECCAI for his "Pioneering work in the field of AI", IJCAI Inc. trustee and Conf. Chair for IJCAI'03. KR'98 prog. chair, KR2000 conf. chair and President of KR Inc. Review Co-Editor Artificial Intelligence Journal, Ed. Boards of AI Communications, Spatial Cognition and Computation, Policy Committee of ETAI and many prog. committees (e.g. Commonsense'98,01, AI and Maths 2000, GIScience2000, FOIS'98,01, IEA-AIE96, ECAI 96, CADE 96, ECSQARU/FAPR-97, SDH'96). Invited talks: AISMC96 (Steyr, Austria), KI 97 (Freiburg) and several int. workshops (AAAI Spring Symp. 1996, NSF Research Planning Workshop on Cognition and Spatial Reasoning 1997, AAAI Fall Symp. on Formalizing Reasoning, 1998, IJCAI'99 workshop on Adaptive Spatial Representations, Invited Panel Chair, SARA'00); tutorials at FAPR'96, IJCAI'97. Indicators in GIS community: invited tutorial COSIT'01, COSIT'97,99,01, GIScience 2000 prog. committees.
Hill Editor of Newsletter of the Assoc. of Logic Programming and now Treasurer. Prog. Committee for ICLP01, Workshop/tutorial chair 1998 Joint Int. Conf. and Symp. on Logic Programming. Co-organiser of (i) Int. Workshop on Component-based Software Development in Comput. Logic (COCL'98), (ii) Logic-Based Composition of Software (LOCOS), post-conf. workshop for ICLP'97 (with A. Broghli), (iii) CPP’97 Workshop on Constraint Prog. for Reasoning about Programming (with A. King & J. Gallagher). Invited to Dagstuhl 01141. Ph.D. Examiner, Pisa.
Smith EPSRC College. Invited talks on NP-Hardness at Trieste 99, Dagstuhl Seminar 00031 (2000) and CO 2000. Prog. committees CP98, CP2000, CL2000. Org. committee for Empirical AI workshops ECAI96, ECAI98 and IJCAI99. Appointed to Chair at Huddersfield University from 1/4/01.
Stell Invitations to the NSF Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Dynamic Phenomena, Pittsburg, 1998, the Scientific Committee COSIT'01 (5th Int. Conf. on Spatial Information Theory) (California) and the Prog. Committee of SVUG'01 (California). Invited to Dagstuhl Seminar 01191.
Zakharyashev Prize for best paper at KR00 conf. Colorado 2000. Editor of Advances in Modal Logic I (1997), II (1999), Associate Editor of Studia Logica, Prog. Chair AiML'98 (Uppsala), PC member LPAR99 Tbilisi, ESSLLI (Eur. Summer School Logic, Lang. and Inf). Habilitation Novosibirsk 1998. Invited talks: IJCAI’01 , 6th Barcelona Logic Meeting 2000, Constructivism in Non-Class Logics and CS,2000. Co-Organiser of Modal Logic in AI, Vienna, 2001.
Computer Vision and Language (CVL)
Hogg EPSRC College. Visiting Professor MIT Media Lab 1999-2000. [Hogg4] was 'Best Paper' (U.V. Helava Award) in the journal Photogrammetry and Remote-Sensing in 1999. Hogg’s student N. Johnson won the Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis of 1998 in Computer Vision or Natural Vision as awarded by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA), while A. Galata was awarded the BMVC 1999 prize for the best demonstration associated with a conference paper. Many prog. committees, including ICCV99, ECCV2000, CVPR2000, FG2000, ICPR2000. Co-organiser Dagstuhl Workshop 9750 on Knowledge-based Computer Vision.
Boyle ACM ITICSE 01 Programme Committee, Ph.D examiner Curtin (Australia). His student Magee won BMVA industrial prize 2000. EU funding of €600K for redesign of syllabus at University of Lodz. Secretary of CHPC Learning Development Group.
Bod EPSRC College. Visiting researcher at Xerox PARC, collaborating with Kaplan (1997 & 1999); visiting researcher/lecturer Stanford (1997). Member of several programme and reviewing committees (ACL'2001,ACL'2000, ESSLLI'2000, ACL'99, EACL'99, CUNY'98, ROCLING'97). Several invited international talks (TALN'97, CLUK'99, Treebank-workshop' 2000 Tübingen). Ph.D. examiner Univ. of Rennes (France). Co-organiser Prob. Theor. of Ling. LSA-2001 Symp. Wash. D.C. 1/01.
Bulpitt (Appointed from PDRA 10/00). Programme Committee for IEEE Int. Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, (CVP12 2001) , Hawaii, USA.
Scientific Computing and Visualization (SCV)
Brodlie Promoted to Professor of Visualization 2000. Ed. Board Computers and Graphics. Invited talks Daghstuhl 1997 and 2000, Rostock 1999, ACM SIGGRAPH panel 1998. Eurographics State of the Art reports 1998 and 2000. Elected Eurographics Fellow 1999. Member of Tech. Policy Comm. of NAG Ltd. EPSRC panel member. Member of BSI standards Comm. on VRML, JISC Advisory Group on Computer Graphics. Chair of EPSRC Community Club on Visualization and Virtual Environments.
Jimack EPSRC College. Promoted to Reader from 8/01. Ed. Board of Advances in Engineering Software. Visiting Scholar at UCSD California 1998-99. Research visits to Stanford (Golub), Berkeley (Miller) and TU Chemnitz (Meyer). Ph.D. examiner Delft. Plenary lectures at 2nd and 3rd Euro Conferences on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Computational Mechanics (Sintra, Portugal and Weimar, Germany). Secretary and Treasurer of SIAM UK and Ireland Section.
Hubbard (Appointed from PDRA at Cambridge 09/00). Ph.D. examiner (Zaragoza) and Invited talk at European Science Foundation workshop, Zaragoza, 1999.
Informatics (Inf)
Dew EPSRC College. Innovation and Architecture Director of Symularity (formerly VWS Ltd), a University spin off company with 30 staff. Best Paper Prize at ASME IDETC/CIE conference for [Dew4] paper. EPSRC Multimedia Networking Management Group 1996-2000.
Bullock (Appointed from PDRA 9/99) Prog. committees of European Conference on Artificial Life and Int. Conf. on Artificial Life and the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour. Awarded Leverhulme Fellowship but declined in favour of Leeds. Invited talk at Max Planck Institute Jena. PI on Hewlett Packard grant (£100k) and EPSRC Fast-track (£66k). Royal Society/Wolfson grant with Bioinformatics (£81k).
Noble (Appointed from PDRA 9/00) Commonwealth Scholar (to 1998). PDRA, Max Planck Institute, Berlin (1998-2000). Prog. committee member, Int. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (2000), reviewer for European Conference on Artificial Life (1997 & 1999). Invited panel speaker, UK Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems. Founding member of Int. Soc. for Artificial Life.
Ruddle (Appointed from PDRA 01/01) Editorial Board of Presence. Invited paper at Spatial Cognition in Real and Virtual Environments, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen, Germany 1999. Member of VIRGIC advisory group (expert group organized by Virtual Reality News).
Wren
: D.Sc Edinburgh (1996). Ed. board Journal of Scheduling, Ph.D. examiner Queensland Australia. Plenary talk at MI2000 Slovakia. Invited talks Oberwolfach 99, Sao Paulo. Programme committees : Int. conf on Computer Aided Transit Scheduling Boston 1997, PATAT 97 (Toronto) and 2000 (Konstanz). Member of new EPSRC „Interdisciplinary Scheduling Network.“Publications During the period of RAE 2001, members of the group have published: 30 journal papers; 28 refereed conference papers; and 11 papers in edited works and collections; and have 31 papers currently submitted or accepted for publication.
Editorial and Academic Research Positions IAS is a member of the Advisory Board of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) Journal of Computation and Mathematics and is an Editor of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms. IAS is Chair of the Computer Science Committee of the LMS. IAS served on Council of the LMS 1997-99. In 1996, IAS was appointed to the EPSRC Information Technology Computing College and in 2000 he has been re-appointed. IAS has chaired EPSRC Research Grant Panel Meetings, he sat on an EPSRC Committee to assess candidates for EPSRC Advanced Fellowships in January 1998, and he was a member of the EPSRC Mathematics Evaluation Panel in both 1999 and 2000. In July 2000, IAS was appointed Co-ordinator of the joint LMS/EPSRC initiative MathFIT (Mathematics for Information Technology). IAS was elected Vice-President of the European Association for Computer Science Logic for five years until 2002. IAS was President of the British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science 1998-99. RR is Associate Managing Editor of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms. RR co-edited the Proceedings of 10th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms. RMT is a member of the LMS Computer Science Committee.
Invitations to Workshops and Summer Schools and Program Committee Membership “Computability, Complexity and Logic” (WCCL’96) in Greifswald, Germany in March 1996; invitation-only workshop on “Semantics of Concurrent Systems - Foundations and Applications” at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany in May 1996; “Anglo-Israeli Workshop on String Algorithms” in Warwick in December 1996; invitation-only workshop on “Finite Models and Descriptive Complexity” at Princeton, USA in January 1997; the Kurt Gödel Society in Vienna, Austria in April 1997; “Conference on Semigroups and Applications” in St Andrews in July 1997; “9th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information” in Aix-en-Provence, France in August 1997; “Groups St Andrews/Bath” in Bath in August 1997; invitation-only workshop on “Finite Model Theory” at Oberwolfach, Germany in February 1998; “Workshop on Logic, Computability and Complexity” in Amsterdam, Holland in March 1998; “Logic, Proofs and Algorithms” (LPA'98) in Campinas, Brazil in April 1998; “British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science” in St Andrews in April 1998; “Workshop on Randomisation in Parallel Computing” in Florida, USA in April 1998; a one-day Combinatorics Colloquium held at the University of Reading in May 1998; “Conference on Algorithm Problems in Groups and Semigroups” in Nebraska, USA in May 1998; invitation-only workshop on “Domain Theory and Its Applications” at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany in May 1998; “11th Latin American Symposium on Mathematical Logic” in Merida, Venezuela in July 1998; “Computational and Geometric Aspects of Modern Algebra” at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh in July 1998; “9th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms” in Perth, Australia in August 1998; “Phase-Transition Phenomena in Combinatorial Problems” in Liverpool in December 1998; co-chair of organising committee of “3rd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering (WAE’99)” in London in July 1999; “Conference on Groups, Combinatorics and Computer Science” in Oulu, Finland in August 1999; invitation-only workshop on “Finite Model Theory, Databases and Temporal Logic” at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany in October 1999; program committee of “19th Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science” (FSTTCS’99) in Madras, India in December 1999; invitation-only workshop on “Finite Model Theory” in Luminy, France in April 2000; “Conference on Geometric and Combinatorial Methods in Group Theory and Semigroup Theory” in Nebraska, USA in May 2000; invitation-only colloquium in honour of the eightieth birthday of Professor R. Fraïssé at Luminy, France in May 2000; “Conference on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory” in Haifa, Israel in June 2000; program committee of “11th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms” in Perth, Australia in July 2000; program committee of “7th International Workshop on Solving Irregularly-Structured Problems in Parallel” in Cancun, Mexico in July 2000; program committee of “10th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms” in Perth, Australia in July 2000; invitation-only workshop on “Workshop on Efficient Algorithms” in Oberwolfach, Germany in August 2000; invitation-only workshop on “Logic, Algebra, and Formal Verification of Concurrent Systems” at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany in November 2000; invitation-only workshop on "Semantics in Databases" at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany in January 2001; program committee of “Computer Science Logic” (CSL’01) in Paris, France in September 2001; 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Max-Planck-Institute in December, 2000. Members of the group have also been invited to give departmental seminars at universities on over 40 occasions during the period of the RAE.
International Collaborators These include: Arne Andersson (Uppsala); Argimiro Arratia (Caracas); Bernd Borchert, Frank Stephan (Heidelberg); Adam Cichon, Jean-Yves Marion (Nancy); Manfred Droste, Steffen Hölldobler, Reinhard Pöschel, Remi Morin (Dresden); Paul Gastin (Paris); Mordecai Golin (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Georg Gottlob (Vienna); Torben Hagerup (Frankfurt); Guiseppe Italiano (Rome); Danny Krizanc (Carleton); Clemens Lautemann (Mainz); Fabrizio Luccio (Pisa); Kerko Luosto (Helsinki); Ralph McKenzie (Vanderbilt); Gerhard Rosenberger (Dortmund); Michiel Smid (Magdeburg), Thomas Schwentick (Jena).
Grants. IAS, RMT and RR have all held EPSRC grants for post-doctoral research associates over the period. In addition, IAS and RMT each hold ongoing EPSRC research grants for project studentships working in collaboration with post-doctoral research associates at Oxford and Warwick/Newcastle respectively. There have been several other smaller grants over the period funded by the EPSRC, the British Council and other bodies. IAS was awarded a BT Short-Term Fellowship to spend six weeks at BT Research Laboratories at Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, during the summer of 1997 to work on mobile computing.
Research Group 2 Distributed and Reactive Systems
Publications During the period of RAE 2001, members of the group have published: 11 journal papers; 23 refereed conference papers; and 3 papers in edited works; and have 12 papers currently submitted or accepted for publication.
Editorial and Academic Research Positions GL has recently been invited to become an Editor of the Journal of Computer Security.
Invitations to Workshops and Summer Schools and Program Committee Membership Invitation-only workshop “UK-Japan Workshop on Theory of Computing” in Manchester in April 1996; program committee chair of “4th International RIMS Workshop on Concurrency Theory and Applications” in Kyoto, Japan in July 1996; “4th International RIMS Workshop on Concurrency Theory and Applications” in Kyoto, Japan in July 1996; invitation-only workshop on “2nd International Workshop on High-Level Concurrent Languages” (HLCL'97) in Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany in January 1997; invitation-only meeting on “Formal Description Techniques” in Tokyo, Japan in December 1997; program committee of “11th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop” (CSFW’11) in Rockport, USA in June 1998; “Workshop on Duration Calculus” at the “10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information” (ESSLLI'98) in Saarbrücken, Germany in August 1998; program committee of “11th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification” (CAV '99) in Trento, Italy in July 1999; program committee of “International Colloquium on Principles, Logics, and Implementations of High-Level Programming Languages” (PLI'99) in Paris, France in September 1999; program committee chair of “International Workshop on Object-Oriented Specification Techniques for Distributed Systems and Behaviours” in Paris, France in September 1999; invited address to Information Processing Society of Japan in Okayama, Japan in April 2000; “Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics” (MFPS’00) in New Jersey, USA in April 2000; “9th Workshop ALGI, University of Osaka” in Osaka, Japan in August 2000; program committee of “6th International Symposium on Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems” (FTRTFT’00) in Pune, India in September 2000; “IPSJ Seminar” organized by the Tokai Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and Nagoya IEEE, in Nagoya, Japan in September 2000; program committee of “Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics” (MFPS’01) in Aarhus, Denmark in May 2001; program committee of “14th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop” (CSFW’01) in Nova Scotia, Canada in June 2001. Members of the group have also been invited to give departmental seminars at universities on over 25 occasions during the period of the RAE.
International Collaborators These include: Zhou Chaochen, He Jifeng, Li Xiaoshan (Macau); Mathai Joseph (Pune); Makoto Kubo (Chiba); Anders Ravn (Aalborg); Vasco Vasconcelos (Lisbon); Shoji Yuen (Nagoya).
Grants. GL held an EPSRC research grant for a project studentship and NY has just been awarded an EPSRC grant for a post-doctoral research associate. There have been other smaller grants over the period funded by the EPSRC, DERA and other bodies. NY was awarded an ETL Short-Term Visiting Fellowship to spend 15 days at the Life Electronic Research Centre, Osaka, Japan, during the summer of 2000, to work on semantics.
Research Group 3 Semantics
Publications During the period of RAE 2001, members of the group have published: 9 journal papers; 13 papers in refereed conference proceedings; and 1 paper in an edited work; and have 12 papers currently submitted or accepted for publication.
International Collaborators These include: Thomas Arts (Sweden); Franco Barbanera, Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (Turin); Juergen Giesl (Aachen); Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen); Barry Jay, Max Kelly (Sydney); Jan Willem Klop, Femke van Raamsdonk, Jan Rutten (Amsterdam); Anna Labella (Rome); Christoph Lüth (Bremen); Aart Middeldorp (Tsukuba); Valeria de Paiva (Xerox Parc); Paula Severi (Montevideo); Ross Street (Macquarie); Yoshito Toyama (Sendai); Vincent van Oostrom (Utrecht).
Grants. RLC holds an ongoing EPSRC grant for a post-doctoral research associate. NG holds an ongoing EPSRC research grant for a project studentship and has just been awarded an EPSRC grant for a post-doctoral research associate.
Degtyarev was a visiting Professor at the University of Paris XII (1997), and a visiting researcher to the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (Uppsala, 1996-1999). He was an invited speaker at the Deduction workshop (Dagstuhl, Saarbruecken, 1999). He has contributed two chapters to the forthcoming, highly regarded, Handbook of Automated Reasoning (Elsevier).
Dixon has been a member of the programme committee for the International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME) annually since 1997, initially under the auspices of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, and was co-chair of this workshop (Orlando, 1999). She is an organising committee member and programme committee member for the UK Workshop on Automated Reasoning. She was co-organiser of the Workshop on Combining Temporal and Modal Logics (Manchester, 1998) and has been invited to be a guest editor of a Special Issue of the Annals of Mathematics and AI journal (2001).
Fisher has served on the programme committees of the International Conference on Temporal Logic (ICTL) and was tutorial chair at this conference in 1997, the International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME) annually since 1995, and was co-chair of this workshop (Orlando, 1999), the International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving (St Andrews, 2000), the UK Automated Reasoning Workshop annually since 1996 (programme chair in 1997), the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context in 1999 and 2001, the International Conference on AI: Methodology, Systems, and Applications (Sozopol, 1998), the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL) annually since 1996, the UK Workshop on Multiagent Systems (UKMAS) annually since 1996 (programme chair in 1998), International Symposium on Languages for Intensional Programming (Greece, 1999), and the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralised Systems (Dallas, 2000), and 1st International Conference on Computational Logic (London, 2000). He was also an invited speaker at the 33rd Annual International Seminar on the Teaching of Computing Science at University Level (Newcastle, 2000). He has been a member of EPSRC’s Computing College since 1997.
Ghidini, a new academic, was a programme committee member for the workshop on Semantic Approximation, Granularity, and Vagueness held at the International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Colorado, 2000) and is a programme committee member for the International Conference on Modelling and Using Context (Dundee, 2001). She was awarded the best paper award at the 8th International Conference on AI: Methodology, Systems, Applications (Sozopol, 1998) for her paper entitled Formalising Belief Reports.
Gibbons was President of the British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS) for the six-year period to April 1999. He was a programme committee member of the following conferences: the Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science `96 (Grenoble, 1996), Euro-Par `96 (Lyon, 1996), 8th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (Singapore, 1997), 9th Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (Perth, 1998) and IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (Tohoku, Japan, 2000). He gave invited talks at the 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (Cracow, 1996) and the 2nd ALTEC meeting, an EU sponsored meeting between East and West European scientists (Max-Planck Institut fűr Informatik, Saarbrűcken, 1997). He gave a keynote address at the 1st International Conference on Unconventional Models of Computation (Auckland, 1998) and was a founding member of the European Molecular Computing Consortium, directed by Professor Rozenberg (Leiden University) and having some 11 academic and industrial partners across Europe. He is a
member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Graph Theory and Applications. He is a member of the EPSRC Computing College and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. Recognition of his research has come into the public domain through BBC television’s Nine O’Clock News (appearance in July 1996) and through reports in, for example, The Australasian (24 April 1999), Tomorrow’s World Magazine (May 1998), Electronic Times (24 January 1999) and Engineering (September 1997).Hustadt, a new academic, was an invited speaker at the Practical Reasoning Agents Workshop (London, 2000) and the Deduction workshop (Dagstuhl, Saarbruecken, 1999). He co-organised the Workshop on Combining Temporal and Modal Logics (Manchester, 1998). He was nominated by Professors Ohlbach (Munich) and Ganzinger (Saarbruecken) for the Foundation for Logic, Language and Information (Amsterdam, 1999) award for best PhD dissertation. He has contributed a chapter to the prestigious Handbook of Automated Reasoning (Elsevier).
Leng was an invited Keynote Speaker at an international workshop held to mark the establishment of a new College of Interactive Communication by Lund University, Sweden in 1998, and was programme chair for the 2nd International Conference on Innovation through Electronic Commerce (Manchester, 1999). He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Linz, Austria (2000). He was the Guest Editor of the International Journal of New Product Development and Innovations, special issue on Electronic Commerce (March/April 2000). He is director of the University’s Unit for On-line Education, research publications with Professor R Aiken (Temple University, Philadelphia, President-Elect of IFIP).
Malcolm is at the forefront of research into algebraic specification techniques. His long-term collaboration with Prof JA Goguen (San Diego) has led to much internationally recognised work, for example the publication of two books (Algebraic Semantics of Imperative Programs [MIT Press, 1996] and Software Engineering with OBJ: Algebraic Specification in Action [Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000]) during the period. He is highly regarded in the international community, for example being invited by the Dutch IPA (Institut voor Programmerkunde en Algoritmiek) to give a series of seminars in 1997.
Parsons was awarded the IEE Achievement Medal, Younger Engineers Award, in the Informatics area (1998). He has been editor in chief of Knowledge Engineering Review journal since 1998, and was associate editor prior to that. He served as a programme committee member for the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, as programme chair for the uncertainty track at the Florida AI Research Society Conference (FLAIRS) in 1999 and 2000, and a programme committee member in 1998. He served as workshop and tutorial chair for the European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty in 1999, and a programme committee member for the International Conference on Autonomous Agents in 1999 and 2000. He chaired the workshop on Decision Theoretic and Game Theoretic Agents in 1999 and 2000, the workshop on Knowledge and Data Fusion in 2000, co-chaired the 1997 workshop on Practical Reasoning and Rationality and the 1996 workshop on Uncertainty in Information Systems. He served on the programme committees of the 2000 workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: from Inference to Data Mining, the 2000 workshop on Computational Dialectics: Argumentation, Negotiation, and Decision Making, and the 2000 workshop on Agents for Industry.
Rytter was a member of the programme committees of the following conferences: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (Cracow, 1996), International Symposium on Algorithms and Complexity (Osaka, 1996), International Conference on Parallel Computing (Bloomingdale, 1996), International Conference on Automata, Languages, and Programming (Prague, 1999), Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (Montreal, 2000) and String Processing and Information Retrieval (Spain, 2000). He is an editor of the Journal Parallel Processing Letters. He gave invited talks at the first (Prague, 1996) and second (Saarbrűcken, 1997) ALTEC meetings (EU sponsored meetings between East and West European scientists). Before joining Liverpool in 1997, he was Head of Section for Analysis of Algorithms in the prestigious Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw.
Sazonov was head of the Computer Logic Laboratory of the AI Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pereslavl-Zalessky, between 1999 and 2000. He was a visiting Professor at Siegen University, Germany between October 1999 and March 2000. He has acted as a programme committee member for the International Conference on Database Theory (Delft, 1997), the International Conference on Perspectives of System Informatics (Novosibirsk, 1999 and 2001), the International Conference on Logic for Programming and Automated Reasoning (Tbilisi, 1999), the International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (Germany, 2000), the Andrei Ershov 3rd and 4th International Conference on Perspective of System Informatics (1999, 2001). He was an editorial board member for the journal Mathematical Structures in Computer Science between 1991 and 1996 inclusive. He was an invited speaker at the workshop on Applicative Theories, Explicit Mathematics and Related Topics (Bern, 1996), the International Workshop on Foundations of Arithmetic (Warsaw, 1996), and the International Colloquium in Honour of B.A. Trakhtenbrot (Jena, 1997).
Woodward is editor-in-chief of the journal Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, and is a member of the editorial board of the Software Quality Journal. He was a programme committee member for the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (San Diego, 1996), the 13th IFIP International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (Ottawa, 2000), and the International Symposium on Mutation Testing (San Jose, 2000), and an organising committee member for the International Workshop on Automated Program Analysis, Testing and Verification (Limerick, 2000).
Wooldridge was the founder of AgentLink, the ESPRIT-funded European Network of Excellence for agent-based computing in 1997. He was network coordinator from 1997 to 2000 and has acted as associate coordinator since then. He has been an associate editor for Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems since the founding of the journal, and has been an editorial board member for the Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence since 1995; he is an editorial board member for Kluwer International Series on Multi-Agent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations since founding in 1998. He has been an invited speaker at the 4th International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (Boston, 2000), the 1st European Conference on Information Society Technologies (Vienna, 1998), the 14th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Science (Vienna, 1998), the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (San Sebastian, 1997) and the 1st International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (Kiel, 1997). He was a senior programme committee member for the International Conference on Autonomous Agents in 1999, 2000, and 2001, programme chair for this conference in 1998, and programme committee member in 1997. He was a programme committee member for the US National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1996, 1998, and 1999, and a programme committee member for the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS) in 1998 and 2000; he was elected to be a director of the International Foundation for Multi-Agent Systems in 1999. He founded and co-chaired the European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS) in 1999 and 2000, and chairs the steering committee for the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL). He was co-chair for this workshop in 1996 and 1997, and was a programme committee member in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. He was co-chair of the international workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) in 2000 and 2001, and has been a programme committee member for the international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA), annually since 1997. He was a programme committee member for the international conference on Coordination Languages and Systems (COORDINATION) in 1999. Wooldridge acted as an evaluator for EC IST (Framework V) FET research proposals in October 1999 and February 2000, and an evaluator for EC ESPRIT long-term research proposals in October 1997. Finally, he acted as an advisor to the European Commission Framework V Information Society Technologies R&D programme, in February 1999 and May 2000. He has been a member of the EPSRC computing college since May 1998.
Zito gave invited talks in the Universities of Ulm (1999), Bordeaux (1999) and Lund (2000); he is a new academic but is widely collaborating with members of the international community (particularly researchers in the Universities of Melbourne and Bari) as his publications indicate.
(c) Invited Talks and Visits
In the Database Technology group, Loizou gave invited talks at the International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Bulgaria, 1999 and 2000, and at the International Workshop on Security at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, 2000. He was invited to Université de Paris-Sud in 1999, sponsored by CNRS and the Royal Society.
Levene gave invited talks at Microsoft Research, Cambridge in 1999, and at Macquarie, South Australia, Flinders and Auckland universities while on sabbatical leave in Australia in 1997. He gave an invited paper at the Conference of the German Classification Society, Passau, 2000, sponsored by the German Science Foundation.
Poulovassilis gave invited talks at SRI Menlo Park, IBM Almaden, BT Adastral Park, EBI, and at Athens and NTUA universities.
King gave invited talks at several Brazilian universities while on a visit there in 1996, including at Amazonas, Paraiba, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ).
Bailey gave an invited talk at the Workshop on Logics for Emerging Applications in Databases, Schloss Dagstuhl, 2000. Wood gave invited talks at IBM UK, Hursley and HP Labs Bristol. Members of the Database Technology group also gave invited talks at many UK universities during this RAE period.
In the Computational Intelligence group, Mirkin gave invited talks at the Conference of the German Classification Society, Potsdam, 1998, the Conference on Stochastic Systems and Data Analysis, Lisbon, 1999, and the Annual Conference of the North-American Classification Society, Montreal, 2000. He was invited to spend 18 months as Visiting Professor in the German National Cancer Centre (DKFZ, Heidelberg) in 1998-1999 in order to develop a project applying his methods to protein analysis. He spent invited periods at GERAD (Montreal), NIST (Gaytisburg), Lisbon University, NCBI (Bethesda), RWTH (Aachen) and DIMACS.
Christodoulou gave invited talks at the Institute of Informatics & Applied Mathematics, University of Bern and at BG Technologies (the R&D section of British Gas).
Mikulas gave invited talks at the Workshop on Logic, Universal Algebra and Theoretical Computer Science, Johannesburg, 1999, and the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Birmingham, 2000.
Westerdale gave invited papers at the 1999 Festschrift in honour of John H. Holland and the 1997 Annual Conference on Genetic Programming. He was one of the judges of the PhD student presentations at the 1998 Annual Conference on Genetic Programming.
Counsell has given talks at several UK universities.
(d) Other External Recognition
Johnson is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. During 1997-99 he was President of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS), comprising 30 computer societies with a total membership in excess of 150,000. He is currently Honorary Secretary of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). He is also a former President and currently a member of the Council of the British Computer Society. He served on the Senate of the Engineering Council during 1996-98.
Chistodoulou chairs the BCS Evening Lecture Series sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Applied Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Systems, held at Birkbeck (Liu chaired this lecture series until October 2000). Liu was a member of the CPHC Research Strategy Group on Computational Learning and Inductive Inference.
Nine members of staff returned as research-active have served as examiners of 25 PhD and higher doctorates during this RAE period (16 in Database Technology and 9 in Computational Intelligence) including at Imperial College, UCL, Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton and Paris-Sud.
(e) Major Research Collaborations
During this RAE period the School has established major research collaborations with the School of Crystallography, with the Birkbeck/UCL Joint School of Biomolecular Sciences, and with colleagues from several other London colleges (KCL, UCL, Imperial) and other UK institutions (Cardiff and Plymouth Universities, Central Middlesex Hospital, the Home Office, the Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital, the North Thames Regional Health Authority).
We have long-term international research collaborations with researchers at the Universities of Amsterdam, Auckland, Budapest, Carnegie Mellon, Memphis, Paris-Sud and South Australia, and with DKFZ, NCBI and DIMACS. We have continued our collaboration with IBM UK and Kodak, and have initiated new research collaborations with several other industrial partners, including Astra Zeneca, BP-Amoco, BT Adastral Park, EBI, EDS, Honeywell and Microsoft.
(f) Impact of the School’s Research
As may be seen from RA5a, our research during this RAE period has resulted in advances in all of our areas of activity. Sections (a)-(e) above are evidence of the high esteem in which this research is held internationally. Our research has been of immediate benefit to the public by being directly applied to the analysis and integration of biological data, to medical informatics, to crime investigation, and in the gas, electricity, oil and process industries.
Dr Colin Cooper Invited speaker at the Centre for Network Optimization (Trier) workshop on applications of Computer Science to Telecommunications.Regularly (once or twice a year) visits Carnegie Mellon University to work with Alan Frieze; these visits are paid for by National Science Foundation (US) grants . In 1999, visited the University of Leeds to work with A Frieze and Professor Martin Dyer. This visit was supported, in part, by ESPRIT_RAND_APX. Invited to workshops in Princeton, Rutgers, Edinburgh.
During the RAE period, published 15 papers in academic journals.
Reviews papers for Journal of Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, Random Structures and Algorithms, Combinatorics Probability and Computing, Mathematics of Operational Research. Reviewer of book proposals for Springer Verlag.
Dr Sebastian Danicic 12 Papers Accepted in the RAE period.. MPhil Examiner at Imperial College. Seminar at Brunel University on Semantics of Schemas
Dr Mark Harman Seminars at twenty universities including Sheffield, Bristol, Durham, Leicester, Liverpool, Reading, and Kings College London.
Conference programme committees: IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance. Steering committee member: Software Engineering Association.
Editor of special issue of Journal of Information and Software Technology
Dr Rodger Kibble Reviewed papers for the following journals: Computational Linguistics, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Linguistics and Philosophy, Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
Co-organiser (with Kees van Deemter) of workshop on "The Generation of Nominal Expressions" at the European Summer School on Logic Language and Information at University of Utrecht, August 1999. Semianrs given at University College Dublin (Nov 1999), Kings College London (March 2000). Co-editing book of selected papers from above workshop and 2 other ESSLLI'99 workshops.
Instigated a research network "SESAME" for researchers in formal and computational semantics of natural language in London and South-East. The group has held two meetings each with around 30 participants at Brighton (May 2000) and KCL (Nov 2000). Kibble has submitted a proposal for ongoing funding under the ESRC Research Seminars Programme.
Dr Francis Lin Published 10 papers since 1996. Four are published on top international journals in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and cognition, and one is a paper in a prominent Chinese journal.
Given invited seminars at Microsoft Research China, Beijing School of English, Zhongshan University, China Department of Linguistics, Guangzhou University, China, Department of English, Beijing University, China.
Dr Lin (along with some of the leading linguists in the world) has been asked to contribute to contribute a paper to a book: Apropos of Zellig Harris.
Dr Nikolay Nikolaev Published 15 papers in the RAE period. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, International Journal of Neural Systems, Intelligent Data Analysis, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, genetic and Evolutionary Computation conferences, European Conference on Machine Learning, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, International Conference on Machine Learning. Seminars given at UCL and LSE.
Professor Nelson Stephens Member of the EPSRC College: sat on panels for Senior Research Fellowships (5 year awards for eminent scientists), for Advanced Research Fellowships and for applications to Mathematics for Information Technology (MATHFIT). Referees grant, fellowship and conference proposals for EPSRC.
External examiner for 7 PhDs at the University of London, 1 for the University of East Anglia, 1 for University of Exeter, and for the MSc in Information Security and the MSc in Secure Electronic Commerce at Royal Holloway. He has recently completed a 4 year period as external examiner to the University of Glamorgan. He is the external assessor for research and teaching aspects for mathematics and computer science at the University of South Pacific in Fiji. He is an external assessor for validation panels for the University of Wales.
Joint organiser of the MATHFIT programme on Cryptography and Computational Number Theory (University of Kent 1997) and for the Workshop on Computational Results in Arithmetic Geometry (Newton Institute, Cambridge, 1998). He has been the grant holder, secretary, treasurer and member of the organisation committee for the South of England Computational and Algorithmic Number Theory Seminars (SECANTS) since 1995.
Professor Robert Zimmer During the RAE period published 21 refereed journal and conference papers.
Program Chair of First IEEE Workshop on Safety Critical Electronic Systems.
Co-Organiser (with David Israel) of a Special Session on “Category Theory and Artificial Intelligence” at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
Editing special issues of IEEE Design and Test of Computers and Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
Department Colloquia given at: Kings College London, and the Oxford Computing Laboratory. Seminars given at York University, Heriot-Watt University, University of Bristol, Exeter University, University of Central Florida, University of Texas, University of Ottawa.
External Examiner for PhDs at University of Edinburgh, and University of Huddersfieield.and MSc Course on Electronic Commerce at the University of Westminster.
Consultant for the Safety System Research Centre at the University of Bristol.
Independent evaluator for UK Government Designation Challenge Fund. Project Review Panellist for Framework V.
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Intelligent Systems. Reviewer of book proposals for Springer Verlag.
Principal or Second investigator of over half a million pounds of grants and research contracts, including a 225,000 pound research contract within the RAE period with the Industries Management Fund of the nuclear industries.
High Performance Informatics
Major prizes and honours.
Interactive Media
Major prizes and honours.
Logic and Artificial Intelligence
Major prizes and honours.
Software Technology and Theory
EPSRC and other external committees.
The Kensington Distributed Data Mining system (developed by Guo and Darlington) has been used by various industrial organisations for enterprise wide business and scientific data analysis. These companies include Gene Logic Inc., AstraZeneca, The Sanger Centre, ICRF, LogWare GmbH et al. Darlington and Guo have formed InforSense to exploit the Kensington Data Mining system. Darlington is also on the Technical Advisory Committee for the Fujitsu European Centre for Information Technology.
Contributions have been made to the OMG work on Electronic Commerce and to FIPA work on Agent Standards (Clark, Cunningham). The Logic and Artificial Intelligence group had active collaborations with major industrial laboratories including Italtel (Milan), Alcatel-Bell (Antwerp) and Fujitsu (Japan).
In 1999 IC-Parc, supported by 3i and other investors, created a spin-off company Parc Technologies Limited.The Company focuses on delivering applications software to Internet service providers and carriers, to router manufacturers, and to the airline sector. The Company is currently selling two products, viz.RiskWise (Internet OSS) and AirPlanner (fleet scheduling and operations planning) Among its customers and collaborators are some of the world's leading companies, including Cable & Wireless, Cisco, Global Crossing, Schlumberger and British Airways. The Company currently has over 70 employees and expects to treble in size over the next 18 months.
Fellowships, Prizes and Honours
Invited Talks
Conference Organisation
Books Published
Industrial Support
Visitors
Perhaps the greatest and most pleasing recognition of our achievements over the last few years (and of great promise for the future) is the fact that we are now continually approached by colleagues from all parts of the UK and Europe wanting to know if and when they can come to work at DCS/KCL.
The group has many active international collaborations including those associated with the EU TYPES and APPSEM working groups. Notable visitors who have spent periods with the group include Reynolds (CMU), Reddy (Illinois), Harland (Melbourne), Power (Edinburgh), Ghelli (Pisa), Schroeder-Heister (Tuebingen), Buneman (Pennsylvania), Kelly and Johnson (Sydney). The Joint Theory Seminars series has been run with IC for many years. We are partners in a new International Co-tutored PhD Programme specialising in logic and formal methods and led by the University of Verona. This has funding from the Italian government and also involves universities in Paris, Rennes, Havana and Recife (Brazil).
Pym: EPSRC Advanced Fellow - Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University Informatics Division - member of EPSRC Computing College, Systems Engineering and MathFIT panels, LMS Computer Science Committee - editor of special issue of Theoretical Computer Science - programme committee member and organizer of series of ENTCS published workshops at CADE - invited speaker at MFPS and British Logic Colloquium '98 - external examiner at European universities, Fellowship examiner at Oxford
O'Hearn: member of several programme committees (including TACS, MFPS, CTCS) - co-organizer of APPSEM OOP stream - organizer of special sessions on OOP and lambda-calculus at MFPS, APPSEM and the 'North American Jumelage' - invited visitor to Bell Labs, CMU, the Electrotechnical Laboratory at Tsukuba, Japan - invited speaker at '97 FOOL workshop, Inaugural Workshop for Preuves, Programmes et Systemes Lab, Paris VII,'99 and 16th Conf on Mathematical Foundations of Program Semantics '00 - promotion/tenure reviews at several US institutions and a performance review for Microsoft
Robinson: editor of the J of Pure and Applied Algebra - chair of Systems Engineering panels and member of EPSRC Computing College - external reviewer for government bodies in Canada and Japan - examiner of doctoral and tenure candidates in several US institutions - member of programme committees for several leading theoretical conferences (CSL, ICALP, LICS)
Riis: holder of numerous research grants and fellowships including Fields Institute, Toronto '97 - member of editorial board of Pure and Applied Logic - keynote speaker at numerous conferences and workshops including DIMACS '96 and '97 - organizer of BRICS conference in Proof Theory and Complexity
Malacaria: EPSRC Advanced Fellow '96-'01 - member of EPSRC Computing College - invited speaker at numerous workshops including LICS Workshop on Games '98 - organizer of several workshops including Games and Machines '96, Theory and Formal Methods '98
Honda: member of programme committees for Foundations of Software Technology and ECOOP
Landin: invited speaker at 2nd ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Continuations '97
Bellin: chair of program committee for 6th Workshop on Logic, Language, Inf and Computation '99
Gong: best paper award, with Rhomdani and Psarrou, at BMVC '99 - guest editor, Image and Vision Computing - co-chair of BMVA Workshop on Understanding Visual Behaviour - member of programme committee of several international conferences - referee for Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences, UK distinguished PhD dissertation awards - invited speaker at DTI e-commerce Launch Day, Microsoft Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences and workshops (e.g. European SMART Network '98, BCS Biometrics '00) - member of EPSRC Peer Review Panels (Systems Architecture) - invited visiting senior research scientist at Microsoft Research '00-'01
McOwan: chair of judging panel for Wellcome Trust final year PhD students' meeting since '99 - member of technical committee for Wellcome Trust Mathematical Biology Fellowships Conf '99 - invited speaker at Rank Prize Fund meeting on Visual Motion Perception '98 - member of technical committee at 2nd Int Conf on Autonomous Agents '98 - honorary Research Fellow in Dept of Psychology, UCL
de Agapito: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow '97-'99 - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship funded by Spanish Ministry of Education and Science '99-'00 - visiting researcher U of Adelaide '96-'97
The work in decision support has affected both the regulatory framework and industrial practice. Fenton's approach to software metrics has been incorporated into a number of national and international standards (such as BS5760 and ISO9126) as well as into many companies' software metrics procedures (e.g. Philips are now using a defects management and prediction tool arising from this research). Fenton's book 'Software metrics: a rigorous and practical approach' has sold 25,000 copies worldwide with several hundred citations to this and related papers in scientific journals. The work on BNs has led to a spin-off company Agena and to the development of bespoke decision support systems for DERA, Railtrack, NATS and Motorola. Industrial collaborators include BAE Systems, HUGIN Expert A/S (Denmark), TüV Nord (Germany) Electricité de France, Objectif Technologie and Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
Fenton: named in '98 as one of the 15 top scholars by the US Journal of Systems and Software - invited speaker at several conferences, giving the Keynote Addresses at BCS SPIN Conf '00 and SQI Symposium '98, and addressing the Dutch National Bank Feb '00 - organizer and member of the programme committees of several conferences on software metrics - member of editorial board of Software Quality Journal and Journal of Empirical Software Engineering - co-editor of Chapman & Hall series, Computer Science: Research and Practice - member of EPSRC Computing College
Neil: Council Member of the National Centre for Software Reliability - invited paper at Int Conf on Software Engineering '00 - invited talks to Motorola Research Labs, DERA/MOD - consultant to Railtrack, DERA, NATS, Philips Research, Motorola, Aon Risk & Insurance, Rolls-Royce
Avresky: guest co-editor of J of Supercomputing May '00, IEEE Trans on Parallel and Dist Sys Feb '01, IEEE Micro Sep/Oct '98 - general chair of IEEE Int Workshops on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Dist Sys '97, '98, '99, '00 - programme chair of IEEE Int Workshops on Embedded Fault-Tolerant Systems '96, '98, '00 - session chairman at IEEE Int Conf on Dependable Systems and Networks '00 - member of editorial board of J of Supercomputing - member of 13 programme committees '96-'00 including many IEEE Int Conf's on Parallel Processing etc. - invited paper ISCA J of Computers and their Applications '98 - USA liaison chair of 3rd Euro Conf on Dependable Computing '99 - editor of two books published by Kluwer '99, '98 - NSF reviewer - consultant to AT&T Bell Labs '94-7, Adv Inst for Science and Technology (Japan) '99
INFORMATION, MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
Lalmas: honorary lecturer at Glasgow '99-'01 - (co-)organizer of several workshops, including LUMIS'01, '00, '99, ACM SIGIR Workshop '00, - member of programme committees (incl. 9th Int Conf on Inf and Knowledge Management '00, 4th Int Conf on Flexible Query Answering Sys '00, IJCAI '99) - vice-chair of BCS IR Specialist Group '99-'00 - co-editor of special issue of Information Retrieval
Healey: programme chair of 1st Int Workshop in Interactive Graphical Communication '00 (including sponsorship award of 1 million Yen by ATR) - editor of special issue of Int J of Human-Computer Studies - member of programme committees (Interact '99, Diagrams '01, IJCAI'97) - invited researcher at ATR Labs, Kyoto (Apr '99 and Aug - Nov '00)
Paker: visiting researcher at BBC R&D '99-'01 and INRIA-Rennes '99 - member of programme committees of several conferences, (e.g. IEEE Multimedia Systems '99) - invited speaker at Conf on High-Performance Scientific Computing, Hanoi '00
Reid: co-editor of special issue of Interacting with Computers '98
EDITORSHIPS OF JOURNALS AND BOOK SERIES
Davies Special Issues of: Image and Vision Computing on Projection-Based Transforms (July 1998), Real-Time Imaging on Real-Time Visual Monitoring and Inspection (Oct 1998)
Gammerman, Vovk Special Issue on Kolmogorov Complexity, The Computer Journal 42:4 (1999)
Shawe-Taylor Special Issues of: Discrete Applied Mathematics on VC dimension; Machine Learning on COLT'97; Neurocomputing on 'Theoretical Analysis of Real-value Function Classes'
MEMBERSHIP OF EDITORIAL BOARDS
Davies (Imaging Science, Pattern Recognition Letters, Real-Time Imaging, and for the Academic Press book series "Signal Processing and its Applications" since 1996; Associate Area Editor for the Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering (CRC Press, 1999)
Gammerman (Law, Risk and Probability)
Schneider (Computer & Communications Security Abstracts)
Shawe-Taylor (Neurocomputing; Machine Learning; Journal of Machine Learning Research)
Vapnik (Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery)
Watkins (Journal of Machine Learning Research)
MEMBERSHIP OF GRANT AWARDING BODIES
PROGRAMME COMMITTEES CHAIRED; WORKSHOPS ORGANISED
Schneider Program Chair, 14th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop 2001
Conference chairs: Chairs or co-chairs for conferences such as: 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation (Campbell); 9th IEEE International Workshop on Software Specification & Design, 1998 (Finkelstein); General Chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering 2004 (Finkelstein); BCS HCI '96 (Technical Programme Co-Chair and Co-Editor of Proceedings); IFIP/BCS INTERACT '99 (Co-Chair International Programme committee and Co-Editor Proceedings) (Sasse); ACM Virtual Reality Software & Technology conference, 1999 [co-chair 1998 and 2000] (Slater): European Conference on Symbolic and Qualitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty (Hunter); 4th European Conference on Computer Vision (Buxton); Emerging Technologies 1996, 1997 (Clack); Implementation of Functional Languages, 1998 (Clack); European conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty, 1999 (Hunter).
Keynote presentations
Alty Vanguard International Seminar, Munich (1997), Malaysia (1998); Danish Marine Laboratory, (1998); OSCHI98 (Adelaide). Candy Collaborative Creativity 2000, Nara, Japan. Chung Annual Chinese Automation and Computer Science Conference UK (2000). Edmonds REDECS `96, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia; ACM International Conference Intelligent User Interfaces, New Orleans (2000), Kalawsky Interact ’99 Edinburgh; 1
Fellowships and Awards
Acar BT Fellowship; IEE Best Paper Award, Advances in Manufacturing Technology XII. Alty Visiting Fellowship Melbourne (Australia); Visiting Fellowship Swinburne(Australia); BT Visiting Fellowship. Chung Invitation Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (2000); Certificate of Recognition, Expert System 99 Conference. Edwards Visiting Fellow, Wollongong Australia. Sykora Humboldt Foundation fellowship, Passau Universität Fachberereich Informatik. Department (2000) IBM prize.
Editorships of journals and/or book Series
Acar Editorial Board Journal Mathematics and Design. Alty Founding Editor, Journal of Microcomputer Applications; Joint Editor in Chief, Journal of Expert Systems; Editor, Journal of A. I. in Eng.; Editorial Board Interacting with Computers; Editorial Board HCI Letters; Editorial Board Personal Computer Tech. Chung Editorial Board International Journal of Applied Intelligence. Cooke, Editor, Cambridge Computer Science Texts, Cambridge University Press; Associate Editor, Formal Aspects of Computing, Springer International; Associate Editor, The Computer Journal. Editorial Board for Formal Aspects of Computing and Information Technology (Springer-Verlag); Editorial Board of Interacting with Computers (Elsevier). Edmonds General Editor, Knowledge-Based Systems; Editorial Board of the International Journal of Human-Computer Science; Editorial Board of Interacting with Computers; Editorial Board of Revue Sciences et Techniques de la Conception; Editorial Board of Machine Intelligence News; Board of The Society for Computational Modelling of Creative Processes (Languages of Design), Kalawsky Editorial Board Virtual Reality Journal, Springer, Schröder Regional Editor, Parallel Processing Letters. Sykora Executive Editor International Journal Computers and A. I. (1987-1999, editorial board 2000-).
Appointments and/or elections by peers to major committees
Alty Advisor Etisalat University Dubai; EPSRC Music panel;
External examining of research degrees
Alty Birmingham (X2); City (1998); Bristol (X2);UCL; Copenhagen. Chung Murdoch Australia; York; Leeds. Connolly Aston; UMIST; Birmingham. Cooke Hertfordshire. Edmonds, Deakin Australia; University Pertanian Malaysia; Sydney Australia. Hinde Bristol (X6); Warwick (X5); Kalawsky Lund (X2). Schröder University of New England Australia. Sykora Bordeaux (X2); Lund.
Organisation of international conferences
Alty, International Programme Committee CHI'98; International Programme Committee INTERACT'99; Chair, International Doctoral Consortium, INTERACT'99, Edinburgh; International Programme Committee, MMS-98, Tokyo; Organiser, Doctoral Consortium, INTERACT'97, Sydney; Treasurer and Programme Committee ICAD 1997; Programme Committee IUI98. Bez, Creativity & Cognition 1996 - Programme Committee, Candy Programme Chair, Creativity & Cognition 1999. Chung Programme Committee, International Conference Industrial Eng. Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems (1996, 1997). Connolly Programme Committee International Interdisciplinary Workshop on Communication Modelling, Tilburg, 1996 & 1997, Cooke Programme committee/co-editor of proceedings, 7
International collaboration
Acar 'Technical Advisor' for the GyneConcepts Inc (1999-2000);Delft University Netherlands Royal Academy of Eng. Visiting Professor.Alty Ericcson University (Sweden); Bosch (Germany); Alacatel (France); Nokia (Finland); Softeco (Italy); Labcim (Spain). Bez Wetzel Associates Arizona USA. Chung & Yang Chem. Eng. Dortmund University, Chung Okyama University (K Suzuki); VTT Finland (P Heino); Zhejiang Univeristy (CH He). CW Dawson Canadian Climate Impacts Scenarios Group; University Yichang, China, Edmonds & Candy Alenia (Italy); Aerospatiale (France); Daimler-Benz, (Germany); IBM Thomas Watson Research Institute (USA);PN (USA); SIA (Italy); BIM (Belgium); Lyonnaise des Eaux-Dumez (France); Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (France); Universal Machines (Germany); Universities of Claustalle (Germany), Deakin (Australia), Drexel (USA), Iwate (Japan), Linköping (Sweden), Sydney (Australia), Tokyo (Japan), Waseda (Japan), University of South Australia, Syseca SA (France), Edwards (PR Gibson) University of Wollongong papers. Hinde, Monash Australia (YP Cheung) papers. Kalawsky Naval Air Warfare TSD, Florida USA; DSTO, Australia; University of Lund (Sweden). Knott Deloitte & Touche (Central Europe); Czech Technical University, Prague; Charles University Prague; University of Agriculture Prague. Newman CLIPS IMAG, Grenoble, France; Fern Universitat, Germany; CMU (SEI), USA; Waterloo, Canada; Technical University Denmark, book. Schröder Universities of Braunschweig (M Schimmler); Illmenau (M Kunde); Aachen (B Schmidt); Karlsruhe (H Schmeck, M Middendorf); Wellington (New Zealand) (G Turner); LORATAIN - Slovak Academy of Sciences (funded by British Council). Sykora PAST-Prof. of French government (1998); 1997-1998: site manager research project ALTEC-KIT COPERNICUS Programme; University North Texas (F Shahrokhi); University South Carolina (L. Szekely); Slovak Academy of Sciences (I. Vrto); University Bordeaux (A Raspaud); Nantes (G Fertin); Yang Computer Science Central China Normal University (LS Tan); Chem. Eng., Zhejiang University, China (CH He).
Invited seminars and presentations
Acar Duke University USA. Alty, Clausthal & Dresden Germany. Chung Dortmund University; Okyama University; Imperial College; Centre for Process Systems Eng. Leeds; Chem. Eng. York; University of Wales Aberystwyth; Pfizer Corporate Engineering and Process Safety Meeting, Boston, USA (1998). CW Dawson Nortel Networks UK 2000. RJ Dawson Rolls-Royce 1997 – 2000. Edmonds Video Positive, Liverpool, 2000; Presentation at ATR, Kyoto, Japan, 2000; Deakin University, Victoria, Australia, 2000; Iwate Prefecture University, Japan, 2000; Creating Cultures of Innovation, ; Metapod Expo, Birmingham 2000; FAUST 96, Toulouse, France, Hinde Nortel Networks UK 1999 & 2000. Kalawsky ImechE 150
Honours & Prizes: OBE for services to Foresight and Health (Taylor); FREng (Furber); IEEE Outstanding Leadership award (Magnetics Society UK Chapter Chair) (Middleton); 8 best papers at international conferences; 3 best paper of the year awards; 2 world theorem proving CASC championships; the 2000 BMVA Sullivan Prize for best PhD thesis (G Edwards) and 5 other prizes.
Membership of policy-making bodies: Including – Chair Foresight Health Informatics Working Party (Taylor); EPSRC TOP (Goble); EC COST Action WGs (Barton); Chair UK Institute for Health Informatics (Taylor), Chair EDIF Technical Committee (Kahn); UK ITEC Panel (Taylor); DTI-WG National Measurements System (Cunningham); Chair IEEE UKRI Magnetics Chapter (Middleton); Advisory Panel NIH MIPS Project (Taylor).
(2) External bodies collaborate with us and exploit our research results:-
International co-authorship: A quarter of our returned papers in RA2 have at least one co-author from a non-UK institution.
International collaborations: 40 projects, £4.87M, of which £4.72M funded by non-UK funding bodies since 1996.
Wealth creation: 6 spin-out companies established with a total of £4.5M initial capital (Kestra – subsequently sold for $11M, Transitive Technologies, Cogniscience, Sagittus, I-Morphics, Semantic Technologies).
Long-term invited visits: 16 (14 international) - Stanford (Bree), MIT (Gurd), UNC (Hubbold), Illinois (Sakellariou), Tsukuba (Nehmzhow), Dresden/Saarbrucken/Vienna (Voronkov), Malarden (Lau), Zurich (Pratt-Hartmann), Nijmegen/Padua (Aczel), Pisa/Cyprus (Banach), Edinburgh (Rector), Cambridge (Heathfield).
(3) Our peers look to us for leadership in academic decision-making:-
Guest editorships of journals: 9 - IEE CDT (Furber), Journal of Symbolic Computation (Lau), Annals in Maths and AI (Dix), Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Nehmzow), Medical Image Analysis (Taylor), AI in Medicine (Rector), Wireless Personal Communications (Barton - 2), Journal of the IGPL (Franconi).
Conference and programme committee chairs: 35, of which 13 were held outside the UK, including ACM International Conference on Supercomputing Steering Committee (Gurd), Euro-Par 2001 (Gurd), Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming 1998 (Lau), IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2000 (Taylor), International Conference on Logic Programming and Automatic Reasoning 1999 (Voronkov), International Conference on Temporal Logic 1997(Barringer), Async 2000 (Furber).
Chairs of EPSRC panels: 8 (Paton - 6, Gurd, Barringer).
(4) Our peers want to hear about our current activity and value our opinions on other research:-
Invited conference & workshop papers: 126, of which 19 were keynote addresses (71, including 10 keynote addresses, were delivered outside the UK).
Invited seminars: 162, of which 60 were delivered at overseas institutions.
Editorial board memberships: 20, including International Journal of Satellite Communications (Barton), AI Communications (Dix, Voronkov), Cambridge Tracts in TCS (Aczel), Journal of Logic and Computation (Barringer), Advances in Computational Mathematics (Freeman), Scientific Programming (Gurd), Medical Image Analysis (Taylor), International Journal of Bioinformatics (Rector), Journal of Database Management (Embury).
Programme committee memberships: 190, of which 115 were for conferences or workshops held outside the UK.
External examining for PhD and postdoctoral qualifications: 121, of which 21 were at overseas institutions.
Membership of grant awarding bodies: 14 EPSRC college members invited for 20 panel meetings.
Professor Shrivastava and the Distributed Systems Research Group received the British Computer Society Technical Award in 2000 for Arjuna. Their spin-off company, Arjuna Solutions Ltd., which was set up in November 1998 to provide a commercial exploitation path for their technologies, has been acquired by Bluestone Software, Inc., a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies, for over $13m, so as to form the basis of the now rapidly developing Bluestone Arjuna Labs in Newcastle. (At the time Bluestone announced: "Through our acquisition of Arjuna Solutions Ltd., we became a leader in the new world of distributed Internet transactioning". Subsequently, Hewlett-Packard acquired Bluestone for $500M; their press release stated that the Arjuna software will be "the core of HP’s middleware offering".)
Another recent recognition that is worthy of particular note is that of an Honorary Doctorate from the Institut Nationale Polytechnique de Toulouse to Professor Randell. For fans of bibliometrics, we also note that Professor Jones’ book "Systematic Software Development Using VDM (1996)" is one of the top ten most frequently cited CS publications in the NECI Research Index (CiteSeer).
The Theory Group's strong international standing in the area of formal methods and Petri-Nets has recently been reconfirmed by co-chairmanships of two premier meetings in these areas (FME - Formal Methods Europe, and ICATPN - International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets). Moreover, Newcastle was chosen as the venue of the next ICATPN, that will be held jointly with the International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (the event will be organised by the members of the ASL).
The Department has received industrial research funding, in some cases over many years, from a number of leading industrial companies, including BAE SYSTEMS, DERA, BT, HP, IBM, Nortel Networks, Marconi Communications and Bluestone Arjuna Labs. During the assessment period, the number of companies with which it has been involved in formal research collaborations totals over fifty.
Senior staff are actively involved in research policy formulation at both the national and the international level, the most recent examples concerning the setting up of the EU IST Dependability Initiative, and a programme of transatlantic R&D collaboration between the IST Programme and DARPA/NSF. Five are members of the Computing College of EPSRC; many of various national and international committees (these include the following IFIP Working Groups: WG 2.3 Programming Methodology (Founding Member, Chair), WG 2.9 Requirements Engineering (Founding Member), WG 7.3 (Performance Evaluation), WG 10.4 Dependability and Fault Tolerance (Founding Member), and WG 11.3 Database Security (Founding Member, immediate past Chair)), and also Formal Methods Europe (two including the Chairman) and ISO WG19 for the Standardisation of Formal Specification Languages.
The list of conference programme committee chairmanships and memberships is far too long to give in full, but regularly includes involvement with such major international conferences as: the IEEE Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium (FTCS), IFIP Int. Conf. On Dependable Computing for Critical Applications (DCCA), Int. Symp. of Formal Methods Europe (FM’99 and FME), IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (DCS), IEEE Int. Conf. on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ECCS), Int. Conf. on Concurrency Theory, Int. Conf. on Application and Theory of Petri Nets, IEEE Int. Conf. Performance and Dependability, European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, FASE/ETAPS, ECOOP, etc.
Similarly, the following list of editorial board involvements is merely illustrative: Acta Informatica, Formal Aspects of Computing (Editor-in-chief), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Journal of Logic and Computation, Queuing Systems Theory and Applications (Associate Editor), Science of Computer Programming, Software Practice and Experience, Theoretical Computer Science (Associate Editor), BCS/IEE Journal: Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, etc.
Invited talks include the BCS/IEE Turing Lecture in Edinburgh, 2000; FASE’99 (Amsterdam), FM’99 (Toulouse); Symposia in honour of C. A. Petri in Zaragosa and C.A.R. Hoare (Oxford), SBES-2000 (Brazil) and MPC 2000 (Lisbon).
Engagement with research bodies
The School has been active in shaping international and national research agendas in cooperation with a number of research bodies.
Involvement with OST research councils – Benford, Burke, Elliman and Rodden have been members of the EPSRC Peer Review College during the period of assessment and have regularly been appointed to EPSRC award panels. Benford has chaired a People and Computing Panel and has sat on Human Factors, EQUAL, Multimedia Networking Applications and JREI panels (the latter twice). Burke has chaired a Mathematics panel. Elliman has sat on a Neural Computing panel. Rodden has sat on Human Factors, Flight Deck Safety, Senior and Advanced Fellowship panels.
Members of the school have advised EPSRC in shaping new research programmes. Benford was involved in establishing the Human Factors in VR programme and Rodden the Flight Deck Safety programme. The School’s commitment to interdisciplinary research is reflected in involvement with other research councils. Rodden represented ESRC on the committee advising OST on e-Science and Benford has advised the Arts Council of England on establishing a residency programme for artists wishing to work in science laboratories. Members of the School are involved in several EPSRC managed programmes, including Distributed Information Management, Multimedia Network Applications, IT in Engineering and the ESPRC/ESRC PACCIT programme.
Involvement with international bodies – Burke has been funded by the European Association of Operational Research Societies to establish a working group on Automated Timetabling that now has over 200 members worldwide. Backhouse has been a panel member for the Australian Research Council. In 1996, Benford and Rodden coordinated an international consortium that won a Europe-wide competition for funding to write one of two schema documents – research visions – that led to the establishment of the Intelligent Information Interfaces (i
3) research programme (ESPRIT IV Long Term Research). They were subsequently funded in three out of twenty-five i3 projects. Rodden has also served as an invited member of US National Science Foundation review panels, has been an invited reviewer for the Australian Research Council’s Distributed Systems Technology Centre, for the Swedish Research Council’s Interactive Institute, is an external Advisor to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and is an advisor to the EU Long term Research programme for framework VI.Awards and Professional Recognition
Greenhalgh won a CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award in 1998. Petrovic won an award for one of the best technical papers at the International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied AI (1999). Burnett’s PhD thesis was shortlisted for the 1999 BMW Scientific Award (six were selected from 140).
Members of the School have also been invited to take part in international committees and working groups. Alechina was invited onto the Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. Ashman has been appointed chair of the ACM SIGWEB WEB Working group. Backhouse is a member of IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi and the CPHC Research Strategy Panel on Theoretical Computer Science. Benford was a member of the CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation judging committee in 2000. Rodden is the only UK ACM SIGCHI Distinguished Advisor (there are 8 International members of this committee) and is also a member of the EU COST and i
3 steering committees. Pridmore has been elected to the executive committee of the British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition.Involvement in journals and conferences
| 4 journal editorships | Journal of Scheduling (Wiley), Journal of Heuristics (Kluwer) (Burke). Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination and Design (Wiley) (Brailsford), CSCW Journal (Kluwer) (Rodden) |
| 6 journal guest editorships | ACM Computing Surveys, Journal of Digital Information (Ashman). Formal Aspects of Computing (Backhouse). ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (Benford, Rodden). Journal of Image and Vision Computing (Pridmore). |
| 7 memberships of journal editorial boards
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The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Journal of Digital Information (Ashman). Information Processing Letters, Formal Aspects of Computing, Science of Computer Programming (Backhouse). IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, (Burke). Journal Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (Benford). Journal of Scheduling (Cowling). |
| 12 conference or programme chairs | TYPES workshop (Springer). User Interfaces for Theorem Provers. 5th International Conference on Mathematics of Programme Construction (Netherlands, 1998). Mathematics of Program Construction (Portugal, 2000). Workshop on Generic Programming (Sweden, 1998). Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 1997 and 2000). British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'99). International Workshop on Systems Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Environment (USA, 1999 and 2000). European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 1997. |
| Over 30 keynote and/or invited talks at international conferences and workshops (indicative selection shown) | Workshops on Finite Model Theory, Oberwolfach, 1998 (Alechina). Hypertext'97 and WWW7 (Ashman). Workshop on Algebraic and Coalgebraic Methods in the Mathematics of Program Construction, Oxford, 2000 (Backhouse). The Royal Society of Edinburgh Symposium on Human Communication, 1996 (Benford). Invited keynote speaker at ICCC/IFIP conference on refereed electronic journals, 1997, (Brailsford). Optimisation Days conference, Montreal, (Burke). Vehicle Electronic Systems 2000 (Burnett). Keynote at Eurographics, 1997(Greenhalgh). Invited talk at Dagstuhl, 1999 (Logan). INFORS 96, Vancouver (Petrovic). EU Information Society Technologies IST’97 (Rodden). |
| Over 60 programme committees memberships (indicative selection shown) | ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000). ACM Computer Human Interfaces (CHI 1996, 1998), ACM CSCW (1996, 1998, 2000). ACM Group (1997,1999, 2001). ACM Hypertext (1996, 1997, 1998, 2000). ACM Design of Interactive Systems (DIS 1997, 1999). International World Wide Web Conference (WWW5, WWW7, WWW9, WWW10). AISM (2000,2001). Fixed Points in Computer Science (1998, 2000, 2001). Mathematics of Program Construction (1998, 2000). AAAI’s Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO 1999, 2000, 2001). Third Haskell Workshop (1999). British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2000, 2001), Ractice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT) (1997, 2000). IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computing (CEC 1999, 2000,2001). Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 1998, 2000). |
Impact on wealth creation and quality of life
Our research has also resulted in five patents being filed during the census period. BT has filed a patent arising from the IMG’s research into scaleable audio architectures. Signum Technologies have filed two patents from the document recognition research in the IPI group. Xerox PARC filed a patent as a result of work carried out by Rodden during a sabbatical visit. Finally, the university itself has filed for patents on Greenhalgh’s 3D record and replay technology and Qiu’s work on colour image representation for coding/compression, indexing and content-based retrieval.
Leading industrial organisations have also provided substantial support for our work (e.g. BT, Sony, IBM, Adobe and Xerox). For example, Brailsford has recently signed a new six-year research agreement with Adobe to underpin his research worth in excess of £500,000. This is the first agreement of this kind with a UK institution.
Keynote and invited lectures Staff have given over 125 keynote and invited lectures, including in 1999 the inaugural Turing Lecture, sponsored by the BCS and IEE. Trefethen was an invited speaker at both the Third International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians and now serves on the programme committees for the next quadrennial congresses in both of these series. Hoare was invited to give the prestigious Huygens Lecture in The Hague.
Programme and other committees Staff have provided programme committee members for over 60 major international conferences, including EuroPar96-99, ICILP00, ICFP00, LICS00, ASAP96-97 and IJCAI99. Members of the Lab have provided four members of the EPSRC College of Peers for Computer Science and IT, two for the College of Mathematics, and one each for the Colleges of Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Bird, Gibbons and de Moor are members of IFIP WG2.1; Bird and Stoy were founder members of WG2.8. Trefethen serves on the London Mathematical Society's Prizes Committee.
Collaborations Staff have engaged in international collaborations with researchers in over 95 institutions in 26 countries, and have been involved with 62 research grants. Staff have consulted for numerous companies. The Lab recently set up a Supporters Scheme with the aim of providing technical information and consultancy services to its subscribers, as well as facilitating graduate student recruitment. The scheme currently has 16 IT companies, ranging from the small to very large. Funds from the scheme are used for a variety of academic purposes, including the financing of research studentships. Collaborations with other Oxford departments are discussed in RA5.
Distinguished visitors and lecturers to the Lab in the period 1996-2000 have included: Dana Scott, Andy Hopper, Gordon Plotkin, Jay Misra, Amir Pnueli, Niklaus Wirth, Butler Lampson, Richard Karp, Leslie Lamport, Jack Dongarra, Rolf Rannacher, Gene Golub, Gil Strang, Henk van der Vorst, and numerous others. Don Knuth visited in January 2001 and Edsger Dijkstra will visit in April.
Public understanding of science Cameron’s work on robot sheep dogs and Trefethen’s results on card shuffling both received widespread publicity in the media; Cameron’s work has been chosen as one of the exhibits at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in 2001, and Trefethen has been selected as the first speaker in the first series of mathematics lectures to be organised by the Royal Institution in 2001.
Awards Abramsky is a member of the Academia Europaea and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Brent is Fellow of the ACM and Fellow of the IEEE. Jeavons won two best-paper awards, Woodcock also won a best-paper award, and Hoare received a Knighthood and the Kyoto prize. Davies has been awarded $40,000 in a global competition for funding under IBM's Faculty Partnership Programme. McColl’s student, Radu Calinescu, was a winner of a Distinguished Dissertation Award in 1999. Trefethen was appointed honorary Rouse Ball lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for 1998-1999. Saul holds an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship. Four young researchers were appointed to Junior Research Fellowships at colleges against strong competition from excellent graduates in other fields.
Best-sellers In the period 1996-2000 staff have published 12 books, with 1 more scheduled for early 2001, including three best-sellers: Bird’s Introduction to Functional Programming, Trefethen’s Numerical Linear Algebra, and Woodcock and Davies’ Using Z.
Destination of students and research staff On leaving the Computing Laboratory, or shortly afterwards, many of our DPhil students and Research Officers have obtained lecturerships: Leicester, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes, Stirling, Sussex, Warwick (4), York (1 plus a Chair), Recife (Brazil), St Petersburg (Russia), Macquarie (Australia), Simon Bolivar (Venezuela), Associate Professorships at Tokyo, Caltech, and Louisville, Chair at United Nations University at Macau.
Impact on wealth creation and quality of life The Machine Learning group continues to be part of a world-wide challenge for machine-constructed models for chemical carcinogenesis. The NA group’s involvement with novel numerical techniques for electroanalytical measurement, whole-organ models, and unsteady vortex fluid mechanics has implications for medical engineering (plasma separation, autologous blood recovery, mammalian cell culture) and hence has potential impact on quality of life. The group has also worked on algorithms for use in nuclear safety computations. The research being performed within the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre contributes towards Rolls-Royce's international competitiveness, and improved quality of life through reduced fuel consumption and lower noise emissions.
Work by the Algorithms and Complexity group on constraint satisfaction has helped BT save £140m a year by increasing the efficiency of their “Work Manager” software. Work by the Concurrency group on verifying security protocols has been applied by both Government laboratories and commercial organisations and has had a considerable impact on wealth creation. Celoxica, Page’s spin-out company, now has 90 staff with offices in Abingdon and London, UK and Campbell, California: it plans a rapid global expansion with new offices in the US and Japan.
In addition most staff act as reviewers for grant awarding bodies such as EPSRC (Harrison, McCrindle, Megson, Maybank), BBSRC (Maybank), Leverhulme (Megson), and EU LTR programmes.
Staff also regularly review papers for a range of International Journals (details omitted).
Awards and Distinctions
Visiting Professor at the Institute of Automation, Beijing (Maybank - CVG)
Keynote Addresses and other invited talks
Invited papers at ISMIP’98 (Wuhan), AFPAC’97 (Kiel). Invited seminars at INRIA (2000), Microsoft (Cambridge) 1999, Microsoft (Seattle) 1998, SIRA Intelligent Imaging Programme (1998). (Maybank - CVG).
Invited tutorial at IPA99, Manchester (Sangwine -CVG).
Invited `senior' at the ESPRIT funded Coil Summer School in Machine Intelligence, 30 postgrads from all over Europe - (Corne -PEDAL)
British School of Brussels (Anderson - CVG).
IVWSIM ’00 at SCS Western Multi-conference (probably the largest simulation conference), USA Jan 2000. (Roberts -PEDAL).
Association for Science Education (ASE) Annual meeting (Anderson (twice), Megson).
2 Day workshop on array synthesis methods to HP Research laboratories - Bristol (Megson - PEDAL).
In addition staff regularly give unpublished presentations at other institutions.
Fellowships etc.: European AI Society, (Fellow, Wilks). Consulting Board of the International Pragmatics Association, (Wilks).
EPSRC Advanced Fellowship (Winkler). Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (Fellow, Holcombe). British Computer Society (Fellows, N. Sharkey, Holcombe). Institute of Electrical Engineers (Fellow, N. Sharkey). EPSRC College of Computing (Gaizauskas, Holcombe, Niranjan & Wilks). Member of Precise UML group, OPEN consortium on Object-Oriented standards (Simons).Editorship of Journal Special Issues and Journal Editorships: Formal Aspects of Computing on X-machines, 2001, Biosystems on Information processing in cells and tissues, 2000, IMA Journal on Teaching Mathematics (Holcombe). Speech Communication Vol 27, 1999, on Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (Cooke). Speech Communication Vol. 32, Nos. 1-2, on Accessing Information in Spoken Audio, 2000 (Renals). Autonomous Systems on The New Wave in Robotics 1998, Connection Science on BioRobotics, 1998; (N. Sharkey). Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS) on Intuitionistic Modal Logic, 2000 (Mendler & Fairtlough). Editor of Object-Oriented Systems (Simons). Connection Science on Combining Artificial Neural Nets, Modular Approaches, 1997 (A. Sharkey). Communications of the ACM on Natural Language Processing, 1996 (Wilks). Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 2001; Computer Speech and Language, 1998 (Gaizauskas), Editor-in-Chief of Connection Science (N. Sharkey).
Selected Invited and Plenary Lectures: Wilks: Chinese Linguistic Computing, Singapore, 1997; Pacific Rim Language Processing, Kyushu, 2001; British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998; Language and Action Symposium, Tokyo, 2000; Unilever Research Conference, 2000; Dutch National NLP Assn., 2000; French National NLP Assn., 1998; MT Summit, Singapore, 1998; International Lexicon Workshop, Italy, 1997; Japanese Workshop on the Thesaurus in NLP, Kyoto, 1997; Medical Informatics, Tucson, 1999. Cunnningham: Invited presentation on
GATE as platform for DARPA’s NLP evaluation programme; Washington DC, 1998. Brown: First and Second International Conferences on Neuromorphic Systems. Cooke: ESSLI, Barcelona, 1998; IJCAI Workshop on Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, Nagoya, 1997. Renals: Royal Society, 1999; Neural Computing Applications Forum, 1999; 14th Twente Workshop on Language Technology, Enschede, NL, 1998. A. Sharkey: First International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, Italy, 2000; Tutorial at International Conference on Neural Networks, ICANN98, on Combining Artificial Neural Nets 1998; Neural Computing Applications Forum, Marseilles, 1997. Holcombe: Requirements analysis, Dagstuhl, Germany, 1999; Grammar systems, Bad Ischl, Austria, 2000; IPCAT 99, Indianapolis, USA, 1999, IFAC conference on Emerging Control Technologies, Daytona Beach, 1996. Mendler: Constructivism in Non-Classical Logics, Italy, 2000. Simons: Australian Software Engineering Conference, Melbourne, 1996; ECOOP 97 and 98. N.Sharkey: 6th Brazilian Conference on Neural Networks, Rio de Janeiro, 2000; Extracting rules from Neural Networks, Italy, 2000; Panelist IJCNN-2000: Intelligent Control, Italy, 2000; International conference on Social Cognition, Language, and Connectionism, Arnhem, 1997. Niranjan: Neural Networks: Past Present and Future – Panel at the NNSP conference, Kyoto, 1996. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 1997; Italian Neural Networks Society, 1999; Polish Neural Networks Society, 1997; Cambridge Programme for Industry School on Modelling Uncertainty, 1999; International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN99.Coordination of International and National Research Networks: Member of
US NIST/TREC Roadmap Committee, EC CLARITY HLT co-ordinator, 2001-2004 (Gaizauskas). EPSRC-funded HearNet and SilicoNeural Computing emerging computing networks, MOSART TMR programme (Brown). Coordinator of CEC TMR Network SPHEAR (SPeech, HEAring and Recognition), 1998-2002 and CEC ESPRIT LTR project RESPITE (Recognition of Speech by Partial Information Techniques, 1999-2001) (Green). International Committee on Computational Linguistics, Founder CLUK (Computational Linguistics UK) (Wilks). EC-funded network TYPES, sub-site leader (Mendler). THISL ESPRIT LTR Project Co-ordinator, 1997-2000 (Renals).Research Summer Schools: Joint academic director of the Cambridge Neural Networks Summer School, 1996 and 1997 (Niranjan);
ELSNET Summer School and NATO ASI, 1998 (Green); Programme co-chair ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication, Greece, 2000 (Renals); ESSLI 2000 (Hepple); ESSLI, 1998 and 1999 (Gaizauskas).Staff have received several prestigious international awards; Jennings: The Computers and Thought award for outstanding contributions to multi-agent systems research (1999); Harnad: Cogprints received the Psychological Science award for outstanding contributions to Psychology on the Internet (2000); Harnad: nominated for 100 most influential works in cognitive science (2000); Martinez: European Academic Software award (1998). A number of national awards have also been received: Hall: CBE for services to education and science (2000); Hall: Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2000); Elliot: Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2000); Harnad: Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2001); Hall: EPSRC Senior Fellowship (1996); Jennings: IEE Achievement Medal (2000); Hey: IEE Computing and Control Journal Premium (1998); Davis: BCS Software Award for Microcosm Plus (1996).
More than 50 (9 in RAE 96) invited keynote or plenary addresses have been given by 8 staff members at prestigious international conferences and workshops including: ACM Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems and Applications, ACM Fortran Conf., ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conf., International Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, International Conf. on the Evolution of Language, International Conf. of Electronic Publishing in the Third Millennium, NASA Workshop on Performance Engineered Information Systems, NATO Conf. on High Performance Computing, International Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, and European Conf. on Cognitive Modeling. In addition, 10 staff have been involved in the running and organisation of some 20 international conferences and workshops (including – chair (Glaser and Hartel) Programming Languages: Implementation, Logics and Programs; chair (Leuschel and Nitsche) Verification and Computational Logic; chair (Butler) Program Refinement; programme chair (Reeve and Hey) Europar; chair and programme chair (Hall) ACM Multimedia; chair (Davis) ACM Hypertext; vice chair (Hall) and programme chair (De Roure) WWW conference; initiator and chair (Jennings) Autonomous Agents; initiator and chair (Jennings) Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; chair (O’Hara and Shadbolt) European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop; initiator and chair (Jennings) Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages; programme chair (Jennings) Multi-Agent Systems) and 17 staff have been on over 60 international programme committees. Staff are editors of 6 (1 in RAE 96) international journals: IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications (Shadbolt); Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Harnad); Psycoloquy (Harnad); Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Jennings); Concurrency: Practice and Experience (Hey); BCS J. Digital Information (Davis and Hall). Nine staff are also Editorial Board members of 24 (9 in RAE 96) leading international journals including Concurrency, Practice and Experience; IEEE Multimedia; New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia; Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence; Logic and Computation; Minds and Machines; Artificial Life; Consciousness and Cognition; Interactive Multimedia in Education; Parallel Computing; Digital Information; Software Practice and Experience; AI Communications; Knowledge Engineering Review; Human Computer Studies; Scientific Programming; and Supercomputing and HPC. Eleven staff acted as reviewers for overseas research councils – Australia, Germany, Israel, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland – or funding bodies (EU, NSF).
Further distinctions include staff being members of international advisory bodies (ACM Publications Board (Hall), International Foundation for Multi-Agent Systems (Jennings), British Council Science, Engineering and Environment Board (Hall), CERN School of Computing (Hey), German AI Institute (Jennings), Swedish Research Institute for IT (De Roure), Parkbench Group on Parallel Benchmarks (Hey)), international standards bodies (open hypertext protocols (Davis) and ISO LISP (De Roure)), IFIP working groups (Programming Methodologies (Henderson), Functional Programming (Henderson), Concurrent Systems (Hey), Small Systems Security (Nitsche) and Smart Cards (Hartel)), and European Union Networks of Excellence (Agent-Based Computing (overall coordinator: Luck), High Performance Computing and Networking (overall coordinator: Hey), Planning (Shadbolt), and Machine Learning (Shadbolt)).
ECS staff are also very prominent in the UK research community – 2 are Fellows of the Royal Society and 5 are Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In terms of EPSRC, Hall is a member of Council, Hey is a member of the Technology Opportunities Panel, Hey has been appointed the Director of E-Science, Henderson and Harris are Programme Coordinators for Software Engineering for Business Change and the Systems Integration Programme (respectively), Hall was Chair of the Strategic Review of Computer Science, Nicole leads the benchmarking and acceptance activity for the new HPC-X procurement of a 1Tflop national computation facility, and De Roure, Henderson, Hall, Jennings, and Shadbolt are members of the Computing College. Other professional affiliations include: Vice-President of the BCS (Hall), member of the OST Informatics Committee (Hey), member of the MOD’s Defence Scientific Advisory Board (Shadbolt and Jennings), member of the UK Computer Research Committee (Hey and Hall), member of Ordnance Survey Science and Technology Advisory committee (Upstill), member of ITEC Foresight Panel (Hall), member of HEFCE-JISC Technology Applications sub-committee (Hey), IT representative in OST Science Seminar to Stephen Byers (Hall), chair and co-founder of the UK Multi-Agent Systems steering committee (Luck), member of the BCS distinguished dissertation committee (Shadbolt), and member PPARC informatics committee (Hey).
Technology Transfer. Ensuring that research is commercially exploited, where possible, is also an important objective for staff. To this end, Davis and Hall founded Active Navigation Ltd (formerly Multicosm) to exploit their research in open hypermedia systems, Shadbolt founded Epistemics Ltd to exploit his work in knowledge management technologies, Jennings is chief scientific officer for Lostwax Media Ltd who exploit his research into automated negotiation, Martinez manages the Hewlett Packard Centre of Excellence in Imaging, and Hall helped establish the BAE Systems/ Rolls Royce UTP in the area of systems engineering. Staff also maintain close links with a wide range of industrial collaborators. Specifically, grants for collaborative research have been held with companies such as: Abbey National, BAE Systems, Baltimore, Bank of Italy, BMW, Boots, BT, Daimler Chrysler, DERA, EDS, Ford, Fujitsu, Glaxo Wellcome, Hewlett Packard, IBM, ICL, Lloyds TSB, Louvre, Lucas, Marconi Communications, MacNeal Schwendler, Microsoft, Motorola, National Gallery, National Power, Nortel Networks, Ordnance Survey, Philips, Pirelli, Post Office, Renault, Reuters, Rolls Royce, Siemens Roke Manor, Sun, Unilever and VW. Highlights from these collaborations include the development of technologies that have been incorporated into data mining products by Attar Software (XpertRule Miner) and AIS (VisualMine) and a case-based reasoning product by Acknosoft (WebKate), work on XML and EDIFACT that is being used by Mosaic as the basis of their next generation e-commerce infrastructure, work on hypermedia that led to the development of Active Navigation’s products Microcosm and Portal Maximiser whose client list for these products includes Shell, the Post Office, the US Navy, ICL and Jane’s Publishing, work on metacomputing that led to PROMENVIR and EASi's ST-ORM stochastic analysis and optimisation environment, work with MacNeal Schwendler including parallelising the MSC/NASTRAN engineering codes, work on the parallelisation of Ricardo's VECTIS software that enabled Volkswagen to speed up their engine modelling by a factor of 10, work on capturing and organising knowledge that is being jointly exploited by Rolls Royce and KTI, and work on process models that ICL have adopted for internal project management.
Quality of Life issues have been addressed particularly in medicine, education, broadcasting, road and flight safety, and networking by the Human Centred Computing Technology and the Neural Computation, Computer Vision and Medical Imaging groups. There have been significant wealth creation activities involving industrial collaboration in the Natural Language Processing, Human-Centred Computing Technology, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, and Neural Computation, Computer Vision and Medical Imaging groups (see RA5 and below).
1. Foundations of Computation: Hennessy is a member of the EPSRC Computing College and Council member of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science. He is on Editorial Board of Computation and Information. He has been invited lecturer at: 15th International Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Program Semantics'99, 12th International Conference on Foundations of Computation Theory'99, 5th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency'98, and 1st International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods'99. He was visiting lecturer at the Basic Research in Computer Science Research Centre, University of Aarhus, 1998. McCusker was the Winner of CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation 1997 and winner of the Best Paper award for ICALP'00 and of the Kleene Award for the Best Student Paper at LICS'96. Rathke was winner of the Kleene award for the Best Student Paper at LICS'97. Reus was programme committee co-chair and co-organiser of the Spring School on Categorical Methods in Logic and Computer Science'99, the Annual Working Group Meeting of the Esprit project Types'98 and of the international workshop Domains III, and is guest-co-editor for a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science. He gave an invited talk at the Federated Logic Conference'99. He was a member of the Esprit Working Group 26142 "APPSEM'' (APPlied SEMantics) and of the Working Group 29001 "Computer-Assisted Reasoning based on Type Theory (TYPES)''. Finally, he was co-investigator in Munich for a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) VIGONI project with the University of Rome, La Sapienza. Sassone was coeditor of the Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, of a Special Issue on Concurrency Theory of the journal Theoretical Computer Science, and of the Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Geometric and Topological Methods in Concurrency Theory. He is external lecturer at the BRICS International PhD School, Denmark, and has been visiting Professor at IT University of Copenhagen. Members of the group have served on the programme/organizing committees of LICS'97, FOSSACS'01, MFPS'01, MFCS'98, STACS, Express'00, HOOTS'00, MFCS'00, CONCUR'96, 98 & 00, GETCO'00, ICALP'97.
2. Natural Language Processing: Gazdar is a member of the EPSRC Computing College, the ESRC MPLE College, and was on the Steering Panel for the ESRC Cognitive Engineering Initiative. He was visiting Professor of Computational Linguistics, IMS, University of Stuttgart and has given an invited lecture series at ESSLLI'96. Sampson is the British member of the Executive Board of ELSNET, the EU-sponsored (academic/industrial) "Network of Excellence'' in Human Language Technologies, and is responsible for its quarterly magazine ELSNews. He gave the keynote address at the first international Treebanks Workshop'99 (Paris). In 1999 he was one of three Britons among the 57 predominantly American researchers invited to collaborate with TalkBank, a major NSF-sponsored initiative to develop standards and tools for work with natural-language materials (audio, video, transcriptions). In 1998 the co-Chief Editor of the European EAGLES initiative on Language Engineering Standards identified the outputs of Sampson's team as a main influence on the EAGLES proposals. Carroll is a member of the EPSRC Computing College, and an EU Framework 5 proposals evaluator. He is a member of the editorial board of Natural Language Engineering, was programme chair of the 6th ACL/SIGPARSE IWPT'00, tutorials co-chair for ACL'00, and a programme committee area chair for EACL'99 and COLING'00. He was invited speaker at the 5th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms'00. He is Secretary of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and a member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics. He was a co-investigator in the EU-funded project SPARKLE, has industrial research funding from Apple Computer Inc, and is a member of an international consortium led by Stanford University and DFKI GmbH (Saarbrücken, Germany) on practical processing with constraint-based grammar. Keller was programme chair for ESSLLI'97 with particular responsibility for Computational Linguistics, and organized a workshop at ESSLLI'98. Lutz is secretary of SSAISB (the leading UK AI society) and was main invited speaker at a SEMINAL'00. Weir was on the editorial board of Computational Linguistics, and is programme committee area chair for ACL/EACL'01. Members of the group have served on the programme committees for IWPT'97, RANLP'97, COLING/ACL'98 student sessions, SENSEVAL'98, TAPD'98, TAG+'98 & 00, MOL'99, MT'00, LINC'00 and IWPT'00.
3. Human-Centred Computing Technology: du Boulay is a member of the EPSRC Computing College and was on the ESRC panel to evaluate the Centre for Research in Development, Instruction and Training (CREDIT). His work was included in the 30th Anniversary Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, republishing the most highly cited papers of the past 30 years. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education and of Computational Intelligence. He was programme committee chair for AIED'97 and co-organizer of workshops at AIED'99 and ITS'00. He was an invited speaker at EuroAIED'96 (Portugal), PEG'97 (Bulgaria), SBIE'97 (Brazil) ITS'00 (Canada) and ICCE'00 (Taiwan). Cox's PATSy (Speech Therapy) web-based virtual patient database is currently in use by 80% of UK speech therapy training institutions. He was a researcher in the first ESRC/CNRS (Anglo/French) Centres collaboration. Luckin is co-investigator on the EU-funded project INTERPRET and is a member of the DfEE team evaluating the national Digital Broadcasting trial. She has given invited talks in Denmark and Singapore and organized workshops for software designers (Open University, 1997), Human Centred Technology (Brighton, 1997, 98, 99, 00), the European Conference of Educational Research'98, and at ITS'00. Rogers is a member of the EPSRC Computing College and on the editorial board of Computer Supported Collaborative Work journal and also the co-chair of ECSCW'01 and co-investigator of a 6 year EPSRC IRC grant. She was an invited guest speaker at: the Brazilian Ergonomics Society Conference'99, the international conference on Usability at Ericcson Research Labs'99, the Linköping Cognitive Science Conference'98 and the Göteborg International Business Convention'96. She was chair for the doctoral colloquium, ECSCW'97 and on the CHI'97 doctoral consortium panel. She is also a Member of Danish Foundation Advisory Board. She was a co-investigator of the EU funded Training Mobility and Research (TMR) COTCOS (1996-2000) and is a co-investigator of an interdisciplinary project (Puppet) funded by the EU I3 ESE programme. She has industrial research funding from BT, Apple Computer Inc and Eidos. Wakeman organised and wrote (with others) a consultative document for the EPSRC programme on "Programmable Networks'' and was a member of its consultative and proposal review committees. He has given invited talks at INET'98, Networks'00 and the Hipparch workshop'98 and has given seminars at HP, BT, Edinburgh, UCL, Kent, Southampton. He has been awarded a Short Term Research Fellowship from BT and has consulted for numerous companies such as Orchestream, Shell and others. Members of the group have served on the programme/organizing committees of ITS'98 & 00, AIED'97 & 99, PEG'97, 99 & 01, ICCE'98, 99 & 00, EuroAIED'96, CALISCE'96, AIMSA'96, Euro-CSCL'01, CSCW'00, COOP'98 & 00, ECCS'99, ECSCW'97 & 99, WACC'99, IFIP'98, the IEEE Conference on Open Architectures in Signalling 99, 00 & 01, AISB'01, Opensig'01, IEEE Int. Workshop on Quality of Service'99, 1st Int.Workshop on Interactive Graphical Communication'00, and Thinking with Diagrams III.
4. Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems: Husbands is a member of the EPSRC Computing College, the BBSRC Animal Sciences Network Group and was a member of the IEE Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computing Committee. He was a member of the EPSRC SWOT analysis team for neural computation. He has had various EU-funded projects and a Human Frontiers of Science Programme in collaboration with universities in Australia, USA, Germany and Switzerland. He is on the management board of EVONET, the European network of excellence in evolutionary computing, is chair of the EVONET working group on evolutionary robotics and has given invited talks in France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, USA, Brazil, Australia, The Netherlands, Spain and many UK universities. He has also has given keynote talks at the following international conferences: ACDM'96, ICANN'98, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computing'00, and ECAL'01. He was Co-Chair of ECAL'97 and chair of EVOROBOT'98. He is on the editorial boards of Artificial Life and Robotics, Evolutionary Optimization, and of the Journal of Robotic Intelligence and Control and was guest editor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems. He has had research funding from BT, MASA Group, Matra Marconi and MathEngine. He is a consultant to the MASA Group Paris, and has undertaken consultancies in optimisation and pattern recognition for The Post Office, Ricardo Consulting Engineers and Momentum Health Care Ltd. Harvey is an adviser on Artificial Life to the UK Government Foresight Programme (IT, Electronics and Communications Panel) and has given invited talks on Evolutionary Robotics work in the US, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands and gave the keynote talk at the Artificial Life VII'00. He is the associate editor of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines and on the editorial board for Adaptive Behaviour. He was Joint Conference Organiser and Programme Chair for ECAL'97. He has successfully completed projects with Glaxo-Wellcome, MathEngine PLC and BT Future Technologies Group. Furthermore, his work on the use of genetic algorithms for data mining has formed a basis for a major part of a new biotechnology company, Amedis Pharmaceuticals, initially funded by Merlin Ventures where he is now a consultant. Thompson was a winner of the CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation 1997. He was also winner of the Best Paper award at ICES'98. He gave the keynote speech at the 8th Annual Advanced PLD & FPGA'98 conference. He has given invited talks in the USA, Japan, Denmark, Germany, and Belgium. He has had funding from Xilinx, Zetex and Motorola and a large equipment donation from HP. He is an associate editor of IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computing, and of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. He was programme co-chair of the 3rd International Conference on Evolvable Systems'00. He has just been awarded a 5-year EPSRC Advanced Fellowship. Di Paolo has given invited talks at Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Lisbon) and was co-organizer of a workshop at ECAL'99. Spier gave an invited talk at the Artificial Ethology Workshop'98 and has consulted for HP. Members of the group have served on the programme/organizing committees of PPSN IV, V & VI, ECAL'97, 99 & 01, CEC'99, 00 & 01, ICANN'98 & 99, IJCNN'00, ACDM'96, 98 & 00, ICGA'97, Alife-VI & VII, AROB'98, GP'97 & 98, BCEC'97. SAB'96, 98 & 00, ICES'98 & 00, IWES'99, CIRA'99, GECCO'99, EH'99 & 00, AAAI'97, IJCAI'97 workshop on Evolvable Systems, EUROGP'00 & 01, EWLR8'99, EVOROBOT'98, BCEC'97.
Advanced Computer Architectures: Austin: awards: BAe Chairman's award for innovation (98); committees: EPSRC 5 year grant review in CS/IT (98-00), DTI/EPSRC MIS programme grant review (00-), PSTA managed programme review (99), JREI equipment grant panel (98); programme committees: Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (00), IEEE Conference on Microelectronics for Neural Nets & Fuzzy Systems (96,97,99). Bors: editorial boards: IEEE Trans Neural Networks, PAIDEUSIS - a journal for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural Studies. Hancock: awards: International Association of Pattern Recognition Fellowship (99-00); committees: chair IAPR TC4 (computer vision) (98-); editorial boards: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; Pattern Recognition; programme committees: co-chair International Workshop on Energy Minimisation Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (97,99); invitations: speaker Isaac Newton Institute programme on Learning and Neural Networks (97), speaker NSF DIMACS workshop at Rutgers on graph algorithms in computer vision (98), speaker Swedish workshop on statistical methods in image analysis (99), editor "Pattern Recognition" special issue on energy minimisation. O'Keefe: conference committees: Weightless Neural Network Workshop (99), Workshop on Optical, Neural and Computational Associative Memory (00). Wilson: awards: EPSRC Advanced Fellowship (98-03), outstanding paper Pattern Recognition Journal (97 with Hancock); editorial boards: Pattern Recognition.
Artificial Intelligence with Machine Learning: Cussens: programme committees: International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-98, ILP-99, ILP-00), Learning Language in Logic (LLL-99, LLL-00); conference committees: chair LLL-99; invitations: speaker Compulog Net/Elsenet joint strategic planning workshop on "The Future of Computational Logic in Language and Speech Technology", Saarbrucken (97). Frisch: programme committees: ILP 98-00, International Conference on Intelligent Systems (00); International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (98), US National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96); conference committees: chair (jointly with Cussens) ILP-00, chair Workshop on Automated Reasoning (96-00). Kazakov: conference committees: ILP-97. Kudenko: awards: Johnson & Johnson Bioinformatics Fellowship (98); programme committees: International Conference for Machine Learning (ICML 00); conference committees: chair AISB’01 symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Manandhar: programme committees: ACL-02; conference committees: area chair (Natural Language Processing) 6th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 98); invitations: Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences summer school, Groningen (97), panel chair ACL-00. Muggleton: awards: EPSRC Advanced Fellowship (93-98); editorial boards: AI Journal, ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, Journal of Logic Programming, Cognitive Science; programme committees: programme chair ILP-96; conference committees: chair Machine Intelligence 16 workshop, York (98); invitations: visitor Newton Institute programme on Machine Learning (97); keynote European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98); keynote Conference on Discovery Science, Tokyo (98); visitor Newton Institute programme on Genome Analysis (98); speaker conference of the Royal Statistical Society (00). Olivier: editorial boards: Spatial Cognition and Computation, Expert Systems and International Journal of Engineering and Neural Networks; conference committees: chair AAAI-96 Spring Symposium on Cognitive and Computational Models of Spatial Representation Stanford, CA., chair workshop on Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions, chair ECAI-96, chair workshop on Language and Space (AAAI-97), chair AAAI-00 Spring Symposium on "Smart Graphics". Walsh: awards: EPSRC Advanced Fellowship (99-04); editorial boards: Journal of AI Research; conference committees: chair IJCAI-97 workshop on Empirical AI, ECAI-98 workshop on Empirical AI, chair inaugural UK Constraints Network of Excellence meeting (ConsNet-99), chair International Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (00); invitations: speaker French national conference on the Solution of NP-complete problems (96), series of lectures Annual Logic Summer School (97), speaker DARPA Workshop on Real-time and Dynamic Behavior of Autonomous Negotiating Teams (99), speaker Topical Conference on NP-hardness and Phase Transitions (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) (99).
High Integrity Systems: Clark: programme committees: Mutation 00 (also panelist), First International Workshop on Automated Program Analysis, Testing and Verification (00); invitations: speaker DERA EU/US workshop on security (00). Galloway: programme committees: co-chair and proceedings editor 1st International Conference of B and Z Users (ZB2000), Integrated Formal Methods (IFM 99, 00) including co-chair and proceedings editor IFM 99, International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 00); Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2000); conference committees: co-chair Comparing System Specification Techniques (Invoicing 98). Kelly: invitations: panel International System Safety Conference (ISSC 99); tutorials on international safety standard IEC61508, independent safety assessor for Rolls Royce Marine Power. King: committees: member and deputy convenor, Z Standards panel (ISO Panel SC22 WG19 rapporteur Group for Z and BSI Panel IST/5/-/19/2 (Z Notation)); programme committees: PC member and proceedings editor, ZB 2000, Northern Formal Methods Workshop (97, 98). McDermid: awards: best paper ISSC 97, best paper International Journal of Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (98); editorial boards: Software Engineering Journal, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Requirements Engineering;
Human Computer Interaction: Benest: editorial boards: Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS); committees: IEE Professional Group A5 Human Interface Systems Engineering; conference committees: BCS HCI Group Conference HCI’96, IFIP TC. 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Interact’99), AFIHM/BCS HCI Group Conference IHM-HCI 01. Duke: awards: EPSRC Advanced Fellowship (00-05); editorial boards: Editor in Chief Computer Graphics Forum; committees: Eurographics executive committee; programme committees: programme chair EuroGraphics' International Workshop on Design Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems (DSVIS 99). Edwards: programme committees: ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies (96,98,00), INSERM (96,98), International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies (96,98,00), International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 98,00), IFIP International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 98,00); conference committees: chair ICCHP ’98, co-chair ICAD’98; invitations: chair meeting of experts for UNESCO on Information and Communication Technology for Special Education (00). Harrison: editorial boards: International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS); committees: CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation Panel 99-; programme committees: associate papers chair ACM SIGCHI Conference (99, 00), programme chair DSVIS-97, Interact’99; invitations: editor special issue IJHCS on virtual environments (01). Wright: committees: member NATO working group RG30 on Human Error in Safety Critical Systems; programme committees: editor European proceedings of European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics ECCE-00; invitations: editor special issue IJHCS on understanding work and designing artefacts (99).
Programming Languages and Systems: Jacob: programme committees: European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (98, 00), ZB2000. Plump: committees: manager Esprit working group on Applications of Graph Transformations APPLIGRAPH (97-); programmme committees: Joint APPLIGRAPH/GETGRATS Workshop on Graph transformation Systems (an open satellite workshop of ETAPS 00); invitations: lecturer at the European School on graph transformation (98). Polack: programme committees: ZB2000, GIS Research UK 2000. Runciman: editorial boards: Journal of Functional Programming; committees: IFIP Working Group 2.1 (Algorithmic Languages and Calculi); IFIP WG 2.8 (Functional Programming), design committee for Haskell 98 (97-99); programme committees: International Workshop on the Implementation of Functional Languages (96-97,99-00), International Conference on Functional Programming (97), International Workshop on Haskell (99), International Workshop on Generic Programming (00); invitations: lecturer international summer school on Advanced Functional Programming (96). Wood: programme committees: International Conference on Coordination (00); invitations: speaker 3rd Brazilian Workshop on Distributed Systems (98).
Real-Time Systems: Audsley: programme committees: ACM Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (00), IEEE Euromicro Workshop on Real-Time Systems (99-00), IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (97,99), International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems (97); invitations: editor Ada UK Handbook (00). Burns: committees: Vice Chair (99-01), Chair (01-03) IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems, chair ISO working group on "The Use of Ada in High Integrity Systems“ and principal author of resulting ISO technical report; conference committees: General Chair Euromicro International Conference on Real-Time Systems, 99; invitations: keynote presentation Australasian Conference on Parallel and Real Time Systems (96), co-editor special issue IEE Proceedings on Software on Real-Time Systems (99), co-editor special issue Real-Time Journal on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (00). Advisor and evaluator (with Wellings) to the Swedish Computer Science Research Council on their initiative on Real-Time Systems Engineering (97-00). Evans: committees: IFIP working group 3.2, Object Management Group’s UML Semantics Task Force (defining the semantics for UML version 2.0); programme committees: chair IEEE international conference on the Unified Modeling Language (UML2000), chair NFMW'96/97/98 workshops, ECOOP'99. Wellings: editorial boards: European Editor-in-Chief "Software Practice and Experience"; programme committees: chair International Workshop on Real-Time Ada Issues (97), Real-Time Systems Track Chair, IEEE Conference on Distributed Systems (97), chair Euromicro International Conference on Real-Time Systems (01).
Other: Kimble: conference committees: co-chair national conference of the UK Academy for Information Systems (99), organised NISG/NUKAIS workshop on "Formalism revisited: bridging the gap between the Social and Technical in Information Systems" (98).
Visitors: A number of visitors spent substantial time researching with colleagues in the department including: Alan Creek (Auckland, 96-97), Koichi Furukawa (00), Ian Hayes (Queensland, 00), Peter Lindsay (Queensland, 00), Konrad Lukszewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences 99), John McCarthy (MIT 99), Donald Michie (several visits throughout the period), Marcello Pelillo (University of Venice, 96, 97), Peter Puschner (Technical University of Vienna, 00-01), Susan Stepney (Logica, several visits), Esther de Vez (University of Valencia, 98).
Harold Somers is the editor of Machine Translation, which is the leading journal in the field.
Mathias Schulze, Marie-Josee Hamel co-edited a special issue of ReCALL devoted to the application of techniques from computational linguistics in computer-aided language learning (a topic which had hitherto received less attention than you would expect).
John McNaught was Co-Chief Editor for the Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES) 1993-99. The work of this group has led to numerous recommendations and guidelines on best practice in the field, which have been widely adopted, particularly in European national projects to build large scale linguistic resources to support the development of language engineering applications. Since January 2000 he has been an Editor of the successor of EAGLES, International Standards for Language Engineering (ISLE), which is one of the first joint NSF-EC funded initiatives in the field.
Mathias Schulze is on the executive board of EuroCall and on the editorial board of ReCALL. He was the founder of the Eurocall Special Interest Group in Language Processing and has now been elected chair of this group, and he is Associate Chair of the CALICO Special Interest Group in Intelligent CALL (CALICO is the American Association for CALL).
Marie-Josee Hamel is a referee for the Canadian Journal of Modern Languages and the Journal of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics. Allan Ramsay was on the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence Review from its inception in 1992 until 1997.
Conferences
Allan Ramsay was programme chair of AIMSA-96 (7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications).
Harold Somers was programme chair of TMI-97 (7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation)
Mathias Schulze and Marie-Josee Hamel were co-chairs of a EUROCALL-supported workshop on using techniques from computational linguistics in computer-aided language learning.
Mathias Schulze was organiser (with T Heift of Simon Fraser University) of a pre-conference workshop on Computational and Pedagogic Challenges for NL in CALL for Eurocall 2001 in Nijmegen, and organiser (with M Durrell (Manchester University) and B Herhoffer (MMU)) of the 4th Biennial Conference of the Forum for Germanic Language Studies 2000.
John McNaught and Bill Black were co-chairs of a workshop entitled Information Extraction meets Corpus Linguistics held in conjunction with the 2nd Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation, in May, 2000.
Marie-Josee Hamel was organiser of Les Journées d'Archamps: Thème Enseignement des Langues Assisté par Ordinateur, Archamps (France).
Conference program committees:
Allan Ramsay was on the programme committees of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Artificial Intelligence: methodology, systems, applications (AIMSA), International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Conference on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS), Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP).
Harold Somers was on the programme committees of New Methods in Language Processing (NeMLAP: this is a series which he co-founded in 1995), TMI 99, Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), COLING, RANLP.
Invited Talks
John McNaught has been invited to give a seminar on conceptual indexing of digital documents at Universitad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), in the prestigious interdisciplinary seminar series oncomputing organised by UNAM's Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS). This seminar is to be broadcast live simultaneously via EDUSAT Channel 18 to institutions in about 20 Mexican cities and also world-wide, via video conference link to CICESE, Enseneda, and ENEP, Aragón, and via the Internet.
Allan Ramsay gave a 5 day tutorial on computational semantics at the 1998 Elsnet workshop on Robustness: Real life applications in Language and Speech hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and is giving a tutorial on computational models of discourse structure at the 2001 Recent Advances in Natual Language Processing conference in Bulgaria.
Reference texts
Although handbooks generally present the state-of-the-art in the relevant field, and as such are not direct indicators of research activity, it is nonetheless usual for contributors to be recognised researchers in their areas. Harold Somers is co-editor, with Robert Dale and Herbert Moisl,
of A Handbook of Natural Language Processing, New York (2000): Marcel Dekker. Harold Somers and Allan Ramsay have been invited to contribute chapters on machine translation and on discourse processing to Handbook of Computational Linguistics, Oxford University Press, edited by Ruslan Mitkov. Allan Ramsay has been invited to revise and substantially extend his contribution on Artificial Intelligence to The Linguistics Encyclopedia, Routledge, edited by Kirsten Malmkjaer, which is to reissued in a substantially revised edition in 2001. Bill Black coedited, with Harry Bunt of the University of Tilburg, a collection of papers entitled Abduction, Beliefs and Context In Dialogue, John Benjamins, Amsterdam (2000). Harold Somers is editing a book on Machine Translation for John Benjamins, and provided chapters on Machine Translation for the Encyclopedia of Translation, Routledge, edited by Mona Baker. These contributions are not research papers, but they are indicative of the esteem that members of the department are held in by the research community.
Other
John McNaught is a member of the Computing College of EPSRC.
2. COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION
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GROUP A: DECISION TECHNOLOGIES Research Impact, International Links & Individual ProfilesProfessor Madan Singh was the first non-American President of the
IEEE SMC Society and is senior Past President (Chairman Awards Committee & Fellow Evaluation Committee). He remains Honorary Professor of the Beijing Univ of Aeronautics & Astronautics (since 1987), was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, by the Univ. Waterloo, Canada (1996), and was the “parrain” of the graduating class of the IUSPIM Engineering School, Univ. Marseilles (1996, the JL Lagrange class).4. GROUP B: SYSTEM DESIGN: Research Impact, International Links & Individual Profiles
Professors, Readers and equivalent research staff
[Abramsky: FRSE, MAE; EB of J Logic & Comp, MSCS, TCS; inaugural BCS/IEE Turing lecture]
Arvind: major consultancy with Cadence; invited panelist at DA Conference; IS at Dagstuhl seminar
Bishop: IS at many confs incl Intl Conf on Pattern Recognition; EB of 4 journals incl Neural Computation
Brebner: IS at PART; PCC for RAW and FPL; honorary editor of IEE Proceedings; EPSRC OSI cttee
Bundy: FRSE, FAAAI, FAISB, FECCAI; EB 4 journals incl Artificial Intelligence; Foresight ITEC panel.
Esparza: IS at 5 intl confs incl FOSSACS, CONCUR; PCM for 10 intl confs incl CONCUR, ICALP, LICS
Fisher: Marie Curie Senior Fellowship; IS at 1 intl conf; general chair of ISIRS; PCM for 24 intl confs
Fourman: EB of Appl Categorical Structures, Formal Methods in System Design; IS at AMAST, TACAS
Grohe: Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz prize; EB J of Discrete Algs; IS at CSL, STACS; PCM LICS, ICDT, MFCS
Hofmann: IS at ASL Logic Colloquium, MFCS; PCC for CTCS, ICC; PCM for 5 intl confs incl LICS
Ibbett: IEEE Third Millennium Medal; FRSE, FBCS; EB of 2 journals incl Parallel Processing Letters
Jerrum: Gödel prize; EB of 4 journals incl TCS; IS at 6 confs incl World Congress of the Bernoulli Soc
Klein: consulting editor Linguistics, advisory bd J of Logic, Language and Information; IS at 2 intl confs
Mellish: EB of 3 journals incl J of Natural Language Engineering; best application paper award, ES'96
Middleton: Eurographics UK board; general chair of 3 confs, PCC of 4 confs, IS at more than 10 confs
Moens: co-founder of IEE Prof Grp on Speech and Lang Proc; IS at over 10 confs, incl ASIS annual mtg
Moore: assoc editor of J of AI Research; exec council of AAAI; IS at 4 confs incl IFIP conf on HCI
Oberlander: EPSRC Advanced RF; Macquarie Univ VF; IS at 9 confs incl Royal Soc/British Acad mtg
Plotkin: FRS, FRSE, MAE; EPSRC Senior RF; EB of Inf & Comp, MSCS, TCS, ToCL; council ASL
Power: PCM of CMCS, CMCS, MFPS; IS at 3 intl confs; VF at ETL Japan and BRICS, Univ of Aarhus
Rae: IS at Health and Safety Executive DST Technical Workshop
Sannella: editor-in-chief of TCS; steering cttee chair of ETAPS; IS at 6 confs; EPSRC Advanced RF
Steedman: FAAAI; NIMH study sections PAC, BBBP-3; EB of 7 journals incl Cognition; IS many confs
Stirling: LMS/EPSRC MathFIT cttee, EPSRC prog evaluation of IT/CS; IS at 10 confs incl MFCS, CSL
Tate: FRSE, FBCS, FAAAI, FECCAI; EB of 5 journals incl Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Intelligent Systs
Thompson: Japan SPS VF, W3C fellowship; PCC for 2 confs; IS at 5 intl confs; board of directors ACL
Topham: vice-chair IFIP WG 10.3, UK rep on IFIP TC10; PCM for 3 intl confs incl ISCA; EB of JILP
Webber: chair of NIH/NSF/NIMH Review Panel; gen chair of ACL annual mtg; EB of J of Semantics
Willshaw: FRSE; editor-in-chief of Network: Computation in Neural Systems; IS at 25 meetings
Lecturers, Senior Lecturers and equivalent research staff, with year of PhD if 1996 or later
Aitken: referee for journals incl J of Symb Comp and IEEE Intelligent Systems and confs incl ECAI
Anderson: British Council VF to ETL, Japan; PCM for SAFECOMP; IS at OLOS summer schools
Armstrong (1996): IS at EU workshop on Neuroinformatics; bioinformatics consultant for 3 companies
Aspinall (1997): IS at EEF spring school; VF at ETL, Japan; research consultancy for Kestrel Institute
Bradfield: EPSRC Advanced RF; PCM ICALP, CONCUR, CSL; VF at Aarhus, Uppsala, Cachan, Bern
Bull: IS at Sun Microsystems SuperG conf, tutorial at ICIAM; PCC for European OpenMP workshop
Carletta: EB of Comp Linguistics; referee for journals incl IEEE Trans on Speech and Audio Processing
Cintra (2001): IS at IBM Watson Research Seminar; CNPq-Brazil RF; referee for 12 journals and confs
Cole: distinguished paper award at Euro-Par'97; IS at LODEC; PCMs for 5 confs incl CMPP
Colton (2001): AAAI'00 outstanding paper; IS at ARW at AISB; AISB convention chair; SSAISB cttee
Dennis: best paper TACAS 2000; PCC for IJCAR Workshop on Automation of Proof by Math Induction
Eglen (1998): two Wellcome Trust fellowships: Mathematical Biology, Intl Prize Travelling Fellowship
Fleuriot (1999): Distinguished Dissertation; IS at Festival Workshop in Foundations and Computations
Gillies: IS at Triennial Intl Basal Ganglia Soc mtg; invited to Parkinson's Disease Soc mtg at Royal Inst
Gilmore: PCM for 3 confs incl Agent Based Cluster and Grid Comp conf; conf chair PAPM-PROBMIV
Goddard: NIH Human Brain Program review panel; popular media reports of work on functional imaging
[Graham: Lecturer at EU Advanced Course in Comp Neuroscience; VF at NL Inst for Brain Research]
Grover: elected member HPSG Standing Cttee; local chair and PCM of HPSG conf
Gurr: PCM for Diagrams conf and Symp on Visual Languages and Formal Methods
B Hallam (2001): appointed co-chair of SAB2002 conf; committee selection panel for ISAB
J Hallam: president, Intl Society for Adaptive Behaviour; VF at BRICS, Univ of Aarhus; member IEE
Hayes: SSAISB cttee; PCC for ISIRS; PCM for 8 confs incl European Workshop on Learning Robots
Hillston: PCC for PAPM; PCM of 5 confs incl ART; steering cttee PAPM; external PhD examiner
Jackson: PCC and PCM for TPHOLs; VF at SRI Intl; invited tutorial at TPHOLs; external PhD examiner
Kempster (2001): developed Internet transaction protocol analysis framework with Microsoft in Seattle
Kingston: EB of New Rev. of Applied ES; PCM for BCS SGES conf; IS at YOR conf, EKAW
Levine: EB of Applied Intelligence; IS at YOR conf and Unicom seminar on agent-based systems
Longley: IS at TLCA and British Logic Colloquium; invited tutorial speaker at ASL Logic Colloquium
McKelvie: referee for ESRC proposals and for intl journals incl Comp Linguistics
McKendree: finalist for European Academic Software Awards; NSF IT Awards Review Panel
McKenzie: best paper Agents'99; member IEE, membership interviewer for applicants in Scotland
Malcolm: IS at Evolutionary Robotics and Royal Inst of Philosophy confs, NWAIAG summer school
Markert (1998): IS at Brighton and Bielefeld; referee for journals incl Cognitive Science
Matheson: referee for EPSRC proposals and for journals incl Comp Linguistics and confs incl COLING
Mikheev: EB of J for Natural Language Engineering and a book series; PCM for ACIDCA
O'Boyle: EPSRC Advanced RF; EPSRC peer review college; PCC for CPC; PCM for ICPP
Osborne: intl advisory member of SIGNLL; IS at ESSLLI; co-chair of CoNLL workshop; VF at BT Labs
Pain: PCM for 3 confs incl World Conf on AI in Education; SSAISB cttee; co-founder Intl AI in Educ Soc
[Poesio: EPSRC Advanced RF; PCM for 7 intl confs; co-chair of Gotalog and ESSLLI workshops]
Procter: PCM INTERACT, SIIT; invited member, EPSRC Wkshp on Healthcare Informatics Programme
Ramscar (1999): IS at Stanford and UC Dublin; referee for journals incl Cognitive Science and confs
Rangaswami: IS at Dagstuhl seminar on Higher-order Parallel Programming; Advisory Cttee of SFPW
Ritchie: IS at 2 confs incl ROMAN; Leverhulme RF (from 2001); co-chair AISB Symp; PCM for 4 confs
C Robertson (1998): referee for journals incl J Parallel Algorithms and Applications and IEEE TPAMI
D Robertson (2000): EB of Knowledge and Inf Systems; PCM for 6 intl confs; EPSRC Advanced RF
[Ross: EB of Evolutionary Computation; IS at 3 intl confs; PCM for 13 intl confs incl AISB and GECCO]
Schweizer: IS at Annual Conf of the British Soc for the Philosophy of Science; external PhD examiner
Shen: IS at AIENG ; co-chair of UK-Fuzzy and PCM for 16 intl confs incl AIENG, QR, IEEE-FUZZ
Simonotto: IS at American Phys Soc; several popular media reports of work on stochastic resonance
Simpson: PCM for 2 confs incl MFCS; EPSRC Advanced RF (from 2001); VF at University of Utrecht
Smaill: PCM for CADE; referee for journals, confs and EPSRC proposals; external PhD examiner
Stader: IS at Project & Business Risk Management Symp; PCM for ICEIS; referee for IEEE Intell Sys
Stark: PCM for MFPS, TACS; referee for journals incl TCS and Inf & Comp and EPSRC proposals
Stevens: EPSRC Advanced RF; PCM for 8 intl confs; IS at OMG Information Days, VIRES workshop
Storkey (1999): IS at Rank Prize Fund Symp on Model Selection and Learning in Computer Vision
Thanisch: IS at VLDB Summit Conf, twice; VF at Japan AIST and Univ Tampere; organizing chair DOA
Tobin: IS at XML DevCon conf; referee for confs incl SAC
Turi (1996): Marie Curie fellowship; referee for journals incl ENTCS, confs incl LICS, ICALP, FOSSACS
Vigoda (1999): Machtey Award at FOCS; referee for journals incl Random Structures and Algorithms
Westhead (1997): referee for confs incl ACM Java Grande and Java PAP
Wiemer-Hastings: McDonnell Foundation RF; PCM for AIED; IS at Pittsburgh; referee confs incl ACL
Williams: IS at Newton Institute prog on Neural Networks, Dagstuhl seminar on Unsupervised Learning
The Department is involved in setting the research agenda for Computing Science internationally and nationally.
Programme Committee Membership Members of the Department have been appointed to programme committees of over 100 international conferences and workshops. Examples includes ACM UIST 98; ACM CHI 96-00, ACM CSCW 2001; ACM SIGIR 2000; AIPS-96, 98; CPM 96; BNCOD 96, 97, 98, 2000; CHARME 2000; CL200; ECOOP 97, 98, 99, 2000; Eurographics 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000; FIW 97, 98, 2000; FMCAD 98, 2000; IEEE Visualisation 97, 98, 99, 00; Interact 97,99; ISMM 98; SIGMOD 98; TPHOLs 96, 97, 99, 2000; TACAS 97 and VLDB 96, 97.
Invited Key-notes Members of the Department have been invited as key-note speakers at international scientific meetings on over 80 occasions. Examples include ICDE 97, BNCOD 98, ECOOP 98, 2000, ICDT 99, Tools Europe 2001 (Atkinson); UNESCO Young People with Visual Disabilities Wksp 2000 (Brewster); FIW 98, Fireworks 99 (Calder); BNCOD 96 (Chalmers); Telelearning 2000 (Toronto), ASCILITE (Australia) (Draper); JISC (Irving); 16th Intl Systems Safety Conference, Microsoft Research Symposium 98 (Johnson); BRICS Autumn School in Verification, Intel Corporation Logic Verification Research Symposium 2000 (Melham); 1st NASA Wksp on Performance Engineered Information Systems 98 (Mackenzie); Eurographics UK 98 (Patterson); 4th Intl Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming 98 (Prosser); EDBT 96, COLIS-2 FQAS 2000, Dagstuhl Workshop 2000, Turing Commemoration Lecture (van Rijsbergen).
Invited Visits Atkinson was Visiting Professor at Sun Microsystems Research Laboratories, Mountainview, California until 2000, visiting several times each year, Chalmers was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hokkaido, Japan, Johnson was an invited scientist at NASA Technology Assessment Branch, Langley, USA, and Patterson was a CREATEC Research Fellow.
Editorships Personal Technologies and Computer Graphics Forum (Brewster), ACM SIGDOC Journal of Computer Documentation (Draper), Interacting with Computers, Reliability Engineering Journal, and Hazard Prevention: Journal of Systems Safety Society (Johnson), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (Prosser), The Computer Journal (van Rijsbergen, editor in chief; Melham, Book Reviews Editor), Information Retrieval and Information Processing and Manipulation, and Electronic Workshops in Computing (van Rijsbergen). Additionally, members of the Department have been appointed editors of at least 7 special issues of journals, including Software – Practice and Experience (Cutts), ACM ToCHI (Gray), Journal of Functional Programming (Melham) and VLDB (Atkinson).
Other Distinctions Brewster won the ONCE (Spanish National Association for the Blind) first R&D Prize, presented on Spanish television, and was an invited exhibiter at Human Factors exhibition at Science Museum, London and at the Millenium Dome. Jose’s paper [Jos1] won the BCS/Springer best student paper in IR in Europe in 98. Patterson and van Rijsbergen served on the Foresight Committee Creative Media Working Panel. Welland was invited to submit a paper to UNESCO Museums International in 2000. Johnson chairs IFIP WG13.5 Human Error and System Development, Melham served on IFIP WG10.5 programme committee Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods, and O’Donnell is a member of IFIP WG 2.8 (Functional Programming). Calder serves on the UK Computing Research Community, van Rijsbergen was a member of the GMD Advisory Committee and Atkinson and van Rijsbergen serve on the Royal Society Edinburgh Fellowship panel. Dickman, Prosser and van Rijsbergen are expert reviewers for EU research projects. Johnson was awarded the International Systems Safety Award in 98; Melham received the Intel Strategic CAD Labs Research Fellowship Award 2000. Johnson, Jose, Murray-Smith and Calder serve on the Irish Basic Research Grants, Maths and Computer Science Panel. Atkinson and van Rijsbergen are Fellows of Royal Society of Edinburgh.
The New Scientist (28 October 2000) published an article on stable marriage, including an interview with Manlove and mentioning joint research with Irving. Calder and Murray-Smith were awarded an EPSRC Public Understanding of Science Award for Portable Robotics Laboratories for Introducing the Science of Programming to Young People. The Department received the Queen’s Award for Excellence.
A breakdown of new research grants during the assessment period, by value is: 11 <£5K, 18 £5-25K, 68 £25-250K, 8 >£250K, giving 105 in total.
| Algor’ms | Formal Design & Analysis | Human Computer Interact’n |
Info Retrieval |
Large &
Long-lived Systems |
3D Percept’n | |
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3
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8
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| journal pubs | 11
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24
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43
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10
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38
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16
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| conf. pubs | 16
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36
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121
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32
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94
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37
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| chapters in books | 9
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41
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2
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13
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| no. major external grants | 9
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21
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| total grants awarded £ | 850K
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2762K
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1900K
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4
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| Intl Conf. Invited Talk | 4
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9
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38
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12
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17
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3
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| Phd Students Supervised | 5
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11
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21
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14
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13
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14
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| Res. Assistants | 7
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11
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16
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1
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15
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| Patent Applied/Awarded | 2
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2
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9
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Impact of Research and New Collaborations
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Collaborators
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Algorithms
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ILOG, Scottish Council for Postgrad Medicine
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Formal Design and Analysis
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BT, Citel, Ericsson, Intel, IFAD, Microsoft Research, Prover Technology, Mitel, Xilinx
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Human Computer Interaction (GIST)
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DaimlerChrysler, Eurocontrol, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, ONCE
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Information Retrieval
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OUP, Springer
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Large and Long-Lived Systems
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IBM, Iona, Gemstone, Laserscan, Microsoft, Sun
Microsystems, Xilinx |
3D Perception
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Cambridge Animation Company, Computer Film Company, DERA, Glasgow Dental Hospital, Framestore, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow Western Infirmary, Ninewells Hospital, Orange, Pilkington Optronics, Planning Sciences, Scottish Criminal Records Office, Smoke and Mirrors, TeleVirtual, Unilever, Unique-ID, Voxar
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Conference/Workshop organisation Connor: Co-chair and proceedings editor: 7th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS-7, published by Morgan Kaufmann), 8th International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL’99, published by Springer); PC member: POS-8, POS-9, DBPL’97, DBPL’01, VLDB’99, BNCOD’00 and BNCOD’01 Crestani: Co-chair and proceedings editor: WIRUL 97, ESQUARU-LUMIS 99, DEXA-LUMIS 2000, DEXA-LUMIS 2001, 3rd European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) 2000 PC member: ACM SIGIR (1996-99 and 2001), FQAS 2000, SPIRE 2000, WIRUL 96, IRSG-99, ECIR01, DEXA-DLIB01 Dunlop: Co-chair and proceedings editor: IRSG98, MobileHCI99, MobileHCI01; Co-organiser: Mira workshop series; PC member: ACM SIGIR 1998-2001, CIR98 & CIR99, IRSG99, IRSG00, ECIR01, HCI2000, IHM-HCI-2001 Ferguson: Co-chair and proceedings editor: COSET2000 Hunter: Advisory committee member: SQM 96-99, SQM 2000, INSPIRE 96-99, INSPIRE 2000; PC member: SPICE 2000 Nixon: Co-Chair International Syposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Ireland Jun 2000; 1st Int. Workshop on Managing Interactions in Smart Environments, Ireland, December 1999. Roper: PC member: SBES'96 ; WESS'99, WESS’01
Professional awards Crestani: 1997-99: Marie Curie TMR Fellowship; 1998: Italian Associate Professorship Commendation, Italian Ministry of University and Research(MURST) 1999: ICSI (International Computer Science Institute) Fellowship, Berkeley, USA; 2000: ERCIM Fellowship McGettrick:Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
Membership of grant-awarding bodies Connor: EPSRC Peer Review College; specific programme activity in Distributed Information Management, Healthcare Informatics, Neuroinformatics and Long-Term Technology Review; Panel Chair, Sotware Technologies Dunlop: Joint EPSRC/ESRC PACCIT; external evaluator for Enterprise Ireland
Best paper awards Dunlop: Best short paper award for: Dunlop and Davidson, "Visual information seeking on palmtop devices", HCI2000, September 2000. Terzis: Best Student Paper Award at Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems, March 1999, Setubal, Portugal
Miscellaneous Connor: invited article on Abstract Data Types in Nature Publishing’s Encyclopaedia of Computer Science (2000). Dunlop: Chair of the British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group (93-99) Hunter: UK delegate to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG10 working group on software process assessment and member of SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination) international trials team McGettrick: membership of ACM standards group Nixon: Vice Chair and hosting site for the Network of Excellence in the Disappearing Computer; Coordinating Committee of the EU Network of Excellence, I3
Impact of Research Connor: Consultant for Reuters for replacement of International Data Network using Internet technology. Crestani: Consultant for European Space Agency, Systek SLR (Hong Kong) Fryer - Major commercial startup (see 5c) Hunter: Consultant for ETRI (Electronics and Telecom Research Institute) in South Korea on Software Product Evaluation McGregor and Wilson - Patents and licences – database compression - over £.25M income McGettrick – Advisor to Scottish Parliament on the major software issues related to the SQA fiasco of 2000. Member of teams investigating, on behalf of Government, the future of software as applied to Nuclear Power and National Security Nixon Co-founder and Director of Conceptual Drift Ltd. Roper – CERN: Dept. is formally accredited as Associate Institute by the CMS Project Collaboration Board. Wilson - Scottish Judicial DSS – invited project; Home Office invitation to tender for feasibility study for Crown Court. Adoption of similar system by Shanghai People’s Intermediate Court
External and International Collaborations (all those listed involve joint publication or funding) Connor: Bioinformatics (Curry, Glasgow); Thin Servers (Dearle, St Andrews); Mobile computing (Dobson, TCD); Datatypes (Ghelli, Pisa); Persistent systems (Morrison, St Andrews; Cluet, INRIA; Rabitti, CNUCE-CNR; Schmidt, Hamburg) Crestani: Agosti and Melucci, University of Padova (Italy), Pasi, ITIM-CNR (Italy), Sebastiani, IEI-CNR (Italy), Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (Italy), Silipo, International Computer Science Institute (USA), Van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow (UK), Lalmas, QMW, University of London (UK), Bruza, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Queensland (Australia) Dunlop: Royal Society collaborative project with Queen Mary, London and Risø National Laboratory, Denmark (joint grant author and associate partner). Sub-contracted by Dublin City University on EU project. Hunter: Benediktsson, Middlesex (UK); Cogan, Russian Academy of Science, Vladivostok; Jung, Korea University, Seoul; Thayer, State University of California at Sacramento (US) McGettrick: University of Iceland, Health and Safety Executive, Scottish Parliament, Working Groups within ACM and IEEE-Computer Society, Safety Critical Systems Committee of IEE (Chairman) Nixon: Visiting Research Fellow, NMRC, UCC, Ireland; Visiting Researcher, Cal. Tech. Roper: Member of EPSRC funded SEMINAL network. Roper and Wood: EFoCS research group membership of ISERN (International Software Engineering Research Network) since 1996.
KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS (KBS)
Ken Brown: International Program Committees: 4th, 5th and 6th Intl Conferences on AI in Design; Invited Contribution: NSF Strategy Workshop on Shape Computation (MIT Boston, 99); Workshop Organiser/Chair: Grammatical Design Workshop, 4th Intl Conference on AI in Design; EPSRC Peer Review College (97-99), (00 - 02); Engineering Programme (97-99).
Alun Preece: Best Paper Award: Expert Systems (99); Conference Chair: Expert Systems (01); International Program Committees: ECAI Workshop on Maintaining Knowledge Containers (00), AAAI Workshop on AI in Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Relationship Management (00), AAAI Workshop on Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems (97-98), 4th European Symposium on Validation and Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems (97); Editorial Board/Editorship: IEEE Intelligent Systems, Knowledge Engineering Review, Intelligent Data Analysis, Special Issue on Validation and Verification of KB Systems, IJHCS (96).
Ehud Reiter: Editorial Board/Editorship: Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence; Area Chair: ACL-01; Programme Committee: ECAI-2000, EACL (99) (European chapter of ACL), INLG-1998 (International Workshop on Natural Language Generation), ACL-1997; Professional Bodies: Secretary of SIGGEN (the SIG for Natural Language Generation of ACL).
DATABASES and DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (DDIM)
Peter Gray: Honours: FBCS; International Program Committees: Extending Data Base Technology (00), CIKM (USA, 97), VLDB(Rome, 01) SSDBM (Washington, 01); National Program Committees: British National Database Conference (96); EPSRC Computing College; Invited Talks: Keynote address to the Constraints Workshop at CL-2000; Co-ordinator for Databases and KBS theme in CPHC Workshop on Research Directions (Manchester, 00); Editorial Board/Editorship: Very Large Databases Journal.
Michael Freeston: International Program Committees: 4th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (Lisbon, 00); 10th International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (Hong Kong, 99), Constraint Databases and their Applications (Delphi, 97); National Program Committees: British National Database Conference (97); Panel Membership: Research Proposal Assessment Panel, US NSF (97, 99, 00), EU Framework-5 Proposal Evaluation Panel (99, 00); Editorial Board/Editorship: Metadata Journal.
Pete Edwards: International Program Committees: 3rd and 5th International Conferences on Autonomous Agents, 5th International Workshop on Co-operative Information Agents; EU Network of Excellence: Agentlink II - WG Chair on Adaptive Information Agents; National Program Committees: Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agents (98 - 00), UK Workshop on Multi-agent Systems (99).
Tim Norman: Best Paper Award: Seventh International Workshop of Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (Boston, 00); International Program Committees: Australian Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop (98), 2nd & 3rd Pacific Rim International Workshops on Multi-Agents (Kyoto, 99 and Melbourne, 00), 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Barcelona, 00); Workshop Organiser/Chair: Co-organiser of the 1st Int. Symposium on Argument and Computation (00).
BIO-INFORMATICS and MEDICAL INFORMATICS (BMI)
Graham Kemp: International Program Committee: 2nd International Workshop on User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems (01); National Program Committee: British National Conferences on Databases: BNCOD 15 (97), 16 (98) 17 (00) and 18 (01); Patent Application: Identification of MHC Binding Peptides (UK Patent Application No. 9712892.0).
Peter Lucas: Management Board: AIME; International Program Committees: Workshop on Model-based Diagnosis CESA (96), IMACS-IEEE (96); NAIC (Amsterdam 98), BNAIC, (Maastricht 99), Co-chair of the AIMDM'99 Workshop on Prognostic Methods; Editorial Board/Editorship: AIM, Guest Editor Special Issues of AIM on Model-based Diagnosis in Medicine (97) and Prognostic Models in Medicine (99).
Dave Ritchie: Software: the Hex software has had 130 academic downloads, including 120 from overseas institutes; there have been about 12 downloads from pharmaceutical companies; the Hex web page appears within the top 20 hits in an AltaVista search on "protein docking"; Invited Talks: Erlangen (97), CNRS Marseille (00).
Main external collaborators
Telecommunications: British Telecom; Medicine: Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Aberdeen's Medical School; Department of Child Life and Health (Edinburgh); Neurological ICU Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; Academic Medical Centre, University of Utrecht; Biotechnology: Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, and of Zoology (Aberdeen), EBI (Cambridge), Eclagen Ltd.; Oil and Gas Industry: Baker-Hughes Group; Environmental Science: WNI/Oceanroutes (Weather forecasting), Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (Aberdeen); Software Development: NCR, Intelligent Applications (IA), and Cambridge Training and Development (educational software) - the latter two are SMEs.
Additionally, four research students in the Department have held CASE awards (EPSRC and BBSRC). We have held one TCS award in the area of Knowledge Acquisition/Knowledge Management which has led to a US patent being filed (Baker-Hughes, Sleeman and Preece).
Impact of research on wealth creation and quality of life
The work done with BT (KRAFT project), Baker Hughes (in the TCS) and IA (through an EPSRC CASE award) have all enhanced the technical competence of these companies, and have directly resulted in more sophisticated services. For example, IA now develops software for new turbines more quickly and more cheaply as a result of our research. Similarly, the work undertaken by the Bioinformatics group (on MHC-peptide binding predictions applied to several current medical problems including uveitis) and the Medical Informatics group (eg smoking termination letters and reprogramming of cardiac pacemakers) are having a direct impact on clinical practice.
Arnott, a Winston Churchill Travel Fellow, collaborates widely with European researchers, co-authored an invited paper at ICLSP ‘96, Philadelphia, U.S.A. and was Chair of the Communication Aids session at IEEE SMC ’99 in Tokyo. He was a member of the Scientific Programme Committee for the 1999 Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe Conference in Dusseldorf and Session Chair on Technology for Elderly People. He has been a member of Professional Group A8 of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), and co-ordinated and chaired the IEE Seminar on Speech and Language Engineering for Disabled and Elderly People in April 2000. He is on the editorial boards of Technology and Disability and the International Journal for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and is a reviewer for EPSRC.
Ricketts is a member of the EPSRC College, the EQUAL assessment panel, the committee of the British Computer Society Medical Specialist Group (Scotland), the International Committee for IEEE Euromicro 2000, a past member of the editorial board of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Computer Interaction, founder member and currently co-chairman of the Focal Institute for Scottish Health Informatics, a member of the executive committee of the Asthma Research Group of the Tayside Centre for General Practice. He is an invited member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh International Conference 'Healthcare Meets Medical Informatics (HCMMI) 2002', and an invited contributor to Essential Surgical Practice.
Alm is regarded as a world leader in producing significant breakthroughs in research with non-speaking people, and also conducted the early generic research into computer based interviewing. He was recently awarded the prestigious RSE/Lloyds TSB Fellowship on Ageing, has important links with researchers and industry in Japan, and with Arnott has been Prime Contractor for a number of European Projects. He has given invited lectures at Kagawa University, Japan, and Stanford University, and to the Electronic Corporation's Disability Liaison Group, Hitachi Multimedia Research Group, and the Disability Research team at Matsushita Corporation, (all in Tokyo), and at the Journées Européennes des Techniques Avancées de l’Informatique Conference, and the British Psychological Society. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, is a member of the IFIP Disability Committee, Chair of the Scottish AAC Special Interest Group, and is a reviewer for EPSRC.
Parkes is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Electrical Engineers, provides the technical lead for the ESA SpaceWire standard working group, and is a member of the Satellite On-Board Interface working group for the international Consultative Committee for Space Data Standards (CCSDS). He has given invited papers at the ESA/IEEE DSP workshop in 1998 and at the 32nd ESLAB symposium and has chaired ESA round table meeting sessions. He acts as a consultant to international space industry, and is invited by ESA to submit project proposals following acknowledgement of previous "excellent work". He was a consultant to the Taiwanese government, reviewing technical specifications in the Republic of China Satellite ROCSAT II request proposals, and was on the organising committee of the 4th International Conference on Satellite Direct Broadcasting held in Dundee in 2000.
Gregor, the Deputy Director of the JISC-funded DISinHE project, founded and directs the Digital Media Access Group, whose clients include NCR, the JISC, the UK Higher Education funding councils, the Bank of Scotland and the Scottish Parliament. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Cognition, Technology and Work, is a member of the EPSRC EQUAL panel and his dyslexia research won the best paper award at the ACM Assets 2000 conference in Washington. He has been invited to present a workshop on accessibility at the World Wide Web Consortium in Hong Kong.
Murray was awarded a BT Short-term Research Fellowship in Speech Synthesis, and is active in public understanding of science events, having been a member of the Wolfenden Committee, and a script advisor to the Science Museum Exhibition. He gave invited papers at the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing in Philadelphia and the BCS Affective Computing Workshop, and is a member of the scientific committee of the ISCA Research Workshop on Speech and Emotion (Belfast).
Waller was awarded the Shirley MacNaughton Award for Exemplary Communication in recognition of her research leadership by the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. She is a registered rehabilitation engineer with the Institution of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology (IPEMB) and has honorary status as a speech and language therapist. She has recently completed a four year personal research fellowship funded by Smith's Charity. She has regular research visits to South Africa, is a member of the Main Board and the Professional Advisory Committee of Capability Scotland (formerly the Scottish Council for Spastics), and is a Board Member of Blissymbolics Communication International and its UK Trust. She is a member of the Developing Countries and Advocacy sub-groups of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. She is a reviewer for the EPSRC and AAC and is the co-chair of the current ISAAC Research Symposium.
Edwards collaborates closely with researchers in Monash. He has given invited lectures at the 16th British Combinatorial Conference (London) and the 8th Workshop on Cycles and Colourings in Graphs (Slovakia) plus seven other invited talks at national conferences and seminars. He is a member of the British Combinatorial Committee, and has guest edited a recent special issue of Discrete Mathematics.
Recently appointed staff:
McKenna has been an EPSRC Post Doctoral Researcher, an EU HCM Post Doctoral Fellow, a BT Research Fellow, and was invited as a visiting researcher to George Mason University and a session chair at the Asian Computer Vision Conference in Hong Kong and the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, USA. He has given invited seminars at Universities in Hong Kong, Sussex, Aberdeen, and Essex. He is currently the British Association Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecturer. He has acted as a reviewer for EPSRC and BUPA, for four IEEE transaction series, Image and Vision Computing, the International Journal of Systems Sciences, the Computer Journal, Computers and Biomedical Research, Pattern Recognition Letters and the International Journal of Electronics
.Reed recently organised an EPSRC-funded international symposium on Argumentation and Computation, and will be co-editor of the book which will be published from it. He has given invited presentations at many UK Universities, at the Universities of Toronto and Arizona, and at Conflicts ’98, and gave an invited commentary and was session chair at OSSA ’99 (Ontario). He won Best Paper award at ATAL 2000. He reviews for publishers including CUP, Addison Wesley and Wiley, for the Journal of Intelligent Systems and the Knowledge Engineering Review, for the ECAI and ACL conference series, and for EPSRC. He has sat on the programme committees of Conflicts ’98 (Brighton), the ECIA 2000 workshop on computational dialectics (Berlin), and CMNLA 2000 (San Francisco). He will edit forthcoming special issues of the journal Argumentation, and of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems.
Glasbey, formerly an EPSRC post doctoral research fellow, was an invited reviewer for the annual USA Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference between 1994 and 1998, on the programme committee for Logic Language and Computation Conference (Taiwan), and an invited presenter at the European Science Foundation "Temporal Reasoning in Discourse Conference" (Lyon, 2000).
Organisations with whom we have funded collaborative research include:
Universities: Bristol, Hertfordshire, Derby, Glasgow, Edinburgh, the Open University, Queen Margaret University College (Edinburgh), University of Comenius (Slovakie), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgum), University of Technology in Vienna (Austria), Trinity College Dublin, University of Porto (Portugal), Kagawa University (Japan).
Organisations with whom we have unfunded collaborative work include:
Universities: Aberdeen, Westminster, Essex, Abertay Dundee, Queen Mary & Westfield College, George Mason University (USA), California Institute of Technology (USA), University of Winnipeg, University of Arizona.
Research Organisations: NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA JET Propulsion Laboratory, Eurospace.
Companies who market products developed in the department include:
Don Johnston (Chicago), Mayer Johnson (California), Access International (Japan), Intelligent Interaction (UK), Appleby Solutions (UK), 4Links (UK), Kompagne (Netherlands), IGEL (Germany), Inclusive Technology (UK).
Software architecture group: impact and collaboration
The impact of our work derives from its immediate take-up commercially, and our collaboration in international pre-competitive collaborative industrial research programmes.
The group is shaping the field internationally through involvement in collaborative research projects with leading groups in Europe, the USA and Australia. The new EC Archware concerns compliant systems architectures, extending our collaboration with Warboys (Manchester). The EC GLOSS consortium (St Andrews, Joseph Fourier University and four others) investigates theories of mobility and context to support seamless movement between smart spaces. Past EC projects have included the following. The EC-ESPRIT BRA Fide (St Andrews, Pisa, INRIA, and 4 others) investigated the design and construction of systems that have the potential to be long-lived, concurrently accessed and consist of large bodies of data and programs. The results have been disseminated to European industry and taken up by Ardent Technologies and ICL. The EC Working Group Pastel - Persistent Application Systems, Technologies, Environments and Languages – (St Andrews, Pisa, INRIA, Dearle (then at Stirling), and 5 other academic partners, and the companies GMD and O2 Technology) researched persistent application systems and promoted industrial use of persistence research. The Pastel brief included collaboration with 3 Universities in the Australian IDEA project, and the NSF/EC project NSF IRI-9318791 run by Buneman (Pennsylvania). Morrison led the EC/NSF funded collaboration (EC/US 07) with researchers from DEC and 6 US Universities including OGI and Rutgers. The group also actively collaborates with Munro (Adelaide), Moss (UMass), Hudson (Intel) on garbage collection and Stemple (UMass) on reflective technologies.
Symbolic computation group: impact and collaboration
The impact of our work derives from the support it receives from users in a range of applications, and its incorporation in major commercial and research software systems.
Software architecture group: individual peer esteem and collaboration
• Ron Morrison was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001. He delivered keynote addresses at the 5th IDEA International Workshop, Australia (1997), the International Conference on Perspectives of System Informatics in Novosibirsk, Russia (1999), and the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology Conference, Odense, Denmark (1999). He has been a member of the EPSRC Computer Science College since it started in 1993 and served on the CPHC UK Distinguished Thesis Panel from 1996-9. He chaired BNCOD, the British National Conference on Databases (1996), and the 8th workshop on Persistent Operating Systems (POS) (1998), and served on programme committees for ACM SIGMOD (1997) and ECOOP (1999), the major European conference in Object Oriented programming. He made externally funded visits to Canberra (Australia), Paris (France) and UMass, SUN (USA), and has written papers with Brown, Munro, Stanton (Australia) and Moss, Stemple (UMass, USA) and Hudson (Intel).
• Al Dearle gave keynote addresses at the University of Munich and at Reuters, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Iona Technology Ltd. He is a member of the EPSRC Computer Science College and the management board of Stirling Innovation Park Software Centre, and is a technical consultant to the Reuters Research and Standards Group. His student David Hulse won the best paper award in the Australasian Computer Science Conference in 1996 [Dearle-2]. He co-chaired the 9th POS (2000), and served on the program committee for 31st ICSS, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. He made externally funded visits to Munich (Germany), IBM (USA) and wrote papers with Rosenberg and Vaughan (Australia) and Stemple (USA). He was a PI on an Australian Research Council funded collaborative project with the University of Sydney.
• Colin Allison was transferred from Scientific Officer to Senior Lecturer in 1999, on the grounds of the increasing impact of his research and his all round contribution to the School. He collaborates with, and coauthors papers with, Husemann of IBM Zurich, and heads a consortium including Dundee and Strathclyde in work on distributed learning environments. He gave keynote talks at IBM Zurich, and the British Association Science Day 1999, and was on the program committee for the EPSRC PGnet conference 2001.
• Ishbel Duncan joined as a lecturer in 2000. She represented British Telecom on European Telecomms (Eurescom) committees, was a keynote speaker at the commercial OO World meeting, and gave externally funded lectures at NASA IVV (USA) and Sydney (Australia).
• Kevin Hammond was co-chair of the international Haskell programming language design committee to 1997, and is a member of the EPSRC Computer Science College. He served on the programme committee of IFL, the major international meeting on implementing functional languages (1996-1998, chair 1997): he was also a program committee member for Europar, the European conference on parallelism (1996, 1997). He received British Council funds to work with Peña Mari (Madrid, Spain) and Loogen (Marburg, Germany) with whom he has written papers, and made externally funded visits to Dagstuhl and Bremen (Germany), Nijmegen (Netherlands) and Tsukuba and Kyoto (Japan).
Symbolic computation group: individual peer esteem and collaboration
• Ursula Martin was awarded a competitive Foresight Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering (1999-2000), to work with SRI International in California, where she was appointed International Fellow for 1 year. She has given numerous international keynote addresses, for example the opening of the Maple/University of Western Ontario Research Centre on Computer Algebra 2001 (Canada), and was an invited lecturer at the prestigious NATO ASI Marktoberdorf Summer School in 1997, and a British Telecom Industrial Fellow in 1996. She is a member of the ACM Committee on Women 1999-, HEFCE RAE panel UOA 25, the EPSRC Computer Science College 1997- and the new UKCRC, UK Computing Research Committee, and has served as an EC Esprit project reviewer. She initiated and co-ordinated 1996-99 the EPSRC/LMS MathFit initiative, a managed program to stimulate interdisciplinary research in mathematics and computing, and served the LMS, the UK learned society for mathematics, as Council member (1996-99) and Chair of the Computer Science Committee (1995-99). She is an editor of the journals Formal Aspects of Computing, Journal of Pure and Applied Logic, and Journal of Computation and Mathematics. She served on program committees for ACM ISSAC (2000) the main world conference on symbolic computation, CADE, the main world conference on automated deduction (1996-2000), Calculemus, the main world meeting on integrating computational logic and symbolic computation (1999-2000) and RTA, the main world meeting on term rewriting (1996). She made externally funded visits to Berkeley, CMU, Microsoft, MIT (USA), Nancy, INRIA (France), Kaiserslautern, Munich (Germany), and received visitors from SRI, MIT (USA), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), UWO, UBC (Canada) and Canberra (Australia).
• Stephen Linton was awarded a competitive Royal Society of Edinburgh Support Fellowship (1999-2000) to carry out a research program in the integration of domain knowledge into scientific computation systems. He chairs the international GAP forum, and is involved in international liaison for GAP with various scientific organisations. He was local arrangements chair of ACM ISSAC (2000), a program committee member of Calculemus (2000), and program chair of Calculemus (2001). He is a new (2000) editor of AAECC, Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Computing and Control (Springer). He received a British Council grant for European collaboration on GAP, hosted externally-funded visits from around 30 international GAP users for periods of 1 week to 3 months, made externally funded visits to Sydney (Australia), Oberwolfach (Germany), Kyoto (Japan), Columbus (USA), and co-authored papers with Cooperman, Finkelstein (USA) Pfeiffer (Eire) and Breuer (Aachen).
• Roy Dyckhoff held funded Visiting Professorships at Tubingen (1996) and Dresden (2000), and was program chair of Tableaux and FTP, the main international conferences on first order and Tableaux theorem proving (2000), and a programme committee member of IJCAR, a federation of CADE, FTP and Tableaux (2001). He serves as treasurer of the British Logic Colloquium, the co-ordinating body for UK logic, and as a guest editor of Studia Logica. He received a British Council grant for cooperation with the University of Helsinki, co-authored papers with Pinto (Portugal) and Negri (Finland), made externally funded visits to Nancy, Paris (France), Munich (Germany), Bern (Switzerland), and hosted visitors from Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the USA.
• Martin Escardo was a temporary lecturer 1999-00: he wrote papers with Pavlovic (USA) and made externally funded visits to Connecticut, New Orleans (USA), Linz (Austria) and Paris (France).
• Ian Gent joined the School in 1999: he is a new (2000) editor of Journal of AI Research (Morgan Kaufmann), was a guest editor of the Journal of Automated Reasoning and served on the program committee for CP2000, the main international meeting on constraint programming. He wrote papers with Caldwell, Frank (USA) and Culberson (Canada), and made externally funded visits to Cornell, Washington (USA) and Alberta (Canada).
During the review period, staff have been invited to take part in a wide range of activities at an international level: conference chairmanship,committee membership/editorships and international advanced course faculty. The proceedings of three major international conferences have
External Research Collaborations
Impact of Research
Companies in the UK (British Telecom, Citel, Ericsson UK, Marconi Communications, Mitel) and Europe (Nokia, Siemens) have directly benefited from the Department's research into telecommunications services, multimedia services and Quality of Service. These are critical aspects affecting international competitiveness in communications. The Department's coordination of the academic-industrial FORCES network been very positive in bringing research expertise to telecommunications companies. The work on rigorous object-oriented analysis and design has attracted industrial interest in Asia (SERI). Improved hardware testing techniques using SDL have also aroused industrial interest (Telelogic).
The Department's research contributes generally to improved quality of life in areas such as the dependability of telecommunications systems and mission-critical systems. The projects on effective hearing aids and the safety of radiotherapy treatment have obvious relevance to quality of life among the more general public. Stirling Hearing Systems, (a spin-off from Neural Computing research) is an example of research transfer into the wider community.
Within the academic community, the Department's leadership of two EPSRC networks (telecommunications, silicon and neurobiology) has delivered real benefits. The Department has also supported the international communities working on communications protocols (IFIP WG 6.1), complex systems (IFIP WG 10.1), LOTOS (WELL), and telecommunications services (FIW). Regular publications and academic collaborations have also made distinct contributions.
Computational Biology Group
Intelligent Robotics Group
Model Based Systems Group
· Since 1996 group members have been principal or co-investigators on peer reviewed grants totalling £3M. Two were awarded EPSRC Fast Stream grants. Collaborators, and in many case joint grant holders, include: Muggleton (Comp Sci, U. of York, originator of Inductive Logic Programming, ILP), Srinivasan (Comp. Lab, U. Oxford, an international authority on ILP), Sebag (École Polytechnique, the leading expert in France on machine learning), Page (U. Wisconsin, an international authority on ILP), Dehaspe (U. Leuven, the pioneer of applying ILP to data mining) and, in the Life Sciences, Kell (here at Aberystwyth), Oliver (U. of Manchester, who led the first team to sequence a complete chromosome, now leading the European Functional Genomics Initiative), Sternberg (Imperial Cancer Research Fund, an international authority on protein structure), Watson (U. of Oxford, a leading young crystallographer and expert in drug design), Schulze-Kremer (Max Planck Institute, Berlin, an international authority on bioinformatic ontology and simulation). Pharmaceutical industry collaborators include Blackstock, Saqi, Adzhubei, at Glaxo-Wellcome in Stevenage and Geneva.
· King’s program ‘DSC’ won second place in the CASP2 protein secondary structure prediction competition (Asilomar California, Dec 1996). His paper (not listed in RA2) at KDD-98, New York, received the best paper award in the applications category. He gave an invited presentation at the international Genes, Proteins and Computers Conference (GPCVI, Chester, U.K.). He is member of the programme committee of Discovery Science (1998 to the present) and of the Bioinformatics committee of the UK Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing. He participated by invitation in the BBSRC’s planning meeting for Bioinformatics strategy. PharmaDM, a new data mining company based in Belgium, is a joint venture between King and colleagues at Oxford and Leuven.
· Neal received the ‘best refereed technical paper’ award at the BCS Int. Conf. on KBS and Applied AI, 2000, for his paper (not listed in RA2) co-authored with Timmis (U.of Kent). Their work also led to an invited workshop at GECCO 2000 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference) in Las Vegas.
· Software resulting from Rowland’s collaboration with Kell’s group in the Biology Dept. and embodying machine learning for interpretation of optical spectra is now used in a state-of-the-art screening facility by a major pharmaceutical manufacturer. A successful instrumentation company has recently agreed to exploit non-linear dielectric spectroscopy, originated here, (Rowland[3,4]). Rowland is founding chairman of a company recently formed to exploit a specific machine learning technique in certain areas of analytical biology. He recently gave an invited bioinformatics seminar at the Free U. of Amsterdam to an audience drawn from institutions across the Netherlands and Belgium.
· Featherstone held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship at U. of Oxford until Sept 1997. Citations of his publications exceed 250. Collaborations include Fijany at NASA JPL and Khatib at Stanford. His paper (Featherstone[3]) has been recommended for a NASA technical achievement award. At the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2000, he was a member of the Scientific Committee, co-organizer of the Dynamics Symposium, and gave an invited address. He was on the scientific committee for the Int. Symp. on Robotics (ISR 2000), Montreal, and an invited speaker at the British Association Annual Festival of Science, 1997.
· Hardy was a member of the programme committee for the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Monterey, CA.
· Holstein was awarded the Inst. Mech. Eng. “Duncan Dowson Prize” for the paper Holstein[3]. He is on the editorial board of Int. J. High Performance Computer Graphics, Multimedia and Visualisation. He was guest reviewer to Int. J. of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (special issue, Vol 13, No 8, December 1999). He collaborates with the Dept of Engineering Science and the Orthopaedic Engineering Centre, both at the U. of Oxford, and also with the renowned Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital at Oswestry. He and Barnes collaborate with Oxford Metrics.
· Lee was a member of the Technical Programme Committee of the Int. Conf on Machine Automation, September 2000, Osaka, Japan and of the Intl Programme Committee of the Second Int. Workshop on European Scientific and Industrial Collaboration. Journal refereeing includes Artificial Intelligence, AI Communications, AI in Engineering, Engineering Applications of AI, IEEE Transactions, Intelligent Systems Engineering, Int. J. of Man-Machine Studies, Int. J. of Robotics Research, Knowledge Based Systems, Mechatronics, Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Conference refereeing includes: ECAI, IJCAI and IEEE Robotics & Automation. He has been an examiner for ‘Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science’, operated by CPCS, CUP and BCS. He gave invited presentations at 46th General Assembly of the Int. Institution for Production Eng Research (Como, Italy), at Industrial Research Ltd. New Zealand, and at the Food Research Association, Leatherhead.
· Rowland and Lee have a long-standing research collaboration, in intelligent devices for robot handling of natural products, with Industrial Research Ltd., Auckland. In the UK they collaborate with Solway Foods, a leading food manufacturer, and RHP, innovators in machinery for food manufacture. Rowland was a member of a Government (Welsh Office) Science Delegation to Australia and New Zealand in 1998 and gave invited robotics seminars in New Zealand at Massey University and at Industrial Research Ltd. His refereeing includes IEEE Transactions and IEE Proceedings.
· Wilson was a member of the programme committee of Towards Intelligent Mobile Robots 1999 and 2001 and of the International Review Panel for a special issue of Robotics and Autonomous Systems. She is a judge on the TV programmes ‘Robot Wars’ and ‘Techno Games 2001’.
· Jan Pinkava, a former PhD student in the group and now with Pixar in California, won an Oscar in 1998 as Director of the animated film "Geri's Game".
· The group acknowledges the active support of our Hon. Professor, Mike Brady, of Oxford Univ.
· The group instigated, and has been the coordinating node for, MONET, the EC funded Network of Excellence in model based systems and qualitative reasoning. The network has 85 members, multinational companies, SMEs, universities and research institutes from across Europe. Under the auspices of MONET the group organised workshops at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1998 and at the 1999 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. A proposal for continuation of the MONET contract is under consideration.
· The group’s recognition amongst the international community in the MBS and QR fields has led to the following invitations: Programme committee of the Eighth Int. Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, DX'97, France (Price), and 10th Int. Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, DX'99 (Coghill). Programme chair for the 13th Int. Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning QR'99 (Price). Committee Chair and primary Coordinator for the 1st Int. Workshop on Applications of Qualitative Reasoning Systems, ECAI'96 (Price) and Committee member, Model-based systems and Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, ECAI'98 (Lee).
· Lee is on the Editorial board of the journals “AI in Engineering” and "AI Communications". He was a member of the Advisory Board for the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Int. Conferences on AI in Design, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000. Journal refereeing includes Artificial Intelligence, AI Communications, AI in Engineering, Int. J.of Human Computer Studies, Knowledge Based Systems. Conference refereeing includes: ECAI, IJCAI and IEEE SMC. He has been an examiner for the Distinguished Dissertations Scheme, operated by CPCS, CUP and BCS.
· Price is a member of the EPSRC Engineering College, on Engineering Panel ‘E’ and the panel for the InDemand initiative. He was Program Chair of the 13th Int. Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning 1999, Loch Awe, Scotland, 6-8 June 1999 and gave an invited paper in the Innovative CAE stream at the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Washington DC, 1999.
· The group has spun off FirstEarth Ltd., a company that exploits the group’s research to produce design analysis tools for automotive electrical systems. AutoSteve, the first fully commercialised of these, automates failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA). Its commercial development was funded by Ford Motor Company (USA), and it has been adopted by Ford globally as part of its standard design-analysis process.
· The group’s other active technology-transfer collaborations include: Daimler Benz Research Centre Berlin, Bosch, Genrad, Fiat Research Centre Torino, Volvo Cars, Dassault Electronique, Magneti Marelli, Univ. Paris Nord, Univ. di Torino. Ford Motor Co., Jaguar Cars Ltd., Motor Industry Research Association, Viewlogic Ltd, Analogy Ltd.
· The group acknowledges the active support of our Honorary Profs, Mike Brady, Oxford U., and Pat Hayes, U. of West Florida.
Fellowships - JonesAC was awarded an EPSRC fellowship to work at Reading University with Prof Bisby, thereby strengthening their bioinformatics collaboration. Chuzhanova held a Wellcome Trust fellowship for part of the period to support her bioinformatics research. Embury, Rana and Shao all received BT fellowships to work at Martlesham and in the BT Cardiff Software Engineering Centre.
Main Collaborators
International Universities: Aalborg, Amsterdam, Brigham Young (Utah), California Institute of Technology, Colombo, Czech Technical, Dublin City, Hong Kong, Kansas, Lecce, Ljubljana, Monash, Nimes, Salzburg, Seoul National, Tokyo, Trinity College Dublin, UF Rio de Janeiro.
International Organisations: Argonne National Laboratory (USA), ATCC (USA), European JRC Space Application Institute (Ispra, Italy), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Museum of Natural Science in Madrid, Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, Novosibirsk Institute of Mathematics (Russia), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.
Companies: BAE SYSTEMS, BT, Cadmus, ESRI (USA), Eurobell, France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, McCann-Erickson, Objectivity, Ove Arup, Sun Microsystems, Tectonic International, Telenor (Norway), Tenfold (USA), Unigraphics, USC, Vodafone, 3M.
UK Universities: Aberdeen, Aberystwyth, Bath, Brunel, City, Glamorgan, Imperial, Liverpool, Loughborough, Manchester, Reading, Salford, Southampton. UK Organisations: BIOSIS, Cancer Research Wales, DERA Malvern, Natural History Museum, Radiocommunications Agency (RCA), Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), Welsh Development Agency (WDA).
Journal Editorial Board - Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, GeoInformatica (JonesCB), Computer Aided Design, International Jnl of Shape Modelling (Martin), Concurrency: Practice and Experience, International Jnl of High Performance Computing Applications (Walker, Rana), Jnl of Robotic Systems (Batchelor), Jnl of Scientific Programming (Rana), Neural Computing & Applications (JonesAJ).
Guest Editor - Computer Aided Design, International Jnl of Shape Modelling (Martin), GeoInformatica, MDA Information (JonesCB), Jnl of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Neural Computing & Applications (Rosin).
Conference Chairs - European Conference on Problem Solving Environments: Infrastructure and Prototypes 1999 (Walker), Geometric Modelling and Processing 2000, IMA Mathematics of Surfaces IX (Martin), IEEE ICDE 1997 (Gray), SPIE Machine Vision Conference series (Batchelor).
Conference Programme Committees BNCOD (Gray, Embury, Fiddian), British Machine Vision Conferences, International Symposium on Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Vision 1998 (Rosin), CSG98, Pacific Graphics 2000, Shape Modelling International 1999 (Martin), EuroPar Conference series, International Conference on Supercomputing 2001, SC2000 Conference (Walker), GECCO 1999 (Valenzuela), IDEAS (Shao, Gray, Fiddian), IEEE ICDE 1997 (Fiddian), IEEE SSDBM 2001, RIDS97 (Embury), International Cartographic Association Workshop on Map Generalisation, International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling (JonesCB), SBRN 2000 (JonesAJ).
Wealth Creation
JonesCB’s Maplex automated map labelling software [www.esri.com/software/maplex] was granted Millenium Product status in 1999. He was awarded the British Computer Society IT medal in 1997 for this work. This software is used by the AA and Rand McNally; Harper Collins employed it to produce the Millenium edition of The Times atlas. Maplex was purchased by ESRI - the largest GIS software developer in the world - who set up a Cardiff branch dedicated to developing and marketing it.
Our IGDS scheme MSc in Information Systems Engineering was established during this period with EPSRC funding of £450k. It is intended for graduates who are working in the software sector and acts as a bridge between our research and industry. We are establishing jointly with Aberystwyth University a WDA funded Centre of Excellence in Advanced Software and Intelligent Systems, which will act as a forum to help apply our research in solving industrial problems.
Other Staff
Our research effort is aided by the work of our support staff, some of whom contribute to the research effort by studying for PhDs – Margetts, Karaulova and Ivins. These young members of staff intend to follow an academic career and are producing high quality papers demonstrating their potential for return in future RAEs. Ivins’ research poster was recently selected for display at the House of Commons, as an example of work by a top younger scientist under the SET for Britain competition.
Invitations etc Here is a sample of the great number of invitations received, giving ample evidence of the international recognition of Swansea's computer scientists. FGM: 10 invited lectures at international summer schools and conferences, including European Summer Schools on Logic, Language and Information 96 (Prague) and 99 (Utrecht), CONCUR 96 (Pisa) and 99 (Eindhoven), and Reactive Systems: In Honour of Amir Pnueli, Uppsala, 1997. JVT: International research summer schools in Eindhoven (Dutch IPA, 1996), Edinburgh, (ICMS, 2000), and Aarhus (BRICS, 2001). UB: invited lectures at Logic Colloquium '97 (Leeds) and Logic Colloquium ’01 (Vienna), at the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC`99), Trento, Italy, 1999, the 11th Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, Poland, 1999. Also at symposia celebrating Arendt Heyting (100th birthday, Amsterdam, 1998), A.I.Malcev (90-th birthday, Novosibirsk, 1999), Yu.L.Ershov (60th birthday, Novosibirsk, 2000), and meetings at Shanghai, Gothenberg and BRICS Aarhus. MO: the Rasiowa Memorial Meeting, Warsaw, Logical Foundations of CS at Yaroslavl, DIMACS Workshop at Rutgers, 7th CSLI Workshop on Language, Logic and Computation, Stanford, 1998, the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC`99), Trento, Italy, 1999, LMS Colloquium on Finite Model theory (London,1999), British Logic Colloquium, UEA, 2000. AGS: Logic Colloquium '98 (Prague) and several workshops at Munich, Gothenberg. WJF was an invited speaker at 3rd ERCIM Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems, Amsterdam, 1998, 15th British Colloquium on Theoretical Computer Science, Keele, 1999, and the 8th CSLI Workshop on Language, Logic and Computation, Stanford, 1999. MC gave a course in the Mayneord Philips Summer School on Medical Image Processing, Oxford 1999. Other invitations are: JVT, FGM, MO, UB, MC, JEB, Dawar have been invited to various meetings at the Computer Science Institute Dagstuhl, UB and MO to the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, MO to CIRM Luminy, and PT to the Newton Institute Cambridge. JVT, UB and JEB were invited to the Mittag Leffler Institute for the logic and semantics year 2000-1. There were many invitations for research visits (e.g., NAH to SRI International each year since 1998, UB to Oslo and Monash, AGS to Bern and Hiroshima, WJF to Florence and Stanford, JEB to CMU); and for university seminars in the USA (e.g., UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, SUNY), Europe (e.g., Grenoble, Hagen, Munich, Oslo, Porto, Stockholm), and the UK (e.g., Aberystwyth (3), Bath (2), Birmingham (2), Cambridge, Cardiff, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Oxford, Manchester (2), Leeds (4), Leicester (2), Sussex), and company seminars (e.g., HP (Bristol), Prover Technology (Stockholm)).
Journals, Programme Committees Swansea computer scientists play an active role (e.g. journal editing, conference management and research evaluation) in the international research community. JVT is an editor of the Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science (CUP), Formal Aspects of Computing (Springer) and Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier). He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming (Elsevier). UB is also an editor. JVT was a PC member of four international conferences (e.g., ICALP99). FGM was a PC member of CONCUR96-98, MFCS98, FCT99. Dawar and MO were programme committee members for IEEE LICS. WJF was a PC member for CONCUR 01. MC is a member of the editorial board of High Performance Computer Graphics. MC and MWJ and have been PC members for a number of international conferences (e.g., IEEE Volume Visualization, EG Workshop on Parallel Graphics, VG99, VG01) of the executive committee of Eurographics UK. PWG was a PC member of PAKeM1999 and 2000 and consultant to Latvian Council of Science. PT was the President (1996-98) and MFW the Treasurer (1999-) of the British Society of Rheology, the largest such Society in Europe. PT was co-chairman of the PC of the Rheology 2000. MFW was a PC member of the 2nd International Conference of Dynamics of Polymeric Liquid (Capri, 1997). All staff have refereed papers for top international journals and conferences. Staff have acted as external examiners for PhDs in: Amsterdam, Hagen, Gothenberg (2), Uppsala, Leeds (2), QMW and UEA. JVT and MFW are members of EPSRC Colleges. JVT, FGM, MC, PT, MFW and PWG regularly review grant applications for EPSRC and other agencies (e.g., ESPRIT, TFR Sweden, British Council, ARC Australia, GA Czech Republic). Staff are editing Special Issues of: Computer Journal (FGM), Information Processing Letters (WJF) and Graphical Models (MC).
External and International Collaborations The Department is focussed on the international research community in all aspects of its work. Area 1 was the largest partner in the ESPRIT BRA NADA, on algebraic methods for hardware design, of which JVT was Scientific Director (see: JVT and B Möller, Prospects for hardware foundations, Springer LNCS, Vol 1546, 1998, pp. x+468.) NADA involved Amsterdam (Bergstra), Augsburg (Möller), Madrid (Delgardo Kloos), Uppsala (Stoltenberg-Hansen), Kent (Hanna), Leeds (Holden), LMU Munich (Schwichtenberg), TU Munich (Broy) and Siemens Lab. A Framework IV LTR project SAGA on scientific computation and algebraic abstractions linked Area 3 with Area 1, and researchers in Bergen (Haveraaen) and the CWI, Amsterdam (Heering). Area 3 collaborates through EU/HCM and TMR projects on polymeric liquids: partners are Louvain (Keunings), TU Denmark (Hassager), Napoli (Marrucci), Stuttgart (Wagner), Grenoble (Piau), Aberystwyth (Walters, Davies, and Phillips), Cambridge (Hinch and Rallison); Delft (Van den Brule) and TU Eindhoven (Meijer, Baaijens). In addition there are projects on viscoelastic flows with Porto, Portugal (Pinho and Oliveira). Most staff have international research co-operations, e.g., MO with RWTH Aachen, UC Santa Cruz; FGM with Ostrava, Brno, Tel Aviv; AGS with Stockholm.
Wealth Creation Area 3 contributes directly to wealth creation by enhancing the competitive edge of industry by increased production and reduced wastage in coating flows, foods mixing, printing and multi-layered injection moulding - technologically challenging and economically vital areas. The research improves products and processing in nine companies. Area 2 contributes to wealth creation via commercially exploitable multimedia communications research for two companies. In Area 1, FGM was seconded (25%) to Prover Technology (Stockholm).
International Conferences by Swansea Scientists The following international meetings have been organised by members of research group of Area 1:
The following has been organised at Swansea by MC and MWJ of Area 2:
UWINNFM PT and MFW are founding members of the University of Wales Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, linking Area 3 with groups at Aberystwyth and Bangor. The Institute is an international centre for rheological process modelling, and is also a Welsh Development Agency Centre of Expertise, indicating high industrial standing. International conferences organised by PT and MFW for the UWINNFM: Flow Processing, Experimentation and Simulation Associated with the Food Industry (Lake Vyrnwy, North Wales, 1997); International Symposium on Foods Processing (Lake Vyrnwy, 1997); Lubrication (Lake Vyrnwy, 1998); EPSRC COMPRO Network workshop, (Swansea, 1998), Rheometry, (Miskin, 1999); New & Emerging Technologies in Rheometry & Material Characterisation (Lake Vyrnwy, 2000); Industrial Food Processing (Plymouth, 2001). PT was co-chair of Rheology 2000 at Cambridge, which attracted over 700 participants.
2 (i) Editorships of journals/conference proceedings
Journals
F Murtagh Editor-in-chief: The Computer Journal, British Computer Soc.;
Editor: Neurocomputing Letters;
Editor: Classification Literature Automated Search Services, the Class. Soc. N. Am.
R Perrott Editor-in-chief: Scientific Programming (IOS Press).
FJ Smith Editor-in-chief: Data Science Journal, J of the Committ. on Data for Science & Tech. ICSU.
S Scott Director: Elsevier Science Computer Physics Comm. Int. Program Library.
P Milligan Co-ordinating Editor: J. of Systems Architecture.
Editor of Special Issues of Journals or Conference Proceedings
A Bouridane J. of Systems Architectures, on Parallel Image Processing, Vol. 45, 1999.
P Milligan J. of Systems Architecture: on Parallel Syst. Eng.,Vol. 41, 1997; on Tools and
Environments for Parallel Prog. Dev. Vol. 45, 1999,; for Parallel Systems, 1996-99
F Murtagh The Computer Journal, on 'Clustering and Classification', Vol. 41, 8, 1998.
Computer Physics Communications, on 'Knowledge discovery in astronomy'.
Neurocomputing Letters, on "Neural networks for Satellite and Env. Data Modeling and
Analysis", Vol. 30, 2000.
Vistas in Astronomy, on Data Handling and Analysis in Astronomy, Vol. 41, 1997.
Computer Physics Communications, on Proc. Info. retrieval in astronomy Strasbourg 1999.
S Scott Computer Physics Communications, on algorithms, software and architecture; on
"Continuum States of Atoms & Molecules", 1998.
P Corr and P Milligan: New Frontiers of IT - Short Papers Proc. IEEE Computer Soc. Press, 1997.
2 (ii) Membership of journal editorial boards or equivalent.
Computer J. (J Campbell); Parallel Algorithms & Applications (M Clint); J. of Syst. Architecture (P Corr); Free Speech Journal (P McKevitt); Euromicro (P Milligan); Neurocomputing (F Murtagh); The Computer Journal (F Murtagh); J. of Classification (F Murtagh); Info. J. of Multivariate Analysis (F Murtagh); Artificial Intelligence Review (F Murtagh); New Astronomy (Technical Advisory Board) (F Murtagh); Information – Xinxi-Joho (F Murtagh); Int. J. of Computer Maths (T Jiang).
3 (i) Chair/Organisers of International Conference/Workshop/Colloquia include the following:
M Clint EuroPar'98, General Chair: W’shop on Num. Algorithms; and Parallel Linear Algebra, 1998
P Milligan Prog. Chair, Euromicro '96, Prague, 1996;
Deputy Prog. Chair, Euromicro '97, Budapest, 1997.
R Perrott Conference Chair, Euro-Par, Southampton, 1998
F Murtagh Organiser and Chair of ADA (Conf – Mathematical Methods – AM309) Astronomical Data
(from 1999) Analysis Conf, SPIE Symposium, San Diego, 2001.
Organiser of W’shop on Information Retrieval in Astronomy, Strasbourg, 1999.
Organiser of W’shop on 'The Virtual Observatory' at Euro. Science Foundation, 1999.
and Chair or Co-chair: Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conf., 1996, 1997, 2000.
CJ Tan Co-chair, Int. Conf. on Computational Science, San Francsico, 2001
3 (ii) Membership of Conference Program/Organising Committee:
Parallel Proc. and Applied Maths, 1999 (M Clint); Int. W’shop on Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Apps., Neuchatel, 2000 (M Clint); 8th Int. W’shop on the Cognitive Science of Nat. Lang. Proc., Galway, 1999 (J Campbell); Euromicro, Prague 1996 & Budapest 1997 (P Corr); 5th and 6th W’shop on Parallel and Distributed Proc., London, 1997, Madrid 1998 (P Corr); Euromicro; Prague 1996 & Budapest 1997 (D Crookes); W’shop at the Fachtagung fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Bonn, 1999 (P McKevitt); 2nd Research W’kshop on Spoken Dialogue Syst. Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Syst., Germany, 1999 (P McKevitt); 3rd Int W’shop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 1999 (P McKevitt); Euromicro 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th W’shop on Parallel and Distributed Proc., Braga, 1996, London, 1997, Madrid, 1998, Madeira, 1999 (P Milligan); Melecon'96 (P Milligan); 2nd Int. Electrotechnical Conf., Bari, 1996 (P Milligan); Conf. on Massively Parallel Comp. Syst., Balschiari, 1996, Colorado Springs, 1998 (P Milligan); 1st Int. Conf. on Parallel Distributed Syst., Barcelona, 1997 (P Milligan); 2nd Int. Conf. on Circuits, Syst. and Computers, Corinth, 1998 (P Milligan); Int. Scientific C’ttee, 3rd Int. MultiConference on Circuits, Syst. and Computers, Athens, 1999 (P Milligan); Pacific Rim Int. Conf. On Computational Ling., Japan, 2000 (P McKevitt); 2nd Int. W’shop on Management of Inf. on the Web, Web Data and Text Mining, Munich 2001 (F Murtagh); „Pattern Recog., Neural Networks, and Doc. Analysis“ 16th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Quebec, 2002 (F Murtagh); European Soc. for Eng. and Medicine, 6th Biennial Conf., 2001 (F Murtagh); Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy III, Penn State Un., 2001 (F Murtagh); 11th Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Proc., Int. Assoc. for Pattern Recog., Italy, 2001 (F Murtagh); Neural Networks and Apps. ’01 Tenerife, 2001 (F Murtagh); „Dealing with Structured Data in Machine Learning and Statistics“, Europ. Conf. On Machine Learning, Barcelona, 2000 (F Murtagh); Int. W’shop on Management of Info. on the Web – Methodologies and Apps., Greenwich, 2000 (F Murtagh); UNESCO Conf. On Elec. Pub. in Science, Paris, 2001 (FJ. Smith); High Performance Computing and Networking 2000 & 2001 (CJ Tan); Int.Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques, Las Vegas, 2000 & 2001(CJ Tan); IMACS W'shop on Monte Carlo Methods (CJ Tan) and 12 national conferences.
5. Professional Bodies.
(i) Chairman/Secretary/Treasurer/Director
J Campbell Treasurer and founder-member of Irish Pattern Recognition & Classification Soc..
P Middleton Director - Software Industry Federation 1995- 1998
F Murtagh Pres., Tech. Comm. 13 (Astronomy and Astrophysics), Int. Assoc. for Pattern Recognition
FJ Smith Chair, National C’ttee for Eng. Sciences, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
(ii) Membership of Committee/Board.
IEE E4 Professional Group C’ttee on Image Processing & Vision (D Crookes) and E8 on Speech and Language Proc. (FJ Smith); Boards of Directors of Classification Soc. of N. America (F Murtagh); Int. Federation of Classification Societies (F Murtagh); Int. Assoc. for Statistical Computing (F Murtagh); The Royal Soc.: UK Panel for Data on Science and Tech. (FJ Smith); Board of Trustees & Management C’ttee, Ulster Am. Folkpark (Museum) (FJ Smith); Royal Irish Academy: Ed. Board for the Celtic Latin Dictionary (FJ Smith); C’ttee Member, UK Alexander von Humboldt Assoc. (S Scott).
6. Invited International Lectures.
D Greer NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, 1998.
M McKeag King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1998.
P McKevitt Forum on Speech Sci., Un. of Sci. and Tech., Trondheim, 1999; ; Un. of Hamburg, 1999;
(from 1999) MIT AI Laboratory, 1999; MIT Spoken Language Systems Group, 1999; Harvard Un.,
1999; Lucent Technologies/Bell Laboratories, 1999; Rutgers Un., 1999; New York Un.,
1999; Columbia Un., 1999;
P Middleton Un. of Mass., 3rd Annual Conf. on Software and Venture Capital; World Trade Centre,
Boston, 1998, 'Achieving Software Quality', Mass. Software Council; 1998, Chicago
Software Assoc. Maryland Tech. Forum 1998; Bay Area Software Quality Assoc., San
Francisco, 1997; Silicon Valley Software Group,Palo Alto & Univ. of Calif., 1997.
F Murtagh W’shop on Data Mining, Inst. of Statistical Maths, Tokyo, and nationwide by satellite link,
(from 1999) 1999; Japanese Class. Soc., 1999; Data Mining W’shop, Japanese Mkt Research Assoc.,
Tokyo, 1999; Image proc. topics, Asia Tech. Info. Program, Tokyo, 1999; Mitsubishi
Electric, advanced Tech. R&D Division, Osaka, 1999; Data visualization, Keio Un., 1999;
Class. Soc. of N. Am., Pittsburgh, 1999; Data Visualization, Un. of Pittsburgh, 1999;
Working Group on Model-Based Clustering, Un. of Washington, 1999; Europ. Science
Foundation W’shop on Organisation. of Science, Luxenburg, 1999.
S Scott Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantum Chemistry, Munich, 1996.
FJ Smith Scientific Databases, Pittcom March 2001, New Orleans.
National and International Grant Awarding Bodies
Prof Black is a member of the EPSRC Life Sciences College. Profs Bustard and Parr are referees for UGC, Hong Kong. Prof Farahmand is an evaluator of researchers for the Foundation for Research and Development of South Africa. Prof Hull is member of EPSRC Computing College. Prof Parr is a member of EPSRC Communications & Distributed Systems College and is also a member of EPSRC JIF Board. In 2000, Profs Bell and Bustard joined the newly constituted EPSRC Peer Review College, and Profs Hull and Parr were members of the review panel for the EPSRC MTP Programme. Prof Parr has been invited to join the International Panel of Experts of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Prof McKevitt was an EPSRC Advanced Fellow in IT from 1994-1999.
International Programme Committees
Dr Anand was a member of the Programme Committee (PC) for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Florida, 1999. Prof Bell was PC Vice-Chair of the International Conference of Data Engineering (ICDE), 1997, and was also a PC member for the following conferences: International Conference of Data Engineering, 1998, 2000; British National Conference on Databases, 1999-2001; International Conference on Very Large Databases, 1999. Prof Bustard was a PC member of ICSM 99 and UML 2000. Prof Hughes was Programme Chairman for the International Database Conference, Hong Kong, 1997. Prof Hull was a member of the PC of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2000. Prof McClean was a PC member for ASMDA 97 and ASMDA 99. Prof McKevitt was a member of the PC and Organising committee for the 7th European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication, MultiModality in Language and Speech Systems, Stockholm 1999. He was also a member of the Programme Committees for the Pacific Rim International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Japan, September 2000; 3rd International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-3), Tilburg, 1999; Nordic Signal Processing Conference, Denmark 1998; 2nd International Conference on Co-operative Multimodal Communication, Tilburg, 1998. Prof Parr was a member of the Technical Programme Committee for IEEE Africon, South Africa, 1996. Dr Wilkie was a PC member for ICSM 2000.
Best Paper Awards and Invited Papers
Prof Black received the IEE Computing and Control section Premium Paper award, in 1997 for 'Hearing Aids - A development with DSP devices'. Dr Harmer’s paper, at the Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference '96, was voted best paper by the panel. Mr Mulvenna, Dr Anand and Prof Hughes received the best paper award for 'An Internet-enabled Knowledge Discovery Process', 9th International Database Conference, Hong Kong, 1999. Prof Parr received the best paper award in the Broadband Telecommunication section at the IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications, South Africa, 1996. Prof Parr and Mr Curran received the best paper award for 'Chameleon Middleware for Multimedia', On-Line Intraware Journal, February 1999. Dr McSherry (1998) received the best paper award at the International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence (SGES).
Prof Black was invited to present a paper on Data Mining in Medical Informatics, European Society for Artificial Organs, Switzerland, September 2000, and was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science and Education on the Internet, for the SSGRR-2000 in Italy, August 2000 and at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, USA, July 2000. He gave invited lectures at the British Council Major Trauma Seminar, entitled 'Telecardiology: Remote monitoring of the 12 Lead ECG', November 1999. Prof Düntsch presented an invited keynote paper at the International Seminar on Relational Methods in Computer Science, Warsaw 1998 and at the COST 15 meeting, Crete, 1999. He gave a tutorial on Relation Algebras in Spatial Reasoning at COSIT'99, Stade, 1999 and was an invited speaker at the Alfred Tarski Centennial Conference, Warsaw, May 2001. Prof McClean gave a seminar at the Université Libre de Bruxelles on Data Mining in February 1996, and invited papers at the International Federation of OR Societies Trienniel Conference in Vancouver in July 1996, the Semi-Markov Conference in France in December 1998, the International Gerontology Conference in Adelaide in August 1997, and at the University of Texas, Dallas in June 2000. Prof McKevitt gave an invited talk at the Workshop on Thought and Language, Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), Iizuka, Japan, September, 1997. He also gave a talk at the Pacific Rim Conference on Computational Linguistics, Japan, September, 1997 and at the European Science Foundation (ESF) Network on Converging Computing Methodologies in Astronomy in Sonthofen, Germany, September 1997.
National Committees
Prof Bell was a member of the UK National Technology Foresight Manufacturing Panel, 1994-1997 and a member of NI Scholarships and Awards Committee, 1996-1997. Prof Black is President of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine (ESEM), a committee member of the Technology Foresight Health Panel - Information Task Force and is a past President of The Ulster Biomedical Engineering Society. He is also a member of the Life and Health Technologies Partnership. Prof Hughes was a member of the IT Directorate, IRTU, 1995-1998, a member of the NI Technology Foresight Advisory Panel, 1997-1999, and is currently a member of the Board of IRTU, DETI (NI). Prof Hull is a member of the Northern Ireland Partnership and a member of the BCS Professional Formation Board. She was also a member of the QAA panel for Benchmarking Standards for Computing. Prof McClean was Vice-President and President of the Irish Statistical Association. Mr Mulvenna is a Board member of the Northern Ireland Software Industry Federation.
Organisation of Conferences and Workshops
Prof Bustard organised an EPSRC sponsored workshop at Coleraine in 1999 on Systems Modelling for Business Improvement, bringing leading academics in Information and Software Engineering to Northern Ireland. Prof Düntsch was involved in the organisation of two workshops: 'Rough Sets - Theory and Applications', IMACS World Congress, Berlin 1997 and 'Synthesis of Intelligent Agent Systems from Experimental Data', Brighton 1998. Prof Farahmand was a member of the organising committee for the World Congress of Nonlinear Analysis (1996) and (2000). Prof Black is Conference Chair for the forthcoming ESEM 2001 International Conference. Dr Liu organised a workshop on Soft Computing, sponsored by Nortel Networks Ltd., IRTU and the University of Ulster.
Wealth Creation
A number of the Unit's staff are actively engaged in wealth creation as applied to the region through direct involvement in:
External and International Collaborations
The Unit has an extensive international collaboration network that includes many partners associated with our EU projects. The Unit has additional formal research links with a number of universities including: South America (Universidad Simon Bolivar and Universidad de Carabobo in Venezuela, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia); Africa (University of Nigeria); China (Fuzhou University and Xiamen Univesity in the Fujian Province); USA (Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, University of Arizona, University of Utah, and University of Missouri); New Zealand (University of Christchurch); and Australia (The University of Queensland), and a number of European research institutes, including the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland, Katholieke Universiteit in Belgium, University of Vienna and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
These collaborations have resulted in a number of joint publications, including 27 journal papers, 8 book chapters, 2 edited books and 16 conference papers. The exchange of research students includes 12 PhD students from South America, China and Europe. We have had 8 senior researchers, from our collaborating institutions, visit the Unit for extended periods. Unit staff have similarly spent research periods with our collaborating institutions, with external funding support, as follows: Morrow (Royal Society); McClean (EU); McKevitt (LIMSI-CNRS, France); Harmer (USA DoD); Düntsch (British Council); Wang (British Council). Dr Dubitzky has formal working relationships with the German Cancer Institute in Heidelberg, having spent the last two years at the Institute.