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COMPUTER SCIENCE 

RESEARCH INSTITUTE 

ANNUAL REPORT 

1 AUGUST 2006 - 31 JULY 2007



ANNUAL REPORT 

1 August 2006 – 31 July 2007



ANNUAL REPORT 

(1 AUGUST 2006 - 31 JULY 2007) 

CONTENTS Page No 

1. Foreword from the Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) 3 

2. Foreword from the Director of the Research Institute 4 

3. Research Institute Members 8 

4. a. New Research Students 10 

b. Completed Research Students 13 

5. Research Publications 16 

6. Research Funding 36 

7. Visiting Scholars 39 

8. External Professional Activities 40

1. FOREwORd by THE PRO VICE CHANCEllOR 

(RESEARCh ANd INNOvATION) 

I am delighted to welcome readers to our annual 

reports from University of Ulster Research Institutes. 

We have had an excellent year marked by great 

achievements in recruiting superb researchers to 

academic and research posts, attracting external 

income and completing work that has led to highly 

prestigious papers, books and other outputs. There 

has been a very strong flow of research findings as 

new disclosures to our Office of Innovation. These are 

being managed as promising new intellectual property 

and that Office also ensures that the expertise of our 

staff is accessed by external organisations through 

consultancy contracts. Overall our Institutes provide 

high quality research environments that are strongly supportive of research. Our 

achievements point to improved research capacity and capability amongst the 

University’s staff – the best possible training environments for our increasing 

number of research students. We are very proud of every student who graduates 

with a doctoral degree and delighted that our statistics for successful completion 

rank very highly in UK national comparisons. 

This past year was marked by final preparations for the forthcoming UK Research 

Assessment Exercise (RAE). The work to be submitted for RAE has been underway 

since 2001, so some of it is detailed in the current Annual Reports. The University 

is proud of the quality of its RAE submission and looks forward confidently to the 

announcement of outcomes at the end of 2008. 

The enhanced research performance of recent years is in line with that planned 

for in our Strategy and Action Plan for Research, Research Training and Innovation, 

entitled SUPPORTIVe 1 . Developed through comprehensive, university-wide 

consultation, SUPPORTIVe articulates our commitment to ensuring that research 

at the University of Ulster fully supports our goals summarized as ‘excellence, 

innovation and regional engagement’. 

I commend this report to you as a demonstration that University of Ulster 

research ranks proudly amongst UK institutions; documents, analyses and shapes 

the modern Northern Ireland and attracts international recognition and awards. 

Professor BM Hannigan 

Pro Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) 

1 http://research.ulster.ac.uk/office/supportive.pdf 

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2. FOREwORd by THE 

RESEARCH INSTITUTE dIRECTOR 

This is the second Annual Report of the Computer 

Science Research Institute (CSRI), which was 

established as part of the University’s institutional 

strategy to facilitate greater selectivity in research 

support. The Institute currently comprises 48 

research active staff from three Schools in the Faculty 

of Computing and Engineering: Schools of Computing 

and Information Engineering (at Coleraine), Computing 

and Intelligent Systems (at Magee), and Computing 

and Mathematics (at Jordanstown), together with 20 

research associates and research fellows, and over 

70 doctoral research students. A list of academic 

staff members of the Research Institute can be seen in Section 3. A major 

development during 2007 has been the establishment of the Intelligent Systems 

Research Centre, to which we welcome two new senior external appointments: 

Dr. Laxmidhar Behera (Reader in Robotics) and Dr. Shyam Chakraborty (Reader 

in Wireless Technology), along with four new research associate appointments. 

We also welcome three new appointments under the University’s Research 

Lectureship programme: Dr. Ammar Belatreche, Dr. Damien Coyle, and Dr. Dewar 

Finlay. The end of the academic year has seen the retirement, after a long and 

distinguished career, of Dr. Tony Donegan (Reader Emeritus in Mathematics). 

In cooperation with the Faculty of Computing and Engineering Research 

Graduate School, the CSRI again recruited some of the most highly qualified 

research students in the University in our annual competition for scholarships 

funded by DEL and by the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Studentship programme. 

13 new PhD students were recruited during 2006-07, and details of all of the 

new projects can be seen in Section 4. The last year has been a very successful 

one for PhD student completions, with 13 doctoral students completing their 

thesis between August 2006 and July 2007. Thesis topics covered a broad range 

of research areas, including telecommunications network services and protocols, 

information retrieval, computational neuroscience, embedded systems, computer 

architectures, business systems modelling and optimisation, logic, medical image 

processing, and healthcare informatics. Details of the completed PhD projects 

can also be seen in Section 4. Our programme of research student internships 

with Cisco Systems research laboratories, USA, continued in Summer 2007, 

with two PhD students completing internships in San Jose, California and one 

in Rayleigh, North Carolina. In 2007 the Faculty’s Research Graduate School 

extended its already rigorous progress assessment schedule for our PhD students 

by introducing a very successful poster presentation session for Year 2 students 

at the annual Faculty Research Dinner. 

The CSRI has established a track record of research publication in internationally 

leading journals and conferences. The 2006-07 year has been particularly 

productive for research outputs, including over 20 publications in the prestigious 

Transactions of the IEEE/ACM. Details of selected publications by members 

of the Research Institute during 2006-07 can be seen in Section 5. Research 

within the Information and Software Engineering group is focussed on 

four areas: knowledge and data engineering, image processing, software process 

engineering, and telecommunications and network engineering. In the Intelligent 

Systems group, research is focussed on computational intelligence, particularly 

biologically-inspired computation, including work on spiking neural networks, 

fuzzy systems, cognitive robotics, wireless sensory systems, re-configurable 

computing and embedded systems. Research within the Artificial Intelligence 

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group is focussed on methodologies for reasoning, inference and classification, 

with applications to knowledge engineering, natural language processing and 

bioinformatics. Application of artificial intelligence research to healthcare 

informatics is a directing influence, with particular emphasis on Ambient Assisted 

Living. 

2006-07 has seen the launch of a major infrastructural initiative: the Intelligent 

Systems Research Centre was formally launched in May 2007 and represents a 

substantial commitment to long-term expansion and sustainability. The Centre has 

funding support totalling £7.2M over the next 5 years from InvestNI, through its 

Centres of Excellence programme, and the government’s Integrated Development 

Fund. The University is investing additional support commitment of £7.31M that 

will enable relocation of the Centre’s research staff to a designated refurbished 

building and state-of-the-art infrastructure. The Centre is creating 12 new posts: 

3 senior academic staff, 6 research staff, a support post for knowledge and 

technology transfer, a commercial exploitation manager, and secretarial support, 

and a business plan is in place to attract a further £5.95M of external income over 

the next five years to support further expansion of research staff and students. 

The Centre, under the directorship of Professor Martin McGinnity, will focus on 

four areas of research activity: cognitive robotics; biologically inspired computation; 

wireless technology / ambient intelligence; and brain-computer interfacing. The 

Centre will provide a sustained programme of visiting international researchers, 

an integrated business realisation unit and incubator facilities, and an expansion of 

activities in technology transfer and new industrial and community partnerships 

to inspire and support regional economic development. 

2006-07 has been another strong year for new research grant income. There have 

been three new major awards from the UK EPSRC: funding of £571,002 through 

to June 2011 for healthcare informatics research on Self Management supported 

by Assistive, Rehabilitation and Telecare Technologies; funding of £118,919 to 

lead a UK-India network for Next Generation Networks Systems and Services: 

Enablers for the Digital Economy, involving 25 UK and 16 Indian academic and 

industrial partners; and funding of £125,000 to support a five-year UK Research 

Council Academic Fellowship through to September 2011. 

New grant awards have been secured from a range of funders to support 

research within the Healthcare Informatics sector, aligning with the UK Research 

Councils’ Ageing Research programme and EU initiatives in Ageing/Ambient 

Assisted Living (a flagship area within the i2010 initiative). Funding from the 

EU Framework 6 programme supports the COGKNOW project (£262,551): 

Helping People with Mild Dementia Navigate their Day, to develop a prototype 

user-validated cognitive prosthetic device and associated services. Funding from 

the HPSSNI R&D Office (£149,009) supports collaborative work with the Belfast 

City Hospital’s Memory Clinic to develop and assess cognitive prosthetics, in 

conjunction with funding from the ETAC consortium (£70,673), sponsored by the 

Alzheimer’s Association, Intel Corporation and Agilent Technologies, to develop 

and assess the use of cell-phone video streaming in care support for Alzheimer’s 

disease. Support through to 2011 for new research personnel and infrastructure 

has been secured through the Nestling Technologies Initiative (£420,555) and 

the InterRegIIIa-funded NETWELL project (£80,468), in collaboration with the 

North-East Health Services Executive (Republic of Ireland), Dundalk Institute of 

Technology and Dundalk Council; this award has enabled the refurbishment of a 

laboratory replicating a kitchen and living area, each comprehensively equipped 

with a network of activity sensors, to support research in ambient artificial 

intelligence technologies for assisted living. This environment replicates the design 

of real dwellings that will be developed within the Nestling Technologies Initiative 

and supports experimental design, data collection and analysis. In association with 

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the EPSRC-funded project Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for 

Health (MATCH), led by Brunel University, funding from HPSSNI (£266,431) has 

been secured to develop Markov models and decision support tools for patient 

management; these tools will be evaluated in partnership with Brunel, Cambridge 

and Southampton Universities in the EPSRC-funded project Research into Global 

Healthcare Tools (RIGHT) to characterise healthcare problem domains. 

New awards for collaborative work with industry include industrial partnership 

with SAP, with three-year funding of £172,350 for research on Performance 

Prediction for Service-Oriented Architectures (PERSERVE), combining aspects of 

modelling, software engineering and distributed systems to develop a range of 

performance and resource models that evolve over time. Two new Knowledge 

Transfer Partnerships have commenced with Precision Industrial Services Ltd 

(£149,616) and Hunter Apparel Solutions Ltd. (£99,744), along with a number 

of knowledge and technology transfer projects within the all-Ireland FUSION 

programme. Details of funding awards notified over the last twelve months can 

be seen in Section 6. 

A number of major research projects and initiatives have come to successful 

completion during 2006-07. Following completion of an InvestNI-funded Proofof-Concept 

project, SOPHIA, to develop information analysis tools for corpora 

of heterogeneous electronic documents, a spin-out company, SOPHIA Search 

Ltd. was established in 2007, with Dr. David Patterson as CEO, to commercialise 

patented document search tools. Two collaborative projects funded by the Higher 

Education Authority (Republic of Ireland) North South Collaborative Research 

Programme have been completed in 2007: work with University College Cork 

and the Tyndall National Institute on the InterWave project to develop novel 

techniques to implement high density spiking neural networks via electronic wave 

propagation in silicon; and work with Trinity College Dublin on combining prior 

domain knowledge and data mining for biomedical decision support. Other funded 

research concluded at the end of 2006 includes: work on advanced data- and 

knowledge-driven methods for state failure risk, supported by the NATO Security 

through Science programme; work on intelligent image capture and processing, 

supported by the Nuffield Foundation; and the Wireless Broadband Flagship 

initiative, funded by D.E.T.I., to implement three wireless enabled environments: 

wireless study facilities throughout the University’s Magee campus; a wireless 

paperless working environment for Derry City Council; and wireless provision 

of information for businesses and tourists within Derry’s historic city walls. The 

Wireless Broadband project won the 2006 Communication in Business “Best 

Wireless Project” award, sponsored by Cable & Wireless, and established the 

Wireless Technology Demonstration Centre to encourage SMEs to incorporate 

wireless technology in their products. 

During 2006-07 the CSRI, together with research strategy initiatives by the 

PVC Research and Innovation, has continued to support and co-ordinate a 

programme of Visiting Scholars, hosting a number of distinguished visitors. A list 

of our 2006-07 Visiting Scholars is shown in section 7. The CSRI’s partnerships 

with other academic institutions and industry have been extended through 

new projects funded by UK EPSRC, EU Framework programmes and a range of 

other funders. International collaborations continue to expand, with particularly 

exciting developments for research co-operation with India. Two new three-year 

projects funded by the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) 

are about to commence: a collaboration with IIT Kanpur for research on 

Innovations in Intelligent Assistive Robotics (£145,000); and a project to lead the 

development of a UK-India graduate training and exchange programme as part of 

an international Virtual Research Graduate School (£148,000). This latter project, 

together with funding already secured from EPSRC to lead a UK-India network 

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for Next Generation Networks Systems and Services, provides the platform 

for our role as UK academic lead in a major consortium proposal with British 

Telecom Research Laboratories and leading UK and Indian academic and industrial 

partners to establish a India-UK Advanced Technology Centre of Excellence in 

Next Generation Networks/ITC. The proposed centre of excellence will provide 

opportunities to engage in internationally-leading research, establish a leadership 

position in industry-guided research, expand activities in technology transfer and 

formation of spin-out companies, and develop graduate training and exchange 

programmes. 

Many of our staff are recognised internationally through both their scholarly work 

in academic journals and their professional activities as conference organisers and 

programme committee members, members of professional and advisory bodies, 

and external examiners for other academic institutions. A selection of external 

professional activities for individual staff members can be seen in Section 8. In 

2006-07 CSRI staff organised and hosted the Irish Signals and Systems Conference 

(ISSC 2007), sponsored by IEEE and IET; the 7th International Conference on 

Case-based Reasoning (ICCBR 2007); and co-organised (with Queens University 

Belfast) the ELSNET Summer School on Advanced Dialogue. A busy year ahead 

is eagerly anticipated for 2008, with CSRI staff organising and hosting the 15th 

Annual IEEE International Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based 

Systems (ECBS 2008) and co-located events: 13th IEEE International Conference 

on the Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2008) and 5th 

IEEE International Workshop on the Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous 

Systems (EASe 2008); the Second International Health and Social Care Modelling 

Conference (HSCM 2008); the Second International Machine Vision and Image 

Processing conference (IMVIP 2008), with proceedings published by IEEE; and a 

Summer School/Workshop on Evolutionary Computing and Lecture Series by 

Pioneers, sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. 

Further information about the Computer Science Research Institute is available 

on our Faculty website: http://www.compeng.ulster.ac.uk/ 

Bryan Scotney 

Professor of Informatics and director, CSRI 

december 2007 

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3. RESEARCH INSTITUTE MEMbERS 

Surname Forename Title Position 

Augusto Juan Carlos Dr Lecturer 

Azuaje Francisco Dr Reader 

Bi Yaxin Dr Lecturer 

Behera Laxmidhar Dr Reader 

Belatreche Ammar Dr Lecturer 

Black Norman Prof Pro-Vice Chancellor 

Bustard David Prof Head of School 

Chakraborty Shyam Dr Reader 

Chen Luke Dr Lecturer 

Coleman Sonya Dr Lecturer 

Condell Joan Dr Lecturer 

Coyle Damien Dr Lecturer 

Curran Kevin Dr Senior Lecturer 

donegan Henry (Tony) Dr Emeritus Reader 

Farahmand Kambiz Prof Professor of Mathematics 

Finlay Dewar Dr Lecturer 

Glass David Dr Lecturer 

Grigorash Alexander Dr Lecturer 

harkin Jim Dr Lecturer 

hickey Raymond Mr Lecturer 

hull Martha (Elizabeth) Prof Professor of Computing Science 

Kelly Peter Dr Lecturer 

Li Yuhua Dr Lecturer 

Lightbody Gaye Dr Lecturer 

Liu Jun Dr Lecturer 

Lunney Thomas Dr Senior Lecturer 

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Surname Forename Title Position 

Maguire Liam Prof Head of School 

McAllister Gerry Prof Head of School 

McCartney Mark Dr Lecturer 

McClean Sally Prof Head of Research Graduate School 

McCullagh Paul Dr Senior Lecturer 

Mcdaid Liam Dr Lecturer 

McGinnity Thomas (Martin) Prof Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Centre 

McKevitt Paul Prof Professor of Digital Multimedia 

McSherry David Dr Senior Lecturer 

McTear Michael Prof Professor of Knowledge Engineering 

Morrow Philip Dr Senior Lecturer 

Nugent Christopher Dr Reader 

Parr Gerard Prof Professor of Telecommunications 

Patterson William (David) Dr Senior Lecturer 

Prasad Girijesh Dr Senior Lecturer 

Scotney Bryan Prof Research Institute Director 

Shapcott Caroline (Mary) Ms Senior Lecturer 

Sterritt Roy Mr Lecturer 

Szularz Marek Dr Lecturer 

Wang Haiying Dr Lecturer 

Wang Hui Dr Reader 

Wilkie Frederick (George) Dr Senior Lecturer 

Wu Shengli Dr Lecturer 

Zheng Huiru (Jane) Dr Lecturer 

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4.a NEw RESEARCH STUdENTS 

Name Cheddad, Abbas 

Title of Project Strengthening steganography in digital images 

Grant Source Vice-Chancellor’s Research Studentship 

Country of Origin Malaysia 

Name Gardiner, bryan 

Title of Project HexCIP: Hexagonal-based colour image processing 

Grant Source DEL UU 

Country of Origin Northern Ireland 

Name Garg, lalit 

Title of Project Unified modelling for care of the elderly 

Grant Source EPSRC Healthcare Modelling (Brunel) 

Country of Origin India 

Name Hinds, Anne 

Title of Project Enhancing the learning experience using intelligent game techiniques 

Grant Source SELF 


Name Hunter, Audrey 

Title of Project An evolvable computer interface for elderly users 



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Name liu, Chang 

Title of Project Syntactic information retrieval 


Country of Origin PR China 

Name McCarthy, Sheila 

Title of Project MemoryLane: An intelligent mobile companions for elderly users 



Name McGinnis, Therese 

Title of Project ELEGANT: Enhanced e-Learning Engagement using Game absorptioN Techniques 



Name McGuinness, bronagh 

Title of Project Random polynomials: Crossing of levels and turning points 



Name Poland, Michael 

Title of Project Learning for complex adaptive systems - a smart home perspective 



Name Vance, Phillip Jonathan 

Title of Project Intelligent internal localisation using wireless networks 



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Name wall, Julie 

Title of Project Post-cochlear auditory modelling for sound bio-inspired techniques 



Name Zhang, Huaizhong 

Title of Project Elastic registration of multi-modal bio-medical images 

Grant Source Vice Chancellor’s Research Studentship 

Country of Origin PR China 

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4.b COMPlETEd RESEARCH STUdENTS 

Name Adams, Kenneth John 

Title of Project Optimisation of multiple-valued logic polynomials by polarities and affine transforms 

Supervisors Prof LP Maguire 

Mr J McGregor 

Dr J A C Webb 

Name belatreche, Ammar 

Title of Project Learning and computing with biologically plausible neural networks 

Supervisors Prof TM McGinnity 

Prof LP Maguire 

Name Johnston, Adrian 

Title of Project Integrating business improvement and intelligent systems techniques in high volume 

manufacturing 

Supervisors Prof LP Maguire 

Prof TM McGinnity 

Name Kulkarni, Parag Giopal 

Title of Project Lightweight mechanisms for quality of service management in differentiated services 

networks 

Supervisors Prof SI McClean 

Prof GP Parr 

Dr MM Black 

Name Mohammad, Nazeeruddin 

Title of Project Integrated host auto-configuration, name resolution and service discovery protocols 

for dynamic MANETS 

Supervisors Prof GP Parr 

Prof BW Scotney 

Name O’donnell, Martina 

Title of Project Supply chain optimisation: reducing the bull-whip effect 

Supervisors Prof R McIvor 

Dr P Humphreys 

Prof LP Maguire 

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Name Pilz, Norbert Anton 

Title of Project Optimised program implementations on statically scheduled architectures with 

inherent hybrid parallel processing functionality 

Supervisors Dr K Adamson 

Name Robinson, Martin 

Title of Project Intelligent information retrieval using web communities 

Supervisors Dr T Lunney 

Prof P McKevitt 

Name Solon, Anthony 

Title of Project TeleMorph and TeleTuras: Bandwidth determined mobile multimodal presentation 

Supervisors Prof P McKevitt 

Dr KJ Curran 

Name Tuffy, Fergal 

Title of Project Inter-neuron interconnect strategies for hardware implementations of neural 

networks 

Supervisors Dr JA Santos 

Dr LJ McDaid 


Dr PM Kelly 

Name ward, Kevin Martin 

Title of Project Symbiotic evolution in robotics 

Supervisors Dr MH Siddique 


Name yang, Xiaoyun (Robert) 

Title of Project Automated identification of optic nerve head and blood vessels in retinal images 

Supervisors Prof BW Scotney 

Dr PJ Morrow 

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Name Zhang, Rui 

Title of Project Classification of auditory brainstem response using minimal data 

Supervisors Prof HG McAllister 

Prof BW Scotney 

Prof SI McClean 

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5. RESEARCH PUblICATIONS 

AUGUSTO 

Hamid K. Aghajan, Juan Carlos Augusto, Chen Wu, Paul J. McCullagh, Julie-Ann Walkden: Distributed Vision-Based 

Accident Management for Assisted Living. ICOST 2007: 196-205 

Joseph Barjis, Juan Carlos Augusto, Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche: Towards more adequate EIS. Sci. Comput. Program. 

65(1): 1-3 (2007) 

Joseph Barjis, Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, Juan Carlos Augusto: Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of 

Enterprise Information Systems, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, 

Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems, MSVVEIS 2006, In conjunction with ICEIS 2006, 

Paphos, Cyprus, May 2006 INSTICC Press 2006 

Juan Carlos Augusto, Chris D. Nugent: Designing Smart Homes, The Role of Artificial Intelligence Springer 

2006 

Juan Carlos Augusto, Chris D. Nugent: Smart Homes Can Be Smarter. Designing Smart Homes 2006: 1-15 

Juan Carlos Augusto: Ambient intelligence: Basic concepts and applications. ICSOFT (1) 2006 

Juan Carlos Augusto, Jun Liu, Liming Chen: Using Ambient Intelligence for Disaster Management. KES (2) 2006: 

171-178 

Juan Carlos Augusto, Norman D. Black, H. Gerry McAllister, Paul J. McCullagh, Chris D. Nugent: Pervasive Health 

Management: New Challenges for Health Informatics. J. UCS 12(1): 1-5 (2006) 

AZUAJE 

Azuaje, F. Ramirez, J.L. Da Silveira, J.F: An Exploration of the Genetic Robustness Landscape of Surface Protein 

Families in the Human Protozoan Parasite Trypanosoma Cruzi. NanoBioscience, IEEE Transactions 6 (3) 2007: 

223 - 228 

Fiona Browne, Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, Francisco Azuaje: Supervised Statistical and Machine Learning 

Approaches to Inferring Pairwise and Module-Based Protein Interaction Networks. BIBE 2007: 1365-1369 

Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, Francisco Azuaje: Self-Adaptive Neural Networks Based on a Poisson Approach for 

Knowledge Discovery. IJCAI 2007: 1101-1106 

Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, Francisco Azuaje: Poisson-Based Self-Organizing Feature Maps and Hierarchical 

Clustering for Serial Analysis of Gene Expression Data. IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biology Bioinform. 4(2): 163- 

175 (2007) 

Yongyang Huo, Francisco Azuaje, Paul J. McCullagh, Roy Harper: Semi-Supervised Clustering Models for Clinical 

Risk Assessment. BIBE 2006: 243-250 

Marisol Giardina, Francisco Azuaje, Paul J. McCullagh, Roy Harper: A Supervised Learning Approach to Predicting 

Coronary Heart Disease Complications in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients. BIBE 2006: 325-331 

Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, Francisco Azuaje: Computational Approaches to Supporting Large-Scale Analysis of 

Photoreceptor-Enriched Gene Expression. CBMS 2006: 533-538 

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Nadia Bolshakova, Francisco Azuaje, Padraig Cunningham: Incorporating Biological Domain Knowledge into 

Cluster Validity Assessment. EvoWorkshops 2006: 13-22 

Francisco Azuaje, Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, Olivier Bodenreider, Alban Chesneau: Predictive Integration of 

Gene Ontology-Driven Similarity and Functional Interactions. ICDM Workshops 2006: 114-119 

Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, David Simpson, Francisco Azuaje: Machine learning approaches to supporting the 

identification of photoreceptor-enriched genes based on expression data. BMC Bioinformatics 7: 116 (2006) 

BEhERA 

Laxmidhar Behera, Swagat Kumar, Awhan Patnaik: On Adaptive Learning Rate That Guarantees Convergence in 

Feedforward Networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17 (5), (2006), 1116-1125 

P. Prem Kumar, Indrani Kar, Laxmidhar Behera: Variable-Gain Controllers for Nonlinear Systems Using the T–S 

Fuzzy Model. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part B Cybernetics, 36 (6), (2006), 1442- 

1449. 

BELATREChE 

BI 

Qingxiang Wu, T. Martin McGinnity, Liam P. Maguire, Ammar Belatreche, Brendan P. Glackin: Edge Detection 

Based on Spiking Neural Network Model. ICIC (2) 2007: 26-34 

Liam P. Maguire, T. Martin McGinnity, Brendan P. Glackin, Arfan Ghani, Ammar Belatreche, Jim Harkin: Challenges 

for large-scale implementations of spiking neural networks on FPGAs. Neurocomputing 71(1-3): 13-29 (2007) 

Ammar Belatreche, Liam P. Maguire, T. Martin McGinnity: Advances in Design and Application of Spiking Neural 

Networks. Soft Comput. 11(3): 239-248 (2007) 

Q. X. Wu, T. Martin McGinnity, Liam P. Maguire, Brendan P. Glackin, Ammar Belatreche: Learning under weight 

constraints in networks of temporal encoding spiking neurons. Neurocomputing 69(16-18): 1912-1922 (2006) 

Ammar Belatreche, Liam P. Maguire, T. Martin McGinnity, Qing Xiang Wu: Evolutionary design of spiking neural 

networks. New Mathematics and Natural Computation. 2 (3), 237 – 253, (2006) 

Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, Sally I. McClean: Regression Relevance Models for Data Fusion. DEXA Workshops 2007: 

264-268 

Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Gongde Guo: Combining Prioritized Decisions in Classification. MDAI 2007: 121-132 

Yaxin Bi, Sally I. McClean, Terry J. Anderson: On Combining Multiple Classifiers Using an Evidential Approach. 

AAAI 2006 

Shengli Wu, Fabio Crestani, Yaxin Bi: Evaluating Score Normalization Methods in Data Fusion. AIRS 2006: 642- 

648 

Gongde Guo, Daniel Neagu, Xuming Huang, Yaxin Bi: An Effective Combination of Multiple Classifiers for Toxicity 

Prediction. FSKD 2006: 481-490 

Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Xuming Huang, Gongde Guo: Combining Multiple Sets of Rules for Improving Classification 

Via Measuring Their Closenesses. PRICAI 2006: 1068-1072 

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Yaxin Bi, Werner Dubitzky: An evidential approach in ensembles. SAC 2006: 1-6 

Yaxin Bi, Jiwen Guan: An Efficient Triplet-based Algorithm for Evidential Reasoning. UAI 2006 

Gongde Guo, Hui Wang, David A. Bell, Yaxin Bi, Kieran Greer: Using kNN model for automatic text categorization. 

Soft Comput. 10(5): 423-430 (2006) 

BLACK 

H. Zheng, R. Davies, T. Stone, S. Wilson, J. Hammerton, S. J. Mawson, P. M. Ware, N. D. Black, N. D. Harris, C. 

Eccleston, H. Hu, H. Zhou, G. A. Mountain: SMART Rehabilitation: Implementation of ICT Platform to Support 

Home-Based Stroke Rehabilitation. HCI (5) 2007: 831-840 



E. Brankin, P. McCuIlagh, N. Black, W. Patton, A. Muldrew: The Optimisation of Thresholding Techniques for the 

Identification of Choroidal Neovascular Membranes in Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration. CBMS 

2006: 430-435 

BUSTARd 

David W. Bustard, Sa’adah Hassan, David McSherry, Steven Walmsley: GRAPHIC illustrations of autonomic 

computing concepts. ISSE 3(1): 61-69 (2007) 

Frank Keenan, David W. Bustard: Aligning Computing Systems with their Environment: An Agile Perspective. 

ECBS 2006: 229-240 

D Bustard, A Moore, D Higgins, D Ayre, (2007): Towards Self-Managing Web Sites: The Link Integrity Problem. 

Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, pp. 61-67 

Sa’adah Hassan, David McSherry , David Bustard: Autonomic self healing and recovery informed by environment 

knowledge, Journal Artificial Intelligence Review, Volume 26, Numbers 1-2 / October, 2006, pp. 89-101 

D. W. Bustard, R. Sterritt, A. Taleb-Bendiab and A. Laws: Autonomic system design based on the integrated use of 

SSM and VSM , Journal Artificial Intelligence Review, Volume 25, Number 4 / June, 2006, pp.313-327 

R Sterritt and D Bustard: A health-check model for autonomic systems based on a pulse monitor, The Knowledge 

Engineering Review, Cambridge University Press, (2006), 21, pp. 195-204 

David Bustard, Saadah Hassan, David McSherry, Steven Walmsley, (2006): Standard Exemplars for Autonomic 

Computing Concepts. Third IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic & Autonomous 

Systems, pp. 47-53 

ChAKRABORTY 

Fathi, H, Chakraborty, S. S, Prasad, R: Optimization of Mobile IPv6-Based Handovers to Support VoIP Services in 

Wireless Heterogeneous Networks. Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions 56 (1): 260 – 270 (2007) 

Fathi, H, Chakraborty, S.S, Prasad, R: On SIP session setup delay for VoIP services over correlated fading channels. 

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on 55 (1):286 – 295 (2006) 

Hanane Fathi, SeongHan Shin, Kazukuni Kobara, Shyam S. Chakraborty, Hideki Imai, Ramjee Prasad: LR-AKE-Based 

AAA for Network Mobility (NEMO) Over Wireless Links. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 

24(9): 1725-1737 (2006) 

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ChEN 

Hanane Fathi, Shyam S. Chakraborty, Ramjee Prasad: Optimization of SIP Session Setup Delay for VoIP in 3G 

Wireless Networks. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 5(9): 1121-1132 (2006) 

Tao F., Millard D., Zalfan M., Chen L, Davis H., (Jul 2007) “Knowledge based Learning Experience Management 

on the Semantic Web”, Proceedings of IADIS International Conference of e-Learning , Lisbon, Portugal, July 6-8, 

2007, 

Chen L. and Jiao Z. (Dec. 2006), Supporting Provenance in Service-oriented Computing Using the Semantic Web 

Technologies, The IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin, ISSN: 1727-5997, Vol.7, No.1, pp.4-11. 

Chen L., Jiao Z. and Tao F, (2006), A Semantic Web Service Based Approach for Augmented Provenance, accepted 

by 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Hong Kong, 18-22 December 2006. 

Chen L, Shadbolt N.R., Goble C., (Jan 2007) “A Semantic Web Based Approach to Knowledge Management for 

Grid Applications”, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 2, ISSN 1041-4347, Pages 

283-296 

Chen L, Du Y., Wang H, (Jan 2007) “Towards a Bottom-up Approach to Data and Knowledge Modeling and 

Fusion”, Proceedings of Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, in the 20th 

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, January 2007 

Chen L, Shadbolt N.R., Goble C., Tao F, (Oct 2006) “Managing Semantic Metadata for Web/Grid Services”, 

International Journal of Web Service Research, Vol. 3, No. 4, Idea Group Publishing , ISSN 1545-7362 

Augusto J. C. , Liu J, Chen L, (Oct 2006) “Using ambient intelligence for disaster management”, Proceedings of 

10th International Conference of KES2006 (Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems), 

Part II, Bournemouth, UK, October 9-11, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4252/2006, Springer, 

ISBN 978-3-540-46537-9, Pages 171-178 

Chen L, Jiao Z., Cox S.J., (Aug 2006) “On the Use of Semantic Annotations for Supporting Provenance in Grids”, 

Proceedings of European Conference on Parallel Computing (EUROPAR2006), Dresden, Germany, 28 August - 

1st Sept., in “12th International Euro-Par Conference, Springer Lecture Notes Computer Science (LNCS) 4128 

“ (Edited by W.E. Nagel, W.V. Walter and W. Lehner (Eds.) ), Springer-Verlag 

COLEMAN 

Sonya A. Coleman, Shanmugalingam Suganthan, Bryan W. Scotney: Characterising Range Image Features via 

Gradient Operators. ICIAP 2007: 629-634 

Sonya A. Coleman, Bryan W. Scotney, Dermot Kerr: Integrated Edge and Corner Detection. ICIAP 2007: 653- 

658 

Sonya A. Coleman, Bryan W. Scotney, Shanmugalingam Suganthan: Feature Extraction on Range Images - A New 

Approach. ICRA 2007: 1098-1103 

Sonya A. Coleman, Bryan W. Scotney, Madonna G. Herron: A validated edge model technique for the empirical 

performance evaluation of discrete zero-crossing methods. Image Vision Comput. 25(8): 1315-1328 (2007) 

Bryan W. Scotney, Sonya A. Coleman: Improving angular error via systematically designed near-circular Gaussianbased 

feature extraction operators. Pattern Recognition 40(5): 1451-1465 (2007) 

Bryan W. Scotney, Sonya A. Coleman, Dermot Kerr: A Graph Theoretic Approach to Direct Processing of Sparse 

Unwarped Panoramic Images. ICIP 2006: 1557-1560 

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CONdELL 

COYLE 

Joan V. Condell, George Moore, John Moore: Software and Methods for Motion Capture and Tracking in Animation. 

CGVR 2006: 3-9 

Joan V. Condell, Bryan W. Scotney, Philip J. Morrow: The Effect of Presmoothing Image Sequences on the 

Computation of Optical Flow. ICIAR (1) 2006: 780-791 

J. V. Condell , B. W. Scotney , P. J. Morrow : Adaptive vs. non-adaptive strategies for the computation of optical flow. 

International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology: 16 (2): 35-50 (2006) 

Coyle, Damien McGinnity, Thomas M. Prasad, Girijesh: Identifying Local Ultrametricity of EEG Time Series 

for Feature Extraction in a Brain-Computer Interface, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 29th Annual 

International Conference of the IEEE 22-26 Aug. 2007, pp. 701-704 

Coyle, D. Prasad, G. McGinnity, T.M: Enhancing Autonomy and Computational Efficiency of the Self-Organizing 

Fuzzy Neural Network for a Brain Computer Interface, Fuzzy Systems, 2006 IEEE International Conference, July 

16-21, 2006, pp. 2270- 2277 

Coyle, D. Mcginnity, T.M. Prasad, G.: Creating a Nonparametric Brain-Computer Interface with Neural Time- 

Series Prediction Preprocessing, Intelligent Syst. Eng. Lab., Ulster University, Engineering in Medicine and Biology 

Society, 2006, 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE, pp. 2183-2186 

CURRAN 

Kieran Greer, Matthias Baumgarten, Maurice D. Mulvenna, Chris D. Nugent, Kevin Curran: Knowledge-Based 

Reasoning Through Stigmergic Linking. IWSOS 2007: 240-254 

Matthias Baumgarten, Nicola Bicocchi, Kevin Curran, Marco Mamei, Maurice D. Mulvenna, Chris D. Nugent, 

Franco Zambonelli: Towards Self-Organizing Knowledge Networks for Smart World Infrastructures. ITSSA 2(2): 

123-134 (2006) 

Alan Bradley, Kevin Curran, Gerard Parr: Resource discovery and management in computational GRID 

environments. Int. J. Communication Systems 19(6): 639-657 (2006) 

Karen Bailey, Kevin Curran: An evaluation of image based steganography methods. Multimedia Tools Appl. 30(1): 

55-88 (2006) 

Karen Bailey, Kevin Curran: An evaluation of image based steganography methods using visual inspection and 

automated detection techniques. Multimedia Tools Appl. 31(3): 327 (2006) 

Kevin Curran, Derek Woods, Barry O. Riordan: Investigating text input methods for mobile phones. Telematics 

and Informatics 23(1): 1-21 (2006) 

Alan Bradley, Kevin Curran, Gerard Parr: Discovering Resources in Computational GRID Environments. The 

Journal of Supercomputing 35(1): 27-49 (2006) 

dONEGAN 

K.S. Donegan, G. Adamson, H.A. Donegan: (2007) Indexing the contribution of household travel behaviour to 

sustainability, Journal of Transport Geography 15 pp 245–261 

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Adamson, G., McAleavy, G., Donegan, H.A., Shevlin, M. (2006). Teachers’ perceptions of health education practice 

in Northern Ireland: reported differences between policy and non-policy holding schools. Health Promotion 

International, Vol 21, No 2, pp.113-120. 

FARAhMANd 

A. Nezakati and K. Farahmand: REAL ZEROS OF RANDOM ALGEBRAIC POLYNOMIALS WITH BINOMIAL 

ELEMENTS. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis Volume 2006, Article ID 13980, Pages 1–6 

K. Farahmand and M. Sambandham: COVARIANCE OF THE NUMBER OF REAL ZEROS OF A RANDOM 

TRIGONOMETRIC POLYNOMIAL. International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 

2006, Article ID 28492, Pages 1–6 

Farahmand, K. Nezakati, A: Covariance of the Number of Real Zeros of a Random Algebraic Polynomial with 

Binomial Elements. Stochastic Analysis and Applications, Volume 24, Number 2, Number 2, 2006, pp. 329-337(9) 

FINLAY 

M. P. Donnelly, C. D. Nugent, D. D. Finlay, N. D. Black, “Intelligent data analysis for the classification of body surface 

potential maps,” International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, Accepted and In Press. 

D. D. Finlay, C. D. Nugent, M. P. Donnelly, P. J. McCullagh, N. D. Black, “Optimal electrocardiographic lead systems: 

Practical scenarios in smart clothing and wearable computing,” IEEE Transaction in Information Technology in 

Biomedicine, Accepted and In press. 

D. D. Finlay, C. D. Nugent, H. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, M. P. Donnelly, P. J. McCullagh, “Classification of body surface 

potential maps: A comparison of isointegral measurements in the diagnosis of old myocardial infarction,” 

European Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 3, online, 2007. 

D. D. Finlay, C. D. Nugent, J. G. Kellett, M. P. Donnelly, P. J. McCullagh, N. D. Black, “Synthesising the 12-lead 

electrocardiogram: Trends and challenges,” European Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 18, no. 8, pp 566-570, 

2007. 

M. P. Donnelly, C. D. Nugent, D. D. Finlay, P. J. McCullagh, N. D. Black, “Making smart shirts smarter: Optimal 

electrode placement for cardiac assessment,” International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics, vol. 

8, no. 2, pp 44-52, 2007. 

D. D. Finlay, C. D. Nugent, J. A. Kors, G. van Herpen, M. P. Donnelly, P. J. McCullagh, N. D. Black, “Optimising the 

12-lead ECG: A data driven approach to locating alternative recording sites,” Journal of Electrocardiology, vol. 

40, no. 3, pp. 292-299, 2007. 

C. D. Nugent, D. D. Finlay, R. J. Davies, M. D. Mulvenna, J. Wallace, C. Paggetti, E. Tamburini, N. D. Black, “The next 

generation of mobile medication management solutions,” International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, vol. 3, 

no. 1, pp. 7-31, 2007. 

D. D. Finlay, C. D. Nugent, M. P. Donnelly, R. L. Lux, P. J. McCullagh, and N. D. Black, “Selection of optimal recording 

sites for limited lead body surface potential mapping: A sequential selection based approach,” BMC Journal of 

Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1-9, 2006. 

M. P. Donnelly, C. D. Nugent, D. D. Finlay, N. F. Rooney, and N. D. Black, “Diagnosing old myocardial infarction 

searching for a simple linear boundary in the space of principal components,” IEEE Transactions on Information 

Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 476-483, 2006. 

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GLASS 

Glass, D.H: Coherence measures and inference to the best explanation. Synthese: 157 (3): 275-296 (2007) 

Guilin Qi, Weiru Liu, David H. Glass, David A. Bell: A split-combination approach to merging knowledge bases in 

possibilistic logic. Ann. Math. Artif. Intell. 48(1-2): 45-84 (2006) 

hARKIN 

Michael J. Callaghan, Jim Harkin, E. McColgan, T. Martin McGinnity, Liam P. Maguire: Client-server architecture for 

collaborative remote experimentation. J. Network and Computer Applications 30(4): 1295-1308 (2007) 



Arfan Ghani, T. Martin McGinnity, Liam P. Maguire, Jim Harkin: Area Efficient Architecture for Large Scale 

Implementation of Biologically Plausible Spiking Neural Networks on Reconfigurable Hardware. FPL 2006: 1-2 

hICKEY 

Ben Cowley, Darryl Charles, Michaela M. Black, Ray J. Hickey: User-System-Experience Model for User Centered 

Design in Computer Games. AH 2006: 419-424 

Ray J. Hickey: Structure and Majority Classes in Decision Tree Learning: Journal of Machine Learning Research: 

8: 1747-1768 (2007) 

KElly 

LI 

Fergal Tuffy, L. J. McDaid, Vunfu Wong Kwan, John Alderman, T. Martin McGinnity, J. A. Santos, P. M. Kelly, H. Sayers: 

Inter-neuron communication strategies for spiking neural networks. Neurocomputing 71(1-3): 30-44 (2007) 

Fergal Tuffy, Liam McDaid, T. Martin McGinnity, Jose Santos, Peter Kelly, Vunfu Wong Kwan, John Alderman: A Time 

Multiplexing Architecture for Inter-neuron Communications. ICANN (1) 2006: 944-952 

Yajie Chen, Steve Hall, Liam McDaid, Octavian Buiu, Peter Kelly: A Silicon Synapse Based on a Charge Transfer 

Device for Spiking Neural Network Application. ISNN (2) 2006: 1366-1373 

Yuhua Li (2007) “Selecting extreme patterns for classifier design,” Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on 

Engineering Asset Management and the 4th International Conference on Condition Monitoring, pp1259-1266, 

11-14 June 2007, Harrogate, UK. 

Kui Zhang, Yuhua Li, Yibo Fan, Andrew Ball “An Evaluation of the Potential Offered by a Relevance Vector Classifier 

in Fault Diagnosis,” International Journal of COMADEM, vol.9, no. 4, pp. 35-40, October, 2006. 

Yuhua Li, McLean, D., Bandar, Z. (2006) “Sentence similarity using semantic nets and corpus statistics,” IEEE 

Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1138-1150, August, 2006. 

Ahmed Y. Ben Sasi, Fengshou Gu, Yuhua Li, and Andrew D. Ball (2006) “A validated model for the prediction of 

rotor bar failure in squirrel-cage motors using instantaneous angular speed,” Mechanical Systems and Signal 

Processing, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 1572-1589, October 2006. 

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Gu F., Yesilyurt I., Yuhua Li, Harris G., Ball A.D. (2006) “An investigation of the effects of measurement noise in 

the use of instantaneous angular speed for machine diagnosis,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 20, 

no. 6, pp 1444-1460, August 2006. 

LIGhTBOdY 

LIU 

Lightbody, Gaye Woods, Roger Francey, Jonathan: Soft IP Core Implementation of Recursive Least Squares Filter 

using Only Multplicative and Additive Operators, Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2007. International 

Conference 27-29 Aug. 2007, pp. 597-600 

R. Davey, P. McCullagh, G. Lightbody, G. McAllister: Auditory brainstem response classification: A hybrid model 

using time and frequency features. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2007, Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 1-14 

G. Lightbody, P. J. McCullagh and H. G. McAllister: Feature Extraction in Auditory Brainstem Responses using 

Wavelet Decomposition on a Moving Window of Waveform Data. in: Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 2006. 

IET, Dublin Institute of Technology, June 28-30, pp 321-326 

Yang, J.-B. Liu, J. Xu, D.-L. Wang, J. Wang, H: Optimization Models for Training Belief-Rule-Based Systems. IEEE 

Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans: 37 (4): 569-585 (2007) 

Luis Martínez, Luis G. Pérez, Jun Liu, Macarena Espinilla: A Fuzzy Model for Olive Oil Sensory Evaluation. IFSA 

2007: 615-624 

Dong-Ling Xu, Jun Liu, Jian-Bo Yang, Guo-Ping Liu, Jin Wang, Ian Jenkinson, Jun Ren: Inference and learning 

methodology of belief-rule-based expert system for pipeline leak detection. Expert Syst. Appl. 32(1): 103-113 

(2007) 

Luis Martínez, Jun Liu, Da Ruan, Jian-Bo Yang: Dealing with heterogeneous information in engineering evaluation 

processes. Inf. Sci. 177(7): 1533-1542 (2007) 

Zheng Pei, Da Ruan, Yang Xu, Jun Liu: Handling linguistic web information based on a multi-agent system. Int. J. 

Intell. Syst. 22(5): 435-453 (2007) 

Juan Carlos Augusto, Jun Liu, Liming Chen: Using Ambient Intelligence for Disaster Management. KES (2) 2006: 

171-178 

Jianbo Yang, Jun Liu, Jin Wang, How-Sing Sii, Hongwei Wang: Belief Rule-Base Inference Methodology Using the 

Evidential Reasoning Approach - RIMER. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A 36(2): 

266-285 (2006) 

Yang Xu, Jun Liu, Da Ruan, Tsu-Tian Lee: On the consistency of rule bases based on lattice-valued first-order 

logic LF(X). Int. J. Intell. Syst. 21(4): 399-424 (2006) 

LUNNEY 

K Curran, E Smyth, P Mc Kevitt, T Lunney: MPEG-7 Content-Based Descriptor Audio Applications. (2006), 

Advances in Intelligent IT, pp 380-382 

Campbell, Glenn G., Tom Lunney, Aiden Mc Caughey and Paul Mc Kevitt (2006) ``A New Approach to 

Decision-Making within an Intelligent MultiMedia Distributed Platform Hub.’’ In Proc. of the 17th Irish conference 

on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2006), QUB, Belfast, N. Ireland, September 11-13 

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MAGUIRE 



Cornelius Glackin, Liam P. Maguire, Ronan T. McIvor, Paul K. Humphreys, Pawel Herman: A comparison of fuzzy 

strategies for corporate acquisition analysis. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 158(18): 2039-2056 (2007) 









Anthony G. McCloskey, Ronan T. McIvor, Liam P. Maguire, Paul K. Humphreys, Tina O’Donnell: A user-centred 

corporate acquisition system: a dynamic fuzzy membership functions approach. Decision Support Systems 42(1): 

162-185 (2006) 



MCALLISTER 



MCCARTNEY 

McCartney Mark; Gibson Sharon: Differential equations, traffic dynamics and the N roots of unity. Mathematical 

Gazette, 2006, vol. 90, n o 519, pp. 502-505 

S. Jamison and M. McCartney: (2007) A vehicle overtaking model of traffic dynamics. CHAOS, Vol 17 Issue 3, PP 

(033116) 1-7 

Mark McCartney and Ian Walsh: Here we go round the M25. (2006) TEACHING MATHEMATICS AND ITS 

APPLICATIONS, Volume 25, No. 4, pp172-180 

MCCLEAN 

Bilal Al Momani, Sally I. McClean, Philip J. Morrow: Incorporating Knowledge into Unsupervised Model-Based 

Clustering for Satellite Images. AICCSA 2007: 746-753 

Shuai Zhang, Sally I. McClean, Bryan W. Scotney: Knowledge Discovery from Semantically Heterogeneous 

Aggregate Databases Using Model-Based Clustering. BNCOD 2007: 190-202 

Xin Hong, Sally I. McClean, Bryan W. Scotney, Philip J. Morrow: Model-Based Segmentation of Multimodal Images. 

CAIP 2007: 604-611 

Sally I. McClean, Lalit Garg, Brian Meenan, Peter H. Millard: Using Markov Models to Find Interesting Patient 

Pathways. CBMS 2007: 713-718 

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264-268 

Shengli Wu, Sally I. McClean: Result merging methods in distributed information retrieval with overlapping 

databases. Inf. Retr. 10(3): 297-319 (2007) 

Yaxin Bi, Sally I. McClean, Terry J. Anderson: On Combining Multiple Classifiers Using an Evidential Approach. 

AAAI 2006 

Xin Hong, Sally I. McClean, Bryan W. Scotney, Philip J. Morrow: An Evidential Approach to Integrating Semantically 

Heterogeneous Distributed Databases. BNCOD 2006: 245-249 

Bryan W. Scotney, Sally I. McClean, Shuai Zhang: Interoperability and Integration of Independent Heterogeneous 

Distributed Databases over the Internet. BNCOD 2006: 250-253 

Shengli Wu, Sally I. McClean: Information Retrieval Evaluation with Partial Relevance Judgment. BNCOD 2006: 

86-93 

Sally I. McClean, Malcolm Faddy, Peter H. Millard: Using Markov Models to Assess the Performance of a Health 

and Community Care System. CBMS 2006: 777-782 

Shengli Wu, Sally I. McClean: Evaluation of System Measures for Incomplete Relevance Judgment in IR. FQAS 

2006: 245-256 

Parag G. Kulkarni, Sally I. McClean, Gerard P. Parr, Michaela M. Black: Proactive Predictive Queue Management for 

improved QoS in IP Networks. ICN/ICONS/MCL 2006: 7 

Petre Kulkarni, Mohammad Nazeeruddin, Sally I. McClean, Gerard Parr, Michaela M. Black, Bryan W. Scotney, 

Petre Dini: Deploying Lightweight Queue Management for improving performance of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks 

(MANETs). ICNS 2006: 102 

Ernest Sithole, Gerard P. Parr, Sally I. McClean, Petre Dini: Evaluating Global Optimisation for Data Grids using 

Replica Location Services. ICNS 2006: 74 

Xin Hong, Sally I. McClean, Bryan W. Scotney, Philip J. Morrow: Evidential Integration of Semantically Heterogeneous 

Aggregates in Distributed Databases with Imprecision. IDEAL 2006: 961-969 

Shengli Wu, Sally I. McClean: Performance prediction of data fusion for information retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage. 

42(4): 899-915 (2006) 

Shengli Wu, Sally I. McClean: Improving high accuracy retrieval by eliminating the uneven correlation effect in 

data fusion. JASIST 57(14): 1962-1973 (2006) 

MCCULLAGh 

R. Davey, P. McCullagh, G. Lightbody, G. McAllister: Auditory brainstem response classification: A hybrid model 

using time and frequency features. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 40 (1): 1-14 (2007) 

D. Finlay, C. Nugent, J. Kors, G. van Herpen, M. Donnelly, P. McCullagh, N. Black: Optimizing the 12-lead 

electrocardiogram: a data driven approach to locating alternative recording sites. Journal of Electrocardiology: 

40 (3): 292-299 (2007) 

Hamid K. Aghajan, Juan Carlos Augusto, Chen Wu, Paul J. McCullagh, Julie-Ann Walkden: Distributed Vision-Based 

Accident Management for Assisted Living. ICOST 2007: 196-205 

Yongyang Huo, Francisco Azuaje, Paul J. McCullagh, Roy Harper: Semi-Supervised Clustering Models for Clinical 

Risk Assessment. BIBE 2006: 243-250 

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Marisol Giardina, Francisco Azuaje, Paul J. McCullagh, Roy Harper: A Supervised Learning Approach to Predicting 

Coronary Heart Disease Complications in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients. BIBE 2006: 325-331 



MCdAId 





Yajie Chen, Steve Hall, Liam McDaid, Octavian Buiu, Peter Kelly: A Silicon Synapse Based on a Charge Transfer 

Device for Spiking Neural Network Application. ISNN (2) 2006: 1366-1373 

MCGINNITY 



Qingxiang Wu, David A. Bell, Girijesh Prasad, T. Martin McGinnity: A Distribution-Index-Based Discretizer for 

Decision-Making with Symbolic AI Approaches. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 19(1): 17-28 (2007) 









Leng, G. McGinnity, T. M. Prasad, G:Design for Self-Organizing Fuzzy Neural Networks Based on Genetic 

Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: 14 (6): 755-766 (2006) 



Qingxiang Wu, David A. Bell, T. Martin McGinnity, Girijesh Prasad, Guilin Qi, Xi Huang: Improvement of Decision 

Accuracy Using Discretization of Continuous Attributes. FSKD 2006: 674-683 



Qingxiang Wu, Jianyong Cai, Girijesh Prasad, T. Martin McGinnity, David A. Bell, Jiwen Guan: A Novel Discretizer 

for Knowledge Discovery Approaches Based on Rough Sets. RSKT 2006: 241-246 

Qingxiang Wu, T. Martin McGinnity, David A. Bell, Girijesh Prasad: A Self-Organizing Computing Network for 

Decision-Making in Data Sets with a Diversity of Data Types. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 18(7): 941-953 

(2006) 

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Gang Leng, Girijesh Prasad, T. Martin McGinnity: Erratum to “An on-line algorithm for creating self-organizing 

fuzzy neural networks” [Neural Networks 17(10)(2004)1477-1493]. Neural Networks 19(6-7): 974 (2006) 



MCKEvITT 

Solon, A. J; McKevitt, P; Curran, K: TeleMorph: A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Network-Aware Transmoding in Mobile 

Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: 1 (2): 254-263 

(2007) 

MCShERRY 

David McSherry, David W. Aha: Mixed-Initiative Relaxation of Constraints in Critiquing Dialogues. ICCBR 2007: 

107-121 

David McSherry, David W. Aha: The Ins and Outs of Critiquing. IJCAI 2007: 962-967 

David W. Bustard, Sa’adah Hassan, David McSherry, Steven Walmsley: GRAPHIC illustrations of autonomic 

computing concepts. ISSE 3(1): 61-69 (2007) 

David McSherry: Completeness Criteria for Retrieval in Recommender Systems. ECCBR 2006: 9-29 

Sa’adah Hassan, David McSherry, David Bustard: Autonomic self healing and recovery informed by environment 

knowledge, Artificial Intelligence Review, Volume 26, Numbers 1-2 / October, 2006, pp. 89-101 

David Bustard, Sa’adah Hassan, David McSherry, Steven Walmsley, (2006): Standard Exemplars for Autonomic 

Computing Concepts. 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, 

pp. 47-53 

McSherry, D. On the Role of Default Preferences in Compromise-Driven Retrieval. Expert Update 9 (2007), 

34-41. 

McSherry, D. Increasing the Coverage of Decision Trees through Mixed-Initiative Interaction. Proceedings of the 

18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin, 2007, 101-110. 

McSherry, D. Hypothetico-Deductive Case-Based Reasoning. Workshop Proceedings of the 7th International 

Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2007, 315-324. 

MCTEAR 

Philip Hanna, Ian O’Neill, Craig Wootton, Michael F. McTear: Promoting extension and reuse in a spoken dialog 

manager: An evaluation of the queen’s communicator. ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 

4(3): (2007) 

Qingyuan Bai, Jun Hong, Michael F. McTear and Hui Wang. A Bucket-Based Approach to Query Rewriting Using 

Views in the Presence of Inclusion Dependencies. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 

Vol. 38, No. 3, August 2006, pp. 251-266 

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MORROW 

Bilal Al Momani, Sally I. McClean, Philip J. Morrow: Incorporating Knowledge into Unsupervised Model-Based 

Clustering for Satellite Images. AICCSA 2007: 746-753 

Ching-hang Fong, Gerard Parr, Philip J. Morrow: Performance Evaluation of a Mobile Agent Based Framework for 

Security Event Management in IP Networks. APNOMS 2007: 476-486 


CAIP 2007: 604-611 



Stephen Workman, Gerard Parr, Philip J. Morrow, Darryl Charles: Modelling Event Communication to Enable 

Adaptive Behaviour in Resource- Constrained Distributed Virtual Environments. ICAS 2006: 23 



Xiaoyun Yang, Philip J. Morrow, Bryan W. Scotney: Optic Nerve Head Segmentation in HRT Images. ICIP 2006: 

65-68 



Ching-hang Fong, Gerard Parr, Philip J. Morrow: A Comparison of Mobile Agent and SNMP Message Passing for 

Network Security Management Using Event Cases. IPOM 2006: 156-167 

Orla McEnery, Luciano Lucas, YingLiang Ma, Philip Morrow, Christopher Mitchell, Kurt Saetzler: A fast, robust 

and scale-independent approach to estimate vessel diameters in intravital fluorescence microscopy images. ISBI 

2006: 101-104 

Rachel Cassidy, Philip Morrow, John McCloskey: A machine vision system for quantifying velocity fields in complex 

rock models. Mach. Vis. Appl. 16(6): 343-355 (2006) 

NUGENT 

Mykola Galushka, David Patterson, Christopher Nugent: Assessment of four modifications of a novel indexing 

technique for case-based reasoning. Int. J. Intell. Syst. 22(4): 353-383 (2007) 

Chris D. Nugent, D. D. Finlay, R. J. Davies, H. Y. Wang, Huiru Zheng, Josef Hallberg, Kåre Synnes, Maurice D. 

Mulvenna: homeML - An Open Standard for the Exchange of Data Within Smart Environments. ICOST 2007: 

121-129 

Alberto Rugnone, Francesco Poli, Enrico Vicario, Chris D. Nugent, Elena Tamburini, Cristiano Paggetti: A Visual 

Editor to Support the Use of Temporal Logic for ADL Monitoring. ICOST 2007: 217-225 

Chris D. Nugent, Maurice D. Mulvenna, Ferial Moelaert, Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, Franka Meiland, David 

Craig, Richard Davies, Annika Reinersmann, Marike Hettinga, Anna-Lena Andersson, Rose-Marie Dröes, Johan E. 

Bengtsson: Home Based Assistive Technologies for People with Mild Dementia. ICOST 2007: 63-69 

Kieran Greer, Matthias Baumgarten, Maurice D. Mulvenna, Chris D. Nugent, Kevin Curran: Knowledge-Based 

Reasoning Through Stigmergic Linking. IWSOS 2007: 240-254 

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PARR 

Niall Rooney, David W. Patterson, Chris D. Nugent: Non-strict heterogeneous Stacking. Pattern Recognition 

Letters 28(9): 1050-1061 (2007) 

Donnelly, M.P. Nugent, C.D. Finlay, D.D. Rooney, N.F. Black, N.D: Diagnosing Old MI by Searching for a Linear 

Boundary in the Space of Principal Components. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine: 

10 (3): 476-483 (2006) 

Juan Carlos Augusto, Chris D. Nugent: Designing Smart Homes, The Role of Artificial Intelligence Springer 

2006 

Juan Carlos Augusto, Chris D. Nugent: Smart Homes Can Be Smarter. Designing Smart Homes 2006: 1-15 

Chong Wang, Antje Krause, Chris D. Nugent, Werner Dubitzky: Markov Modeling of Conformational Kinetics of 

Cardiac Ion Channel Proteins. ISBMDA 2006: 116-127 

Matthias Baumgarten, Nicola Bicocchi, Kevin Curran, Marco Mamei, Maurice D. Mulvenna, Chris D. Nugent, 

Franco Zambonelli: Towards Self-Organizing Knowledge Networks for Smart World Infrastructures. ITSSA 2(2): 

123-134 (2006) 

Niall Rooney, David W. Patterson, Chris D. Nugent: Pruning extensions to stacking. Intell. Data Anal. 10(1): 47-66 

(2006) 



P. G. Kulkarni, S. I. McClean, G. P. Parr. M. M. Black: Lightweight ProActive Queue MANagement. IEEE eTransactions 

on Network and Service Management: 3 (2): 1-11 (2006) 

Parag G. Kulkarni, Sally I. McClean, Gerard P. Parr, Michaela M. Black: Proactive Predictive Queue Management for 

improved QoS in IP Networks. ICN/ICONS/MCL 2006: 7 

Ernest Sithole, Gerard P. Parr, Sally I. McClean, Petre Dini: Evaluating Global Optimisation for Data Grids using 

Replica Location Services. ICNS 2006: 74 

Ching-hang Fong, Gerard Parr, Philip J. Morrow: Performance Evaluation of a Mobile Agent Based Framework for 

Security Event Management in IP Networks. APNOMS 2007: 476-486 

Gerard Parr, David Malone, Mícheál Ó Foghlú: Autonomic Principles of IP Operations and Management, 6th IEEE 

International Workshop on IP Operations and Management, IPOM 2006, Dublin, Ireland, October 23-25, 2006, 

Proceedings Springer 2006 

Stephen Workman, Gerard Parr, Philip J. Morrow, Darryl Charles: Modelling Event Communication to Enable 

Adaptive Behaviour in Resource- Constrained Distributed Virtual Environments. ICAS 2006: 23 

Cathryn Peoples, Gerard Parr, Bryan W. Scotney, Petre Dini: Improving the Performance of Asynchronous 

Communication in Long-Distance Delay-Sensitive Networks through the Development of Context-Aware 

Architectures. ICAS 2006: 49 




Niansheng Liu, Donghui Guo, Gerard Parr: A New Image Steganography for Internet Communications Based on 

Chaotic Sequences. IIH-MSP 2006: 121-124 

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Ching-hang Fong, Gerard Parr, Philip J. Morrow: A Comparison of Mobile Agent and SNMP Message Passing for 

Network Security Management Using Event Cases. IPOM 2006: 156-167 

Mohammad Nazeeruddin, Gerard Parr, Bryan W. Scotney: An Efficient and Robust Service Discovery Protocol 

for Dynamic MANETs. MMNS 2006: 49-60 

Javier Baliosian, Huw Oliver, Ann Devitt, Francoise Sailhan, Epifanio Salamanca, Boris Danev, Gerard Parr: Self- 

Configuration for Radio Access Networks. POLICY 2006: 80-86 

Alan Bradley, Kevin Curran, Gerard Parr: Resource discovery and management in computational GRID 

environments. Int. J. Communication Systems 19(6): 639-657 (2006) 

Mohammad Nazeeruddin, Gerard Parr, Bryan W. Scotney: DHAPM: A New Host Auto-configuration Protocol 

for Highly Dynamic MANETs. J. Network Syst. Manage. 14(3): 441-475 (2006) 

Alan Bradley, Kevin Curran, Gerard Parr: Discovering Resources in Computational GRID Environments. The 

Journal of Supercomputing 35(1): 27-49 (2006) 

PATTERSON 

Niall Rooney, David W. Patterson: A Fusion of Stacking with Dynamic Integration. IJCAI 2007: 2844-2849 

Niall Rooney, David W. Patterson: A weighted combination of stacking and dynamic integration. Pattern 

Recognition 40(4): 1385-1388 (2007) 

Niall Rooney, David W. Patterson, Chris D. Nugent: Non-strict heterogeneous Stacking. Pattern Recognition 

Letters 28(9): 1050-1061 (2007) 

Mykola Galushka, David W. Patterson, Niall Rooney: Temporal Data Mining for Smart Homes. Designing Smart 

Homes 2006: 85-108 

Niall Rooney, David W. Patterson, Mykola Galushka, Vladimir Dobrynin: A scaleable document clustering approach 

for large document corpora. Inf. Process. Manage. 42(5): 1163-1175 (2006) 

Niall Rooney, David W. Patterson, Mykola Galushka, Vladimir Dobrynin: A relevance feedback mechanism for 

cluster-based retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage. 42(5): 1176-1184 (2006) 

Niall Rooney, David W. Patterson, Chris D. Nugent: Pruning extensions to stacking. Intell. Data Anal. 10(1): 47-66 

(2006) 

PRASAd 

Girijesh Prasad: On fusion of PCA and a physical model-based predictive control strategy for efficient loadcycling 

operation of a thermal power Plant. Optimal Control Applications and Methods: 28 (4): 231-258 (2007) 

Qingxiang Wu, David A. Bell, Girijesh Prasad, T. Martin McGinnity: A Distribution-Index-Based Discretizer for 

Decision-Making with Symbolic AI Approaches. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 19(1): 17-28 (2007) 

Qingxiang Wu, David A. Bell, T. Martin McGinnity, Girijesh Prasad, Guilin Qi, Xi Huang: Improvement of Decision 

Accuracy Using Discretization of Continuous Attributes. FSKD 2006: 674-683 

Qingxiang Wu, Jianyong Cai, Girijesh Prasad, T. Martin McGinnity, David A. Bell, Jiwen Guan: A Novel Discretizer 

for Knowledge Discovery Approaches Based on Rough Sets. RSKT 2006: 241-246 

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Qingxiang Wu, T. Martin McGinnity, David A. Bell, Girijesh Prasad: A Self-Organizing Computing Network for 

Decision-Making in Data Sets with a Diversity of Data Types. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 18(7): 941-953 

(2006) 

Gang Leng, Girijesh Prasad, T. Martin McGinnity: Erratum to “An on-line algorithm for creating self-organizing 

fuzzy neural networks” [Neural Networks 17(10)(2004)1477-1493]. Neural Networks 19(6-7): 974 (2006) 

SCOTNEY 

Sonya A. Coleman, Bryan Scotney, Dermot Kerr: Integrated Edge and Corner Detection. ICIAP 2007: 653-658 

Shuai Zhang, Sally I. McClean, Bryan W. Scotney: Knowledge Discovery from Semantically Heterogeneous 

Aggregate Databases Using Model-Based Clustering. BNCOD 2007: 190-202 


CAIP 2007: 604-611 

Sonya A. Coleman, Shanmugalingam Suganthan, Bryan W. Scotney: Characterising Range Image Features via 

Gradient Operators. ICIAP 2007: 629-634 

Sonya A. Coleman, Bryan W. Scotney, Dermot Kerr: Integrated Edge and Corner Detection. ICIAP 2007: 

653-658 

Sonya A. Coleman, Bryan W. Scotney, Shanmugalingam Suganthan: Feature Extraction on Range Images - A New 

Approach. ICRA 2007: 1098-1103 

Sonya A. Coleman, Bryan W. Scotney, Madonna G. Herron: A validated edge model technique for the empirical 

performance evaluation of discrete zero-crossing methods. Image Vision Comput. 25(8): 1315-1328 (2007) 

Bryan W. Scotney, Sonya A. Coleman: Improving angular error via systematically designed near-circular Gaussianbased 

feature extraction operators. Pattern Recognition 40(5): 1451-1465 (2007) 

Zhang, R. McAllister, G. Scotney, B. McClean, S. Houston, G: Combining Wavelet Analysis and Bayesian Networks for 

the Classification of Auditory Brainstem Response: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine: 

10 (3): 458-467 (2006) 



Bryan W. Scotney, Sally I. McClean, Shuai Zhang: Interoperability and Integration of Independent Heterogeneous 

Distributed Databases over the Internet. BNCOD 2006: 250-253 

Cathryn Peoples, Gerard Parr, Bryan W. Scotney, Petre Dini: Improving the Performance of Asynchronous 

Communication in Long-Distance Delay-Sensitive Networks through the Development of Context-Aware 

Architectures. ICAS 2006: 49 



Bryan W. Scotney, Sonya A. Coleman, Dermot Kerr: A Graph Theoretic Approach to Direct Processing of Sparse 

Unwarped Panoramic Images. ICIP 2006: 1557-1560 

Xiaoyun Yang, Philip J. Morrow, Bryan W. Scotney: Optic Nerve Head Segmentation in HRT Images. ICIP 2006: 

65-68 

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Mohammad Nazeeruddin, Gerard Parr, Bryan W. Scotney: An Efficient and Robust Service Discovery Protocol 

for Dynamic MANETs. MMNS 2006: 49-60 

Mohammad Nazeeruddin, Gerard Parr, Bryan W. Scotney: DHAPM: A New Host Auto-configuration Protocol 

for Highly Dynamic MANETs. J. Network Syst. Manage. 14(3): 441-475 (2006) 

ShAPCOTT 

Sarabjot S. Anand, Patricia Kearney, Mary Shapcott: Generating semantically enriched user profiles for Web 

personalization. ACM Trans. Internet Techn. 7(4): (2007) 

M. P. Ware, F. George Wilkie, Mary Shapcott: The application of product measures in directing software maintenance 

activity. Journal of Software Maintenance 19(2): 133-154 (2007) 

STERRITT 

Roy Sterritt, Sarah Eowyn, Patricia O’Hagan, Edward Hanna: The Imminent Complexity Quagmire in Pervasive 

Computing - Autonomic Agents a Solution? ICECCS 2007: 238-250 

Roy Sterritt: Systems and software engineering of autonomic and autonomous systems. ISSE 3(1): 1-2 (2007) 

Joaquín Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, Roy Sterritt, Antonio Ruiz Cortés: Building and implementing policies in 

autonomous and autonomic systems using MaCMAS. ISSE 3(1): 17-31 (2007) 

Joaquín Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, Manuel Resinas, Roy Sterritt, James L. Rash: Designing and managing evolving 

systems using a MAS product line approach. Sci. Comput. Program. 66(1): 71-86 (2007) 

Sterritt, R. Bantz, D.F: Personal autonomic computing reflex reactions and self-healing. Systems, Man and 

Cybernetics, Part C, IEEE Transactions 36 (3): 304 – 314 (2006) 

Michael G. Hinchey, Patricia Rago, James L. Rash, Christopher A. Rouff, Roy Sterritt, Walt Truszkowski: Innovative 

Concepts for Autonomic and Agent-Based Systems, Second International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, 

WRAC 2005, Greenbelt, MD, USA, September 20-22, 2005. Revised Papers Springer 2006 

Joaquín Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, Roy Sterritt, Antonio Ruiz Cortés, Manuel Resinas: A Model-Driven Architecture 

Approach for Modeling, Specifying and Deploying Policies in Autonomous and Autonomic Systems. DASC 2006: 

19-30 

Roy Sterritt, Michael G. Hinchey: Biologically-Inspired Concepts for Self-Management of Complexity. ICECCS 

2006: 163-168 

Roy Sterritt, Edward Hanna, Patricia O’Hagan, Grainne Garrity: Targeting Prediction: Engineering a Distributed 

Event Processor for an Autonomic Biometric System. SEW 2006: 167-174 

Joaquín Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, Manuel Resinas, Roy Sterritt, James L. Rash: Managing the Evolution of an 

Enterprise Architecture Using a MAS-Product-Line Approach. Software Engineering Research and Practice 2006: 

995-1001 

Michael G. Hinchey, Roy Sterritt: Self-Managing Software. IEEE Computer 39(2): 107-109 (2006) 

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Roy Sterritt, Christopher Rouff, Michael G. Hinchey, James L. Rash, Walter Truszkowski: Next generation system 

and software architectures: Challenges from future NASA exploration missions. Sci. Comput. Program. 61(1): 

48-57 (2006) 

WANG, hAIYING 

Huiru Zheng, Haiying Wang, Jinglu Hu: Cluster Analysis of Regulatory Sequences with a Log Likelihood Ratio 

Statistics-based Similarity Measure. BIBE 2007: 1220-1224 






Clustering for Serial Analysis of Gene Expression Data. IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biology Bioinform. 4(2): 

163-175 (2007) 

Haiying Wang: On the adjacent vertex-distinguishing total chromatic numbers of the graphs with Delta (G) = 3. 

J. Comb. Optim. 14(1): 87-109 (2007) 







WANG, hUI 

Hui Wang: All Common Subsequences. IJCAI 2007: 635-640 

Hui Wang, Zhiwei Lin, Günther Gediga: Counting All Common Subsequences to Order Alternatives. RSKT 2007: 

566-573 

Hui Wang: A Novel Clustering Method Based on Spatial Operations. BNCOD 2006: 140-151 

Hui Wang: Nearest Neighbors by Neighborhood Counting. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 28(6): 942-953 

(2006) 

Gongde Guo, Hui Wang, David A. Bell, Yaxin Bi, Kieran Greer: Using kNN model for automatic text categorization. 

Soft Comput. 10(5): 423-430 (2006) 

Andrzej Skowron, Hui Wang, Arkadiusz Wojna, Jan G. Bazan: Multimodal Classification: Case Studies. T. Rough 

Sets: 224-239 (2006) 

WILKIE 

N. G. Lester, F. George Wilkie, Donald McFall, M. P. Ware: Evaluating the Internal Consistency of the Base Questions 

in the Express Process Appraisal. EUROMICRO-SEAA 2007: 289-296 

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WU 

M. P. Ware, F. George Wilkie, Mary Shapcott: The application of product measures in directing software maintenance 

activity. Journal of Software Maintenance 19(2): 133-154 (2007) 

F. George Wilkie, F. Mc Caffery, Donald McFall, Neil Lester, Emmanuel Wilkinson: A Low-overhead method for 

software process appraisal. Software Process: Improvement and Practice 12(4): 339-349 (2007) 

Fergal McCaffery, Darja Smite, F. George Wilkie, Donald McFall: A proposed way for European software industries 

to achieve growth within the global marketplace. Software Process: Improvement and Practice 11(3): 277-285 

(2006) 


264-268 

Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Gongde Guo: Combining Prioritized Decisions in Classification. MDAI 2007: 121-132 

Shengli Wu, Sally I. McClean: Result merging methods in distributed information retrieval with overlapping 

databases. Inf. Retr. 10(3): 297-319 (2007) 

Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Xuming Huang, Gongde Guo: Combining Multiple Sets of Rules for Improving Classification 

Via Measuring Their Closenesses. PRICAI 2006: 1068-1072 

Shengli Wu, Sally I. McClean: Performance prediction of data fusion for information retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage. 

42(4): 899-915 (2006) 

Fabio Crestani, Shengli Wu: Testing the cluster hypothesis in distributed information retrieval. Inf. Process. Manage. 

42(5): 1137-1150 (2006) 

Shengli Wu, Sally I. McClean: Improving high accuracy retrieval by eliminating the uneven correlation effect in 

data fusion. JASIST 57(14): 1962-1973 (2006) 

ZhENG 

Huiru Zheng, Haiying Wang, Jinglu Hu: Cluster Analysis of Regulatory Sequences with a Log Likelihood Ratio 

Statistics-based Similarity Measure. BIBE 2007: 1220-1224 



Chris D. Nugent, D. D. Finlay, R. J. Davies, H. Y. Wang, Huiru Zheng, Josef Hallberg, Kåre Synnes, Maurice D. 

Mulvenna: homeML - An Open Standard for the Exchange of Data Within Smart Environments. ICOST 2007: 

121-129 



Jinglu Hu, Takafumi Sasakawa, Kotaro Hirasawa, Huiru Zheng: A Hierarchical Learning System Incorporating with 

Supervised, Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning. ISNN (1) 2007: 403-412 


Clustering for Serial Analysis of Gene Expression Data. IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biology Bioinform. 4(2): 

163-175 (2007) 



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6. RESEARCH FUNdING 

Staff Name(s) Title of Award Funding body Value 

Prof TM McGinnity Centre of Excellence in Intelligent INVEST NI/ILEX £7,214,821 

Prof lP Maguire Systems 

Prof Nd black 

Prof Nd black SMART: Self-Management Supported EPSRC £571,002 

dr H Zheng by Assistive, Rehabilitation and 

dr Cd Nugent Telecare Technologies 

dr PJ McCullagh 

dr Cd Nugent The Nestling Technologies Initiative Atlantic £420,555 

dr Md Mulvenna Philanthopies 

Prof SI McClean Research into Global Healthcare R&D Office HPSS £266,431 

Tools (RIGHT) 

dr Cd Nugent COG-KNOW - Helping People C.E.C. - £262,551 

dr S davey with Mild Dementia Navigate their Framework 6 IST 

Ms S Martin Day 

Prof MF McTear 

dr Md Mulvenna 

Mr JG wallace 

Prof SI McClean Performance Prediction for Service- SAP £172,350 

Prof bw Scotney Oriented Architectures (PERSERVE) 

Prof GP Parr 

Prof dw bustard 

dr AA Moore 

Prof lP Maguire KTP Programme Momenta & Precision £149,616 

dr SM Moffett Industrial Services Ltd 

dr Cd Nugent Development and Evaluation of a R&D Office £149,009 

dr Md Mulvenna Mobile Phone-based Video Streaming HPSS RRG 

System in providing Home-support 

for Patients with Early Alzheimer’s 

Disease 

Prof GP Parr Next Generation Networks UK-India Education £148,000 

and Research Initiative 

(UKIERI) 

dr G Prasad Innovations in Intelligent Assistive UK-India Education £145,000 

Robotics and Research Initiative 

(UKIERI) 

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Prof TM McGinnity Academic Fellowship in Computer RCUK - Academic £125,000 

Prof lP Maguire Science Fellowship Scheme 

Prof GP Parr Next generation Networks Systems EPSRC £118,919 

Prof bw Scotney and Services: Enablers for the Digital 

Economy 

dr T lunney KTP Programme Momenta & Hunter £99,744 

Prof TM McGinnity Apparel Solutions Ltd 

dr Cd Nugent Netwell - Nestling Technologies Interreg IIIA £80,468 

dr Md Mulvenna Initiative 

Mr JG wallace 

dr Cd Nugent Cell-phone Video Streaming in Alzheimer’s £70,673 

Prof dQM Craig Alzheimer’s Disease Association 

dr Md Mulvenna 

Prof SI McClean 

Prof bw Scotney 

Prof GP Parr EPSRC CASE Award EPSRC / BT 

(PhD studentship) Research Laboratories 

Prof lP Maguire DEL CASE/CAST Award Seagate Technologies, £25,967 

(PhD studentship) Ireland 

Prof SI McClean Research into Gritty Healthcare EPSRC. £11,542 

Technology (RIGHT) 

dr wd Patterson International Conference on International £7,830 

Case-based Reasoning. Organisation on 

case-based reasoning 

dr PJ McCullagh Ulster Institute of e Health Ulster Community and £5,000 

Hospitals Trusts 

dr G Prasad Advanced Brain-computer Interface The Royal £3,730 

using Recurrent Quantum Neural Society 

Networks 

Prof lP Maguire International Mother Language Community Relations £1,250 

dr MH Siddique Day 2006 Council 

dr PJ Morrow International Travel Grant – 4th IEEE The Royal Academy £700 

International Symposium on of Engineering 

Biomedical Imaging 

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dr wd Patterson Developing Collaboration for InvestNI Networking £1,004 

Commercialisation 

Mr R Sterritt SPACE TRAVEL 2006 InvestNI Networking £742 

dr Cd Nugent Proposal Preparation: ICT and Ageing InvestNI Networking £618 

dr JC Augusto Smart Homes InvestNI Networking £588 

dr Cd Nugent Personal Health Systems for FP7 InvestNI Networking £471 

dr JC Augusto SE and AI applications to InvestNI Networking £380 

dr F Azuaje Bio-Informatics 

dr l Chen EU IST Event 2006 InvestNI Networking £290 

dr F Azuaje Submission of Proposal to FP7- InvestNI Networking £273 

People Programme 

dr PJ McCullagh Person Electromagnetic Indentification InvestNI Networking £271 

and Interface Control 

dr KJ Curran Networking to Prepare Proposal on InvestNI Networking £201 

Autonomic Computing Project for 

CELTIC Call. 

dr F Azuaje Coordination of medELAB Proposal InvestNI Networking £78 

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7. VISITING SCHOlARS 

dates Attended Visiting Scholar Institution 

1 June – 30 Sept 06 Dr German Montoro University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain 

5 Jul – 30 Sept 06 Dr Pablo Haya University Autonoma de Madrid, Spain 

11 July – 11 Aug 06 Dr Luis Martinez Lopez University of Jaén, Spain 

11 Aug – 30 Aug 06 Prof. John Barron The University of Western Ontario, Canada 

21 Aug – 1 Oct 06 Prof. Ramón López- University of Granada, Spain 

Cózar Delgado 

31 Aug – 8 Sept 06 Dr A Nezakati Shahrood University of Technology 

31 Aug – 25 Sept 06 Prof. Ignacio Ponzoni Universidad Nacional del Sur 

(Bahia Blanca, Argentina) 

25 Sept – 29 Sept 06 Dr Sara Wong Universidad Simon Bolivar (USB), Venezuela. 

11 Oct – 13 Oct 06 Prof. Nikola Kasabov Knowledge Engineering and Discovery 

Research Institute KEDRI, Auckland, 

New Zealand 

13 Oct – 21 Oct 06 Prof. Paul Wang Duke University, Durham, USA 

23 Oct – 7 Nov 06 Prof. Paul Wang Duke University, Durham, USA 

1 Nov 06 – 30 Apr 07 Mr Zhiwei Lin School of Mathematics and Computer Science, 

Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, P.R.China 

16 April – 20 April 07 Prof. Gert Pfurtscheller Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Medical 

Informatics & Neuroinformatics University of 

Technology, Graz, Austria 

5 Oct – 15 Oct 07 Prof. Nikola Kasabov Knowledge Engineering and Discovery 

Research Institute KEDRI, Auckland, 

New Zealand 

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8. EXTERNAl PROFESSIONAl ACTIVITIES 

AUGUSTO 

¢ Invited Keynote lecture at the 1st International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 

2006), Setubal, September 2006. 

¢ Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier): 65(1), March 2007. 

¢ Co-Editor of “Designing Smart Homes: The Role of Artificial Intelligence”, LNAI 4008, Springer, 2006. 

¢ Co-chair: 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI2007) 

Hyderabad, India. 6th-7th of January 2007. Co-located event of IJCAI 2007. 

AZUAJE 

¢ Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience (2002-present). 

¢ Founder Member of the Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition for Bioinformatics (TC-20), 

International Association of Pattern Recognition (2005-present). 

¢ Vice-Chair (2007) of the Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, IEEE Computational 

intelligence Society. 

¢ Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Part B: Cybernetics, special 

issue on Machine Intelligence Approaches to Systems Biology, 2006-2007. 

¢ Plenary speaker, 4th Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering, 24-28 September 2007, 

Margarita Island, Venezuela. 

BEhERA 

BI 

¢ Invited Talk at the Indo-US Workshop on Soft-, Quantum- and Nano-Computing, Agra, India, February 

2007. 

¢ Invited organizer of an invited session on “Intelligent Robotics” at IEEE Multi-conference on Systems 

and Control, MSC 2007, Singapore, October 2007. 

¢ Programme Committee member of the Annual International Conference of the British Computer 

Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence, AI-2006 and AI-2007, Cambridge (2006 and 2007). 

BLACK 

¢ Council Member of the Telemedicine & e-Health Forum, Royal Society of Medicine (2001-present). 

BUSTARd 

¢ Member of the Board of the UK Systems Society (2005 – present). 

¢ Member of EPSRC Peer Review College (2000 - 2009). 

¢ Programme Committee Chair of the UK Systems Society Conference (UKSS 2006), Oxford, September 

2006. 

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ChAKRABORTY 

¢ Docent at the Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Helsinki University of 

Technology (2002-2006). 

¢ Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 24(11), 

November 2006. 

COLEMAN 

¢ Program Committee member of the International Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) 

conference 2007. 

CONdELL 

COYLE 

¢ Program Committee member of the International Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP) 

conference 2007. 

¢ Secretary and Treasurer of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), UK and RI Chapter 

¢ PhD thesis to receive the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Dissertation Award 

2008. 

CURRAN 

¢ Member of the IEEE Technical Committees on Computer Communications (TCCC), Multimedia 

Computing (TCMC), Computer Generated Music (TCCGM); and Autonomous and Autonomic Systems 

(TCAAS) (2005-present). 

¢ Member of the editorial board for Multimedia Information and Technology (MmIT), Ubiquitous 

Communication and Computing Journal (UBICC), Research Journal of Telecommunication and 

Information Technology (RJTIT) 

FINLAY 

¢ Co-editor, special edition entitled “Smart Sensors in Smart Homes” in the International Journal of 

Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics (IJARM), 2006 

¢ Co-editor, section entitled “Remote and Home Monitoring” in R. Istepanian, S. Laxminarayan, and C.S. 

Pattichis, Eds., M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems, USA: Springer, 2006 

GLASS 

¢ Invited talk at International Workshop on ‘Coherence’ in Lund University, Sweden, March 2006. 

GRIGORASh 

¢ Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (2005-present). 

¢ Editor, Bulletin of Statistics and Economics, (from Spring 2007). 

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hARKIN 

¢ Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Online Engineering 

¢ Programme committee member of the International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable 

Systems and Algorithms (ERSA) 2007. 

hICKEY 

hULL 

KELLY 

LI 

LIU 

¢ Black, MM & Hickey RJ 2006, Rationalization of data used in model of time varying event behaviour, U.S. 

Patent 7024426. 

¢ Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Project Management, Elsevier (2001-2006). 

¢ International patent filed for a small geometry low power silicon synapse, March 2006. 

¢ Invited keynote address at WCEAM-CM2007: Second World Congress on Engineering Asset Management 

and the Fourth International Conference on Condition Monitoring. 

¢ Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of The Franklin Institute (from March 2007), Member of the 

Editorial Board of Journal of Universal Computer Science (from January 2007), Member of the Editorial 

Board of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (from May 2007), Member of the 

Editorial Board of International Journal of Nuclear Governance Economy and Ecology – (IJNG2E) (from March 

2007). 

¢ Invited plenary talk at China-Flanders Workshop on “Intelligent Systems for Data Mining and Information 

Processing: methods and applications”, Gent, Belgium, 5 th of September, 2006. 

MAGUIRE 

¢ Editorial Board member of the Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computation (2007-). 

¢ Co-Chair 2007 Irish Signals and Systems Conference September 2007. 

MCCARTNEY 

¢ Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology 

(2006-present). 

¢ Associate Editor of Advances in Artificial Intelligence (2007-). 

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MCCLEAN 

¢ Plenary Speaker at the International Conference on Health and Social Care Modelling and Applications 

(HSCM 2006), Adelaide, April 2006. 

¢ Chair of the Mathematics Panel, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), 2006. 

¢ Member of the Statistics Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland, which advises the Minister for 

Finance and Personnel in the Northern Ireland Assembly (2002-present). 

MCCULLAGh 

¢ Editorial Board member of Technology & Health Care, IOS Press (2007-). 

¢ Editorial Board member of the European Journal for Biomedical Informatics (2007-). 

¢ External Examiner Computing Science, University College Dublin, 2007, 2008. 

MCdAId 

¢ PhD External Examiner, University College Cork, June 2007. 

¢ MPhil External Examiner, University of Manchester, April 2007 

MCGINNITY 

¢ Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (2000-present). 

¢ Invited Speaker at the Opening symposium of the German-Chinese research training program, 

Cross-modal Interaction in Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems, Hamburg, September 2006 

(CINACS). 

¢ Invited Speaker at the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) Research Cooperation 

Conference, New Delhi, March 2006. 

MCKEvITT 

¢ Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer (1997-present). 

MCShERRY 

¢ Invited Speaker at the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2006), Oludeniz/ 

Fethiye, Turkey, September 2006. 

¢ Invited Talk, 11 th UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, Cambridge, UK, December 2006. 

MCTEAR 

¢ Invited tutorial at the IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Aruba, December 2006. 

¢ Invited tutorial at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), 

Prague, June 2007. 

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MORROW 

¢ Secretary of the Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society (2005-present). 

NUGENT 

PARR 

¢ Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence (2006-2008). 

¢ Guest Editor of the Special Issue (to appear January 2008) of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science 

and Engineering. 

¢ Conference Chair of the 4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST 

2006), Belfast, June 2006. 

¢ Appointed Senior Visiting Fellow with the Belfast City Hospital, Department of Elderly Care. 

¢ Re-elected Member of EPSRC Peer Review College (2006-2009). 

¢ Invited by EPSRC and the British High Commission to lead a UK-India advisory group, organise three 

UK-India Workshops (2006-2007), and designated UK Consortium Academic Lead for a UK-India 

Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks. 

¢ Member of the Ofcom Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland (2004-2007); and of the Commission 

for Communication Regulation (ComReg), Ireland (2003-present). 

¢ Visiting Research Professor to the SFI Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin. 

¢ Expert Evaluator for Enterprise Ireland Technology Research and Commercialisation Programme. 

¢ Appointed as an International Expert for the New Zealand government’s Foundation for Research 

Science and Technology for their Advanced Technologies Programme. 

PATTERSON 

¢ Host Organiser and Conference Chair of the 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning 

(ICCBR 2007), Belfast, August 2007. 

PRASAd 

¢ Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence (2004-present). 

SCOTNEY 

¢ President of the Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society (2007-). 

¢ Member of Council of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) (2007-). 

¢ Clinical Management Group member, NI Clinical Research Network (Vision) (2007-). 

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STERRITT 

¢ Visiting Researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (2004-present). 

¢ Member of EPSRC Peer Review College (2006-2009). 

¢ Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (TC-AAS) (2007-). 

¢ Guest Editor of the Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, 36(3), 

May 2006. 

¢ Guest Editor, INNOVATIONS IN SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, Vol. 3, No. 1, special 

issue on “Systems and software engineering of autonomic and autonomous systems”, March 2007. 

¢ Programme Chair: IEEE DASC 2007 

WANG, hAIYING 

¢ Scientific editor of the Online Journal of Bioinformatics 

WANG, hUI 

¢ Steering Committee member, Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology Conference 2008 , RSKT2008. 

WILKIE 

¢ Awarded BCS (Belfast Branch) ‘IT Professional of the Year’, 2006. 

¢ Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Software Process: Improvement and Practice, 

(March 2007- present). 

ZhENG 

¢ Programme committee member for CBMS2007, ISNN2007 (the Fourth International Symposium on 

Neural Networks), and ICDM (IEEE International conference on Data Mining) DMB workshop 2007 

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