Research in the Department of Computing
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"Proactive Runtime Service Discovery" by Dr Andrea Zisman, James Dooley and Prof. George Spanoudakis has been accepted for SCC2008 Services now account for more than half of the U.S. economy. Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT technology to help people perform business services more efficiently and effectively. The theme of SCC 2008 is "Services: Business, Technology, and Application". From a technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry.
Dr Andrea Zisman has been appointed to the program committee of the 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE2009) being held in Atlanta in September 2009 The IEEE International Requirements Engineering conference provides the premier international forum for researchers, educators and industrial practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of requirements engineering.
Dr Andrea Zisman has been appointed to the program committee of The Sixth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC08) being held in Sydney in December 2008. The Sixth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing follows the five previous editions in Vienna, Austria (2007), Chicago, USA (2006), in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2005), New York City, USA (2004) and Trento, Italy (2003). ICSOC'08 builds on the success of previous conferences in this series, establishing bridges between established and new service research and applications communities and fostering cross-community scientific excellence. This year, we are focusing on building bridges with the business community because of its ongoing contribution to the emerging field of Services Science.
Dr Andrea Zisman appointed to Organising Committee for 32nd International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE 2010) held in Cape Town, May 2010. ICSE is the premier international event for software engineering. It provides a world class forum for software engineering professionals from industry, government and academia to hear about and discuss the latest developments, trends and innovations in software engineering.
"A Framework for Dynamic Service Discovery" by Dr. Andrea Zisman, Prof George Spanoduakis and James Dooley has been accepted for the ASE2008. The International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering. The acceptance rate for full papers this year was 12%.
"Structured Polyphonic Patterns" By Mathieu Bergegron and Dr Darrell Conklin at ISMIR2008 Music Informatics PhD student Mathieu Bergeron will be attending the prestigious ISMIR2008 conference on Music Information Retrieval to present his work on a new method for representation and retrieval of polyphonic patterns in music.
Retail Decisions and City University London advance Neural Technology Retail Decisions (ReD), a card issuer and a world leader in card fraud prevention and payment processing is pleased to announce a new research and development project in conjunction with City University London, the UK’s leading research centre in neural computing. The project will focus on enhancing and advancing ReD’s neural technology PRISM®.
City wins major European grant on SLA management The Software Engineering Group within The Department of Computing gets a large European grant (SLA@SOI) to investigate the empowerment of emerging Software Service intensive economies with service level management and e-contracting infrastructures.
Dynamic Verification and Control of Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems Prof George. Spanoudakis, Dr Christos Kloukinas, and Dr Kelly Androutsopoulos have had their paper "Dynamic Verification and Control of Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems" accepted for Third International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIPM '08) - Precis: The paper presents a novel framework for monitoring and controlling peer applications on mobile phones by specifying local or remote policies of security and dependability requirements. The framework has been developed by the Software Engineering Group as part of the EU F6 project Pepers.
Prof George Spanoudakis edits "Security and Dependability for Ambient Intelligence" Prof. Spanoudakis (along with Prof. Mana of the University of Malaga, and Prof. Kokolakis of the University of the Aegean) has been awarded a contract by Springer to edit a book on security and dependability for ambient intelligence systems based on the approach of the Serenity project.
Dr Artur Garcez to co-chair 4th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning NeSy'08 at ECAI 2008 ECAI, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, is the leading conference in its field in Europe. The Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning is intended to create an atmosphere of exchange of ideas, providing a forum for the presentation and discussion of the key topics related to neural-symbolic integration.
Dr Artur Garcez is a programme committee member for 10th Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks SBRN'08, IEEE, Salvador, Brazil SBRN is the leading conference in Brazil dedicated to Neural Networks (NNs) and other models of computational intelligence. The emphasis of the Conference is on original theories and novel applications of these computational models. SBRN is co-sponsored by SIG/INNS/Brazil Special Interest Group of the International Neural Networks Society in Brazil. SBRN is an international conference, with papers written in English, an international program committee, and proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society.
Dr Artur Garcez is a programme committee member for 19th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence SBIA 2008, Springer LNCS, Salvador, Brazil SBIA is the leading conference in Brazil for presentation of research and applications in Artificial Intelligence. Since 1995, SBIA has become an international conference, with papers written in English, international program committee and keynote speakers, and proceedings published in the LNAI series of Springer-Verlag. Since 1996, SBIA is a biennial event.
Dr Artur Garcez is invited to join the editorial board of the journal of algorithms, elsevier, special issue on Perspectives and Challenges for Recurrent Neural Networks The aim of the special issue is to bring together recent work developed in the field of recurrent information processing, which bridges the gap between different approaches and which sheds some light on canonical solutions or principled problems which occur in the context of recursive information processing when considered across the disciplines.
Dr. Eduardo Alonso is the Guest Editor of Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 15(1), Special Issue on Multi-agent Learning. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is the official journal of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. It provides a leading forum for disseminating significant original research results in the foundations, theory, development, analysis, and applications of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Coverage in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems includes: - Agent decision-making architectures and
Dr. Eduardo Alonso is a Program Committee Member of the ECAI-2008, 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, July 21st to 25th. ECAI, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, is the leading conference in its field in Europe. ECAI 2008, the 18th conference in this series, is jointly organized by the European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence the university of Patras and the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Sociaty
Eduardo Alonso is a Program Committee member of two AAMAS'08 workshops on "Adaptive Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems" and "Agents in Traffic and Transportation". AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual conferences: the International Conference in Autonomous Agents, the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, and the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems. The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for research in all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
Prof. George Spanoudakis appointed as Programme Committee member for IFIP WCC 2008 - SSCS SSCC service Science Cross Session is one of the co-located cross sessions of the 20th World Computer Congress (WCC2008 ), organized under the auspices of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) SSCC will take place in Milan on 8th September 2008. SSCC is devoted to themes of Service Science, Management & Engineering (SSME)
Prof George Spanoudakis appointed as Programme Committee member for 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008) The purpose of the ICSOFT 2008 is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information technology and software development. The conference tracks are "Software Engineering", "Information Systems and Data Management", "Programming Languages", "Distributed and Parallel Systems" and "Knowledge Engineering".
Prof George Spanoudakis appointed tas Programme Committee member for 2008 International Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS 2008) SREIS provides researchers and practitioners from various disciplines with a highly interactive forum to discuss security and privacy-related requirements. Specifically encouraged to attend are those in the fields of requirements engineering, software engineering, information systems, information and network security and trusted systems as well as those interested in approaches to analyzing, specifying, and testing requirements to increase the level of security provided to users interacting with pervasive commerce, research and government systems.
About our Research
Research in the Department of Computing focuses on key areas within the broad discipline of computer science including intelligent systems, programming languages and software engineering, and on emerging inter-disciplinary applications of computational methods and techniques, notably in the area of music informatics. Our research investigates, using leading-edge and often multi-disciplinary approaches, the foundations, methods and technology platforms which are relevant to these areas building on the award of a 4B for City University's research in computing in the 2001 RAE.
The research structure of the Department includes four research groups consisting of academics, research associates and PhD students. These groups have active collaborations with individual researchers and groups of other units of the School of Informatics and contribute to the strategic research areas of the School.
AIS (Autonomous Intelligent Systems) Group : Research in AIS spans three broad, overlapping themes,
AIS also provides a forum to support those interested in intelligent systems technologies and their application. For example, AIS has research links with the Music Informatics group and the world-leading Centre for Interactive Systems Research in information retrieval.
Music Informatics Group : The Music Informatics research group is a newly formed team working on Music Informatics and related topics. Music Informatics includes the study of computational models of music analysis, music generation, and music performance. Interests of the Music Informatics group include statistical modelling, computational musicology, pattern discovery, and music e-learning. The group is also concerned with wider aspects of modelling sequential structures, such as financial time series, biological sequences, and text.
Programming Languages and Systems (PLAS) Group: Research within the Programming Languages and Systems group is focussed on advanced programming language features and techniques, and semantics-based program analysis.
Software Engineering Group: The group is conducting research in the field of software systems engineering with a focus on:
The group collaborates closely with the School's Centre on HCI Design.