Research Student Projects ()

Towards a noveI approach to greener software services in the cloud
Samuel Chinenyeze (PhD 2012-)
Towards a noveI approach to greener software services in the cloud.
Participation space studies. How do interpretations of online and offline spaces influence (e)participation in community and civic life?
Ella Taylor-Smith (PhD 2011-)
Participation space studies. How do interpretations of online and offline spaces influence (e)participation in community and civic life?. How can people, from diverse backgrounds, increase meaningful participation online? What perspectives influence people's online activities in this context and how is this changing?
Festivals in the Networked Society
David Jarman (PhD 2011-)
Festivals in the Networked Society. An escalation in communications technologies, which can be accessed by event producers and audiences 24 hours a day, connects festival communities in real time across a city and around the globe –...
Digital immunisation through network packets payload analysis and patterns-matching within a security boundary
Solomon Uwagbole (PhD 2011-)
Digital immunisation through network packets payload analysis and patterns-matching within a security boundary. The immune approach in anomaly detection enables detecting known and unknown intrusive activities in packets payload. Cloud computing has extended security boundaries from the traditional security...
An approach to the semantic intelligence cloud
Richard Greenwell (PhD 2010-)
An approach to the semantic intelligence cloud.
Metadata tagging of digital assetsand visualization
Nseabasi Igoniderigha (PhD 2010-)
Metadata tagging of digital assetsand visualization.
Immune based anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks
Maryamosadat Kazemitabar (MSc/MA 2010-)
Immune based anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks. The topic Addresses the development of novel secrity echanisms for mobile ad hoc networks, inspired by mechanisms apparent in the biological immune system.
Visualising Large Dynamic Graphs
Natalie Kerracher (PhD 2010-)
Visualising Large Dynamic Graphs.
Towards optimal probabilistic routing for next generation ad hoc networks
Mustafa Bani Khalaf (PhD 2010-)
Towards optimal probabilistic routing for next generation ad hoc networks. Mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) technology has been a major avenue for many wireless and mobile networked based applications in different fields including, but not limited to, industry, military,...
Learning to cope with digital technology
Emilia Sobolewska (PhD 2009-)
Learning to cope with digital technology. Technology surrounds people; it functions as their best friend and the worst enemy. From a trip to the local supermarket, to almost every aspect of people’s professional and social lives technology...
A novel methodology for the monitoring of information security risks in health care
Nicole Hazelhoff Roelfzema (PhD 2009-)
A novel methodology for the monitoring of information security risks in health care.
Optimising CO2 emissions for vehicle routing
Catherine Scott (PhD 2008-)
Optimising CO2 emissions for vehicle routing.
An investigatory framework for electronic fraud using affiliate fraud as a case study
Mathew Miehling (PhD 2008-)
An investigatory framework for electronic fraud using affiliate fraud as a case study.
Context-aware definition, modelling and implementation for policy-compliant information sharing between Police and Community Partners
Omair Uthmani (PhD 2008-)
Context-aware definition, modelling and implementation for policy-compliant information sharing between Police and Community Partners. The exchange of information between the police and community partner organisations forms a core aspect of effective policing and community service provision.
Emotion and Human-Computer Interaction
Nena Roa-Seiler (PhD 2007-)
Emotion and Human-Computer Interaction.
Tracking, Analysis and Measurement of Pedestrian Trajectories
Sarah Clayton (PhD 2005-)
Tracking, Analysis and Measurement of Pedestrian Trajectories. The realistic simulation of pedestrian movement is a challenging problem, a large number of individual pedestrians may be included in the simulation. Rapid decisions must be made about the trajectory...
Evolution of knowledge working in a public sector agency
Louise Rasmussen (PhD 2003-)
Evolution of knowledge working in a public sector agency. The research is concerned with the evolution and trajectory of knowledge networking (the ‘Knowledge Working’ (KW) initiative) in a public sector agency (PuSA) in lowland Scotland.
The census: information, ethics and policy
Lynn Killick (PhD 2013-)
The census: information, ethics and policy.
Programmatic control of renewable energy devices
Brian Davison (PhD 2012-)
Programmatic control of renewable energy devices.
Getting IT: action learning as an approach for the successful digital development of the cultural sector
Hannah Rudman (PhD 2011-)
Getting IT: action learning as an approach for the successful digital development of the cultural sector.
An approach to dynamic and elastic cloud service specification, recommendation and provision
Daren Fang (PhD 2011-)
An approach to dynamic and elastic cloud service specification, recommendation and provision. Along with the rapid development of expansion of the cloud computing market, not only the number of cloud applications continues growing, the complexity of their relationships also increases.
Evaluation framework for the optimisation of cloud-based infrastructures within healthcare environments
Matthias Talsma (PhD 2010-)
Evaluation framework for the optimisation of cloud-based infrastructures within healthcare environments.
A hyper heuristic approach to optimisation
Kevin Sim (PhD 2010-)
A hyper heuristic approach to optimisation. Hyper-heuristics (HH) have been described as methodologies that aim to offer “good enough -soon enough - cheap enough” solutions to real world problems.
Social forecast of the future of the internet
Serkan Ayan (PhD 2010-)
Social forecast of the future of the internet.
Framework for evaluation of e-health platform and services
Owen Lo (PhD 2010-)
Framework for evaluation of e-health platform and services. Methodologies for evaluation of e-Health platforms are still lacking. This research proposes an e-Health evaluation framework that aims to provide a concise methodology for the evaluation of e-Health...
An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds
Zhe Wang (PhD 2010-)
An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds.
The experience of interactive art is appropriation
Tom Flint (PhD 2009-)
The experience of interactive art is appropriation. This investigation examines various methods for evaluating interactivity and engagement with technology. By using a static model, namely the interactive gallery at The Public in West Bromwich it is...
Morpheme a 2D sketching interface for the control of concatenative synthesis. An investigation in the similarities between qualities of auditory and visual precepts.
Augoustinos Tsiros (PhD 2009-)
Morpheme a 2D sketching interface for the control of concatenative synthesis. An investigation in the similarities between qualities of auditory and visual precepts.. The aim of this study is to explore graphical interfaces for comprehension, organization, and transformation of sound through direct manipulation of visual representations.
Complex Pleasures: Interactions in new-media art as a resource for the design of the user experience
Ingi Helgason (PhD 2008-)
Complex Pleasures: Interactions in new-media art as a resource for the design of the user experience. This research will investigate the nature of interactions between people and experience-oriented technologies such as new-media artworks. The purpose of this research is to inform the design of...
Exploiting narrative hierarchies within computer games
Ewan Gunn (PhD 2008-)
Exploiting narrative hierarchies within computer games. One of the challenges of artificial intelligence in computer games is the effective use of learning to either automate the creation of intelligent agents for the release of a game, or to allow agents...
Using a mathematical graph framework for visualization of inheritance patterns in plant pedigrees
Paul Shaw (PhD 2008-)
Using a mathematical graph framework for visualization of inheritance patterns in plant pedigrees.
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An investigation into visual graph comparison
Alan Melville (MPhil 2007-)
An investigation into visual graph comparison. While much work has been done in the area of visualization for analysis of graphs, relatively little research exists into how best to use visualization for comparing graphs.
Binary matrix for pedestrian tracking in infrared images
Keshava Grama (PhD 2006-)
Binary matrix for pedestrian tracking in infrared images.
Success factors for organisational information systems development projects: a Scottish suppliers' perspective
Robert Irvine (PhD 2004-)
Success factors for organisational information systems development projects: a Scottish suppliers' perspective. The very idea that a modern day organisation might operate effectively without computerised information systems seems almost absurd. Yet, the projects that provide these systems have an unenviable...
Interactivity in collaborative room environments
Aurelien Ammeloot (PhD 2013-)
Interactivity in collaborative room environments.
Bio-inspired computing for optimisation/self-organising systems
Andreas Steyven (PhD 2013-)
Bio-inspired computing for optimisation/self-organising systems.

Past Projects