Professor PM Dew
BTech (Bradford); PhD (Bradford); MACM; MBCS; MIEEE; CEng; CITP
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Position
Professor of Computer Science
Research activities
My current research interests concern Web-based systems with applications in the domains of e-Science, e-Business and e-Law. I am also contributing to the emergence of Web Science, a new discipline to increase understanding of the Web and hence enable the development of next generation Web systems. Much of my research is undertaken in multi-disciplinary research teams. I am interested in the application of semantic meta-data architectures and semantic provenance within Grid-based virtual organizations. In particular I’m concerned with Quality of Service issues such as scalable & interactive performance, secure role-based access and control. The focus is on integrating various existing standards and technologies such as semantic provenance, Web2.0, Grid & Web computing and P2P. I have been the lead academic for two successful University Companies where I was a non-executive director. In 2003 I was the lead academic to establish a new University Company ICONA Solutions Ltd. This exploited research from an EPSRC/DTI Visualisation of the Impact of Tolerance Allocation in Automotive Design (VITAL) research project. ICONA has been successfully trading since then and has sold licenses to over 20 leading auto-mobile companies.
Research students
Professor Dew is currently supervising the following research student(s):
| STUDENT | THESIS TITLE |
|---|---|
| Tahir Farooq | Dynamic role based access control within a semantically enhanced model experiment evaluation process |
| Leena Janahi | Security Auditing for Cyber Crime |
| Zulkifly Mohd Zaki | A Study of Tagging and Annotation Methods in Semantic Web |
| Shahzad Nizamani | Establishment of a Flexible and Dynamic Semantic Service Orientated Architecture |
| Siraya Sitthisarn | Semantically enabled expert networks with expert discovery for dispute resolution |
Teaching activities
Professor's Dew teaching interests strongly reflect his research interest. He supervises a number of research students in the above research. Research students work closely with the funded research projects and with other researchers in the Web Science group. I am leading a new initiave to introduce 2 final year modules over the next two years
In 2008/2009, Professor Dew will be involved in teaching the following modules:
| Professional Development 2 | COMP3500 |
Selected publications
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| Martin, C.J.; Haji, M.H.; Dew, P.M.; Pilling, M.J.; Jimack, P.K. Semantically enhanced provenance capture for chamber model development with a master chemical mechanism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 367, pp.987-990. 2009. | DOI |
| Lau, L.M.S.; Dew, P.M. A reflection on E-collaboration infrastructure for research communities in: N Kock (ed.) Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration, pp.512-520. IGI Global. 2008. | |
| Martin, C.; Haji, M.; Dew, P.; Pilling, M.; Jimack, P. Semantically-enhanced model-experiment-evaluation processes (SeMEEPs) within the Atmospheric Chemistry Community in: Juliana Freire, David Koop & Luc Moreau (editors) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes, Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2008,, pp.293-308. 2008. | DOI |
| Pham, T.V.; Lau, L.M.S.; Dew, P.M. An ontology-based adaptive approach to P2P resource discovery in distributed scientific communities. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, vol. 2, pp.391-404. 2007. | |
| Russell, D.; Dew, P.M.; Djemame, K. A secure service-based collaborative workflow system. International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, vol. 2, pp.230-244. 2007. | |
| Tian, Y.; Lau, L.M.S.; Dew, P.M. Importance of mutual benefits among participants in online knowledge sharing communities. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, Accepted. |