Professor PM Dew
BTech (Bradford); PhD (Bradford); MACM; MBCS; MIEET; CEng; CITP
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Position
Professor of Computer Science
Roles
UG CT Programme Manager
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 | Distributed Computing |
| Zulkifly Mohd Zaki | A Study of Tagging and Annotation Methods in Semantic Web |
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:
| Practical Problem Solving | COMP2740 |
| Professional Development 2 | COMP3500 |
Recent publications
A more comprehensive list is available here
Martin, Chris; Haji, Mohammed H; Dew, Peter; Pilling, Mike; Jimack, Peter. Semantically-enhanced model-experiment-evaluation processes (SeMEEPs) within the Atmospheric Chemistry Community in: Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW08). Accepted but not yet published.
Lau, Lydia M S; Dew, Peter M. A reflection on E-collaboration infrastructure for research communities in: Kock, N (editors) Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration, pp. 512-520 IGI Global. 2008.
Pham, Tran Vu; Lau, Lydia M S; Dew, Peter 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 J; 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.
Djemame, K; Haji, M; Gourlay, I; Dew, P; Padgett, J. Resource brokering on the White Rose Grid in: Ould-Khaoua, M & Min, G (editors) Performance Evaluation of Parallel, Distributed and Emergent Systems Nova Publishers. 2006.
Padgett, J; Djemame, K; Dew, P. Predictive adaptation for service level agreements on the Grid. International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology, vol. 7, pp. 29-42. 2006.