Malcolm Crowe
Professor,
School of Computing, University of the West of Scotland
Tel: (0044) 141 848 3300
Fax: (0044) 141 848 3542
Net: malcolm.crowe@uws.ac.uk
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Last updated on 7 October 2010
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- 1987 MIEE CEng
1987 FBCS
1978 D.Phil "Connective k-theory and the
Infinite Symmetric Group"
1970 Diploma in Advanced Mathematics
1969 BA (Mod) (1st class) Mathematics
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Network Management Systems, Programming in C, Language Design
and Implementation
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- 2003- Associate Dean, School of Computing, University of Paisley/University
of the West of Scotland
- 2000-03 Associate Dean, Faculty of Communications, Engineering
and Science, University of Paisley
- 1985-2000 Head of Department, Paisley College of
Technology/University of Paisley
1981-85 Senior Lecturer, Paisley College of
Technology.
1972-81 Lecturer, Paisley College of Technology.
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My blog "Reboot Research"
An amateur translation of Heraclitus.
Some thoughts on Academe, with some new
translations of bits of Plato and Aristotle.
Software etc needing Microsoft's .NET
platform:
Pyrrho Database Management System.
(Version 3.3 2009) The Pyrrho DBMS is a new approach to relational database implementation.
Also available here.
Compiler tools in C# Version
4.7m (382 KB) dated 16 July 2009 (for Windows/.NET or Linux/Mono). A
sample interpreter (KB) dated 19 April 2003.
Snmp tools in C# Version 0.3.5g
(627KB) dated 25 April 2008. See also
Lex Li's
#SNMP project.
For Jeff Magee and Jeff Kramer: Concurrency: State Models and
Java Programs (Wiley 1999) C# versions of the
programs and presentations (1.9MB) dated 1 April 2003
.NET is easy (72 KB) dated 10 January
2002.
Classes and Tips for Visual Studio 2003
(375KB) dated 30 May 2003
[I no longer support my port of Princeton's WordNet. However, I
suggest a look at Troy
Simpson's WordNet library, and a
WordNet2.0 version by Enrico Lu]
A paper on "Scientific Method" (Nov
2001) and updated slides (March 2004)
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Books
- (ed, with John Atkinson) Interdisciplinary Research: Diverse Approaches
in Science, Technology, Health and Society, Wiley, Chichester (2006),
978-1-86156-47-2: also Chapter 1: Research Today.
- (ed, with Costas Iliopoulos and Dimitrios Tseles) Proceedings of the 1st
International Scientific Conference on Information Technology and Quality,
Athens 5-6 June 2004, University of Paisley (2005) 1-903978-19-X
- (ed) Proceedings of the Research Conference, 11 May 2005, University of
Paisley (2005) 1-903978-22-X
- (ed, with Costas Iliopoulos and Dimitrios Tseles) Proceedings of the 2nd
International Scientific Conference on Information Technology and Quality,
Spetses 4-5 June 2005, University of Paisley (2005) 1-903978-25-4
Refereed Journal Papers since 2001
- (with Kaibo Xu and Junkang Feng) Defining the notion of "Information
Content" and reasoning about it in a database,
Knowledge
and Information Systems, 18.1 (2008) p.29-59 DOI 10.1007/s10115-008-0129-3
- (with R A Kydd), Agents and Suggestions in a Web-based
dynamic workflow model,
Automation in Construction,
10 (2001) p 639-643 ISSN 0926-5805
Refereed Conference Proceedings since 2001
- (with Kabo Xu, Junkang Feng) Defining the notion of ‘Information
Content’ and reasoning about it in a database, Knowledge and
Information Systems, 18 (Jan 2009) p. 29-59. DOI
10.1007/s10115-008-0129-3
- A simple approach to temporal data in relational DBMS, Data Mining
VIII, (ed. A. Zanasi, C.A. Brebbia, N.F.F. Ebecken) (WIT Press, 2007),
ISBN 978-1-84564-081-1, p.115-126.
- (with Wesam Barbakh, Colin Fyfe) A Family of Novel Clustering
Algorithms, 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and
Automated Learning (IDEAL 2006), LNCS 0302-9743, 978-3-540-45485-4, p.
283-290.
- Information, Knowledge and Teams, Proceedings of the United Kingdom
Systems Society, July 2002; in Systems Theory and Practice in the
Knowledge Age, ed. G.Ragsdell et al (Kluwer/Plenum, New York, 2002) ISBN
0-306-47247-3, p. 131-138.
- Transactions in the Pyrrho Database Engine, in Hamza M.H. (ed) Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Databases and
Applications, Innsbruck, February 2005 (IASTED, Anaheim) ISBN
0-88986-460-8 ISSN 1027-2666, p.71-76.
- (with Cherif Branki and others) Integrated Mobile Operations Support for
the Construction Industry: The COSMOS Solution, Proceedings 5th World
Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI 2001,
980-07-7544-7, IV/248-255.
Other
- Information, Knowledge and the Evolution of Computing, Proceedings of
the 1st International Scientific Conference on Information Technology and
Quality, Athens 2004, University of Paisley (2005) 1-903978-19-X, p.9-13
- British Patent Application No 0620986.0 in the name of the University of
Paisley entitled "Improvements in and Relating to Database Technology"
(2006)
- (with Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami) "Probablilistic hyerspace analogue
to language", Poster Session, ACM SIGIR 2005, 1-59593-034-5, p. 575-576.
- The Pyrrho Database Management System,
Computing and Information Systems Technical Reports, 38 (2007).
- An Introduction to the Source Code of the Pyrrho DBMS,
Computing and Information Systems Technical Reports, 39 (2007).
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Examinerships since 2001:
- Wolverhampton University: BSc Computing Degree
Scheme (1998-2002);
- Napier University (modular examiner, MMSE)
(1998-2003).
- Sussex College (2002-)
- University of Essex (2003-)
Research Supervision:
2 M.Phil (1986, 1987), 10 Ph.D. (1994,2000-3), 5 registered at
present.