SICSA research themes

In their short history, computers have evolved from mainframes, through minicomputers, to networked desktops, and then via the web and wireless networks, to mobiles and ubiquitous computing, where information systems are always on, always there.

These latest transitions raise special challenges for tomorrow's systems: we need new ways of securing, interfacing, modelling and engineering them. These challenges are reflected in SICSA's research themes:

• Next Generation Internet As the Internet evolves towards ubiquity, research targets include security and trust, programmability, manageability, and mobility.
• Theme leader: Saleem Bhatti, St Andrews - email format: prefix "saleem" to the St Andrews address: @cs.st-andrews.ac.uk
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• Multimodal Interaction Personal ubiquitous interfaces require research enabling multiple, rich communication channels between people and vast bodies of information.
• Theme leader: Stephen Brewster, Glasgow - email format: prefix "stephen" to the Glasgow address: @dcs.gla.ac.uk
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• Modelling and Abstraction Processing ever-larger volumes of data raises new challenges in the development and use of predictive models of complex systems of interacting elements.
• Theme leader: Jane Hillston, Edinburgh - email format: firstname.surname@ed.ac.uk
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• Complex Systems Engineering New systems of systems must be engineered to meet the needs of industry and society, operating robustly within an often hostile external environment.
• Theme leader: Greg Michaelson, Heriot Watt - email format: initial.surname@hw.ac.uk
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