Trinity College Dublin

Established in 1981, the Distributed Systems Group (DSG) is both the longest standing and largest research group in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. DSG conducts basic and applied research into all aspects of distributed computing extending from the theoretical foundations underpinning the field to system engineering issues. Our expertise is in the areas of middleware, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing and software engineering.

A new EU project named DIVERSIFY has just started in February 2013, with DSG as one of its four partners. DIVERSIFY (2013 – 2016) is funded by the EC FP7 FET proactive program, and explores diversity as the foundation for a novel software design principle and increased adaptive capacities in collaborative adaptive systems, especially the smart urban scale software systems.

The paper "The Importance of Human Mental Workload in Web Design" by Longo Luca and Stephen Barrett has been accepted in the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Oporto, Portugal. The conference is held in cooperation with the ACM SIGMIS.

Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre has announced new funding of €22.4 million from Science Foundation Ireland (€16 million) and industry (€6.4 million). DSG’s Dr. Siobhán Clarke and Prof. Vinny Cahill are co-Principal Investigators, and DSG’s focus is on investigating the optimisation of resources for smart and sustainable cities.

DSG appointed Mélanie Bouroche as the new program manager for their Future Cities research program, starting on 01/10/2011.

Congratulations to Christin Groba, who was presented with the Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) in Washington DC, last week. The paper was entitled “Opportunistic Composition of Sequentially-Connected Services in Mobile Computing Environments”, and was co-authored with Siobhán Clarke.

Congratulations to DSG's Dr. Shane Brennan and Dr. Serena Fritsch, who were conferred at the Trinity Summer Commencements. Shane and Serena were both in Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Centre, and were supervised by Dr. Siobhán Clarke. Click here to see the picture!