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.

The paper: "A Computational Analysis of Cognitive Effort" by Longo Luca and Stephen Barrett will be presented at The 2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems in Hue City, Vietnam and will be published by Springer as a volume in series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

Mark Matthews and Gavin Doherty have just had an article published in interactions on their work on technology in mental health:
The invisible user, ACM interactions, XVI(6), pp. 13-19, November/December 2009. DOI 10.1145/1620693.1620697 .

The paper: "Information Foraging Theory as a Form of Collective Intelligence for Social Search" by Longo Luca, Stephen Barrett and Pierpaolo Dondio will be presented at the IEEE FIPA 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence - Semantic Web, Social Networks & Multiagent Systems and will be published as a volume in series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence of Springer.

DSG is taking part in EMMON, which is a new 3-year ARTEMIS project on EMbedded MONitoring. Launched in 2008, ARTEMIS is a Joint Technology Initiative that will manage and co-ordinate EU research activities on Embedded Computing Systems through a 10-year €2.5 billion research programme.

Stephen Barrett has begun a new project funded by the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) under their fourth national call to produce a software platform for the filtering of web portal content, by means of trust computation and decentralised collaborative web monitoring. A second Enterprise Ireland project, recently begun under their Proof of Concept programme, will deliver a decision-support system that provides market traders with trust-assessment of online market information, and market predictions.

The paper “Pedagogy and processes for a computer engineering outreach workshop - the B2C model” by Brendan Tangney, Elizabeth Oldham, Claire Conneely, Stephen Barrett and John Lawlor will appear in IEEE Transactions on Education in 2009.

The paper "Towards Social Search: From Explicit to Implicit Collaboration to Predict Users' Interests" by Longo Luca, Stephen Barrett, Dondio Pierpaolo will appear in the ACM 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2009 - Lisboa, Portugal).

The paper "Clinical Evaluations and Collaborative Design: developing new technologies for mental healthcare interventions" by David Coyle and Gavin Doherty will appear in the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009).

The paper "Context-Aware Services for Ambient Environments" by René Meier and Deirdre Lee will appear in the IGI International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI) in 2009.