Software Systems Engineering

Group leader

Dr. Simon Courtenage
T: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext. 3955
E: courtes@westminster.ac.uk

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Interest and expertise

The purpose of the Software Systems Engineering Research Group is to investigate, develop and apply sound engineering principles in the context of software systems development and research. The research activities of the group members cover fields such as distributed systems, software components, database research, and web search, but underlying and informing all these different strands of work is the application of sound software engineering principles and practice.

Current and recent projects

  • A Functional Language and Architecture for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Networks, EPSRC, 86K, August 2003 - August 2005.

Selected publications

BEUS-DUKIC, L. AND MYERS, C., Use and Abuse Cases. In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference, Paris, 2005

BEUS-DUKIC, L. AND BOEGH, J., COTS Software Quality Evaluation, Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems ( ICCBSS 2003), Ottawa, Canada, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 2580/2003, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2003, ISBN 3-540-00562-5, pp.72-80.

COURTENAGE, S. AND WILLIAMS, S., Semantic-Based Matching and Personalization in FWEB, a Publish/Subscribe-Based Web Infrastructure. In Proceedings of Co-Operative Information Systems, November 2005, Springer-Verlag LNCS.

COURTENAGE, S. AND WILLIAMS, S., Automatic Hyperlink Creation Using P2P and Publish/Subscribe. In Workshop on Peer-to-Peer and Agent Infrastructures for Knowledge Management (PAIKM) at WM2005, Kaiserslautern, April 2005 (to be published in a collection of WM2005 selected papers in Springer-Verlag LNCS series).

DOUGLAS, P. AND BARKER, S., Protecting Federated Databases Using A Practical Implementation Of A Formal RBAC Policy , ITCC, Las Vegas, USA, 5-7 April 2004.

More Information

For more information visit www.sse.wmin.ac.uk or contact

Dr. Simon Courtenage
 Software Systems Engineering Research Group (SSE)
School of Electronics and Computer Science
115 New Cavendish Street
London W1W 6UW

T: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext. 3955
E: courtes@westminster.ac.uk