INSTITUTIONS:

Imperial College London.
The Distributed Software Engineering (DSE) Group in the Department of Computing, Imperial College consists of 9 academics, 9 research associates and 12 research students. The Department is rated double 5* and the DSE group is world-renowned for its research which combines practical work for building tools for the design and implementation of adaptive distributed systems and networks, with more formal software engineering approaches to behavior modeling, requirements specification, language semantics and type systems for distributed programming.

University of Glasgow.
The Embedded, Networked and Distributed Systems (ENDS) Group in the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, consists of 6 academics, 2 research associates and 22 research students. The department was rated 5 in RAE 2001. The group conducts research into architectures, models, algorithms, measurement, and control of embedded/networked/distributed systems. The group is especially interested in large-scale systems, based on both wireless and wireline interconnection technologies, as well as high-performance system interconnects.