Research Projects Wireless
Sensor Network core Technologies/Systems Cross-layered protocols for
multi-purposed WSN VIBE: Self-Adaptive Minimum Energy
Routing for WSN Bio-Inspired Tools for WSN Tesserae: Component based Dynamic
Reconfiguration for WSNs Environment and
Infrastructure Management
Smart Homes/Built
Environment
Newer work
Some Past Projects
(old, about to move to db ) Publications
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Julie
A McCann Reader
in Computer Systems London
SW7 2AZ, UK F:
+44 (0)207 581 8024 |
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McCann's work centres around
architectures, algorithms, protocols and tools that allow computer systems to
self-adapt to their environment and self-organise to improve their
performance, quality or ability to scale and survive. She leads the 10 strong
Adaptive Embedded Systems Engineering (AESE) group. Computing systems are becoming more
spatial and the boundaries between them and their environments are beginning
to blur. This has brought many research challenges relating to the ability to
get such systems to scale, remain robust when confronted with failure,
maximise their usefulness while minimising energy consumption or better still
be energy neutral. Such systems bring new demands beyond the metrics of
throughput and response times. Today we look at behaviours, convergence, or
purposeful lack of convergence, anarchical systems, systems that understand
and match context etc. etc. To this end, McCann has been mainly
researching and publishing work that centres on highly decentralised algorithms,
protocols, cross-layered solutions to wireless sensor networks. Here, there
is a particular focus on low-powered sensing nodes with some work on hybrid
and hierarchical topologies. She also has some interests in Ubiquitous and
Mobile computing (Internet of Things, if you will), specifically in context
awareness, as well as Autonomic Computing. Her past, in computer performance,
dynamic operating systems, database machines and text retrieval systems, has
informed this work. For her earlier research in text retrieval, she was
co-awarded Emerald Literati Network "Highly Commended". All her
projects are interdisciplinary, applied to the arts or engineering and mainly
funded by EPSRC/NERC/TSB national programmes, collaborating with; RCA; The
University of the Arts; Interactive Institute Stockholm etc.; as well as many
other industrial partnerships such as with Sun Microsystems, Thames and
Severn-Trent Water, BT, Arup Engineering and BBC to name but a few. She has also been a consultant for TV and
Film on occasion. She is an active programme committee
member for many of the self-managing adaptive computing journals and
conferences. She has also co-chaired conferences such as IEEE Self-Adaptive
and Self-Organising Systems (SASO'11), IEEE Intl. Conf. on Complex Open
Distributed Systems and the ACM Intl. Conf. on Pervasive Services 2008 and
2009 (General Chair). McCann is regularly invited to talk on self-adaptive
computing to diverse audiences and has been an invited panel member ACM/IEEE
International Conference in Autonomic Computing and IFIP/IEEE International
Symposium on Integrated Network Management. She lectures Operating Systems
courses and the WSN component in the Pervasive Computing option. Go
on! Test your knowledge of Computing! (old);
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