CN3057 Distributes Systems - Module Leader 
CN3044 Network Programming - Module Leader
CN1048 Computer Based Technologies

Assessment officer

• E-Health -- wireless sensor networks for homecaree-healthapplications: exploiting the semantics of resources and activities descriptions available in a patient surrounding environment.  

• Knowledge/intelligence aspects of data and database systems. These include:
  • Metadata and its role in the integration and interoperation of heterogeneous distributed information systems.
  • Semantic Web and data Grids... Web 2, Web development, web services.
  • The enrichment of metadata with quality measures and knowledge from knowledge bases and ontologies to improve the linking of data.
  • Integrated application software environments/workbenches, particularly for use in medical applications.
  • Description logics and their application to database query and integration languages.
  • Agent technologies for database interoperation (advertise capabilities of a database system and manage quality of services).

• Business process management: workflow (flow control), service flow control, model driven engineering, risk management.

Looking for highly motivated PhD students in the area of Data and Knowledge Management for the school of Computing and Information Technology Engineering (CITE).

Selected Papers:

Papers in refereed journals

• A-Rahman Tawil, M Motebello, R. Bahsoon, W A Gray, and N J Fiddian. Interschema Correspondence Establishment in a Cooperative OWL-Based Multi-Information Server Grid Environment. Journal of Information Sciences, Elsevier, December 2008.

• A-Rahman Tawil and W. A. Gray and N. J. Fiddian. Rich-Semantic Based Schema Integration in a Federated Multiple Information Server Environment. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), Vol 9, No 4, pp. 205-226, American University Washington, D.C., USA, 2002.

Papers in refereed conference proceedings

• A-Rahman Tawil, W A Gray, and N J Fiddian. Domain-specific metadata a key for building semantically-rich schema models. Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2001), November 27-30, Yokohama, Japan, 2001.
• A-Rahman Tawil, W. A. Gray and N. J. Fiddian. Integration Operators for Generating User-Defined Mediator Views. International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis, July 24-26, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2001.
• A-Rahman Tawil and W. A. Gray and N. J. Fiddian. Using Domain Ontologies to Build Semantically Rich Schema Models. Second International Scientific and Practical Conference on Programming UkrPROG'2000, Ukraine, Kiev.
• A-Rahman Tawil and W. A. Gray and N. J. Fiddian. Discovering and Representing Inter-Schema Semantic Knowledge in a Cooperative Multi-Information Server Environment. 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2000, Greenwich, United Kingdom.
• A-Rahman Tawil and Wernher Behrendt. Requirements for Components of an Intelligent Information Retrieval Model for the WWW. Intelligent World Wide Web Agents. IEE Colloquium, Computing and Control Division, Savoy Place, London, 1997.
• A-Rahman Tawil and W. A. Gray and N. J. Fiddian. Ontological Commitments for Multiple View Cooperation in a Distributed Heterogeneous Environment. Proceedings of 16th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD16), LNCS 1405, Springer, 1998.
• K. Priscott and A-Rahman Tawil. Growing Knowledgeable Nodes to Promote Interoperability in a Peer-to-Peer Network of Heterogeneous XML Data Sources. Proceedings of 21th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD21), Pages 7-9, Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University, Springer, July 2004.