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Level Doctorate Student Mwrwan Abubakar Status Complete Part Time No Years 2018 Project Title Blockchain-based Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Internet of Things (IoT) Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Zakwan Jaroucheh Second Supervisor Ahmed Al-Dubai Additional Supervisor Xiaodong Liu
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Level Doctorate Student Dr Zakwan Jaroucheh Status Complete Part Time No Years 2008 - 2012 Project Title An approach to cross-domain situation-based context management and highly adaptive services in pervasive environments Project Description The concept of context-awareness is widely used in mobile and pervasive computing to reduce explicit user input and customization through the increased use of implicit input. It is considered to be the corner stone technique for developing pervasive computing applications that are flexible, adaptable, and capable of acting autonomously on behalf of the user. This requires the applications to take advantage of the context in order to infer the user’s objective and relevant environmental features. However, context-awareness introduces various software engineering challenges such as the need to provide developers with middleware infrastructure to acquire the context information available in distributed domains, reasoning about contextual situations that span one or more domains, and providing tools to facilitate building context-aware adaptive services.
The separation of concerns is a promising approach in the design of such applications where the core logic is designed and implemented separately from the context handling and adaptation logics. In this respect, the aim of this dissertation is to introduce a unified approach for developing such applications and software infrastructure for efficient context management that together address these software engineering challenges and facilitate the design and implementation tasks associated with such context-aware services. The approach is based around a set of new conceptual foundations, including a context modelling technique that describes context at different levels of abstraction, domain-based context management middleware architecture, cross-domain contextual situation recognition, and a generative mechanism for context-aware service adaptation.
Prototype tool has been built as an implementation of the proposed unified approach. Case studies have been done to illustrate and evaluate the approach, in terms of its effectiveness and applicability in real-life application scenarios to provide users with personalized services.Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Xiaodong Liu Second Supervisor Sally Smith Thesis An approach to cross-domain situation-based context management and highly adaptive services in pervasive environments
PhD in Computing Science
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Level Doctorate Student Tawanda Nyakudya Status Current Part Time No Years 2022 Project Title “A unified approach based on semantic models and continuous deep learning to sensor data uncertainty and inconsistency in smart systems.” Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Xiaodong Liu Second Supervisor Oluwaseun Bamgboye
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Level Doctorate Student Tawanda Nyakudya Status Current Part Time No Years 2022 Project Title A unified approach based on semantic models and continuous deep learning to sensor data uncertainty and inconsistency in smart systems Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Xiaodong Liu Second Supervisor Oluwaseun Bamgboye
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Level Doctorate Student Wellington Majora Status Current Part Time No Years 2021 Project Title A new approach to engineering secure microservices-based applications with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Zakwan Jaroucheh Second Supervisor Xiaodong Liu Additional Supervisor Jawad Ahmad
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Level Doctorate Student Chathuranga Sampath Kalutharage Status Current Part Time Yes Years 2021 Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Xiaodong Liu
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Level Doctorate Student Zhimeng Huang Status Current Part Time Yes Years 2020 Project Title An approach to proactive smart building maintenance management Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Xiaodong Liu Second Supervisor Imed Romdhani
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Level Doctorate Student Xi Wang Status Withdrawn Part Time No Years 2019 Project Title An Approach to Context-Proactive Augumented Reality Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Xiaodong Liu Second Supervisor Tom Flint Additional Supervisor Brian Davison
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Level Doctorate Student Dr Oluwaseun Bamgboye Status Complete Part Time No Years 2016 - 2021 Project Title Semantic model-driven framework for validating quality requirements of internet of things streaming data Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Xiaodong Liu Second Supervisor Peter Cruickshank
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Level Doctorate Student Dr Richard Greenwell Status Complete Part Time Yes Years 2010 - 2018 Project Title An approach to the semantic intelligence cloud Awarding Institution Edinburgh Napier University Director of Studies Xiaodong Liu
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