Dublin City University
School of Computing

• Stone, B.Sinclair, D., ORBs for embedded applications. MSc Postgraduate research with Aritech Ltd.

• Sinclair, D., Hybrid Systems OHMS Tool Set. MSc Postgraduate. School of Computing.

• Designed and built a Java based servlet which links to student and course databases. The servlet presents a course interactively to a class.

• Detecting feature interactions in the formal specification of telephone systems. (Collaboration with D. Mery and P.Gibson, Universite de Henri Poincare, Nancy, France - funded by Forbairt International Collaboration Grant.)

• Model-Assisted Survey Sampling;
  Development of PPS Without Replacement Selection Methods;
  Monetary-Unit Sampling

• Sinclair, D., Design Methodology for Hybrid Systems. PhD Postgraduate. DCU Research Committee.

• The use of virtual lectures as a method of course delivery (with A. Smeaton )
• Statistical properties of deterministic chaos.

• Sinclair,D., Fault tolerant languages for multiprocessor systems. MSc Postgraduate.

• Ongoing research on information integration, information extraction, wrapper induction and applications of machine learning to the internet.

• Sinclair, D.Annotated LINDA, a fault tolerant parallel language. PhD Postgraduate. School of Computing.

• EUROMAP research project, major EU 4th Framewok project to survey Language Rngineering throughout the EU. Contract for Ireland awarded to the NCLT. Duration: 18 months, started October 1996.
• EUROMAP-2 research project, continuation of EUROMAP. Duration:13 months, started April 1998.
• Work within the framework of COST 258, including a survey of current European research on speech synthesis and a set of standards for the encoding of prosodic information in text mark-up systems, ongoing.
• Research on evaluation of synthetic speech, ongoing.
• Research on pragmatic and other linguistic factors determining prosody, ongoing.
• Implementation of a speech synthesis system for Hiberno-English and Irish Gaelic, jointly with PhD student Darragh O'Brien, ongoing.
• Implementation of a translation system from formatted text to Braille and speech, jointly with PhD student Donal Fitzpatrick, ongoing.

• Moynihan, J.A.,Project and Process Prompter (P3) project. Prototyping of a project management tool with knowledge-based support.   (Funded by EU Fourth Framework Programme, ESPRIT 22241)
• Moynihan, J.A., Specification of architectural models for multi-agent knowledge-based assistant systems, in the domain of software project management. (Collaboration with J.O.Jenkins, City University, London)

• The OASIS Project. Multidatabase Architectures  Funded by Forbairt Strategic Research Grant Scheme With J. Kennedy & P. Barclay (Napier University, Edinburgh) on 'The Specification of a Canonical Model for Multidatabase Systems' with W. Hasselbring (Tilburg University, Netherlands) on 'Metamodels for Information Interchange between Heterogenous Systems'.

• Simulation Models for Cellular Networks; 2-d and 3-d froths; (collaboration funding from Forbairt ICT grant and DCU Research Committee).
• Microsimulation models for Traffic Flow; (postgraduate student funding School of CA).
• Time Series Analysis of Migrant series; (postgraduate student funding School of CA).
• Reliability and Quality Improvement of Board production Process (MMX technology), (with collaboration of Intel, Ireland. Funding Greek-exchange student scheme).
• Immunological C.A. models: (new project; funding sought for potential collaboration with Prof. R. Pandey, USM).
• Statistical models applied to the natural sciences.

• Designed and built Sentinel - A secure phone.

• Forward Pruning of moves in search trees for strategic games.
• Applications of Linear Logic to specification and verification of real-time systems.

• (with N., Murphy and S Marlow) In receipt of funding from National Software Directorate for three years, to carry out research into Indexing and Browsing of Digital Video.
• In receipt of funding from EU Information Engineering program for EuroGatherer project, 20-month project on information filtering from the WWW
• Funded by ESPRIT LTR for MIRA, a 14-partner consortium and working group to develop new approaches to evaluation of interactive multimediainformation retrieval.
• (with A. Monaghan and R. Scaife)  In receipt of funding from FORBAIRTStrategic Research programme and RTÉ for a project to develop content-based retrieval of radio news archives.
• Joaquim Macedo (University de Minho, Portugal).Carrying out research into distributed  indexing and retrieval of text documents.
• J. Carthy (UCD) Carrying out research into lexical chaining for topic detection and tracking in (text) news broadcasts.
• J. Kernan Researching new techniques to present document summaries to users of information retrieval systems.
• J. O'Connor. Developing techniques to retrieve scanned images of documents.

• Real-time CORBA compliant ORB in an embedded systems environment. (Industrial sponsor, Aritech LTD.) Real-time Java and Java Virtual Machines in a distributed and embedded systems environment. (Industrial sponsor, Aritech LTD.)
• Adaptations of UML based Analysis and Design to real-time, embedded systems and transaction processing systems in distributed environments.

• Linear Logic and Natural Language Semantics collaborative research with: Dick Crouch, University of Nottingham, Dept. of Computer Science, U.K. and Xerox PARC, CA, USA. Michael Dorna, IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Anette Frank, XRCE, Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble, France. Valeria de Paiva, University of Birmingham, Dept. of Computer Science, U.K. Eike Ritter, University of Birmingham, Dept. of Computer Science, U.K.

• MIPSMARK -- Software for Automatic Assessment of Programming Assignments for Teaching Computer Architecture and Assembly Language Programming. (CA - 1398)  MIPSMARK is software for teaching and assessing assembly language programming skills. It is distributed in the public domain via the school web page, and is used in other educational establishments.

• Continuation of PhD at the Dept. Language & Linguistics, University of Essex.
• HPSG, MT & Semantics (ongoing, postgraduate collaboration with D. Carr, CA, DCU) - Hybrid Machine Translation (with Doug Arnold, University of Essex UK)

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