Trinity College Dublin

Established in 1981, the Distributed Systems Group (DSG) is both the longest standing and largest research group in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. DSG conducts basic and applied research into all aspects of distributed computing extending from the theoretical foundations underpinning the field to system engineering issues. Our expertise is in the areas of middleware, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing and software engineering.

The paper: "Cognitive Effort for Multi-agent Systems" by Longo Luca and Stephen Barrett has been accepted at the IEEE Brain Informatics 2010 Conference in Toronto, Canada and will be published by Springer as a volume in the series Lecture notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

The paper: "Soilse: A Decentralized Approach to Optimization of Fluctuating Urban Traffic Using Reinforcement Learning" by As'ad Salkham and Vinny Cahill, and the paper "An Active Approach to Guaranteed Arrival Times Based on Traffic Shaping" by Dan Marinescu, Jan Curn, Marco Slot, Melanie Bouroche and Vinny Cahill have been recently accepted at the 13th international IEEE conference on intelligent transportation systems (ITSC 2010) in Madeira Island, Portugal, 19 – 22 September 2010

An article entitled "Design and evaluation guidelines for mental health technologies" by G. Doherty, D. Coyle and M. Matthews has been published in Interacting with Computers 22(4), 2010, DOI 10.1016/j.intcom.2010.02.006 .

DSG members Gavin Doherty and Joe McKnight have had an article entitled :"Fieldwork for requirements: Frameworks for mobile healthcare applications" accepted to the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (one of the main HCI journals, impact factor 2.38). DOI 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2010.06.005 , (G. Doherty, J. McKnight and S. Luz).

The paper: "Enhancing Social Search: a Computational Collective Intelligence Model of Behavioural Traits, Trust and Time" by Longo Luca, Dondio Pierpaolo and Stephen Barrett has been accepted as inclusion in the special issue "Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence" . The Journal will be published by Springer as a volume in the prestigious series Lecture notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

The paper: "A Computational Analysis of Cognitive Effort" by Longo Luca and Stephen Barrett will be presented at The 2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems in Hue City, Vietnam and will be published by Springer as a volume in series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

Mark Matthews and Gavin Doherty have just had an article published in interactions on their work on technology in mental health:
The invisible user, ACM interactions, XVI(6), pp. 13-19, November/December 2009. DOI 10.1145/1620693.1620697 .

The paper: "Information Foraging Theory as a Form of Collective Intelligence for Social Search" by Longo Luca, Stephen Barrett and Pierpaolo Dondio will be presented at the IEEE FIPA 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence - Semantic Web, Social Networks & Multiagent Systems and will be published as a volume in series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence of Springer.

DSG is taking part in EMMON, which is a new 3-year ARTEMIS project on EMbedded MONitoring. Launched in 2008, ARTEMIS is a Joint Technology Initiative that will manage and co-ordinate EU research activities on Embedded Computing Systems through a 10-year €2.5 billion research programme.