About

Howdy and welcome to my Ph.D. blog. This is a log of ideas I’ve had, papers I’ve read, and conferences I’ve gone to. It will be updated on an infrequent and maddening schedule. Here’s the official abstracted “about” spiel:

Biography

Ross ShannonRoss Shannon started his Ph.D. in the Systems Research Group in late September 2005 under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Quigley and Prof. Paddy Nixon. He is funded by Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, who are supported by Science Foundation Ireland.

Ross received his BSc (Hons) in Computer Science in University College Dublin in 2005. His final year project, under the supervision of Dr. Nick Kushmerick, was to create a program to allow common HTML forms to be programmatically invoked as comparable Web Services.

Ross entered both RedEye All-Ireland 24-hour programming competitions, winning in both 2004 and 2005. He also came first in the first annual CSI programming contest in 2006.

Ross joined IBM Ireland in the summer of 2005 as part of their Extreme Blue internship program, where he worked on applications of text analytics in productivity suites such as IBM’s upcoming Workplace product. Alongside this, he successfully completed a Google Summer of Code project, working on the open source Gallery project.

Ross has currently published six peer-reviewed papers, successfully had a patent filed, and has contributed to O’Reilly’s book PHP Hacks. He has a great interest in web development and technologies, and his personal website, HTMLSource: HTML Tutorials is visited by over 10,000 people a day.

Current Research

Ross is currently researching how the visualisation of autonomic automotive systems and sensor data can help inform the design, development and testing of complex adaptive software and pervasive systems.

Publications

BibTeX for each of the published publications below is available.

Publications directory

  1. “Vàmanos: Visualisation of Ambient, Autonomic and Organic Systems” By Ross Shannon. Poster at the Irish Graduate Student Symposium on Vision, Graphics and Visualisation (VGV08), Trinity College, Dublin, June 5th, 2008. (Download PDF)
  2. “Scatterbox: Context-Aware Message Management” By Stephen Knox, Ross Shannon, Lorcan Coyle, Adrian K. Clear, Simon Dobson, Aaron J. Quigley and Paddy Nixon. In special issue of the Revue d’intelligence Artificielle: “Modelling and Reasoning on Context: The Role of Context in Human Tasks”. To appear in summer 2008.
  3. “Visualising Network Communications to Evaluate a Data Dissemination Method for Ubiquitous Systems” By Ross Shannon, Graham Williamson, Aaron Quigley and Paddy Nixon. At USE ’07. In UbiComp 2007 Workshop Proceedings, Innsbruck, Austria, September 16–19, 2007, pp 288–291. (Download PDF)
  4. “Towards Scatterbox: a Context-Aware Message Forwarding Platform” By Stephen Knox, Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, Aaron J. Quigley, and Paddy Nixon. In Fourth International Workshop on Modeling and Reasoning in Context in conjunction with Context ’07, Roskilde, Denmark, August 20–24, 2007, pp 13–24. (Download PDF)
  5. “A first approach to the closed-form specification and analysis of an autonomic control system” By Simon Dobson, Eoin Bailey, Stephen Knox, Ross Shannon and Aaron Quigley. In 12th IEEE International Conference on Engineering Complex Computer Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, July 11–14, 2007, pp 229–237. (more details…) (Download PDF)
  6. “Visualization of Autonomic Systems” By Ross Shannon, Aaron J. Quigley and Paddy Nixon. Poster at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON), Dublin, October 17, 2006.
  7. “Software Considerations for Automotive Pervasive Systems” By Ross Shannon, Aaron Quigley and Paddy Nixon. In Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing, Lancaster, UK, June 1–2, 2006, pp 5–6. (more details…) (Download PDF)
  8. “Collaborating in Context: Immersive Visualisation Environments” By Ross Shannon, Aaron Quigley and Paddy Nixon. In Workshop on Context in Advanced Interfaces in conjunction with AVI 2006, Venice, Italy, May 23, 2006, pp 13–16. ACM Press. (more details…) (Download PDF)
  9. “URL Rewriting” (book chapter) By Ross Shannon. A chapter in PHP Hacks: Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites, pp 253–258, published by O’Reilly Media, Inc. December 2005.

Supervision

  1. I am currently supervising a student, Eugene Kenny, for ODCSSS 2008
  2. I supervised two teams for the course Software Engineering Project III — COMP 30050, 2008

Reviewing

I have reviewed for the following venues:

  1. Autonomic and Trusted Computing 2008
  2. Revue d’intelligence Artificielle
  3. Internet of Things 2008
  4. UbiSys 2006

Volunteering

  1. Student volunteer at Pervasive 2006, Dublin, Ireland.