School of Computing

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest are divided by research group of the School of Computing.

Programming Languages and Systems

  • Verification and dependability
  • Memory management
  • Program development

Computational Intelligence

  • Application of computational simulations in biology and medicine.
  • Bio-inspired computing - genetic algorithms, swarm intelligence, artificial neural networks.
  • Systems biology and bioinformatics
  • Theory and applications of information visualisation
  • Data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Salience sensitive control
  • Attention, affect and addiction

Security

  • Public Key and Privilege Management Infrastructures
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Formal Methods for Cryptography
  • Security and Risk Management
  • Autonomic Security
  • Continuous Auditing
  • Trust Management and Metrics and Reputation Systems
  • Tools for Vulnerability Analysis
  • Policy-based Security
  • Privacy and Security
  • User Friendly Security
  • Cloud Security

Computing Education

  • Designing of tools to support programming learning
  • Investigations of approaches to practice

Future Computing

  • Future Computing
  • Grid/Cloud Computing (Internet II)
  • Green Computing (through utilizing memristor)
  • Virtual Computing
  • e-Science & e-Engineering
  • Data Storage & Data Communication
  • Data Mining and Data Warehousing
  • Biologically-inspired Computing
  • Computational Economics (including Finance)
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Bargaining Theory and Automated Negotiation
  • Evolutionary Computing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Semantic Web and Linked Data

School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF

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Last Updated: 12/02/2015