Research Interests

Many complex systems and consumer products now contain significant amounts of software. The customers of such systems and products have the same quality requirements as those of their pure hardware counterparts of some years ago. My interests used to be focused on developing processes and methods to develop and assess high quality software: requirements management; automatic test case generation and execution; probabilistic networks for software quality assessment.

Now my research work is focused almost entirely on the emerging "Digital Ecosystems" theme. This term is perhaps more familiar to the Business community than the Computer Science community. But it reflects the change from traditional "Value Chains" in Business, to "Value Networks". The latter is more appropriate in e-Commerce, with the emergence of "Virtual Organisations" and peer-to-peer collaborations for service delivery.

Further details can be found on my personal web page.