Managing Knowledge in Web-Driven Organisational Evolution. Organisations are increasingly concerned with the effective utilisation of Web technologies, and especially the ways in which these technologies can be used to improve their business. Effective management of knowledge about the interplay between the organisation and technical drivers of this technology adoption will enable a much-enhanced process for leveraging emerging information and communication technologies. This project aims to li ....Managing Knowledge in Web-Driven Organisational Evolution. Organisations are increasingly concerned with the effective utilisation of Web technologies, and especially the ways in which these technologies can be used to improve their business. Effective management of knowledge about the interplay between the organisation and technical drivers of this technology adoption will enable a much-enhanced process for leveraging emerging information and communication technologies. This project aims to link related research at UTS and Southampton University to understand how tools might support this knowledge management. Outcomes will include the creation of specific tools (and techniques for using them) within the context of managing organisational uptake of new technologies.Read moreRead less
Building correct-by-construction distributed systems from specifications stating how agents' knowledge evolves over time. Many distributed computer system implementations fail to comply with their original informal requirement specification. These requirements typically refer to the migration of information through the system over time, but current specification languages are not rich enough to express such requirements on a sufficiently abstract level. This results in a huge error-provoking gap ....Building correct-by-construction distributed systems from specifications stating how agents' knowledge evolves over time. Many distributed computer system implementations fail to comply with their original informal requirement specification. These requirements typically refer to the migration of information through the system over time, but current specification languages are not rich enough to express such requirements on a sufficiently abstract level. This results in a huge error-provoking gap between the informal requirements and the starting point of formally verifiable development. To minimise this gap, we develop a particularly expressive specification language, a calculus for stepwise refinement from such specifications down to distributed systems, and an automated tool for checking and supporting refinement steps in the calculus.Read moreRead less