University of Hertfordshire
Computer Science Research Colloquium
Wednesdays 3-4 pm
Lecture Theatre LC108
Hatfield Campus
Schedule for Semester B 2001-2002

[click on presentation title for abstract]

6 February 2002
Self-Reference and System Engineering with Wrappings
Dr. Christopher Landauer (The Aerospace Corporation, USA; joint work with Dr. Kirstie L. Bellman)
13 February 2002
The LSA Machine Applied to Cancer Diagnosis by using Gene-expression Data
Dr. Andreas Albrecht
20 February 2002
The Value of Segmentation of Speech in the Evolution of Language Structure
(Or: Survival of the Fittest in the Statistical Environment)
Dr. Caroline Lyon
27 February 2002
Do as I Do: Correspondences across Different Robotic Embodiments
Aris Alissandrakis (joint work with C. Nehaniv and K. Dautenhahn)
13 March 2002
Relating Behaviour Selection Architectures to Environmental Complexity
(or: Try this to Get Your Robots to do the Right Thing)
Dr. Lola Cañamero
20 March 2002
Managing Software Practitioners' Motivators and De-motivators for Software Process Improvement
Dr. Nathan Baddoo
17 April 2002
How Computers can Adapt to User Knowledge: A Comparison between Computer-Based and Computer-Adaptive Testing
Mariana Lilley (joint work with Dr. Trevor Barker)
24 April 2002 **4-5 pm**
Investigating the Interactions Between Inheritance, Overriding and Overloading when Resolving Method Calls in Object-oriented Programming
Dr. Roger Oliver
1 May 2002
A Tale of Two (or Three) Models: System Dynamics and Long-term Software Process Simulations for the FEAST Project
Dr. Paul Wernick
8 May 2002
People, Politics and Process: An Exploratory Study
Dr. Austen Rainer
15 May 2002
An Empirical Study of User Preference and Performance with UML Diagrams
Dr. Maria Kutar (joint work with Drs. Trevor Barker & Carol Britton)
22 May 2002
Guided Navigation: How to Find Your Cake in the First Place. An Exploratory Study
Dr. Guy Saward
29 May 2002
Message Passing Parallel Programming
Dr. Paco Almeida (La Laguna University, Spain)
19 June 2002 [1:30 pm, Seminar Room LB252]
Information Technology Failure and the Collapse of ONE.TEL
Prof. David Wilson (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Colloquium Abstracts: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/colloq/
Seminar Organizer: Prof. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Email C.L.Nehaniv@herts.ac.uk