Postgraduate Seminar Series 2006-2007

Dept. Of Computer Science

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

About the series

The postgraduate seminar series held in Maynooth allows postgraduate students the opportunity to present their work and acquire feedback from their fellow staff and students. Seminars are usually held in groups of two, every week. The Postgraduates page contains the regulations and requirements for postgraduates

The postgraduates page contains the procedures CS postgrads must follow. It can only from viewed from within the NUI domain.
You can view last years postgraduate seminar series to see previous talks given in the department.

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Wednesdays 2pm CS2

• Wednesday October 11^th
  • Mark Hennessy Ensuring Behavioural Equivalence in Test-driven Porting

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    We present a test-driven approach to porting code from one object-oriented language to another. We derive an order for the porting of the code, along with a testing strategy to verify the behaviour of the ported system at intra and inter-class level. We utilise the recently defined methodology for porting C++ applications, eXtreme porting, as a framework for porting. This defines a systematic routine based upon porting and unit-testing classes in turn. We augment this approach by using Object Relation Diagrams to define an order for porting that minimises class stubbing. Since our strategy is class-oriented and test-driven, we can ensure the structural equivalence of the ported system, along with the limited behavioural equivalence of each class. In order to extend this to integration-level equivalence, we exploit aspect-oriented programming to generate UML sequence diagrams, and we present a technique to compare such automatically-generated diagrams for equivalence. We demonstrate and evaluate our approach using a case study that involves porting an application from C++ to Java.

• Wednesday October 18^rth
  • Jane Reilly Investigating the Dynamics of Facial Expression
• Wednesday October 25^th
  • Empty No title
  • Christopher Soraghan Towards a multi-channel NIRS Optical Brain Computer Interface
• Wednesday November 1^st
  • Emma-Claire Mullally Spatial Inference Based on Geometric Proportional Analogies
• Wednesday November 8^th Note: This seminar runs at 5pm
  • Andrew Page Scheduling in a heterogeneous distributed system using estimation error
  • Niall Murphy Characterising complexity classes with membrane computing
• Wednesday November 15^th
  • Conor McElhinney Digital Holographic Image Processing
  • Jonathan Maycock Speckle reduction in digital hologram reconstructions
• Wednesday November 22^nd
  • Des Traynor A mixed method analysis of the Assessment of Programming Skill
  • Jonathan Lambert Ehrhart Polynomials in Symbolic Execution
• Wednesday November 29^th
  • Padraig Corcoran Removing the texture feature response to intensity boundaries
  • Paul Lewis Spatial Video Data Support for fundamental GIS Operations.
• Wednesday December 6^th
  • Bart Busschots Supporting Expansion in the EVE Virtual Learning Environment
  • Stuart Butler Dynamic Visualisation and Analysis of Neurotransmitter Data
• Wednesday December 13^th
  • Keith Maycock Prototype of Online Learning System
  • Margaret McGaley A roadmap for the development of international eVoting standards