Dr Siobhán North

PhD

School of Computer Science

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Examinations Officer

Member of the Testing research groups

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s.north@sheffield.ac.uk
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Dr Siobhán North
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
΢Ȧ
S1 4DP
Profile

Dr Siobhán North is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science. She has a first degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of ΢Ȧ. As well as her teaching role she is the Faculty of Engineering's Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching.

Research interests

Dr North currently works in two areas; XML databases and formal languages. The XML database work currently concerns indexing and compression techniques and the formal language work relates to translation between Z and SAL.

Publications

Books

  • Eaglestone B, North S & Poulovassilis A (2002) Foreword. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Petrie J, Loban A, Turton E, Derebecka J, North S, Herbert E & Hind D (2024) . Contemporary Clinical Trials, 107573-107573. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alsubai S & North S (2020) . IEEE Access, 8, 192569-192586. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farooqi N & North S (2012) Evaluation of practical trust based access control for XML databases. 2012 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2012, 336-340. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farooqi N & North S (2012) Logging in XML databases: Xlog file for trust based access control. World Congress on Internet Security, WorldCIS-2012, 174-175. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Al-Badawi M, Ramadhan HA, North S & Eaglestorne B (2012) . International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 7(2), 143-172. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farooqi N & North S (2011) Trust-based access control for XML databases. 2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011, 764-765. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Al-Badawi M, North S & Eaglestone B (2010) The 3D XML benchmark. WEBIST 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology, 1, 13-20. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Derrick J, North S & Simons AJH (2009) Z2SAL: a translation-based model checker for Z. Formal Aspects of Computing, 1-29. RIS download Bibtex download
  • North SD (1985) Implementation of a Pascal Database Management System. Journal of Pascal, Ada and Modula-2, 4(5), 15-28. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ullmann JR & North SD (1984) A Pascal Database Management System. Journal of Pascal, Ada and Modula-2, 3(6), 15-22. RIS download Bibtex download
  • ATKINSON LV & NORTH SD (1981) COPAS - A CONVERSATIONAL PASCAL SYSTEM. SOFTWARE PRACT EXPER, 11(8), 819-829. RIS download Bibtex download
  • ATKINSON LV, MCGREGOR JJ & NORTH SD (1981) CONTEXT SENSITIVE EDITING AS AN APPROACH TO INCREMENTAL COMPILATION. COMPUT J, 24(3), 222-229. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Taylor R, Foster M & North S () An Automated Framework for Verifying or Refuting Trace Properties of Extended Finite State Machines. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farooqi N & North S () . International Journal of Intelligent Computing Research, 4(2), 323-327. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farooqi N & North S () . Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transaction, 2(1/2), 147-154. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Foster M, Brucker AD, Taylor RG, North S & Derrick J (2019) , Software Engineering and Formal Methods (pp. 257-272). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Clegg B, North S, McMinn P & Fraser G (2019) . 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET), 25 May 2019 - 31 May 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alsubai S & North SD (2018) . Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), Vol. 322 (pp 1-20), 25 April 2017 - 27 April 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alsubai S & North SD (2017) . PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (pp 204-211), 25 April 2017 - 27 May 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Al-khazraji S & North S (2017) . 2017 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET), 21 August 2017 - 23 August 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Al-khazraji S & North S (2017) . 2017 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET), 21 August 2017 - 23 August 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Al Zadjali H & North S (2016) . PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 1 (WEBIST) (pp 69-75) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farooqi N & North S (2015) . The 9th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2014) (pp 324-326) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Siregar MU, Derrick J, North SD & Simons AJH (2014) . Proceedings - ICACSIS 2014: 2014 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (pp 225-231). Jakarta, Indonesia, 18 October 2014 - 19 October 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Al-Badawi M, Eaglestone B & North S (2009) PACD: A BITMAP-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR PROCESSING XML DATA. WEBIST 2009: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (pp 66-71) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kader YA, Eaglestone B & North S (2008) An analysis of relational storage strategies for partially structured XML. WEBIST 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 1 (pp 165-170) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Derrick J, North S & Simons AJH (2008) Z2SAL-Building a Model Checker for Z. ABSTRACT STATE MACHINES, B AND Z, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 5238 (pp 280-293) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baravalle A, Chambers S, North S & Holcombe M (2006) Open source software in the desktop: The perspective of the public administrations in UK. WEBIST 2006: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (pp 39-44) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Derrick J, North S & Simons T (2006) Issues in implementing a model checker for Z. Formal Methods and Software Engineering, Proceedings, Vol. 4260 (pp 678-696) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Shou XM & North S (2002) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 2405 (pp 58-61) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fan H (2002) Tracing Data Lineage Using Automed Schema Transformation Pathways.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 50-53) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fu G, Shao J, Embury SM & Gray WA (2002) An Algorithm for Determining Related Constraints.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 134-149) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gounaris A, Paton NW, Fernandes AAA & Sakellariou R (2002) Adaptive Query Processing: A Survey.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 11-25) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Engström H, Chakravarthy S & Lings B (2002) Implementation and Comparative Evaluation of Maintenance Policies in a Data Warehouse Environment.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 90-102) RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2002) Advances in Databases, 19th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 19, ΢Ȧ, UK, July 17-19, 2002, Proceedings. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Giannella C, Dalkilic MM, Groth DP & Robertson EL (2002) Improving Query Evaluation with Approximate Functional Dependency Based Decompositions.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 26-41) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lodi S (2002) Fully Dynamic Clustering of Metric Data Sets.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 73-76) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jasper E (2002) Global Query Processing in the AutoMed Heterogeneous Database Environment.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 46-49) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Couchot A (2002) Improving the Refined Triggering Graph Method for Active Rules Termination Analysis.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 114-133) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zwol RV & Apers PMG (2002) Retrieval Performance Experiment with the Webspace Method.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 150-165) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lepinioti K & McKearney S (2002) Implementing Data Mining in a DBMS.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 70-71) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brisaboa NR, Penabad MR, Places ÁS & Rodríguez FJ (2002) A Document Database Query Language.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 183-198) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Boyd M, McBrien P & Tong N (2002) The AutoMed Schema Integration Repository.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 42-45) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hull R, Kumar B, Sahuguet A & Xiong M (2002) Have It Your Way: Personalization of Network-Hosted Services.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 1-10) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Burgess M, Gray WA & Fiddian NJ (2002) Establishing a Taxonomy of Quality for Use in Information Filtering.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 103-113) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ram S, Park J & Hwang Y (2002) CREAM: A Mediator Based Environment for Modeling and Accessing Distributed Information on the Web.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 58-61) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Medina E, Luján-Mora S & Trujillo J (2002) Handling Conceptual Multidimensional Models Using XML through DTDs.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 66-69) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gupta A, Ludäscher B, Martone ME, Qian X, Ross E, Tran J & Zaslavsky I (2002) A System for Managing Alternate Models in Model-Based Mediation.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 54-57) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Veloso A, Rocha BG, Carvalho MD & Jr WM (2002) Real World Association Rule Mining.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 77-89) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Theodoratos D (2002) Semantic Integration and Querying of Heterogeneous Data Sources Using a Hypergraph Data Model.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 166-182) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Shou XM & North S (1998) The world wide web cytokine database - New techniques of diagramatic information management on the Web. INFORMATION PROCESSING IN CELLS AND TISSUES (pp 107-110) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Manson G, North S & Alghamdi A (1996) Core objects required for a generic CASE repository. METHOD ENGINEERING (pp 186-190) RIS download Bibtex download
  • KERRIDGE J & NORTH S (1995) National lotteries - An exercise in parallel data management design. TRANSPUTER APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS '95, Vol. 46 (pp 441-454) RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Derrick J, North S & Simons AJH (2011) , Proceedings 15th International Refinement Workshop, Refine@FM 2011, Limerick, Ireland, 20th June 2011.. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

Siobhán has supervised eight PhD students successfully.

Teaching activities
  • COM1003 Java programming - First semester
  • COM160 Computer Problem Solving and Object Oriented Design - Second semester
  • COM162 Object Oriented Design and Programming with Java
  • GEE106 Programming for Engineers - Second semester
Professional activities and memberships

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