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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU

Dr Tim French

PhD, FBCS, FCollP, FHEA, MA, BA, MPDM

Senior Lecturer in Computing

Tim French

Tim is a former Industry Fellow and has extensive commercial knowledge and experience having made a distinguished contribution to the field of computer semiotics. He has acted as PhD examiner for King's College London, Middx University and De Montford University and is currently leader of the BSc. (Hons.) Software Engineering. He is a member of BCS Reqs. Engineering & Interaction (HCI) Specialist Groups. He has pioneered the application of Computer Semiotics to "real-world" domains and is a reviewer for numerous Journals and Conferences.

Tim has over 70+ scholarly publications to his name and is currently writing a book on Semiotic Engineering. He has PhD completions and is supervising several PhD students. Computer textual analysis (literary & musical) is one research node. He has delivered several invited research talks in recent years including: Philips Research Centre (Taiwan), The Open University, Sheffield Hallam University and Derby University.

Tim completed his PhD part-time at Reading University (School of Systems Engineering/Henley Business School) under the supervision of Kecheng Liu (Informatics Research Centre) in the field E-Trust.

Teaching Areas

  • Software Engineering
  • E-Governance
  • Security & E-Trust
  • Systems and Databases
  • Novel Paradigms (Grid, Cloud & Crowd)

Research Interests

  • E-Trust & E-Governance
  • User Experience & Cross-cultural design
  • Software Engineering
  • Computer aided Textual stylistic analysis

Most Recent Research Publications

Journals

  • French, T., Bessis, N., Maple, C. and Asimakopoulou, E. (2011) 'Trust Issues on Crowd-sourcing Methods for Urban Environmental Monitoring'. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), Volume 3, Issue 1, IGI, ISSN: 1947-3532, p.p. 35-47.
  • French, T., Bessis, N., Xhafa, F and Maple, C. (2011) 'Towards a Corporate Governance Trust Agent Scoring Model for Collaborative Virtual Organisations'. International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Volume 2, Issue 2, InderScience, ( SJC: Q3  Business, Management and Accounting [Management Information Systems]; Q4 Computer Science [Computer Science Applications]; Q4: Mathematics [Applied Mathematics]), ISSN: 1741-847X, p.p. 98-108.

Conferences

  • French, T., and Bessis, N. (2012) 'Towards a Context-aware and Adaptable Room Agent for Intelligent "Trusted" Office-spaces in Smart Cities: A Case for Linking Open Data with Cloud Diagrams'. 6th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS-2012), July 4 - 6 Palermo (to appear).

Tim has an extensive list of publications:

Papers and Citations

For links to Tim's published papers and citations please see Google Scholar as given below:

Contact Details

Dr Tim French
Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies & Science
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Park Street Campus
Luton
LU1 3JU

T: +44 (0)1234 400400 Ext 2501
E: tim.french@beds.ac.uk

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