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Mark C. Sinclair: Students

This page gives details of my current and former students, both postgraduate research students and taught course students (MSc and BEng). They are listed in order of the year of completion of their projects.

Former Research Students

* Pagonis, J. Evolving Personal Agent Environments to Reduce Internet Information Overload
(Ph.D., registered October 1999, now supervised by Dr Adrian Clark, ESE, University of Essex)
*Pagonis, J. & Sinclair, M.C., Evolving User Profiles to Reduce Internet Information Overload, Proc. Intl. Conf. on Recent Advances in Soft Computing 2000, Leicester, UK, June 2000.
*Pagonis, J. & Sinclair, M.C., Evolving Personal Agent Environments to Reduce Internet Information Overload: Initial Considerations, Proc. IEE Colloquium on Lost in the Web: Navigation on the Internet, Digest No. 1999/169, London, UK, November 1999, pp.2/1-2/10.
* Proestaki, A. Design and Dimensioning of All-optical Dual-homing Hierarchical Multi-ring Networks
(Ph.D., registered January 1996, passed April 2000)
*Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Design and Dimensioning of Dual-homing Hierarchical Multi-ring Networks, IEE Proceedings Communications v147 n2 April 2000 pp.96-104.
*Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Dimensioning All-optical Dual-homing Hierarchical Multi-ring Networks with Various Connectivities, Proc. Second Intl Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN2000), Munich, Germany, April 2000.
* Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Impact of Topology on Wavelength and Switch-port Requirements in All-optical Hierarchical Multi-ring Networks, Proc. IEEE Global Telecom. Conf. (GLOBECOM'99), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December, 1999, pp.1035-1041.
* Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Wavelength Routing in All-optical Dual-homing Hierarchical Multi-ring Networks, Proc. European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications - Core Networks and Network Management (NOC'99), Delft, The Netherlands, June 1999, pp.52-59.
* Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Interconnection Strategies for Dual-homing Multi-ring Networks, Proc. 16th International Teletraffic Conference (ITC-16), Edinburgh, UK, June 1999, pp.169-181.
* Griffith, P.S., Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Heuristic Topological Design of Low-cost Optical Telecommunication Networks, Proc. 12th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Edinburgh, September 1996, pp.129-140.
* Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Initial Survey of Heuristics for Optical Core Network Design in ACTS WOTAN, Proc. 13th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Glasgow, Mar 1996, pp.20/1-20/8.
* Shami, S.H. Evolutionary and Agent-Based Methods for Telecommunication Transport Network Restoration
(Ph.D., passed April 2000)
* Shami, S.H. & Sinclair, M.C., Co-evolutionary Agents for Telecommunication Network Restoration, Proc. Recent Advances in Soft Computing'99, Leicester, UK, July 1999.
* Sinclair, M.C. & Shami, S.H., Evolving Simple Software Agents: Comparing Genetic Algorithm and Genetic Programming Performance, Proc. IEE/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (GALESIA'97), Glasgow, September 1997, pp.421-426.
* Shami, S.H., Kirkwood, I.M.A., & Sinclair, M.C., Evolving Simple Fault-tolerant Routing Rules using Genetic Programming, Electronics Letters v33 n17 August 1997 pp.1440-1441.
* Kirkwood, I.M.A., Shami, S.H. & Sinclair, M.C., Discovering Simple Fault-tolerant Routing Rules using Genetic Programming Proc. Intl. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'97), Norwich, UK, April 1997, pp.285-288.
* Stevens, R.D. Spectrum-Efficient Planning of Digital Private Mobile Radio Systems
(Ph.D., passed June, 1998; jointly supervised with Dr. Ian Dilworth)
* Stevens, R.D. & Sinclair, M.C., Finite-source Analysis of Traffic on Private Mobile Radio Systems, Electronics Letters v33 n15 July 1997 pp.1292-1293.
* Stevens, R.D., Sinclair, M.C. & Dilworth, I.J., Finite Source Analysis and Simulation of Private Mobile Radio Systems, Proc. 10th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Edinburgh, September 1994, pp.39-45.
* Stevens, R., Dilworth, I. & Sinclair, M., Fading and its Effects on Private Mobile Radio Systems, Philips Telecom Review v52 n2 August 1994 pp.24-27.
* Stevens, R.D., Dilworth, I.J. & Sinclair, M.C., Fading and its Effects on the Planning of Private Mobile Radio Systems, Proc. 11th National Radio Science Colloquium, Liverpool, July 1994.
* Stevens, R.D., Sinclair, M.C. & Dilworth, I.J., Finite Source Modelling of Private Mobile Radio Systems, Proc. 11th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Cambridge, March 1994, pp.12B/1-12B/7.
* Segkhoonthod, S. Design, Analysis and Simulation of a Fault-Tolerant ATM Switch based on a Parallel Architecture
(Ph.D., passed November 1996; transferred from Dr. Elena Medova October 1994)
* Segkhoonthod, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Design of Fault-tolerant ATM Switch Based on Parallel Architecture, Electronics Letters v33 n15 July 1997 pp.1289-1290.
* Segkhoonthod, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Performance Analysis of a Fault-tolerant ATM Switch in Single-fault Conditions, Proc. 11th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Liverpool, September 1995, pp.48-63.
* Segkhoonthod, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Re-routing Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant ATM Switch Based on a Parallel Architecture, Proc. 3rd Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, Ilkley, July 1995, pp.73/1-73/12.
* Segkhoonthod, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant ATM Switch Based on a Parallel Architecture, Proc. 12th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Old Windsor, March 1995, pp.22/1-22/9.

Former MSc Students

2006

* Yem Hok Personalised Web Portal Design using Genetic Algorithms
* Sum Sakprasat Data Mining for Automatic Credit Approval using Genetic Programming
Sum, S. & Sinclair, M.C., Classification Rule Mining for Automatic Credit Approval using Genetic Programming, Proc. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'07), Singapore, September 2007.
* Chealy Ratha Genetic Programming for Optical Network Topology Design
* Kheam Hong Mobile Agents for Customer-to-Business e-Commerce
* Meas Vandeth Peer-2-Peer Networking Testbed using Java RMI
* Taing Peng Sreng Genetic Algorithms for Local Access Network Design

2000

* Panos Mathinos Datamining IP Network Performance and using Genetic Programming
* Antonis Zavros Investigation of Dial IP Service Characteristics using SS7 Link Monitors (the GeoProbe System)
* Ivor Tyrell Wavelength Allocation in All-Optical Transport Networks using Ant Colony Optimisation
* Jim Lawn Optimisation of Survivability in a Military Communications Network using a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
* Kim Yun Au Optical Mesh Network Topology Design using Particle Swarm Optimisation
* Clemence Tan Uncertain Multiperiod Telecommunications Network Design using Evolutionary Algorithms

1998

* Navarro Varela, G. Ant Colony Optimisation for Wavelength Allocation
Navarro Varela, G. & Sinclair, M.C., Ant Colony Optimisation for Virtual-Wavelength-Path Routing and Wavelength Allocation, Proc. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), Washington DC, USA, July 1999, pp.1809-1816.
* Moore, S.J. Optimisation of Survivability in a Military Communications Network using a Genetic Algorithm
Moore, S.J. & Sinclair, M.C., Design of Routing Tables for a Survivable Military Communications Network using Genetic Algorithms, Proc. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), Washington DC, USA, July 1999, pp.1788-1795.
* Spiliotopoulos, G.S. Ant Colony Optimisation for Adaptive Routing
* Dimitrakakis, C. Genetic Programming for Network Topology Design

1997

* Gavalas, D. Optical Network Design: Virtual Topology and Wavelength Assignment Using Linear Programming
* Ismail, A. Traffic Estimation for Future Broadband Networks
* Konstantinou, G.N. Approaches to Dynamic Routing Refined by Genetic Algorithms
* Toh, H.H. Node Placement for the Optical Core Network
* Scott, R.D. SDH 4-Fibre Rings Multiplex Section Protection Switching Study

1996

* Saket, A. Genetic Programming for Minimum-Cost Topology Optimisation of Optical Telecommunication Networks
Aiyarak, P., Saket, A.S. & Sinclair, M.C., Genetic Programming Approaches for Minimum Cost Topology Optimisation of Optical Telecommunication Networks, Proc. IEE/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (GALESIA'97), Glasgow, September 1997, pp.415-420.
* Griffith, P.S. Heuristic Topological Design of Low-Cost Optical Telecommunication Networks
Griffith, P.S., Proestaki, A. & Sinclair, M.C., Heuristic Topological Design of Low-cost Optical Telecommunication Networks, Proc. 12th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Edinburgh, September 1996, pp.129-140.
* Jackson, E. Feasibility of Building Value Add Applications on SS7 Link Monitors (the GeoProbe System) (Martlesham MSc)
Jackson, E., Spindley, R., Sinclair, M.C. & Reader, S., SS7 Network Management using Link Monitors, Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Commun. (ICC'97), Montreal, Canada, June 1997, pp.883-888.
* Chanthiran, R.S. Improving the Performance of Genetic Programming in Engineering Applications
* Wheeler, O. Transaction Services - An Analysis (Martlesham MSc)

1995

* Kirkwood, I.M.A. The Application of Genetic Programming to Network Routing
* Shami, S.H., Kirkwood, I.M.A., & Sinclair, M.C., Evolving Simple Fault-tolerant Routing Rules using Genetic Programming, Electronics Letters v33 n17 August 1997 pp.1440-1441.
* Kirkwood, I.M.A., Shami, S.H. & Sinclair, M.C., Discovering Simple Fault-tolerant Routing Rules using Genetic Programming Proc. Intl. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA'97), Norwich, UK, April 1997, pp.285-288.
* Robson, S.R. Queueing Optimisation for a Trunked Mobile Radio Network
* Robson, S.R. & Sinclair, M.C., Reduction of Channel Idle Time in a Trunked Mobile Radio Network, Proc. 11th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Liverpool, September 1995, pp.355-369.
* Robson, S.R. & Sinclair, M.C., An Improved Channel Resource Queueing Algorithm for Trunked Mobile Radio, Proc. 12th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Old Windsor, March 1995, pp.17/1-17/10.
* Brander, A.W. A Comparative Study of k-Shortest Path Algorithms
Brander, A.W. & Sinclair, M.C., A Comparative Study of k-Shortest Path Algorithms, Proc. 11th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Liverpool, September 1995, pp.370-379.
* Tan, L.G. Wavelength Assignment for the COST 239 European Optical Network
Tan, L.G. & Sinclair, M.C., Wavelength Assignment between the Central Nodes of the COST 239 European Optical Network, Proc. 11th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Liverpool, September 1995, pp.235-247.
* Kaye, D. The Advanced Broadband IN Demonstrator (Martlesham MSc)
* Johnston, M. Distributed Computing for Telecommunications (Martlesham MSc)

1994

* Jablonski, M. The Future of Signalling Systems: Will there be a Signalling System No.8?
* Khanafi, M.N. Topology Optimisation of COST 239 European Optical Network
* Nikolopoulos, M. Reliability of the COST 239 European Optical Network

1993

* Fru Ane, C. Combined Reliability and Performance Metrics
* Svak, I. A Comparative Study of Network k-Terminal Reliability Algorithms

1992

* Ma, T.M. A Code of Practice for Object-Oriented Programming in C++
* Ramnarine, D.J. A Comparative Study of Network Reliability Algorithms

Former BEng Students

2001

* Alex Birkett Wireless Document Management System on the EPOC Platform
* Pete Smith Mesh Network Topology Design using Strongly Typed Genetic Programming
* El-Sadig Kisha Developing an Internet Auction Service using Active Networks

1998

* Chan, C.S. Development of NOMaD Network Editor in Java (joint project)
* Maseko, T.J. Development of NOMaD Network Editor in Java (joint project)

1996

* Teik, C.E. Mobile Software Agents for Computer Network Management (joint project)
* Chuang, T.K. Mobile Software Agents for Computer Network Management (joint project)

1992

* Severn, C. Object-Oriented Implementation of Call Processing Software

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