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
Sheffield
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 Sheffield. 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.

Journal articles

  • Petrie J, Loban A, Turton E, Derebecka J, North S, Herbert E & Hind D (2024) . Contemporary Clinical Trials, 142.
  • Taylor R, Foster M & North S (2022) . International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, 24(6), 949-972.
  • Alsubai S & North S (2020) . IEEE Access, 8, 192569-192586.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Al-Badawi M, Ramadhan HA, North S & Eaglestorne B (2012) . International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 7(2), 143-172.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derrick J, North S & Simons AJH (2009) Z2SAL: a translation-based model checker for Z. Formal Aspects of Computing, 1-29.
  • North SD (1985) Implementation of a Pascal Database Management System. Journal of Pascal, Ada and Modula-2, 4(5), 15-28.
  • Ullmann JR & North SD (1984) A Pascal Database Management System. Journal of Pascal, Ada and Modula-2, 3(6), 15-22.
  • ATKINSON LV & NORTH SD (1981) COPAS - A CONVERSATIONAL PASCAL SYSTEM. SOFTWARE PRACT EXPER, 11(8), 819-829.
  • ATKINSON LV, MCGREGOR JJ & NORTH SD (1981) CONTEXT SENSITIVE EDITING AS AN APPROACH TO INCREMENTAL COMPILATION. COMPUT J, 24(3), 222-229.
  • Farooqi N & North S () . International Journal of Intelligent Computing Research, 4(2), 323-327.
  • Farooqi N & North S () . Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transaction, 2(1/2), 147-154.

Book chapters

  • Foster M, Brucker AD, Taylor RG, North S & Derrick J (2019) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 257-272). Springer International Publishing

Conference proceedings

  • 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) (pp 121-125). Montreal, QC, Canada, 25 May 2019 - 25 May 2019.
  • Alsubai S & North SD (2018) . Web Information Systems and Technologies, Vol. 322. Porto, Portugal, 25 April 2017 - 25 April 2017.
  • Al-khazraji S & North SD (2018) . 2017 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET). Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey, 21 August 2017 - 21 August 2017.
  • Al-Khazraji S & North SD (2018) . 2017 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET). Antalya, Turkey, 21 August 2017 - 21 August 2017.
  • Alsubai S & North SD (2017) . Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (pp 204-211). Porto, Portugal, 25 April 2017 - 25 April 2017.
  • Al Zadjali H & North S (2016) . PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 1 (WEBIST) (pp 69-75)
  • Farooqi N & North S (2014) . 2014 9th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2014 (pp 324-326). London, UK, 8 December 2014 - 8 December 2014.
  • Siregar MU, Derrick J, North SD & Simons AJH (2014) . Proceedings - ICACSIS 2014: International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (pp 225-231). Jakarta, Indonesia, 18 October 2014 - 18 October 2014.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Fan H (2002) Tracing Data Lineage Using Automed Schema Transformation Pathways.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 50-53)
  • Fu G, Shao J, Embury SM & Gray WA (2002) An Algorithm for Determining Related Constraints.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 134-149)
  • Gounaris A, Paton NW, Fernandes AAA & Sakellariou R (2002) Adaptive Query Processing: A Survey.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 11-25)
  • 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)
  • (2002) Advances in Databases, 19th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 19, Sheffield, UK, July 17-19, 2002, Proceedings. BNCOD, Vol. 2405
  • Giannella C, Dalkilic MM, Groth DP & Robertson EL (2002) Improving Query Evaluation with Approximate Functional Dependency Based Decompositions.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 26-41)
  • Lodi S (2002) Fully Dynamic Clustering of Metric Data Sets.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 73-76)
  • Jasper E (2002) Global Query Processing in the AutoMed Heterogeneous Database Environment.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 46-49)
  • Couchot A (2002) Improving the Refined Triggering Graph Method for Active Rules Termination Analysis.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 114-133)
  • Zwol RV & Apers PMG (2002) Retrieval Performance Experiment with the Webspace Method.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 150-165)
  • Lepinioti K & McKearney S (2002) Implementing Data Mining in a DBMS.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 70-71)
  • Brisaboa NR, Penabad MR, Places ÁS & Rodríguez FJ (2002) A Document Database Query Language.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 183-198)
  • Boyd M, McBrien P & Tong N (2002) The AutoMed Schema Integration Repository.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 42-45)
  • Hull R, Kumar B, Sahuguet A & Xiong M (2002) Have It Your Way: Personalization of Network-Hosted Services.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 1-10)
  • Burgess M, Gray WA & Fiddian NJ (2002) Establishing a Taxonomy of Quality for Use in Information Filtering.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 103-113)
  • 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)
  • Medina E, Luján-Mora S & Trujillo J (2002) Handling Conceptual Multidimensional Models Using XML through DTDs.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 66-69)
  • 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)
  • Veloso A, Rocha BG, Carvalho MD & Jr WM (2002) Real World Association Rule Mining.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 77-89)
  • Theodoratos D (2002) Semantic Integration and Querying of Heterogeneous Data Sources Using a Hypergraph Data Model.. BNCOD, Vol. 2405 (pp 166-182)
  • 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)
  • Manson G, North S & Alghamdi A (1996) Core objects required for a generic CASE repository. METHOD ENGINEERING (pp 186-190)
  • KERRIDGE J & NORTH S (1995) National lotteries - An exercise in parallel data management design. TRANSPUTER APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS '95, Vol. 46 (pp 441-454)

Preprints

  • Derrick J, North S & Simons AJH (2011) Building a refinement checker for Z, Proceedings 15th International Refinement Workshop, Refine@FM 2011, Limerick, Ireland, 20th June 2011..
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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