Dr Siobhán North
PhD
School of Computer Science
Senior Lecturer
Deputy Examinations Officer
Member of the Testing research groups


s.north@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1835
+44 114 222 1835
Regent Court (DCS)
Full contact details
Dr Siobhán North
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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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
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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
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Books
Journal articles
- “Reality is frequently inaccurate” A case study examining the whens and whys of post-live database changes in a UK clinical trials unit *Douglas Adams. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 107573-107573.
- Solving the intractable problem: optimal performance for worst case scenarios in XML twig pattern matching. IEEE Access, 8, 192569-192586. View this article in WRRO
- A performance evaluation of a new bitmap-based XML processing approach over RDBMS. International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 7(2), 143-172.
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- A Performance Evaluation of Logging in XML Databases Using an Xlog File for Trust Based Access Control. International Journal of Intelligent Computing Research, 4(2), 323-327.
- Performance Evaluation of Trust Based Access Control for XML Databases. Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transaction, 2(1/2), 147-154.
Chapters
- Incorporating Data into EFSM Inference, Software Engineering and Formal Methods (pp. 257-272). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- Simulating Student Mistakes to Evaluate the Fairness of Automated Grading. 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET), 25 May 2019 - 31 May 2019. View this article in WRRO
- TwigStackPrime: A Novel Twig Join Algorithm Based on Prime Numbers. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), Vol. 322 (pp 1-20), 25 April 2017 - 27 April 2017. View this article in WRRO
- A Prime Number Approach to Matching an XML Twig Pattern including Parent-Child Edges. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (pp 204-211), 25 April 2017 - 27 May 2017. View this article in WRRO
- The emergence computation of overflow in dynamic XML tree based on prefix and interval labelling schemes. 2017 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET), 21 August 2017 - 23 August 2017. View this article in WRRO
- A relevance comparison between interval and prefix labelling schemes. 2017 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET), 21 August 2017 - 23 August 2017. View this article in WRRO
- XML Labels Compression using Prefix-encodings. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 1 (WEBIST) (pp 69-75) View this article in WRRO
- Time cost evaluation of trust based access control for XML databases. The 9th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2014) (pp 324-326) View this article in WRRO
- Experiences using Z2SAL. Proceedings - ICACSIS 2014: 2014 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (pp 225-231). Jakarta, Indonesia, 18 October 2014 - 19 October 2014. View this article in WRRO
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- An integrated approach to handling collaborative diagram databases on the www. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 2405 (pp 58-61)
Preprints
- Building a refinement checker for Z, Proceedings 15th International Refinement Workshop, Refine@FM 2011, Limerick, Ireland, 20th June 2011..
- “Reality is frequently inaccurate” A case study examining the whens and whys of post-live database changes in a UK clinical trials unit *Douglas Adams. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 107573-107573.
- Research group
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Siobhán has supervised eight PhD students successfully.
- Teaching activities
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- 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
- MSc Projects running in 2019
- Undergraduate Projects running during 2019/20
- Project Archive
- Professional activities and memberships
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Member of the Testing and Verification research groups