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Research Interests

I am currently working towards a PhD on enhancing the flexibiltiy of system archtiectures using heuristic search techniques. My current work concentrates on real-time systems architectures and selecting mappings for allocating software to a distributed hardware platform. Anything in the fields of schedulability analysis, optimisation techniques and architecture modelling is of interest.

Having worked in industry prior to starting my PhD, I have a general interest in new methods for making software easier to develop and maintain. My PhD fits into this area by automating some development processes and hopefully creating a more flexible system which is easier and cheaper to maintain and enhance. However, there are a huge number of other issues to consider such as language design and whether programming languages are even a good way of creating software. One day, I may spend some time on this.

I did my Masters Thesis (see publications) on quantum computing algorithms as it was a subject I wanted to learn about. Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the brain power to do more work in this area though there are others in the department who do.

Publications

Conferences

Paul Emberson and Iain Bate, Extending A Task Allocation Algorithm For Graceful Degradation Of Real-Time Distributed Embedded Systems, In proceedings 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2008), pp. 270-279, 2008. [pdf]

Simon Poulding, Paul Emberson, Iain Bate and John Clark, An Efficient Experimental Methodology for Configuring Search-Based Design Algorithms, In proceedings 10th IEEE High Assurance System Engineering Symposium (HASE 2007), pp. 53-62, November 2007. [pdf]

Paul Emberson and Iain Bate, Minimising Task Migration and Priority Changes In Mode Transitions, In proceedings 13th IEEE Real-Time And Embedded Technology And Applications Symposium (RTAS 2007), pp. 158-167, 2007. [pdf]

Iain Bate and Paul Emberson, Incorporating Scenarios And Heuristics To Improve Flexibility In Real-Time Embedded Systems, In proceedings 12th IEEE Real-Time And Embedded Technology And Applications Symposium (RTAS 2006), pp. 221-230, 2006. [pdf]

Iain Bate and Paul Emberson, Design For Flexible And Scalable Avionics Systems, In proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2005. [pdf]

Workshops

Paul Emberson, Iain Bate and Mike Bennett, Task Allocation In An Industrial Avionics Application, In proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Dependable Embedded Systems (WDES 2006), pp. 44-48, 2006

Iain Bate and Paul Emberson, The Use Of Scenarios To Improve The Flexibility In Embedded Systems: Research Challenges And Preliminary Results, In proceedings 2nd UK Embedded Forum, pp. 137-156, 2005

Misc.

Paul Emberson, Optimising Flexibility In System Architectures, Qualifying Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of York, 2005. [pdf]

Paul Emberson, An Introduction To Quantum Algorithm Design, Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of York, 2002. [ps.gz][pdf]