32901 Recent Advances in Computer Systems

The Computer Systems Department regularly hosts international visitors and maintains extensive links with local specialists. This subject capitalises on these resources as they become available and so presents material at a hight level by internationally recognised specialists. Topics are chosen from: combinatorial optimisation, computer-supported cooperative work, data mining and visualisation, e-commerce, high-performance and distributed computing applications, computer vision and image processing, interaction design and useability issues for mobile and web-based applications, networking, search and visualisation methodologies for the Internet, virtual worlds and communities, Web services and Semantic Web.