I am a Researcher in the final year of my PhD. I specialise in devising ways of making it easier for users to create their own software, to achieve this I apply Semantic Web techniques. My current research is on a technique of 'User Driven Modelling/Programming'. My intention is to enable non-programmers to create software from a user interface that allows them to model a particular problem or sce...

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I am a Researcher in the final year of my PhD. I specialise in devising ways of making it easier for users to create their own software, to achieve this I apply Semantic Web techniques. My current research is on a technique of 'User Driven Modelling/Programming'. My intention is to enable non-programmers to create software from a user interface that allows them to model a particular problem or scenario. This involves a user entering information visually in the form of a tree diagram. I am attempting to develop ways of automatically translating this information into program code in a variety of computer languages. This is important and useful for many employees that have insufficient time to learn programming languages. My aim is to give those whose main expertise is not programming alternatives to developing using spreadsheets or HTML. These alternatives can make it easier for software systems to manage and enable sharing of the information and programs people create. My PhD subject is User Driven Programming.

I have created examples of User Driven Modelling, which I am developing to aid computer literate users to create software models. These examples are applied to aircraft cost optimisation, though the technique should have a wide range of applications firstly in modelling and eventually more general applications. I am putting as many as possible of these examples onto a web site and seeking comments and feedback for testing these techniques.

I'm an International Research Associate for the Institute for End User Computing http://www.ieuc.org/home.html. I'm interested in becoming involved with KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnerships) and/or Consultancy for software development.

I am married, and my wife's name is Jo.