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Thomas Edward Welsh - Assistant Professor
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Thomas Edward Welsh
Íslenska
Assistant Professor
Location
Gróska / Gr-324
Phone
525 - 4624
Email
tomwelsh [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3134-5469
Courses 2023 - 2024
TÖL213M - Applied Cryptography
TÖL212F - Governance of the Internet
TÖL605M - Fundamentals of Ethical Hacking
Published works
2023
Topology-Aware Adaptive Inspection for Fraud in I4.0 Supply Chains
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
2022
Public opinion of the Irish “COVID Tracker” digital contact tracing App: A national survey
Digital Health
Sentiment analysis of user feedback on the HSE’s Covid-19 contact tracing app
Irish Journal of Medical Science
Digital Contact Tracing Apps for COVID-19: Development of a Citizen-Centered Evaluation Framework
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
2021
Best practice guidance for digital contact tracing apps: A cross-disciplinary review of the literature
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
On Adaptive Fairness in Software Systems
Proceedings - 2021 International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, SEAMS 2021
A national survey of attitudes to COVID-19 digital contact tracing in the Republic of Ireland
Irish Journal of Medical Science
On adaptive fairness in software systems
arXiv
Toward a compare and contrast framework for COVID-19 contact tracing mobile applications: A look at usability
HEALTHINF 2021 - 14th International Conference on Health Informatics; Part of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2021
Towards Adaptive Inspection for Fraud in I4.0 Supply Chains
IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA
The Resilient Edge: Evaluating Graph-based Metrics for Decentralised Service Delivery
2021 6th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, FMEC 2021
2020
On Resilience in Cloud Computing
ACM Computing Surveys
Automated negotiated user profiling across distributed social mobile clouds for resource optimisation
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Sentiment Analysis of User Feedback on the HSE Contact Tracing App
ResearchSquare
Towards a Taxonomy for Evaluating Societal Concerns of Contact Tracing Apps
Proceedings of 2020 7th IEEE International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2020
2019
Virtual Environments Testing as a Cloud Service: A Methodology for Protecting and Securing Virtual Infrastructures
IEEE Access
Bioinspired Multiagent Embryonic Architecture for Resilient Edge Networks
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
2018
Embyronic model for highly resilient PaaS
2018 5th International Conference on Software Defined Systems, SDS 2018
A critical review of practices and challenges in intrusion detection systems for IoT: Toward universal and resilient systems
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Perspectives on resilience in cloud computing: Review and trends
Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA
2017
Mitigating anti-forensics in the Cloud via resource-based privacy preserving activity attribution
2017 4th International Conference on Software Defined Systems, SDS 2017
2016
GA-based resource augmentation negotation for energy-optimised mobile ad-hoc cloud
Proceedings - 2016 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, MobileCloud 2016
Leveraging Software-Defined-Networking for Energy Optimisation in Mobile-Cloud-Computing
Procedia Computer Science
Energy Optimisation for Mobile Device Power Consumption: A Survey and a Unified View of Modelling for a Comprehensive Network Simulation
Mobile Networks and Applications
2015
Towards malware inspired Cloud self-protection
Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing, ICCAC 2014
User profiling for energy optimisation in mobile cloud computing
Procedia Computer Science
2014
Exploiting social networks for the prediction of social and civil unrest: A cloud based framework
Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2014
2013
Security testing in the cloud by means of ethical worm
2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2013
A novel architecture for self-propagating malicious software within cloud infrastructures
Proceedings - 2013 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data, CLOUDCOM-ASIA 2013
A cloud enabled social media monitoring platform for events detection and prediction
2013 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2013
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