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Lancaster City
Lancaster has been ranked first out of 21 university cities for safety according to a survey in a national newspaper. The Independent’s Complete University Guid ...
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Lancaster safest city to study- Oct 2009: Lancaster has been ranked first out of 21 university cities for safety according to a survey in a national newspaper. The Independent’s Complete University Guide lists the crime statistics which are ... more
Return Visit For Campus Architects- Nov 2009:
L-R Mark Swindlehurst, Tony Skipper, Peter Hunter and Professor Gabriel Epstein
Professor Gabriel Epstein and Peter Hunter, two of Lancaster University’s original architects, visited the ... more
‘More crop per drop’ - research awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize- Nov 2009:
The development of water saving techniques for agriculture which have helped farmers in some of the driest regions of the world , has won Lancaster University a Queen’s Anniversary ... more
Professor Cary Cooper announced as the new President of Relate- Nov 2009:
Professor Cary Cooper
Relate, the UK’s largest provider of relationship counselling, has appointed Professor Cary Cooper CBE, Professor of Organisational Psychology & Health and Pro V ... more
Voice Your View at Lancaster Library- Nov 2009: Imagine commenting on the latest changes at Lancaster library – only to have your words flash up on a large TV screen for other users to see.
That’s the futuristic scenario at the library from Mond ... more
Hong Kong calling for Lancashire Eco Companies- Nov 2009:
A business delegation led by Lancaster University’s Environment Centre’s business team.
North West&nbs ... more
Lancaster First for Graduate Jobs in the North- Nov 2009:
Lancaster University’s Centre for Enterprise, Employability and Careers (CEEC).
Lancaster University is ranked 1st in the North for graduate jobs and 13th nationally in the Sunday Times U ... more
Enterprising band members give business advice- Nov 2009: A band formed by Lancaster University graduates is to play at the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009 at the Storey Creative Industries Centre in Lancaster.
The enterprising members of the ... more
Sculpture donation marks 10 year partnership between Lancaster University and NWCRF- Nov 2009:
L-R Professor Tony Gatrell and Charles Bray
The 10 year relationship between the North West Cancer Research Fund (NWCRF) and Lancaster University has been marked by the donation of ... more
Lancaster University opens new campus in India- Nov 2009:
GD Education City in India
Lancaster University has formally launched a new campus in India which admitted its first cohort of 300 students in August this year.
The GD Goenka Wo ... more
Lancaster plant science wins THE research of the year award- Nov 2009:
Distinguished Professor Bill Davies with Dr Jiang Fan of Beijing Normal University
The contribution of Lancaster University to one of the biggest challenges facing humankind - feedi ... more
Weekend Drug Use Increases across the UK Night-time Economy- Nov 2009:
New research shows that weekend use of drugs is more popular than ten years ago
Weekend use of drugs such as ecstasy and cocaine is more popular than ten years ago whilst young adults are ... more
Women in Self-Employment- Nov 2009:
Speaker Jane Kenyon
Dozens of women who want to be their own boss have attended a business workshop at Lancaster University this week.
Lancaster University Student Union Enterprise Uni ... more
75 percent of youths say they couldn’t live without the internet- Nov 2009: Young people have evolved to communicate in more advanced ways than older generations, living 'hybrid lives' where the internet plays a critical role, says a new report launched at the House of Comm ... more
Tropical crop research prompts air pollutant warning- Nov 2009: An “environmentally friendly” tropical crop could lead to hazardous increases in levels of the air pollutant ozone according to new research, led by Lancaster University (UK) and published in the US ... more
Vice-Chancellor celebrates success of Lancaster/Sunway graduates in Malaysia- Nov 2009: The Chancellor of Sunway University College, Malaysia Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah AO, conferred degrees on 86 students who make up the first full cohort on the dual Lancaster/S ... more
£2 billion needed for science to help feed the world- Nov 2009:
Professor Bill Davies
The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, is calling for a £2 billion “Grand Challenge” research programme on global food security.
A report publi ... more
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Lancaster University leads European software project
Lancaster University’s Computing Department is leading a major European software development project that has been awarded € 4.4m - around £3.1m - by the European Commission.
The project, called AOSD-Europe: European Network of Excellence on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, will be funded for four years and brings together 11 leading European organisations - nine academic and two industrial - including universities in Germany, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Israel, Ireland and Spain, plus Siemens AG, Germany, and IBM United Kingdom Ltd.
Lancaster is at the forefront of research into Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) - earlier this year the University hosted a five-day international conference on the subject, attended by experts from universities and software companies around the world.
The new project is being co-ordinated by Dr Awais Rashid, senior lecturer at the Computing Department, who said: “Lancaster has been undertaking leading research in AOSD for the past seven years - we have been actively involved with initiatives in this area, so it’s no surprise that we are co-ordinating a network of excellence aimed at creating a virtual European research centre. It fits in well with our research perspective (and culture) which focuses on collaboration and exploiting synergies.”
Aspect-oriented software allows computer programmers to develop and make changes to complex projects using a more modular approach. By separating properties with a system-wide impact more clearly, they can make changes to such properties independently of the rest of the elements. These changes can then be reflected in other parts of the system.
The techniques can be used to modularise properties such as security, distribution and mobility in a variety of application domains and are applicable to legacy, contemporary and next generation software systems. Their potential benefits include improved ways of reasoning about a particular problem and solution, a reduction in application code size, reduced development costs and maintenance time, and improved design and code reuse.
The new project will organise the research of the partner organisations into four virtual laboratories that will focus on analysis and design; programming languages; formal methods; and applications. The aim is to harmonise activities of members in order to address the current fragmentation of AOSD activities in Europe and strengthen innovation.
There will also be a knowledge portal that will have web-based information on current and future research plus access to tools and a framework for interacting with academia and industry external to the project. Small to medium sized enterprises in particular will be encouraged to become involved in this area.
Said Dr Rashid: “The project will make it possible for us to work more closely with other European researchers and practitioners. This will provide exposure of concepts developed at Lancaster to project partners while at the same time benefiting from their expertise and experiences. We also anticipate that the project will provide a platform for further collaborative projects with the universities and industrial partners involved.
“AOSD is going to transform the way we reason about, analyse, structure and develop software systems.”
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