Dr Ishbel Duncan

Dr Ishbel Duncan

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Email
Ishbel.Duncan@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Current Research Projects.

I am currently working on security evaluation and vulnerability detection and recently had two PhD students graduate in cloud virtual network security and machine learning for Intrusion Detection. I am the Director of the Cyber Nexus project (£420K, Scottish Government) tying together industry and academia.  I was also an original CI on the Abertay driven Tay Cities Cyber Security quarter which became an Abertay only submission and was finally funded at £20M.

I am also active in developing Virtual Worlds (OpenVirtualWorlds.org) which includes representations of the St Andrews Castle and Cathedral, Linlithgow Palace etc. I worked on a Virtual St Andrews (ViStA) for international student orientation, information, online teaching, meetings, university history, town information etc. This involves staff across the University and is led by myself, Alan Miller (CS) and Janie Brooks (ELT). My current work is on the Virtual Dive Experience with the Sea Bird Centre at North Berwick. I am CI on two projects run by Alan Miller; the CINE Northern Periphery and arctic Programme (EU 200K) and the CUPIDO project for Cultural Heritage SMEs (EU20K share of EU2million overall project).

Previous projects include:

Privacy, Security and Trust: - requirements engineering for privacy and security in computational systems - e- voting: polsterless remote electronic voting - network security: Denial of Service detection and defence

Agent Based Learning : Using knowledge of failure to guide student learning of Java.

Visualisation of Biochemical Pathways : with SCRI and University of Abertay-Dundee, visualising pathways from plant, human and animal domains.

Visualisation of Software Testing and Metrics : Metrics used to measure test thoroughness, data and logic complexity and failure density within systems.

Some of the research strategies are: Modelling predicate logic and data inconsistencies in code. Using intelligent agents to locate code and design inconsistencies to aid student centred learning of JAVA. Visualising the data space of functions and reduction of the data space by parameter passing. Visualising the test process, via metrics or coverage of predicates and data domains. Analysis of the sparseness/clustering of data and the effect on system execution.

Verification and dynamic testing of Large Scale Code/Grid data

Selected publications

  • Open access

    A taxonomy of virtual worlds usage in education

     Duncan, I. M. M., Miller, A. H. D. & Jiang, S., Nov 2012, In: British Journal of Educational Technology. 43, 6, p. 949-964

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Emergent requirements for supporting introductory programming

     Coull, N. J. & Duncan, I. M. M., Feb 2011, In: ITALICS, Innovation in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer Sciences. 10, 1, p. 78-85 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Energy preservation in environmental monitoring WSN

     Khemapech, I., Duncan, I. & Miller, A. H. D., 2010, SUTC 2010: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC). IEEE, p. 312-319 8 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • E-voting in an ubicomp world - Trust, privacy, and social implications

     Little, L., Storer, T., Briggs, P. & Duncan, I., 2008, In: Social Science Computer Review. 26, p. 44-59 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Intelligent biological security testing agents

     Duncan, I. M. M., 2012, 2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Software Security and Reliability Companion (SERE-C). USA: IEEE, p. 41-42

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access

    Requirements for educational support tools in Virtual Worlds

     Duncan, I. M. M. & Coull, N. J., 18 Apr 2012, International Conference on Computer Supported Education: CSEDU 2012. Helfert, M., Martins, M. J. & Cordeiro, J. (eds.). INSTICC-Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, p. 141-145 6 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

 

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