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Senior Lecturer School of Computing,

Teaching

Advanced Database Concepts For Final Year Students. The unit looks at large scale organisation databases, using the Relational Database paradigm issues with transactions and concurrency control, security, scalability and database tuning are addressed. Web Based Systems and Distributed Database Systems are also discussed.

Information Systems Management For Final Year Students. The unit looks at managing the Information Technology and Information Systems for business organisations. Students learn about strategic planning, alignment of the IT Strategy to the Organisation’s Strategy. Large scale systems such as CRM and ERP are discussed. The unit addresses new concepts in IT and how they can be applied to improve business such as Mobile Workforce, Cloud Computing, NFC.

Research Groups:

• Centre for Healthcare Modelling
• Informatics and Systems Research Group.

Area of interest: Analysis and Development of Information Systems for Complex environments. Methods for Improving Safety in Clinical Information Systems. Security, in particular linked to Business Information Systems, database security and Human Factors in Security.

PhD 2007. An Investigation of display methods of laboratory data in chemotherapy information systems and their effect on clinical interpretation and decision making

The PhD research was working with Portsmouth Hospitals in developing visual display methods for complex information. Other research interests include Relational Database Systems and Data Mining.

Research Publications

Ross P.,  ‘Data Presentation, Theory to Practice’. Safety Issues of Clinical Information Systems’. London School of Economics Meta Workshop 2004

Ross P., 'Coping with Complexity', Complex Systems Conference, University of Bath 2004

Ross P., Investigation of the Display Methods of Laboratory Data and their Effect on Clinical Interpretation. UKAIS 10th Annual Conference ‘Information Systems Unplugged’ 2005 

Ross P., Briggs J., Curry R., Adoption of Telecare in Portsmouth, Report for Portsmouth City Council 2008

Ross P., Telecare Initiative an Evaluation of Portsmouth City Council Telecare Project University of Portsmouth Southern Institute for Heath Informatics Conference 2009,

Ross P., Designing for Complexity in Clinical Information Systems, itAIS 2010, Naples

Ross P., The Portsmouth Telecare Project, eHealth & Telemed 2010, Evidence in Action, London

Peart., A, Raynsford, R., Ross, P., (2011)Tracing the Origins of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, 7th Annual International Conference on Computer Science & Information Systems

Scott, P. J., Ross, P., Prytherch, D. (2010) Evidence-based inpatient handovers - A literature review and research agenda. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Getnaneh, A.,  Stevens, B., Ross, P., (2011) Semantic metadata interoperability in digital libraries: a constructivist grounded theory approach. 11th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Manuscript submitted for publication

Getnaneh, A., Stevens, B., Ross, P., (2012) Towards a Conceptual Framework for User Driven Semantic Metadata Interoperability in Digital Libraries – A Social Constructivist Approach, New Library World, Vol 113, Issue 1

Professional Bodies:

• Member British Computer Society
• Member UK Academy for Information Systems