Abstracts of Presentations to be made by PhD Students

Michaelmas term 2007
 

Tuesdays, 1.45 - 3.00 p.m.
 
 
Fifth Floor, Tower One

16 October

Information and communication technologies and the integration of financial marketplaces: the development of the Euroclear Single Platform for cross-border securities settlement

Niki Panourgias

While cross-border financial activity grows relentlessly, facilitated by the adoption of digital electronic information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the multi-jurisdictional presence of large financial corporations, actual securities marketplaces have remained stubbornly non-global. Why has marketplace integration lagged when ICTs have made possible the linking of geographically remote transacting parties and enhanced, to an unprecedented degree, their calculative capabilities? This question gives rise to issues regarding distinctions between markets and marketplaces and the implication of ICTs in the constitution of financial marketplaces that the research being presented has sought to address through a study of an initiative to integrate, using ICTs, the securities marketplaces of the UK and Ireland, France, Belgium, and Holland.

BBC becoming digital: Information re-packaging in the age of the web

José-Carlos Mariátegui

We give an account of some current issues on information growth and its relevance in media organizations due to digital convergence. We then embark into our subject of study: BBC Vision division. By studying the “Metadata Journey” we try to explain how technologies affect not just the roles and managerial practices but also how new complex issues potentially arise

30 October

E-Academy: The Next Scientific Revolution

Professor Yidong Liu

The development of science renewed day by day while the evaluation of the science remained there almost the same just as it was 300 years ago. The E-Academy started from the transformation of the Academic Evaluation Method and Winning Mechanism in order to build a new Adaptation Platform for scholar. And it will change the way of getting the academic distinction, financial support, and the forms of academic organizations. Definitely it will inspire the next scientific revolution.

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The relationship between IT and Public Sector Reform in the State of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Isabel Dias

The objective of this work is to identify the relationship between two areas of public policies: Information and Communication Technologies (IT) and public sector reform. The analysis of the situation in the state government of Sao Paulo makes apparent that IT is used as a catalyst for the restructuring of the state.

Distributed development of large-scale distributed systems: the case of the Particle physics Grid

Avgousta Kyriakidou

While global software development is argued to be a new paradigm in developing large-scale systems, there is still significant understanding to be achieved and working practices to be evolved before it becomes a mature discipline and its benefits are fully understood. This research, therefore, proposes to address this issue by focusing on a real-time distributed development situation of a Grid development project in particle physics. We start the presentation by clearly stating the research questions and then proceed by explaining how our theoretical framework, Activity theory, allows us to address them.

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