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Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Information Technology
Department of Computer Science

Watson, BW

HJB(Math)(Hons)(Waterloo Canada) PhD(Eindhoven) - Extraordinary Professor

NRF Rating: C1

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E-mail address: bwatson@cs.up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Distributed Components and Middleware

Software Engineering Principles and Practices

Theoretical and Applied Computer Science research

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Ketcha Ngassam E, Kourie DG, Watson BW: 2006. Dynamic allocation of finite automata states for fast string recognition. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 17 (6) / July, pp 1307-1323.

Ketcha Ngassam E, Kourie DG, Watson BW: 2006. Performance of hardcoded finite automata. Software-Practice & Experience, 36 / Jan, pp 525-538.

Botha AC, Kourie DG, Watson BW: 2006. A word game support tool case study. South African Computer Journal, 36 / Jun, pp 86-94.

Cleophas LG, Watson BW, Kourie DG, Boake A, Obiedkov S: 2006. TABASCO: a Taxonomy-based domain engineering method. South African Computer Journal, (37) / Dec, pp 30-40.

Chapters in books:

Watson BW, Frishert M, Cleophas LG: 2006. Combining Regular Expressions with Near-Optimal Automata in the FIRE Station Environment. In Inquiries into Words, Constraints and Contexts, (16), CSLI Publications, pp 163-171.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Ketcha Ngassam E, Kourie DG, Watson BW: 2006. FA-based String Processing: The Hardcoded Dynamic State Allocation Algorithm. In CARI '06 Proceedings of the 8th African Conference on Research in Computer Science, INRIA, pp 75-82.

de Ridder C, Kourie DG, Watson BW: 2006. FireuSat: Meeting the challenge of detecting microsatellites in DNA. In Proceedings of SAICSIT 2006: Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, SAICSIT, pp 247-256.

Ketcha Ngassam E, Kourie DG, Watson BW: 2006. A Taxonomy of DFA-based String Processors. In Proceedings of SAICSIT 2006: Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, SAICSIT, pp 238-246.

Strauss MD, Kourie DG, Watson BW: 2006. A concurrent specification of Brzozowski's DFA construction algorithm. In Proceedings of the Prague Stringology Conference '06, Prague Stringology Club, pp 90-99.

Watson BW, Kourie DG, Ketcha Ngassam E, Strauss MD, Cleophas LG: 2006. Efficient Automata Constructions and Approximate Automata. In Proceedings of the Prague Stringology Conference '06, Prague Stringology Club, pp 100-107.

Ketcha Ngassam E, Kourie DG, Watson BW: 2006. On implementation and performance of table-driven DFA-based string processors. In Proceedings of the Prague Stringology Conference '06, Prague Stringology Club, pp 108-122.

de Ridder C, Kourie DG, Watson BW: 2006. FireuSat: An Algorithm to Detect Microsatellites in DNA. In Proceedings of the Prague Stringology Conference '06, Prague Stringology Club, pp 137-150.

Drozdz M, Kourie DG, Watson BW, Boake A: 2006. Refactoring Tools and Complementary Techniques. In The 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, IEEE, p. 165.

 

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