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
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
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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