Principal Investigators
| Susan Stepney
Professor of Computer Science, University of York, UK |
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Peter Welch
Professor of Parallel Computing, University of Kent, UK |
Co-Investigators
| Fred Barnes
Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Kent, UK |
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Fiona Polack
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK |
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Jon Timmis
Professor of Computer Science and Electronics, University of York, UK |
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Andy Tyrrell
Professor within the Department of Electronics, University of York, UK |
Partners
| Jim Bown
Lecturer in Complex Systems, University of Abertay Dundee, UK |
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Alan Winfield
Hewlett-Packard Professor of Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol Bristol Robotics Lab, UK |
Research Associates
| Paul Andrews | |
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Adam Sampson |
Research Students
| Teodor Ghetiu
RS3: Plant ecology models (York, CS) Applying CoSMoS to a rich complex biological system: re-engineering an existing large plant ecology simulation (a million plants), and scaling to orders of magnitude more plants. Teodor is supervised by Dr Fiona Polack and Dr Jim Bown |
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Tim Hoverd
RS4: Generative patterns (York, CS) Investigating fully generative pattern languages, how their use affects software architectures, and how they can benefit CoSMoS. Tim is supervised by Prof Susan Stepney |
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Jenny Owen
RS1: Swarm Robotics (York, CS) Applying CoSMoS to the development of engineered complex systems, using embodied multi-robot systems as a modelling platform. Jenny is supervised byProf Susan Stepney, Prof Jon Timmis and Prof Alan Winfield |
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Douglas Warren
RS5: CoSMoS occam-pi compiler (Kent) Designing and implementing simulation patterns suggested by CoSMoS as occam-pi language extensions. Doug is supervised by Prof Peter Welch |
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Antonio Gomez Zamorano
RS2: FPGA requirements (York, Electronics) Investigating advanced FPGA architectures that better support CoSMoS-style simulations. Antonio is supervised by Prof Jon Timmis and Prof Andy Tyrrell |















