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PI name & contact details:
School:
Dr. Jim Duggan
Email: jim.duggan@nuigalway.ie
Phone: +353 91 493336
Information Technology,
Engineering and Informations
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Research Centre / group affiliation:
Research group / centre website:
PI website / link to CV:
Complex Systems Research Centre http://www.nuigalway.ie/core/ http://corrib.it.nuigalway.ie
Brief summary of PI research / research group / centre activity (2 or 3 lines max):
Dr. Duggan’s is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Informatics. His research expertise is in the area of complex systems modelling, and using computational methods to support policy design. Application areas include software process management, epidemiology, infectious disease modelling, and health systems design.
Title & brief description of PhD project (suitable for publication on web):
Automated Task Allocation for Software Project Management
Software development is a complex activity, requiring the coordination of people and resources in the context of changing customer demands. Accurate and adaptive schedule development requires intelligent algorithms that can react to realtime changes in project status. This project will build on existing work in the area of multiple objective optimisation, in order to find ways to improve schedule efficiencies.
Unique selling points of PhD project in NUI Galway:
Key advantages of pursuing a PhD project in this area include: (1) structured PhD programme with support coursework in the areas of simulation, mathematical modelling, social network analyis and agent-based simulation; (2) strong industry and public healthcare links, with access to data sources; (3) multi-disciplinary interactions, faciliated through the CORE research centre, involving academics from computer science, engineering, mathematics and economics.

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Computing
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