Professor Dave Cliff

Research summary

• Ultra-Large-Scale Complex Software-Intensive Socio-Technical Systems in general, and Large Scale Complex IT Systems (LSCITS) in particular.
• Complex Adaptive Systems. Before I got involved in LSCITS, I spent roughly 17 years doing research in complex adaptive systems of one type or another. I worked on modelling neuronal processing of visual information in airborne insects (hoverflies, actually); on using artificial evolution to generate designs for sensory-motor morphology and neuronal controllers for autonomous mobile robots (so-called "evolutionary robotics"); on competitive co-evolutionary dynamics in predator-prey "arms races"; on autonomous adaptive algorithmic trading strategies for double-acution markets; on automated crowd-responsive dance-music disk-jockeys and real-time music-production ...

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Biography

Prior to joining the University of Bristol in 2007, I'd held faculty posts at the University of Sussex School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science. I'd also spent roughly half my career working as a researcher in industry: initially for Hewlett-Packard Labs, where I ended up as a Department Scientist; and latterly for Deutsche Bank London, where I was a Director/Trader in their Foreign Exchange Complex Risk Group.

Since October 2005 I have been Director of the UK Research and ...

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Recent publications

• Sommerville, I, Cliff, D, Calinescu, R, Keen, J, Kelly, T, Kwiatkowska, M, McDermid, J & Paige, R 2012, ‘Large-Scale Complex IT Systems’. Communications of the ACM, vol 55., pp. 71
• Rogers, OR & Cliff, D 2012, ‘A Financial Brokerage Model for Cloud Computing’. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems, and Applications, vol 1.

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