Contact Details

Dr William Marsh
Department of Computer Science,
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.

Email: william/www _ at _ dcs.qmul.ac.uk
Telephone +44-(0)20 7882 5254

Research
I am a member of the RADAR group and work on decision support problems using Bayesian networks.

Evidence for Clinical Guidelines

Safety and Accidents

Analysing what can go wrong is fundamental for assessing risk in safety systems. Existing approaches have a number of deficiencies:
  1. human behaviour and technical failures are poorly integrated
  2. model created for system approval are often not used when a system is in operation
  3. information on incidents and procedural compliance is not used to update risks.
The aim of or research is to extend existing accident-based modelling techniques to resolve these problems.

Decision support for software engineering: project management and software testing

Every software development project is unique but the results are often (depressingly) similar. The complexity of software development and the multitude of factors influencing a project's outcome makes the design of useful decision support systems very challenging. Can we produce models of software development that are at the same time complex enough to capture relevant phenomena while simple enough to be usable?

List of publications

Teaching
In 2009/10 I am teaching

DCS111 Computer Architecture Local link.

DCS201 Further Networks and Operating Systems Local link.

DCS144 Essential Object Oriented Programming Local link.

In the past I have taught:

Project Supervision

I am happy to be contacted by students looking for a project supervisor but please read these notes first

Schools Outreach
Curriculum Vitae

A brief CV is here.

Page last updated 7.8.2009