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Computer Science
New Zealand
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
55
Citations
11336
World Ranking
4344
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

James Noble is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a concentration across several subfields including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, information systems, hardware and architecture, and computational theory and mathematics.

The scientist's research topics include logic, programming, and type systems; distributed systems and fault tolerance; security and verification in computing; parallel computing and optimization techniques; formal methods in verification; software engineering research; and software engineering techniques and practices.

Recent publications by James Noble cover a range of subjects and venues. These include:

  • Towards AI-Assisted Synthesis of Verified Dafny Methods, 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.
  • Challenging software developers: dialectic as a foundation for security assurance techniques, 2020, Journal of Cybersecurity.
  • Reference Capabilities for Flexible Memory Management, 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.
  • Necessity specifications for robustness, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.
  • Necessity Specifications for Robustness and Appendices, 2022, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

The venues where Noble frequently publishes include arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering, and the Journal of Cybersecurity.

Collaborations have been established with several researchers, including Sophia Drossopoulou, Julian Mackay, Susan Eisenbach, Isaac Oscar Gariano, and Tobias Wrigstad, indicating a networked approach to research in various specialized areas.

Best Publications

  • Ownership types for flexible alias protection

    David G. Clarke;John M. Potter;James Noble

  • The Qualitas Corpus: A Curated Collection of Java Code for Empirical Studies

    Ewan Tempero;Craig Anslow;Jens Dietrich;Ted Han

  • Flexible Alias protection

    J. Noble;J. Vitek;J. Potter

  • Self-Organizing Roles on Agile Software Development Teams

    R. Hoda;J. Noble;S. Marshall

  • Video game values: Human-computer interaction and games

    Pippin Barr;James Noble;Robert Biddle

  • The impact of inadequate customer collaboration on self-organizing Agile teams

    Rashina Hoda;James Noble;Stuart Marshall

  • A framework for implementing pluggable type systems

    Chris Andreae;James Noble;Shane Markstrum;Todd Millstein

  • Developing a grounded theory to explain the practices of self-organizing Agile teams

    Rashina Hoda;James Noble;Stuart Marshall

  • Scale-free geometry in OO programs

    Alex Potanin;James Noble;Marcus Frean;Robert Biddle

  • Understanding the shape of Java software

    Gareth Baxter;Marcus Frean;James Noble;Mark Rickerby

  • Capabilities for Sharing

    John Boyland;James Noble;William Retert

  • Agile Development Iterations and UI Design

    J. Ferreira;J. Noble;R. Biddle

  • Organizing self-organizing teams

    Rashina Hoda;James Noble;Stuart Marshall

  • Capabilities for Sharing: A Generalisation of Uniqueness and Read-Only

    John Boyland;James Noble;William Retert

  • Simple Ownership Types for Object Containment

    David G. Clarke;James Noble;John Potter

  • Small Memory Software: Patterns for Systems with Limited Memory

    James Noble;Charles Weir

  • Becoming agile: a grounded theory of agile transitions in practice

    Rashina Hoda;James Noble

  • Classifying relationships between object-oriented design patterns

    J. Noble

  • Agility in context

    Rashina Hoda;Philippe Kruchten;James Noble;Stuart Marshall

  • The XP customer role in practice: three studies

    A. Martin;R. Biddle;J. Noble

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Biddle
Robert Biddle Carleton University
Kim B. Bruce
Kim B. Bruce Pomona College
Jan Vitek
Jan Vitek Northeastern University
Awais Rashid
Awais Rashid University of Bristol
Ralph E. Johnson
Ralph E. Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ronald Fischer
Ronald Fischer Victoria University of Wellington
Todd Millstein
Todd Millstein University of California, Los Angeles
Alessandro Garcia
Alessandro Garcia Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
M. Angela Sasse
M. Angela Sasse University College London
Uwe Zdun
Uwe Zdun University of Vienna

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