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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

John A. McDermid is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions focus primarily within the domain of computer science, with a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence and safety-related fields.

Their main fields include:

  • Computer Science

Within this broader domain, they have worked extensively on the following subfields:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Safety Research
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to technology, ethics, and safety:

  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy
  • Risk and Safety Analysis
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by John A. McDermid include:

  • "Artificial intelligence explainability: the technical and ethical dimensions," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "The Role of Explainability in Assuring Safety of Machine Learning in Healthcare," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
  • "A principles-based ethics assurance argument pattern for AI and autonomous systems," 2023, AI and Ethics
  • "reTSN: Resilient and Efficient Time-Sensitive Network for Automotive In-Vehicle Communication," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • "An enhanced vehicle control model for assessing highly automated driving safety," 2020, Reliability Engineering & System Safety

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Ibrahim Habli
  • Zoë Porter
  • Tom Lawton
  • Yan Jia
  • Simon Burton

Their publications appear frequently in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

In recognition of their work, John A. McDermid was named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Towards Operational Measures of Computer Security

    Bev Littlewood;Sarah Brocklehurst;Norman Fenton;Peter Mellor

  • An automated framework for structural test-data generation

    N. Tracey;J. Clark;K. Mander;J. McDermid

  • Software Engineer's Reference Book

    John A. McDermid

  • Hierarchically Performed Hazard Origin and Propagation Studies

    Yiannis Papadopoulos;John A. McDermid

  • Large-scale complex IT systems

    Ian Sommerville;Dave Cliff;Radu Calinescu;Justin Keen

  • Analysis and synthesis of the behaviour of complex programmable electronic systems in conditions of failure

    Yiannis Papadopoulos;John Alexander McDermid;Ralph Sasse;Gunter Heiner

  • Safety Case Construction and Reuse Using Patterns

    Tim P. Kelly;John Alexander McDermid

  • Towards integrated safety analysis and design

    P. Fenelon;J. A. McDermid;M. Nicolson;D. J. Pumfrey

  • Automated test-data generation for exception conditions

    N. Tracey;J. Clark;K. Mander;J. McDermid

  • An integrated tool set for software safety analysis

    Peter Fenelon;John A. McDermid

  • Life cycle support in the Ada environment

    John McDermid;Knut Ripken

  • Experience with the application of HAZOP to computer-based systems

    J.A. McDermid;M. Nicholson;D.J. Pumfrey;P. Fenelon

  • Mind the gaps: Assuring the safety of autonomous systems from an engineering, ethical, and legal perspective

    Simon Burton;Ibrahim Habli;Tom Lawton;John McDermid

  • A systematic approach to safety case maintenance

    Tim P. Kelly;John Alexander McDermid

  • On the meaning of safety and security

    A. Burns;J. McDermid;J. Dobson

  • Assurance cases and prescriptive software safety certification: A comparative study

    Richard Hawkins;Ibrahim Habli;Tim Kelly;John McDermid

  • Ten steps towards systematic requirements reuse

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  • Software safety: where's the evidence?

    John A McDermid

  • Investigating the effectiveness of object‐oriented testing strategies using the mutation method

    Sun-Woo Kim;John A. Clark;John Alexander McDermid

  • A development of hazard analysis to aid software design

    J.A. McDermid;D.J. Pumfrey

  • Software Engineering Environments: Automated Support for Software Engineering

    Alan W. Brown;Anthony N. Earl;John A. McDermid

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard F. Paige
Richard F. Paige McMaster University
Alan Burns
Alan Burns University of York
Yiannis Papadopoulos
Yiannis Papadopoulos University of Hull
Marta Kwiatkowska
Marta Kwiatkowska University of Oxford
Carlo Ghezzi
Carlo Ghezzi Polytechnic University of Milan
Roberto Passerone
Roberto Passerone University of Trento
Dakshi Agrawal
Dakshi Agrawal IBM (United States)
Juan E. Tapiador
Juan E. Tapiador Carlos III University of Madrid
Bev Littlewood
Bev Littlewood City, University of London
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli University of California, Berkeley

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