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William J. Knottenbelt

William J. Knottenbelt

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
34
Citations
5490
World Ranking
12108
National Ranking
766

Overview

William J. Knottenbelt is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in various fields related to computer science and finance. Their body of work spans the domains of blockchain technology, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and financial modeling.

The scientist's research output includes numerous recent papers that reflect interdisciplinary interests. Notable publications include:

  • DeFi Protocols for Loanable Funds: Interest Rates, Liquidity and Market Efficiency, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Defending Against Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning With Blockchain, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
  • zkFL: Zero-Knowledge Proof-Based Gradient Aggregation for Federated Learning, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • SoK: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in Finance, 2023, Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server

Frequent co-authors collaborating with William J. Knottenbelt include:

  • Xihan Xiong
  • Zhipeng Wang
  • Padmanaba Srinivasan
  • Jiahao Sun
  • Sam M. Werner

Several publication venues have been repeatedly chosen for dissemination, showing a pattern in the scholar's publication strategy. These venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • 2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
  • ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
  • Distributed Ledger Technologies Research and Practice

William J. Knottenbelt has contributed to the academic literature with a book published by Springer International Publishing titled Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (2023).

The scientist's research fields cover both broad and specialized areas. Main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these, specific subfields are notable, including:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • Management Information Systems

The main topics addressed in their work encompass a range of applications and theoretical issues, such as:

  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis

Best Publications

  • The UK-DALE dataset, domestic appliance-level electricity demand and whole-house demand from five UK homes.

    Jack Kelly;William Knottenbelt

  • NILMTK: an open source toolkit for non-intrusive load monitoring

    Nipun Batra;Jack Kelly;Oliver Parson;Haimonti Dutta

  • The UK-DALE dataset, domestic appliance-level electricity demand and whole-house demand from five UK homes

    Jack Kelly;William Knottenbelt

  • Neural NILM: Deep Neural Networks Applied to Energy Disaggregation

    Jack Kelly;William Knottenbelt

  • Neural NILM: Deep Neural Networks Applied to Energy Disaggregation

    Jack Kelly;William Knottenbelt

  • PIPE2: a tool for the performance evaluation of generalised stochastic Petri Nets

    Nicholas J. Dingle;William J. Knottenbelt;Tamas Suto

  • XCLAIM: Trustless, Interoperable, Cryptocurrency-Backed Assets

    Alexei Zamyatin;Dominik Harz;Joshua Lind;Panayiotis Panayiotou

  • SoK: communication across distributed ledgers.

    Alexei Zamyatin;Mustafa Al-Bassam;Dionysis Zindros;Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias;Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias

  • Dataport and NILMTK: A building data set designed for non-intrusive load monitoring

    Oliver Parson;Grant Fisher;April Hersey;Nipun Batra

  • Visualizing Dynamic Bitcoin Transaction Patterns

    Dan McGinn;David Birch;David Akroyd;Miguel Molina-Solana

  • An Efficient Application Partitioning Algorithm in Mobile Environments

    Huaming Wu;William J. Knottenbelt;Katinka Wolter

  • PIPE v2. 5: A Petri net tool for performance modelling

    William Knottenbelt

  • Parallel multilevel algorithms for hypergraph partitioning

    Aleksandar Trifunović;William J. Knottenbelt

  • Passage time distributions in large Markov chains

    Peter G. Harrison;William J. Knottenbelt

  • A Wild Velvet Fork Appears! Inclusive Blockchain Protocol Changes in Practice

    Alexei Zamyatin;Nicholas Stifter;Aljosha Judmayer;Philipp Schindler

  • Generalised Markovian analysis of timed transition systems

    William John Knottenbelt

  • Towards Safer Smart Contracts: A Survey of Languages and Verification Methods

    Dominik Harz;William J. Knottenbelt

  • Parkway 2.0: A Parallel Multilevel Hypergraph Partitioning Tool

    Aleksandar Trifunovic;William J. Knottenbelt

  • Derivation of passage-time densities in PEPA models using ipc: the imperial PEPA compiler

    J.T. Bradley;N.J. Dingle;S.T. Gilmore;W.J. Knottenbelt

  • Performance Evaluation of NoSQL Databases

    Andrea Gandini;Marco Gribaudo;William J. Knottenbelt;Rasha Osman

  • CloudScope: Diagnosing and Managing Performance Interference in Multi-tenant Clouds

    Xi Chen;Lukas Rupprecht;Rasha Osman;Peter Pietzuch

  • Response Time Approximations in Fork-Join Queues

    A Lebrecht;W Knottenbelt

  • Committing to quantum resistance: a slow defence for Bitcoin against a fast quantum computing attack.

    I. Stewart;D. Ilie;A. Zamyatin;S. Werner

  • Does disaggregated electricity feedback reduce domestic electricity consumption? A systematic review of the literature

    Jack Kelly;William J. Knottenbelt

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Rogers
Alex Rogers University of Oxford
Mani Srivastava
Mani Srivastava University of California, Los Angeles
Edgar R. Weippl
Edgar R. Weippl University of Vienna
Yike Guo
Yike Guo Hong Kong Baptist University
Laurence T. Yang
Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University
Stephen Gilmore
Stephen Gilmore University of Edinburgh
Cheng-Zhong Xu
Cheng-Zhong Xu University of Macau
Aggelos Kiayias
Aggelos Kiayias University of Edinburgh
Geyong Min
Geyong Min University of Exeter
Xiaobo Zhou
Xiaobo Zhou The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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