Professor Stuart Allen

Professor

School of Computer Science and Informatics

My research interests are in the field of mobile and social computing, covering both practical problems with direct applications to industry and policy making, and interdisciplinary collaborations exploring the opportunities and challenges of emerging technologies. I have 20 years of research experience in wireless network modelling and optimisation to improve efficiency through automated planning and management of network infrastructure and resources.

2024

Ironside-Smith, R., Turner, L., Noe, B., Costello, S. and Allen, S. 2024. Motif discovery in hospital ward vital signs observation networks. Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics 13, article number: 55. (10.1007/s13721-024-00490-1)
Bennett, V., Spasic, I., Filimonov, M., Muralidaran, V., Kemp, A. M., Allen, S. and Watkins, W. J. 2024. Assessing the feasibility of using parents' social media conversations to inform burn first aid interventions: mixed methods study. JMIR Formative Research 8, article number: e48695. (10.2196/48695)
Alraddadi, E. E., Allen, S. M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2024. A novel framework to classify opinion dynamics of mobile agents under the bounded confidence model. Adaptive Behavior 32(2), pp. 167-187. (10.1177/10597123231195423)

2022

Friedrichs, B., Turner, L. D. and Allen, S. M. 2022. Utilising the co-occurrence of user interface interactions as a risk indicator for smartphone addiction. Pervasive and Mobile Computing 86, article number: 101677. (10.1016/j.pmcj.2022.101677)

2021

Friedrichs, B., Turner, L. and Allen, S. 2021. Discovering types of smartphone usage sessions from user-app interactions. Presented at: 5th International Workshop on Annotation of useR Data for UbiquitOUs Systems (ARDUOUS 2021), Kassel, Germany, 22-26 March 20212021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops). IEEE pp. 459-464., (10.1109/PERCOMWORKSHOPS51409.2021.9431034)
Alvarez-Jarreta, J. et al. 2021. LipidFinder 2.0: advanced informatics pipeline for lipidomics discovery applications. Bioinformatics 37(10), pp. 1478-1479. (10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa856)
Hudson, L., Whitaker, R., Allen, S., Turner, L. and Felmlee, D. 2021. The centrality of edges based on their role in induced triads. Presented at: 2021 IEEE ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 08 - 11 November 2021.

2020

Meckelmann, S. W. et al. 2020. Metabolic dysregulation of the lysophospholipid/autotaxin axis in the chromosome 9p21 gene SNP rs10757274. Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine 13(3), pp. 149-164., article number: e002806. (10.1161/CIRCGEN.119.002806)
Alraddadi, E., Allen, S., Colombo, G. and Whitaker, R. 2020. The role of homophily in opinion formation among mobile agents. Journal of Information and Telecommunication 4(4), pp. 504-523. (10.1080/24751839.2020.1772614)
Bedewi, W., Whitaker, R., Colombo, G., Allen, S. and Dunham, Y. 2020. The implications of shared identity on indirect reciprocity. Journal of Information and Telecommunication 4(4), pp. 405-424. (10.1080/24751839.2020.1741858)

2019

Turner, L., Allen, S. and Whitaker, R. 2019. The influence of concurrent mobile notifications on individual responses. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 132, pp. 70-80. (10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.07.011)
Noe, B., Turner, L. D., Linden, D. E. J., Allen, S. M., Winkens, B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2019. Identifying indicators of smartphone addiction through user-app interaction. Computers in Human Behavior 99, pp. 56-65. (10.1016/j.chb.2019.04.023)
Bedewi, W., Whitaker, R. M., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Dunham, Y. 2019. Modelling stereotyping in cooperation systems. Presented at: ICCCI: International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence 2019, Hendaye, France, 4-6 September 2019 Presented at Nguyen, N. T. et al. eds.Computational Collective Intelligence: 11th International Conference, ICCCI 2019, Hendaye, France, September 4–6, 2019, Proceedings, Part I, Vol. 11683. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Cham: Springer Nature pp. -., (10.1007/978-3-030-28377-3_10)
Turner, L. D., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M., Linden, D. E. J., Tu, K., Li, J. and Towsley, D. 2019. Evidence to support common application switching behaviour on smartphones. Royal Society Open Science 6(3), article number: 190018. (10.1098/rsos.190018)
Fahy, E. et al. 2019. LipidFinder on LIPID MAPS: peak filtering, MS searching and statistical analysis for lipidomics. Bioinformatics 35(4), pp. 685-687. (10.1093/bioinformatics/bty679)

2018

Noe, N., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2018. Personality homophily and geographic distance in Facebook. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 21(6), pp. 361-366. (10.1089/cyber.2017.0615)
Nawaf, L. F., Allen, S. M. and Rana, O. F. 2018. Optimizing infrastructure placement in wireless mesh networks using NSGA-II. Presented at: IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th Intl. Conference on Data Science and Systems, Exeter, UK, 28-30 June 2018.

2017

Chun, Y. J., Colombo, G. B., Cotton, S. L., Scanlon, W. G., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2017. Device-to-device communications: a performance analysis in the context of social comparison-based relaying. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 16(12), pp. 7733-7745. (10.1109/TWC.2017.2751470)
Turner, L. D., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2017. Reachable but not receptive: enhancing smartphone interruptibility prediction by modelling the extent of user engagement with notifications. Pervasive and Mobile Computing 40, pp. 480-494. (10.1016/j.pmcj.2017.01.011)
Noe, B., Turner, L., Linden, D., Allen, S. M., Maio, G. and Whitaker, R. 2017. Timing rather than user traits mediates mood sampling on smartphones. BMC Research Notes 10, article number: 481. (10.1186/s13104-017-2808-1)
Colombo, G., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M., Cotton, S., Young Jin, C. and William, S. 2017. Evolution of cooperation in device-to-device communication. Presented at: COCOA – COmpetitive and COoperative Approaches for 5G networks, Dresden, Germany, 17 May-2017European Wireless 2017; 23th European Wireless Conference. Berlin: VDE
Williams, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2017. There and back again: detecting regularity in human encounter communities. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 16(6), pp. 1744-1757. (10.1109/TMC.2016.2599169)
O'Connor, A., Brasher, C., Slatter, D., Meckelmann, S., Hawksworth, J., Allen, S. and O'Donnell, V. 2017. LipidFinder: a computational workflow for discovery of lipids identifies eicosanoid-phosphoinositides in platelets. JCI Insight 2(7), pp. e91634. (10.1172/jci.insight.91634)
Nawaf, L., Allen, S. M. and Rana, O. F. 2017. Internet transit access point placement and bandwidth allocation in wireless mesh networks. Presented at: 2017 IEEE 7th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 9 - 11 January 20172017 IEEE 7th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC). IEEE, (10.1109/CCWC.2017.7868436)

2016

Chun, Y. J., Colombo, G. B., Cotton, S. L., Scanlon, W. G., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2016. Social comparison based relaying in device-to-device networks. Presented at: 27th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, Valencia, Spain, 4th - 7th September 20162016 IEEE 27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). IEEE, (10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794631)
Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R. M., Hicks, Y. A. and Allen, S. M. 2016. Routing protocol for heterogeneous wireless mesh networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 65(12), pp. 9773-9786. (10.1109/TVT.2016.2518931)
Noe, N., Whitaker, R. and Allen, S. 2016. Personality homophily and the local network characteristics of Facebook. Presented at: The 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, San Francisco, CA, USA, 18 - 21 August 2016Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). IEEE pp. 386-393., (10.1109/ASONAM.2016.7752263)
Whitaker, R. M., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Dunbar, R. I. M. 2016. A dominant social comparison heuristic unites alternative mechanisms for the evolution of indirect reciprocity. Scientific Reports 6, article number: 31459. (10.1038/srep31459)
Webberley, W. M., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2016. Retweeting beyond expectation: Inferring interestingness in Twitter. Computer Communications 73(B), pp. 229-235. (10.1016/j.comcom.2015.07.016)

2015

Flood, I. D. and Allen, S. M. 2015. Equipment selection heuristics for microwave fixed links. Radio Science 49(8), pp. 630-642. (10.1002/2014RS005484)
Mordacchini, M. et al. 2015. Crowdsourcing through cognitive opportunistic networks. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 10(2), article number: 13. (10.1145/2733379)
Chorley, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2015. Personality and location-based social networks. Computers in Human Behavior 46, pp. 45-56. (10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.038)
Chorley, M. J., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2015. Human content filtering in Twitter: The influence of metadata. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 74, pp. 32-40. (10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.10.001)
Turner, L. D., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2015. Interruptibility prediction for ubiquitous systems: conventions and new directions from a growing field. Presented at: 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Osaka, Japan, 7-11 September 2015Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. New York, USA: ACM, (10.1145/2750858.2807514)
Whitaker, R. M., Chorley, M. and Allen, S. M. 2015. New frontiers for crowdsourcing: The extended mind. Presented at: 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Koloa, Hawaii, USA, 5-8 January 2015.
Aldahawi, H. and Allen, S. M. 2015. An approach to Tweets categorization by using machine learning classifiers in oil business. Presented at: CICLing 2015: 16th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Cairo, Egypt, 14-20 April 2015 Presented at Gelbukh, A. ed.Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 16th International Conference, CICLing 2015, Cairo, Egypt, April 14-20, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, Vol. 9042. Springer pp. 535-546., (10.1007/978-3-319-18117-2_40)
Turner, L. D., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2015. Push or delay? Decomposing Smartphone notification response behaviour. Presented at: Sixth International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, Osaka, Japan, 8 September 2015Human Behavior Understanding. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Berlin: Springer pp. 69-83., (10.1007/978-3-319-24195-1_6)

2014

Al-Saadi, A., Setchi, R., Hicks, Y. A. and Allen, S. M. 2014. Multi-rate medium access protocol based on reinforcement learning. Presented at: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), San Diego, CA, 5-8 October 2014Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE pp. 2875-2880., (10.1109/SMC.2014.6974366)

2013

Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2013. Visiting patterns and personality of foursquare users. Presented at: Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013. , (10.1109/CGC.2013.50)
Flood, I. and Allen, S. M. 2013. The fixed links frequency assignment problem with equipment selection. Wireless Personal Communications 71(1), pp. 181-194. (10.1007/s11277-012-0810-4)
Ghosh, S. C., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2013. Optimising CDMA cell planning with soft handover. Wireless Personal Communications 68(2), pp. 321-347. (10.1007/s11277-011-0454-9)
Webberley, W., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2013. Inferring the interesting tweets in your network. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), 2013 Third International Conference on. IEEE pp. 575-580., (10.1109/CGC.2013.100)
Aldahawi, H. and Allen, S. M. 2013. Twitter mining in the oil business: A sentiment analysis approach. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), 2013 Third International Conference on. IEEE pp. 581-586., (10.1109/CGC.2013.101)

2012

Ghosh, S. C., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2012. Dynamic data resolution to improve the tractability of UMTS network planning. Annals of Operations Research 201(1), pp. 197-227. (10.1007/s10479-012-1176-4)
Allen, S. M., Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2012. Opportunistic social dissemination of micro-blogs. Ad Hoc Networks 10(8), pp. 1570-1585. (10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.04.012)
Williams, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2012. Decentralised detection of periodic encounter communities in opportunistic networks. Ad Hoc Networks 10(8), pp. 1544-1556. (10.1016/j.adhoc.2011.07.008)
Allen, S. M., Cooper, I. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2012. Optimising multi-rate link scheduling for wireless mesh networks. Computer Communications 35(16), pp. 2014-2024. (10.1016/j.comcom.2012.06.006)
Williams, M. J., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2012. Measuring individual regularity in human visiting patterns. Presented at: 2012 International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 September 2012Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), 2012 International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers pp. 117-122., (10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.93)
Colombo, G. B., Chorley, M., Williams, M. J., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2012. You are where you eat: foursquare checkins as indicators of human mobility and behaviour. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), Lugano, Switzerland, 19-23 March 20122012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops). Picastaway, NJ: IEEE pp. 217-222., (10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197483)
Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2012. Better the tweeter you know: social signals on Twitter. Presented at: Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2012 (SocialCom 2012), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3-5 September 2012 Presented at Nijholt, A., Vinciarelli, A. and Heylen, D. eds.Proceedings of the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing: SocialCom/PASSAT 2012. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 277-282., (10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.27)

2011

Allen, S. M., Chorley, M., Colombo, G. B., Jaho, E., Karaliopoulos, M., Stavrakakis, I. and Whitaker, R. M. 2011. Exploiting user interest similarity and social links for micro-blog forwarding in mobile opportunistic networks. Pervasive and Mobile Computing n/a (10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.12.003)
Teterin, V., Hurley, S. and Allen, S. M. 2011. Unified WiMAX network design with service optimisation. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 4(3), pp. 220-236. (10.1504/IJAACS.2011.040984)

2010

Hurley, S., Allen, S. M., Ryan, D. and Taplin, R. K. 2010. Modelling and planning fixed wireless networks. Wireless Networks 16(3), pp. 577-592. (10.1007/s11276-008-0155-9)
Allen, S. M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2010. Cooperation through self-similar social networks. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 5(1), article number: 4. (10.1145/1671948.1671952)
Allen, S. M., Colombo, G. B. and Whitaker, R. M. 2010. Uttering: social micro-blogging without the internet. Presented at: 2nd International MobiSys Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking, Pisa, Italy, 22-23 February 2010 Presented at Palazzo, S., Camp, T. and Conti, M. eds.MobiOpp '10 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking, Pisa, Italy, 22-23 February, 2010. New York, NY: ACM pp. 58-64., (10.1145/1755743.1755754)
Colombo, G. B. and Allen, S. M. 2010. A comparison of problem decomposition techniques for the FAP. Journal of Heuristics 16(3), pp. 259-288. (10.1007/s10732-009-9116-4)

2009

Greede, A., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2009. RFP: Repository Based Forwarding Protocol for opportunistic networks. Presented at: Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, Cardiff, UK, 16-19 September 2009 Presented at Al-Begain, K. ed.Third International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2009 (NGMAST '09), Cardiff, Wales, 15-18 Sept. 2009. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 329-334., (10.1109/NGMAST.2009.33)
Ghosh, S. C., Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2009. Service coverage bounds through efficient load approximation in UMTS network planning. Presented at: International Conference on Networks and Communications, Chennai, India, 27-29 December 2009First International Conference on Networks and Communications, 2009 (NETCOM '09), Chennai, India, 27-29 Dec. 2009. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 202-207., (10.1109/NetCoM.2009.13)
Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2009. The effect of consumer demand on optimised wireless mesh network deployment. Presented at: 1st International Conference on Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology, Aalborg, Denmark, 17-20 May 20092009 1st International Conference on Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology (Wireless Vitae 2009). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE pp. 906-910., (10.1109/WIRELESSVITAE.2009.5172570)
Allen, S. M., Whitaker, R. M. and Hurley, S. 2009. Optimized Seed Node Locations for Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 44, pp. 1-19. (10.1007/978-0-387-71787-6_1)
Whitaker, R. M., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2009. Efficient offline coverage and load evaluation for CDMA network modeling. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 58(7), pp. 3704-3712. (10.1109/TVT.2009.2017900)
Whitaker, R. M., Hurley, S. and Allen, S. M. 2009. Modeling Cell Placement and Coverage for Heterogeneous 3G Services. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 44, pp. 241-256. (10.1007/978-0-387-71787-6_16)
Hodge, L. E., Ghosh, S. C., Hurley, S., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2009. Upper and lower bounds for pilot coverage in UMTS networks. Presented at: International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 13-16 July 2009 Presented at Arabnia, H. R. and Clincy, V. A. eds.Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2009), Las Vegas, USA, 13-16 July 2009. CSREA Press pp. 423-429.
Hodge, L. E., Ghosh, S. C., Hurley, S., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2009. Flexible grids for wireless network planning. Presented at: International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 13-16 July 2009 Presented at Arabnia, H. R. and Clincy, V. A. eds.Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2009), Las Vegas, USA, 13-16 July 2009. CSREA Press pp. 541-545.

2008

Allen, S. M., Whitaker, R. M. and Hurley, S. 2008. Personalised subscription pricing for optimised wireless mesh network deployment. Computer Networks 52(11), pp. 2172-2188. (10.1016/j.comnet.2008.03.007)
Hodge, L. E., Ghosh, S. C., Hurley, S., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2008. Coverage and service bounds for UMTS. Presented at: International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems, Yilan, Taiwan, 10-12 September 2008 Presented at Lin, Y., Chao, H. and Chong, P. H. J. eds.Mobility '08: Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems, Yilan, Taiwan, 10-12 September, 2008. New York, NY: ACM, (10.1145/1506270.1506333)
Colombo, G. B., Whitaker, R. M. and Allen, S. M. 2008. Cooperation in social networks of trust. Presented at: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Venice, Italy, 20-24 October 2008 Presented at Di Marzo Serugendo, G. and Gleizes, M. eds.SASOW 2008 proceedings: Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, Venice, Italy, 20-24 Oct. 2008. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 78-83., (10.1109/SASOW.2008.39)
Greede, A., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2008. A simple human mobility model for opportunistic networks. Presented at: 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium : The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool John Moores University, 23-24 June 2008Proceedings of the 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool, UK, 23-24 June 2008. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool John Moores University
Allen, S. M. et al. 2008. Social networking for pervasive adaptation. Presented at: Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, Venice, Italy, 20-24 October 2008 Presented at Di Marzo Serugendo, G. and Gleizes, M. -. P. eds.Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW 2008), Venice, Italy, 20-24 October 2008. Los Alamitos, CA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers pp. 49-54., (10.1109/SASOW.2008.34)
Teterin, V., Hurley, S. and Allen, S. M. 2008. A staged optimization framework for cost optimized WiMax network design. Presented at: 4th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2008), Athens, Greece, 27 July-1 August 2008 Presented at Reznik, L. ed.Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, Athens, Greece, July 27- August 1 2008. Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society pp. 185-190., (10.1109/ICWMC.2008.46)

2007

Taplin, R. K., Ryan, D. M., Allen, S. M., Hurley, S. and Thomas, N. J. 2007. Algorithms for the automatic design of WiMAX networks. Presented at: The 2007 International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2007), Cardiff, UK, 12-14 September 2007NGMAST '07 The 2007 International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2007. Los Alamitos: IEEE pp. 322-327., (10.1109/NGMAST.2007.4343440)
Colombo, G. B. and Allen, S. M. 2007. Problem decomposition for minimum interference frequency assignment. Presented at: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007, Singapore, 25-28 September 2007CEC 2007, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007. Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE pp. 3492-3499., (10.1109/CEC.2007.4424925)
Whitaker, R. M., Hurley, S. and Allen, S. M. 2007. Sensitivity of service coverage evaluation for WCDMA systems. Presented at: 6th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2007), Pomona, CA, April 26-28, 2007WTS 2007 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, 2007. Piscataway: IEEE pp. 1-10., (10.1109/WTS.2007.4563325)
Allen, S. M., Whitaker, R. M. and Hurley, S. 2007. Seed node deployment for wireless mesh networks with uncertain subscription. pp. 1-7., (10.1109/WTS.2007.4563324)
Allen, S. M., Whitaker, R. M. and Hurley, S. 2007. Seed node deployment for wireless mesh networks with uncertain subscription. Presented at: 6th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, 2007, Pomona, CA, USA, 26-28 April 2007WTS 2007 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, 2007. Picataway, N.J.: IEEE pp. 1-7., (10.1109/WTS.2007.4563324)

2006

Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Ryan, D. M. and Taplin, R. K. 2006. Automated hybrid cost-optimised network design. Telektronikk 2.2006(2), pp. 58-70.
Samko, V., Hurley, S., Allen, S. M. and Whitaker, R. M. 2006. Optimized design of dynamic networks with heuristic algorithms. In: Pinter, J. D. ed. Global Optimization: Scientific and Engineering Case Studies.. Nonconvex Optimization and its Applications Vol. 85. Springer US, pp. 45-72., (10.1007/0-387-30927-6_3)

2005

Allen, S. M. and Taplin, R. K. 2005. Automatic design of fixed wireless access networks. International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation 1(1), pp. 1-7. (10.1504/IJMNDI.2005.007930)
Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Subodh, V. and Whitaker, R. M. 2005. Assessing coverage in wireless mesh networks. Presented at: MeshNets 2005, Budapest, Hungary, 10 July 2005.

2004

Wade, A. A., Hurley, S., Allen, S. M., Taplin, R. K. and Craig, K. H. 2004. Optimisation of BFWA Networks using Emergent Intelligence. Presented at: The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT 2004), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, 22 – 24 November 2004 Presented at Hamza, M. ed.Communications, Internet and Information Technology (CIIT 2004) (Proceedings). Acta Press
Montemanni, R., Smith, D. and Allen, S. M. 2004. An improved algorithm to determine lower bounds for the fixed spectrum frequency assignment problem. European Journal of Operational Research 156(3), pp. 736-751. (10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00127-9)
Ryan, D., Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Taplin, R. K. and Wade, A. A. 2004. The effect of base station mast height on broadband fixed wireless network design and proftability. Presented at: Nordic Radio Symposium 2004 / Finnish Wireless Communications Workshop 2004, Oulu, Finland, 16 – 18 August 2004.
Oliver, K. E., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2004. Utilising network dimensioning to improve automated cell planning. Presented at: Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th., Los Angeles, CA, USA, 26-29 September 2004VTC 2004 Fall: Proceedings, Vol. 5. Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE pp. 3419-3423.
Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Taplin, R. K. and Whitaker, R. M. 2004. Automated cell planning to improve network rollout. Presented at: Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004, VTC2004-Fall, 2004 IEEE 60th., Los Angeles, CA, USA, 26-29 September 2004VTC 2004 Fall: Proceedings, Vol. 5. Piscataway, N.J: IEEE pp. 3438-3442.
Allen, S. M., Belloul, B., Hurley, S., Saunders, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2004. Smart cell planning and optimisation for UMTS. Presented at: 3G Mobile Communication Technologies, 2004. 3G 2004. Fifth IEE International Conference, London, UK, 18-20 October 2004Fifth IEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies (3G 2004) : the premier technical conference for 3G and beyond, Vol. 2004. IEE conference publication Vol. 503. London: IEEE pp. 34-38., (10.1049/cp:20040630)
Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Samko, V. and Whitaker, R. M. 2004. The design and simulation of reliable wireless networks in dynamic environments. Presented at: Networks, 2004. (ICON 2004) 12th IEEE International Conference on, Singapore, Malaysia, 16-19 November 2004 Presented at Pung, H. ed.2004 12th IEEE International Conference on Networks : (ICON 2004) : unity in diversity : proceedings. Piscataway, N.J: IEEE pp. 92-96., (10.1109/ICON.2004.1409096)

2002

Allen, S. M., Montemanni, R. and Smith, D. 2002. An ANTS Algorithm for the Minimum-Span Frequency-Assignment Problem with Multiple Interference. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 51(5), pp. 949-953. (10.1109/TVT.2002.800634)
Allen, S. M., Smith, D. H. and Hurley, S. 2002. Generation of lower bounds for minimum span frequency assignment. Discrete applied mathematics 119(1-2), pp. 59-78. (10.1016/S0166-218X(01)00265-7)
Allen, S. M., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Automated optimisation for spectrum management. Presented at: Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum, London, UK, 24-25 October 2002IEE Two Day Conference. Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum. IEE Digest Vol. 112. IEE pp. 20., (10.1049/ic:20020248)
Allen, S. M., Hodge, L. E., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Estimating the site requirements for 3G multimedia services. Presented at: 5th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 27-30 October 2002The 5th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2002., Vol. 3. New York, NY: IEEE pp. 1202-1206., (10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088369)
Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Taplin, R. K., Wade, A. A. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Maximising spectrum efficiency for BFWA through automatic cell planning. Presented at: Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum, London, UK, 24-25 October 2002IEE Two Day Conference. Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum. IEE Digest Vol. 112. IEE pp. 10., (10.1049/ic:20020238)
Allen, S. M., Evans, D., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Communications network design with mobility characteristics. Presented at: IEEE 55th Vehicular Technology Conference 2002: VTC Spring 2002, Birmingham, AL, USA, 6-9 May 2002Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. VTC Spring 2002. IEEE 55th, Vol. 3. New York, NY: IEEE pp. 1420-1423., (10.1109/VTC.2002.1002850)
Allen, S. M., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2002. Automated decision technology for network design in cellular communication systems. Presented at: 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 7-10 January 2002Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2002. IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.1109/HICSS.2002.994002)

2001

Smith, D. H., Allen, S. M. and Hurley, S. 2001. Characteristics of good meta-heuristic algorithms for the frequency assignment problem. Annals of operations research 107(1-4), pp. 285-301. (10.1023/A:1014919603430)
Allen, S. M., Hurley, S. and Whitaker, R. M. 2001. Spectrally efficient cell planning in mobile wireless networks. Presented at: 53rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2001), Spring 2001Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd, Vol. 2. IEEE pp. 931-935., (10.1109/VETECS.2001.944515)
Allen, S. M., Hurley, S., Taplin, R. K. and Whitaker, R. M. 2001. Automatic cell planning of broadband fixed wireless networks. Presented at: 53rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2001), Spring 2001Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd, Vol. 4. New York, NY: IEEE pp. 2808-2812., (10.1109/VETECS.2001.944113)

My research covers areas in mobile and social computing, including:

Developing detailed mathematical models and metrics to represent the diverse technical and economical constraints and objectives of wireless networks,
Developing metaheuristic algorithms to select and configure network infrastructure.
Information dissemination in social newtorks and pervasive communication technologies, based on models of human behavior and mobility.
Understanding the role of human nature in our use of technology, for example, to develop techniques to predict opportune moments to interupt a smartphone user.

My teaching introduces Python, algorithms and discrete maths.

Education and qualifications

1996: PhD (Graph Theory) University of Reading, UK
1991: BSc Mathematics, Nottingham University, UK

Career overview

2000 - present: Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics
1996 - 2000: Research Fellow, University of Glamorgan

Professional memberships

Member of the IEEE

Contact Details

AllenSM@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 76070
Abacws, Room 3.14, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG

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