POSITION: Reader and Leader of the Distributed Systems Research Group,
School of Computing and Management Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

RESEARCH: Architectures for large scale distributed systems, performance and security within web-based systems, performance evaluation of databases, hardware/software co-design. Dr Ritchie has been active in parallel and distributed systems research and teaching for the past fourteen years, and has over 60 refereed publications in these areas. She has successfully supervised PhD candidates in these areas. Recently her work has focused on software development issues involved in large-scale distributed systems. Current collaborative projects involve in research into: temporal issues within web systems, delivery of XML data within the financial industries, secure delivery of multimedia services for the cultural industries, technology to support active reading in English literature studies.

TEACHING: Dr Ritchie's fourteen years teaching experience at Sheffield Hallam University covers undergraduate and postgraduate courses, for full time, part time and distance learning students. She has developed and delivered modules in the areas of software engineering, distributed systems and applications development. She has been have been heavily involved in the planning of new undergraduate computing programmes, and of the Career Masters degrees in association with Oracle, SAP and SAS, currently delivering modules on these. She has taught advanced short courses at various academic institutions in Europe and has acted as advisor on curriculum development. She has considerable experience as a supervisor of undergraduate and masters level projects. She contributes regularly to advanced specialist courses run for industry in the field of applications development and integration. Recent activities involve the establishment of a new MSc in Entertainment Software Development in association with Sony.

STANDING IN THE PROFESSION:
Dr Ritchie has attracted funding from the European Community and various government agencies for her research in the areas of large parallel databases and distributed software development. She has spent time as a visiting academic at universities and research institutions in many European countries and Australia, contributing to their research and teaching programmes.. She has given many external tutorials and seminars to academic institutions and industry, and presented papers at international conferences in the USA, Europe, Japan and Australia. She has acted as conference chair at a number of international symposia and workshops, and has extensive refereeing experience for some of the leading computing journals. She has acted as a visiting lecturer for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in UK and overseas. She acts as an external examiner for the computing postgraduate programmes within the UK, and is an examiner for the British Computer Society on their professional courses. Within her own institution, she serves on various policy-making committees, including the University Research Ethics Committee.

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Selected Publications

Chris Roast, Innes Ritchie and Stephanie Thomas, "Re-creating the reader - supporting active reading in literary research" Communications of the ACM, October 2002

Babak Akhgar and Innes Ritchie, "The Role of Middleware in Information Systems Strategy" Proc 2002 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, June 2002

Bob Cumberbatch, Innes Ritchie and Chris Bates, "Critical Success Factors for Using XML for Delivery of Post-Trading Financial Information" in Proc OOIS (International Conf on Object Oriented Information Systems), Calgary, Canada, August 2001, pub Springer Verlag (2001).

Innes Ritchie and Chris Roast, "Performance, Usability and the Web", Proceedings of HICSS-34 (Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences, January 2001, Maui, Hawaii, IEEE Computer Society (2001)

Chris Bates and Innes Ritchie, "Creating Realistic Data For Performance Evaluation" in Enterprise Information Systems II, eds B. Sharp, J. Filipe, J. Cordeiro, pub. Kluwer Academic Publishers,

Innes Jelly, "Whom Are We Teaching?", IEEE Computer, Vol 30, No.11, November 1997

Jianming Cai, D W Lloyd and I E Jelly, "Modeling Mobile Communication Systems in the Integrated PARSE and VHDL Environment", The Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Wireless Communications, 9-11 July 1997, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Ian Gorton and Innes E. Jelly, "Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems: Challenges and Opportunities", IEEE Concurrency, Vol 5, No 3, July 1997

I Gorton, I E Jelly, J P Gray and T Soon Chan "Reliable Parallel Software Construction using PARSE" in Concurrency: Practice and Experience Journal, March 1996

Grants

Project leader for Sheffield Hallam University: Project title "Large Parallel Databases" funded by EU COPERNICUS programme, collaboration with seven other European partners, academic and commercial, 1994-1995. Total funding 400,000 ECUs.

Hungarian Government sponsorship for visit to Szeged to continue joint research project on load balancing in multiprocessor machines. October 1994.

British Council / MURST/CRAI Award for collaborative research with University of Naples on PARSE Project, exchange visits funded for 2 years, £700, 1996.

DIST (Australian Government). Award for collaborative research with University of New South Wales on PARSE project, 1996-9. A$20,000

Research Leader, MOE (Multlimedia Online Environment) Project. Industry-university collaborative project funded by the EU Regional Development Fund, for research and development of services to support the Digital Cultural Industries within South Yorkshire, £400,000, 2000-2001

Conference Management

Co-Chair (with Chris Roast) of Mini-track "Waiting for the Web", Thirty Fourth International Hawaiian Conference on System Sciences, January 2001

Chair of Programme Committee, Fifth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Software Engineering, Limerick, Ireland, 2000

Member of Software Track Advisory Committee, Thirty First International Hawaiian Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, January 1998.

Publicity Chair, Seventh International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, Birmingham, UK, April 1997

Chair of Mini-track on "Distributed Object Systems", HICSS-30, Thirtieth International Hawaiian Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, January 1997.

Chair of Programme Committee of First IFIP International Workshop on "Parallel and Distributed Software Engineering", at International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Berlin, March 1996.

Plus membership of many International Programme Committees, 1994 - present

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