Research Interests

At present I am a Research Associate within the High Integrity Systems Engineering Group (HISE) of the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. My current work involves research into Dynamic Risk Assessment for distributed systems.

I studied for a PhD in the Department of Electronics where I was supervised by Tim Clarke. My PhD was based around a widely diverse set of research topics that has multiple different strands which can be broadly classified as:

Multi-Agent Systems - I tended to use Java for simulations with the JADE environment
Artificial Immune Systems
System Identification
Wavelets
Control Systems

My primary PhD research interests fell broadly into two fields; System Identification within the Control domain and Artificial Immune Systems. My work is based around identifying faults in large distributed control systems, in order to do this I am using concepts from the Immune System to find inspiration for new algorithms. I am studying the Alternative Pathway of Complement in order to develop robust social networks that are capable of locating errors occuring during their operation.

Publications

1. A Risk Modelling Approach for a Communicating System of Systems. Jonathan M. Aitken, Rob Alexander
   and Tim Kelly. Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Systems Conference. Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2011). Online
2. A Case for Dynamic Risk Assessment in NEC Systems of Systems. Jonathan M. Aitken, Rob Alexander
   and Tim Kelly. Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Systems of Systems Engineering
   (SoSE). Loughborough, United Kingdom (2010). Online
3. The Pathways of Complement. Jonathan M. Aitken, Tim Clarke, Jon Timmis. Proceedings of the 7th International
   Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS). p364-375. Phuket, Thailand (2008) Online
4. Using Data Confluences in a Distributed Network with Social Monitoring to Identify Fault Conditions.
   Jonathan M. Aitken and Tim Clarke. Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies
   and Factory Automation (ETFA). p703-710. Prague, Czech Republic (2006). Online

Contact Details

Dr Jonathan Aitken Department of Computer Science University of York Deramore Lane, Heslington, York. YO10 5GH Tel +44 (0) 1904 325464 Email: jonathan.aitken@cs.york.ac.uk