BSc, MSc, PhD

My main research interest is in Business Process Modelling: methods for process elicitation, analysis and modelling and studying different modelling paradigms and notations and modelling tools currently in use. My other interests include: knowledge management, natural language processing, information security, and enterprise information systems.

My current research includes:

  • Investigating the possibility of facilitating the process elicitation by automatic conversion of natural language process descriptions to executable process models.
  • Modelling distributed guarded processes using graphical models. To this end we have developed a notation, NMDS (Notation for Modelling Distributed Systems), based on Role Activity Diagrams. NMDS was first developed to model systems specified in LIPS (Language for Implementing Parallel and distributed Systems). Work is being carried out to evaluate and modify the notation so that it will enable modelling of distributed systems in general.
  • Automatic conversion of NMDS to CCS and CSP - enabling the verification of the correctness and completeness of a system specification.
  • Cognitive issues in modelling.

Research Supervision:

Director of Studies

  • Jim Otieno: An investigation of the challenges facing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation and maintenance
  • Amala Rajan: Artificial Intelligence Planning using Qualitative Spatial Reasoning and Object Oriented Programming Principles using .Net languages
  • Huong Le Thanh: Investigation into an Approach to Automatic Text Summarisation (PhD awarded 2004)
  • BIS4225 - Information Systems Management and Strategy (Module Leader)

Positions:

  • Principal Lecturer
  • Course Leader - MSc Business Information Systems Management

Publications:

  • A. S. Bavan and G. Abeysinghe, On the specification and implementation of distributed systems Using NMDS and LIPS, accepted by the Information and Software Technology journal.
  • G. Abeysinghe, A. S. Bavan, and A.V.S. Rajan, Requirement Specification for Distributed Applications Using Diagrammatic Notations, Proceedings of ADCOM 2004, the 12th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication, Ahmadabad, India, December 15-18, 2004.
  • Huong Thang Le, Geetha Abeysinghe, and Christian Huyck, Generating Discourse Structures for Written Texts, accepted for the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 23rd-27th August 2004.
  • Siri Bavan and Geetha Abeysinghe, On the Modelling and Implementation of Distributed Systems, Proceedings of VECPAR '04, High Performance Computing for Computational Science, Polytechnic University of Valencia, in Spain, June 28-30, 2004, pp. 783-796.
  • Huong T. Le, Geetha Abeysinghe, (2003), A Study to Improve the Efficiency of a Discourse Parsing System, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing'03), Mexico City, Mexico, February 16-22, 2003, Lecture Notes in ComputerScience (LNCS) N 2588, A. Gelbukh, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 2003.
  • Huong Le Thanh, Geetha Abeysinghe, and Christian Huyck, (2003), Using Cohesive Devices to Recognize Rhetorical Relations in Text, Proceedings of 4th Computational Linguistics UK Research Colloquium (CLUK-4), University of Edinburgh , UK, January 2003.
  • Smith Serengul, G. and Abeysinghe Geetha K, (2002), How Easy are Graphical Notations to Understand and Produce?, Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systematics, Cybernatics and Informatics, Volume XI, Computer Science II, July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • Abeysinghe, G., Urand, D., (1999) Why Use Enactable Models of Construction Processes? Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Volume 125(6).
  • Abeysinghe, G., Henderson, P., Phalp, K.T., and Walters, R.J. (1998) RolEnact: Enactable Models of Business Processes, Information and Software Technology, Volume 40(3).
  • Abeysinghe, G., and Phalp, K.T. (1997) Combining Process Modelling Methods, Information and Software Technology, Volume 39(2).
  • Abeysinghe, G., Henderson, P., Phalp, K.T., And Walters, R.J. (1997) An Audience Centred Approach to Modelling for Business Process Re-engineering, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Re-Technologies for Information Systems, Klagenfurt, Austria, Dec 1997, Lecture Notes, Volume 107.