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      Prof Balbir Barn

      ROLE: Deputy Dean
      SCHOOL: Science & Technology
      DEPARTMENT: School Leadership
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 4563
      EMAIL: B.Barn@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Balbir is Professor of Software Engineering at Middlesex University. Following a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bath, Balbir embarked on an industrial research career of over 15 years working in the various research labs at Marconi, Texas Instruments and Sterling Software where he was involved in the research and design of leading software products such as the IEF. Balbir joined Middlesex in 2008 as Associate Dean for Business in the School of Engineering and Information Sciences after an earlier academic role as Head of Department and Professor of Computing at th University of West London. Balbir has been a principal investigator on research projects totalling over £1.5M. He has also provided consultancy to prestigious clients such as JP Morgan Chase and JISC.


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      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Teaching interests include: Requrements Management; Systems and Software Modelling; Software Engineering and Knowledge Management.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        My research contributes to software engineering and information systems primarily through research that enables the delivery of software tools and processes that promote business change or increase productivity. This theme has been an on-going thread for over 24 years and includes contributions to leading commercial products such as the IEF at Texas Instruments.

        Recent research projects have focused on model driven software engineering where the goal is to use models as abstractions and execution environments to support, for example, enterprise architecture and software design. This also includes a return to a more fundamental philosophical position around "theory building". Some of this work draws input from both the Philisophy of Fiction and Legal reasoning (Argumentation).

        A second strand of research activity has focussed on application of technology to support health education.Two projects have focused on the use of mobile technologies to support the health care domains – Nursing and Social Work. More recently, Balbir is managing a project funded by the Nominet Trust to develop applications to support young offenders in the youth justice system. Further details on this project are available at:http://www.mayot.mdx.ac.uk/

        Publication Feed

        Human and value sensitive aspects of mobile app design: a Foucauldian perspective

        Barn, Balbir and Barn, Ravinder (2018) Human and value sensitive aspects of mobile app design: a Foucauldian perspective. In: CAiSE 2018 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 11-15 June 2018, Tallinn, Estonia.

        Towards a unified conceptual model for surveillance theories

        Barn, Balbir and Barn, Ravinder (2018) Towards a unified conceptual model for surveillance theories. In: 40th International Conference on Software Engineering Software in Society Track, 27 May - 03 Jun 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

        Towards improved organisational decision-making - a method and tool-chain

        Barat, Souvik and Kulkarni, Vinay and Barn, Balbir (2018) Towards improved organisational decision-making - a method and tool-chain. Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures – International Journal of Conceptual Modeling, 13 (2018). 6:1-6:16. ISSN 1866-3621

        A modelling technique for enterprise agility

        Nwokeji, Joshua Chibuike and Aqlan, Faisal and Barn, Balbir and Clark, Tony and Kulkarni, Vinay (2018) A modelling technique for enterprise agility. In: HICSS-51 The 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 03-06 Jan 2018, Hawaii, USA.

        Querying histories of organisation simulations

        Clark, Tony and Barn, Balbir and Kulkarni, Vinay and Barat, Souvik (2017) Querying histories of organisation simulations. In: 26th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2017 CYPRUS), 06-08 Sept 2017, Larnaca, Cyprus.

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        2013: £150,000: "MAYOT: Mobile Applications for Youth Offending Teams". Nominet Trust. (PI).

        A project in collaboration with Royal Holloway, University of London aiming to develop software tools for helping Case workers in their support activity with youth offenders. This project has the backing of the Youth Justice Board.

        2012: £45,000: 'SLR-Guide': A project to develop a tool to support the systematic literature review process, JISC, (PI)

        2011: £10,000: 'Middlesex Strategic-ICT Toolkit', A project to explore the business and strategic ICT alignment maturity at Middlesex University, JISC, (PI)

        2010: £3000: 'Tools for Music Composition and Performance for All', Knowledge Connect. (PI). Research to explore the potential of music technology for supporting music education for disabled children, with Drake Music.

        2009: £300,000: 'MUSKET -Middlesex University Skills and Education Planning Tool': JISC, (PI). The development of automated support for comparing programme and module learning outcomes to support APELand other academic processes. The project developed a number of algorithms based on semantic analysis of course specifications.

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Recent examples of engagement and impact include:-

        Provision of consultancy to JP Morgan Chase on component based software practice.

        Provision of consultancy to JISC on technologies to support service oriented architectures for higher education (E-Framework).

        Regular invitations to Practitioner forums on Enterprise Architecture.

        Review of EPSRC research proposals.

        Co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Software and Systems Modelling on "Enterprise Modelling".

        Work with the Tata Research, Design and Development Center on a collaborative research project on embedding model driven approaches to managing organisations.

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