Newcastle University

Simon Woodman is a Research Associate in the Scalable Information Management group. His interests include workflow enactment, especially those systems that allow distributed coordination, service description languages, secure data provenance, non-relational databases, social network analysis and collective intelligence. He is one of the architects of e-Science Central, an active information repository for securely storing, sharing and processing scientific data.

Simon was awarded his PhD in 2008 for his thesis on "A Programming System for Process Coordination in Virtual Organisations", supervised by Prof. Santosh Shrivastava. 

Simon has experience in usability having worked in the User Centred Design group at IBM Hursley during an internship as part of his undergraduate course.  He was one of the developers of the original CICS Information Centre, presenting the CICS documentation in novel ways. 

 Simon has undertaken research in workflow enactment, process algebra and formal methods, e-Science, information management, cheminformatics and QSAR, service agreements.  He has been involved in the following projects:

• ADAPT
• GridMIST
• NSS (e-Science Central)
• CARMEN
• Project Junior
• OpenMovement
• XPS Nexus
• Cloud Cat (Flood Modelling on the Cloud)
• Iridium
• NeuroCloud
• VENUS-C 

 Simon is not currently teaching any courses.  Previous teaching includes:

• Guest Lectures on non-relational databases (MSc ITEC)
• Introductory course on Java Programming for MSc Students (CSC 2552o)
• Introductory course on Advanced Java Development (MSc SDIA)
• System Design (CSC8107) Lab work
• Enterprise Distributed Computing (CSC8104) Lab work
• Miscellaneous Guest Lectures and lab work 

• Woodman S, Hiden H, Watson P, Missier P. Achieving Reproducibility by Combining Provenance with Service and Workflow Versioning. In: 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. 2011, Seattle, Washington, USA: ACM Digital Library.
• Watson P, Leahy D, Cala J, Sykora V, Hiden H, Woodman S, Taylor M, Searson D. Cloud Computing for Chemical Activity Prediction. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1242.
• Woodman S, Hiden H, Watston P, Cala J. Developing Applications using the e-Science Central API. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting. 2011, York.
• Hiden H, Watson P, Leahy D, Cala J, Searson D, Sykora V, Woodman S. Accelerating Chemical Property Prediction with Cloud Computing. In: Microsoft e-Science Workshop. 2010, Berkeley, CA: Microsoft.
• Watson P, Hiden H, Woodman S. e-Science Central for CARMEN: Science as a service. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2010, 22(17), 2369-2380.
• Hiden H, Watson P, Woodman S, Leahy D. e-Science Central: Cloud-based e-Science and its application to chemical property modelling. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1227.
• Watson P, Hiden H, Woodman S, Leahy D, Cala J. e-Science Central: e-Science on the Web, powered by Clouds. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting. 2010, Cardiff.
• Woodman S. [PhD Thesis] A Programming System for Process Coordination in Virtual Organisations. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008.
• Woodman S, Parastatidis S, Webber J. Protocol-Based Integration Using SSDL and pi-Calculus. In: Taylor, I. .J., Deelman, E., Gannon, D.B., Shields, M., ed. Workflows for E-science: Scientific Workflows for Grids. London, UK: Springer-Verlag, 2007, pp. 227-243.
• Parastatidis S, Woodman S, Webber J, Kuo D, Greenfield P. Asynchronous messaging between Web services using SSDL. IEEE Internet Computing 2006, 10(1), 26-39.
• Molina-Jimenez C, Shrivastava SK, Woodman SJ. On State Synchronization of Business Conversations. In: 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce and Technology (CEC). 2006, San Francisco, California: IEEE Computer Society.
• Parastatidis S, Webber J, Woodman S, Kuo D, Greenfield P. An Introduction to the SOAP Service Description Language. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 898.
• Woodman SJ, Palmer D, Shrivastava SK, Wheater SM. Decentralised Coordination of Web Services for B2B Integration. In: Proceedings of Middleware for Web Services (MWS) 2005 Workshop held at EDOC 2005 Conference. 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands: IEEE.
• Woodman S, Parastatidis S, Webber J. Sequencing Constraints SSDL Protocol Framework. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 903.
• Woodman SJ, Palmer DJ, Shrivastava SK, Wheater SM. Distributed Enactment of Composite Web Services. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2004. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 848.
• Woodman SJ, Palmer DJ, Shrivastava SK, Wheater SM. Notations for the Specification and Verification of Composite Web Services. In: 8th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC). 2004, Monterey, California: IEEE.
• Woodman SJ, Palmer DJ, Shrivastava SK, Wheater SM. Notations for the Specification and Verification of Composite Web Services. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2004. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 849.
• Woodman SJ, Palmer DJ, Shrivastava SK, Wheater SM. A System for Distributed Enactment of Composite Web Services. University of Trento, 2003. DIT-03-056.
• Woodman SJ, Palmer DJ, Shrivastava SK, Wheater SM. Distributed Enactment of Composite Web Services. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2003. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 848.
• Woodman S, Morgan G, Parkin S. Portal Replication for Web Application Availability Via SOAP. In: 8th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS). 2003, Guadalajara, Mexico: IEEE Computer Society.
• Woodman SJ, Morgan G, Parkin SE. Portal Replication for Web Application Availability Via SOAP. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2003. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 797.