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Welcome to the Distributed Systems and Services theme which is part of the Institute for Computational and Systems Science in the School of Computer Science.

We explore emerging issues in the infrastructure and systems performance for the next generation of distributed/Internet computing. The focus is on large-scale, dynamic interactions and resource sharing across different communities and organisations, bringing together computational power, data and human knowledge. Challenges from Big Data and from the need of an intelligent, secure and dependable infrastructure are being tackled by members of this theme. Examples of our recent research advance our understanding in critical issues relating to cloud, social and green computing.

Our projects are often conducted by multidisciplinary teams of researchers all over the world. These collaborations bring together specialists from both industry and academia, with Information and Computer Scientists from the School taking a prominent role. Feel free to explore further for opportunities to work with us and check out our current activities and publications.

News (Last 12 months)

[3 April 2025] Prof. Zheng Wang has been awarded the highly competitive Royal Society Industry Fellowship for four years. It will enable Zheng to strengthen long-term collaborative links between industry and academia. Many congratulations to Zheng!
[Feb, 2025] Karim has recently been appointed as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Many congratulations to Professor Karim Djemame.
[Jan, 2025] IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is celebrating its 50th anniversary with retrospectives on the history and evolution of Software Engineering. Professor Brian Randell and Professor Jie Xu were invited to contribute one article Looking Back on Recovery Blocks and Conversations, focusing on software fault tolerance and dependability.
[Jan, 2025] PROM received a distingusished paper award at CGO 2025. Congratulations to Huanting Wang, Patrick Lenihan, and Prof. Zheng Wang.
[Oct, 2024] Congratulations to Xiaoyang and Huanting winning the AI SuperConnector Award; Each is given a £20K seed fund to commercialise their research.
[Sep, 2024] Congratulations to Dr. Arash Bozorgchenani! A book chapter has been published “Utilizing Cobb-Douglas Production Function in the Modeling of Joint Security and Quality of Service in 5G Networks” in Springer.

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Events (Last 12 months)

[22-25 June 2025] EURO 2025: the 34th European Conference on Operational Research will take place in Leeds 22-25 June 2025. This event is of special significance: 2025 is the 50th Anniversary of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO)!
[24 Feb 2025] Inaugural Lecture: Professor Arshad Jhumka, School of Computer Science, Wed 26 Feb 2025 3:45 PM - 6:00 PM (Inaugural Lecture: Professor Arshad Jhumka, School of Computer Science | Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences | University of Leeds).
[6th Dec 2024] Our last Theme meeting of this semester will be held on Friday 06/12/2024 in Civil Engineering SR (3.13) from 1400-1500.
[15th Nov 2024] Our Theme meeting will be held on 15th Nov 2024 in Civil Engineering (2.10) from 1400-1500.

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