S. Misbah Deen

Professor S. Misbah Deen, B.Sc (hons), M.Sc, Ph.D, DIC, FBCS, CEng

Professor S. Misbah Deen graduated from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and gained his PhD from Imperial College in 1965. Subsequently he engaged in physics research, in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, and in the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory. He worked in SCICON computer consultancy company before moving to the Computing Science Department of the University of Aberdeen in 1973. He left Aberdeen in 1986 to take up a Chair in Computer Science at the University of Keele, where he is also the Director of the interdisciplinary Data and Knowledge Engineering (DAKE) Centre.

Professor Deen is well-known for his pioneering activities in both data base teaching and research. He chaired international and British national conferences on these topics. While at Aberdeen he led the PRECI data base research project where British and overseas research centres, funded by the SERC and EEC, collaborated on data base research. This led to the implementation of the PRECI/C relational and PRECI* distributed data base systems. The PRECI* system has received an international recognition as a general architecture for open heterogeneous distributed data base systems.

In addition to publishing over 70 research papers, he has also edited 6 conference proceedings. He is the author of two text books, "Fundamentals of Data Base Systems" and "Principles and Practice of Database Systems". He edited "Practical Database Techniques", Pitman, 1990.

His current research activities includes integration of data and knowledge base systems and cooperative knowledge based systems. He has chaired DKBI'89, an international conference on the first topic, and another international conference on the second topic in October, 1990. He leads a three-year collaborative project with Japan (funded by the Royal Society) on Dynamic Interoperability in distributed knowledge based system.

He is a partner in the ESPRIT IMAGINE project on cooperating knowledge based systems, and in the Holonic Manufacturing Systems project of the IMS Programme.

Selected publications

1. S. M. Deen, R.R. Amin, M.C. Taylor: "Data Integration in Distributed Databases": IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. (SE-13:7), July 1987, p.860-65.

2. S. M. Deen, B. J. Banks, S. M. Harding and A. C. Herath: "Design and Implementation of DEAL", Data and Knowledge Base Integration, Edited by Deen and Thomas, Pitman 1990, pp29-63.

3. S. M. Deen: "Cooperating Agents - A Database Perspective", CKBS'90 (Proc. of the Int. Working Conference on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems, Keele, October, 1990), edited by S. M. Deen, published by Springer,1991, pp 3-29.

4. S. M. Deen, Y. Sun and A.G. Stockman: 8. "Processing Temporal Data in the Relational Database" Proc. of the 3rd Int. conf. on Data and Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering, Lyon, France, March 1992, pp237-246, published by AFCET, France.

5. S. M. Deen: "A General Framework For Coherence in a CKBS", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.