Dr Anthony Simons

MA, PhD

School of Computer Science

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Director of Undergraduate Admissions

Study Abroad/International Student Exchange Officer

Member of the Testing research group

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a.j.simons@sheffield.ac.uk
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Dr Anthony Simons
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
91̽»¨
S1 4DP
Profile

Dr Anthony J H Simons is an academic software engineer in the Department of Computer Science. He has an MA in Modern Languages from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of 91̽»¨. After graduating he joined 91̽»¨ as a Research Associate in the Speech and Hearing Research Group to build speech recognition systems.

Later, in the Verification and Testing Research Group, he developed the type theory of object-oriented programming languages for his PhD. Subsequently becoming a Lecturer, he was active in developing object-oriented software engineering methods, and became the UK respondent for an OPEN ISO standard.

As a Senior Lecturer, he investigates the area of Model-Based Testing and Model-Driven Engineering, with application to Cloud Computing.

Research interests

Dr Simons' research focuses on turning formal results from verification and testing into practical benefits for software engineering. His current research areas include model-based testing and model-driven engineering, with applications to Cloud computing.

He has also published widely in object-oriented software engineering, including type theory and software development methods. He is inventor of the JWalk automatic software testing tool for Java; and the JAST library for processing XML in Java. He is co-author of the OPEN Toolbox of Techniques.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Gyeera TW, Simons AJH & Stannett M (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 1-14. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alharbi S, Hasan M, Simons AJH, Brumfitt S & Green P (2020) . Computer Speech & Language, 62. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons A & Lefticaru R (2020) . Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 30(3). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons A & Fernández-y-Fernández C (2018) An algebra to represent task flow models. Journal of Advance Computational Research, 3(2), 63-74. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kiran M & Simons A (2016) . International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, 6(1), 42-58. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gonidis F, Paraskakis I & Simons AJH (2015) . International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering, 5(4), 1-25. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fernández-Fernández CA & Simons AJH (2014) . Journal of Applied Research and Technology, 12(5), 908-918. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH, Fraser G & Bottaci L (2013) . Software - Practice and Experience, 43(9), 1101-1102. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hierons RM, Bogdanov K, Bowen JP, Cleaveland R, Derrick J, Dick J, Gheorghe M, Harman M, Kapoor K, Krause P , Luttgen G et al (2009) . ACM COMPUT SURV, 41(2). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Derrick J, North S & Simons AJH (2009) Z2SAL: a translation-based model checker for Z. Formal Aspects of Computing, 1-29. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2007) . AUTOMAT SOFTW ENG, 14(4), 369-418. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2006) . Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 16(1), 62-64. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2006) . SOFTWARE TESTING VERIFICATION & RELIABILITY, 16(3), 133-156. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2005) The theory of classification part 18: Polymorphism through the looking glass. Journal of Object Technology, 4(4), 7-18. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2005) . Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 15(1), 63-64. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2005) . Journal of Object Technology, 4(1), 13-25. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2005) . Journal of Object Technology, 4(5), 37-48. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2005) . Journal of Object Technology, 4(2), 15-26. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2005) . Journal of Object Technology, 4(7), 7-18. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2004) . Journal of Object Technology, 3(8), 15-26. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2004) . Journal of Object Technology, 3(1), 43-53. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2004) . Journal of Object Technology, 3(5), 13-24. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2004) . Journal of Object Technology, 3(3), 7-19. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2004) . Journal of Object Technology, 3(10), 7-18. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2004) . Journal of Object Technology, 3(7), 15-25. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2003) . Journal of Object Technology, 2(3), 13-22. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2003) . Journal of Object Technology, 2(2), 17-26. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2003) . Journal of Object Technology, 2(1), 13-21. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2003) . Journal of Object Technology, 2(6), 25-34. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2003) . Journal of Object Technology, 2(4), 55-64. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2002) . Journal of Object Technology, 1(2), 47-54. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2002) . Journal of Object Technology, 1(1), 55-61. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2002) . Journal of Object Technology, 1(5), 27-33. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2002) . Journal of Object Technology, 1(4), 49-57. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Henderson-Sellers B & Simons AJH (2000) The OPEN software engineering process architecture: From activities to techniques. J RES PRACT INF TECH, 32(1), 47-68. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH, Snoeck M & Hung KSY (1999) Using design patterns to reveal the competence of object-oriented methods in system-level design. COMPUT SYST SCI ENG, 14(6), 343-352. RIS download Bibtex download
  • van den Berg KG & Simons AJH (1999) Control-flow semantics of use cases in UML. INFORM SOFTWARE TECH, 41(10), 651-659. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Henderson-Sellers B, Firesmith DG, Graham I & Simons AJH (1999) Instantiating the process metamodel. JOOP - Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, 12(3), 51-57. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Henderson-Sellers B & Graham IM (1999) Metalevel relationship cardinalities. JOURNAL OF OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, 12(1), 51-58. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (1998) Borrow, copy or steal? Loans and larceny in the orthodox canonical form. ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES, 33(10), 65-83. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Henderson-Sellers B & Graham I (1996) . Computer, 29(4), 86-89. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH, Low Eng Kwang & Ng Yee Mei (1994) An optimizing delivery system for object-oriented software. Object Oriented Systems, 1(1), 21-44. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gyeera TW, Simons AJH & Stannett MP () Kalman filter based prediction and forecasting of cloud server KPIs. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH () . The Journal of Object Technology, 4(4), 1-1. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Gonidis F, Paraskakis I & Simons AJH (2014) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 1-12). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cabot J, Albert P, Dupé G, del Fabro MD & Lee S (2011) , Modelling Foundations and Applications (pp. 379-380). Springer Berlin Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH & Graham I (1999) , Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems (pp. 237-257). Springer US RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hung K, Simons T & Rose T (1998) , °¿°¿±õ³§â€™98 (pp. 183-200). Springer London RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hung KSY, Simons AJH & Rose A (1998) , Software Quality Management VI (pp. 121-134). Springer London RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (1997) , °¿°¿±õ³§â€™96 (pp. 44-56). Springer London RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Alzahrani E, Simons AJH & Richmond P (2019) . 2019 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), 15 July 2019 - 19 July 2019. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alharbi S, Hasan M, Simons AJH, Brumfitt S & Green P (2018) . Proceedings of Interspeech 2018 (pp 3433-3437), 2 September 2018 - 6 September 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alzahrani E, Richmond P & Simons AJH (2018) (pp 703-714) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alharbi S, Hasan M, Simons AJH, Brumfitt S & Green P (2017) (pp 217-228) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gonidis F, Paraskakis I & Simons AJH (2015) (pp 139-152) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lefticaru R & Simons AJH (2015) . ESOCC 2014: Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, Vol. 508 (pp 175-189) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH, Rossini A, Paraskakis I & Jensen J (2015) (pp 121-123) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kiran M & Simons AJH (2015) (pp 190-205) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gonidis F, Paraskakis I & Simons AJH (2015) . 2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (pp 751-754), 15 December 2014 - 18 December 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH, Verginadis Y, Mentzas G, Bratanis K, Kourtesis D, Braun S, Paraskakis I, Veloudis S & Rossini A (2014) . Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cross-Cloud Systems, CrossCloud Brokers 2014 - Held in conjunction with the 15th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2014, 8 December 2014 - 12 December 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Siregar MU, Derrick J, North SD & Simons AJH (2014) . Proceedings - ICACSIS 2014: 2014 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (pp 225-231). Jakarta, Indonesia, 18 October 2014 - 19 October 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kourtesis D, Bratanis K, Friesen A, Verginadis Y, Simons AJH, Rossini A, Schwichtenberg A & Gouvas P (2014) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 8377 LNCS (pp 150-162) RIS download Bibtex download
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  • Mentzas G, Simons AJH & Paraskakis I (2014) Cloud Service Brokerage 2013 - Methods and Mechanisms. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8377 (pp 135-136). Berlin, 2 December 2013 - 2 December 2013. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kiran M, Friesen A, Simons AJH & Schwach WKR (2014) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8377 (pp 192-208). Berlin, 2 December 2013 - 2 December 2013. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gonidis F, Paraskakis I, Simons AJH & Kourtesis D (2013) . ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp 275-282), 19 September 2013 - 21 September 2013. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bratanis K, Dranidis D & Simons AJH (2011) . ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp 28-32) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bratanis K, Dranidis D & Simons AJH (2010) . ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp 9-16) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bratanis K, Dranidis D & Simons AJH (2010) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 6303 LNCS (pp 203-206) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH & Zhao W (2009) . TAIC PART 2009 - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (pp 33-42) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ramollari E, Kourtesis D, Dranidis D & Simons AJH (2009) Leveraging Semantic Web Service Descriptions for Validation by Automated Functional Testing. SEMANTIC WEB: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, Vol. 5554 (pp 593-607) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Thomson CD, Holcombe M & Simons AJH (2009) . TAIC PART 2009 - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (pp 167-175) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH, Griffths N & Thomson C (2008) Feedback-Based Specification, Coding and Testing with JWalk. TACI PART 2008:TESTING: ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH TECHNIQUES, PROCEEDINGS (pp 69-73) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Thomson C, Holcombe M, Cowling T, Simons T & Michaelides G (2008) A Pilot Study of Comparative Customer Comprehension between Extreme X-Machine and UML Models. ESEM'08: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2008 ACM-IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND MEASUREMENT (pp 270-272) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Derrick J, North S & Simons AJH (2008) Z2SAL-Building a Model Checker for Z. ABSTRACT STATE MACHINES, B AND Z, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 5238 (pp 280-293) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH & Thomson CD (2008) . 2008 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW'08 (pp 375-379) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH & Thomson CD (2007) . TAIC PART 2007 - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques, Proceedings (pp 138-138) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Derrick J, North S & Simons T (2006) (pp 678-696) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH & Fernandez CAFY (2005) Using Alloy to model-check visual design notations. Sixth Mexican International Conference on Computer Science, Proceedings (pp 121-128) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (2005) Testing with guarantees and the failure of regression testing in eXtreme Programming. EXTREME PROGRAMMING AND AGILE PROCESSES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 3556 (pp 118-126) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stannett MP, Simons A, Bogdanov K & Holcombe W (2002) Plug and Play Safely: Rules for Behavioural Compatibility. IASTED SEA 2002 (pp 263-268). Cambridge, MA RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (1999) Use cases considered harmful. TOOLS 29: TECHNOLOGY OF OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, Vol. 29 (pp 194-203) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH (1998) . OOPSLA '98: Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (pp 65-83). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 18 October 1998 - 18 October 1998. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH, Snoeck M & Hung KSY (1998) Design Patterns as litmus paper to test the strength of object-oriented methods. OOIS'98: 1998 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OBJECT ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS (pp 129-147) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green PD, Cooke MP, Lafferty HH & Simons AJH (1988) (pp 123-128) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Green PD, Cooke MP, Lafferty HH & Simons AJH (1987) A SPEECH RECOGNITION STRATEGY BASED ON MAKING ACOUSTIC EVIDENCE AND PHONETIC KNOWLEDGE EXPLICIT. European Conference on Speech Technology, ECST 1987 (pp 1373-1376) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alharbi S, Simons AJH, Brumfitt S & Green P () . 6th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2017) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stannett MP, Simons A, Bogdanov K & Holcombe W () Method of Object Testing, Integration and Verification. FORTEST Workshop on testing. York, 13 September 2002. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Simons AJH () . Electronic Workshops in Computing RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Simons AJH & Fernandez-y-Fernandez CA (2008) , arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gyeera TW, Simons AJH & Stannett M () , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gyeera TW, Simons AJH & Stannett M () , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). RIS download Bibtex download
Grants
  • Ferromone Trails Concept, Department for Transport (DFT), 02/2017 to 06/2017, £24,635, as PI
  • Future Engineering System: ATI, InnovateUK, 04/2016 to 03/2019, £199,874, as PI
  • , EC- FP7, 11/2012 to 12/2015, £323,688, as PI
Professional activities and memberships
  • Member of the  research group
  • Research Track Director for the South-East European Research Centre
  • Director of Undergraduate Admissions, Department of Computer Science
  • 91̽»¨ International College Liaison Officer
  • Previous Director of Teaching, Department of Computer Science
  • Previous European Liaison Officer, Department of Computer Scienc