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The University of Liverpool’s Department of Computer Science has been ranked within the top ten computer science departments in the UK, according to results published today in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Scoring 3.05 (equivalent to the highest 5* rating of the previous RAE in 2001), this result reflects a continuing upward trend towards research excellence within Computing Science at Liverpool, with 30% of academic staff being “world-leading”, and a further 45% of the staff being “internationally excellent”.
This announcement echoes recent achievements by members of the department, such as the recent best paper awards attained by members of each of the three research groups in the department (see opposite), and Professor Paul Goldberg’s receipt of the Game Theory Society’s Inaugural Prize for helping to solve the Nash Equilibrium problem, which won John Nash the 1994 Nobel Prize.
Comp. Sci. Ranks within Top Ten UK Universities for Research
18/12/2008
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008)
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) provides quality profiles for the research activities of different departments in UK Higher Education Institutions, based on factors such as quality publications, international reputation, funding and research output. These profiles reflect the international standing of each department in terms of research, and provide objective metrics that are used to determine future UK research funding, and provide research quality rankings for different Universities.
2008 Best Paper Awards for Research Groups in Liverpool’s Computer Science Department
Paul E. Dunne, Wiebe van der Hoek, Sarit Kraus, and Michael Wooldridge, Cooperative Boolean games. Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, 2008
Complexity Theory and Algorithmics (CTAG) Group:
Heiner Ackermann, Paul W. Goldberg, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Heiko Röglin, Berthold Vöcking. Uncoordinated two-sided matching markets. Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Electronic commerce, 2008
Logic and Computation (LoCo) Group:
Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyaschev. Can You Tell the Difference Between DL-Lite Ontologies? Principles Of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings Of The Eleventh International Conference (KR2008)