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Neil Hurley

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Dr Neil Hurley BSc MSC PhD
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Biography

Dr. Neil Hurley graduated with a M.Sc. degree in Mathematical science from U.C.D. in 1988.

In 1989, he joined Hitachi Dublin Laboratory, a computer science research laboratory based at Trinity College Dublin. He initially worked on knowledge-based environments for engineering design and was awarded a Ph.D. for this work in 1995. A patent for the system was granted in the US and Europe.His research focus switched to parallel and distributed computing and he became group leader of the parallel computing group in HDL in 1995. During this period he worked on the development of parallel simulation and optimisation software, such as parallel finite element analysis and dynamic load balancing. In 1998, he was appoointed as manager of HDL.

He became a lecturer in the UCD Computer Science department in 1999. He established the Information Hiding Laboratory in 2001, a research laboratory focused on technology for embedding information in digital content. He has won over €1 million euro in research funding from Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, the EU and industrial partners.


Professional

Associations

    • Association: IEEE, Function/Role: Member

Disclosures

    • A Simulation Method and Tool. Inventor(s):Neil Hurley, Guenole Silvestre, Keith Cullen, Submitted: 01-OCT-04

Licensing

    • ufx-design software. Inventor(s):Keith Cullen, Neil Hurley, Guenole Silvestre, Licensee:iZotope Ltd.

Committees

    • Committee : EMPS Graduate School Board

Employment

    • Employer: Hitachi Dublin Laboratory Position: Laboratory Manager
    • Employer: Hitachi Dublin Laboratory Position: Researcher

Education

    • Year 1995 Institution: Trinity College Dublin Qualification: PhD Subject:
    • Year 1987 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: BSc Subject:
    • Year 1988 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: MSc Subject:

Reviews

    • International Journal On Artificial Intelligence Tools : Reviewer.
    • Information Retrieval: Reviewer.
    • Physica A-Statistical Mechanics And Its Applications: Reviewer.
    • The Journal Of Systems And Software - Us Journal: Reviewer.
    • The International Journal Of High Performance Computing Applications: Reviewer.
    • Ieee Intelligent Systems & Their Applications: Reviewer.
    • Ieee Transactions On Information Forensics And Security: Reviewer.
    • International Journal Systems Science: Reviewer.
    • Ieee Transactions On Multimedia: Reviewer.
    • Ieee Transactions On Image Processing: Reviewer.
    • Journal Of Electronic Imaging: Reviewer.

Publications

Book Chapters

    • Burke, R. and O'Mahony, M.P. and Hurley, N.; (2011) 'Robust Collaborative Recommendation' In: Ricci, F.; Rokach, L.; Shapira, B.; Kantor, P.B (eds). Recommender Systems Handbook. New York: Springer. [Details]
    • Hurley, N., Finn, D., and N. Sagawa ; (1992) 'Knowledge-Based Modelling Environment for Numerical Simulation' In: Houstis, E.N. and Rice, J.R (eds). Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Symbolic Computing. London: Elsevier. [Details]
    • O'Mahony, MP; Hurley, NJ; Silvestre, GCM; ; (2003) 'Collaborative filtering - Safe and sound?' In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Foundations in Intelligence Systems. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer. [DOI] [Details]
    • Silvestre, GCM; Hurley, NJ; Furon, T; ; (2002) 'Robustness and efficiency of non-linear side-informed watermarking' In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Revised papers from the 5th International Workshop on Information Hiding. London, UK: Springer-Verlag. [Details]
    • D. Golden, N. Hurley and S. McGrath; (1998) 'Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Large Eddy Simulation using the Finite Element Method' In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Procs. of the 4th International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing. London, UK: Springer-Verlag. [Details]
    • N. Hurley; (1995) 'Evaluating the Application of CBR in Mesh Design for Simulation Problems' In: In: M. Velosa, A.Aamodt (eds), 1010, (1995) (eds). Case-based Reasoning Research and Development, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. *: Springer-Verlag. [Details]
    • P.Cunningham, B. Smith and N. Hurley; (1995) 'On the Use of CBR in Optimisation Problems such as TSP' In: In: M. Velosa, A.Aamodt (eds) (eds). Case-based Reasoning Research and Development, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1010. *: Springer-Verlag. [Details]
    • N. Sagawa, D. Finn, N. Hurley; (1992) 'An Integrated Problem Solving Environment for Numerical Simulation of Engineering Problems' In: eds. Gaffney and Houstis (eds). Programming Environments for High-Level Scientific Problem Solving. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

    • N.J. Hurley and M. Zhang; (2011) 'Novelty and Diversity in Top-N Recommendation ¿ Analysis and Evaluation'. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, . [Details]
    • A. Narasimhamurthy and Derek Greene and N. J. Hurley and P. Cunningham; (2009) 'Partitioning large networks without breaking communities'. Knowledge and Information Systems, . Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Hurley, N.J., Balado, F. and Silvestre, G. C. M. ; (2008) 'Markov modelling of fingerprinting systems for collision analysis'. EURASIP Journal on Information Security, . [DOI] [Details]
    • F. Balado, N.J. Hurley, E.P. McCarthy and G.C.M. Silvestre; (2007) 'Performance Analysis of Robust Audio Hashing'. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2 (2):254-266. [Details]
    • N.J. Hurley, M. O'Mahony and G.C.M. Silvestre; (2007) 'Attacking Recommender Systems -- A Cost-benefit Analysis'. IEEE Intelligent Sysyems, 22 (3):64-68. [Details]
    • Whelan, K. M., Balado, F., Silvestre, G. C. M. Hurley, N. J.; (2007) 'A two-dimensional extension of the mueller & muller timing error detector'. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 14 (7):457-460. [Details]
    • Hogan, M. T., Balado, F. , Silvestre, C. M. Hurley, N. J. ; (2006) 'Secure and robust steganography using side information at the encoder'. IEE Procs. on Information Security, 153 (3):87-95. [Details]
    • P-Y Fulchiron, B. O'Donovan, G. Silvestre, N. Hurley; (2004) 'A Synchronisation Method for Informed Spread-Spectrum Audio Watermarking'. Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 1 (6):11-17. [Details]
    • Michael P. OMahony, Neil J. Hurley, Nicholas Kushmerick,and Guenole C. M. Silvestre,; (2004) 'Collaborative Recommendation - A Robustness Analysis'. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 4 (4):344-377. [Details]
    • F. Balado, K. Whelan, G. Silvestre and N. Hurley; (2005) 'Joint Iterative Decoding and Estimation for Side-Informed Data Hiding'. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 53 (10):4006-4019. [Details]
    • O'Mahony, MP; Hurley, NJ; Silvestre, GCM; ; (2004) 'An evaluation of neighbourhood formation on the performance of collaborative filtering'. Artificial Intelligence Review, 21 (3-4):215-228. [Details]
    • Crane, M; Hurley, NJ; Crane, L; Healy, AM; Corrigan, OI; Gallagher, KM; McCarthy, LG; ; (2004) 'Simulation of the USP drug delivery problem using CFD: experimental, numerical and mathematical aspects'. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 12 (2):147-158. [Details]
    • N. Hurley; (1997) 'The Use of Fuzzy Representation in a CBR System for Mesh Design'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1188 :29-43. [Details]
    • P.Cunningham, B. Smith and N. Hurley; (1995) 'On the Use of CBR in Optimisation Problems such as TSP'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1010 :401-410. [Details]
    • N. Hurley; (1995) 'Evaluating the Application of CBR in Mesh Design for Simulation Problems'. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence- Computer Scie, 1010 :193-204. [Details]
    • N. Hurley; (1994) 'A Case based Reasoning Approach to Mesh Specification for Adaptive Finite Element Analysis'. Maths and Computers in Simulation, 36 (4-6):381-388. [Details]
    • N. Hurley (1993); (1993) 'A priori Selection of Mesh Densities for Adaptive Finite Element Analysis, using a Case Based Reasoning Approach'. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence- Computer Scie, 837 (In S.Wess, K. Althof):379-390. [Details]
    • D. Finn, N. Hurley and N. Sagawa; (1992) 'AI-DEQSOL : A Knowledge-based Environment for the Numerical Simulation of Engineering Problems described by Partial Differential Equations'. Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Desi, 6 (3). [Details]

Other Journals

    • Larkin, AJ; Balado, M; Hurley, NJ; Silvestre, GCM; ; (2005) 'Dither modulation watermarking of dynamic memory traces' Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Information Hiding 3727 (NA) :372-386. [Details]

Conference Publications

    • Conrad Lee, Fergal Reid, Aaron McDaid, Neil Hurley; (2010) Detecting highly overlapping community structure by greedy clique expansion Fourth ACM Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis SNA-KDD Available Online [Details]
    • M. Zhang and N.J. Hurley; (2010) Niche Product Retrieval in Top-N Recommendation IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence [Details]
    • Z. Cheng and N.J. Hurley; (2010) Robust Collaborative Recommendation by Least Trimmed Squares Matrix Factorization 22th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence [Details]
    • Z. Cheng and N.J. Hurley; (2010) Analysis of Robustness in Trust-based Recommender Systems Nineth international conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information (RIAO 2010) [Details]
    • A. McDaid and N.J. Hurley; (2010) Detecting highly overlapping communities with Model-based Overlapping Seed ExpanSion (MOSES) The 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining [Details]
    • Rafter, R.; O'Mahony, M.P.; Hurley, N.J.; Smyth, B; (2009) What Have the NeighboursEverDone for us? A Collaborative Filtering Perspective First International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 09) [Details]
    • Z. Cheng and N. J. Hurley; (2009) Trading Robustness for Privacy in Decentralized Recommender Systems Proceedings of the Twenty-First Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference Pasadena, USA, [Details]
    • Zhang, Mi and Hurley, Neil; (2009) Statistical Modeling of Diversity in Top-N Recommender Systems Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies, 2009. WI-IAT '09. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on , pp.490-497 [Details]
    • Zhang, Mi and Hurley, Neil; (2009) Novel Item Recommendation by User Profile Partitioning Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies, 2009. WI-IAT '09. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on , pp.508-515 [Details]
    • Mi Zhang and Neil Hurley; (2008) Spam User Detection: Definition and Strategy Analysis 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'08) [Details]
    • Narasimhamurthy, A., Greene, D., Hurley, N. and Cunningham, P.; (2008) Community Finding in Large Social Networks Through Problem Decomposition . In: D. Bridge, K. Brown, B. O'Sullivan, H. Sorensen eds. 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'08) Cork, Ireland, , pp.113-122 Available Online [Details]
    • Mi Zhang and Neil J. Hurley; (2008) Avoiding Monotony: Improving the Diversity of Recommendation Lists 2nd ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems Lausanne, Switzerland, , 23-OCT-08 - 25-OCT-08 , pp.123-130 [Details]
    • Hurley, N. and Mi Zhang; (2008) Analysis of Methods for Novel Case Selection Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2008. ICTAI '08. 20th IEEE International Conference on , pp.217-224 [Details]
    • Balado, F., Hurley, N.J., McCarthy, E.P. and Silvestre, G.C.M. ; (2007) Performance of Philips Audio Fingerprinting under Additive Noise 32nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Honolulu, USA, , pp.209-212 Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Brennan, R. and O'Gorman, G. and Doherty, C. and Hurley, N. and McArdle, C. ; (2006) Autonomic Replication of Management Data: Evaluation of a market-based Approach Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2006 [Details]
    • Doherty, C. and Hurley, N.; (2006) Policy based autonomic replication for next generation network management systems Proceedings 1st Annual Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems (DANMS) [Details]
    • McCarthy, E.P., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J.; (2006) Statistical Model and Error Analysis of a Proposed Audio Fingerprinting Algorithm SPIE Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Hogan, M.T, Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M and Hurley, N.J.; (2006) New Results on Robustness of Secure Steganography SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VIII San Jose, USA, Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • O'Mahony, M.P., Hurley, N.J. and Silvestre, G.C.M.; (2006) Recommender Systems: Attack Types and Strategies 20th National Conference in Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'05) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, , 09-JUL-05 - 12-JUL-05 , pp.334-339 [Details]
    • Balado, F., Hurley, N.J. and Silvestre, G.C.M.; (2006) Sphere-hardening Dither Modulation SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VIII Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Whelan, K.M., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J.; (2006) PLL-Based Synchronization of Dither-Modulation Data Hiding 31st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Toulouse, France, Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Doherty, C. and Hurley, N. and Brennan, R.; (2005) Automated Replication Management & Creation Proceedings 1st First Annual IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management, AGNM05 [Details]
    • Hurley, N. and Doherty, C. and Brennan, R.; (2005) Modelling Distributed Data Access for a Grid-Based Network Management System Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication [Details]
    • Larkin, A.J., Balado, F., Hurley, N.J. and Silvestre, G.C.M.; (2005) Dither Modulation Watermarking of Dynamic Memory Traces 7th Information Hiding Workshop Barcelona, Spain, Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Hogan, M.T, Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M and Hurley, N.J.; (2005) On the Achievable Rate of Side Informed Embedding Techniques With Steganographic Constraints 4th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW) Siena, Italy, Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Hogan, M.T., Silvestre, G.C.M., Hurley, N.J., Balado, F. and Whelan, K.M.; (2005) ML Detection of Steganography SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII San Jose, USA, Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Whelan, K.M., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J.; (2005) Iterative Estimation of Amplitude Scaling on Distortion-Compensated Dither-Modulation SPIE Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII San Jose, USA, Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • Curran, D., Ó Cinnéide, M., Hurley, N.J. and Silvestre, G.C.M.; (2004) Dependency in Software Watermarking Proceedings of the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications, Syria, 2004 Syria, Available Online [Details]
    • McCarthy, E.P., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. and Hurley, N.J.; (2004) A Framework for Soft Hashing and its Application to Robust Image Hashing IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) Singapore, Available Online [DOI] [Details]
    • K.B. Cullen, N.J. Hurley and G.C.M. Silvestre; (2002) Scalable Architecture for MPEG-2 AAC Encoders Proc. of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'02, June 25-26, 2002, Cork, Ireland, 2002 Cork, Ireland, , 25-JUN-02 - 26-MAY-02 [Details]
    • G.C.M. Silvestre , N.J. Hurley, P.-Y. Fulchiron, M. Mullarkey and T. Furon (2002).; (2002) Nth Order Side-Informed Watermark Detection Proc. of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'02, June 25-26, 2002, Cork, Ireland, 2002 Cork, Ireland, , 25-JUN-02 - 26-JUN-02 [Details]
    • N.J. Hurley, G.C.M. Silvestre and T. Furon (2002).; (2002) Side-Informed Watermarking Using Nth Order Polynomial Detectors Proc. of XI European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO'02, Sept. 3-6, Toulouse, France, 2002 Toulouse, France, , 03-SEP-02 - 06-SEP-02 [Details]
    • O'Mahony M. P., Hurley N. J. and Silvestre G.C.M. (2002). in; (2002) Towards Robust Collaborative Filtering Proc. of 13th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science, AICS02, Sept. 12-13, Limerick, Ireland, 2002 Limerick, Ireland, , 12-SEP-02 - 13-SEP-02 [Details]
    • Cormac Dohery and Neil Hurley; (2007) Hierarchical Policy-Based Autonomic Replication 7th Internation Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunications Dublin, Ireland, [Details]
    • Cormac Dohery and Neil Hurley; (2007) Hierarchical Policy-Based Replication IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) New Orleans, USA, , pp.254-263 [Details]
    • N.J. Huley, F. Balado and E.P. McCarthy; (2007) Performance of Philips audio fingerprinting under Desynchronisation Procs of the 8th International Converence on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Vienna, Austria, , pp.133-134 [Details]
    • Cormac Dohery and Neil Hurley; (2007) Autonomic Distributed Data Management with Update Accesses 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems Rome, Italy, [Details]
    • Hogan, MT; Balado, F; Hurley, NJ; Silvestre, GCM; ; (2005) On the achievable rate of side informed embedding techniques with steganographic constraints International Workshop in Digital Watermarking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , pp.387-402 [Details]
    • M. OMahony, N. Hurley, G.C.M. Silvestre; (2004) Efficient and Secure Collaborative Filtering through Intelligence Neighbour Selection 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Valencia, Spain, Aug. 2004 Valencia, Spain, [Details]
    • K. Whelan, G.C.M. Silvestre, N.J. Hurley; (2004) Error Correction Coding of Non-linear Side-informed Watermarking Schemes SPIE: Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, vol. 5306, IS&T/SPIE, Jan. 2004 *, [Details]
    • M. Hogan, G.C.M. Silvestre, N.J. Hurley; (2004) Performance Evaluation of Blind Steganalysis Classifiers SPIE: Security, Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, vol. 5306, IS&T/SPIE, Jan. 2004 *, [Details]
    • F.B.ODonovan, G.C.M. Silvestre, N.J. Hurley; (2004) Application of Histogram Equalisation to Audio Watermarking The Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'04, Belfast, June 2004 Belfast, [Details]
    • M. Hogan, G.C.M. Silvestre, N.J. Hurley; (2004) Investigation of Signal Pre-Processing on Blind Steganalysis Performance Proc. of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'04, Belfast, June 2004 Belfast, [Details]
    • K. Whelan, G.C.M. Silvestre, N.J. Hurley, F.Balado; (2004) Improving Robustness of Non-Linear Side-Informed Watermarking using Turbo Codes Proc. of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'04, Belfast, June 2004 Belfast, [Details]
    • G.C.M. Silvestre, N.J. Hurley and T. Furon; (2002) Robustness and Efficiency of Non-Linear Side-Informed Watermaking Proc. of Information Hiding, 2002 *, [Details]
    • P.-Y. Fulchiron, F.B. ODonovan, G.C.M. Silvestre, and N.J. Hurley,; (2003) Synchronisation of audio watermarking by salientpoint extraction Proceeding of Irish Signals and SystemsConference, ISSC2003, Limerick, Ireland, July 2003 Limerick, Ireland, [Details]
    • M. P. OMahony, N. J. Hurley, and G.C.M. Silvestre; (2003) .Anevaluation of the performance of memory-based collaborativefiltering Proceedings of the 14th Irish InternationalConference, AICS 2003, Dublin, Ireland, 2003 Dublin, [Details]
    • Neil Hurley Guenole Silvestre Barry ´ O Donovan David Curran,Mel O Cinneide, in ,; (2003) Securing java through software watermarking Proceedings of the 2nd International Conferenceon the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java *, , pp.145-148 [Details]
    • Michael P. OMahony, Neil J. Hurley, and Guenole C. M.Silvestre,; (2003) Collaborative filtering - safe and sound? Proceedingsof the 14th International Symposium on Methodologiesfor Intelligent Systems, Maebashi TERRSA, MaebashiCity, Japan 2003 MaebashiCity, Japan, [Details]
    • F.B. O Donovan, N,J, Hurley, G.C.M. Silvestre; (2005) Investigation of Robustness in Non-linear Audio Watermarking SPIE, Security Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII, vol. 5681, IS&T/SPIE, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2005 San Jose, CA, [Details]
    • E. McCarthy, G.C.M. Silvestre N,J, Hurley, G.C.M. F. Balado; (2005) Robust Hashing for Database Indexing SPIE, Security Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII, vol. 5681, IS&T/SPIE, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2005 San Jose, CA, [Details]
    • M. Hogan, N,J, Hurley, G.C.M. Silvestre, F. Balado ; (2005) Maximum Likelihood Detection of Steganography SPIE, Security Steganography and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII, vol. 5681, IS&T/SPIE, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2005 San Jose, CA, [Details]
    • P.-Y. Fulchiron, F.B. ODonovan, G.C.M. Silvestre, and N.J. Hurley,; (2003) A synchronised method for informed spread spectrumaudio watermarking Proceedings of Computer,Communication and Control Technologies, CCCT03, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2003 Orlando, Florida, USA, , pp.77-83 [Details]
    • P-Y Fulchiron, G.C.M. Silvestre and N.J. Hurley; (2003) A Synchronisation Method for Informed Spread Spectrum Audio Watermarking Proc. of the International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies (CCCT03), Orlando, Florida, 2003 Orlando, Florida, [Details]
    • A. Guerin, K. Cullen, N.J. Hurley, G.C.M. Silvestre ; (2004) FPGA Implementation of the MPEG-2 AAC Filter Bank The Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'04, Belfast, June 2004 Belfast, [Details]
    • N.J. Hurley and G.C.M. Silvestre; (2002) Nth Order Audio Watermarking Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IV, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4675, 2002 *, , pp.102-110 [Details]
    • G.S. Hanau, N.J. Hurley, G.C.M. Silvestre and W.J. Dowling; (2001) Informed Perceptual Audio Watermarking Proc. of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'01, 2001 *, , pp.291-295 [Details]
    • J. Delhumeau, T. Furon, N.J. Hurley, and G.C.M. Silvestre; (2003) Improved polynomial detectors for side-informed watermarking,in Security and Watermarking of Multimedia ContentsV Proceedings of SPIE, J. Delp III and Ping Wah Wong,Eds., January 2003, vol. 5020 *, , pp.311-321 [Details]
    • M. Mullarkey, N.J. Hurley, G. C. M. Silvestre, and T. Furon,; (2003) Applications of side-informed embedding and polynomialdetection to audio watermarking Proceedings of IEEEInternational Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signals Processing, ICASSP, Hong Kong, May 2003 Hong Kong, [Details]
    • McCarthy, E., Balado, F., Silvestre, G. Hurley, N. ; (2005) Statistical analysis of an audio fingerprinting scheme Procs. of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference [Details]
    • Hogan, M.T., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. Hurley, N.J. ; (2005) On the achievable rate of side informed embedding techniques with steganographic constraints International Workshop in Digital Watermarking [Details]
    • Brennan, R., McArdle, C., Doherty, C., Hurley, N. Olsson, S.; (2005) Modelling management information flows in a 3g ran Proceedings of the fifth annual Information Technology and Telecommunications Conference, IT&T2005 [Details]
    • Whelan, K.M., Silvestre, G.C.M. Hurley, N.J.; (2005) Iterative decoding of scale invariant image data-hiding International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) [Details]
    • O Mahony, M., Hurley, N.J. Silvestre, G.C.M.; (2005) Detecting noise in recommender system databases Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces [Details]
    • McCarthy, E.P., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. Hurley, N.J.; (2006) Statistical model and error analysis of a proposed audio fingerprinting algorithm Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval , pp.688-699 [DOI] [Details]
    • Whelan, K. M., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. Hurley, N.J.; (2006) PLL-based synchronization of dither modulation data hiding Procs. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing [Details]
    • Hogan, M.T., Balado, F., Silvestre, G.C.M. Hurley, N.J. ; (2006) New results on robustness of secure steganography in Security and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VII [Details]
    • O Mahony, M., Hurley, N.J. Silvestre, G.C.M.; (2006) Detecting noise in recommender system databases in Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces [Details]
    • O Mahony, M., Hurley, N.J. Silvestre, G.C.M.; (2006) Attacking recommender systems ' the cost of promotion Proceedings of the ECAI 2006 Workshop on Recommender Systems [Details]
    • N.Sagawa, D.Finn and N.Hurley (1991); (1991) DEQSOL/AI-DEQSOL : Towards an Integrated Problem Solving Environment Proc. 8th Information Linkage between Industry and Applied Mathematics, ILIAM VIII, Dublin, Ireland, May 1991 Dublin, Ireland, , pp.63-80 [Details]
    • N. Hurley, D. Finn and N. Sagawa; (1991) An intelligent front end to numerical simulation Proc. IMACS, 13th World Congress on Computation and Applied Mathematices, Dublin, Ireland, July 1991,(1991) Dublin, Ireland, , pp.67-72 [Details]
    • D. Finn, N. Hurley and N.Sagawa; (1991) AI-DEQSOL : A Knowledge Based Environment for Numerical Simulation of Engineering Problems described by Partial Differential Equations Proc. European Simulation Multiconference, Society for Computer Simulation, Copenhagen, Denmark June 1991,(1991) Copenhagen, Denmark, , pp.67-72 [Details]
    • N. Sagawa, D. Finn, N. Hurley; (1991) An Integrated Problem Solving Environment for Numerical Simulation of Engineering Problems Proc : IFIP Working Conference on Programming Environments for High-Level Scientific Problem Solving, Karlsruhe, Germany, Sept. 1991,(1991) Karlsruhe, Germany, , pp.125-136 [Details]
    • N. Hurley; (1995) Case-based Reasoning for Numerical Simulation using Fuzzy Feature Representations Proc. of Fuzzy Logic In Ai Workshop at the International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence, 1995 Montreal, Canada, [Details]
    • K.M. Gallagher, L.G. McCarthy, O.I. Corrigan, L.Crane, M.Crane, C.Pinto, N.Hurley and A.M.Healy; (1999) Drug Dissolution in the Paddle Dissolution Apparatus FIP'99, September 1999 Barcelona, [Details]
    • N. Hurley, L. Crane, M. Crane, A.M. Healy, O.I. Corrigan, K.M. Gallagher, L.G. McCarthy; (2001) Modelling Drug Delivery Systems Using Finite Element Analysis Proceedings of Eurosim2001 Conference, Delft, June 2001 Delft, [Details]
    • P-Y Fulchiron, G.C.M. Silvestre and N.J. Hurley; (2003) Synchronisation of audio watermarking by Salient Point Extraction Proc. of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC'03, Treaty Press Ltd, Limerick, 2003 Limerick, , pp.40-45 [Details]
    • M. O Mahony, N.J. Hurley, G.C.M. Silvestre; (2004) Utility-Based Neighbourhood Formation for Efficient and Robust Collaborative Filtering ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC04), ACM Press, May 2004 *, , pp.260-261 [Details]
    • N.J. Hurley, T. Cox, C. Doherty, S.Collins, R. Brennan; (2005) Application of Grid Concepts and Technologies to Network Management Systems 9th IFIP/IEEE Interational Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Nice, May 15-19, 2005. Nice, , 15-MAY-05 - 19-MAY-05 [Details]
    • C. Doherty, N.J. Hurley, T.Cox, R. Brennan, S. Collins; (2005) Towards Grid-based NMS Data Management in 3G Networks and Beyond Eurescom Summit 2005, Uniquitous Services and Applications, Exploting the Potential, Heidelberg, 27-29 April, 2005. Heidelberg, , 27-APR-05 - 29-APR-05 [Details]
    • E. McCarthy, F. Balado, G. Silvestre, N. Hurley; (2004) A Framework for Soft Hashing and its Applicaton to Robust Image Hashing Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 04), Singapore, Oct. 24-27, 2004 Singapore, , 24-OCT-04 - 27-OCT-04 [Details]
    • N. J. Hurley K. B. Cullen, A. Guerin and G. C. M. Silvestre; (2003) Evaluation of fixed point elementary functions for fpga audioperceptual coding Proceeding of Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC2003, Limerick, Ireland, July 1-22003. Limerick, Ireland, , 01-JUL-03 - 02-JUL-03 [Details]
    • G.C.M. Silvestre, N.J. Hurley and T. Furon; (2002) Robustness and Efficiency of Non-Linear Side-Informed Watermaking Proc. of 5th International Conf. on Information Hiding, Oct. 79, , 2002 Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, , 07-OCT-02 - 09-OCT-02 [Details]
    • N.J. Hurley, G.C.M. Silvestre and T. Furon (2002).; (2002) Side-Informed Watermarking Using Nth Order Polynomial Detectors Proc. of XI European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO'02, Sept. 3-6, Toulouse, France, 2002. Toulouse, France, , 03-SEP-02 - 06-SEP-02 [Details]
    • M.P. O'Mahony, N.J. Hurley and Silvestre G.C.M. (2002).; (2002) Promoting Recommendations: An Attack on Collaborative Filtering Proc. of 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA02, Sept. 2-6, Aix en Provence, France, 2002 Aix en Provence, France, , 02-JUN-02 - 06-SEP-02 [Details]
    • G.C.M. Silvestre, N.J. Hurley, G.S. Hanau and W.J. Dowling; (2001) Informed Audio Watermarking using Digtial Chaotic Signals Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing *, , 07-MAY-01 - 11-MAY-01 [Details]

Published Reports

    • N.J. Hurley and G.C.M Silvestre; (2007) Research Lines in Secure and Robust Recommender Systems. AAAI, AAAI TR WS-07-08: Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalisation and Recommender Systems in E-commer. [Details]

Reports

    • M. Tirel, E. O. Sahin, G. C. M. Silvestre, C. Roche, K. Mihcak, S. Kesici, N. J. Hurley, N. Gerek and F. Balado; (2007) Benchmark for Multimodal Authentication. Reports [Details]

Research

Research Interests

  • Data hiding, digital watermarking, fingerprinting. Security of information information retrieval and recommender systems. High-performance computing/distributed systems. Social network analysis.

    Research Projects

    Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland
    Title : Fixed Point Optimiser
    Start Date : 01-AUG-06

    Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland
    Title : Third Generation Watermarking and Data Embedding for Management of Multimedia Data
    Start Date : 01-JAN-03

    Sponsor : European Commission FP6
    Title : The European research taskforce creating human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human communication [SIMILAR]
    Start Date : 01-NOV-03

    Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland
    Title : SOFTCOP: Robust software copy - Protection using steganography
    Start Date : 01-OCT-01

    Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland
    Title : A perceptual audio encoding system using high performance computing and watermarking
    Start Date : 01-OCT-00

Research Projects

  • Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland (EI)
    Title : Incoras Fixed Point Software Design
    Start Date / End Date : 01-NOV-08 / 01-DEC-08
  • Sponsor : Izotope
    Title : Fixed Point Design Software
    Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-07 / 31-DEC-09
  • Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
    Title : Secure and trustworthy personalisation for E-commerce
    Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-07 / 31-DEC-10
  • Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland (EI)
    Title : Fixed Point Optimiser
    Start Date / End Date : 01-AUG-06 / 31-JUL-07
  • Sponsor : Enterprise Ireland (EI)
    Title : SOFTCOP: Robust software copy - Protection using steganography
    Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-01 / 30-SEP-04
  • Sponsor : Private Funds
    Title : Donation from ex-student to "Information Hiding", UCD.
    Start Date / End Date : 01-NOV-05 / 31-OCT-06

Teaching

Teaching Interests

    • Current Postgraduate Students:

      Mi Zhang,

      Cheng Zunping


Recent Postgraduates

    • Graduated PhD Students:

      Dr. Michael O Mahony

      Dr. Keith Cullen

      Dr. Kevin Whelan

      Dr. Elizabeth McCarthy

      Dr. Mark Hogan

      Dr. Cormac Doherty

      Graduated MSc by Research Students:

      Pierre-Yves Fulchiron

      Alexis Guerin

      Around 10 students are enrolled on the MSc Computational Science programme annually. Neil Hurley supervises the minor dissertations of 1-2 of these students annually.

Current Postgraduate Students

    • Fergal Reid, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor
    • Donal Mc Gowan, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor
    • To Tu Cuong, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor
    • Michael Farrugia, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor
    • Neil Cowzer, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor
    • Aaron Mc Daid, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Thesis Supervisor

Modules Taught

    • 200800 COMP40170 Computer Science: Case Studies in Computational Science (Computer Science)
    • 200800 COMP40410 Computer Science: Special Topics in Computational Science 1
    • 201000 COMP30410 Computer Science: Programming III
    • 201000 COMP10100 Computer Science: Programming&Data Structures
    • 200800 COMP40200 Computer Science: Research Project in Computational Science (Computer Science)
    • 200800 COMP40180 Computer Science: Parallel Algorithms Design and Analysis
    • 201000 COMP40730 Computer Science: High Performance Computing