William Johnson is currently a research student in the High Speed Networks Research Group (HSN), Electronic and Eletrical Engineering Department, Lougborough University, UK. His area of research is the structure of complex adaptive systems.
William received a BA(Hons) in Latin with Greek (1979) and an MA in Information Technology (1991) from Nottingham University. He recently completed an MSc with distinction in Information and Knowledge Management (2008) at Loughborough Univeristy.
Before starting his MSc in 2007, he worked for over 20 years in the IT business, starting as programmer (assembler, C, C++), then working as a systems technical consultant and finally as the manager of an R&D team.
William's master theses involved computational linguistics (1991) and the diagnostic of an innovation centre, based in Germany, using storytelling, the Viable Systems Model and scenario planning (2008). His current research involves identifying methods to simulate complex adaptive systems such that high level structure (sometimes referred to as "emergence") can be revealed in a range of domains. It is hoped that the research will also enable any emergent properties found to be identified as beneficial or detrimental to specific mission goals of the system(s). A final aim is to see if any emergent properties can be controlled such that their potential impact on the system is understood, and even optimised or mitigated.
Start date: October 2009.
Supervisors: Professor David J. Parish and Professor Ron Summers
View all Johnson’s publications in the central publications database
Selected Publications
Fry, J., Oppenheim, C., Creaser, C., Johnson, C.W.D., Summers, M.A.C., White, S.U., Butters, G., Craven, J., Griffiths, J. and Hartley, R., Communicating knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings, September 2009, ppxx, The Research Information Network in conjunction with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
