Software Technology Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise, and everything precise is so remote from everything that we normally think, that you cannot for a moment suppose that is what we really mean when we say what we think. Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918) Uwe Glässer, Professor, Computing Science, SFU, BC, Canada Habilitation 1999, Doctorate 1992, Diploma 1987 in Computer Science, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Paderborn University, Germany

Research

• Formal engineering methods and system design languages — Analytic algorithms and intelligent systems for situation analysis — Applications in Cybersecurity, Maritime security and Crime data analysis — Principle investigator and founder of the Software Technology Lab and the Public Safety and Security HPC Lab at SFU

Tilemachos Charalampous, Master's student
Amir Yaghoubi Shahir, Doctoral student
Zahra Zohrevand, Doctoral student
Mohamad A Tayebi, Postdoctortal research fellow

• CMPT 318 – Special Topics in Computing Science: Cybersecurity – Summer 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018

Selected Publications

• Zohrevand Z, Glässer U, Tayebi MA, Yaghoubi Shahir H, Shirmaleki M, and Yaghoubi Shahir A. Deep-learning based forecasting of critical infrastructure data. 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Singapore, 1129–1138 (2017). doi:10.1145/3132847.3133031
  
  
• Tayebi MA and Glässer U. Social network analysis in predictive policing: Concepts, models and methods. Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN), Springer, 2016. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41492-8
  
  
• Tayebi MA, Glässer U, Ester M, and Brantingham PL. Personalized crime location prediction. European Journal of Applied Mathematics (EJAM), The Mathematics of Crime and Security, 27(3), 4224–450, Cambridge University Press (2016). doi:10.1017/S0956792516000140
  
  
• Zohrevand Z, Glässer U, Yaghoubi Shahir H, Tayebi MA, and Costanzo R. Hidden Markov based anomaly detection for water supply systems. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Washington, DC, USA, 15514–1560 (2016). doi:10.1109/BigData.2016.7840763
  
  
• Yaghoubi Shahir H, Glässer U, Yaghoubi Shahir A, and Wehn H. Maritime situation analysis framework: Vessel interaction classification and anomaly detection. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Santa Clara, CA, USA (2015). doi:10.1109/BigData.2015.7363883
  
  
• Farahbod R, Gervasi V, Glässer U. Executable formal specifications of complex distributed systems with CoreASM. Science of Computer Programming, Elsevier, 79(1), 23–38 (2014). doi:10.1016/j.scico.2012.02.001
  
  
• Tayebi MA, Ester E, Glässer U, and Brantingham PL. Spatially embedded co-offence prediction using supervised learning. 20th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, NYC, USA, 1789–98 (2014). doi:10.1145/2623330.2623353