Cain Evans
Senior Lecturer Computer Science, Programme Leader MSc Advanced Computer Science
School of Computing and Digital Technology
Dr Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science. He has been working in higher education since 1999 and at Birmingham City University since 2001. He has published articles on E-business, mobile computing and smart-care-space and been published in journals, conferences and edited books. More recently, he has been focusing on Open Big Data and Smart City.
Dr Evans has previously held the roles of Programme Lead for Computer Science and Information Systems, Master’s project coordinator and Course Director for Computer Science and numerous other roles. He is active in University life and has served on Senate and as University representative at various approval events.
He completed a Computer Science degree at Bristol University and his Ph.D. at Birmingham University.
After graduating he worked at EDS in various roles, including Systems Development and IT Project Management. He has lived and travelled widely in the Far East, teaching IT/Computer Science and IT consultancy.
Current Activity
- External Examiner University of Brighton
- External Examiner University of Wales
- MSc Advanced Computer Science Programme Leader
- Module Leader Web and Social Media Analytics and Visulisation
- Module Leader Research methods and Project Management
- Module Leader Masters Project (Computer Science)
Areas of Expertise
- Electronic Business (Enterprise Semantics, Big Data, Enterprise Open Data, Open Data, Open Data Platforms)
- Internet Computing (Theory, Modelling and Cyber Security)
- E-Health Informatics (Tele-health software tools)
Qualifications
- PhD E-Business (Internet Systems Integration), University of Birmingham
- MSc Advanced Computer Science, University of Bristol
- PGCert (HE)
- BSc (Hons)
Memberships
- Internet Society (ISOC)
- European Consulting Network
- Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization (CTO)
- GLG
Research
His current research interests are e-business, Open Data, Digital Health and Smart Cities.
Postgraduate Supervision
Cain is particularly interested in supervising Ph.D students in projects broadly related to Smart Cities, Open Data Science, Web Semantics and Digital Health. Please get in touch directly with Dr. Evans if you would like to discuss potential projects in these areas further.
Publications
Bids:
FP7-ICT2013-10 Project ID: 611047: 3.4m Euros (Led by Warwick University)
An international coordinated bid with 9 European partners: BPSD4BPSD
The bid was focused with ICT supporting and monitoring patients with Dementia in a variety of contextual settings.
BCU Lead of Work Packages 5&6 (£424,000)
Books:
Li, E.Y., Loy, S., Evans, C., Lorenzi, F. (2013) Organisations and Social Networking (IGI) – USA
Evans, C. (2005) Strategies for Generating e-Business Returns on Investment. Ed. Prof. Shin.2005 - eCRM Integration in E-Business: First Line of Offence, IDEA Publishing Group, New York, USA
Foster, W. and Evans, C. (2008), "Exploiting mobile communication for library service development: technical possibilities and cultural implications", in Needham, G. and Ally, M. (Eds), M-libraries: Libraries on the Move to Provide Virtual Access, Facet Publishing, London
Journals:
Evans, C., Pappas, K., Xhafa, F. (2013) Utilizing Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms to Build an Algo-Trading Model for Intra-Day Foreign Exchange Speculation. Invited paper for a Special Issue on “Advances in mobile, ubiquitous and cognitive computing” in the Mathematical and Computer Modelling Journal.
Thomas, A.M., Hanifa Shah, Philip Moore, Cain Evans, Mak Sharma, Sarah Mount, Hai V. Pham, Keith Osman, Anthony J. Wilcox, Peter Rayson, Craig Chapman, Parmjit Chima, Cham Athwal, & David While. (2013). Challenges and Opportunities for the Future of iCampuses. Computer Science, vol 14(1).
Thomas, A.M., Moore, P., Shah, H., Evans, C., Sharma, M., Xhafa, F., Mount, S., Pham, H.V., Wilcox, A.J., Patel, A., Chapman, C. and Chima, P. (2013) "Smart care spaces: Needs for intelligent at-home care". International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing, 3(1), 35-44.
Thomas, A.M., Evans, C., Moore, P., Shah, H., Sharma, M., Mount, S., Xhafa, F., Pham, H.V., Patel, A., Wilcox, A.J., Chapman, C., Chima, P. (2012). Smart Care Spaces: Pervasive Sensing Technologies for At-Home Care. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC): Special Issue on User Interfaces and Interaction Models in Context-based Computing.
Evans, C. (2006) E-Business Cross-Functional Alignment: Integration of Processes and Applications, Special Issue: International Journal of Electronic Business, Vol. 4 No. 3/4. ISSN 1470-6067.
Evans, C. (2001) An E-Strategy for Online E-Business, Journal of Information Systems and Management, 18(4), pp1-14.
Conference / Workshop Papers:
Evans, C., Thomas, A.M., Moore, P., & Oleksiy. (2013). iMAS: an Intelligent Mobile Advertising System: Development and Implementation, International Workshop on Informatics for Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems (ICAES-2013) in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013), Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28.
Evans, C. Bhogal, J. (2013) An intelligent-centric marketing Ontology: iMAS, International Workshop on Informatics for Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems (ICAES-2013) in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013), Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28.
Evans, C. Rmeileh, S. (2013) Towards an autonomous agent platform, International Workshop on Informatics for Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems (ICAES-2013) in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013), Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28.
Moore, P., Evans, C. (2013) Intelligent eHealth Monitoring: A research framework for Assistive Living for patients with Dementia, International Workshop on Informatics for Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems (ICAES-2013) in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013), Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28.
Evans, C., Moore, P., & Thomas, A.M. (2012). An Intelligent Mobile Advertising System (iMAS): Location-Based Advertising to Individuals and Business. Second International Workshop on Intelligent Context-Aware Systems (ICAS 2012), In Proc of The 6th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2012), 4-6 July 2012, Palermo, Italy, pp 959-964
Moore, P., Evans, C. (2012).Towards Integrating Emotion into Intelligent Context. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Reasoning Technology for e-Science (ART2012) Cyprus.
Thomas, A.M., Shah, H., Moore, P., Rayson, P., Wilcox, A.J., Osman, K., Evans, C., Chapman, C., Athwal, C., While, D., Pham, H.V. and Mount, S. (2012). E-education 3.0 Challenges and Opportunities for the Future of iCampuses. Second International Workshop on Intelligent Context-Aware Systems (ICAS 2012), In Proc The 6th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2012), 4-6 July 2012, Palermo, Italy, pp 953-958.
Evans C. (2010) Measuring the Un-measurable: Digital Participation Seminar, 19th July, Birmingham City University, UK.
Evans, C. (2010) A Case Study of Different Support Mechanisms in Place and Cultural Differences in Asia”, Supporting International Academic Staff and Students, HEA (Subject Network for Information and Computer Science), Birmingham, UK.
Foster, W., and Evans, C. (2007) Exploiting mobile communications for library service development: technical possibilities and cultural implications. First International M-Libraries Conference, 13th & 14th November, UK.
Evans, C. (2007) Intelligent Retail Business: Location Based Services for Mobile Customers, In the Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Birmingham, UK, July 26-27, IEEE Press. USA
Evans, C., Khan, B. (2007) Developing a WAP Application for Mobile Retail Customers. In the Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications. Birmingham, UK, July 26-27, IEEE Press. USA.
Evans, C, and Hu, B. (2006) E-Commerce to U-business: Ubiquitous Retail Environment, In the Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications. Urumqi, P.R. China, August 3-5, 2006. pp 172-177. IEEE Press, USA
Evans, C. and Gorain, H., (2005) Confluence of Internet Technologies and E-Commerce, International Conference ACC-CISIM (Poland), June 30th - July 3rd.
Lancaster, T., and Evans, C. (2005) Internet Led Project Preparation: Using Problem-based E-Learning in the Classroom, HEA, Information and Computer Sciences Subject Centre, UK.
Media Work
Cain Evans is one of the University’s dedicated team of trained media champions, and can comment on a range of subjects including:
- Internet
- Social Media
- E-Business
- Open Data
To arrange a media interview, please contact Birmingham City University Press Office on 0121 331 6738, 07967 271532,
email press@bcu.ac.uk or via Twitter @BCUPressOffice