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Name and Title:

Professor Patrick Nixon B.Sc., M.A., PhD.

Position:

Sfi Professor of Ubiquitous Systems

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+353 1 7165361

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School of Computer Science &
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Belfield Office Park, Dublin 4

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Biography

Professor Paddy Nixon is Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor in Distributed Systems at University College Dublin. He holds a B.Sc., M.A. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, is a chartered engineer and a member of the BCS, ACM and IEEE. He leads the Systems Research Institute at UCD supported by a €2.5m Science Foundation Ireland endowment for his chair. The group is involved in 2 major national centres in Software Engineering (Lero) and the SensorWeb (Clarity).

Professor Nixon has significant industrial and commercial experience. He has had active collaborations with INTEL, Microsoft Research, HP, INTEL, Oracle and IBM. From 2007-2009 he was Director of the INTEL Technogloy for Independat Livign Centre; INTELs largest University based research centre with direct funding of $30 million. He has been a founder of three start-ups and was founding CEO of NDRC Ltd (www.ndrc.ie) an IP development company supported by a €25 million investment by the Irish government. Professor Nixon is IBM faculty fellow in Autonomics.

His research interests lie in the areas of Pervasive and Autonomic Computing and with specific emphasis on infrastructure aspects of Distributed Computing, Component Software Engineering, Resource Discovery, Context Adaptive Systems and Mobile Code systems. This work has been funded by IDA, EPSRC, SFI, Enterprise Ireland, US Airforce and the EU fourth/fifth/sixth framework, EPSRC and industry. He has published over 200 publications and 7 edited books. He is programme chair for UBICOMP 2010 (the permier conference in ubiquitous computing) and has previously been programme or general chair for Pervasive, Percom, ECOOP, iTrust and MPAC.

Professor Nixon has been a visiting professor at Caltech, Warsaw University, and Kaunas University. He has given the prestigious Science and Society public lecture for the Royal Edinburgh Society and given keynotes and numerous conferences.

Publications

Books:

Paddy Nixon and Khai Truong (2010) Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing. Dublin: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. [Details]
Paddy Nixon, Gerard Lacey and Simon Dobson (2000) Managing interactions in smart environments. Dublin: Springer-Verlag Telos. [Details]
Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson (1998) Objects, components and the virtual enterprise. *: ACM Press. [Details]

Book Chapters:

M. Razzaque, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2008) 'Cross-layer optimisations for autonomic networks' In: Advanced autonomic networking and communication, Birkhäuser Whitestein series. Springer Verlag. [Details]
Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nixon, Vinny Wade, Simon Dobson and John Fuller (2001) 'Building the next generation of groupware' In: Enterprise information systems. *: Kluwer Academic Press. [Details]
S. Terzis and P. Nixon (1999) 'Semantic Trading: Tackling Interoperability Problems during System Integration' In: Object Interoperability. Universidad de Malaga: *. [Details]

Books Edited:

Fishkin, K.P.; Schiele, B.; Nixon, P.; Quigley, A (Ed.). (2006) Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3968. Dublin: PERVASIVE 2006. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals:

G. Stevenson, J. Ye, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2010) 'LOC8: A Location Model and Extensible Framework for Programming with Location'. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 9 (1):28-37. [Details]
S. Dobson, R. Sterritt, P. Nixon, and M. Hinchey (2010) 'Fulfilling the Vision of Autonomic Computing'. IEEE Computer, 43 :35-41. [Details]
I. G. Lado, M. Bennett, P. Nixon, and L. Coyle (2009) 'Meaning Makers: User Generated Ambient Presence'. International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI), 1 (2):47-52. [Details]
A. K. Clear, T. Holland, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) 'Situvis: a sensor data analysis and abstraction tool for pervasive computing systems'. Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, . [Details]
Z. Wei, W. Zhou, M. Kang, P. Nixon, and L. Jia (2009) 'A strategy-proof trust mechanism for pervasive computing environments'. IEEE Computer Society, . [Details]
M. Collins, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) 'Securing wireless sensor networks: Introducing aslan - a secure lightweight architecture for wsns'. International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services (IJANS), . [Details]
M. Collins, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) 'A lightweight secure architecture for wireless sensor networks'. International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services (IJANS), . [Details]
S. Dobson, G. Stevenson, G. Williamson, S. Knox, M. Stabler, L. Coyle, S. Neely, and P. Nixon (2008) 'Construct: towards a community middleware for pervasive computing'. PerAda Magazine, . [Details]
J. Ye, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon, ¿An overview of pervasive computing systems (2008) 'An overview of pervasive computing systems'. Ambient intelligence with microsystems: augmented materials and smart objects (K. Delaney, ed.), vol. 18 of Microsystems, . [Details]
S. Knox, A. K. Clear, R. Shannon, L. Coyle, S. Dobson, A. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2008) 'Scatterbox: mobile message management'. Revue d¿Intelligence Artificielle, . [Details]
J. Ye, L. Coyle, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2008) 'Representing and manipulating situation hierarchies using situation lattices'. Revue d¿Intelligence Artificielle, . [Details]
Anna Lui; Paddy Nixon (1999) 'Testing Parallel and Distributed Systems'. Software Quality Journal, 8 (4):239-240. [Details]
Vinny Cahill; Paddy Nixon; Brendan Tangney; Fethi Rabhi (1997) 'Object Models for Distributed or Persistent Programming'. Computer Journal, 40 (8):513-527. [Details]
Sean Baker; Vinny Cahill; Paddy Nixon (1997) 'Bridging Boundaries: CORBA in Perspective'. IEEE Internet Computing, 1 (5):52-57. [Details]
Razzaque, MA; Dobson, S; Nixon, P; (2007) 'Cross-layer architectures for autonomic communications'. J Netw Syst Manag, 15 :13-27. [Details]
Norbert Streitz; Paddy Nixon (2005) 'The Disappearing Computer'. Communications of the ACM, 48 (3):32-35. [Details]
Coyle, L., Neely, S., Rey, G., Stevenson, G., Sullivan, M., Dobson, S., and Nixon, P. (2006) 'Sensor Fusion-Based Middleware for Smart Homes'. International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics, 8 (8):53-60. [Details]
M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2006) 'Classification and modeling of the quality of contextual information'. Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing, . [Details]
Simon Dobson, Spyros Denazis, Antonio Fern?ndez, Dominique Ga?ti, Erol Gelenbe, Fabio Massacci, Paddy Nixon, Fabrice Saffre, Nikita Schmidt and Franco Zambonelli (2006) 'A survey of autonomic communications'. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 1 (2):223-259. [Details]
Neely, S., Dobson, S. Nixon, P. (2006) 'Adaptive middleware for autonomic systems'. Annals of Telecommunications, 61 (9-10):1099-1118. [Details]
English, C., Terzis, S. Nixon, P. (2006) 'Towards Self-Protecting Ubiquitous Systems: Monitoring Trust-based Interactions'. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 10 (1):50-54. [Details]
Borriello, G; Chalmers, M; LaMarca, A; Nixon, P; (2005) 'Delivering real-world ubiquitous location systems'. Communications of the Acm, 48 (3):36-41. [Details]
S. Terzis, W. Wagealla, C. English, and P. Nixon (2005) 'Trust lifecycle management in a global computing environment'. GLOBAL COMPUTING, :291-313. [Details]
S. Terzis, P. Nixon, N. Narasimhan, and T. Walsh (2006) 'Middleware for pervasive and ad-hoc computing'. PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, 9 (6):4-6. [Details]
S. Dobson and P. Nixon (2004) 'More principled design of pervasive computing systems. Human-Computer Interaction and Design'. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, . [Details]
Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2004) 'More principled design of pervasive computing systems. In Human computer interaction and interactive systems'. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, . [Details]
V. Cahill, E. Gray, J. M. Seigneur, C. Jensen, Y. Chen, B. Shand, N. Dimmock, A. Twigg, J. Bacon, C. English, W. Wagealla, S. Terzis, P. Nixon, G. Serugendo, C. Bryce, M. Carbone, K. Krukow, and M. Nielsen (2003) 'Using trust for secure collaboration in uncertain environments'. IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING, 2/3 (*):52-61. [Details]
S. Weber, P. Nixon, and B. Tangney (2002) 'A flexible framework for consistency management'. CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION: PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE JOURNAL, 14 (1):33-53. [Details]
P. Nixon and V. Cahill (1998) 'Mobile computing'. IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, 2 (1):22-78. [Details]
P. Nixon, V. Cahill, and F. Rabhi. (1997) 'Building parallel and distributed systems'. THE COMPUTER JOURNAL, 40 (8):463-527. [Details]

Conference Publications:

E. Loureiro, P. Nixon, and S. Dobson (2010) Adaptive Management of Shared Resource Pools with Decentralized Optimization and Epidemics 18th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing [Details]
R. Shannon, A. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2010) Showtime: increasing viewer understanding of animated data structures Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI2010 [Details]
R. Shannon, A. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2010) Deep Diffs: Visually Exploring the History of a Document Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI2010 [Details]
N. A. Haider, P. Nixon (2010) An Approach for Modeling Dynamic Analysis using Ontologies ACM International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis [Details]
A. R. M. Kamal, A. Razzaque, and P. Nixon (2010) 2PDA:Two-phase Data Approximation in Wireless Sensor Network The Seventh ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks [Details]
L. Jia and P. Nixon (2010) A New Monitor Model for Enhancing Trust-based Systems International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing [Details]
R. Shannon, A. J. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2010) Graphemes: self-organizing shape-based clustered structures for network visualisations CHI [Details]
E. Vassev and P. Nixon (2010) Engineering Intelligent Sensor Networks with ASSL and DMF IEEE International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems [Details]
E. Vassev, M. Hinchey, and P. Nixon (2010) Prototyping Home Automation Wireless Sensor Networks with ASSL ICAC 2010 [Details]
H. Zhang, P. Nixon, and S. Dobson (2010) Energy Efficient Area Coverage via Homology in a Sensor Network UBICOMM [Details]
R. Shannon, A. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2009) Time Sequence CHI ¿09: CHI ¿09 extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems [Details]
A. K. Clear, R. Shannon, T. Holland, A. Quigley, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) Situvis: a visual tool for modeling a user¿s behaviour patterns in a pervasive environment International Conference on Pervasive Computing [Details]
M. Stabeler, G. Stevenson, S. Dobson, and P. nixon (2009) International Conference on Pervasive Computing Basadaeir: harvesting user profiles to bootstrap pervasive applications [Details]
G. Stevenson, S. Knox, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) Ontonym: a collection of upper ontologies for developing pervasive systems CIAO ¿09: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context, Information and Ontologies [Details]
M. Stabeler, D. Cellai, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) Delay tolerant networks and spatially detailed human mobility Workshop on the Emergence of Delay-/Disruption-Tolerant Networks [Details]
L. Conroy, C. Ó. Conaire, S. Coyle, G. Healy, P. Kelly, D. Connaghan, N. E. O¿Connor, A. F. Smeaton, B. Caulfield, and P. Nixon (2009) TennisSense: A multi-sensory approach to performance analysis in tennis International Society of Biomechanics in Sports Conference [Details]
Adrian K. Clear and Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2007) An approach to dealing with uncertainty in context-aware pervasive systems UK/IE IEEE SMC Cybernetic Systems Conference 2007 Dublin IE, [Details]
Rafter, R., Coyle, L., Nixon, P., and Smyth, B. (2007) Sticking with a Winning Team: Better Neighbour Selection for Conversational Collaborative Recommendation 18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science University College Dublin, [Details]
Rafter, R., Coyle, L., Nixon, P., and Smyth, B. (2007) Sticking with a Winning Team: Better Neighbour Selection for Conversational Collaborative Recommendation 18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science University College Dublin, [Details]
Dobson, S., Nixon, P., Coyle, L., Neely, S., Stevenson, G., and Williamson, G. (2007) Construct: An Open Source Pervasive Systems Platform IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) [Details]
Shannon, R., Quigley, A., Nixon, P (2006) Collaborating in Context: Immersive Visualisation Environments Context in Advanced Interfaces International Workshop in conjunction with AVI 2006 [Details]
McCarthy, K., Salamo, M., Coyle, L., McGinty, L., Smyth, B., Nixon, P (2006) Group Recommender Systems: A Critiquing Based Approach Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference FLAIRS Conference [Details]
Coyle, L., Neely, S., Rey, G., Stevenson, G., Sullivan, M., Dobson, S. Nixon, P. (2006) Sensor fusion-based middleware for assisted living. In Smart homes and beyond In Smart homes and beyond [Details]
McCarthy, K., Salamo, M., Coyle, L., McGinty, L., Smyth, B. & Nixon, P. (2006) Group Recommender Systems: A Critiquing Based Approach 10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '06) Sydney, Australia, , pp.267-26 [Details]
Neely, S; Dobson, S; Nixon, P; (2006) ANNALES DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS-ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS Adaptive middleware for autonomic systems , pp.1099-1118 [Details]
Stevenson,G., Nixon, P. Dobson, S. (2005) Towards a reliable wide-area infrastructure for context-based self-management of communications In Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP Workshop on Autonomic Communications [Details]
Stevenson, G., Coyle, L., Neely, S., Dobson, S. Nixon, P. (2005) ConStruct - a decentralised context infrastructure for computing environments Proceedings of the IT&T Annual Conference [Details]
L. Coyle, J. Ye, S. McKeever, S. Knox, M. Stabeler, S. Dobson, , and P. Nixon (2009) Gathering datasets for activity identification the Workshop on Developing Shared Home Behaviour Datasets to Advance HCI and Uniquitous Computing Research at CHI 2009 [Details]
H. Zhang, P. Nixon, and S. Dobson (2009) Partial coverage in homological sensor networks 5th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing [Details]
J. Ye, L. Coyle, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) Using situation lattices in sensor analysis IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2009) [Details]
M. Stabeler, G. Stevenson, S. Dobson, and P. nixon (2009) Basadaeir: harvesting user profiles to bootstrap pervasive applications The Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing - Late Breaking Results Nara, Japan, [Details]
R. Shannon, M. Stabeler, A. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2009) Profiling and targeting opportunities in pervasive advertising 1st Workshop on Pervasive Advertising, vol. 1 [Details]
A. K. Clear, R. Shannon, T. Holland, A. Quigley, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) Situvis: a visual tool for modeling a user¿s behaviour patterns in a pervasive environment 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing [Details]
W. Zhou, Z. Wei, M. Kang, P. Nixon, and L. Jia (2009) A credit-based incentive mechanism for recommendation acquisition in multihop mobile ad hoc networks The Third International Conference Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE09) [Details]
G. Stevenson, S. Knox, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) Ontonym: A collection of upper ontologies for developing pervasive systems the European Semantic Web Conference [Details]
L. Jia and P. Nixon (2009) Evaluating trust-based access control for social interaction International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies [Details]
L. Jia and P. Nixon (2009) Trust-based spam prevention for pervasive advertising Pervasive 2009 workshop on Pervasive Advertising [Details]
Z. Skrba, B. O¿Mullane, B. R. Greene, C. N. Scanaill, C. W. Fan, A. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2009) Objective real-time assessment of walking and turning in elderly adults 31st International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference [Details]
J. Doyle, A. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2009) Do pattern languages help us structure evaluations in healthcare technologies? CHI 2009 Workshop on Evaluating New Interactions in Healthcare: Challenges and Approaches [Details]
L. Jia, M. Collins, and P. Nixon (2009) A scenario-based evaluation framework for trust-based access control in ubiquitous computing environments the Third International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM) 2009 conference [Details]
M. Stabeler, D. Cellai, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) Delay tolerant networks and spatially detailed human mobility the Workshop on the Emergence of Delay-/Disruption-Tolerant Networks (E-DTN) [Details]
G. Williamson, D. Cellai, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) Modelling periodic data dissemination in wireless sensor networks Computer Modeling and Simulation, UKSIM European Symposium [Details]
G. Williamson, D. Cellai, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2009) Self-management of routing on human proximity networks International Workshop on Self-Organising Systems [Details]
B. Gaudin, P. Nixon, K. Bines, F. Busacca, and Casey (2009) Model bootstrapping for auto-diagnosis of enterprise systems Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE) [Details]
Z. Wei, W. Zhou, M. Kang, P. Nixon, and L. Jia (2009) A strategy-proof trust mechanism for pervasive computing environments The IEEE International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications (TSP-09) [Details]
E. Loureiro, P. Nixon, and S. Dobson (2009) Decentralized utility maximization for adaptive management of shared resource pools International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems [Details]
R. Shannon, A. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2009) Time sequences CHI ¿09 extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems [Details]
A. Quigley, M. McGrath, P. Nixon, and T. Dishongh (2008) Home deployments for independent living Pervasive Computing @ Home Workshop [Details]
S. Neely, M. Stabeler, and P. Nixon (2008) S. Neely, M. Stabeler, and P. Nixon the Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing [Details]
M. Collins, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2008) Identifying and isolating aberrant nodes in wireless sensor networks the 3rd International Conference for Internet Technologies and Secured Transactions [Details]
D. Fitzgerald, N. Trakarnratanakul, L. Conroy, P. Nixon, and B. Caulfield (2008) A virtual rehabilitation system for wobble board balance training with children the Virtual Rehabilitation Conference [Details]
G. L. Insua, M. Bennett, P. Nixon, and L. Coyle (2008) User generated ambient presence 2nd Workshop on Ambient Information Systems [Details]
A. K. Clear, R. Shannon, T. Holland, S. Dobson, A. Quigley, and P. Nixon (2008) Situvis: visualising multivariate context information to evaluate situation specifications 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation (USE 2008) Seoul, KR, [Details]
S. Dobson and P. Nixon (2008) Stable autonomic adaptation: a grand challenge the Third IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics for Autonomic Computing (HotAC¿08) [Details]
M. Razzaque, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2008) Cross-layer self routing: a self-managed routing approach for MANETs the 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications [Details]
M. Collins, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2008) A secure lightweight architecture for wireless sensor networks the Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM) [Details]
M. Collins, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2008) Identifying and isolating aberrant nodes in wireless sensor networks the International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST) [Details]
H. Zhang, P. Nixon, and S. Dobson (2008) Multi criteria adaptation in homological sensor networks 11th IEEE International Conference on Communications Systems (ICCCS) [Details]
E. Loureiro, P. Nixon, and S. Dobson (2008) A fine-grained model for adaptive on-demand provisioning of cpu shares in data centres the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems [Details]
Lorcan Coyle, Juan Ye, Emerson Loureiro, Stephen Knox, Simon Dobson (2007) A proposed approach to evaluate the accuracy of tag-based location systems First Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation [Details]
Simon Dobson, Eoin Bailey, Stephen Knox, Ross Shannon and Aaron Quigley (2007) A first approach to the closed-form specification and analysis of an autonomic control system 12th IEEE International Conference on Engineering Complex Computer Systems Auckland, NZ, [Details]
Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2007) A unified semantics space model LoCA [Details]
M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2006) A cross-layer architecture for autonomic communications . In: Dominique Gaïti, Guy Pujolle, Ehab Al-Shaer, Ken Calvert, Simon Dobson, Guy Leduc and Olli Martikainen eds. Autonomic Networking Paris, FR, , pp.25-35 [Details]
Michael Collins, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2006) Workshop on Privacy, Trust and Identity Issues for Ambient Intelligence . In: Thomas Strang, Vinny Cahill and Aaron Quigley eds. Workshop on Privacy, Trust and Identity Issues for Ambient Intelligence at Pervasive 2006 Dublin, IE, , pp.679-685 [Details]
Knox S., Clear A., Shannon R., Coyle L., Dobson S., Quigley A., and Nixon P. (2007) Towards Scatterbox: a Context-Aware Message Forwarding Platform Fourth International Workshop on Modeling and Reasoning in Context in conjunction with Context Roskilde, Denmark, [Details]
Stephen Knox, Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, Aaron Quigley and Paddy Nixon (2007) Towards Scatterbox: a context-aware message forwarding platform Towards Scatterbox: a context-aware message forwarding platform Copenhagen, DK, [Details]
M.A. Razzaque, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson (2007) Demonstrating the feasibility of an autonomic communications-targeted cross-layer architecture 14th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications Mangalore, IN, [Details]
M.A. Razzaque, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson (2007) Demonstrating the feasibility of an autonomic communications-targeted cross-layer architecture 14th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications Mangalore, IN, [Details]
Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Graeme Stevenson and Graham Williamson (2007) Construct: an open source pervasive systems platform 4th IEEE Consumer Communciations and Networking Conference Las Vegas, NV, [Details]
Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Graeme Stevenson and Graham Williamson (2007) Construct: an open source pervasive systems platform 4th IEEE Consumer Communciations and Networking Conference Las Vegas, NV, [Details]
Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2007) Whole-system programming of adaptive ambient intelligence Proceedings of HCI International Beijing, CN, [Details]
Adrian K. Clear, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2007) UK/IE IEEE SMC Cybernetic Systems Conference An approach to dealing with uncertainty in context-aware pervasive systems [Details]
Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2007) LoCA A unified semantics space model [Details]
Shannon R., Quigley A., Nixon P. (2006) Collaborating in Context: Immersive Visualisation Environments Workshop on Context in Advanced Interfaces in conjunction with AVI 2006 Venice, Italy, [Details]
Coyle L., Neely S., Nixon P. and Quigley A. (2006) Sensor Aggregation and Integration in Healthcare Location Based Services . In: Bento, C eds. Workshop on Location Based Services for Health Care (Locare'06) Innsbruck, Austria, , 28-NOV-06 - 29-NOV-06 [Details]
M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2006) Context awareness through cross-layer network architecture First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks Honolulu, HI, [Details]
M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2006) Context awareness through cross-layer network architecture First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks Honolulu, HI, [Details]
Thomson, G., Stevenson, G., Terzis, S., Nixon, P. (2006) A Self-Managing Infrastructure for Ad-Hoc Situation Determination In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics [Details]
Dobson, S., Lewis, D. Nixon, P. (2006) Adaptive middleware and autonomic communications Tutorial at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing [Details]
Williamson, G., Stevenson, G., Neely, S., Dobson, S. Nixon, P. (2006) An Evaluation Framework For Disseminating Context Information With Gossiping 1st European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context 2006 [Details]
Anawar, S., Coyle, L., Dobson, S. Nixon, P. (2006) Context Delivery in Ad Hoc Networks using Enhanced Gossiping Algorithms In Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC) 2006 [Details]
Coyle, L., Rey, G., McCarthy, K., Salamo, M., McGinty, L., Smyth, B. Nixon, P. (2006) Developing a Distributed Context-Aware Collaborative Recommender System Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-User and Ubiquitous User Interfaces at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-06) [Details]
McCarthy, K., Salamo, M., Coyle, L., McGinty, L., Smyth, B. Nixon, P. (2006) Group Recommender Systems: A Critiquing Based Approach Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '06) [Details]
Clear, A.K., Knox, S., Ye, J., Coyle, L., Dobson, S., Nixon, P. (2006) Integrating Multiple Contexts and Ontologies in a Pervasive Computing Environment In proc. Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications [Details]
Coyle, L., Neely, S., Rey, G., Stevenson, G., Sullivan, M., Dobson, S. Nixon, P. (2006) Middleware Sensor Fusion for Assisted Living of the 4th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics, ICOST'06 [Details]
Collins, M., Dobson, S. Nixon, P. (2006) Security issues with pervasive computing frameworks In Pervasive 2006 workshop proceedings [Details]
Shannon, R., Quigley, A., Nixon, P. (2006) Software Considerations for Automotive Pervasive Systems Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing [Details]
Coyle, L., Balfe, E., Stevenson, G., Neely, S., Dobson, S., Nixon, P., Smyth, B. (2006) Supplementing Case-based Recommenders with Context Data Proceedings of the Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning and Contxt Awareness at the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning [Details]
Stevenson, G., Nixon, P. Dobson, S. (2006) Towards a reliable wide-area infrastructure for context-based self-management of communications In Autonomic communication: 2nd International IFIP Workshop on Autonomic Communication [Details]
Dobson, S. Nixon, P. (2005) Adaptive middleware for autonomic systems Tutorial at the International Working Conference on Active Networks [Details]
Razzaque, M.A., Dobson, S. Nixon, P. (2005) Categorisation and modelling of quality in context information Proceedings of the IJCAI 2005 Workshop on AI and Autonomic Communications [Details]
Borriello, G., LaMarca, A., Chalmers, M. Nixon, P. (2005) Delivering Real-World Ubiquitous Location Systems Communcations of the ACM. 2005 [Details]
N. Streitz, Nixon, P. (2005) The Disappearing Computer Communciatons of the ACM. 2005 [Details]
Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2004) More principled design of pervasive computing systems . In: Rémi Bastide and Jörg Roth eds. Human computer interaction and interactive systems, volume 3425 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Verlag [Details]
F. Wang and P. Nixon (2004) Supporting mobile context-aware applications on a global scale In IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'04), IEEE Press , pp.171-171 [Details]
S. W. Shah, P. Nixon, and R. I. Ferguson (2004) On the use of ip multicast to facilitate group communication between mobile agents IEEE/WIC/ACM International conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE Press , pp.487-490 [Details]
C. English, W. Wagealla, P. Nixon, S. Terzis, A. McGettrick, and H. Lowe (2003) Trusting collaboration in global computing systems 1st International Conference on Trust Management [Details]
Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon, and Simon Dobson. (2000) An integrated system for managing intelligent buildings . In: Paddy Nixon, Gerard Lacey, and Simon Dobson eds. Managing interactions in smart environments. Springer Verlag [Details]
Paddy Nixon, Gerard Lacey, and Simon Dobson (2000) Smart environments: challenges for the computing community . In: Paddy Nixon, Gerard Lacey, and Simon Dobson eds. Managing interactions in smart environments. Springer Verlag, 2000 [Details]
M. OConnell and P. Nixon (2000) Next generation business-to-business e-commerce Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, LNCS 1875. Springer Verlag , pp.452-466 [Details]
M. Haahr, R. Meier, P. Nixon, V. Cahil, and E. Jul (2000) Filtering and scalability in the eco distributed event model . In: P. Nixon and I. Jelly eds. Parallel and Distributed Software Engineering. IEEE Press , pp.83-95 [Details]
Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon, Vincent Wade, Sotirios Terzis, and John Fuller (1999) Vanilla: an open language framework . In: Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich Eisenecker eds. Generative and component-based software engineering, LNCS. Springer-Verlag [Details]
Paddy Nixon, Vinny Wade, Sotirios Terzis, Marcus O`Connell and Simon Dobson (2000) The Virtues architecture: a software infrastructure for business-to-business e-commerce Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems Stafford, UK, [Details]
Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nixon, Vinny Wade, Simon Dobson and John Fuller (1999) The future of enterprise groupware applications . In: Joaquim Filipe and Jose Cordeiro eds. the 1st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems , pp.525-532 [Details]
Mel O`Cinneide and Patrick Nixon (1999) A Methodology for the Automated Introduction of Design Patterns Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance Oxford, [Details]
Mel O`Cinneide and Patrick Nixon (1999) Automated Application of Design Patterns to Legacy Code, Proceedings of the Workshop on Experiences in Object-Oriented Re-Engineering European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Lisbon, Portugal, [Details]
Mel O`Cinneide and Patrick Nixon (1998) Program Restructuring to Introduce Design Patterns Proceedings of the Workshop on Experiences in Object-Oriented Re-Engineering Brussels, [Details]
Paddy Nixon, Vinny Wade, Simon Dobson, John Fuller and Sotirios Terzis (1998) Designing components for a virtual organisation: a case study Proceedings of Objects, Components and the Virtual Enterprise [Details]

Reports

S. Terzis, W. Wagealla, C. English, P. Nixon, and A. McGettrick (2004) Preliminary trust formation model. Reports [Details]
S. Terzis, W. Wagealla, C. English, A. McGettrick, and P. Nixon (2003) The secure colloboration model. Reports [Details]

Technical Publication

Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson (2000) As strong as possible mobility: an architecture for stateful object migration on the Internet. Technical Publication [Details]
Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson (2000) A review of mobility systems. Technical Publication [Details]
Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson (1999) A managed architecture for mobile distributed systems. Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin: Technical Publication [Details]

Workshops

Coyle L., Neely S., Nixon P. and Quigley A. (2006) Sensor Aggregation and Integration in Healthcare Location Based Services. Workshops [Details]
Ross Shannon, Aaron Quigley, Paddy Nixon (2006) Software Considerations for Automotive Pervasive Systems. Workshops [Details]
Ross Shannon, Aaron Quigley, Paddy Nixon (2006) Collaborating in Context: Immersive Visualisation Environments. Workshops [Details]
G. Thomson, P. Nixon, and S. Terzis. (2004) Towards ad-hoc situation determination. Workshops [Details]
A. Jamieson, S. Breslin, P. Nixon, and D. Smeed (2004) Mipos - the mote indoor positioning system. Workshops [Details]
W. Wagealla, M. Carbone, C. English, S. Terzis, and P. Nixon (2003) A formal model of trust lifecycle management. Workshops [Details]
Paddy Nixon, Simon Dobson, Sotirios Terzis, and Feng Wang (2003) Architectural implications for context-adaptive smart spaces. Workshops [Details]
R. Glassey, G. Stevenson, M. Richmond, P. Nixon, S. Terzis, F. Wang, and R. I. Ferguson (2003) Towards a middleware for generalised context management. Workshops [Details]
G. Stevenson, P. A. Nixon, and R. I. Ferguson (2003) A general purpose programming framework for ubiquitous computing environments. Workshops [Details]
G. Kirby, A. Dearle, R. Morrison, M. Dunlop, R. Connor, and P. Nixon (2003) Active architecture for pervasive contextual services. Workshops [Details]
C. English, W. Wagealla, S. Terzis, H. Lowe, A. McGettrick, and P. Nixon (2003) Trust dynamics for collaborative global computing. Workshops [Details]
G. Thomson, S. Terzis, and P. Nixon. (2003) Towards dynamic context discovery and composition. London, England: Workshops [Details]
W. Wagealla, S. Terzis, C. English, and P. Nixon. (2003) On trust and privacy in context-aware systems. Workshops [Details]
G. Thomson, M. Richmond, S. Terzis, and P. Nixon (2003) An approach to dynamic context discovery and composition. Workshops [Details]
Paddy Nixon, Feng Wang, Sotirios Terzis, and Simon Dobson (2002) Engineering context-aware systems. Workshops [Details]
S. Terzis, C. English, G. Stevenson, H. Lowe, A. McGettrick, and P. Nixon (2002) Using simulation to explore trust lifecycle issues. Workshops [Details]
A. McGettrick, C. English, H. Lowe, P. Nixon, and S. Terzis (2002) Trust and mobility. Workshops [Details]
C. English, P. Nixon, S. Terzis, A. McGettrick, and H. Lowe (2002) Dynamic trust models for ubiquitous computing environments. Workshops [Details]
C. English, P. Nixon, S. Terzis, A. McGettrick, and H. Lowe (2002) Security models for trusting network appliances. Workshops [Details]
P. Nixon, S. Dobson, S. Terzis, and F. Wang (2002) Architectural implications for context adaptive smart spaces. Workshops [Details]
Mel O`Cinneide and Patrick Nixon (2001) Automated Software Evolution Towards Design Patterns. Vienna, September: Workshops [Details]
Mel O`Cinneide and Patrick Nixon (2000) Composite Refactorings for Java Programs. Workshops [Details]
Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (1998) (Free) radical programming languages. Workshops [Details]

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