The Distributed Systems research group at Queen Mary disbanded some time ago. Their web pages have been left here for the time being though are likely to disappear in the future. - Systems Support team 26/7/2010

	Distributed Systems Research Group

This is the home page of the Distributed Systems research group in the Department of Computer Science at QMW.

• Group members
• Recent research
• Book - Info on the DS textbook written by members of the group
• Publications and reports

Research group members

The group is not currently active in research in the department of Computer Science at QMW. We list here the academic staff involved in the group from 1990-99, together with current research students. We also list recent research associates and recent PhDs with links to their thesis abstracts.

Academic Staff:	Research students:
Tim Kindberg George Coulouris Jean Dollimore	James King Hani Naguib

Recent research associates:	Recent PhDs:
Marcus Roberts (PerDiS project 1997-99) Ranjit Makwana (Mushroom project 1998-2000) Nick Bryan-Kinns (Mushroom project 1999-2000) Jyrkki Haakinen (Mushroom project 1997-1998) Damien Papworth (Mushroom project Programmer)	Scott Mitchell, 2000 abstract and thesis Andrew Rowley, 1998 abstract and thesis [Postscript 416K] Sung-Gi Min, 1994 abstract Wang Xu, 1994 abstract Claudio da Silva Nascimento, 1993 Takis Anastassopoulos, 1992abstract

Recent research

Our work has focussed on the design of general-purpose distributed systems that have approprate functionality for the support of groupware (cooperative work) applications. The key requirements that we seek to address arise from the need for shared access to dynamic information in multi-user interactive applications. At present we have threads of work, some funded and others resourced by postgraduate effort, in the following areas:

• Architectures and protocols for cooperation on the World-Wide-Web: Project Mushroom.
• Protection and security for groupware: the PerDiS Project
• Multicast protocols for object replication and a replicated object-based toolkit to support secure groupware applications.
• A multimedia programming framework that supports quality of service analysis and control (The Djinn Project).

See our past research activities page for more details on previous projects.
See our publications page for our recent publications.

Textbook

Three of the research group's members, George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, have recently completed the third edition of one of the more widely-used textbooks on distributed systems: Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, published by Addison-Wesley in August 2000. ).

Publications and reports

Follow the link for a list of recent publications and reports by members of the group, many of them downloadable.