QMW Distributed Systems Group:

Recent publications and reports

Books

• Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Third Edition,
  George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg,
  Addison-Wesley Publishers, Wokingham UK, 2001
  ISBN 0-201-619-180, 772 pages.
  Outline, references, errata, preface and Instructor's Guide available here.

Papers

• Role and Task-based Access Control in the PerDiS Groupware Platform
  George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Marcus Roberts Presented at Third ACM Workshop on Role-Based Access Control, George Mason University, VA. October 1998.

• Securing Groupware for the Internet,
  George Coulouris,
  Information Security Bulletin, October 1998.

• Andrew Rowley, A Security Architecture for Groupware, PhD Thesis. September 1998 [Postscript 416K], [Abstract]

• Scott Mitchell, Hani Naguib, George Coulouris and Tim Kindberg, Dynamically Reconfiguring Multimedia Components: A Model-based Approach. 8th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Lisbon, 7-10 September 1998.
  [PostScript, 54K], [PDF, 62K]

• Secure communication in non-uniform trust environments
  George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Marcus Roberts. Presented at: ECOOP Workshop on Distributed Object Security, Brussels, 20 July 1998

• Security for network places.T. Kindberg. Presented at ECOOP Workshop on Distributed Object Security, July 1998.
  gzipped (16K) and uncompressed postscript (43K).

• A Framework for more effectively Specifying Security Policy for Groupware Applications
  Andrew Rowley and Jean Dollimore, Abstract in the Proceedings of MedNet 97 - World congress on the Internet in Medicia, Brighton, Nov 1997.

• A security architecture for PerDiS in Java
  George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg and Marcus Roberts. Presented at the PerDiS persistence workshop, October 1997.

• G. Coulouris, Information sharing - beyond the network computer, IEE Colloquium, Issues for networked interpersonal communicators, London, May 16 1997.

• Secure Group Communication for Groupware Applications
  Andrew Rowley, Jean Dollimore, Presented at the European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems (ERSADS).March 1997.

• G. Coulouris, The Network Computer and Beyond, Keynote address, OZCHI 96, Hamilton, New Zealand, November 1996. [Slides]

• Replicated Secure Shared Objects for Groupware Applications
  A. Rowley and J. Dollimore, Technical Report 716, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, March 1996.

• Sharing Objects over the Internet: the Mushroom Approach
  Tim Kindberg, George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Jyrki Heikkinen. IEEE Global Internet London Nov. 1996.
• Protection of Shared Objects in Cooperative Work
  G. Coulouris and J. Dollimore, Unpublished DRAFT, January 1995.

• A Security Model for Cooperative Work
  G. Coulouris and J. Dollimore, Tech Report 674, Revised, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, August 1994.

• Requirements for security in cooperative work: two case studies
  G. Coulouris and J. Dollimore, Tech Report 671, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, May 1994.

• Object Groups for Groupware Applications: Application Requirements and Design Issues
  R. Achmatowicz and T. Kindberg, proc. European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, pp. 269-274. May 1994.

  Security Requirements for Cooperative Work: a model and its system implications

  G. Coulouris and J. Dollimore, Position paper for ACM European SIGOPS Workshop, Dagstull, September 1994.

  Adaptive Parallelism under Equus

  T. Kindberg, A. Sahiner, Y. Paker, Proceedings Second International Workshop on Configurable Distributed Systems, IEEE, Carnegie-Mellon University, March 1994, pp.172-182.

Technical Reports

• Replicated Secure Shared Objects for Groupware Applications
  A. Rowley and J. Dollimore, Technical Report 716, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, March 1996.

  Protection of Shared Objects in Cooperative Work

  G. Coulouris and J. Dollimore, Technical Report 703, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, August 1994.

  A Sequencing Service for Group Communication

  T. Kindberg, Technical Report 698, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, February 1995.

  Object Groups for Groupware Applications: Application Requirements and Design Issues

  R. Achmatowicz, Tech Report 685, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Nov 1994.

  A Security Model for Cooperative Work

  G. Coulouris and J. Dollimore, Tech Report 674, Revised, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, August 1994.

  Requirements for security in cooperative work: two case studies

  G. Coulouris and J. Dollimore, Tech Report 671, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, May 1994.

  Reconfiguring Client-server systems

  T. Kindberg, Tech Report 630, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1992.

  Reconfiguring Distributed Computations

  T. Kindberg, PhD thesis, University of Westminster, October 1990.