QMW Distributed Systems Group:
Recent publications and reports
Books
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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
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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.
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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]
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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
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Security for network places.T. Kindberg. Presented at ECOOP Workshop on Distributed Object Security,
July 1998.
gzipped
(16K) and uncompressed
postscript (43K).
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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.
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A security architecture for PerDiS in Java
George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg and Marcus Roberts.
Presented at the PerDiS persistence workshop, October 1997.
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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.
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G. Coulouris,
The Network Computer and Beyond,
Keynote address, OZCHI 96, Hamilton, New Zealand, November 1996.
[Slides]
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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.
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Sharing Objects over the Internet: the Mushroom Approach
Tim Kindberg, George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Jyrki Heikkinen. IEEE Global Internet London Nov. 1996.
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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.
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Object Groups for Groupware Applications: Application Requirements and Design Issues
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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
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G. Coulouris and J. Dollimore,
Position paper for ACM European SIGOPS Workshop,
Dagstull, September 1994.
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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
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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.
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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
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T. Kindberg,
Technical Report 698,
Department of Computer Science,
Queen Mary and Westfield College, February 1995.
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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.