Home > Research > Researchers > Dr Francois Taiani > Publications

Dr Francois Taiani

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2015
  2. Published

    Holons: Towards a systematic approach to composing systems of systems

    Blair, G. S., Bromberg, Y-D., Coulson, G., El Khatib, Y., Réveillère, L., B. Ribeiro, H., Rivière, E. & Taïani, F. G. D., 7/12/2015, ARM 2015 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware. New York: ACM, p. 5:1 5 p. 5

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  3. 2014
  4. Published

    Adaptation for the masses: towards decentralised adaptation in large-scale P2P recommenders

    Frey, D., Kermarrec, A-M., Maddock, C., Mauthe, A. & Taïani, F., 10/2014, ARM '14 Proceedings of 13th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware. New York: ACM, 6 p. 4

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  5. Published

    PAMPA in the wild: a real-life evaluation of a lightweight ad-hoc broadcasting family

    Winstanley, C., Ramdhany, R., Taïani, F., Porter, B. & Miranda, H., 23/04/2014, In: Journal of Internet Services and Applications. 5, 1, 16 p., 5.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    GOSSIPKIT: a unified component framework for Gossip

    Taïani, F., Lin, S. & Blair, G., 02/2014, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 40, 2, p. 123-136 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 2013
  8. Published

    Cliff-edge consensus: agreeing on the precipice

    Taïani, F., Porter, B., Coulson, G. & Raynal, M., 2013, Parallel computing technologies: 12th International Conference, PaCT 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 30 - October 4, 2013. Proceedings. Malyshkin, V. (ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p. 51-64 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7979).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  9. 2012
  10. Published

    PAMPA in the wild: a real-life evaluation of a lightweight ad-hoc broadcasting family

    Winstanley, C., Ramdhany, R., Taiani, F., Porter, B. & Miranda, H., 12/2012, MidSens '12 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks. New York: ACM, p. 1-6 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  11. Published

    Geology: Modular Georecommendation In Gossip-Based Social Networks

    Carretero, J., Isaila, F., Kermarrec, A-M., Taïani, F. & Tirado, J. M., 06/2012, Proceedings of the IEEE 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012). IEEE, p. 637-646 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  12. Published

    Diverging towards the common good: heterogeneous self-organisation in decentralised recommenders

    Kermarrec, A-M. & Taïani, F., 2012, SNS '12: Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Social Network Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, p. 1-6 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  13. Published

    What is middleware made of? exploring abstractions, concepts, and class names in modern middleware

    Taiani, F., Rice, J. & Rayson, P., 2012, ARM '12 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware . New York: ACM, 6 p. 6

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  14. 2011
  15. Published

    Reasoning about Faults in Aspect-Oriented Programs: A Metrics-Based Evaluation

    Burrows, R., Taiani, F., Garcia, A. & Ferrari, F. C., 1/10/2011, The 19th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2011. Kingston, ON, Canada: IEEE Computer Society, p. 131-140 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  16. Published

    Robustness of automotive applications using reflective computing: lessons learnt

    Fabre, J-C., Killijian, M-O. & Taiani, F., 1/09/2011, Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 6th Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems Track (SAC-DADS'2011). TaiChung, Taiwan: ACM, p. 230-235 6 p. (SAC '11).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  17. Published

    Transparent componentisation: high-level (re)configurable programming for evolving distributed systems

    Lin, S., Taiani, F., Bertier, M., Blair, G. & Kermarrec, A-M., 1/09/2011, Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. TaiChung, Taiwan: ACM, p. 203-208 6 p. (SAC '11).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  18. Published

    MAASC '11: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Middleware and Architectures for Autonomic and Sustainable Computing

    Diaconescu, A. (ed.), Taiani, F. (ed.) & Lalanda, P. (ed.), 2011, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Middleware and Architectures for Autonomic and Sustainable Computing. ACM

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  19. 2010
  20. Published

    The Lorien dynamic component based OS

    Porter, B., Roedig, U., Taiani, F. & Coulson, G., 11/2010, SenSys '10 Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. ACM, p. 355-356 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  21. Published

    An empirical evaluation of coupling metrics on aspect-oriented programs

    Burrows, R., Ferrari, F. C., Garcia, A. & Taiani, F., 1/04/2010, Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics, in collocation with the ACM/IEEE 32nd Internation Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE). Cape Town, South Africa: ACM, p. 53-58 6 p. (WETSoM'10).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  22. Published

    A comparison of static and dynamic component models for Wireless Sensor Networks

    Porter, B., Roedig, U., Taiani, F. & Coulson, G., 04/2010, Proceedings of the The First International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET2010). 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  23. Published

    The Impact of Coupling on the Fault-Proneness of Aspect-Oriented Programs: An Empirical Study

    Burrows, R., Ferrari, F. C., Lemos, O. A. L., Garcia, A. & Taiani, F., 1/01/2010, IEEE 21st International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering. San Jose, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 329-338 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  24. Published

    Overlay-based Middleware for the Pervasive Grid

    Grace, P., Hughes, D., Coulson, G., Blair, G. S., Porter, B. & Taiani, F., 01/2010, Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications. IGI

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  25. Published

    Coupling Metrics for Aspect-Oriented Programming: A Systematic Review of Maintainability Studies

    Burrows, R., Garcia, A. & Taiani, F., 2010, Proceedings of 3rd 4th International Conferences on the Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, (ENASE 2008 / 2009), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, May 4-7, 2008 / Milan, Italy, May 9-10, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Maciaszek, L., Gonzalez-Perez, C. & Jablonski, S. (eds.). Springer-Verlag, Vol. 69. p. 277-290 14 p. (Springer Series Communications in Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS)).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  26. Published

    Exploiting a Generic Approach to Construct Component-Based Systems Software in Linux Environments

    Ueyama, J., Madeira, E. R. M., Taiani, F., Camargo, R. Y. D., Grace, P. & Coulson, G., 2010, In: International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 20, 6, p. 843-873 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Towards anomaly comprehension: using structural compression to navigate profiling call-trees

    Lin, S., Taiani, F., Ormerod, T. C. & Ball, L. J., 2010, SOFTVIS '10 Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Software visualization . NEW YORK: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, p. 103-112 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  28. 2009
  29. Published

    COSMOPEN: dynamic reverse engineering on a budget. How cheap observation techniques can be used to reconstruct complex multi-level behaviour

    Taiani, F., Killijian, M-O. & Fabre, J-C., 25/12/2009, In: Software: Practice and Experience. 39, 18, p. 1467-1514 48 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. Published

    Exploiting Synergies between Coexisting Overlays

    Lin, S., Taiani, F. & Blair, G., 1/09/2009, Proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. Lisbon, Portugal: Springer-Verlag, p. 1-15 15 p. (DAIS '09).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  31. Published

    Some Challenges in Adaptive Fault Tolerant Computing

    Taiani, F. & Fabre, J-C., 1/05/2009, Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Dependable Computing, EWDC 2009. Waeselynck, H. (ed.). 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  32. Published

    Count on me: lightweight ad-hoc broadcasting in heterogeneous topologies

    Ellis, C., Miranda, H. & Taiani, F., 2009, M-PAC '09 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing. Urbana Champaign, Illinois: ACM, p. 1:1-1:6 6 p. (M-PAC'09).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  33. Published

    Design of a backup network for catastrophe scenarios

    Alves, S., Koldehofe, B., Miranda, H. & Taiani, F., 2009, IWCMC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly. Leipzig, Germany: ACM, p. 613-617 5 p. (IWCMC'09).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  34. 2008
  35. Published

    A generic component model for building systems software

    Coulson, G., Blair, G., Grace, P., Taiani, F., Joolia, A., Lee, K., Ueyama, J. & Sivaharan, T., 02/2008, In: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 26, 1, p. 1-42 43 p., 1.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    Experiences with open overlays: a middleware approach to network heterogeneity

    Grace, P., Hughes, D., Porter, B., Blair, G. S., Coulson, G. & Taiani, F., 2008, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2008 (Eurosys '08). New York: ACM, p. 123-136 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  37. Published

    Facilitating Gossip Programming with the GossipKit Framework

    Lin, S., Taiani, F. & Blair, G. S., 2008, DAIS'08: Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed applications and interoperable systems. Springer-Verlag, p. 238-252 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  38. Published

    Past and future of reflective middleware: towards a corpus-based impact analysis

    Taiani, F., Grace, P., Coulson, G. & Blair, G., 2008, Proceedings of the 7th workshop on Reflective and adaptive middleware, in collocation with the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th Int. Middleware Conf. (Middleware 2008). Leuven, Belgium: ACM, p. 41-46 6 p. (ARM'08).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  39. Published

    Tailoring a broadcast algorithm to particular network conditions

    Ellis, C., Miranda, H. & Taiani, F., 2008, Proceedings of the 6th workshop on Middleware for network eccentric and mobile applications. Glasgow, Scotland: ACM, p. 18-20 3 p. (MiNEMA'08).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  40. 2007
  41. Published

    Component-based System Software: A Generic Approach

    Ueyama, J., Taiani, F., Madeira, E., Coulson, G. & Grace, P., 10/2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  42. Published

    GossipKit: A Framework of Gossip Protocol Family

    Lin, S., Taiani, F., Blair, G. S. & European Science Foundation (Funder), 11/09/2007, p. 26-30. 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  43. Published

    Interaction analysis for fault-tolerance in aspect-oriented programming

    Weston, N., Taiani, F. & Rashid, A., 11/09/2007, Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance (MeMoT), July 3, 2007, Oxford, UK, held in conjunction with iFM 2007: integrated Formal Methods. p. 95-102 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  44. Unpublished

    Proceedings of the 5th MiNEMA Workshop (Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications)

    Taiani, F. (ed.) & European Science Foundation (Funder), 11/09/2007, (Unpublished) Magdeburg University. 79 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  45. 2006
  46. Published

    Using grid technologies to optimise a wireless sensor network for flood management

    Hughes, D., Greenwood, P., Porter, B., Grace, P., Coulson, G., Blair, G. S., Taiani, F., Pappenberger, F., Smith, P. J. & Beven, K., 11/2006, Proceeding SenSys '06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems. p. 389-390 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  47. Published

    Using a Grid-Enabled Wireless Sensor Network for Flood Management

    Greenwood, P., Hughes, D., Porter, B., Grace, P., Coulson, G., Blair, G. S., Taiani, F., Pappenberger, F., Smith, P. J. & Beven, K., 09/2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Otherpeer-review

  48. Published

    Reflections on aspects and configurable protocols

    Hiltunen, M., Taiani, F. & Schlichting, R., 20/03/2006, AOSD '06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development. New York: ACM, p. 87-98 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  49. Published

    A generic self-repair approach for overlays

    Porter, B., Coulson, G. & Taiani, F., 2006, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops, Pt 2, Proceedings. Meersman, R., Tari, Z. & Herrero, P. (eds.). BERLIN: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, Vol. 4278. p. 1490-1499 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  50. Published

    Generalised repair for overlay networks

    Porter, B., Taiani, F. & Coulson, G., 2006, SRDS 2006: 25th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Proceedings. Kawada, S. (ed.). LOS ALAMITOS: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, p. 132-142 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  51. 2005
  52. Published

    The Impact of Web Service Integration on Grid Performance.

    Taiani, F., Hiltunen, M. & Schlichting, R., 24/07/2005, High Performance Distributed Computing, 2005. HPDC-14. Proceedings. 14th IEEE International Symposium on. p. 14-23 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  53. Unpublished

    Modular Aspect Verification for Safer Aspect-Based Evolution

    Weston, N., Taiani, F. & Rashid, A., 07/2005, (Unpublished)

    Research output: Other contribution

  54. Published

    A Multi-Level Meta-Object Protocol for Fault-Tolerance in Complex Architectures.

    Taiani, F., Fabre, J. & Killijian, M., 28/06/2005, DSN '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. IEEE Computer Society, p. 270-279 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  55. 2004
  56. Published

    Implementing Simple Replication Protocols using CORBA Portable Interceptors and Java Serialization

    Bennani, T., Blain, L., Courtes, L., Fabre, J-C., Killijian, M-O., Marsden, E. & Taiani, F., 2004, Dependable Systems and Networks, 2004 International Conference on. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 549-554 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  57. 2003
  58. Published

    Towards implementing multi-layer reflection for fault-tolerance

    Taiani, F., Fabre, J. & Killijian, M., 22/06/2003, Dependable Systems and Networks, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on. IEEE, p. 435-444 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  59. 2002
  60. Published

    Principles of multi-level reflection for fault tolerant architectures

    Taïani, F., Fabre, J-C. & Killijian, M-O., 2002, Dependable Computing, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 Pacific Rim International Symposium on. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 59-66 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  61. 2001
  62. Published

    Composing Real-Time Objects: A Case for Petri Nets and Girard's Linear L

    Taïani, F., Paludetto, M. & Delatour, J., 2001, Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 2001. ISORC - 2001. Proceedings. Fourth IEEE International Symposium on. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 298-305 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

Back to top