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Professor Gordon Blair

Emeritus Professor, SCC Sustainability Lead, Distinguished Professor

  1. 2017
  2. Published
  3. Published

    Data-driven decisions for flood risk management

    Edwards, E. R., Mullagh, L., Towe, R. P., Nundloll, V., Dean, C., Dean, G., Simm, W. A., Samreen, F., Bassett, R. & Blair, G. S., 6/09/2017, Data for Policy 2017: Government by Algorithm?. Data for Policy, 6 p.

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

  4. 2016
  5. Published

    Daleel: simplifying cloud instance selection using machine learning

    Samreen, F., El Khatib, Y., Rowe, M. C. & Blair, G. S., 25/04/2016, Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2016 IEEE/IFIP. IEEE, (Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2016 IEEE/IFIP).

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

  6. Published

    Middleware for Internet distribution in the context of cloud computing and the Internet of Things

    Blair, G. S., Schmidt, D. & Taconet, C., 04/2016, In: Annals of Telecommunications. 71, 3, p. 87-92 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  7. Published

    1st international workshop on models@run.time for self-aware computing systems

    Gotz, S., Bencomo, N., Bellman, K. & Blair, G. S., 2016, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC). IEEE, p. 363 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNOther chapter contribution

  8. 2015
  9. 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

  10. Published

    MultiBox: lightweight containers for vendor-independent multi-cloud deployments

    Hadley, J., El Khatib, Y., Blair, G. & Roedig, U., 21/11/2015, Embracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies: First Workshop, EGC 2015, Almaty, Kazakhstan, February 26-28, 2015. Proceedings. Horne, R. (ed.). Springer Verlag, p. 79-90 12 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science ; vol. 514).

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

  11. Published

    Dynamic constructs competition miner - occurrence- vs. time-based ageing

    Redlich, D., Molka, T., Gilani, W., Blair, G. S. & Rashid, A., 19/11/2015, Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis: 4th International Symposium, SIMPDA 2014, Milan, Italy, November 19-21, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Ceravolo, P., Russo, B. & Accorsi, R. (eds.). Springer, p. 79-106 28 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 237).

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

  12. Published

    Perspectives on software-defined networks: interviews with five leading scientists from the networking community

    Batista, D. M., Blair, G. S., Kon, F., Boutaba, R., Hutchison, D., Jain, R., Ramjee, R. & Rothenberg, C. E., 30/10/2015, In: Journal of Internet Services and Applications. 6, 22, 10 p., 22.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    The design of a generalised approach to the programming of systems of systems

    Coulson, G., Blair, G., Elkhatib, Y. & Mauthe, A., 06/2015, World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on a . IEEE, p. 1-6 6 p.

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

  14. Published

    Evaluation of the dynamic construct competition miner for an eHealth system

    Redlich, D., Galushka, M., Molka, T., Gilani, W., Blair, G. S. & Rashid, A., 2015, Business Information Systems : 18th International Conference, BIS 2015, Poznań, Poland, June 24-26, 2015, Proceedings. Abramowicz, W. (ed.). Cham: Springer, p. 115-126 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 208).

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

  15. 2014
  16. Published

    Adaptive decision making in multi-cloud management

    Samreen, F., Blair, G. & Rowe, M., 12/2014, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on CrossCloud Systems (CCB'14). New York: ACM, 6 p. 4

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

  17. Published

    Environmental IoT: programming cyber-physical clouds with high-level system specifications

    Rodrigues Filho, R., Porter, B. & Blair, G., 12/2014, Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on. IEEE, p. 947-950 4 p.

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

  18. Published
  19. 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

  20. Published

    Constructs competition miner: process control-flow discovery of BP-domain constructs

    Redlich, D., Molka, T., Gilani, W., Blair, G. S. & Rashid, A., 2014, Business Process Management: 12th International Conference, BPM 2014, Haifa, Israel, September 7-11, 2014. Proceedings. Sadiq, S., Soffer, P. & Völzer, H. (eds.). Springer, p. 134-150 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 8659).

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

  21. Published

    Introducing a framework for scalable dynamic process discovery

    Redlich, D., Gilani, W., Molka, T., Drobek, M., Rashid, A. & Blair, G. S., 2014, Advances in Enterprise Engineering VIII : 4th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2014, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, May 5-8, 2014. Proceedings. Aveiro, D., Tribolet, J. & Gouveia, D. (eds.). Springer, p. 151-166 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 174).

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

  22. Published

    Research challenges for business process models at run-time

    Redlich, D., Blair, G. S., Rashid, A., Molka, T. & Gilani, W., 2014, Models@run.time: foundations, applications, and roadmaps. Bencomo, N., France, R., Cheng, B. H. C. & Assmann, U. (eds.). Springer, p. 208-236 29 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 8378).

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

  23. Published

    Scalable dynamic business process discovery with the constructs competition miner

    Redlich, D., Molka, T., Gilani, W., Blair, G. S. & Rashid, A., 2014, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2014), Milan, Italy, November 19-21, 2014.. Accorsi, R., Ceravolo, P. & Russo, B. (eds.). p. 91-107 17 p.

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

  24. 2013
  25. Published

    Collective spaces and collected action: towards reconnecting food, consumers and nature

    Edwards, L., Mullagh, L., Dean, G. & Blair, G., 9/09/2013, UbiComp '13 Adjunct Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication. New York: ACM, p. 563-570 8 p.

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

  26. Published

    Digital clothing manufacture: co-creation and digital innovation for local production

    Tavares Smith, M., Cooper, R. & Blair, G., 05/2013, Digital fashion 2013: the proceedings of the 1st international conference of digital fashion., D. F. 2. S. (ed.). London: Digital Fashion 2013 Secretariat, p. 246-253 8 p.

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

  27. Published

    Experiences of using a hybrid cloud to construct an environmental virtual observatory

    Elkhatib, Y., Blair, G. & Surajbali, B., 04/2013, CloudDP '13: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms . New York: ACM, p. 13-18 6 p.

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

  28. 2012
  29. Published

    The Social Practice of Flow: design from a practice lens

    Dean, G., Blair, G. & Buscher, M., 20/10/2012.

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

  30. Published

    EVO: A Virtual Observatory to Bridge Environmental Disciplines Using Cloud Computing

    El-khatib, Y., Blair, G., Gemmell, A., Gurney, R., Watkins, J. & Rees, G., 06/2012, p. 414. 1 p.

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

  31. Published

    Emergent Middleware: Tackling the Interoperability Problem

    Blair, G. & Grace, P., 1/01/2012, In: IEEE Internet Computing. 16, 1, p. 78-82 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Published

    Digital clothing manufacture: digital innovation and co-design changing the clothing industry

    Smith, M., Blair, G. & Cooper, R., 2012, Design Frontiers - territories, concepts, technologies: ICDHS 2012 - 8th Conference of the International Committee for Design History & Design Studies.. Farias, P., Calvera, A., Braga, M. & Schincariol , Z. (eds.). São Paulo: Blucher Publishing House, p. 436-440 5 p.

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

  33. Published

    Emergent Middleware

    Grace, P., Blair, G. & Issarny, V., 2012, In: ERCIM News. 88, p. 27-28 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    OverStar: an open approach to end-to-end middleware services in systems of systems

    Grace, P., Bromberg, Y. D., Réveillère, L. & Blair, G., 2012, Proceedings of ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2012). Narasimhan, P. & Triantafillou, P. (eds.). Springer-Verlag, p. 229-248 20 p.

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

  35. Published

    The (Social) Practices of DIYbio

    Dean, G., Blair, G. & Büscher, M., 2012. 2 p.

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

  36. Published

    The role of models@run.time in supporting on-the-fly interoperability

    Bencomo, N., Bennaceur, A., Grace, P., Blair, G. & Issarny, V., 2012, In: Computing. 95, 3, p. 167-190 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. 2011
  38. Published

    Bridging the interoperability gap: overcoming combined application and middleware heterogeneity

    Bromberg, Y. D., Grace, P., Reveillere, L. & Blair, G., 12/2011, Proceedings of ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2011). Kon, F. & Kermarrec, A.-M. (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 390-409 20 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7049).

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

  39. Published

    The Role of Ontologies in Emergent Middleware: Supporting Interoperability in Complex Distributed Systems

    Blair, G., Bennaceur, A., Georgantas, N., Grace, P., Issarny, V., Nundloll-Ramdhany, V. & Paolucci, M., 12/2011, Proceedings of ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2011). Kon, F. & Kermarrec, A.-M. (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 410-430 21 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7049).

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

  40. 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

  41. Published

    Perspectives on cloud computing: interviews with five leading scientists from the cloud community

    Blair, G., Kon, F., Cirne, W., Milojicic, D., Ramakrishnan, R., Reed, D. & Silva, D., 07/2011, In: Journal of Internet Services and Applications. 2, 1, p. 3-9 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  42. Published

    The role of ontologies in enabling dynamic interoperability

    Nundloll, V., Grace, P. & Blair, G. S., 06/2011, Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 11th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 6-9, 2011. Proceedings. Felber , P. & Rouvoy, R. (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, p. 179-193 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6723).

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

  43. Published

    Using lightweight virtual machines to achieve resource adaptation in middleware

    Duran-Limon, H. A., Siller, M., Blair, G. S., Lopez, A. & Lombera-Landa, J. F., 1/04/2011, In: IET Software. 5, 2, p. 229-237 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  44. Published

    A Cloud-based Virtual Observatory for Environmental Science

    Blair, G. S. & El-khatib, Y., 04/2011, OpenWater symposium 19th April, 2011, at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands : Extended abstracts. Delft: Unesco-IHE, p. 102-103 2 p.

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

  45. Published

    SeDiM: A Middleware Framework for Interoperable Service Discovery in Heterogeneous Networks

    Flores Cortes, C., Grace, P. & Blair, G., 02/2011, In: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. 6, 1, 8 p., 6.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  46. Published

    Interoperability in complex distributed systems

    Blair, G., Paolucci, M., Grace, P. & Georgantas, N., 2011, Formal Methods for Eternal Networked Software Systems: 11th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, June 13-18, 2011. Advanced Lectures. Bernardo, M. & Issarny, V. (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 1-26 26 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6659).

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

  47. Published

    The CONNECT Architecture

    Grace, P., Georgantas, N., Bennaceur, A., Blair, G., Chauvel, F., Issarny, V., Paolucci, M., Saadi, R., Souville, B. & Sykes, D., 2011, Formal Methods for Eternal Networked Software Systems: 11th International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, June 13-18, 2011. Advanced Lectures. Bernardo, M. & Issarny, V. (eds.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 27-52 26 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6659).

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

  48. Published

    The environmental virtual observatory: a new vision for catchment science

    Gurney, R., Emmett, B., McDonald, A., Blair, G., Buytaert, W., Freer, J., Haygarth, P., Rees, G. & Teztlaff, D., 2011.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Poster

  49. 2010
  50. 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

  51. Published

    A virtual observatory in a real world: building capacity for an uncertain future

    Blair, G., Buytaert, W., Emmett, B., Freer, J., Gurney, R., Haygarth, P., McDonald, A., Rees, G. & Tetzlaff, D., 2010, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. Vol. 12. p. 4399 1 p.

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  52. Published

    A virtual observatory in a real world: building capacity for an uncertain future-the UK pVO

    Gurney, R., Tetzlaff, D., Freer, J. E., Emmett, B., McDonald, A., Rees, G., Buytaert, W., Blair, G. & Haygarth, P., 2010, p. 1231. 1 p.

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

  53. 2009
  54. Published

    A component-based approach for (Re)-configurable routing in VANETs

    Nudloll, V., Blair, G. S. & Grace, P., 12/2009, ARM '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective MIddleware. New York: ACM, 6 p.

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

  55. 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

  56. Published

    A Configurable Approach to Privacy Ontology and its Application to Mobile e-Health Services

    Garcia, D., Blair, G. S., Grace, P., Flores-Cortes, C., Toledo, M. & Capretz, M., 09/2009. 0 p.

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

  57. Published

    Towards protecting consumer's privacy in Service-Oriented Architecture

    Garcia, D., Toledo, M., Capretz, M., Allison, D., Grace, P. & Blair, G. S., 09/2009, IEEE Toronto International Conference Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH), 2009 . IEEE, p. 473-478 6 p.

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

  58. Published

    Fine Grained Component Engineering of Adaptive Overlays: Experiences and Perspectives

    Tyson, G., Grace, P., Blair, G. S. & Mauthe, A., 6/07/2009, Lancaster University, 20 p.

    Research output: Working paper

  59. Published

    A Reflective Middleware to Support Peer-to-Peer Overlay Adaptation

    Tyson, G., Grace, P., Mauthe, A., Blair, G. S., Kaune, S. & Content Network of Excellence (FP6-IST-038423) (Funder), 9/06/2009, Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems : 9th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2009, Lisbon, Portugal, June 9-11, 2009. Proceedings. Senivongse , T. & Oliveira, R. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 30-43 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5523).

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

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