· Papadopoulos A., Navarra A., McCann J.A., VIBE: An Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Dense and Mobile Sensor Networks', to be published in the Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, 2011

· Yadav P., , McCann J.A.,’ YA-MAC: Handling Unified Unicast and Broadcast Traffic in Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Network’, IEEE/ACM Intl Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Spain, June 1011

· Yadav P., , McCann J.A.,’ EBS: Decentralised Slot Synchronisation for Broadcast messaging for Low-power Wireless Embedded Systems, ICST/ACM Fifth International Conference on Communication System software and middleware (COMSWARE), Italy, July 1011

· Michael Breza, Pedro Martins, Julie A. McCann, Evangelos Spyrou, Poonam Yadav, and Shusen Yang. ‘Simple solutions for the second decade of Wireless Sensor Networking’. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science Conference (ACM-BCS '10). Article 7 , 12 pages.

· Yadav P., , McCann J.A.,’ QoS and Congestion Control for Pervasive Event Driven Applications’, ACM International Conference on Pervasive Services(ICPS-2010)

· Yadav P., , McCann J.A., ‘QoS based Event Delivery for Disaster Monitoring Applications’, Fifth Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (WCSN09), India, IEEE, 2009

· Hoskins A, McCann JA, Chris Roadknight, Duncan Wilson,Jane Tateson, 'Beasties in the Creative Workplace', to be published in Intelligent Buildings International Journal, vol 1 no 3., 2009

McCann J.A. 'Engineering beauty with the Beasties on wireless sensor networks', PerAda Magazine: towards pervasive adaptation, October 08 2008, DOI Number: 10.1117/2.1200809.1299, URL: http://www.perada-magazine.eu/view.php?article=1299-2008-09-18&category=Devices
Breza M., McCann J.A., 'Lessons in implementing bio-inspired algorithms on Wireless Sensor Networks', in NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2008) June 22-25, 2008 European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency (ESA) Noordwijk, The Netherlands, IEEE Computer Society 2008.
Hoskins A, McCann JA, 'Beasties: Simple Wireless Sensor Nodes ', Third IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications, SENSEAPP08, Montreal, Canada, 17th October 2008
Papadopoulos A., Navarra A., McCann J.A., 'VIBE: a Virtual-Infrastructure-Based Energy-efficient Framework for Routing over Scalable Wireless Sensor Networks', in IEEE Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks, DCOSS, Greece, June 14th, 2008

Breza M., Anthony R., McCann J.A., BIOANS: Bio-Inspired Ambient Intelligence Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Ubiquitous Computing and Communications Journal, special issue on Ubiquitous Sensor Networks, ISSN Online 1992-8424, ISSN Print 1994-4608, October 2007
Breza M., McCann J.A., Anthony R., Scalable and Efficient Sensor Network Self-Configuration in BioANS, in First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO'07, Boston, Mass., USA, July, 2007
Breza. M., McCann J.A.,Anthony R., 'Scalable and Efficient Sensor Network Self-Configuration in BioANS', in First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems,SASO'07, Boston, Mass., USA, July, 2007
Breza M., Anthony R.,McCann J.A., 'Quality-of-Context Driven Autonomicity', in 2nd International Workshop on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC'07, June 2007
Anthony R., McCann J.A., Emergent self-organisation of wireless sensor networks, in 2nd International Workshop on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems,T he 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC'07, June 2007

Jawaheer G., Hoskins A., McCann J.A., 'ANS: A Look Under the Hood', IEE Proceedings on Perspectives in Pervasive Computing, London, UK
Papadopoulous A., Univaq A., McCann J.A.,'Connectionless Probabilistic (CoP) routing: an efficient protocol for Mobile Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensors', in 24th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC Arizona March 2005
Papadopoulous A., McCann J.A.' Towards the Design of an Energy-efficient, Location-aware Routing Protocol for Mobile, Ad-hoc Sensor Networks', in SAAC04 in 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2004)
McCann J .A., ' ANS (Autonomic Networked System): A Position Paper', 1st UK-UbiNet Workshop,25-26th September 2003

Autonomic and Pervasive Systems

Bourcier J, Diaconescu A, Lalanda P, McCann J., "AutoHome: an Autonomic Management Framework for Pervasive Home Applications", ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, February 2011
Bourcier J, McCann J.A., ‘Autonomic Flap Damping Mechanisms for Utility based Service Selection’, IEEE Conference on Engineering of Autonomic Systems (EASe10), March 2010.

McCann JA, Huebscher M., ‘A survey of Autonomic Computing — degrees, models and applications’, published in ACM Computing Surveys, ACM, 40 (3) 2008

Huebscher M.C.,McCann J.A., Dulay N., 'Fusing multiple sources of context data of the same context type', in 1st International Conference on the Smart Home, Korea, IEEE, Nov 2006
McCann JA, Huebscher M., Hoskins A,. 'Context as Autonomic Intelligence in a Ubiquitous Computing Environment', in International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT) special edition on Autonomic Computing, Inderscience 2006
McCann JA, Huebscher M., de Lemos R., Rana O.F., Wombacher A., 'Can Self-Managed Systems be trusted?', in Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, Computing Knowledge Engineering Review, Cambridge Press, 2006

Huebscher M.C.,McCann J.A. 'Using real-time dependability in adaptive service selection', International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, ICAS 2005, published by IEEE Computer Society, 2005
Huebscher M.C.,McCann J.A. 'An Adaptive Middleware Framework For Context-Aware Applications', published by Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Springer 2005
Huebscher M.C., McCann J.A. 'A Learning Model for Trustworthiness of Context-awareness Services', in the proceedings of Second IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication Security, March 2005
Belecheanu R, Hoskins A., Jawaheer G., McCann J.A., Payne T., 'Semantic Web Meets Autonomic Ubicomp', published in workshop on Semantic Web Technology for Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing in the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC' 04).
Huebscher M.C., McCann J.A. 'Adaptive Middleware For Context-Aware Applications In Smart-Homes', published by 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing, Middleware 2004, Canada, October , 2004

Jawaheer G., McCann J.A.,.'Adaptation of Dynamic Web Pages on the Edge', in IADIS International WWW/Internet Conference, Portugal, 2005

Hoskins A, Jawaheer G., McCann J .A. ' ANS (Autonomic Networked System) for Ubiquitous Computing', abstract/poster in UbiComp 2004

Huebscher M.C.,McCann J.A., 'Simulation Model for Self-Adaptive Applications in Pervasive Computing', in SAAC04 in14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2004)
McCann J .A., Huebscher M.C.'Evaluation Issues in Autonomic Computing', in the International Workshop on Agents and Autonomic Computing and Grid Enabled Virtual Organizations (AAC-GEVO’04), 3rd International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing Wuhan, China, 21-24 October 2004.Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg
Jawaheer G., McCann J.A., 'Building a self-adaptive content distribution network', in SAAC04 in 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2004)
McCann J .A., Jawaheer G. 'The Patia Autonomic Webserver: Feasibility Experimentation', 1st International Workshop Autonomic Computing Systems, DEXA 2003
McCann J .A. 'The Database Machine: Old Story, New Slant', Proceedings of the first Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, VLDB, January 5-8 2003
McCann J .A. , Jawaheer G., Sun L., ''Patia: Adaptive Distributed Webserver (a Position Paper)', International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS). April 2003
McCann J .A., 'Adaptivity for Improving Web Streaming Application Performance', Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems. ed. N. V. Patel, 2002.
P. Kostkova, McCann J .A., ' Support for Dynamic Trading and Runtime Adaptability in Mobile Environments', Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems. ed. N. V. Patel, 2002.
McCann J.A., Howlett P., Crane J.S., ' Kendra: Adaptive Internet System', Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier Science, Volume 55, Issue 1, 5th November 2000
McCann J. A,. Crane J.S., ' Kendra: Internet Distribution and Delivery System an introductory paper', Proc. SCS EuroMedia Conference, Leicester, UK, Ed. Verbraeck A., Al-Akaidi M., Society for Computer Simulation International, January 1998, pp134-140.

Extensible and Self-Adaptive Systems (inc Operating Systems and Mobile Computing)

P. Kostkova, McCann J.A..,'Support for Mobile Location-aware Applications in MAGNET', 2nd Annual International Workshop on Web Databases, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Thuringia, Germany, October 2002
Law G., 'New protection Model for Component-based Operating Systems', PhD Thesis, City University London, School of Informatics, London, 2001

Law G., McCann J .A., 'Decomposition of Pre-emptive Scheduling in the Go! Component-Based Operating System' ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, 2000.
Law G., McCann J.A., '26 bit Selectors on IA32 for Component-Based Protection', ECOOP'2000, Workshop on Object Orientation and Operating Systems. 2000
P. Kostkova, McCann J.A., 'Inter-federation Communication in the MAGNET Architecture' published in the Third Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Mass. USA., Sept 2000.
Law G., McCann, J.A., 'A New Protection Model for Component-Based Operating Systems', in proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computing and Communications, Phoenix, Arizona, Feb. 2000,
Onozato Y., Yamamoto U., McCann J. A, Dowling G.R., Schroeder M., Tuson A., Nupairoj N., Kawashima K., Aida M., 'Server, Network and User Adaptivity in Multimedia Networks', Proc. International Symposium on Non-linear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA'99), 1999, pp815-818.
P. Kostkova, McCann J.A. , 'MAGNET: An Architecture for Dynamic Resource Allocation' Proc. of International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, ACM, August, 1999, pp 77-83.
McCann J.A., Crane J.S., 'Component DBMS Architecture for Nomadic Computing', 16th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'98), Cardiff, Springer-Verlag, 1998, pp 175-176.
Kostkova P., Crane J. S., McCann J. A., Wilkinson T.' MAGNET: QoS-based Dynamic Adaptation in a Changing Environment' Internal TR, HiPeX, Department of Computer Science, City University, London, UK, February 1998, 12 pages.

Parallel Information Retrieval

MacFarlane A., McCann J.A., Robertson S.E.,' Parallel methods for the update of partitioned inverted files' in ASLIB Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, Vol. 59, No. 4/5, ISSN 001-253X, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007, pp 367-396. Was awarded the 2008 Emerald Literati Network Highly Commended Award.
MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A., 'Parallel methods for the generation of partitioned inverted files' in ASLIB Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, Vol. 57, No. 5, ISSN 001-253X, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005, pp 434-459.

MacFarlane A., McCann J.A., Robertson S.E., 'Parallel Computing for Passage Retrieval' in ASLIB Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, Vol. 56, No. 4, ISSN 001-253X, Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004, pp 201-211.
MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A., 'Parallel Computing for Term Selection in Routing/filtering'. Advances in Information Retrieval, Proceedings of ECIR 2003, LNCS 2633, p537-545.
MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A., 'Parallel search on Partitioned Inverted Files', In Proceedings of SPIRE 2000: the 7th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, La Coruna, Spain,: P. de la Fuente (ed), 27-29 September 2000, 209-220, IEEE Computer Society Press.
MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A., 'PLIERS AT TREC8', Proceedings of the Eighth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8), Ed.: E. Voorhees and D.K.Harman, NIST Special Publication 500-246, Gaithersburg, NIST, 2000, pp 241-252.
MacFarlane A., McCann J.A, Robertson S.E., 'PLIERS: A Parallel Information Retrieval System using MPI', Proc.6th PVM / MPI European Users Meeting, Spain, September 26th-29th, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 1999.pp 317-324
MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A. : 'PLIERS at VLC2'. In Proc. 7th Text Retrieval Conference, ed D.K.Harman, USA, November 1998, pp 271-280.
MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A. : 'Parallel Computing in Information Retrieval - An updated review'. Journal of Documentation,. Vol. 53, No 3. The Association for Information Management, June 1997, pp 274-315.
MacFarlane A., Robertson S., McCann, J. A. : On Concurrency Control in Information retrieval Systems, 18th BCS IRSG Colloquium on Information Retrieval, Manchester Metropolitan University. Ed..Johnson F.C., British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, March 1996, pp67-79.

Older Work

Distributed/Parallel File-System and Web Caching Interoperability, Middleware and Agent-based systems

Schroeder M., McCann J. A. , HaynesD., Trading without Explicit Ontologies. Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III (AMEC) Frank Dignum, Ulises Cortés (Eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer 2001, ISBN 3-540-41749-4, pp 108-120.
Schroeder M., Boro L. , McCann J. A.. 'Efficiency improvements for interactions of web agents'. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous Agents 2001. May 28 - June 1, 2001, Montreal, Canada. ACM, 2001. pp 112-113
Schroeder M., McCann J., Haynes D., 'Rough traders and intelligent clients'. In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents 2000. Barcelona, Spain. 2000. ACM Press, pp259-260.
McCann J.A., Manning K.J. 'Tool to Evaluate Performance in Distributed Heterogeneous Processing'. Proc. 6th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Spain, Ed. Werner R., IEEE Computer Society, January 1998, pp180-185.
McCann J.A., 'Performance in Distributed Heterogeneous Processing Survey Findings', Armenian Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies, Published by Academy of Sciences of Armenia, September 25-29, pp 304-306, 1997.
McCann J.A., Manning K.J. 'Performance Management Tool for Interoperable Environments'. Proc. of the 4th Annual Conference of the British Computer Society Client/Server Group, CSG '97, Cambridge, UK, 7-9 April 1997, Ed. Stone K., British Computer Society Client/Server Specialist Group, pp 60-70.
MacFarlane A., McCann J.A., Liddell H. 'A Common Data Model for Meta-Data in Interoperable Environments', Proceedings of the Second International Baltic Workshop on Databases and Information Systems, Volume 1, Eds Haave H-M., Thalheim B., Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn. June 1996, pp 75-86.
McCann, J. A., MacFarlane A., Liddell H.M., 'Management Tools for Distributed Interoperable Environments', High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN), Belgium, April 1996. Lecture notes in Computer Science, Eds Liddell H., Colbrook A., Hertzberger B., Sloot P., Springer-Verlag, April 1996, pp.689-695.

Distributed/Parallel File-System and Web Caching

McCann J.A.,'The Kendra Cache Replacement Policy and its Distribution', published in World Wide Web An International Journal, Volume 3, Number 4, Baltzer Science Publishers, ISSN 1386-145X, December 2000.pp231-240.
McCann J.A., Williams, N.J., Osmon P. 'Dynamic File Migration to Support Parallel Database Systems', Proc. IEEE/ACM Workshop in Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, ed Dowd P., Gelenbe E., IEEE Computer Society Press, January 1995. pp352-357.
J.A. McCann, A. Valsamidis, D. Bolton, N. Williams, X. Zhao,' Multi-processor File-System Performance Modelling', chapter in Computer and Telecommunication Systems Performance Engineering, Eds. Woodward M.E., Datta S., Szumko S., Pentech Press, London, 1994. pp 40-49

shorter version in the Proceedings of 1993 UK Performance Engineering Workshop for Computer and Telecommunications Systems, BCS Society of Information Systems Engineering,1993. pp23-35

Parallel Databases and Database Performance

Chaudhri A.B, McCann J.A, Osmon P., 'A performance study of object database management systems, Journal on Theory and Practice of Object Systems. Vol. 5, No. 4, 1999. pp. 263-279
McCann J A, Bell D A,.' A Hybrid Benchmarking Model for Database Machine Performance Studies', chapter in Computer Benchmarks, eds. Dongarra J, Gentzsch W, North-Holland 1993. pp325-338.
McCann J.A., 'A Fine Grain Database System Performance Model'. DPhil Thesis. University of Ulster at Jordanstown. 1992.
McCann J.A.,'Simulating Performance of Parallel Database Systems', Proc. European Simulation Symposium, Netherlands. Eds. Verbraek A., Kerckhoffs E.J.H., European Simulation Symposium International, 1993. pp506-511.
McCann J A, Bell D A, Shapcott C.M., 'A Flexible Benchmarking Tool for Parallel Database Systems', Proc. of National Physical Laboratory conference on Parallel Processors - Benchmarking and Assessment, 1992>
McCann J.A. , P.E. Osmon, D. Bolton, N. Williams, A. Valsamidis, X. Zhao,'Distributed Memory Multi-processor Architecture for Relational Database Systems', Presented in Very Large Databases 1993 (Dublin, Eire)
McCann J.A., Bolton D., P.E. Osmon, A. Valsamidis, N. Williams, X. Zhao ' PRIMA: A Parallel Relational Database Machine Architecture', City Universtiy Technical Report 1993.

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