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Journals

  • Hoskins A, McCann JA, Chris Roadknight, Duncan Wilson,Jane Tateson, 'Beasties in the Creative Workplace', to be published inIntelligent Buildings International Journal, vol 1 no 3., 2009
  • McCann JA, Huebscher M., 'A survey of Autonomic Computing - degrees, models and applications', to be published in ACM Computing Surveys, ACM, 2008
  • 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
  • McCann JA, Huebscher M., de Lemos R., Rana O.F., Wombacher A., Can Autonomic Systems be trusted? in Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, Computing Knowledge Engineering Review, Cambridge Press, 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
  • 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.
  • Huebscher M.C., McCann J.A. 'Adaptive Middleware For Context-Aware Applications', published by Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Springer 2005
  • MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A., '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.
  • McCann J.A., Howlett P., Crane J.S., 'Kendra: Adaptive Internet System', Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier Science, Volume 55, Issue 1, 5 November 2000 .pp 3-17  
  • 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.
  •   A.B. Chaudhri, McCann J.A. and Osmon P. (1999) ‘A performance study of object database management systems’, Journal on Theory and Practice of Object Systems. Vol. 5, No. 4, 1999. pp 263-279.
  • 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.  

Book Chapters

·         McCann J .A., 'Adaptivity for Improving Web Streaming Application Performance', chapter in Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems. ed. N. V. Patel,  2002. pp 172-191

·         P. Kostkova, McCann J .A., ' Support for Dynamic Trading and Runtime Adaptability in Mobile Environments' chapter in Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems. ed. N. V. Patel,  2002.pp 229-260

·         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

Conferences

  • 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
  • Bourcier J, McCann J.A., ‘Autonomic Flap Damping Mechanisms for Utility based Service Selection’, IEEE Conference on Engineering of Autonomic Systems (EASe10), March 2010.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Papadopoulous A., Navarra A., McCann J.A., 'VIBE: a Virtual-Infrastructure-Based Energy-efficient Framework for Routing over Scalable Wireless Sensor Networks', inWorkshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks, Greece, June 14th, 2008
  • 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.
  • 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, he 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, he 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC'07, June 2007
  • 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

·         Jawaheer G., Hoskins A., McCann J. A., "ANS: A Look Under the Hood", IEE Proceedings on Perspectives in Pervasive Computing, London , UK , Oct. 2005.

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

·         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

·         Papadopoulous A., Univaq A., McCann J.A., 'Connectionless Probabilistic (CoP) routing: an efficient protocol for Mobile Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor', published in 24th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC Arizona March 2005

·         Huebscher M.C., McCann J.A. 'A Learning Model for Trustworthiness of Context-awareness Services', published in the proceedings of Second IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication Security, March 2005

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·         Belecheanu R, Hoskins A., Jawaheer G., McCann J.A., & Payne T., 'Semantic Web Meets Autonomic Ubicomp', 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

·         Hoskins A, Jawaheer G., McCann J .A. ' ANS (Autonomic Networked System) for Ubiquitous Computing', abstract/poster in UbiComp 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, p. 597

·         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)

·         Papadopoulous A., McCann J.A. Towards the Design of an Energy-efficient, Location-aware Routing Protocol for Mobile, Ad-hoc Sensor Networks in SAAC04 in14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2004)

·         Jawaheer G., McCann J.A., Building a self-adaptive content distribution network in SAAC04 in14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2004) 

·           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  

·         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.

·         McCann J .A., Jawaheer G., Sun L., 'Patia: Adaptive Distributed Webserver (a Position Paper)' International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS). IEEE, April 2003

·         McCann J .A., 'ANS (Autonomic Networked System): A Position Paper', 1st UK-UbiNet Workshop, 25-26th September 2003

·         McCann J .A., Jawaheer G. 'Experiences in Building the Patia Autonomic Webserver' published in 1st International Workshop "Autonomic Computing Systems", DEXA 2003

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·         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

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·         Schroeder M., McCann J. A. , Haynes D., 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  

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·         MacFarlane A., McCann J.A. and Robertson S.E., ‘Parallel Search using partitioned Inverted Files’ Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2000) Editor: P. da la Fuente Publisher IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, 2000. pp 209-220.  

·         Law G., McCann J.A.,'A New Protection Model for Component-Based Operating Systems’, in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computing and Communications, Phoenix , Arizona , Feb. 2000.

·         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

·         P. Kostkova, McCann J.A., 'Inter-federation Communication in the MAGNET Architecture', in Proc. Third Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Mass. USA., Sept 2000.

·         Schroeder M., McCann J.A., Haynes D. ‘Rough traders and intelligent clients’, in Proc. of Autonomous Agents 2000. Barcelona , Spain . 2000. ACM Press.  

·         Law G., McCann J.A., ‘Decomposition of Pre-emptive Scheduling in the Go! Component-Based Operating System’. Proc. 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

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·         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

·         Onozato Y., Yamamoto U. , McCann J. A, Dowling G.R., Schroeder M., Tuson A., Nupairoj N., Kawashima K., Aida M., 'Server, Network and User Adaptively in Multimedia Networks', Proc. International Symposium on Non-linear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA'99), 1999, pp815-818.

·         MacFarlane A., Robertson S.E., McCann J.A.’PLIERS at VLC2’. In Proc. 7th Text Retrieval Conference, ed. D.K.Harman, NIST Special Publication 500-242, Gaithersburg , NIST, 1999. pp 327-336  

·         McCann J. A., Crane J.S., 'Kendra: Internet Distribution & 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.

·         Kostkova P., 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.  

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·         J.A. McCann, Crane J.S., 'Component DBMS Architecture for Nomadic Computing', short paper in 16th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'98), Cardiff , Springer-Verlag, 1998.  

·         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. pp 180-185.  

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·         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, pp304-306, 1997.

·         McCann J.A., Manning K.J. ’Performance Management Tool for Interoperable Environments’ in 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., 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, pp 67-79.

·         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.

·         MacFarlane A., McCann J.A., Liddell H. ‘A Common Data Model for Metadata 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



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