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Below is an incomplete list of publications. You can find on-line versions of many of these at www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/mpg/

 

Journal articles appear first.

 

1991                                               Davies, N.A. and J.R. Nicol.  "A Technological Perspective on Multimedia Computing." Computer Communications Vol.: 14 No.: 5, June 1991. Pages: 260-272.

Williams, N., G.S. Blair and N. Davies.  "Multimedia Computing: An Assessment of the State of the Art." Journal of Information Services and Use Vol.: 11, 1991.

Blair, G.S. and N. Davies.  "Incorporating Multimedia in Distributed Object-Oriented Systems: the Importance of Flexible Management."  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems, I-WOOOS '91, Palo Alto, California, 17-18 October 1991. Editor: L.F. Cabrera, V. Russo and M. Shapiro, IEEE Computer Society Press, Pages: 36-41. ISBN: 0-8186-2265-2.

                                                        Blair, G.S., G. Coulson, N. Davies and N. Williams.  "Incorporating Multimedia in Distributed Open Systems."  Proceedings of EUUG Spring '91 Conference, Tromso, Norway, May 1991.

                                                        Blair, G.S., G. Coulson, N. Davies and N. Williams.  "Incorporating Multimedia in the ANSA Distributed Architecture."  Proceedings of UKUUG'91 Conference, Liverpool, UK, July 1991.

                                                        Ruston, L., G.S. Blair, G. Coulson and N. Davies.  "Integrating Computing and Telecommunications: A Tale of Two Architectures."  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, Heidelberg, Germany, November 1991.

1992                                               Davies, N., M. Davy, G.S. Blair and J.A. Mariani. "Object Invocation and Management in Distributed Multimedia Systems", Information and Software Technology, Vol. 35, No. 5, 1992.

                                                        Coulson, G., G.S. Blair, N. Davies and N. Williams.  "Extensions to ANSA for Multimedia Computing." Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol.: 25, April 1992.

Kemp, Z.P., E.A. Oxborrow, M.J. Davy, P.F. Linington, R. Thearle, G.S. Blair, P. Dark, N.A. Davies, J.A. Mariani, C. Snape. "The ZENITH System for Object Management in Distributed Multimedia Design Environments", Information and Software Technology, 1992.

Williams, N., G.S. Blair, G. Coulson and N. Davies. "A Support Platform for Distributed Multimedia Applications", Journal of Intelligent Tutoring Media, April 1992.

Blair, G.S., N. Davies, G. Coulson and N. Williams. "Abstractions for Continuous Media in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems: The Role of Groups", Proceedings of  the Fifth ACM SIGOPS European Workshop on Models and Paradigms for Distributed Systems Structuring, Sept 21-23, 1992, Le Mont Saint-Michel, France.

Blair, G.S., G. Coulson, N. Davies and N. Williams. "The Role of Operating Systems in Object-Oriented Distributed Multimedia Platforms", Proceedings of  the 2nd ACM/IEEE Workshop on Object-Orientation in Operating Systems (IWOOOS), September, 1992; France.

                                                        Davies, N.A., G. Coulson, N. Williams and G.S. Blair.  "Experiences of Handling Multimedia in Distributed Open Systems."  Proceedings of SEDMSIII, the 3rd International Symposium on Experiences with Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems, Newport Beach, CA, USA, March 26-27, 1992. Pages: 173-190. ISBN: 1-880446-41-3.

1993                                               Adcock, P., N. Davies, G.S. Blair. "Supporting Continuous Media in Open Distributed Systems Architectures" Proceedings of the GI Workshop on the OSF Distributed Computing Environment, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. October 1993.

1994                                               Blair, G.S., G. Coulson and N. Davies. "System Support for Multimedia Applications: An Assessment of the State of the Art", Information and Software Technology Special Issue on Multimedia, 1994.

                                                        Blair, G.S., G. Coulson, N. Davies, F. Garcia and D. Shepherd (editors). "Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video". Springer-Verlag, 1994.

Blair, G.S., A. Campbell, G. Coulson, N. Davies, F. Garcia and D. Shepherd. "Summary of the 4th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video" Computer Communications and Operating Systems Review, 1994.

                                                        Davies, N., S. Pink and G.S. Blair. "Services to Support Distributed Applications in a Mobile Environment", Proccedings of the 1st International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments, June 1994.

                                                        Davies, N., G.S. Blair, K. Cheverst and A. Friday. "Supporting Adaptive Services in a Heterogeneous Mobile Environment", Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications Santa Cruz, CA, December 1994.

1995                                               Davies, N., G. S. Blair, K. Cheverst and A. Friday. "Experiences of Using RM-ODP to Build Advanced Mobile Applications" Special Issue of Distributed Systems Engineering on Mobile Computing, Vol:2, No:3, 1995. Pages: 142-151.

                                                        Davies, N., G. S. Blair, K. Cheverst and A. Friday. "A Collaborative Multimedia Application for a Mobile Environment" Proc. of Mobile Multi-media Communications, Bristol, U.K., 1995.

                                                        Davies, N., G. S. Blair, K. Cheverst and A. Friday. "A Network Emulator To Support the Development of Adaptive Applications" Proc. of USENIX Symposium on Mobile and Location Independent Computing, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., 1995.

                                                        Friday, A. and N. Davies. "Distributed Systems Support for Mobile Applications" IEE Symposium on mobile computing and its applications, Savoy Place, London, 1995.

1996                                               Davies, N., G. S. Blair, A. Friday, A. D. Cross and P. F. Raven "Mobile Open Systems Technologies For The Utilities Industries", Remote Cooperation - CSCW for Mobile and Teleworkers, Ed A. Dix, Springer Verlag, 1996.

                                                        Davies, N., G. S. Blair, K. Cheverst and A. Friday. "Supporting Collaborative Applications in a Heterogeneous Mobile Environment" Special Issue of Computer Communications on Mobile Computing, 1996.

Davies, N., A. Friday, G. S. Blair and K. W. J. Cheverst. "Distributed Systems Support for Adaptive Mobile Applications" ACM-Baltzer Mobile Networks and Nomadic Applications, 1996. Vol. 1 No. 4. Pages 399-408.

                                                        Cheverst, K.,  N. Davies, A. Friday and G. Blair. "Services to Support Consistency in Mobile Collaborative Applications" 3rd International Workshop on Services in Distributed Networked Environments, Macau, China, 1096.

                                                        Davies, N., "The Impact of Mobility on Distributed Systems Platforms" Proc. of International Conference on Distributed Platforms, Dresden, 1996.

                                                        Friday, A., G. S. Blair, K. W. J. Cheverst and N. Davies. "Extensions to ANSAware for advanced mobile applications" Proc. of International Conference on Distributed Platforms, Dresden, 1996.

1997                                               Blair, G., N. Davies, A. Friday and S. Wade. "Quality of Service Support in a Mobile Environment: An Approach Based on Tuple Spaces" Proc. of the 5th IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS '97) - Building QoS into Distributed Systems, Columbia University, New York, USA, 21-23 May 1997.

                                                        Davies, N., S. Wade, A. Friday and G. Blair. "Limbo: A Tuple Space Based Platform for Adaptive Mobile Applications" Proc. of the International Conference on Open Distributed Processing/Distributed Platforms (ICODP/ICDP'97), Toronto, Canada, 27-30 May 1997.

                                                        Blair, G.S., G. Coulson, N. Davies, P. Robbin and T. Fitzpatrick. "Adaptive Middleware for Mobile Multimedia Applications" Proc. of the 8th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV'97), St. Louis, USA, 19-21 May 1997.

1998                                               Davies, N. and A. Friday. "Applications of Video in Mobile Environments" IEEE Communications, June 1998.

Davies, N., A. Friday, S. Wade and G. Blair. "L2imbo: A Distributed Systems Platform for Mobile Computing" ACM MONET Journal, Vol. 3 No 2. 1998.  Pages 143 - 156.

Cheverst, K., G. Blair, N. Davies, and A. Friday. "Supporting Collaboration in Mobile-Aware Groupware" Proc. Workshop on Handheld CSCW at CSCW'98, Seattle, U.S., Pages 59-63, 1998.

Davies, N., K. Mitchell, K. Cheverst and G. Blair. "Developing a Context Sensitive Tourist Guide" Proc. of the 1st Workshop on HCI and Mobile Devices, Glasgow, U.K., 21-23 May 1998.

                                                        Davies, N., K. Raymond and J. Seitz (editors). "Proceedings Middleware’98: IFIP International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing". Springer-Verlag, ISBN 1-85233-088-0 1998.

Davies, N., A. Friday, S. Wade and G. Blair. "An Asynchronous Distributed Systems Platform for Heterogeneous Environments" Proc. of the 5th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Sintra, Portugal, 7-10 September 1998.

                                                        Yeadon, N., N. Davies, and A. Friday. "Supporting Video In Heterogeneous Mobile Environments" Proc. of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Atlanta, USA, 27 Feb - 1 March 1998.

1999                                               Friday, A., N. Davies, G. Blair, and K. Cheverst. "Developing Adaptive Applications: The MOST Experience" Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering Vol. 6 No. 2, Pages  143-157.

Cheverst, K., N. Davies, K. Mitchell, and G.S. Blair. "The Design of an Object Model for a Context-Sensitive Tourist Guide" Computers and Graphics, Vol. 23 No 5, 1999.

Cheverst K., G. S. Blair, N. Davies and A. Friday. “The Support of Mobile-Awareness in Collaborative Groupware”, Personal Technologies Journal, March 1999, Volume 3, Numbers 1 & 2, Pages 33-42.

Coulson G., G. S. Blair, N. Davies, P. Robin and T. Fitzpatrick. “Supporting Mobile Multimedia Applications through Adaptive Middleware”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 17, Number 9, Pages 1651-1659, September 1999.

Friday, A. N. Davies, J. Seitz, M. Storey and S. Wade. "Experiences of Using Generative Communications to Support Adaptive Mobile Applications" Distributed and Parallel Databases, Special Issue on Mobile Data Management and Applications, Vol. 7 No. 3, Pages 1-24. 1999.

Cheverst, K., N. Davies, K. Mitchell, and A. Friday. "The Role of Connectivity in Supporting Context-Sensitive Applications" Proc. 1st International Conference on Handheld Ubiquitous Computing'99, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1999.

Davies, N., K. Cheverst, K. Mitchell, and A. Friday. "Caches in the Air: Disseminating Information in the Guide System" Proc. 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA '99), New Orleans, U.S., IEEE Press, Pages 11-19.

Seitz J., K. Cheverst, N. Davies, M. Ebner and A. Friday. “Management of Proxy Objects Providing Multimedia Applications in the Mobile Environment”, Proc. of IM’99 Sixth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Boston MA, USA, 24-28 May 1999. Pages 915-928.

2000                                               Cheverst, K., N. Davies, A. Friday and K. Mitchell. "Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The Lancaster GUIDE Project" Proc. Mobicom’00, Boston, U.S. August 2000.

Cheverst, K., N. Davies, K. Mitchell, A. Friday and C. Efstratiou. "Developing a Context-aware Electronic Tourist Guide: Some Issues and Experiences" Proc of CHI’00, Netherlands. 17-24 March 2000.

Cheverst, K., N. Davies, K. Mitchell and P. Smith. “Providing Tailored (Context-aware) Information to City Visitors” Proceedings of International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems, AH'2000, Trento, August 2000, pp 20-31.

Cheverst,K., Christos Efstratiou, Nigel Davies, and Adrian Friday. “Architectural Ideas for the Support of Adaptive Context-Aware Applications” Proceedings of Workshop on Infrastructure for Smart Devices - How to Make Ubiquity an Actuality, HUC'00, Bristol, September 2000

Cheverst, K., N. Davies, K. Mitchell, A. Friday. “Sharing (Location) Context to Facilitate Collaboration Between City Visitors” To appear: Proceedings of the IMC'00 Workshop on Interactive Applications of Mobile Computing, Rostock, November 2000

K. Cheverst, K. Mitchell, G. Smith and N. Davies. “Supporting Collaboration in Mobile-aware Groupware” To appear: Proceedings of the Workshop on 'Awareness and the WWW' at CSCW '00, Philadelphia, 2nd Dec 2000.

2001                                                                      Cheverst, K., N. Davies, K. Mitchell and C. Efstratiou. “Using Context as a Crystal Ball: Rewards and Pitfalls” Personal Technologies Journal, Vol 5, No. 1, January 2001.

Efstratiou, C., K. Cheverst, N. Davies and A. Friday. “Architectural Requirements For The Effective Support Of Adaptive Mobile Applications”. Proceedings of Int Conf on MDM2001 (Mobile Data Management) July 2001.