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PROJECTS

Current : “Software Technology for Adaptable Distributed Middleware (STADiUM)”

The STADiUM project addresses the problem of providing end-to-end middleware support for wireless sensor networks. Specifically STADiUM will develop a next generation management platform that is adaptable to various operational conditions and available system resources. This platform will be based on reusable service frameworks and a family of configuration languages.

2008 – 2009 : “Isis – Protecting Children in Online Social Networks”

Co-investigator of the EPSRC-funded Isis project. Isis builds on our previous network monitoring work to provide a framework to prevent the abuse of children in digital communities such as chat, P2P and social networking systems. This project is being conducted in collaboration with Middlesex and Swansea Universities.

2007 – 2009 : “FREE – Flood Risk From Extreme Events”

Senior Research Associate on the NERC-funded FREE project. FREE builds on the flood monitoring and modeling work conducted during NWGRID. In collaboration with the UK Environment Agency and Lancaster’s Environmental Science Department, our GridStix flood monitoring and warning platform will be re-deployed on the River Dee in North Wales, where we will evaluate the use of on-site modeling and dense sensor deployments for providing advanced warning of extreme flood events.

2005 – 2007 : “North West Grid”

Research Associate on the NWDA-funded NWGRID project. During NWGRID, we developed a powerful platform for Grid-attached wireless sensor networks, called ‘GridStix’. GridStix provide support for diverse sensors and in-network computation as well as standard wireless sensor network functionality. In collaboration with Lancaster’s Environmental Science Department the GridStix platform was deployed and evaluated in a flood monitoring and warning scenario on the River Ribble in the Yorkshire Dales from 2006 – 2007.

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PUBLICATIONS

Submitted for Review / In Progress

“AdaPtP: a Framework for Building Adaptable P2P Systems”, Hughes D., Coulson G., Warren I., to be published in the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, May 2008.

Journals

[39] “Towards Open Tracing of P2P File Sharing”, Hughes D., Lee K., Walkerdine J., invited submission to the International Journal On Advances in Internet Technology, September 2008.

[38] “Towards the Provision of Site Specific Flood Warnings using Wireless Sensor Networks” Smith P., Hughes D., Beven K., Cross P., Tych W., Coulson G., Blair G., to appear in the journal of Meteorological Applications.

[37] “An Experiment with Reflective Middleware to Support Grid-based Flood Monitoring” [PDF 1.87MB], Hughes D., Greenwood P., Coulson G., Blair G., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., to appear in Wiley Inter-Science Journal on Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

[36] “A Framework for P2P Application Development” [PDF 1.24MB], Walkerdine J., Hughes D., Rayson P., Simms J., Gilleade K., Mariani J., Sommerville I., to be published in the Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, special edition on the Foundations of Peer-to-Peer Computing, Volume 31, Issue 2, pp. 387 – 401, March 2008.

[35] “Is Deviant Behaviour the Norm on P2P File Sharing Networks?” Hughes D., Gibson S., Walkerdine J., Coulson G., published in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 7, no. 2, February 2006. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/ds/2006/02/o2001.pdf

[34] “Free Riding on Gnutella Revisited: the Bell Tolls?” Hughes D., Coulson G., Walkerdine J., published in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 6, no. 6, June 2005. http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/mags/ds/2005/06/o6001.pdf

Book Chapters / Magazines

[33] “Overlay-based Middleware for the Pervasive Grid”, Paul Grace, Danny Hughes, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Barry Porter, Francois Taiani., to be published in the Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications, to appear Spring 2009.

[32] “The Evolution of P2P Network Architectures”, Hughes D., Coulson G., Walkerdine J., to be published in the Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications, to appear Spring 2009.

[31] “P2P File Sharing and the Life and Death of Gnutella”, [AMAZON] Hughes D., Walkerdine J., to appear in the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication, Idea Group Reference, 2008.

[30] “Intelligent Flood Warning Breakthrough”, Hughes D., Blair G., Ellis P., Parker C., published in the winter edition of STEPS, the Lancaster University Alumni Magazine.

Conferences

[29] “Exploiting Extreme Heterogeneity in a Flood Warning Scenario using the Open Overlays Middleware”, Hughes D., Bencomo N., Blair G., Coulson G., Grace P., Porter B., demonstration abstract submitted to the international conference on Middleware (Middleware 2008), October 2008.

[28] “Supporting IPv6 Interaction with Wireless Sensor Networks Using NP++” [PDF 1.78MB], Jakeman M., Hughes D., Coulson G., Lee K., Pink S., in the proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA’08), Dallas, Texas, October 2008.

[27] "The Provision of Site Specific Flood Warnings Using Wireless Sensor Networks.", Paul Smith, Keith Beven, Wlodek Tych, Danny Hughes, Gordon Blair, in the proceedings of the European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FloodRisk’08), Oxford, UK, September 2008.

[26] "Genie: Supporting the Model Driven Development of Reflective, Component-based Adaptive Systems" [PDF 264KB], Bencomo N., Grace P., Flores C., Hughes D., and Blair G., in the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2008, Leipzig, Germany, May 2008.

[25] “Experiences with Open Overlays: A Middleware Approach to Network Heterogeneity” [PDF 248KB], Grace P., Hughes D., Porter B., Blair G., Coulson G., Taiani F., in the proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys’08), March 2008. 

[24] "Goal-Based Modeling of Dynamically Adaptive System Requirements" [PDF 356KB], Goldsby H. J., Sawyer P., Bencomo N., Hughes D., Cheng B. H. C., published in the proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS 08), pp. 36-45, Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 2008.

[23] “The Effect of Viral Media on Business Usage of P2P” [PDF 41KB], Walkerdine J., Hughes D., Lee K., published in the proceedings of the 7th international IEEE conference on peer-to-peer systems (P2P’07), pp. 249 – 250, May 2007. ISBN: 0-7695-2986

[22] “On the Penetration of Business Networks by P2P File Sharing” [PDF 110KB], Lee K., Walkerdine J., Hughes D, published in the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP’07), Santa Clara, California, USA. July 2007. ISBN: 0-7695-2911-9

[21] “Using Grid Technologies to Optimise a Wireless Sensor Network for Flood Management” [PDF 216KB], Greenwood P., Hughes D., Porter B., Grace P., Coulson G., Blair G., Taiani F., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., published in the proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, pp. 389 – 390, Boulder, Colorado, USA. November 2006. ISBN: 1-59593-343-3

[20] “An Intelligent and Adaptable Flood Monitoring and Warning System” [PDF 88KB], Hughes D., Greenwood P., Coulson G., Blair G., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., published in the proceedings of the 5th UK E-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM’06), Nottingham, UK, September 2006. ISBN: 0-9553988-0-0. RECIPIENT OF THE BEST PAPER AWARD

[19] “Monitoring Challenges and Approaches for P2P File Sharing Systems” [PDF 104KB], Hughes D, Walkerdine J., Lee K., published in the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Internet Surveillance and Protection (ICISP’06), pp 18 – 24, August 2006, Cap Esterel, France. ISBN: 0-7695-2649-7

[18] “Intelligent Dependability Services for Overlay Networks” [PDF 412KB], Porter B., Coulson G., Hughes D., published in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Distributed and Interoperable Systems, Bologna, Italy, June 2006, pp. 199 – 212, ISBN: 3-540-35126-4

[17] “Exploiting P2P in the Creation of Game Worlds” [PDF 208KB], Hughes D., Gilleade K., Walkerdine J., Mariani J., published in the proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM conference on Computer Game Design and Technology (CGDT ’05), pp. 125 – 129, Liverpool, UK, November 2005.  ISBN: 1-902-56012-4

[16] “Exploiting Diversity in Peer-to-Peer Systems” [PDF 167KB], Hughes D., Coulson G., Warren I., published in the proceedings of the 5th annual Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Conference (DIRC ’05), pp 44 – 45, Edinburgh, UK, March 2005.  ISBN: 1-86220-159-5

[15] “A Framework for Developing Reflective and Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks (RaDP2P)” [PDF 136KB], Hughes D., Coulson G., Warren I., published in the proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer computing (P2P’04), pp 282 – 283, Zurich, Switzerland, August, 2004. ISBN: 0-7695-2156-8

[14] “A Framework for Testing Distributed Systems” [PDF 168KB], Hughes D., Greenwood P., Coulson G., published in the proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer computing (P2P’04), 262 – 263, Zurich, Switzerland, August, 2004. ISBN: 0-7695-2156-8

[13] “AGnuS: The Altruistic Gnutella Server” [PDF 28KB], Hughes D., Warren I., Coulson G., published in the proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer computing (P2P’03), pp. 202 – 203, Linköping, Sweden, September, 2003. ISBN: 0-7695-2023-5

Workshops

[12] “Supporting Law Enforcement in Digital Communities through Natural Language Analysis”, Hughes D., Rayson P., Walkerdine J., Lee K., Greenwood P., Rashid A., May-Chahal C., Brennan M., in the proceedings of the 2^nd International Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF’08). Washington D.C., USA, August 2008.

[11] “The Evolution of the GridStix Wireless Sensor Network Platform” [1.80MB], Coulson G., Hughes D., Blair G., Grace P., in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE 08), co-located with International Conference of Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 08), Santorini, Greece, June 2008.

[10] “AdaPtP - a Framework for Building Adaptable Peer-to-Peer Systems” [PDF 293KB], Hughes D., Coulson G., Warren I., in the proceedings of the 1^st International Workshop on Performance for Peers (P4P2P’08), Warwick, UK, May 2008.

[09] “Managing Heterogeneous Data Flows in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a ‘Split Personality’ Mote Platform” [PDF 64KB], Hughes D., Daude M., Coulson G., Blair G., in the proceedings of the 2^nd International Workshop on SensorWebs, Databases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS 2008), Turku, Finland, July 2008.

[08] “Visualizing the Analysis of Dynamically Adaptive Systems Using i* and DSLs” [PDF 49KB], Sawyer P., Bencomo N., Hughes D., Grace P., Goldsby H. J., Cheng B. C. H., published in the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV'07), pp. 3 – 13, Delhi, India, October 15th, 2007.

[07] “An Open Tracing System For P2P File Sharing Systems” [PDF 222KB], Hughes D., Lee K., Walkerdine J., published in the proceedings of the second International Workshop on P2P Systems and Applications (P2PSA ’07), pp. 3 – 9, Morne, Mauritius, May 2007. ISBN: 0-7695-2844-9. RECIPIENT OF THE BEST PAPER AWARD

[06] “Dynamic Reconfiguration in Sensor Middleware” [PDF 216KB], Grace P., Coulson G., Blair G., Porter B., Hughes D., published in the proceedings of the first International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens'06), pp. 1 - 6, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006. ISBN: 1-59593-424-3

[05] “GridStix: Supporting Flood Prediction using Embedded Hardware and Next Generation Grid Middleware” [PDF 64KB], Hughes D., Greenwood P., Coulson G., Blair G., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., published in the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'06), pp. 621 – 626, Niagara Falls, USA, June 2006. ISBN: 0-7695-2593-8

[04] “Improving QoS for Peer-to-Peer Applications through Adaptation” [PDF 223KB], Hughes D., Warren I., Coulson G., published in the proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS’04), pp. 178 – 183, Suzhou, China, May 2004. ISBN: 0-7695-2118-5

PhD Thesis

[03] “AdaPtP - a Framework for Building Adaptable Peer-to-Peer Systems”, Hughes D, Lancaster University, August 2007.

Technical Reports

[02] “Improving Quality of Service on Gnutella” [PDF 267KB], Hughes D., Warren I., Coulson G., published as Technical Report COMP-005-2004, Computing Department, Lancaster University, 2004.

[01] “A P2P Network with Inherent Support for Adaptation” [PDF 267KB], Hughes D., Coulson G., Warren I., published as Technical Report COMP-006-2004, Computing Department, Lancaster University, 2004.

Unpublished Papers, Abstracts and Demonstrations

“An Adaptable WSN-based Flood Monitoring System” [PDF 436KB], Hughes D., Blair G., Coulson G., Porter B., Greenwood P., Smith P., Keith Beven, published in the demonstration supplement of the 2nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC ’07), October 2007.

”Socio-Technical Issues in P2P File Sharing Systems”, [PDF 37KB], Hughes D., Walkerdine J., Lee K., in the proceedings of the Workshop on Testing Socio-Technical Systems, Lancaster, UK, September, 2007.

“Using a Grid-Enabled Wireless Sensor Network for Flood Management” [PDF 144KB], Greenwood P., Hughes D., Porter B., Grace P., Coulson G., Blair G., Taiani F., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., in the demonstration supplement of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp ’06), September 2006.

“The Aspect Testing Framework” [PDF 76KB], Hughes D., Greenwood P., Blair, L., in the proceedings of the Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems and Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems Student Workshop (FMOODS/DAIS’03). Paris, France, November 2003.

“Distributed Video Encoding over a Peer-to-Peer Network” [PDF 128KB], Hughes D., Walkerdine J., in the proceedings of the 5th annual IEEE Workshop on Postgraduate Research in Electronics, Photonics, Communications, Networks and Computing Science (PREP’05). Lancaster, UK, March, 2005.