UCL Mobile Systems

Middleware for Mobile Computing

L. Capra (2007). MaLM: Machine Learning Middleware to Tackle Ontology Heterogeneity. In 4th Intl. Workshop on Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing (co-located with PerCom 2007).

L. McNamara, C. Mascolo and L. Capra (2006). Trust and Mobility aware Service Provision for Pervasive Computing. In Int. Workshop on Requirements and Solutions for Pervasive Software Infrastructures (co-located with Pervasive 2006).

M. Musolesi and C. Mascolo (2006). Controlled Epidemic-style Dissemination Middleware for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2006). IEEE Computer Society Press.

Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo (2006). Spatio-Temporal Communication Primitives for DelayTolerant Systems. In Proceedings of 3th MiNEMA Workshop.

M. Musolesi, C. Mascolo and S. Hailes (2005). EMMA: Epidemic Messaging Middleware for Ad hoc networks. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal.

L. Capra, S. Zachariadis and C. Mascolo (2005). Q-CAD: QoS and Context Aware Discovery Frameworkfor Adaptive Mobile Systems. In International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'05). IEEE.

V. Dyo and C. Mascolo (2005). Adaptive Distributed Indexing for Spatial Queries in Sensor Networks. In IEEE Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems (co-located with DEXA05). IEEE Computer Society Press.

C. Mascolo, L. Capra and W. Emmerich (2004). Principles of Mobile Computing Middleware. In Q. Mahmoud (ed), Middleware for Communications. pp. 261-280. John Wiley.

M. Musolesi (2004). Designing a Context-Aware Middleware for Asynchronous Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Environments. In Proceedings of 1st Middleware Doctoral Symposium in Middleware 2004 Companion. pp. 304-308. ACM Press.

M. Musolesi, C. Mascolo and S. Hailes (2004). Adapting Asynchronous Messaging Middleware to Ad Hoc Networking. In Proceedings of 2nd ACM International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad Hoc Computing (MPAC 2004) in Middleware 2004 Companion. pp. 121-126. ACM Press.

R. Harbird, S. Hailes and C. Mascolo (2004). Adaptive Resource Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing. In Proceedings of 2nd ACM International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad Hoc Computing (MPAC 2004) in Middleware 2004 Companion. ACM Press.

S. Zachariadis, C. Mascolo and W. Emmerich (2004). SATIN: A Component Model for Mobile Self-Organisation. In R. Meersman and Z. Tari et al. (eds), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: Proc. of CoopIS, DOA and ODBASE, Agia Napa, Cyprus. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3291. pp. 1303-1321. Springer.

S. Zachariadis and C. Mascolo (2003). Adaptable Mobile Applications Through SATIN: Exploiting Logical Mobility in Mobile Computing Middleware. In Proc. of 1st UK-UbiNet Workshop.

L. Capra, W. Emmerich and C. Mascolo (2003). CARISMA: Context-Aware Reflective mIddleware System for Mobile Applications. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29(10):929-945.

S. Zachariadis, C. Mascolo and W. Emmerich (2003). Adaptable Mobile Applications: Exploiting Logical Mobility in Mobile Computing. In E. Horlait, T. Magedanz and R. H. Glitho (eds), Proceedings of 5th Int. Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA03). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2881. pp. 170-179. Springer Verlag.

L. Capra, W. Emmerich and C. Mascolo (2002). A Micro-Economic Approach to Conflict Resolution in Mobile Computing. In Proc. of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering Conference. pp. 31-40. ACM Press.

S. Zachariadis, L. Capra, C. Mascolo and W. Emmerich (2002). XMIDDLE: Information Sharing Middleware for a Mobile Environment. In Proc. of the 24th Int. Conference on Software Engineering, Orlando, Florida. p. 712. ACM Press.

C. Mascolo, L. Capra, Z. Zachariadis and W. Emmerich (2002). XMIDDLE: A Data-Sharing Middleware for Mobile Computing. Wireless Personal Communications, 21:77-103. Kluwer.

C. Mascolo, L. Zanolin and W. Emmerich (2002). XMILE: an XML based Approach for Incremental Code Mobility and Update. Automated Software Engineering, 9(2):151-165.

L. Capra, G. Blair, C. Mascolo, W. Emmerich and P. Grace (2002). Exploiting Reflection in Mobile Computing Middleware. ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 6(4):34-44.

T. Ackemann, R. Gold, C.Mascolo and W. Emmerich (2002). Incentives in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Networking. UCL-CS. Research Note 02/24.

S. Zachariadis, C. Mascolo and W. Emmerich (2002). Exploiting Logical Mobility in Mobile Computing Middleware. In Proceedings of the Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 22nd Int. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '02). pp. 385-386. IEEE Computer Society Press.

U. Arshad, C. Mascolo and M. Mellor (2002). Exploiting Mobility Computing in Health-Care. In Proc. of 3rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances (co-located with ICDCS '02). ICDCS.

L. Capra (2002). Mobile Computing Middleware for Context-Aware Applications. In Proc. of the 24th International Conference of SoftwareEngineering (ICSE 2002), Doctoral Symposium, Orlando, Florida. pp. 723-724. ACM Press.

L. Capra, W. Emmerich and C. Mascolo (2001). Reflective Middleware Solutions for Context-Aware Applications. In A. Yonezawa and S. Matsuoka (eds), Metalevel Architectures and Separation of Crosscutting Concerns - Proc. of Reflection 2001, Kyoto, Japan. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2192. pp. 126-133. Springer Verlag.

L. Capra, W. Emmerich and C. Mascolo (2001). Exploiting Reflection and Metadata to Build Mobile Computing Middleware. In Proc. of Workshop on Mobile Computing Middleware, Heidelberg, Germany.

C. Mascolo, W. Emmerich and H. de Meer (2001). XMILE: An XML-based Approach for Programmable Networks. In AISB Symposium on Software Mobility and Adaptive Behaviour. York, UK. March 2001. AISB.

L. Capra, C. Mascolo, S. Zachariadis and W. Emmerich (2001). Towards a Mobile Computing Middleware: A Synergy of Reflection and Mobile Code Techniques. In Proc. of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems, Bologna, Italy. pp. 148-154. IEEE Computer Society Press.

R. Gold and C. Mascolo (2001). Use of Context-Awareness in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks. In Proc. of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS'2001). pp. 142-147. IEEE Computer Society Press.

L. Capra, W. Emmerich and C. Mascolo (2001). Middleware for Mobile Computing: Awareness vs. Transparency (Position Summary). In Proc. of the 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII). Schloss Elmau, Germany. p. 142. IEEE Computer Society Press.

C. Mascolo, W. Emmerich and A. Finkelstein (2000). Implementing Incremental Code Mobility with XML. In Proc. of the 22nd Int. Conference on Software Engineering, Limerick, Ireland. pp. 397-406. ACM Press.

C. Mascolo, W. Emmerich and A. Finkelstein (). XMILE: An Incremental Code Mobility System based on XMLTechnologies. In Proc. of the 2nd Int. Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and Mobile Agents (ASA/MA2000) September. ASA/MA.

Mobility Models

M. Musolesi and C. Mascolo (2006). A Community based Mobility Model for Ad HocNetwork Research. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/SIGMOBILE InternationalWorkshop on Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: from theory to reality (REALMAN'06). pp. 31-38. ACM Press.

M. Musolesi, S. Hailes and C. Mascolo (2005). Social Networks Based Ad Hoc Mobility Models. In Proceedings of the 3rd UK-UbiNet Workshop.

M. Musolesi, S. Hailes and C. Mascolo (2004). An Ad Hoc Mobility Model Founded on Social Network Theory. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. pp. 20-24. ACM Press.

Sensor Networks

C. Mascolo, M. Musolesi and B. Pastzor (2006). Demo Abstract: Data Collection in Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks using SCAR. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2006). ACM Press.

C. Mascolo and M. Musolesi (2006). SCAR: Context-aware Adaptive Routing in DelayTolerant Mobile Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the Delay Tolerant NetworksSymposium. ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2006. pp. 533-538. ACM Press.

Delay Tolerant Networks

M. Musolesi and C. Mascolo (2006). Evaluating Context Information Predictability forAutonomic Communication. In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Workshop on AutonomicCommunications and Computing (ACC'06). Co-located with 7th IEEE Int.Symp. WoWMoM'06. pp. 495-499. IEEE Computer Society Press.

M. Musolesi, S. Hailes and C. Mascolo (2005). Adaptive Routing for Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile, and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2005). Taormina, Italy.. IEEE press.

Mobile IP/IPv6

A. Greenhalgh and S. Hailes (2004). Don't listen, talk: A comparative study of transmit and receive power for low power radios.. In London Communications Symposium. pp. 269-272. University College London.

T. Pagtzis, P. Kirstein, S.Hailes and H. Afifi (2003). Proactive Seamless Mobility Management for Future IP Radio Access Networks. Special Issue om 3G Wireless and Beyond, Journal of Computer Communications, 26(17):1975-1989. Elsevier Science.

T. Pagtzis, S. Hailes and P. Kirstein (2003). The Case for Proactive Mobile IPv6. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks(LCN).

T. Pagtzis, C. Williams, P. Kirstein, C. Perkins and A. Yegin (2003). Requirements for Localised IP Mobility Management. In Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).

T. Pagtzis and P. Kirstein (2002). Performance Issues for Localised IP Mobility Management. In Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON).

T. Pagtzis and P. Kirstein (2002). A Model for Proactive Seamless IP Mobility and Mobility-Hop Routing. In Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON).

T. Pagtzis and P. Kirstein (2002). Proactive Mobility for Future IP Wireless Access Networks. In Proceedings of 6th IASTED/IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC).

T. Pagtzis, P. Kirstein and S. Hailes (2001). Operational and Fairness Issues with Connection-less Traffic over IEEE802.11b. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

Security Issues in Mobile Computing

Daniele Quercia and Stephen Hailes (2007). MATE: Mobility and Adaptation with Trust and Expected-utility. International Journal Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (IJITST), 1.

Daniele Quercia, Manish Lad, Stephen Hailes, Licia Capra and Saleem Bhatti (2006). Survivable Wireless Networking: Autonomic Bandwidth Sharing in Mesh Networks. BT Technology Journal. Kluwer., 24(3):99-107.

L. Capra and M. Musolesi (2006). Autonomic Trust Prediction for Pervasive Systems. In IEEE Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic ComputingSystems 2006 (TACS '06). pp. 481-488. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Mohamed Ahmed, Quercia Daniele and Stephen Hailes (2005). A Statistical Matching Approach to Detect Privacy Violation for Trust-Based Collaborations. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing.

Quercia Daniele and Stephen Hailes (2005). Risk Aware Decision Framework for Trusted Mobile Interactions. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/CreateNet SECOVAL Workshop on the Value of Security through Collaboration.

L. Capra (2005). Reasoning about Trust Groups to Coordinate Mobile Ad-Hoc Systems. In Proc. of the 1st IEEE Workshop on the Value of Security Through Collaboration, in conjunction with IEEE/CreateNet SecureComm 2005.

M. O. Ahmed and S. Hailes (2004). Modelling Interactions in Ubiquitous Environments. In UK-UbiNet, 2nd UK-UbiNet Workshop.

M. O. Ahmed, S. Hailes and A. Seleznyov (2004). The Dangers Of Invisible Computing: Learning To Live With Uncertainty. In Ubiconf 2004.

A. Seleznyov, M.O. Ahmed and S. Hailes (2004). ADAM: An Agent-based Middleware Architecture for Distributed Access Control. In The Twenty-Second International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics: Artificial Intelligence and Applications. pp. 200 - 205. ACTA Press.

A. Seleznyov and S. Hailes (2004). A Conceptual Access Control Model Based on Distributed Knowledge Management. In The proceedings of 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications. IEEE Computer Society.

A. Seleznyov and S. Hailes (2004). Distributed Knowledge Management for Autonomous Access Control in Computer Networks. In The International Conference on Information Technology: Information Assurance and Security. IEEE Computer Society.

L.Capra (2004). Towards a Human Trust Model for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. In Proc. of 2nd UK-UbiNet Workshop.

L. Capra (2004). Engineering Human Trust in Mobile System Collaborations. In Proc. of the 12th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (SIGSOFT 2004/FSE-12). ACM Press.

Daniele Quercia, Manish Lad, Stephen Hailes, Licia Capra and Saleem Bhatti (). STRUDEL: Supporting Trust in the Dynamic Establishment of peering coaLitions. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing}year = {2006. pp. 1870-1874.

Daniele Quercia, Stephen Hailes and Licia Capra (). TATA: Towards Anonymous Trusted Authentication. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trust Management. LNCS}year = {2006. pp. 313-323.

Daniele Quercia, Stephen Hailes and Licia Capra (). B-trust: Bayesian Trust Framework for Pervasive Computing. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trust Management. LNCS}year = {2006. pp. 298-312.

802.11 Data Link

T. Pagtzis and P. Kirstein (2002). On the Performance of CFP Repetition Rate in IEEE 802.11 for IP traffic in Mobility-enabled WLANs. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN).

Formal Methods for Mobile Computing

C. Mascolo, G. P. Picco and G.-C. Roman (2004). CODEWEAVE: Exploring Fine-grained Mobility of Code. Journal of Automated Software Engineering (Special Issue on Mobility), 11:207-243.

C. Mascolo (2001). Specification, Analysis and Prototyping of Mobile Code Systems. PhD Thesis. Universita di Bologna.

P. Ciancarini, F. Franze and C. Mascolo (2000). Using a Coordination Language to Specify and Analyze Systems containing Mobile Components. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 9(2):167-198.

C. Mascolo (1999). MobiS: a Specification Language for Mobile Systems. In Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Coordination Languages and Models (COORDINATION '99). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1594. pp. 37-52. Springer Verlag.

C. Mascolo, G.P. Picco and G.-C. Roman (1999). A Fine-Grained Model for Code Mobility. In O. Nierstrasz and M. Lemoine (eds), Proc. 7th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE 99). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1687. pp. 39-56. Springer Verlag.

C. Mascolo (1999). Specification, Analysis, and Prototyping of Mobile Systems. In Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on Software Engineering(ICSE-99). pp. 724-725. ACM Press.

P. Ciancarini, F. Franze and C. Mascolo (1998). A Coordination Model to Specify Systems including Mobile Agents. In Proc. 9th IEEE Int. Workshop on Software Specification and Design (IWSSD). pp. 96-105. IEEE Computer Society Press.

P. Ciancarini and C. Mascolo (1998). Software Architecture and Mobility. In Proc. 3rd Int. Software Architecture Workshop (ISAW-3). pp. 21-24. ACM Press.

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