Publications

Towards a Virtual Research Environment for Paediatric Endocrinology across Europe 2009

J.,Jiang; R.O.,Sinnott; A.J.,Stell; F.,Ahmed; O.,Hiort;
HealthGrid Worksho, CCGRID 2009, Shanghai, China - May 2009

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A Clinical Grid Infrastructure Supporting Adverse Hypotensive Event Prediction 2009

A.J.,Stell; R.O.,Sinnott; J.,Jiang; I.,Piprt;
HealthGrid Workshop, CCGRID 2009, Shanghai, China - May 2009

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Monitoring in Neurocritical Care 2009

P.,Enblad; I.,Piper; R.O.,Sinnott;
International Journal of Information Processing, Data Acquisition and Storage, Computers, Engineering and the Future (Section VII) eds. Le Roux, Levine, Kofke

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Enabling Quantitative Data Analysis through e-Infrastructures 2009

L.,Tan; P.,Lambert; K.J.,Turner; J.,Blum; A.,Bowes; D.,Bell; V.,Gayle; S.,Jones; M.,Maxwell; R.O.,Sinnott; G.,Warner
Social Science Computer Review, January 2009

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Federating Distributed Clinical Data for the Prediction of Adverse Hypotensive events 2009

A.J,Stell; R.O,Sinnott; J,Jiang; I,Piper; R,Donald;
Journal of Philisophical Transactions of the Royal Society A "Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, e-Science and Global e-Infrastructure" Vol 367 issues 1897 & 1898

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Cutting-edge Semiconductor Simulation through Grid Technology 2009

D,Reid; R.O.,Sinnott; C.,Miller; G,Roy; S.,Roy; Gordon,Stewart; Graeme, Stewart;
Journal of Philisophical Transactions of the Royal Society A "Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, e-Science and Global e-Infrastructure" Vol 367 issues 1897 & 1898

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Enabling Quantative Data Analysis through e-Infrastructures 2009

L,Tan; P.,Lambert; K.J.,Turner; J,Blum; A.,Bowes; D.,Bell; V.,Gayle; S.B.,Jones; M.,Maxwell; R.O.,Sinnott; G.,Warner;
Social Science Computer Review

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Information Processing, Data Acquisition and Storage, Computers, Engineering and the future (Section VII) 2009

P.,Enblad; I.,Piper; R.O.,Sinnott;
Monitoring in Neurocritical Care, editors Le Roux, Levine Kofke 2009

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Towards a Virtual Research Environment for Paediatric Endocrinology across Europe 2009

J.,Jiang; R.O.,Sinnott; A.,Stell; J.,Watt; F.,Ahmed;
Healthgrid Workshop, CCGrid 2009, Shanghai, China May 2009

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Supporting Security-oriented, Inter-disciplinary Research: Crossing the Social, Clinical and Geospatial Domains 2009

R.O.,Sinnott; T.,Doherty; C.,Higgins; P.,Lambert; S.,McCafferty; A.,Stell; K.J.,Turner,J.P.,Watt;
Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, May 2009

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Spatial Data e-Infrastructure 2009

C.,Higgins; R.O.,Sinnott; M.,Koutroumpas; J.,Watt; A.C.,Hume; A.G.D.,Turner;
International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany,May 2009

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Architectural Design Patterns for Security-oriented Workflows in the Social Science Domain 2009

R.O.Sinnott; S.,Hussain;
International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany,May 2009

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Data Privacy by Design: Digital Infrastructures for Clinical Collaborations 2009

R.O.,Sinnott; O.,Ajayi; A.J.,Stell;
International Conference on Security and Privacy, Orlando, USA, July 2009

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Semantic Security: Specification and Enforcement of Semantic Policies for Security-driven Collaborations 2009

R.O.,Sinnott; T.,Doherty; N.,Gray; J.,Lusted;
7th HealthGrid Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 2009

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Dynamic Trust Negotiation for Flexible e-Health Collaborations 2008

Sinnott,R.O; Ajayi,O; Stell,A.J;
submitted to 15th Mardi Gras Conference, Baton Rouge, USA, February 2008

Security issues have always limited the way we do things. In an organisation we provide security by granting privileges to either identities or roles. However this becomes more chal- lenging when the... [more details]
 
Supporting Nationwide e-Clinical Trials and Studies 2008

Sinnott,R.O; Ajayi,O; Stell,A.J;
submitted to 15th Mardi Gras Conference, Baton Rouge, USA, February 2008

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Advanced Security for Virtual Organizations: Exploring the Pros and Cons of Centralized vs Decentralized Security Models 2008

Sinnott,R.O; Chadwick,D.W.; Doherty,T; Martin,D; Stell,A.J; Stewart,G.; Su,L.; Watt,J;
8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), May 2008, Lyon, France.

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Deployment of Grids through Integrated Configuration Management 2008

Sinnott,R.O; Muhammad,J. Wu,Y;
26th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2008

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E-Infrastructures for Clinical Epidemiological Studies Across Scotland 2008

Sinnott,R.O; McCafferty,S; Stell,A.J; Watt,J;
Proceedings of e-Society Conference 2008, Algarve, Portugal, April 2008

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Supporting Security-Oriented, Collaborative nanoCMOS Electronics Research 2008

Sinnott,R.O; Millar,C; Stewart,G; Doherty,T; Martin,D; Watt,J;
Procceedings of International Conference on Computational Science, Krakow, Poland, June 2008.

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Secure, Performance-Oriented Data Management for nanoCMOS Electronics 2008

R.O.,Sinnott; C.,Bayliss; C.,Millar; G.,Stewart; G.,Roy; S.,Roy; D.,Reid; B.,Harbulot; C.,Davenhall; A.,Asenov; J.,Watt;
Proceedings of IEEE e-Science 2008 Conference, Indiana, USA December 2008

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Grid Security 2008

R.O.,Sinnott;
National Centre for e-Social Science Book, Grid Computing: Technology, Service and Application November 2008

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Supercomputing at Work in the nanoCMOS Electronics Domain 2008

R.O., Sinnott; A.,Asenov; C.,Millar;
ERCIM News No. 74 - Supercomputing at Work, July 2008

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Meeting the Design Challenges of nanoCMOS Electronics through Secure, Large-scale Simulation and Data Management 2008

R.O.,Sinnott; A.,Asenov; D.,Berry; B.,Harbulot; C.,Millar; D.,Reid; G.,Roy; S.,Roy; G.,Stewart;
EGEE User Conference, Istanbul, Turkey 2008

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Integrating Security Solutions to Support nanoCMOS Electronics Research 2008

R.O.,Sinnott; A.,Asenov; C.,Bayliss; C.,Davenhall; T.,Doherty; B.,Harbulot; M.,Jones; D.,Martin; C.,Millar; G.,Roy; S.,Roy; G.,Stewart; J.,Watt;
IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Systems with Applications, Sydney, Australia, December 2008

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e-Infrastructures Fostering Multi-Centre Collaborative Research into the Intensive Care Management of Patients with Brain Injury 2008

R.O.,Sinnott; I.,Piper
Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine and Healthcare.

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Towards Decentralised Security Policies for e-Health Collaborations 2008

R.O.,Sinnott; O.,Ajayi; A.j.,Stell;
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, SECUREWARE 2008, Cap Esterel, France, August 2008

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Supporting Statistical Semiconductor Device Analysis using EGEE and OMII-UK Middleware 2008

D.,Reid; C.,Millar; A.,Asenov; S.,Roy; G.,Roy; R.O.,Sinnott; G.,Stewart;
Proceedings of the EGEE User Conference, Clermont-Ferrand, February 2008

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Technical Challenges in Leveraging Distributed Clinical Data 2008

A.J.,Stell; R.O., Sinnott; O.,Ajayi;
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Telehealth, Maryland, USA April 2008

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BioNessie - A Grid Enabled Biochemical Network Simulator 2008

X.,Liu; O.,Ajayi; X.,Gu; D.,Gilbert; J.,Jiang; R.O.,Sinnott;
Proceedings of the 6th International HealthGrid conference, Chicago, USA, June 2008

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Towards a Virtual Anonymisation Grid for Unified Access to Remote Clinical Data 2008

R.O.,Sinnott; A.J.,Stell; O.,Ajayi; A.,Young;
Proceedings of the 6th International HealthGrid Conference, Chicago, USA, June 2008

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Formalising Dynamic Trust Negotiations in Decentralised Collaborative e-Health Systems 2007

Ajayi,O., Sinnott,R.O. ,Stell,A.J.
2nd International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, (ARES’07), Vienna, Austria, April, 2007

Access control in decentralised collaborative systems present huge challenges especially where many autonomous entities including organisations, humans, software agents from different security domains... [more details]
 
Security Oriented e-Infrastructures Supporting Neurological Research and Clinical Trials 2007

Stell,A.J., Sinnott,R.O., Ajayi,O.
2nd International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, (ARES’07), Vienna, Austria, April, 2007.

The neurological and wider clinical domains stand to gain greatly from the vision of the Grid in providing seamless yet secure access to distributed, heterogeneous computational resources and data... [more details]
 
Security-oriented Data Grids for Microarray Expression Profiles 2007

Sinnott,R.O., Bayliss,C., Jiang,J.
Proceedings of the HealthGrid 2007 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, April 2007

Microarray experiments are one of the key ways in which gene activity can be identified and measured thereby shedding light and understanding for example on biological processes. The BBSRC funded Grid... [more details]
 
Trust Realisation in Collaborative Clinical Trials Systems 2007

Ajayi,O., Sinnott,R.O., Stell,A.J.
HealthCare Conference HC2007, Harrogate, England, March 2007

Due to the sensitivity of data and risk of potential unauthorised information disclosure that exists in large distributed systems, there is the potential for sensitive clinical information to be compromised... [more details]
 
User-oriented Security Supporting Inter-disciplinary Life Science Research across the Grid 2007

Sinnott,R.O. Ajayi,O. Jiang,J. Stell,A.J. Watt,J.
Special Issue on Life Science Grids, New Generation Computing Journal, May 2007

Understanding potential genetic factors in disease or de- velopment of personalised e-Health solutions require scientists to access a multitude of data and compute resources across the Internet from... [more details]
 
Data Integration in eHealth: A Domain/Disease Specific Roadmap 2007

Ure, J.; Proctor, R.; Martone, M.; Porteous, D.; Lloyd, S.; Lawrie, S.; Job, D.; Baldock, R.; Philp, A.; Liewald, D.; Rakebrand, F.; Blaikie, A.; McKay, C.; Anderson, S.; Ainsworth, J.; van Hemert, J.; Blanquer, I.; Sinnott,R.O.;
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics,

The paper documents a series of data integration workshops held in 2006 at the UK National e-Science Centre, summarizing a range of the problem/solution scenarios in multi-site and multi-scale data integration... [more details]
 
Towards a Grid-Enabled Simulation Framework for Nano-CMOS Electronics 2007

Han,Liangxiu.; Asenov,Asen.; Berry,Dave.; Millar,Campbell.; Roy,Gareth; Roy,Scott; Sinnott,Richard; Stewart,Gordon;
3rd IEEE International Conference on eScience and Grid Computing,Bangalore, India

The electronics design industry is facing major challenges as transistors continue to decrease in size. The next generation of devices will be so small that the position of individual atoms will affect... [more details]
 
The GLASS Project: Supporting Secure Shibboleth-based Single Sign-On to Campus Resources 2007

John, Watt; Richard O, Sinnott; Jipu, Jiang;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2007 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2007/

Higher and Further education institutions in the UK are in the process of migrating their IT infrastructures to exploit Shibboleth technologies for federated access management. Ease of use and secure... [more details]
 
Grid Infrastructures Supporting Paediatric Endocrinology across Europe 2007

Anthony J, Stell; Richard O, Sinnott; Oluwafemi, Ajayi;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2007 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2007/

Paediatric endocrinology is a highly specialised area of clinical medicine with many experts with specific knowledge distributed over a wide geographical area. The European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology... [more details]
 
Grid Infrastructures for the Electronics Domain: Requirements and Early Prototypes from an EPSRC Pilot Project 2007

Richard O, Sinnott; Asen, Asenov; Andrew, Brown; Campbell, Millar; Gareth, Roy; Scott, Roy; Gordon, Stewart;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2007 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2007/

The fundamental challenges facing future electronics design is to address the decreasing – atomistic - scale of transistor devices and to understand and predict the impact and statistical variability... [more details]
 
Trust Realisation in Multi-domain Collaborative Environments 2007

Ajayi,O.; Sinnott,R.O.; Stell,A.J;
6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), Melbourne, Australia, July 2007

In the Internet-age, the geographical boundaries that have previously impinged upon inter-organisational collaborations have become decreasingly important. Of more importance for such collaborations... [more details]
 
Federated Authentication & Authorization for e-Science 2007

Watt,J.; Sinnott,R.O; Jiang,J; Doherty,T; Stell,A.J; Martin,D; Stewart,G;
Proceedings of APAC '07

The Grid and Web service community are defining a range of stan- dards for a complete solution for security. The National e-Science Cen- tre (NeSC) at the University of Glasgow is investigating how... [more details]
 
Data Curation Standards and Social Science Occupational Information Resources 2007

P.,Lambert; K.J,Turner; L.,Tan; V.,Gayle; R.O.,Sinnott; K.,Prandy;
International Journal of Digital Curation, November 2007

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Supporting Grid Based Clinical Trials in Scotland 2007

R.O.,Sinnott; O.Ajayi; A.J.,Stell;
Health Informatics Journal Special Issue on Integrated Health Records, November 2007

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User-oriented Security Supporting Inter-disciplinary Life Science Research across the Grid 2007

R.O.,Sinnott; O.,Ajayi; J.,Jiang; A.J.,Stell; J.,Watt;
Special Issue on Life Science Grids, New Generation Computing Journal, May 2007

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Meeting the Design Challenges of Nano-CMOS Electronics: An Introduction to an Upcoming EPSRC Pilot Project 2006

R, Sinnott; A, Asenov; D, Berry; D, Cumming; S, Furber; C, Millar; A, Murray; S, Pickles; S, Roy; A, Tyrrell; M, Zwolinksi
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2006 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2006/

The years of ‘happy scaling’ are over and the fundamental challenges that the semiconductor industry faces, at both technology and device level, will impinge deeply upon the design of future integrated... [more details]
 
Supporting the Clinical Trial Recruitment Process through the Grid 2006

Anthony J, Stell; Richard O., Sinnott; Oluwafemi, Ajayi
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2006 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2006/

Patient recruitment for clinical trials and studies is a large-scale task. To test a given drug for example, it is desirable that as large a pool of suitable candidates is used as possible to support... [more details]
 
GEODE - Sharing Occupational Data Through The Grid 2006

Koon L L, Tan; Vernon, Gayle; Paul S, Lambert; Richard O, Sinnott; Kenneth J, Turner
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2006 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2006/

The ESRC funded Grid Enabled Occupational Data Envrionment (GEODE) project is conceived to facilitate and virtualise occupational data access through a grid environment. Through the GEODE Grid the occupational... [more details]
 
DyVOSE Project: Experiences in Applying Privilege Management Infrastructures 2006

John, Watt; Jos, Koetsier; Richard, Sinnott; Anthony, Stell
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2006 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2006/

The 2-year JISC funded DyVOSE Project has investigated applying PMIs within an e-Science education context. This has involved establishing a Grid Computing module as part of Glasgow University’s Advanced... [more details]
 
Shibboleth-based Access to and Usage of Grid Resources 2006

Sinnott,R.O.; Watt,J.; Jiang,J.; Ajayi,O.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing, Barcelona, Spain, September 2006.

Security underpins Grids and e-Research. Without a robust, reliable and simple Grid security infrastructure combined with commonly accepted security practices, large portions of the research community... [more details]
 
Development of Usable Grid Services for the Biomedical Community 2006

Sinnott,R.O.
Workshop on Designing for Usability in e-Science, Edinburgh, January 2006

The BRIDGES project was funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry to directly address the needs of the cardiovascular research scientists investigating the genetic causes of hypertension as... [more details]
 
Grid Infrastructures for Secure Access to and Use of Bioinformatics Data: Experiences from the BRIDGES Project 2006

Sinnott,R.O.; Stell,A.J.; Bayer,M.M.; Koetsier,J.
The First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES-2006), Vienna, Austria, April, 2006.

The BRIDGES project was funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to address the needs of cardiovascular research scientists investigating the genetic causes of hypertension as part of... [more details]
 
A Shibboleth-Protected Privilege Management Infrastructure for e-Science Education 2006

Watt,J.; Ajayi,O.; Jiang,J.; Koetsier,J.; Sinnott,J.
to appear in 6th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid2006, May 2006, Singapore.

Simplifying access to and usage of large scale compute resources via the Grid is of critical importance to encourage the uptake of e-Research. Security is one aspect that needs to be made as simple... [more details]
 
Initial Experiences in Developing e-Health Solutions across Scotland 2006

Sinnott,R.O.; Stell,A.J.; Ajayi,O.
Workshop on Integrated Health Records: Practice and Technology, Edinburgh, March 2006.

The MRC funded Virtual Organisations for Trials and Epidemiological Studies (VOTES) project is a collaborative effort between e-Science, clinical and ethical research centres across the UK including... [more details]
 
Development of Grid Frameworks for Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Studies 2006

Sinnott,R.O.; Ajayi,O.; Stell,A.J.
HealthGrid 2006 Conference, Valencia, Spain, June 2006

E-Health initiatives such as electronic clinical trials and epidemiological studies require access to and usage of a range of both clinical and other data sets. Such data sets are typically only available... [more details]
 
From Access and Integration to Mining of Secure Genomic Data Sets across the Grid 2006

Sinnott,R.O.
Future Generation of Computer Systems, Special Edition on Life Science Grids for Biomedicine and Bioinformatics

The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) funded BRIDGES project (Biomedical Research Informatics Delivered by Grid Enabled Services) has developed a Grid infrastructure to support cardiovascular... [more details]
 
Secure Federated Data Retrieval in Clinical Trials 2006

Stell,A.J.; Sinnott,R.O.; Ajayi,O.
TeleHealth 2006 Conference, Banff, Canada, July 2006

The clinical domain is one in which a plethora of data exists in repositories distributed across the globe, crossing institutional, regional and national boundaries. To be able to harness this data... [more details]
 
Single Sign-on and Authorization for Dynamic Virtual Organizations 2006

Sinnott,R.O.; Watt,J.; Jiang,J.; Stell,A.J.; Ajayi,O.
7th IFIP Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2006, Helsinki, Finland, September 2006

The vision of the Grid is to support the dynamic establishment and subsequent management of virtual organizations (VO). To achieve this presents many challenges for the Grid community with perhaps the... [more details]
 
Advanced Security Infrastructures for Grid Education 2006

Sinnott,R.O.; Watt,J.; Stell,A.J.; Chadwick,D.W.
The 12th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS 2006), Orlando, Florida, July 2006

This paper describes the research conducted into advanced authorization infrastructures at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) at the University of Glasgow and their application to support a teaching ... [more details]
 
Towards More Accurate Real-Time Testing 2006

Sinnott,R.O.
The 12th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS 2006), Orlando, Florida, July 2006

The languages Message Sequence Charts (MSC) [1], System Design Language1 (SDL) [2] and Testing and Test Control Notation Testing2 (TTCN-3) [3] have been developed for the design, modelling and testing... [more details]
 
Grid Computing for Virtual Organisations: An e-Social Science Case Study, 2006

Turner,K.J.; Lambert,P.; Tan,L.; Sinnott,R.O.; Bihagen,E.; Gayle,V.; van Leeuwen,M.
Encyclopaedia for Networked and Virtual Organisations, July 2006.

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Utilising a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment 2006

Turner,K.J.; Tan,L.; Lambert,P.; Sinnott,R.O.; Prandy,K.; Gayle,V.
16th World Congress of the International Sociological Association, August 2006.

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Data Curation Standards and the Messy World of Social Science Occupational Information Resources 2006

Sinnott,R.O.; Tan,L.; Turner,K.J.; Lambert,P.; Gayle,V.; Prandy,K.
2nd International Digital Curation Conference, Glasgow, UK, November 2006.

Occupational information resources – data about the characteristics of different occupational positions – play a unique role in social science research. They are of relevance across diverse research... [more details]
 
Supporting Decentralized, Security focused Dynamic Virtual Organizations across the Grid 2006

Sinnott,R.O, Chadwick,D.W, Koetsier,J.,Otenko,O.,Watt,J.,Nguyen,T.A.,
Proceedings of eScience 2006 (http://www.escience-meeting.org/eScience2006/)

The ability to dynamically create and subsequently manage secure virtual organisations (VO) is one of the key challenges facing the Grid community. Existing approaches for establishing and managing ... [more details]
 
Demonstration of Shibboleth in Action across a Range of Security focused Grid Projects 2006

Sinnott,R.O;
SuperComputing 2006 (http://sc06.supercomputing.org/)

One of the critical factors to the success of Grid technologies is ease of use. To encourage wider uptake, the access to large scale computational and data resources such as the National Grid Service... [more details]
 
User Oriented Access to Secure Biomedical Resources through the Grid 2006

Sinnott, R.O; Ajayi,O; Jiang, J; Stell, A.J; Watt,J;
The Third International Life Science Grid Workshop 2006 (LSGrid2006), Riken Institute, Japan (http://www.lsgrid.org/2006/)

The life science domain is typified by heterogeneous data sets that are evolving at an exponential rate. Numerous post-genomic databases and areas of postgenomic life science research have been established... [more details]
 
Towards Data Grids for Microarray Expression Profiles 2006

Sinnott, R.O; Bayliss,C;
The Third International Life Science Grid Workshop 2006 (LSGrid2006), Riken Institute, Japan (http://www.lsgrid.org/2006/)

The UK DTI funded Biomedical Research Informatics De- livered by Grid Enabled Services (BRIDGES) project developed a Grid infrastructure through which research into the genetic causes of hyper- tension... [more details]
 
Secure, Reliable and Dynamic Access to Distributed Clinical Data 2006

Stell, A.J; Sinnott,R.O; Ajayi,O;
The Third International Life Science Grid Workshop 2006 (LSGrid2006), Riken Institute, Japan (http://www.lsgrid.org/2006/)

An abundance of statistical and scientific data exists in the area of clinical and epidemiological studies. Much of this data is dis- tributed across regional, national and international boundaries... [more details]
 
Development of a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment 2006

Lambert, P.S; Tan,K.L.L; Turner, K.J; Gayle,V; Prandy,K; Sinnott,R.O;
e-Social Science June 06

The GEODE project is developing user-oriented Grid-based services, accessible via a portal, for social scientists who require and use 'occupational information' within their research. There are many complexities... [more details]
 
Dynamic Privilege Management Infrastructures Utilising Secure Attribute Exchange 2005

John P,Watt; Richard O,Sinnott; Anthony J,Stell;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2005 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2005/

The DyVOSE project has successfully deployed grid services secured with the PERMIS authorisation software implementing a static Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI) model. The second stage of this... [more details]
 
Comparison of Data Access and Integration Technologies in the Life Science Domain 2005

Richard O, Sinnott; Derek, Houghton;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2005 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2005/

Dealing with the deluge of data is the key challenge facing the life science community. The OGSA-DAI technology from the Grid community and IBM Information Integrator product were applied within the BRIDGES... [more details]
 
Security Infrastructure for Grid-Enabled Biomedical Services 2005

Anthony J, Stell; Micha M, Bayer; Jos, Koetsier; Richard O, Sinnott;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2005 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2005/

The potential benefits and advantages that Grid Computing can bring to society in different fields of human endeavour are many and varied. These benefits however, can only be usefully realised if they... [more details]
 
Experiences of Applying Advanced Grid Authorisation Infrastructures 2005

Sinnott,R.O.; Stell,A.J.; Chadwick,D.W.; Otenko,O.;
Proceedings of European Grid Conference (EGC), February 2005, Amsterdam, Holland

The widespread acceptance and uptake of Grid technology can only be achieved if it can be ensured that the security mechanisms needed to support Grid based collaborations are at least as strong as local... [more details]
 
Experiences in Teaching Grid Computing to Advanced Level Students 2005

Sinnott,R.O.; Stell,A.J.; Watt,J.;
Proceedings of the CLAG+Grid Edu Workshop, May 2005, Cardiff, Wales

The development of teaching materials for future software engineers is critical to the long term success of the Grid. At present however there is considerable turmoil in the Grid community both within... [more details]
 
Comparison of Advanced Authorisation Infrastructures for Grid Computing 2005

Stell,A.J.; Sinnott,R.O.; Watt,J.P.;
Proceedings of International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, Guelph, Canada, May 2005

The widespread use of Grid technology and distributed compute power, with all its inherent benefits, will only be established if the use of that technology can be guaranteed efficient and secure.... [more details]
 
Controlling the Chaos: Developing Post-Genomic Grid Infrastructures 2005

Sinnott,R.O.; Bayer,M.;
Proceedings of Life Science Grid Conference (LSGrid2005), May 2005, Singapore.

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Distributed BLAST in a Grid Computing Context 2005

Bayer,M.M.; Sinnott,R.O.
First International Workshop on Distributed Data Mining in Life Science, Konstanz, Germany, September 2005

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Grid Security: Middleware, Practices and Outlook 2005

Sinnott,R.O.
prepared for The Joint Information Systems Committee for Support for Research, November 2005.

Report commissioned by JISC to study and report on Grid Security: Practices, Middleware and Outlook
 
Large-scale data sharing in the life sciences: Data standards, incentives, barriers and funding models (The “Joint Data Standards Study”) 2005

Sinnott,R.O.; MacDonald,A.; Lord,P.W.; Ecklund,D.; Jones,A.
prepared for The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, The Department of Trade and Industry, The Joint Information Systems Committee for Support for Research, The Medical Research Council, The Natural Environment Research Council and The Wellcome Trust.

Joint Data Standards Report written for the BBSRC, DTI, JISC, MRC, NERC and the Wellome Trust
 
Grid Based Clinical Trial Scenarios 2004

Sinnott,Richard;
GGF12, Brussels

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Life Sciences & Grid Technologies: Challenges & Opportunities 2004

Sinnott,Richard;
hpc inform, University of Strathclyde

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Grids & Life Sciences 2004

Sinnott,Richard;
Stirling University, Scotland, UK

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Grid Services Supporting the Usage of Secure Federated, Distributed Biomedical Data 2004

Malcolm, Atkinson; Micha, Bayer; Dave, Berry; Anna, Dominiczak; Magnus, Ferrier; David, Gilbert; Neil, Hanlon; Derek, Houghton; Ela, Hunt; Richard, Sinnott; David, White;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2004 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2004/

The BRIDGES project is a UK e-Science project that provides grid based support for biomedical research into the genetics of hypertension – the Cardiovascular Functional Genomics Project (CFG). Its main... [more details]
 
A Federated Architecture for Data Access and Integration Services in e-Science 2004

Aileen, Campbell; Brian, Hills; Rob, Baxter; Alan, Gray; Stephen, Rutherford; Davy, Virdee; Tom, Sugden; Bob, Mann; Richard, Sinnott;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2004 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2004/

To date, much of the focus of Grid middleware has been to provide services to access data rather than to access and integrate data within a Grid environment. Edikt have designed an architecture which... [more details]
 
Experiences of Using the GGF SAML AuthZ Interface 2004

David, Chadwick; Richard, Sinnott;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2004 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2004/

The BRIDGES project has been funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry to develop a Grid infrastructure suitable for the research activities involved in the Wellcome Trust funded Cardiovascular... [more details]
 
A GT3 based BLAST grid service for biomedical research 2004

Micha, Bayer; Aileen, Campbell; Davy, Virdee;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Conference 2004 website: http://www.allhands.org.uk/2004/

BLAST is one of the best known sequence comparison programs available in bioinformatics. It is used to compare query sequences to a set of target sequences, with the intention of finding similar sequences... [more details]
 
Development of a Grid Infrastructure for Functional Genomics 2004

Sinnott,R.O.; Bayer,M.; Houghton,D.; Berry,D.; Ferrier,M.;
Life Science Grid Conference (LSGrid 2004), Kanazawa, Japan

The BRIDGES project is incrementally developing and exploring database integration over six geographically distributed research sites with the framework of a Wellcome Trust biomedical research project... [more details]
 
The Formal, Tool Supported Development of Real Time Systems 2004

Sinnott,R.O.;
Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, Beijing, China

The language SDL has long been applied in the development of various kinds of systems. Real-time systems are one application area where SDL has been applied extensively. Whilst SDL allows for certain ... [more details]
 
Security Focused Federation of Distributed Biomedical Data 2003

Sinnott,R.O.;
Proceedings of UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 4-6 September 2003, Nottingham, England

 
Architecting Specifications for Automated Test Case Generation 2003

Sinnott,R.O.;
Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, September 2003, Brisbane Australia

The Specification and Description Language (SDL) together with its associated tool sets can be used for the generation of Tree and Tabular Combined Notation (TTCN) test cases. Surprisingly, little... [more details]
 
Detective Quantum Efficiency of the Medipix Pixel Detector 2003

Davidson,D.W.; Watt,J.; Tlustos,L.; Mikulec,B.; Campbell,M.; Mathieson,K.; O'Shea,V.; Smith,K.M.; Rahman,M.;
IEEE Trans. on Nucl. Sci., Vol. 50, No. 5, October 2003

We have measured the intrinsic performance of a digital X-ray detector, the Medipix1, by examining the total detective quantum efficiency (DQE). We studied how the DQE depends on both the incident photon... [more details]
 
Building the e-Science Grid in the UK: Middleware, Applications and Tools deployed at Level 2 2003

Allan,R.; Baker,D.; Boyd,D.; Chohan,D.; Cox,S.; Eres,H.; Fowler,R.; Furmento,N.; Giddy,J.; Harmer,T.; Hayes,M.; Hill,N.; Hillier,J.; Jensen,J.; Keane,A.; Krznaric,M.; Lee,W.; McKeown,M.; Mills,A.; Newhouse,S.; Pickles,S.; Pinning,R.; Richards,A.; Saleem,A.; Watt,J.;
Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2003

Over the period September 2002-April 2003 the UK Grid Engineering Task Force and staff at Regional e-Science Centres and CCLRC deployed the Globus Toolkit GT2 at 14 sites and on approximately 80 compute... [more details]
 
Dose reductions in dental X-ray imaging using Medipix 2003

Watt,J.; Davidson,D.W.; Johnston,C.; Smith,C.; Tlustos,L.; Mikulec,B.; Smith,K.M.; Rahman,M.;

We have measured the noise power spectra for a commercial CCD device, for dental X-ray imaging, and a X-ray photon counting chip, Medipix1. This quantity provides a measure of the noise propagation... [more details]
 
Finite State Machine Based SDL 2001

Sinnott,R.O.; Hogrefe,D.;
Chapter 1, Part II of Formal Methods for Object-Oriented Distributed Systems

 
Specification Architectures 2001

Sinnott,R.O.; Turner,K.J.;
Chapter 2, Part VII of Formal Methods for Object-Oriented Distributed Systems

 
Real-Time Systems Development with SDL and Next Generation Validation Tools 2001

Sinnott,R.O.;
Proceedings of Real Time and Embedded Systems Workshop, 3-6 December 2001, London, England.

 
Applications of pixellated GaAs X-ray detectors in a synchrotron radiation beam 2001

Watt,J.; Bates,R.; Campbell,M.; Mathieson,K.; Mikulec,B.; O’Shea,V.; Passmore,M-S.; Schwarz,C.; Smith,K.M.; Whitehill,C.;
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 460 (2001)

Hybrid semiconductor pixel detectors are being investigated as imaging devices for radiography and synchrotron radiation beam applications. Based on previous work in the CERN RD19 and the UK IMPACT collaborations,... [more details]
 
Characterisation of a single photon counting pixel system for imaging of low-contrast objects 2001

Mikulec,B.; Campbell,M.; Dipasquale,G.; Schwarz,C.; Watt,J.;
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 458 (2001)

In the framework of the Medipix collaboration the PCC, a single photon counting pixel chip, has been developed with the aim of improving the contrast resolution in medical imaging applications. The PCC... [more details]
 
Integrated Trouble Management to Support Service Quality Assurance in a Multi-Provider Context 2000

Sinnott,R.O.; Dragan,D.; Gringel,T.; Hall,J.; Tschichholz,M.; Vortisch,W.;
Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, Athens, Greece

 
Supporting Service Quality Assurance via Trouble Management 2000

Sinnott,R.O.; Gringel,T.; Tschichholz,M.; Vortisch,W.;
Proceedings of Third International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 2000, pages 193-206, 2000, Fortaleza - Ceara, Brazil.

 
A TINA/IN Platform for Framework Based Service Creation 2000

Sinnott,R.O.; Kolberg,M.; Kimbler,K.;
Proceedings of Intelligent Network Workshop IN 2000, Cape Town, South Africa

 
Meeting the Design Challenges of nano-CMOS Electronics 2000

C.,Millar; A.,Asenov; G.,Roy; S.,Roy; D.,Cumming; D.,Berry; S.,Pickles; S.,Furber; A.,Murray; A.,Tyrell; M.,Zwolinski; R.O.,Sinnott;
Proceedings of Design Automation and Test in Europe: Workshop on Impact Process Variability on Design and Test, Munich, Germany March 2008

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Experiences Modelling and Using Object-Oriented Telecommunication Service Frameworks in SDL 1999

Sinnott,R.O.; Kolberg,M.; Magill,E.;
International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Volume 31

 
Engineering Telecommunication Services with SDL 1999

Sinnott,R.O.; Kolberg,M.;
Proceedings of Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, Florence, Italy

 
Engineering of Interworking TINA-based Telecommunication Services 1999

Sinnott,R.O.; Kolberg,M.; Magill,E.;
Proceedings of Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Conference, Oahu, Hawaii

 
The Pros and Cons of Using SDL for Creation of Distributed Services 1999

Sinnott,R.O.; Kolberg,M.; Lodge,F.; Björkander,M.; Olsen,A.;
Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks, Barcelona, Spain,

 
Creating Telecommunication Services based on Object-Oriented Frameworks and SDL 1999

Sinnott,R.O.; Kolberg,M.;
Proceedings of International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, St. Malo, France

 
Modelling Dynamic Distributed Systems in LOTOS 1999

Sinnott,R.O.;
Proceedings of Formale Beschreibungstechniken für Verteilte Systeme, FBT99, Münich, German

 
Specifying Multimedia Configurations in Z 1999

Sinnott,R.O.;
Conference on Computational Intelligence & Multimedia Applications, New Delhi, India

 
Specifying Aspects of Multimedia in LOTOS 1999

Sinnott,R.O.;
Conference on Computational Intelligence & Multimedia Applications, New Delhi, India

 
Reference Integrity in Dynamic CORBA Components 1999

Sinnott,R.O.; Solarski,M.; Durmosch,K.; Hafezi,A.;
Conference on Scalable and Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Lausanne, Switwerland

 
Frameworks: The Future of Formal Software Development 1998

Sinnott,R.O.;
Edition of Computer Standards and Interfaces Journal, Semantics of Specifications

 
Applying the Architectural Semantics of ODP to Develop a Trader Specification 1997

Sinnott,R.O.; Turner,K.J.;
Special Edition of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems on Specification Architecture

 
Specifying Multimedia Binding Objects in Z, 1997

Sinnott,R.O.; Turner,K.J.;
Trends in Distributed Systems: CORBA and Beyond, Lecture Notes in Computing Science, volume 1161

 
Specifying ODP Computational Objects in Z 1997

Sinnott,R.O.; Turner,K.J.;
Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems

 
Type Checking in Distributed Systems: a Complete Model and its Z Specification 1997

Sinnott,R.O.; Turner,K.J.;
Open Distributed Processing and Distributed Platforms

 
Business-Oriented Development of Telecommunication Services 1997

Sinnott,R.O.; Kolberg,M.;
Proceedings of Workshop on Precise Behavioural Specifications in Object-Oriented Information Modelling, OOPSLA?98, October, Vancouver, Canada.

 
ISO/IEC 10746-4 | ITU-T Recommendation X.904 - Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing: Architectural Semantics 1997

Sinnott,R.O.;
International Standard ISO/IEC 10746-4 | ITU-T Recommendation X.904

 
ISO/IEC 10746-4.1 | ITU-T Recommendation X.904.1 - Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing: Computational Formalisation 1997

Sinnott,R.O.;
Working Document ISO/IEC 10746-4.1 | ITU-T Recommendation X.904.1

 
Technical Report on Formal Specification Techniques for Open Distributed Systems 1997

Sinnott,R.O.;
ISO/IEC ? ITU-T Technical Report JTC1/SC33/WG7/N14466

 
An Architecture Based Approach to Specifying Distributed Systems in LOTOS and Z 1997

Sinnott,R.O.;
PhD thesis, University of Stirling, Scotland 1997.

 
Applying Formal Methods to Standard Development: the Open Distributed Processing Experience 1995

Sinnott,R.O.; Turner,K.J.;

 
DILL: Specifying Digital Logic in LOTOS 1994

Sinnott,R.O.; Turner,K.J.;
Proceedings of Formal Description Techniques VI

 
Modelling ODP Viewpoints 1994

Sinnott,R.O.; Turner,K.J.;
Proceedings of Workshop on Precise Behavioural Specifications in Object-Oriented Information Modelling

 
The Formal Specification of Electronic Components in LOTOS 1993

Sinnott,R.O.;
MSc Thesis, University of Stirling, Scotland, 1993