Richard Sinnott - e-Science Technical Director (Glasgow)

Prof Richard Sinnott

e-Science Technical Director (Glasgow)
National e-Science Centre

Room: 243B

Building: Kelvin Building

email: r.sinnott@nesc.gla.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)141 330 8606

Fax: +44 (0)141 330 8625

Home Page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/people/personal/ros/

Biography and Research Interests
Professor Richard O. Sinnott is the Technical Director of the National e-Science Centre at the University of Glasgow. He holds a PhD from the University of Stirling where his research was based on the architectural design of open distributed processing systems; an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Stirling, and a BSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Professor Sinnott?s current research is focused around Grid computing and it?s application to solve e-Research problems across a variety of research areas with specific focus on security.

243B
Kelvin Building
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 8606, Fax: +44 (0)141 330 8625

Papers Published

Towards a Virtual Research Environment for Paediatric Endocrinology across Europe

2009

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A Clinical Grid Infrastructure Supporting Adverse Hypotensive Event Prediction

2009

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Monitoring in Neurocritical Care

2009

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Federating Distributed Clinical Data for the Prediction of Adverse Hypotensive events

2009

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Cutting-edge Semiconductor Simulation through Grid Technology

2009

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Enabling Quantative Data Analysis through e-Infrastructures

2009

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

2009

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Towards a Virtual Research Environment for Paediatric Endocrinology across Europe

2009

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

2009

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Spatial Data e-Infrastructure

2009

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

2009

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Data Privacy by Design: Digital Infrastructures for Clinical Collaborations

2009

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

2009

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Dynamic Trust Negotiation for Flexible e-Health Collaborations

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

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

2008

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Deployment of Grids through Integrated Configuration Management

2008

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E-Infrastructures for Clinical Epidemiological Studies Across Scotland

2008

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Supporting Security-Oriented, Collaborative nanoCMOS Electronics Research

2008

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Secure, Performance-Oriented Data Management for nanoCMOS Electronics

2008

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

2008

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Integrating Security Solutions to Support nanoCMOS Electronics Research

2008

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

2008

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Towards Decentralised Security Policies for e-Health Collaborations

2008

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

2008

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Technical Challenges in Leveraging Distributed Clinical Data

2008

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BioNessie - A Grid Enabled Biochemical Network Simulator

2008

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

2008

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Data Curation Standards and Social Science Occupational Information Resources

2007

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Supporting Grid Based Clinical Trials in Scotland

2007

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

2007

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Formalising Dynamic Trust Negotiations in Decentralised Collaborative e-Health Systems

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

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]

Grid Infrastructures for Secure Access to and Use of Bioinformatics Data: Experiences from the BRIDGES Project

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

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]

Development of Grid Frameworks for Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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]

Utilising a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment

2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Security Infrastructure for Grid-Enabled Biomedical Services

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

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

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

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

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Distributed BLAST in a Grid Computing Context

2005

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Development of a Grid Infrastructure for Functional Genomics

2004

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

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]

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

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

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

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]

Architecting Specifications for Automated Test Case Generation

2003

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]

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

2001

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Presentations/Talks

Grid Based Clinical Trial Scenarios	22/09/2004
GGF12, Brussels Available in the following formats: [PDF]

Life Sciences & Grid Technologies: Challenges & Opportunities	16/09/2004
hpc inform, University of Strathclyde Available in the following formats: [PDF]

Grids & Life Sciences	26/03/2004
Stirling University, Scotland, UK Available in the following formats: [PDF]