Submitted and in preparation

Juan Ye, Graeme Stevenson and Simon Dobson. Managing the lifecycle of sensor data in pervasive environments. Shanghai, CN. Submitted to the 9th International Semantic Web Conference.

Juan Ye, Graeme Stevenson and Simon Dobson. Modelling and verifying temporal dependencies for pervasive systems. Submitted to ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.

Savas Konur, Michael Fisher, Stephen Knox and Simon Dobson. Probabilistic model checking of a pervasive system. Submitted to ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.

Hui Zhang, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. Using homology for sensor network coverage. Submitted to IEEE Embedded Systems Letters.

Graham Williamson, Davide Cellai, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Periodic data dissemination in wireless sensor networks: a theoretical approach. Submitted to the International Journal of Simulation Systems, Science and Technology.

Emerson Loureiro, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. Decentralized and optimal control of shared resource pools. Submitted to ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.

Journal

Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Chris Bleakley and Simon Dobson. Activity recognition using temporal evidence theory. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. 2010. To appear.

Adrian K. Clear, Thomas Holland, Simon Dobson, Aaron Quigley, Ross Shannon and Paddy Nixon. Situvis: a sensor data analysis and abstraction tool for pervasive computing systems. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 2010.

Simon Dobson, Roy Sterritt, Paddy Nixon and Mike Hinchey. Fulfilling the vision of autonomic computing. IEEE Computer 43(1), pages 35–41. January 2010.

Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. LOC8: a location model and extensible framework for programming with location. IEEE Pervasive Computing 9(1), pages 28–37. January 2010.

John Strassner, Sven van der Meer, Declan O'Sullivan and Simon Dobson. The use of context-aware policies and ontologies to facilitate business-aware network management. Journal of Network and Systems Management 17(3), pages 255–284. September 2009.

Michael Collins, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Securing wireless sensor networks: introducing ASLAN – a secure, lightweight architecture for WSNs. International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services 2(1), pages 679–685. May 2009.

Michael Collins, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. A lightweight secure architecture for wireless sensor networks. International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2(1–2). 2009.

Brendan Sheehan, Aaron Quigley, Benoit Gaudin and Simon Dobson. A relation based measure of semantic similarity for gene ontology annotations. BMC Bioinformatics Journal 9(468). November 2008.

Simon Dobson. An adaptive systems perspective on network calculus, with applications to autonomic control. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 1(3), pages 332–341. 2008.

Stephen Knox, Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, Aaron Quigley and Paddy Nixon. Scatterbox: mobile message management. Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle 22(5), pages 549–568. September 2008.

Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Representing and manipulating situation hierarchies using situation lattices. Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle 22(5), pages 647–667. September 2008.

Simon Dobson, Lorcan Coyle and Paddy Nixon. Hybridising events and knowledge as a basis for building autonomic systems. IEEE TCAAS Letters. 2007.

M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Classification and modeling of the quality of contextual information. IEEE TCAAS Letters. 2007.

Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Ontology-based models in pervasive computing systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review 22(4), pages 315–347. December 2007.

M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Cross-layer architectures for autonomic communications. Journal of Network and Systems Management 15(1), pages 13–27. March 2007.

Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Graeme Stevenson, Mark Sullivan, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Sensor fusion-based middleware for smart homes. International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics 8(2), pages 53–60. 2007.

Simon Dobson, Spyros Denazis, Antonio Fernández, Dominique Gaïti, Erol Gelenbe, Fabio Massacci, Paddy Nixon, Fabrice Saffre, Nikita Schmidt and Franco Zambonelli. A survey of autonomic communications. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 1(2), pages 223–259. December 2006.

Steve Neely, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Adaptive middleware for autonomic systems. Annals of Telecommunications 61(9–10), pages 1099–1118. September–October 2006.

Joëlle Coutaz, James Crowley, Simon Dobson and David Garlan. Context is key. Communications of the ACM 48(3), pages 49–53. March 2005.

Don Goodeve, Simon Dobson, Jonathan Nash, John Davy, Peter Dew, Mourad Kara and Chris Wadsworth. Towards a model for shared data abstraction with performance. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 49(1), pages 156–167. February 1998.

Simon Dobson and Victoria Burrill. Lightweight databases. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 27(6), pages 1009–1015. 1995.

Major conference

Emerson Loureiro, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. Adaptive management of shared resource pools with decentralized optimization and epidemics. In Proceedings of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, pages 51–58. Marco Danelutto, Julien Bourgeois and Tom Gross (ed). IEEE Computer Society Press. Pisa, IT. February 2010.

Davide Cellai, Graham Williamson, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Self-management of routing on human proximity networks. In Self-organising systems, pages 1–12. Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos and Karin Anna Hummel (ed). Volume 5918 of LNCS. Springer-Verlag. Zurich, CH. 2009.

Emerson Loureiro, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. Decentralized utility maximization for adaptive management of shared resource Pools. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS'09). IEEE Computer Society. Barcelona, ES. 2009.

Hui Zhang, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. Partial coverage in homological sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMOB 2009), pages 42–47. IEEE Press. Marrakech, MA. 2009.

Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson. Using Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence for situation inference. In Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC). LNCS. Springer-Verlag. Guildford, UK. 2009.

Juan Ye and Simon Dobson. Human-behaviour study with situation lattices. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. San Antonio, TX. October 2009.

Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson. A context quality model to support transparent reasoning with uncertain context. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Quality of Context. LNCS. Springer Verlag. Stuttgart, DE. 2009.

Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Thomas Holland, Aaron Quigley, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Situvis: a visual tool for modeling a user's behaviour patterns in a pervasive environment. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing. Nara, JP. May 2009.

Simon Dobson, Lorcan Coyle, G.M.P. O'Hare and Mike Hinchey. From physical models to well-founded control. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems. IEEE Press. San Francisco, CA. 2009.

Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Using situation lattices in sensor analysis. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2009), pages 1–11. Galveston, TX. March 2009.

Emerson Loureiro, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. A fine-grained model for adaptive on-demand provisioning of CPU shares in data centres. In Self-organizing systems, pages 97–108. Karin Anna Hummel and James Sterbenz (ed). Volume 5343 of LNCS. Springer Verlag. Vienna, AT. December 2008.

Hui Zhang, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. Multi-criteria adaptation mechanisms in homological sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Communciations Systems. IEEE Press. Guangzhou, CN. 2008.

M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Cross-layer self routing: a self-managed routing approach for MANETs. In Procedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications. IEEE Press. Avignon, FR. 2008.

Juan Ye, Susan McKeever, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely and Simon Dobson. Resolving uncertainty in context integration and abstraction. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Services, pages 131–140. Domenico Cotroneo and Julie McCann (ed). ACM Press. Sorrento, IT. 2008.

Adrian K. Clear, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. An approach to dealing with uncertainty in context-aware pervasive systems. In Proceedings of the UK/IE IEEE SMC Cybernetic Systems Conference 2007. IEEE Press. Dublin, IE. 2007.

Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. A unified semantics space model. In Location- and context-awareness, pages 103–120. Volume 4718 of LNCS. 2007.

Simon Dobson, Eoin Bailey, Stephen Knox, Ross Shannon and Aaron Quigley. A first approach to the closed-form specification and analysis of an autonomic control system. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Engineering Complex Computer Systems. Auckland, NZ. 2007.

Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Whole-system programming of adaptive ambient intelligence. In Proceedings of HCI International 2007, pages 73–81. Volume 4555 of LNCS. Springer-Verlag. Beijing, CN. 2007.

Kieran Delaney, Simon Dobson and John Barton. Collaborative smart objects and augmented materials. In Proceedings of the Sensors and Systems Symposium at the NSTI Nanotechnology Conference (Nanotech 2007). Santa Clara, CA. May 2007.

Simon Dobson. Achieving an acceptable design model for autonomic systems. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, pages 196–202. IEEE Press. Tucson, AZ. 2007. Reprinted in IEEE TFAAS Letters, October/November 2006.

M.A. Razzaque, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. Demonstrating the feasibility of an autonomic communications-targeted cross-layer architecture. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications. Mangalore, IN. 2006.

M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. A cross-layer architecture for autonomic communications. In Autonomic Networking, pages 25–35. Dominique Gaïti, Guy Pujolle, Ehab Al-Shaer, Ken Calvert, Simon Dobson, Guy Leduc and Olli Martikainen (ed). Volume 4195 of LNCS. Springer-Verlag. Paris, FR. 2006.

Eleanor O'Neill, David Lewis, Kris McGlinn and Simon Dobson. Rapid user-centred evaluation for context-aware systems. In Interactive systems: design, specification, and verification. Gavin Doherty and Ann Blandford (ed). Volume 4323 of LNCS. Springer Verlag. Dublin, IE. 2006.

Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Gaëtan Rey, Graeme Stevenson, Mark Sullivan, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Sensor fusion-based middleware for assisted living. In Smart homes and beyond, pages 281–288. Chris Nugent and Juan Carlos Augusto (ed). IOS Press. Belfast, UK. 2006.

Seán Baker and Simon Dobson. Comparing service-oriented and distributed object architectures. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications, pages 631–645. Robert Meersman and Zahir Tari (ed). Volume 3760 of LNCS. Springer Verlag. 2005.

Simon Dobson, Kieran Delaney, Kafil Mahmood Razeeb and Sergey Tsvetkov. A co-designed hardware/software architecture for augmented materials. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications. Thomas Magedanz, Ahmed Karmouch, Samuel Pierre and Iakovos Venieris (ed). Volume 3744 of LNCS. Montréal, CA. 2005.

Simon Dobson. Leveraging the subtleties of location. In sOc-EUSAI'05: Proceedings of the 2005 Joint Conference on Smart Objects and Ambient Intelligence, pages 175–179. Gérard Bailly, James Crowley and Gilles Privat (ed). ACM Press. Grenoble, FR. 2005.

Graeme Stevenson, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. Towards a reliable wide-area infrastructure for context-based self-management of communications. In Autonomic communication: 2nd International IFIP Workshop on Autonomic Communication, pages 115–128. Ioannis Stavrakakis and Mikhail Smirnov (ed). Volume 3854 of LNCS. Springer-Verlag. 2006.

Simon Dobson. Putting meaning into the network: some semantic issues for the design of autonomic communications systems. In Proceedings of the 1st IFIP Workshop on Autonomic Communications, pages 207–216. Mikhail Smirnov (ed). Volume 3457 of LNCS. Springer Verlag. Berlin, DE. 2005.

Andy Nisbet and Simon Dobson. A systems architecture for sensor networks based on hardware/software co-design. In Proceedings of the 1st IFIP Workshop on Autonomic Communications. Mikhail Smirnov (ed). Volume 3457 of LNCS. Springer Verlag. Berlin, DE. 2005.

Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. More principled design of pervasive computing systems. In Human computer interaction and interactive systems. Rémi Bastide and Jörg Roth (ed). Volume 3425 of LNCS. Springer Verlag. 2004.

Simon Dobson. Applications considered harmful for ambient systems. In Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies, pages 171–176. ACM Press. Dublin, IE. 2003.

Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. As strong as possible agent mobility. In Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, pages 174–176. T. Wagner and O.F. Rana (ed). Volume 1887 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. 2001.

Simon Dobson and Brian Matthews. Ionic types. In ECOOP 2000 – object-oriented programming, pages 296–312. Elisa Bertoni (ed). Volume 1850 of LNCS. Springer-Verlag. 2000.

Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. As strong as possible mobility (poster). In Proceedings of the 22nd Internatioal Conference on Software Engienering, pages 779. 2000.

Paddy Nixon, Vinny Wade, Sotirios Terzis, Marcus O'Connell and Simon Dobson. The Virtues architecture: a software infrastructure for business-to-business e-commerce. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. Stafford, UK. 2000.

Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon, Vincent Wade, Sotirios Terzis and John Fuller. Vanilla: an open language framework. In Generative and component-based software engineering. Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich Eisenecker (ed). Volume 1799 of LNCS. Springer-Verlag. 1999.

Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nixon, Vinny Wade, Simon Dobson and John Fuller. The future of enterprise groupware applications. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, pages 525–532. Joaquim Filipe and José Cordeiro (ed). Setubal, PT. 1999. Winner of best student paper award.

Simon Dobson and Don Goodeve. Programming with shared data abstractions. In Solving irregularly structured problems in parallel, pages 93–102. Gianfranco Billardi, Afonso Ferreira, Reinhold Lüling and José Rolim (ed). Volume 1253 of LNCS. Springer Verlag. 1997.

Simon Dobson and Chris Wadsworth. Towards a theory of shared data in distributed systems. In Software engineering for parallel and distributed systems, pages 170–182. Innes Jelly, Ian Gorton and Peter Croll (ed). Chapman and Hall. 1996.

Minor conference and workshop

Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye and Simon Dobson. On the impact of the temporal features of sensed data on the development of pervasive systems. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Programming Methods for Mobile and Pervasive Systems at PERVASIVE 2010. 2010.

Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Susan McKeever and Simon Dobson. Dealing with activities with diffuse boundaries. In Proceedings of the Workshop on How to do good activity recognition research: Experimental methodologies, evaluation metrics and reproducility issues at PERVASIVE 2010. Helsinki, FI. May 2010.

Stephen Knox, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson. Using ontologies in case-based activity recognition. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS-23). Daytona Beach, FL. May 2010.

Graham Williamson, Davide Cellai, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Modelling periodic data dissemination in wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd UKSim European Symposium on Computer Modelling and Simulation. IEEE Press. 2009.

Matthew Stabeler, Davide Cellai, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. Delay tolerant networks and spatially detailed human mobility. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Emergence of delay- and disruption-tolerant networks. St Petersburg, RU. 2009.

Juan Ye, Adrian K. Clear, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson. On using temporal semantics to create more accurate human-activity classifiers. In Proceedings of the 20th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2009). Dublin, IE. 2009.

M.A. Razzaque and Simon Dobson. Enhancement of self-organisation in wireless networking through a cross-layer approach. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks. Niagara Falls, CA. 2009.

Michael O'Grady, Juan Ye, G.M.P. O'Hare, Simon Dobson, Richard Tynan and Connor Muldoon. Implicit Interaction. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Instinctive Computing. Volume 5987 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag. Pittsburgh, PA. 2010. To appear.

Josu Martinez and Simon Dobson. Functionality recomposition for self-healing. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies. Sofia, BG. 2009.

Simon Dobson. Integrating sensor networks into the future internet (extended abstract). In Proceedings of the 2nd Euro-NF Workshop on Future Internet Architectures. Santander, ES. June 2009.

Eleanor O'Neill, Kris McGlinn, Eoin Bailey, Simon Dobson and Kevin McCarthy. Application development using modelling and dynamical systems analysis. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Context-Aware Middleware and Services, pages 18–23. Dublin, IE. 2009.

Graeme Stevenson, Stephen Knox, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. ONTONYM: a collection of upper ontologies for pervasive application development. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Context, Information and Ontologies Ontology (CIAO'09). Heraklion, GR. 2009.

Matthew Stabeler, Graeme Stevenson, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Basadaeir: harvesting user profiles to bootstrap pervasive applications. In Late-breaking results: Adjunct Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE 2009). 2009.

Lorcan Coyle, Juan Ye, Susan McKeever, Stephen Knox, Matthew Stabeler, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Gathering datasets for activity identification. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Developing Shared Home Behaviour Datasets to Advance HCI and Ubiquitous Computing Research at CHI 2009. Boston, MA. 2009.

Olga Murdoch, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson. Ontology-based query recommendation as a support to image retrieval. In Proceedings of the 19th Irish Conference in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Cork, IE. 2008.

Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson. A multilayered uncertainty approach for context-aware systems. In Late-breaking results: Adjunct Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE 2008), pages 1–4. Sidney, AU. 2008.

Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Thomas Holland, Simon Dobson, Aaron Quigley and Paddy Nixon. Situvis: visualising multivariate context information to evaluate situation specifications. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation (USE 2008). Seoul, KR. 2008.

Michael Collins, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. A secure lightweight architecture for wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM'08). Valencia, ES. 2008. Winner of Joint Best Paper Award.

Simon Dobson. From adaptive systems to adaptive spaces. In Resilient and Survivable Networks, Infrastructure and Services. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings Series. Schloß Dagstuhl. 2008.

Michael Collins, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Identifying and isolating aberrant nodes in wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference for Internet Technologies and Secured Transactions. Dublin, IE. June 2008. Winner of best paper award.

Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Stable autonomic adaptation: a grand challenge. In Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics for Autonomic Computing (HotAC'08). Chicago IL. 2008.

Simon Dobson. Facilitating a well-founded approach to autonomic systems. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on the Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASe 2008). IEEE Press. Belfast, UK. April 2008.

Lorcan Coyle, Juan Ye, Emerson Loureiro, Stephen Knox, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. A proposed approach to evaluate the accuracy of tag-based location systems. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation at Ubicomp'07. 2007.

M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Context awareness through cross-layer network architecture. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks. Honolulu, HI. 2007.

Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Using situation lattices to model and reason about context. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop Modeling and Reasoning in Context (MRC 2007). Copenhagen, DK. 2007.

Stephen Knox, Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, Aaron Quigley and Paddy Nixon. Towards Scatterbox: a context-aware message forwarding platform. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop Modeling and Reasoning in Context (MRC 2007). Copenhagen, DK. 2007.

Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Graeme Stevenson and Graham Williamson. Construct: an open source pervasive systems platform. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Consumer Communciations and Networking Conference, pages 1203–1204. IEEE Press. Las Vegas, NV. 2007.

Syarulnaziah Anawar, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Context delivery in ad hoc networks using enhanced gossiping algorithms. In Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context. Volume 4272 of LNCS. 2006.

Graham Williamson, Graeme Stevenson, Steve Neely, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. An evaluation framework for disseminating context information with gossiping. In Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context. Volume 4272 of LNCS. 2006.

Lorcan Coyle, Evelyn Baife, Graeme Stevenson, Steve Neely, Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon and Barry Smyth. Supplementing case-based recommenders with context data. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Case-based reasoning and context-awareness at ECCBR'06. Ölüdeniz, TK. September 2006.

Adrian K. Clear, Stephen Knox, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Integrating multiple contexts and ontologies in a pervasive computing framework. In Contexts and ontologies: theory, practice and applications. Riva del Garda, IT. 2006.

Simon Dobson and Juan Ye. Using fibrations for situation identification. In Pervasive 2006 workshop proceedings, pages 645–651. Thomas Strang, Vinny Cahill and Aaron Quigley (ed). Springer Verlag. Dublin, IE. 2006. Workshop on Combining Theory and System-Building.

Michael Collins, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Security issues with pervasive computing frameworks. In Pervasive 2006 workshop proceedings, pages 679–685. Thomas Strang, Vinny Cahill and Aaron Quigley (ed). Springer Verlag. Dublin, IE. 2006. Workshop on Privacy, Trust and Identity Issues for Ambient Intelligence.

Simon Dobson. The de Bruijn principle and the compositional design of programming languages. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages. 2005.

M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Categorisation and modelling of quality in context information. In Proceedings of the IJCAI 2005 Workshop on AI and Autonomic Communications. Roy Sterrit, Simon Dobson and Mikhail Smirnov (ed). 2005.

Simon Dobson. Hybridising events and knowledge in an infrastructure for context-adaptive systems. In Proceedings of the IJCAI 2005 Workshop on AI and Autonomic Communications. Roy Sterrit, Simon Dobson and Mikhail Smirnov (ed). 2005.

Simon Dobson. Creating programming languages for (and from) the internet. In Workshop on Evolution and Reuse of Language Specifications for domain-specific languages at ECOOP'04. Oslo, NO. 2004.

Paddy Nixon, Simon Dobson, Sotirios Terzis and Feng Wang. Architectural implications for context-adaptive smart spaces. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Networked Applicances, pages 156–161. IEEE Press. 2003.

Paddy Nixon, Feng Wang, Sotirios Terzis and Simon Dobson. Engineering context-aware systems. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Engineering Context-Aware Object-Oriented Systems and Environments. Seattle, WA. 2002.

Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nixon, Vinny Wade, Simon Dobson and John Fuller. Building the next generation of groupware. In Enterprise information systems. Joaquim Filipe (ed). Kluwer Academic Press. 2001.

Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. An integrated system for managing intelligent buildings. In Managing interactions in smart environments. Paddy Nixon, Gerard Lacey and Simon Dobson (ed). Springer Verlag. 2000.

Paddy Nixon, Vinny Wade, Simon Dobson, John Fuller and Sotirios Terzis. Designing components for a virtual organisation: a case study. In Proceedings of Objects, Components and the Virtual Enterprise. Vancouver, CA. 1998.

Richard Greenane and Simon Dobson. Integrating LONWorks into an open systems control environment. Amsterdam, NL. 1999. Presented at the LONWorks'99 trade conference.

Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. (Free) radical programming languages. In Proceedings of the 5th CaberNet Radicals workshop. Oporto, PT. 1998.

Simon Dobson and Victoria Burrill. Towards improving automation in the World Wide Web. In New directions in software development. British Computer Society. 1995.

Simon Dobson and Andy Wellings. A system for building scalable parallel applications. In Programming environments for parallel computing, pages 218–230. Nigel Topham, Roland Ibbett and Thomas Bemmerl (ed). North Holland Elsevier. 1992.

Simon Dobson and Andy Wellings. Programming highly parallel general-purpose applications. In Proceedings of the First BCS Workshop on Abstract Machine Models for Highly Parallel Computing. University of Leeds. 1991.

Edited books

Simon Dobson, John Strassner, Manish Parashar and Onn Shehory (ed). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing. ACM Press. Barcelona, ES. 2009.

John Strassner, Simon Dobson, José Fortes and Kumar Goswami (ed). Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomic Computing. IEEE Press. Chicago, IL. 2008.

Tom Pfeifer, John Strassner and Simon Dobson (ed). Managing ubiquitous communications and services: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop, MUCS 2007. Multicon Verlag. Munich, DE. 2007. ISBN 3-930736-07-1.

Dominique Gaïti, Guy Pujolle, Ehab Al-Shaer, Ken Calvert, Simon Dobson, Guy Leduc and Olli Martikainen (ed). Autonomic Networking. Volume 4195 of LNCS. Springer-Verlag. 2006.

Paddy Nixon, Gerard Lacey and Simon Dobson (ed). Managing interactions in smart environments. Springer Verlag. 2000. ISBN 1-85223-228-X.

Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson (ed). Objects, components and the virtual enterprise. ACM Press. 1998. Workshop reader.

Book chapters

Simon Dobson. Co-design for context awareness in pervasive systems. In Ambient intelligence with microsystems: augmented materials and smart objects, pages 297–307. Kieran Delaney (ed). Volume 18 of Microsystems. Springer Verlag. 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-46293-9.

Kieran Delaney and Simon Dobson. Augmenting materials to build cooperating objects. In Ambient intelligence with microsystems: augmented materials and smart objects, pages 19–46. Kieran Delaney (ed). Volume 18 of Microsystems. Springer Verlag. 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-46293-9.

Juan Ye, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. An overview of pervasive computing systems. In Ambient intelligence with microsystems: augmented materials and smart objects, pages 3–17. Kieran Delaney (ed). Volume 18 of Microsystems. Springer Verlag. 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-46293-9.

M.A. Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Cross-layer optimisations for autonomic networks. In Advanced autonomic networking and communication, pages 127–148. Monique Calisti, Sven van der Meer and John Strassner (ed). Birkhäuser Whitestein series. Springer Verlag. 2008. ISBN 978-3-7643-8568-2.

Simon Dobson. Report from the ECOOP 2004 workshop on component-oriented approaches to context-aware computing. In ECOOP'04 workshop reader, pages 84–93. Jacques Malenfant and Bjarte Østvold (ed). Volume 3344 of LNCS. Springer Verlag. 2004.

Strategic reports

Seán Baker, Simon Dobson, Pat Donnellan, Paul Kavanagh, Dan Maher, Tommy McCabe, Richard McQuillen, Paddy Holohan, Michael O'Connor and Declan O'Mahony. Successful commercialisation of R&D. Irish Business Employers' Confederation/ICT Ireland. 2004.

Seán Baker, Simon Dobson, Dan Flinter, Michael Grufferty, Paul Kavanagh, Dan Maher, Tommy McCabe and Richard McQuillen. Commercialisation of R&D in the ICT sector. Irish Business Employers' Confederation/ICT Ireland. 2004.

Magazine and media articles

Simon Dobson, Graeme Stevenson, Graham Williamson, Stephen Knox, Matthew Stabler, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely and Paddy Nixon. Construct: towards a community middleware for pervasive computing. PerAda Magazine. October 2008.

Simon Dobson, Steve Neely, Graeme Stevenson, Lorcan Coyle and Paddy Nixon. Towards a platform for widespread embedded intelligence. ERCIM News 67. October 2006.

Simon Dobson and Kieran Delaney. Materials with intelligence. ERCIM News 67. October 2006.

National presentations

Eoin Bailey, Simon Dobson and Aaron Quigley. Dynamical systems theory applied to autonomics. IBM Centres for Advanced Study Conference (CASCON). Dublin, IE. 2007.

Steve Neely, Graham Williamson, Hui Zhang, Graeme Stevenson and Simon Dobson. Location detection with smart Zigbee sensors. 2nd Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks Research in Ireland (WiSEN 2007). Dublin, IE. June 2007.

Eoin Bailey, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Semantics of autonomic systems. IBM Centres for Advanced Study Conference (CASCON). 2006.

Graeme Stevenson, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon. Construct – a decentralised context infrastructure for computing environments. IT&T Annual Conference. Cork, IE. 2005.

Kieran Delaney, Simon Dobson, Kafil Mahmood Razeeb and John Barton. Creating the disappearing computer – using augmented materials to build collaborative augmented artefacts. IT&T Annual Conference. Cork IE. 2005.

Technical reports

Simon Dobson. Where's Waldo? or, A taxonomy for thinking about location in pervasive computing. Technical report TCD-CS-2004-05, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 2004.

Howard Kim and Simon Dobson. An improved approach to geographically locating web clients. Technical report TCD-CS-2001-49, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 2004.

Linda Farragher and Simon Dobson. Java Decaffeinated: experiences building a programming language from components. Technical report TCD-CS-2000-22, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 2000.

Simon Dobson. What's in an ion?. Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 2000.

Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. As strong as possible mobility: an architecture for stateful object migration on the Internet. Technical report TCD-CS-2000-11, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 2000.

Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. A review of mobility systems. Technical report TCD-CS-2000-13, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 2000.

Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson. A managed architecture for mobile distributed systems. Technical report TCD-CS-1999-03, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 1999.

Simon Dobson. The O2 programming language. Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 1998. Reference manual for the Vanilla implementation of Abadí and Cardelli's O2 language.

Simon Dobson. A first taste of Vanilla. Technical report TCD-CS-1998-20, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 1998.

Simon Dobson. Modular parsers. Technical report TCD-CS-1998-19, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. 1998.

Chris Tofts, Don Goodeve and Simon Dobson. Abstraction and implementation of a lightweight distributed termination protocol. Technical report YCS-98-307, Department of Computer Science, University of York. 1998.

Simon Dobson. A common object model for large experimental systems: a proposal. CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. 1997.

Simon Dobson and Victoria Burrill. Lightweight data mark-up. Technical report WWW/04/94, CLRC Rutherford Appleton laboratory. 1994.

Simon Dobson. An introduction to the theories of bulk data types. CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. 1994.

Simon Dobson. Writing compilers using ML. Technical report PPG/99/93, CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. 1993.

Simon Dobson. An approach to scalable parallel programming. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of York. YCST/93/03. 1993.

Keynote presentations

Simon Dobson. Ubiquitous autonomic management. Barcelona, ES. 2009. Keynote presentation at the 6th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services.

Simon Dobson. Autonomic networking: achieving stability in the face of pervasive uncertainty. Paris, FR. 2006. Keynote presentation at Autonomic Networking.

Invited talks

Simon Dobson. Progamming for adaptive sensor networks: back to the future. St Andrews, UK. March 2010. Invited talk to the IFIP WG2.11 workshop on Generative Programming.

Simon Dobson. Semantic challenges of adaptive systems. Liverpool, UK. 2009. Invited talk at the Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.

Simon Dobson. Controlling sensors through physics: some ideas for the well-founded control of mobile sensor networks. Hoboken, NJ. 2009. Invited talk at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Simon Dobson. What is the correct semantic basis for adaptive systems?. Trinity College Dublin, IE. 2009. Invited talk in the Lero Foundations series.

Simon Dobson. An adaptive systems perspective on network calculus. Piscataway, NJ. 2008. Invited talk at Rutgers University.

Steve Neely, Graham Williamson, Hui Zhang, Graham Stevenson and Simon Dobson. Device positioning using smart Zigbee beacons. Dublin, IE. 2008. Presentation at the Tyndall National Institute's National Access Programme open day.

Simon Dobson. Towards an integrated internet of things. Sophia Antipolis, FR. 2007. Invited presentation at the joint ERCIM/ETSI Infinity Initiative seminar series.

Simon Dobson. From adaptive systems to adaptive spaces. Schloß Dagstuhl, DE. 2007. Invited presentation at the Dagstuhl seminar on Resilient and Survivable Networks, Infrastructures and Services.

Simon Dobson and Juan Ye. A simple semantic model for adaptive pervasive systems. 2006. Invited talk to the Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester UK.

Simon Dobson. Nirvana: work-in-progress. 2005. Invited talk to the Department of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ.

Simon Dobson. Towards a semantics of pervasive computing. 2004. Invited talk to the Department of Computing and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, and the Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin.

Simon Dobson. Putting research to work. Dublin, IE. 2003. Invited talk to the Irish Business Employers' Confederation.

Simon Dobson. Space is the computer. Oxford, UK. 2000. Invited talk to the Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

Simon Dobson. Building programming languages from components. Cambridge, UK. 2000. Invited talk to the Microsoft Research Institute.

Simon Dobson. Fragmenting languages. Pasadena, CA. 1998. Invited talk to the Department of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology.

Simon Dobson. Correctly formalising the wrong things. Dublin, IE. 1997. Invited talk to the Irish Formal Methods Symposium.

Simon Dobson and Victoria Burrill. Federated world wide webs. Cardiff, UK. 1996. Invited talk to the Department of Computer Science, University of Cardiff.

Simon Dobson. Weak coherence with shared abstract data types. Manchester, UK. 1996. Invited talk to the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester.