An Architecture for Next Generation (2008)
G. S. Blair, G. Coulson, P. Robin, M. Papathomas
This paper proposes an approach to the design of configurable and open middleware platforms based on the concept of reflection. More specifically, the paper introduces a language-independent...
G. S. Blair, N. Davies, G. Coulson, N. Williams, La Yr
The aim of our work at Lancaster is to develop a distributed multimedia application platform. Such a platform must provide tools to enable programmers to construct distributed applications which make...
F. Horn, Horn Hazard, G. S. Blair
INTRODUCTION It is recognised that distributed multimedia applications introduce new design challenges at all systems levels from network protocols to operating systems to application support...
G. S. Blair, N. Davies, A. Friday, S. P. Wade
Quality of service support in a mobile environment: an approach based on
[Blair97b] G.S. Blair, L. Blair, J.-B. Stefani, “A Specification Architecture for Multimedia (2007)
Blairb L. Blair, G. S. Blair, A. Andersen, Separating Functional Behaviour, Kiczales G. Kiczales, J. Lamping, ...
Blair, L., Blair , G. S., Andersen , A., Jones , T.
An aspect-oriented specification technique that supports the specification of component-based distributed systems is presented. Importantly, this technique also supports the synthesis of quality of...
An Architecture for Next Generation Middleware (1998)
G.S. Blair, G. Coulson, P. Robin, M. Papathomas
This paper proposes an approach to the design of configurable and open middleware platforms based on the concept of reflection. More specifically, the paper introduces a language-independent...
Limbo: A tuple space based platform for adaptive mobile applications (1997)
N. Davies, S. P. Wade, A. Friday, G. S. Blair
Mobile computing environments are characterised by significant and rapid changes in their supporting infrastructure and, in particular, in the quality-of-service (QoS) available from their underlying...
Limbo: A tuple space based platform for adaptive mobile applications (1997)
Davies Wade, N. Davies, S. P. Wade, A. Friday, G. S. Blair
Mobile computing environments are characterised by significant and rapid changes in their supporting infrastructure and, in particular, in the quality-of-service (QoS) available from their underlying...
Extensions to ANSAware for advanced mobile applications (1996)
A.J. Friday, G.S. Blair, N. Davies
Significant advances have been made in recent years in tackling the problem of heterogeneity in distributed systems with ISO/ ITU-T standards for a Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing...
A Formal Approach to the Design of QoS Parameters in Multimedia Systems (1996)
Lakas Blair, G. S. Blair, A. Chetwynd
In this paper we introduce a new approach to the formal design and modelling of QoS parameters in multimedia systems. This approach is based on the principle of separation of concerns. We use the...
Green Lane, G. S. Blair, A. Campbell, G. Coulson, N. Davies, F. Garcia, ...
This paper presents a summary of the fourth International Workshop on
Supporting Continuous Media Applications In A Micro-Kernel Environment (1994)
G. Coulson, G.S. Blair, P. Robin, D. Shepherd, Lancaster La Yr
Currently, popular operating systems are unable to support the end-toend real-time requirements of distributed continuous media. Furthermore, the integration of continuous media communications...
A Model for Active Object Coordination and its Use for Distributed Multimedia Applications (1994)
M. Papathomas, G. S. Blair, G. Coulson
. The coordination among a set of concurrent objects is commonly expressed through language specific synchronization mechanisms in the objects ' implementation. Unfortunately, such an approach...
A Hybrid Approach To Real-Timesynchronisation In Distributed Multimedia Systems (1994)
Blair Coulson, G. S. Blair, G. Coulson, M. Papathomas, J. B. Stefani, F. Horn, ...
One of the major requirements of distributed multimedia applications is the need to maintain, often complex, real-time synchronisation constraints. More specifically, it is necessary to be able to...
Supporting The Real-Time Requirements Of Continuous Media In Open Distributed Processing (1993)
G. Coulson, G.S. Blair, J.B. Stefani, F. Horn, L. Hazard
The field of distributed systems is now entering a stage of maturity with work focusing on standards for Open Distributed Processing (ODP). However, it is still important that standardisation remains...
Extensions to ANSA for Multimedia Computing (1992)
G. Coulson, G.S. Blair, N. Davies, N. Williams
Distributed systems has been an area of intense activity over the past ten years. The subject is entering a stage of maturity with work now focussing on standards for Open Distributed Processing...
The Design and Implementation of a Group Invocation Facility in ANSA (1992)
G. Coulson, J. Smalley, G.S. Blair
Requirements for multicast capabilities have been identified in object based distributed systems for a wide range of purposes. This paper describes the design and implementation of a group invocation...
Abstractions for Continuous Media in Heterogeneous Distributed . . . (1992)
G.S. Blair, N. Davies, G. Coulson
IONS FOR CONTINUOUS MEDIA IN HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: THE ROLE OF GROUPS G.S. Blair, N. Davies, G. Coulson andN.# Williams Distributed Multimedia Research Group, Department of Computing,...
Supporting Persistent Re-Locatable Objects In The ANSA Architecture (1992)
N. Davies, G.S. Blair, J. A. Mariani
The ANSAware distributed systems toolkit provides facilities for object creation and invocation in heterogeneous distributed environments. ANSAware is being used at Lancaster as part of a broad...
Object Invocation and Management in Distributed Multimedia Systems (1992)
N. Davies, M. Davy, G.S. Blair, J. A. Mariani, La Yr
Future object management systems will need to provide support for a new class of applications: distributed multimedia design environments. Such environments pose new challenges for object management...
Group Presentation of Multimedia Applications in IXION (1991)
G. Coulson, N. Williams, G.S. Blair
The IXION multimedia, distributed system infrastructure is introduced, and its model of synchronous group work support is described. The model of group work is composed of a small number of simple...
PRIMARY SJOGREN'S SYNDROME IN NORTH EAST ENGLAND-A LONGITUDINAL STUDY (1991)
KELLY, C. A., FOSTER, H., PAL, B., GARDINER, P., MALCOLM, A. J., CHARLES, P., ...
We have documented the initial clinical features of 100 patients with primary Sjöigren's syndrome (SS) together with the results of their baseline investigations. The evolution of the disease in...
A Knowledge-based Operating System (1987)
Blair, G. S., Mariani, J. A., Nicol, J. R., Shepherd, D.
The recent developments in ‘fifth generation’ computing, for example in the areas of programming environments and man-machine interfaces, have shown up inadequacies in the current generation of...
In a detailed study of 100 consecutive cases of rheumatoid arthritis, clinical abnormalities were present in the temporomandibular joints in 71.0 per cent of patients compared with 41.1 per cent of a...
Developing Adaptive Applications: The MOST Experience
A. Friday, N. Davies, G.S. Blair
Future computer environments will include mobile computers which will either be disconnected, weakly inter-connected by low speed wireless networks such as GSM, or fully inter-connected by high speed...