Ian Taylor

Publication List Details

Period

1957 - 2009

Number

126

Co-Authors

The case for export: a collection of case studies about exporting design (2009)

Azzopardi, Michelle, Haywood, Gary, Macleod, Kara, Taylor, Ian, James, Roger, Mace, Peter, ...

To some designers ‘export’ is a daunting word, arousing uncertainty and hesitation in the heart of the unknowing. 'The case for export' makes a seriously good case for exporting design. Although...

The case for export: a collection of case studies about exporting design (2009)

Azzopardi, Michelle, Haywood, Gary, Macleod, Kara, Taylor, Ian, James, Roger, Mace, Peter, ...

To some designers ‘export’ is a daunting word, arousing uncertainty and hesitation in the heart of the unknowing. 'The case for export' makes a seriously good case for exporting design. Although...

Chapter 1 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF TRIANA P2P SERVICES (2008)

Dr. Ian Taylor, Matthew Shields, Dr. Ian Wang

Abstract In this paper we discuss the Triana problem solving environment and its distributed implementation. Triana-specific distribution mechanisms are described along with the corresponding...

Abstract (2008)

Ian Taylor, Brian Adamson, Ian Downard, Joe Macker

We present a framework, called AgentJ that extends the NS-2 platform to support the simulation and performance analysis of Java network applications. We particularly focus on the simulation of P2P...

Blurring the Boundaries of the Mackintosh Room (2008)

Matthew Chalmers, Barry Brown, Steve Benford, Ruth Conroy, Nick Dalton, Areti Galani, ...

In this paper we describe a prototype interactive system supporting a shared synchronous experience for physical, World Wide Web and virtual reality visitors to an exhibition devoted to the designer...

Explaining the rise of 'human rights' in analyses of Sino-African relations (2008)

Breslin, Shaun, Taylor, Ian

Popular perceptions of China and its global role are often shaped by two words: 'made in'. Yet this vision of China that focuses primarily on Beijing as a coming economic superpower is relatively...

Sino-African Relations and the Problem of Human Rights (2008)

Taylor, Ian

China's political and economic activities in Africa are increasing at an exponential rate. Equally, they are attracting criticism, chiefly over Beijing's no-strings-attached stance on human rights...

ABSTRACT Temporal Links: Recording and Replaying Virtual Environments (2007)

Chris Greenhalgh, Jim Purbrick, Steve Benford, Mike Craven, Adam Drozd, Ian Taylor

Virtual reality currently lacks the kinds of sophisticated production technologies that are commonly available for established media such as video and audio. This paper introduces the idea of...

OnRamp (2007)

Taylor, Ian

The proliferation of the automobile as a personal environment and the construction of freeways in the North American urban landscape during the mid to late 20th century are often blamed for noise and...

OnRamp (2007)

Taylor, Ian

The proliferation of the automobile as a personal environment and the construction of freeways in the North American urban landscape during the mid to late 20th century are often blamed for noise and...

OnRamp (2007)

Taylor, Ian

The proliferation of the automobile as a personal environment and the construction of freeways in the North American urban landscape during the mid to late 20th century are often blamed for noise and...

OnRamp (2007)

Taylor, Ian

The proliferation of the automobile as a personal environment and the construction of freeways in the North American urban landscape during the mid to late 20th century are often blamed for noise and...

OnRamp (2007)

Taylor, Ian

The proliferation of the automobile as a personal environment and the construction of freeways in the North American urban landscape during the mid to late 20th century are often blamed for noise and...

OnRamp (2007)

Taylor, Ian

The proliferation of the automobile as a personal environment and the construction of freeways in the North American urban landscape during the mid to late 20th century are often blamed for noise and...

Public-private delivery of insecticide-treated nets: a voucher scheme in Volta Region, Ghana (2007)

Kweku, Margaret, Webster, Jayne, Taylor, Ian, Burns, Susan, Dedzo, McDamien

Abstract Background Coverage of vulnerable groups with insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in Ghana, as in the majority of countries of sub-Saharan Africa is currently low. A voucher scheme was...

Preface The CoreGRID institute on Grid Systems, Tools, and Environments (STE) has held a (2007)

M. Badia, Françoise Baude, Vladimir Getov, Thilo Kielmann, Ian Taylor

workshop on the state of the art in its area of expertise during the Grids@Work’06 event in Sophia-Antipolis, on 1 December 2006. In this report, the workshop organizers present the proceedings...

Use of P2P Overlays for Distributed Data Caching in Public Scientific Computing (2007)

Pasquale Cozza, Domenico Talia, Carlo Mastroianni, Ian Kelley, Ian Taylor, Pasquale Cozza, ...

Many types of distributed scientific and commercial applications require the submission of a large number of independent jobs. One highly successful and low cost mechanism for acquiring the necessary...

Micro-regionalism in West Africa : evidence from two case studies (2007)

Söderbaum, Fredrik, Taylor, Ian

This collection seeks to complement and advance recent studies on regionalism in Africa and the implications that this has for the continent’s development. The two case studies on cross-border...

Good governance - not just for the big boys Governance in organizations in New Zealand (2006)

Mueller, Jens Mueller., McDonald, Gael., Dana, Leo Paul, Taylor, Ian.

Good governance is recognized as a fundamental indicator of the success of a company. For a small- midsized company, this is particularly so, as such companies must be able to competitively...

Preface The CoreGRID institute on Grid Systems, Tools, and Environments (STE) has held a (2006)

M. Badia, Françoise Baude, Vladimir Getov, Thilo Kielmann, Ian Taylor

workshop on the state of the art in its area of expertise during the Grids@Work’06 event in Sophia-Antipolis, on 1 December 2006. In this report, the workshop organizers present the proceedings...

Good governance - not just for the big boys Governance in organizations in New Zealand (2006)

Mueller, Jens Mueller., McDonald, Gael., Dana, Leo Paul., Taylor, Ian.

Good governance is recognized as a fundamental indicator of the success of a company. For a small- midsized company, this is particularly so, as such companies must be able to competitively...

Good governance - not just for the big boys governance in organizations in New Zealand (2006)

Mueller, Jens, Dana, Leo Paul, McDonald, Gael, Taylor, Ian

Good governance is recognized as a fundamental indicator of the success of a company. For a small- midsized company, this is particularly so, as such companies must be able to competitively...

Africa, regional cooperation and the world market : socio-economic strategies in times of global trade regimes (2006)

Brüntrup, Michael, Melber, Henning, Taylor, Ian

Under the regime of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), local and regional policies are increasingly determined by global factors. One example is the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)....

Triana: A Graphical Web Service Composition and Execution Toolkit (2004)

Shalil Majithia, Ian Taylor, Matthew Shields, Ian Wang

In this paper, we extend the functionality of the Triana problem-solving environment into the Web services world. Triana uses a peer to peer subset of the GridLab GAT interface, that we have labeled...

ECT: a toolkit to support rapid construction of ubicomp environments (2004)

Chris Greenhalgh, Shahram Izadi, James Mathrick, Jan Humble, Ian Taylor

Abstract. We describe the motivation, design and initial implementation of the Equip Component Toolkit (ECT), a software toolkit for ubiquitous computing that is intended to reduce the cost –...

Schools of Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science, (2004)

Matthew Shields, Ian Taylor

In this paper, we give a status report of a real-world application scenario that uses two distinct types of workflow within the Triana problem solving environment: serial scientific workflow for the...

Designing novel interactional workspaces to support face to face consultations (2003)

Rodden, Tom, Rogers, Yvonne, Halloran, John, Taylor, Ian

This paper describes the design and deployment of a novel interactional workspace, intended to provide more effective support for face-to-face consultations between two parties. We focus on the...

Triana Applications within Grid Computing and Peer to Peer Environments (2003)

Ian Taylor, Matthew Shields, Ian Wang, Omer Rana

An overview of the Triana Problem Solving Environment is provided – with a particular focus on the GAP application-level interface, for integration with Grid Computing and Peer-to-Peer...

Wrapping Legacy Codes for Grid-Based Applications (2003)

Yan Huang, Ian Taylor, David W. Walker

This paper describes a process for the semi-automatic conversion of numerical and scientific routines written in the C programming language into Triana-based computational services that can be used...

Enabling Applications on the Grid: A GridLab Overview (2003)

Gabrielle Allen, Kelly Davis, Konstantinos N. Dolkas, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Tom Goodale, Thilo Kielmann, ...

www.gridlab.org Grid technology is widely emerging. Still, there is an eminent shortage of real Grid users, due to the absence of two important catalysts: first, a widely accepted vision on how...

Grid Enabling Applications Using Triana (2003)

Ian Taylor, Matthew Shields, Ian Wang, Roger Philp

In this paper, we describe the Triana problem-solving environment and outline how a scientist might use it to modularize their applications into a set of cooperating components. We show that using...

Enabling Applications on the Grid -- A GridLab Overview (2003)

Gabrielle Allen Kelly, Kelly Davis, Konstantinos N. Dolkas, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Tom Goodale, Thilo Kielmann, ...

Grid technology is widely emerging. Still, there is an eminent shortage of real Grid users, mostly due to the lack of a "critical mass" of widely deployed and reliable higher-level Grid...

Wrapping Legacy Codes for Grid-Based Applications (2003)

Yan Huang, Ian Taylor

This paper describes a process for the semi-automatic conversion of numerical and scientific routines written in the C programming language into Triana-based computational services that can be used...

Not forever: Botswana, conflict diamonds and the Bushmen (2003)

Taylor, Ian, Mokhawa, Gladys

It has been said that diamonds are Botswana's best friend, but with the rise of the ‘conflict diamonds’ issue in international politics, spurred on in the main by non‐governmental...

Shared visiting in EQUATOR City (2002)

Ian MacColl, Dave Millard, Cliff Randell, Anthony Steed, Barry Brown, Steve Benford, ...

CVE is an international conference dedicated to the design, development and use of collaborative virtual environments. The paper has 6 citings at ACMDL ad it describes technical aspects of the...

Shared visiting in EQUATOR city (2002)

MacColl, Ian, Millard, David E, Randell, Cliff, Steed, Anthony, Brown, Barry, Benford, Steve, ...

In this paper we describe an infrastructure and prototype system for sharing of visiting experiences across multiple media. The prototype supports synchronous co-visiting by physical and digital...

Shared visiting in EQUATOR city (2002)

MacColl, Ian, Millard, David E, Randell, Cliff, Steed, Anthony, Brown, Barry, Benford, Steve, ...

In this paper we describe an infrastructure and prototype system for sharing of visiting experiences across multiple media. The prototype supports synchronous co-visiting by physical and digital...

Shared visiting in EQUATOR city (2002)

MacColl, Ian, Millard, David E, Randell, Cliff, Steed, Anthony, Brown, Barry, Benford, Steve, ...

In this paper we describe an infrastructure and prototype system for sharing of visiting experiences across multiple media. The prototype supports synchronous co-visiting by physical and digital...

Blurring the boundaries of the Mackintosh room (2002)

Chalmers, Matthew, Brown, Barry, Benford, Steve, Dalton, R, Dalton, N, Galani, Areti, ...

In this paper we describe a prototype interactive system supporting a shared synchronous experience for physical, World Wide Web and virtual reality visitors to an exhibition devoted to the designer...

Blurring the boundaries of the Mackintosh room (2002)

Chalmers, Matthew, Brown, Barry, Benford, Steve, Dalton, R, Dalton, N, Galani, Areti, ...

In this paper we describe a prototype interactive system supporting a shared synchronous experience for physical, World Wide Web and virtual reality visitors to an exhibition devoted to the designer...

Shared visiting in EQUATOR City (2002)

Ian MacColl, Dave Millard, Cliff Randell, Anthony Steed, Barry Brown, Steve Benford, ...

CVE is an international conference dedicated to the design, development and use of collaborative virtual environments. The paper has 6 citings at ACMDL ad it describes technical aspects of the...

GridLab: Enabling Applications on the Grid (2002)

Gabrielle Allen, Dave Angulo, Tom Goodale, Thilo Kielmann, André Merzky, Jarek Nabrzysky, ...

www.GridLab.org Abstract. Grid technology is widely emerging. Still, there is an eminent shortage of real Grid users, due to the absence of two important catalysts: First, a widely accepted vision on...

Things Aren't What They Seem to Be: Innovation Through Technology Inspiration (2002)

Yvonne Rogers, Mike Scaife, Eric Harris, Ted Phelps, Sara Price, Hilary Smith, ...

How does designing for novel experiences with largely untried technologies get its inspiration? Here we report on a project whose goal was to promote learning through novel, playful visions of...

Shared visiting in EQUATOR City (2002)

Ian Maccoll Barry, Barry Brown, Steve Benford, Matthew Chalmers, Nick Dalton, Areti Galani, ...

In this paper we describe a system and infrastructure for sharing of visiting experiences across multiple media. The prototype system supports synchronous visiting by both physical and digital...

Shared Visiting in Equator City (2002)

Ian Maccoll, Barry Brown, Steve Benford, Matthew Chalmers, Nick Dalton, Areti Galani, ...

Abstract. In this paper we describe a system and infrastructure for sharing of visiting experiences across multiple media. The prototype system supports synchronous visiting by both physical and...

Commentary: The New Partnership for Africa's Development and the Zimbabwe Elections: Implications and Prospects for the Future (2002)

Taylor, Ian

Controversy surrounding the presidential elections in Zimbabwe, and the manner in which this matter has been handled by African heads of state, has cast serious doubts on the New Partnership for...

Political cultures in democratic South Africa (2002)

Neocosmos, Michael, Suttner, Raymond, Taylor, Ian, Melber, Henning

The democratic transition in South Africa that emerged during the 1990s and became manifest in a democratically elected government, has not yet brought to completion the post-Apartheid social and...

Unearthing virtual history: using diverse interfaces to reveal hidden virtual worlds (2001)

Steve Benford, John Bowers, Paul Ch, Luigina Ciolfi, Martin Flintham, Mike Fraser, ...

Abstract. We describe an application in which museum visitors hunt for virtual history outdoors, capture it, and bring it back indoors for detailed inspection. This application provides visitors with...

Unearthing virtual history: using diverse interfaces to reveal hidden virtual worlds (2001)

Steve Benford, John Bowers, Paul Ch, Luigina Ciolfi, Martin Flintham, Mike Fraser, ...

Abstract. We describe an application in which museum visitors hunt for virtual history outdoors, capture it, and bring it back indoors for detailed inspection. This application provides visitors with...

Augmenting reality through coordinated use of diverse interfaces (2001)

Chris Greenhalgh, Steve Benford, Tom Rodden, Rob Anastasi, Ian Taylor, Martin Flintham, ...

We present seven diverse augmented reality interfaces including audio tunnels from a virtual environment to fixed and mobile phones; digital activity meters for locating hotspots of activity in a...

Unearthing Virtual History: Using Diverse (2001)

Interfaces To Reveal, Steve Benford, John Bowers, Paul Ch, Luigina Ciolfi, Martin Flintham, ...

We describe an application in which museum visitors hunt for virtual history outdoors, capture it, and bring it back indoors for detailed inspection.

Multilateralism, neo-liberalism & security in Asia : the role of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-Operation Forum. (2001)

Taylor, Ian.

Multilateral organizations such as the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum must be situated within the framework of both the hegemony of global hyber-liberalism and the legitimising role of...

Multilateralism, neo-liberalism & security in Asia : the role of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-Operation Forum. (2001)

Taylor, Ian.

Multilateral organizations such as the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum must be situated within the framework of both the hegemony of global hyber-liberalism and the legitimising role of...

South African Foreign Policy and the Great Lakes Crisis: African Renaissance Meets Vagabondage Politique? (2001)

Taylor, Ian, Williams, Paul

This article explores how far the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sabotaged the attempts of South African President Thabo Mbeki to engineer an African Renaissance. It does so in...

Developing distance learning in postgraduate public health education: Promoting quality in design and delivery of postgraduate public health training through open learning (2000)

STANISTREET, DEBBI L., BRUCE, NIGEL G., TAYLOR, IAN

Background: Adapting a postgraduate public health course which relies on a lot of classroom contact into one with a high proportion of distance learning is complex and there is little published...

Three Dimensional Visualization of the World Wide Web (1999)

Benford, Steve, Taylor, Ian, Brailsford, David, Koleva, Boriana, Craven, Mike, Fraser, Mike, ...

Although large-scale public hypermedia structures such as the World Wide Web are popularly referred to as "cyberspace", the extent to which they constitute a space in the everyday sense of the word...

Three Dimensional Visualization of the World Wide Web (1999)

Benford, Steve, Taylor, Ian, Brailsford, David, Koleva, Boriana, Craven, Mike, Fraser, Mike, ...

Although large-scale public hypermedia structures such as the World Wide Web are popularly referred to as "cyberspace", the extent to which they constitute a space in the everyday sense of the word...

Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web (1999)

Benford, Steve, Taylor, Ian, Brailsford, David, Koleva, Boriana, Craven, Michael P., Fraser, Mike, ...

Although large-scale public hypermedia structures such as the World Wide Web are popularly referred to as "cyberspace", the extent to which they constitute a space in the everyday sense of the word...

Creating a Live Broadcast from a Virtual Environment (1999)

Steve Benford, Ian Taylor, John Bowers

“Inhabited Television ” combines multiuser virtual environments with television, so that online audience-members can participate in TV shows staged in a virtual world. It is presented...

Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web (1999)

Steve Benford, Ian Taylor, David Brailsford, Boriana Koleva, Mike Craven, Mike Fraser, ...

Although large-scale public hypermedia structures such as the World Wide Web are popularly referred to as "cyberspace", the extent to which they constitute a space in the everyday...

Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web (1999)

Steve Benford, Ian Taylor, David Brailsford, Boriana Koleva, Mike Craven, Mike Fraser, ...

Although large-scale public hypermedia structures such as the World Wide Web are popularly referred to as "cyberspace", the extent to which they constitute a space in the everyday...

C.: Pushing mixed reality boundaries (1999)

Steve Benford, Steve Benford, Sally Jane Norman, Sally Jane Norman, John Bowers, John Bowers, ...

We report on task 7b.1, the eRENA workshop on pushing mixed reality boundaries. We introduce the concept of a mixed reality boundary that distinguishes our approach to mixed reality from other...

Structure and expression of a cDNA encoding zeaxanthin epoxidase, isolated from a wilt-related tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) library (1997)

Burbidge, Alan, Grieve, Teresa, Terry, Christian, Corlett, Janet, Thompson, Andrew, Taylor, Ian

Zeaxanthin epoxldase (ZE) catalyses two early steps in the abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthetic pathway. The sequence of a cDNA clone encoding ZE from Nicotiana plumbaginifolia was reported In 1996 and...

Structure and expression of a cDNA encoding a putative neoxanthin cleavage enzyme (NCE), isolated from a wilt-related tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) library (1997)

Burbidge, Alan, Grieve, Teresa, Jackson, Alison, Thompson, Andrew, Taylor, Ian

Oxidative cleavage of a 9-cis xanthophyll probably represents the key regulatory step in abscisic acid (ABA) biosynthesis. A transposon tagged maize (Zea mays) mutant vp14, provided the original DNA...

PRIVATE HOMES AND PUBLIC OTHERS: An Analysis of Talk about Crime in Suburban South Manchester in the Mid-1990s (1995)

TAYLOR, IAN

The paper presented here lakes the form of a series of essentially personal, interpretative, and analytical reflections on one particular suburb in South Manchester, where the author has been living...

Substrate recognition and selectivity in the type IC DNA modification methylase M.EcoR124l (1993)

Taylor, Ian, Watts, Damian, Kneale, Geoff

The type I DNA modification methylase M.EcoR124l binds sequence specifically to DNA and protects a 25bp fragment containing its cognate recognition sequence from digestion by exonuclease III. Using...

Purification and biochemical characterisation of the EcoR124 type I modification methylase (1992)

Taylor, Ian, Patel, Jaynish, Firman, Keith, Kneale, Geoff

Large scale purification of the type I modification methylase EcoR124 hias been achieved from an over-expressing strain by a two step procedure using ion-exchange and heparin chromatography. Pure...

The International Drug Trade and Money-Laundering: Border Controls and other Issues (1992)

TAYLOR, IAN

The concern of this paper is to locate the escalating international trade in drugs and the associated international problem of ‘money-laundering’: firstly, on the production side, as an effect of...

Criminología Crítica (1977)

Taylor, Ian

Traducción de: Critical Criminology

La nueva criminología : contribución a una teoría social de la conducta desviada / I. Taylor, P. Walton, J. Young ; pról. de A.W. Gouldner ; tr. por Adolfo Crosa. (1975)

Taylor, Ian, Walton, Paul, Young, Jock, Gouldner, Alvin W. (pról.)

A partir del análisis a los estudios clásicos del delito y la conducta desviada, los autores proponen la reconstrucción crítica de algunas teorías sociales que no sólo tratan de ambas...

Local-Authority led Economic Regeneration Strategies in the Aftermath of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Crisis of 2001

Ian Taylor, Mike Tricker

The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak of 2001 in the UK was completely unprecedented in its scale and severity, with over four million animals culled and a cost to the Exchequer of over £4...

Evaluation of Spatial Development Initiatives: Case studies of the Maputo Development Corridor and the West Coast Investment Initiative

David Bek, Ian Taylor

Abstract: Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs) form an integral part of the South African government strategy to attract investment. SDIs are claimed to be short-term and targeted undertakings to...

Public-private partnerships: Lessons from the Maputo Development Corridor Toll Road

Ian Taylor

Abstract: Launched in 1995, Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs) are currently the main vehicle used by the South African government to promote regional development. SDI project(s) purport to be...

The N-end rule pathway promotes seed germination and establishment through removal of ABA sensitivity in Arabidopsis

Holman, Tara J., Jones, Peter D., Russell, Laurel, Medhurst, Anne, Úbeda Tomás, Susana, Talloji, Prabhavathi, ...

The N-end rule pathway targets protein degradation through the identity of the amino-terminal residue of specific protein substrates. Two components of this pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana,...

Beyond the New “Two Whateverisms”: China’s Ties in Africa

Ian Taylor

The exponential rise of Chinese activities in Africa over the last eight years has been accompanied by a rise in accusations that “China” is seeking to colonise Africa and/or is responsible for a...