Peter Harrison

Publication List Details

Period

1748 - 2009

Number

80

Co-Authors

• Preview • Stochastic models and Markov processes • Queues • Stochastic process algebra • Networks of queues (2009)

Jeremy Bradley, Peter Harrison

studies... 4 Q: If both the arrival rate and service rate are doubled, what happens to the mean response time? 1.1 Example 1: A Simple TP server A TP system accepts and processes a stream of...

π(P r1 1 (2009)

Peter Harrison, Maria Vigliotti, Jeremy Bradley, Jtb P

A product form result links the overall steady-state of a system to the product of the steady state for the components of that system e.g. Jackson’s theorem In PEPA, a simple product form can be...

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Peter Harrison, Maria Vigliotti, Jeremy Bradley, Recall Jackson’s Theorem

For a steady-state probability π(r1,...,rN) of there being r1 jobs in node 1, r2 nodes at node 2, etc.: π(r1,r2,...,rN) = N� (1 − ρi)ρ ri

◆ Linux Desk Reference, Second Edition (2008)

Carl Albing, Michael Schwarz, Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield, Jamie Cameron, David Elboth, ...

Praise for Samba-3 by Example “Samba-3 by Example provides useful, thoroughly documented explanations for all aspects of a Samba deployment. They’re the same kind of patient answers I got when my...

Bacterial and viral dynamics during a mass coral spawning period on the Great Barrier Reef (2008)

Patten, Nicole, Mitchell, Jim G, Middelboe, Mathias, Eyre, Bradley D, Seuront, Laurent, Harrison, Peter, ...

Bacterial and virus-like particle (VLP) abundances and physical and chemical parameters were measured in reef water and sediments over a 10 d period, coinciding with mass coral spawning at Heron...

Bacterial and viral dynamics during a mass coral spawning period on the Great Barrier Reef (2008)

Patten, Nicole, Mitchell, Jim G, Middelboe, Mathias, Eyre, Bradley D, Seuront, Laurent, Harrison, Peter, ...

Bacterial and virus-like particle (VLP) abundances and physical and chemical parameters were measured in reef water and sediments over a 10 d period, coinciding with mass coral spawning at Heron...

Bacterial and viral dynamics during a mass coral spawning period on the Great Barrier Reef (2008)

Patten, Nicole, Mitchell, Jim G, Middelboe, Mathias, Eyre, Bradley D, Seuront, Laurent, Harrison, Peter, ...

Bacterial and virus-like particle (VLP) abundances and physical and chemical parameters were measured in reef water and sediments over a 10 d period, coinciding with mass coral spawning at Heron...

London SW7 2BZ (2007)

Tony Field, Uli Harder, Peter Harrison

Measurements on a high-performance switched Ethernet system are presented that reveal new insights into the statistical nature of file server and web server traffic. Both file sizes and data...

Code generator for the HPF library and Fortran 95 tranformational functions (2007)

Matthijs Van Waveren, Cliff Addison, Peter Harrison, Dave Orange, Norman Brown, Hidetoshi Iwashita

One of the language features of the core language of HPF 2.0 is the HPF Library. The HPF Library consists of 55 generic functions. The implementation of this library presents the challenge that all...

A queueing network model of Oracle Parallel (2007)

Uli Harder, Peter Harrison

An approach to modelling an Oracle database is presented for both single instance and parallel server versions. A modified queueing network is used which is extended to include traditional...

A THEORY OF LEGISLATION FROM A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE (2007)

Harrison, Peter

In this thesis I outline a view of primary legislation from a systems perspective. I suggest that systems theory and, in particular, autopoietic theory, as modified by field theory, is a mechanism...

Approximate Analysis of a Network of Fluid Queues (2007)

Tony Field, Peter Harrison

Fluid models have for some time been used to approximate stochastic networks with discrete state. These range from traditional ‘heavy traffic ’ approximations to the recent advances in...

A THEORY OF LEGISLATION FROM A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE (2007)

Harrison, Peter

In this thesis I outline a view of primary legislation from a systems perspective. I suggest that systems theory and, in particular, autopoietic theory, as modified by field theory, is a mechanism...

A THEORY OF LEGISLATION FROM A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE (2007)

Harrison, Peter

In this thesis I outline a view of primary legislation from a systems perspective. I suggest that systems theory and, in particular, autopoietic theory, as modified by field theory, is a mechanism...

A THEORY OF LEGISLATION FROM A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE (2007)

Harrison, Peter

In this thesis I outline a view of primary legislation from a systems perspective. I suggest that systems theory and, in particular, autopoietic theory, as modified by field theory, is a mechanism...

Natural Theology, Deism, and Early Modern Science (2006)

Harrison, Peter

One of the most far-reaching consequences of the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century was a crisis of authority that pervaded the whole of Western Christendom. The aftermath of the...

The Bible and the emergence of modern science (2006)

Harrison, Peter

The Bible played a significant role in the development of modern science. Most obviously, its contents were important because they could be read in ways that seemed either to conflict with or to...

Miracles, Early Modern Science, and Rational Religion (2006)

Harrison, Peter

[Introduction]: Readers of the New Testament could be excused for thinking that there is little consistency in the manner in which miracles are represented in the Gospels. Those events typically...

Having Dominion: Genesis and the Mastery of Nature (2006)

Harrison, Peter

The aim is to explore the ways in which the Genesis narratives were understood in the mediaeval and early modern West with a view to identifying the kinds of attitudes and behaviours that these texts...

"Science" and "Religion": Constructing the Boundaries (2006)

Harrison, Peter

This article explores in some detail the historical circumstances of the emergence of the dual categories "science" and "religion" with a view to showing their direct relevance for contemporary...

The 'Book of Nature' and Early Modern Science (2006)

Harrison, Peter

No one who is familiar with the literature of the early-modern period can be in any doubt of the ubiquity of the metaphor the 'Book of Nature'. Indeed, its constant appearance in religious, literary,...

The Natural Philosopher and the Virtues (2006)

Harrison, Peter

Natural philosophers, engaged as they were in a branch of philosophy, were expected to conform to the traditional models of the philosophical persona, in which the moral characteristics of the...

Disjoining Wisdom and Knowledge: Science, Theology and the Making of Western Modernity (2006)

Harrison, Peter

This chapter focuses on four distinct phases of the relationship between science and wisdom in the West and deals with them in chronological order: (1) Early Christian and patristic views that oppose...

Natural Theology, Deism, and Early Modern Science (2006)

Harrison, Peter

One of the most far-reaching consequences of the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century was a crisis of authority that pervaded the whole of Western Christendom. The aftermath of the...

The Bible and the emergence of modern science (2006)

Harrison, Peter

The Bible played a significant role in the development of modern science. Most obviously, its contents were important because they could be read in ways that seemed either to conflict with or to...

Miracles, Early Modern Science, and Rational Religion (2006)

Harrison, Peter

[Introduction]: Readers of the New Testament could be excused for thinking that there is little consistency in the manner in which miracles are represented in the Gospels. Those events typically...

Having Dominion: Genesis and the Mastery of Nature (2006)

Harrison, Peter

The aim is to explore the ways in which the Genesis narratives were understood in the mediaeval and early modern West with a view to identifying the kinds of attitudes and behaviours that these texts...

"Science" and "Religion": Constructing the Boundaries (2006)

Harrison, Peter

This article explores in some detail the historical circumstances of the emergence of the dual categories "science" and "religion" with a view to showing their direct relevance for contemporary...

The 'Book of Nature' and Early Modern Science (2006)

Harrison, Peter

No one who is familiar with the literature of the early-modern period can be in any doubt of the ubiquity of the metaphor the 'Book of Nature'. Indeed, its constant appearance in religious, literary,...

The Natural Philosopher and the Virtues (2006)

Harrison, Peter

Natural philosophers, engaged as they were in a branch of philosophy, were expected to conform to the traditional models of the philosophical persona, in which the moral characteristics of the...

Disjoining Wisdom and Knowledge: Science, Theology and the Making of Western Modernity (2006)

Harrison, Peter

This chapter focuses on four distinct phases of the relationship between science and wisdom in the West and deals with them in chronological order: (1) Early Christian and patristic views that oppose...

"Fill the Earth and Subdue it": Biblical Warrants for Colonization in Seventeenth Century England (2005)

Harrison, Peter

The importance of conceptions of natural law in early-modern debates about the legitimacy of colonization is well known. The role played by specific arguments drawn from Scripture is less recognized....

"Fill the Earth and Subdue it": Biblical Warrants for Colonization in Seventeenth Century England (2005)

Harrison, Peter

The importance of conceptions of natural law in early-modern debates about the legitimacy of colonization is well known. The role played by specific arguments drawn from Scripture is less recognized....

Stochastic simulation methods applied to a secure electronic voting model, (2005)

Nigel Thomas, Jeremy Bradley, Coffee Break, Charles Kubicek, Avelino F. Zorzo, ...

Estimating the cost of native method calls for resource-bounded functional programming languages,

◆ Open Source Security Tools: A Practical Guide to Security Applications (2005)

Carl Albing, Michael Schwarz, Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield, Jamie Cameron, ...

Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and the publisher was aware of a...

A dynamical model of a GRID market (2004)

Harder, Uli, Harrison, Peter, Paczuski, Maya, Shah, Tejas

We discuss potential market mechanisms for the GRID. A complete dynamical model of a GRID market is defined with three types of agents. Providers, middlemen and users exchange universal GRID...

A dynamical model of a GRID market (2004)

Uli Harder, Peter Harrison, Maya Paczuski, Tejas Shah

We discuss potential market mechanisms for the GRID. A complete dynamical model of a GRID market is defined with three types of agents. Providers, middlemen and users exchange universal GRID...

Linux Home Networking Grief Relief For The Home And Small Office (2003)

Peter Harrison

To Diana: “Turn off the PC and go to bed” Copyright © Peter Harrison 2002-2003, All rights reserved. ISBN 0-9729355-0-9 Unless otherwise stated, the material published within this document is...

A queueing network model of Oracle Parallel (2003)

Uli Harder, Peter Harrison

An approach to modelling an Oracle database is presented for both single instance and parallel server versions. A modified queueing network is used which is extended to include traditional...

Original Sin and the Problem of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (2002)

Harrison, Peter

While historians such as Charles Webster have alluded to the ways in which the myth of an original perfect philosophy motivated projects for the advancement of learning in a rather general way,...

Voluntarism and Early Modern Science (2002)

Harrison, Peter

[Introduction] The notion that divine voluntarism played a central role in the development of the empirical sciences is now commonplace amongst historians of the early-modern period. In a 1934 issue...

Fixing the Meaning of Scripture: The Renaissance Bible and the Origins of Modernity (2002)

Harrison, Peter

'I believe that the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups. At one pole we have the literary intellectuals at the other scientists.' This...

Original Sin and the Problem of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (2002)

Harrison, Peter

While historians such as Charles Webster have alluded to the ways in which the myth of an original perfect philosophy motivated projects for the advancement of learning in a rather general way,...

Voluntarism and Early Modern Science (2002)

Harrison, Peter

[Introduction] The notion that divine voluntarism played a central role in the development of the empirical sciences is now commonplace amongst historians of the early-modern period. In a 1934 issue...

Fixing the Meaning of Scripture: The Renaissance Bible and the Origins of Modernity (2002)

Harrison, Peter

'I believe that the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups. At one pole we have the literary intellectuals at the other scientists.' This...

Network Traffic Measurements in a Switched Ethernet Environment (2002)

Tony Field, Uli Harder, Peter Harrison

Abstract We present new measurements of network traffic in a switched Ethernet system and file size/webserver request size distributions. We find that the distribution of packet rate changes can be...

Curiosity, Forbidden Knowledge, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy in Early-Modern England (2001)

Harrison, Peter

[Introduction]: Curiosity is now widely regarded, with some justification, as a vital ingredient of the inquiring mind and, more particularly, as a crucial virtue for the practitioner of the pure...

ENCORE: the effect of nutrient enrichment on coral reefs, synthesis of results and conclusions (2001)

Koop, K, Booth, D, Broadbent, Andrew D, Brodie, J, Bucher, Danny, Capone, D, ...

Coral reef degradation resulting from nutrient enrichment of coastal waters is of increasing global concern. Although effects of nutrients on coral reef organisms have been demonstrated in the...

ENCORE: the effect of nutrient enrichment on coral reefs, synthesis of results and conclusions (2001)

Koop, K, Booth, D, Broadbent, Andrew D, Brodie, J, Bucher, Danny, Capone, D, ...

Coral reef degradation resulting from nutrient enrichment of coastal waters is of increasing global concern. Although effects of nutrients on coral reef organisms have been demonstrated in the...

Curiosity, Forbidden Knowledge, and the Reformation of Natural Philosophy in Early-Modern England (2001)

Harrison, Peter

[Introduction]: Curiosity is now widely regarded, with some justification, as a vital ingredient of the inquiring mind and, more particularly, as a crucial virtue for the practitioner of the pure...

ENCORE: the effect of nutrient enrichment on coral reefs, synthesis of results and conclusions (2001)

Koop, K, Booth, D, Broadbent, Andrew D, Brodie, J, Bucher, Daniel, Capone, D, ...

Coral reef degradation resulting from nutrient enrichment of coastal waters is of increasing global concern. Although effects of nutrients on coral reef organisms have been demonstrated in the...

Prophecy, Early-Modern Apologetics, and Hume's Argument against Miracles (1999)

Harrison, Peter

[Extract]: "What we have said of miracles may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies; and indeed, all prophecies are real miracles, and as such only, can be admitted as proofs of any...

Subduing the Earth: Genesis 1, Early Modern Science, and the Exploitation of Nature (1999)

Harrison, Peter

[Extract] : In a short paper which appeared thirty years ago in the journal Science, historian Lynn White, Jr., suggested that in "the orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature" may be found the...

Prophecy, Early-Modern Apologetics, and Hume's Argument against Miracles (1999)

Harrison, Peter

[Extract]: "What we have said of miracles may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies; and indeed, all prophecies are real miracles, and as such only, can be admitted as proofs of any...

Subduing the Earth: Genesis 1, Early Modern Science, and the Exploitation of Nature (1999)

Harrison, Peter

[Extract] : In a short paper which appeared thirty years ago in the journal Science, historian Lynn White, Jr., suggested that in "the orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature" may be found the...

The Virtues of Animals in Seventeenth-Century Thought (1998)

Harrison, Peter

[Extract]: Discussions about animals - their purpose, their minds or souls, their interior operations, our duties towards them -have always played a role in human self-understanding. At no time,...

The Virtues of Animals in Seventeenth-Century Thought (1998)

Harrison, Peter

[Extract]: Discussions about animals - their purpose, their minds or souls, their interior operations, our duties towards them -have always played a role in human self-understanding. At no time,...

Probability, parallelism and the state space exploration problem (1998)

William Knottenbelt, Mark Mestern, Peter Harrison, Pieter Kritzinger

Abstract. We present a new dynamic probabilistic state exploration algorithm based on hash compaction. Our method has a low state omission probability and low memory usage that is independent of the...

Probability, parallelism and the state space exploration problem (1998)

William Knottenbelt, Mark Mestern, Peter Harrison, Pieter Kritzinger

Abstract. We present a new dynamic probabilistic state exploration algorithm based on hash compaction. Our method has a low state omission probability and low memory usage that is independent of the...

God and Animal Minds: A Response to Lynch (1996)

Harrison, Peter

[Extract] In a recent Sophia article 'Harrison and Hick on God and Animal Pain', Joseph Lynch draws our attention to the difficulties generated for the theist by the suffering of animals, and argues...

God and Animal Minds: A Response to Lynch (1996)

Harrison, Peter

[Extract] In a recent Sophia article 'Harrison and Hick on God and Animal Pain', Joseph Lynch draws our attention to the difficulties generated for the theist by the suffering of animals, and argues...

Capacity planning in client-server systems (1996)

Tim Foxon, Mike Garth, Peter Harrison

Abstract. The proliferation of client–server systems in business continues unabated, as applications are split into local tasks run on ‘client ’ workstations and resource-intensive computations...

Newtonian Science, Miracles, and the Laws of Nature (1995)

Harrison, Peter

Sir Isaac Newton, along with his most prominent disciples, William Whiston and Samuel Clarke, came to understand miracles in a way quite different from their 17th century predecessors. Newton and his...

Newtonian Science, Miracles, and the Laws of Nature (1995)

Harrison, Peter

Sir Isaac Newton, along with his most prominent disciples, William Whiston and Samuel Clarke, came to understand miracles in a way quite different from their 17th century predecessors. Newton and his...

Exploiting Quasi-reversible Structures in Markovian Process Algebra Models (1995)

Peter Harrison, Jane Hillston

Efficient product form solution is one of the major attractions of queueing networks for performance modelling purposes. These models rely on a form of interaction between nodes in a network which...

Brick Market. (1761)

Peter Harrison

Commercial Buildings; University of Michigan Photographic Services; View from Northwest; Oblique view

Investment in British Columbia: Current Realities and the Way Forward

Andrew Sharpe, Jean-François Arsenault, Peter Harrison

Investment is one of the main drivers of productivity growth, which is the key determinant of living standards in the long run. Investment in British Columbia is lagging when compared to that of...

The Relationship between Productivity and Real Wage Growth in Canada and OECD Countries, 1961-2006

Andrew Sharpe, Jean-François Arsenault, Peter Harrison

The most direct mechanism by which labour productivity affects living standards is through real wages, that is, wages adjusted to reflect the cost of living. Between 1980 and 2005, the median real...

Why Have Real Wages Lagged Labour Productivity Growth in Canada?

Andrew Sharpe, Jean-Francois Arsenault, Peter Harrison

The most direct mechanism by which labour productivity affects living standards is through real wages, that is, wages adjusted to reflect the cost of living. Between 1980 and 2005, the median real...