• Research Goals
• Research Projects
• Editorial Involvement
• Conference/Workshop Involvement
• Conference Tutorials
• Research Networks
• Publications

I am interested in working with others in any of these areas. I am always looking for interesting and mutually supportive collaborative links with researchers and practitioners in other institutions. Any interest from you that will strengthen my understanding of computing, and contribute towards yours, would be welcome. Please send me an email if you would like to discuss further.

• More details about the special session on "High Performance Computing" at the Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) strategy meeting in January 2000. Two page summary report in [[PDF | PS | Word 97]]
• The PITAC Report
• NSF CyberInfrastructure

Current and Past Projects

• Problem Solving Environments
  
• Digital Libraries and Multi-Agent Systems
  
• Multi-Agent Scalability
  
• High Performance Java
  
• I am part of the European GridLab project
  
• GridOne-D
  
• Welsh E-Science Centre
  
• Grid Service Specification and Brokering
  
• LEAF: A FIPA-Compliant Toolkit for Learning Agents
  
• UDDIe: -- an extended version of the UDDI registry for Web Services
  
• COVITE: Collaborative Virtual Teams project
  
• QoS Management in Service-Oriented Grids
  
• e-HTPX project
  
• DIPSO: Distributed Problem Solving -- with Ian Parmee (University of West of England), AvantisWorld, EVOTEC and SEA Group
  
• CAPS (Modelling the Coordinated Activities of Players in High-Dimensional, High-Volume Sports Data Sets) with Ahmed Shihab (Kingston University)
  
• PASOA (Provenance Aware Service Oriented Architecture) with Luc Moreau (University of Southampton)
  
• GENSS: Grid Enabled Numerical and Symbolic Services -- with Julian Padget (Bath University)
  
• WOSE (Workflow Optimisation Services), with Imperial College and Daresbury Laboratory
  
• CATNETS EU project (funded under the "Future and Emerging Technologies" Programme)
  
• Grid Provenance EU project (funded under the "Grid for Complex Problem Solving" Programme)
  
• MeMeTIC (Meeting Memory Technologies Informing Collaboration) JISC VRE Project (Cardiff is an end user)
  
• FAEHIM Data Mining Toolkit
  
• Healthcare@Home project with the Diabetes Research Unit (Cardiff), Zarlink Semiconductors, Smart Holograms, and IBM Hursley (DTI "Interenterprise Computing" Programme)
  
• KREATE: Knowledge Reuse and Extraction for Travel, with COMTEC Europe (KTP Programme)
  
• Self-Organising ICT Resource Management (SORMA), led by Univ. of Karlsruhe -- EU FP6
  
• KNOOGLE: Matchmaking and Brokering for eScience, with Julian Padget (Bath University), funded by OMII, UK
  
• EDGES -- with Ian Taylor (Cardiff) -- led by Peter Kacsuk, EU FP7
  
• ADAGE -- led by Fethi Rabhi (University of New South Wales, Australia)
  

Editorial Boards and Special Issues

• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)

• Scientific Programming (IOS Press)

• International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Inderscience)

• International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (Troubador)

• International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) (Inderscience)

• ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (ACM Press)

Write an on-line review Tom Wagner and Omer Rana (Ed)	Special Issue (High Performance Agent Systems) Omer F. Rana and David Kotz (Ed)	Special Issue (Infrastructure + Scalability) Tom Wagner and Omer Rana (Ed)

Special Issue (Agent based Computer Vision) Paul Rosin and Omer Rana (Ed)	Engineering Self-Organising Systems (Nature-Inspired Approaches to Software Engineering) Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo et al. (Ed)	Special Issue Self-Organization in Distributed Systems Engineering Franco Zambonelli and Omer Rana (Ed)

I am affiliated with the following
Conferences/Workshops

• High Performance Data Management session at the 4th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Computing (ICA3PP) City University, Hong Kong, December 11-13, 2000

• Symposium on Software Mobility and Adaptive Behaviour at AISB 2001, March 2001, York, UK

• International Workshop on Performance-oriented Application Development for Distributed Architectures: Perspectives for Commercial and Scientific Environments April 19-20, 2001, Technical University of Munich, Germany

• Agent based Cluster and Grid Computing workshop at IEEE Conference on Cluster and Grid Computing, Brisbane, Australia, May 2001

• 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems at Autonomous Agents, May 28 - June 01, 2001, Montreal, Canada

• Advanced Environments and Tools for High Performance Computing - EuroConference on Problem Solving Environments for Numerical Mathematics, Science and Engineering Applications June 16-21, 2001, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy

• Workshop: Java in High Performance Computing at HPCN, Amsterdam, June 25-27, 2001

• EuroPar 2001 Manchester, 28-31 August, 2001

• Third International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration November 27-29, 2001, Las Vegas, USA

• Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Grid Computing at AISB 2002, April 2-5, 2002, Imperial College (London)

• Congress on Evolutionary Computation May 12-17, 2002, Hawaii, USA

• Second International Workshop on Agent Based Cluster and Grid Computing May 21-24, 2002, Berlin Germany

• International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE'2002), July 14 - 18, 2002, San Diego, CA, USA

• Challenges in Open Agent Systems -- AgentCities workshop at AAMAS Bologna, Italy, July 2002

• Agents and Peer-2-Peer Computing workshop at AAMAS Bologna, Italy, July 2002

• International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing July 17-20, 2002, Iasi, Romania

• Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning August 12-14, Manchester, UK

• Sixth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents September 18 - 20, 2002, Madrid, Spain

• Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies, at OOPSLA 2002, November, Seattle, US

• UK Multi-Agent Systems Workshop (UKMAS), December 2002, Liverpool, UK

• Data Management for High End Computing January 10, 2003, CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

• 11th Euromicro Conference on Parallel Distributed and Network based Processing (PDP2003) Genoa - Italy, February, 5-7, 2003

• 4th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL) Hong Kong, China, March 21-23, 2003

• International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 22-26 April, 2003, Acropolis Convention Center Nice, France

• 8th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments in conjunction with IPDPS, April 2003, Nice, France

• Agent Based Cluster and Grid Computing (3rd Workshop) at IEEE/ACM CCGrid Conference, Tokyo, Japan, May 2003

• Software Agents in Business Information Systems Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, 4-6 June, 2003

• 1st International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing, Co-located with ACM Middleware 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 17 June 2003

• Concurrent Information Processing and Computing, Advanced Research Workshop, July 5-10, 2003, Sinaia, Romania

• AAMAS, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003

• Second International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing at AAMAS, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003

• Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications at AAMAS, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003

• First Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in the Finance Industry, Sydney, Australia, July 24, 2003

• EuroPar 2003, Klagenfurt/Austria, August 2003 -- see the Peer-2-Peer topic

• Cooperative Information Agents, August 27-29, 2003, Sonera Conference Center, Helsinki, Finland

• First International Workshop on Socio-Cognitive Engineering Foundations Rome, Italy, September/October 2003

• Fifth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, at Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER-2003), Chicago, US, October 2003

• 2003 IEEE/WIC Conference on Web Intelligence, October 2003, Beijing, China

• Workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence October 13, 2003, Halifax, Canada

• European Simulation and Modelling Conference October 27-29, 2003 - University of Naples II, Naples, Italy

• International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2003

• Engineering Societies in the Agent World, October 2003, Imperial College, London, UK

• Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Canberra, Australia, 8th - 12th December 2003

• Special Track on Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems at 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2004), March 14 - 17, 2004, Nicosa, Cyprus

• International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing, April 2004, Porto, Portugal

• 4th International Symposium -- From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation April 13 - 16, 2004, Vienna, Austria

• International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04), May 17-18, 2004, New York, NY, US

• Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems at ICSE, May 2004, Scotland, UK

• 2nd International Workshop on Theory and Practice of Open Computational Systems, Modena, Italy, June 2004

• The 3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing in association with HeteroPar04, University College Cork, Ireland, July 2004

• Third International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2004), New York City, US, July 2004

• International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC'2004) Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, 26-28 August 2004

• UK eScience All Hands Meeting, August/September, Nottingham, 2004

• First International Workshop on Scientific Applications on Grid Computing (SAG'04) Beijing, China, September 2004

• Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence Beijing, China, September 2004

• 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2004, Toronto, Canada October 2004

• First International workshop on Grid Computing and its Application to Data Analysis Larnaca, Cyprus, October 2004

• Third International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies at OOPSLA, Vancouver, Canada, October 2004

• European Grid Conference February 14 -16 2005, Science Park Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• IEEE EEE-05 Hong Kong, March/April 2005

• Next-Generation Web and Grid Systems at ITCC 2005, April 11-13, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, US

• Intelligent Agent Systems: Theory, Design and Implementation special track at 18th International FLAIRS conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida, US, May 16-18, 2005

• AAMAS 2005 July 25th or 26th, 2005 - Utrecht, The Netherlands

• Engineering Self-Organising Applications (ESOA'05) at Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'05), July 25th or 26th, 2005 - Utrecht, The Netherlands

• Seventh International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2005) at AAMAS, July, 2005 - Utrecht, The Netherlands

• First International Workshop on Smart Grid Technologies (SGT05) at AAMAS, July, 2005 - Utrecht, The Netherlands

• Fourth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2005) at AAMAS 2005, July 2005, - Utrecht, The Netherlands

• Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE) at HPDC 2005, July 2005, Releigh-Durham, North Carolina, US

• Cluster Computing 2005 September 2005, Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Central and Eastern European Multi-Agent Systems Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 2005

• 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing at Middleware 2005, November 2005, Grenoble, France

• 3rd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2005

• ISPAN 2005 December 2005, Las Vegas, US

• Agents, Interaction, Mobility and Systems at 21st ACM Symp. on Applied Computing, Dijon, France, April 2006

• The First International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2006) April 2006, Vienna, Austria

• Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC) Tunghai University, Taiwan, May 2006

• AAMAS 2006 Future University-Hakodate, Japan, May 2006

• Ist Int. Workshop on Privacy and Security in Agent-based Collaborative Environments alongside AAMAS 2006, Japan, May 2006

• Agent-based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability at AAMAS 2006, Japan, May 2006

• Models of Trust for the Web at 15th World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006

• CCGrid 2006 Singapore, May 2006

• Agent-based Grid Computing alongside CCGrid 2006, Singapore, May 2006

• 5th Int. Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems, Shanghai, China, May 2006

• International Workshop on Grid Computing Security and Resource Management (GSRM'06) in conjunction with THE 2006 International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2006), University of Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006

• IEEE Conf. on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing, Taiwan, June 2006

• 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2006), Dublin, Ireland June 2006

• 2nd Int. Workshop on Smart Grid Technologies at ICAC 2006, Dublin, Ireland, June 2006

• UPGRADE-CDN at HPDC06, Paris, France, June 2006

• Computational Proteomics: Management and Analysis of Proteomics Data at 19th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 2006

• Distributed Computing Systems in the Autonomic Computing area, July 4-7, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006

• The 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), Timisoara, Romania, July 6-9, 2006

• International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06), July 19-21, 2006 Silicon Valley, USA (involved in the AUTSY 2006 track)

• Web-Services based Grid Applications at ICPP, Columbus, Ohio, USA, August 2006

• 10th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA), Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2006

• High Performance Computing and Communications, Munich, Germany, September 2006

• ECML PKDD Workshop on Parallel Data Mining, Berlin, Germany, September 2006

• Self Organisation and Autonomic Systems, NetObject Days, Erfurt, Germany, September 2006

• International Conference on e-Business Engineering, Shanghai, China, October 2006

• Int. Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments Changsha, China, October 2006

• Workshop on Middlware for Web Services at EDOC06, Hong Kong, October 2006

• International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performance and Distributed Applications (GADA'06), Montpellier, France, Nov 2 - Nov 3, 2006

• 4th Int. Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing at IEEE/IFIP/USENIX Middlware 2006, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006

• 4th Int. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing, Chicago, US, December 2006

• IEEE Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents, Hong Kong, December 2006

• 13th Int. Conf. on High Performance Computing, Banglore, India, December 2006

• 4th Int. Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, Sorrento, Italy, December 2006

• Multi-Agent and Bio-Inspired Algorithms and Applications for Distributed Systems at PDP07, Naples, Italy, February 2007

• CCGrid 2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007

• Int. Conf. on Autonomic Computing Jacksonville, Florida, 11-15 June, 2007

• First International Workshop on Policy-Based Autonomic Computing alongside IEEE/ACM ICAC 2007 conference, Jacksonville, Florida, 11-15 June, 2007

• First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007

• The 4th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models (GECON) alongside EuroPar, August 28-31, 2007, IRISA, Rennes, France

• Latin American Autonomic Computing conference, September 12-13, Petropolis, Brazil

• The 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007) Austin, Texas, USA, September 19-21

• Usage of Service Level Agreements in Grids Workshop at Grid 2007, Austin, Texas, USA, September 19-21 (in associated with EU CoreGrid Network of Excellence)

• Workshop on Economic Models and Algorithms for Grid Systems at Grid 2007, Austin, Texas, USA, September 19-21

• International Workshop on (Multi-)Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications alongside Web Intelligence Confrence, 2-5 November 2007, Silicon Valley, USA

• The 6th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM2007) Monday November 26, 2007 Newport Beach, CA, USA (alongside ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2007 conference)

• 5th International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2007) November 2007 Newport Beach, CA, USA (alongside ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2007 conference)

• Agents and Web Services in a Distributed Environment workshop, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 25 - 30, 2007

• The 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems Hsinchu, Taiwan, 5-7 December, 2007

• Mardi Gras Conference 2008 LSU/CCT, US, February 2008

• Economic Models for Distributed Systems workshop alongside ACM Mardi Gras Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US, Jan/Feb 2008

• First International Workshop on Adaptive Systems in Heterogeneous Environments (ASHEs) 4-7 March, 2008, Barcelona, Spain

• ACM/IEEE AAMAS 2008 May 2008, Estoril, Portugal

• CCGrid 2008 May 2008, Lyon, France

• 3rd International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing May 25-28, 2008, Kunming, China

• Int. Conf. on Autonomic Computing June 2-6, 2008, Chicago, USA

• The 6th International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2008) alongside IEEE WETICE 2008, June 23-25, Rome, Italy

• International Conference on Computer Mediated Social Networking June 11-13 2008, Dunedin, New Zealand

• IEEE CEC 2008/EEE 2008 July 21-24 2008, Crystal City, Washington DC, USA

• The Third International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2008) alongside IEEE SAINT 2008, July/August 2008, Turku, Finland

• EuroPar 2008 (Support Tools and Environments Topic), August 26-29 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Past Conferences/Workshops

• First UK Workshop on Java for High Performance Network Computing at EuroPar98, Southampton, UK, September 1998

• Agent Based High Performance Computing workshop at Autonomous Agents 99, Seattle, Washington, USA, May 1999

• Advanced Environments and Tools for High Performance Computing Conference Series.
  Problem Solving Environments: Infrastructure and Prototypes at San Feliu de Guixols, Costa Brava, Spain, June 1999

• Practical Applications of Java (PAJava) conference, part of PA-EXPO2000, Manchester, UK, April 2000.
  Minutes of the panel session - ``Is Java Ready for Large Scale Applications?".

• Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems at Autonomous Agents 2000, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000

• High Performance Object Databases (HIPOD 2000) workshop in collaboration with Objectivity International, Cardiff University, July 20,21, 2000

Conference Tutorials

• Java based Code Migration for Scientific Computing, at ACM JavaGrande Conference, San Francisco , California, USA, June 1999
  A Picture from JG99(from L-R: X, Ron Boisvert, Bryan Carpentar, X, Mary Thomas, Martin Westhead, Omer Rana, X, Roldan Pozo, Vladimir Getov) taken at O'Neils Bar off Union Square, SF

• Implementing Agent Applications in Java: Using Mobile and Intelligent Agents, at European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP), Cannes/Sophia Antipolis, France, June 2000

• Agents, Middleware and Grid Computing, at ACM Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) conference, Bologna, Italy, 2002 (with Michael Schroeder)

• Agents, Middleware and Grid Computing, at European AgentLink II Spring School, Barcelona, Spain, February 2003 (with Michael Schroeder)

• Distributed Scientific Workflow, at EuroPar 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2005

• Grid-based Distributed Scientific Workflow, at IEEE CCGrid 2006, Singapore, May 2006

• Autonomic Grid Computing, at IEEE CCGrid 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007 (with Manish Parashar (Rutgers University))

• Autonomic Grid Computing, at IEEE e-Science 2007, Bangalore, India, December 2007 (with Manish Parashar (Rutgers University))

Programme Committees

• Practical Applications of Java (PAJava99) conference, part of PA-EXPO99, London, UK, April 1999

• Java in High Performance Computing workshop at High Performance Computing and Networking Conference (HPCN), Amsterdam, May 2000

• Second International Conference on Information Re-use and Integration at Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2000

• 3rd Workshop of the UK Special Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems at Oxford, UK, December 2000

Research Networks

• AgentCities.UK

• Jini Activity at the Global Grid Forum

• The JavaGrande Network/Forum

• EuroTools Special Interest Group on Java

• Java in Administration SIG (JA-SIG)

• The Emergent Computing Network

• European AgentLink Network

• Esprit APART Group on Automatic Performance Analysis

• UK Constraints Network

• Distributed Programming Abstractions

e-Mags

• Diversity (Coming Soon)

Publications

• A. R. Hardisty, S. Peirce, A. Preece, C. E. Bolton, E. C. Conley, W. A. Gray, O. F. Rana, Z. Yousef, G. Elwyn, "Bridging two translation gaps: a new informatics research agenda for telemonitoring of chronic disease", International Journal of Medical Informatics, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.07.002, July 2011.

• Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, José A. Bañares, Omer F. Rana, ``Dynamic Workflow Adaptation over Adaptive Infrastructures". Proceedings of KES-AMSTA 2011, Manchester, July 1, 2011, pp 661-670. Springer Verlag.

• R. Tolosana-Calasanz, J. A. Bañares, O. F. Rana. Autonomic Streaming Pipeline for Scientific Workflows, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2011. John Wiley.

• Abdelhamid Elwaer, Ian Taylor, Omer Rana, Optimizing Data Distribution in Volunteer Computing Systems using Resources of Participants, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Vol 12, No. 2, pp 193-208, 2011.

• D. Neumann, C. Bodenstein, O. F. Rana, R. Krishnaswamy, STACEE: Enhancing Storage Clouds using Edge Devices. IEEE/ACM Workshop on Autonomic Computing for Economics (ACE 2011) alongside ICAC 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, 14. June 2011. ACM Press.

• Kyle Chard, Kris Bubendorfer, Simon Caton, Omer Rana, "Social Cloud Computing: A Vision for Socially Motivated Resource Sharing," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 16 Jun. 2011. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society.

• Abdelhamid Elwaer, Ian Taylor and Omer Rana, Preference Driven Server Selection in Peer-2-Peer Data Sharing Systems, 4th Int. Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing, alongside HPDC, San Jose, California, June 2011. ACM Press.

• René Brunner, Agustín Caminero, Omer F. Rana, Felix Freitag and Leandro Navarro. "Network-aware Summarisation for Resource Discovery in P2P-Content Networks". Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2011.03.004, Elsevier, 2011.

• Agustin Caminero, Omer Rana, Blanca Caminero, and Carmen Carrion, "Network-aware heuristics for inter-domain meta-scheduling in Grids", Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Vol.77, Issue 2, March 2011, pp 262--281. Elsevier Science.

• Agustín C. Caminero, Eduardo Huedo, Omer Rana, Ignacio M. Llorente, Blanca Caminero, Carmen Carrión "Summary Creation for Information Discovery in Distributed Systems", (short paper), 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing (PDP 2011), Cyprus, February 2011. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Marco Lackovic, Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Omer F. Rana, Jose A. Banares, Domenico Talia, "A Taxonomy For the Analysis of Scientific Workflow Faults", 2nd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2010), 11-13 December 2010, Hongkong, China. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Omer Rana and Simon Caton, "Business Models for On-line Social Networks: Challenges and Opportunities", International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, July-September 2010, Vol.2, No.3, pp 31-42, IGI Global

• Rafael Tolosana-Calasanza, José Ángel Bañaresa, Pedro Álvareza, Joaquín Ezpeletaa and Omer Rana, "An uncoordinated asynchronous checkpointing model for hierarchical scientific workflows", Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Volume 76, Issue 6, September 2010, Pages 403-415. Elsevier Science.

• Kyle Chard, Simon Caton, Omer F. Rana, and Kris Bubendorfer, "Social Cloud: Cloud computing in Social Networks". In proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010), Miami, Florida, July 2010. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Yaser Alosefer and Omer Rana, "Automated State Machines Applied in Client Honeypots", Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2010), Busan, Korea, May 2010. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, José A. Bañares, Omer F. Rana, Pedro Álvarez, Joaquin Ezpeleta, Andreas Hoheisel, "Adaptive exception handling for scientific workflows". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 22(5): pp 617-642 (2010)

• Yaser Alosefer, Omer Rana, "Honeyware: A Web-Based Low Interaction Client Honeypot," icstw, pp.410-417, April, Paris, France, 2010 -- Third International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, 2010 IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Jordi Guitart, Mario Macias, Omer Rana, Philipp Wieder, Ramin Yahyapour, and Wolfgang Ziegler, "SLA-Based Resource Management and Allocation", book chapter in "Market-Oriented Grid and Utility Computing", Rajkumar Buyya and Kris Bubendorfer (Editors), John Wiley, 2010.

• D. Neumann, M. Baker, J. Altmann and Omer F. Rana (editors), Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems, Birkhauser, 2010. ISBN: 978-3-7643-8896-6.

• Ali Shaikh Ali and Omer F. Rana, "A Belief-based Trust Model for Dynamic Service Selection", Chapter 1 in book Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems, Birkhauser, 2010.

• Mario Macías, Garry Smith, Omer Rana, Jordi Guitart and Jordi Torres, "Enforcing SLAs Using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager", Chapter 6 in book Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems, Birkhauser, 2010.

• Shantenu Jha, Daniel S. Katz, Manish Parashar, Omer Rana, and Jon Weissman, "Critical Perspectives on Large-Scale Distributed Applications and Production Grids", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Grid 2009 conference, Banff, Canada, October 2009.

• Germain-Renaud Cécile Germain-Renaud and Omer F. Rana, "The Convergence of Clouds, Grids, and Autonomics", IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 9, Nov./Dec. 2009 -- a version also appears in IEEE "Computing Now" Magazine, October 2009.

• S. Jha, M. Parashar, and O. Rana, "Investigating Autonomic behaviours in Grid-based Computational Science Applications", Proceedings of GMAC workshop alongside ICAC 2009 conference, Barcelona, Spain. ACM Press.

• A. Caminero, O. Rana, B. Caminero et al., "Performance evaluation of an autonomic network-aware metascheduler for Grids", pp 1692-1708. In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 21 (13), 2009. John Wiley

• Jörn Altmann, Rajkumar Buyya, Omer F. Rana, "Grid Economics and Business Models", (intro), 6th International Workshop, GECON 2009, Delft, The Netherlands, August 24, 2009. Proceedings Springer 2009

• Adina Riposan, Ian J. Taylor, Omer F. Rana, David R. Owens, Edward C. Conley, "The TRIACS analytical workflows platform for distributed clinical decision support". Twenty-Second IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), August 3-4, 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. IEEE 2009, pp 1-8

• A. Al-Saidi, Nick J. Avis, Ian J. Grimstead, Omer F. Rana, "Distributed Collaborative Visualization Using Light Field Rendering". Workshop on Distributed Visualisation alongside CCGRID 2009: pp 609-614. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Nikolay Borissov, Simon Caton, Omer F. Rana, Aharon Levine, "Message Protocols for Provisioning and Usage of Computing Services". Proceedings of GECON 2009, Grid Economics and Business Models, 6th International Workshop, GECON 2009, Delft, The Netherlands, August 24, 2009. LNCS 5745 Springer.

• Sander van Splunter, Frances M. T. Brazier, Julian A. Padget, Omer F. Rana, "Dynamic Service Reconfiguration and Enactment using an Open Matching Architecture". ICAART 2009, pp 533-539, Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Porto, Portugal, January 19 - 21, 2009. INSTICC Press 2009.

• Agustín C. Caminero, Omer F. Rana, Blanca Caminero, Carmen Carrión, "A Performance Evaluation of Network-Aware Grid Meta-schedulers". ICPP Workshops 2009, pp 282-289, Vienna, Austria, 22-25 September 2009. IEEE Computer Society.

• Bruno Schulze, Omer F. Rana, José Neuman de Souza, Special Issue Introduction, "Advanced Strategies in Grid Environments -- Models and Techniques for Scheduling and Programming". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 21(13): 1667-1671, 2009. John Wiley.

• Simon J. Caton, Omer F. Rana, Bruce G. Batchelor, "Distributed image processing over an adaptive Campus Grid", pp 321-336. In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 21 (3), 2009. John Wiley

• Fethi Rabhi, Omer Rana, Adnene Guabtni, Boualem Benatallah, "A User-Driven Environment for Financial Market Data Analysis", Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry (FinanceCom 2008), December 13, 2008, Paris, France. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Vol.23, pp 64-77, Springer.

• Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Omer F. Rana, José A. Bañares, "Automating Performance Analysis from Taverna Workflows", Component-Based Software Engineering, 11th International Symposium, CBSE 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 14-17, 2008 LNCS 5282, pp 1-15, Springer

• Ian Wootten and Omer Rana, "Recording the Context of Action for Process Documentation", (short paper/poster), IPAW 2008, Salt Lake City, USA, June 2008. Springer Verlag

• Maria Cecilia Gomes, Omer F. Rana, José C. Cunha, "Extending Grid-Based Workflow Tools With Patterns/Operators". Int. Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 22(3): 301-318 (2008)

• Anas Tawileh, Omer Rana, Steve McIntosh, "A Social Networking Approach to Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS)", Int. Conf. on Computer Mediated Social Networking (ICCMSN -- 2008), Dunedin, New Zealand, June 2009. Springer Verlag.

• Edward C. Conley, David R. Owens, Stephen L. Luzio, Mahesh Subramanian, Ali Shaikh Ali, Alex Hardisty and Omer Rana, "Simultaneous trend analysis for evaluating outcomes in patient-centred health monitoring services", Journal of Health Care Management Science, No.11, Vol.2, June 2008. Springer Verlag.

• Mario Macias, Omer Rana, Garry Smith, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres, "Maximising Revenue in Grid Markets using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley, 2008

• Gao Shu, Nick J. Avis, Omer F. Rana, "Bringing semantics to visualization services", Advances in Engineering Software 39(6): 514-520, June 2008. Elsevier Science.

• Omer F. Rana, Martijn Warnier, Thomas B. Quillinan, Frances M. T. Brazier, "Monitoring and Reputation Mechanisms for Service Level Agreements", Proceedings of Grid Economics and Business Models, 5th International Workshop, GECON 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26, 2008, pp 125-139, LNCS 5206, Springer

• Agustín C. Caminero, Omer F. Rana, Blanca Caminero, Carmen Carrión, "Network-aware Peer-to-Peer Based Grid Inter-Domain Scheduling," Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing & Applications, GCA 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 14-17, 2008. CSREA Press 2008

• Simon Caton, Matthan Caan, Silvia Olabarriaga and Omer Rana, ``Using Dynamic Condor-based Services for Classifying Schizophrenia in Diffusion Tensor Images", IEEE CCGrid, Lyon, France, May 2008. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Luc Moreau, Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Javier Vazquez, John Ibbotson, Sheng Jiang, Steve Munroe, Omer Rana, Andreas Schreiber, Victor Tan, and Laszlo Varga. ``The Provenance of Electronic Data", Communications of the ACM, April 2008.

• I. Chao, O. Ardaiz, R. Sangüesa, L. Joita, and O.F. Rana, "Optimizing Decentralized Grid Markets through Group Selection", Workshop on Web/Grid Information and Services Discovery (WSID), in conjunction with CICIS-2008 -- Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems international conference, Barcelona, Spain, March 4-7, 2008. IEEE Computer Society Press. -- a longer version of this paper appears "Optimising decentralised grid markets through group selection". Int. Journal of Web and Grid Services, 4(4): 357-366 (2008)

• Maozhen Li, Bin Yu, Omer Rana, and Zidong Wang, "Grid Service Discovery with Rough Sets", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2008

• David W. Walker, Lican Huang, Omer F. Rana, and Yan Huang, "Dynamic Service Selection in Workflows Using Performance Data", Scientific Programming Journal (special issue on Dynamic Computational Workflows: Discovery, Optimisation and Scheduling), 2008

• Shrija Rajbhandari, Omer Rana and Ian Wootten, "Fuzzy Model for Calculating Workflow Trust using Provenance Data", ACM MardiGras conference, Baton Rouge, USA, February 2008

• Simone A. Ludwig and Omer F. Rana, "Performance evaluation of semantic registries", (short paper), Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Springer Verlag, January/February 2008.

• Mahesh Subramanian, Edward C. Conley, Omer F. Rana, Alex Hardisty, Ali Shaikh Ali, Stephen Luzio, David R. Owens et al., "Novel sensor technology integration for outcome based risk analysis in diabetes", Health Informatics, January 2008. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• M. Becker, N. Borissov, V. Deora, O. Rana, D. Neumann, "Using k-pricing for Penalty Calculation in Grid Markets", 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 7-10 January 2008, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii, US. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Neil Chapman, Simone Ludwig, William Naylor, Bath University, Omer Rana, Julian Padget, "Matchmaking Support for Dynamic Workflow Composition", Int. Conf. on eScience and Grid Computing, Bangalore, India, December 10-13, 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Adina Riposan, Ian Taylor, David R. Owens, Omer Rana, Edward C. Conley, "Alchemist Multimodal Workflows for Diabetic Retinopathy Research -- Disease Prevention and Investigational Drug Discovery", Proceedings of HealthGrid 2007, Geneva, April 24-27, 2007.

• Y. Yusuf and Omer Rana, "Integration of Descriptors for Software Component Retrieval", International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'2007), 28-30 November, 2007, Melbourne, Australia. Springer Verlag

• R. Brunner, I. Chao, P. Chacin, F. Freitag, L. Navarro, O. Ardaiz, L. Joita, and O. F. Rana, "Assessing a distributed market infrastructure for economics-based service selection", International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA'07), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 29 - 30, 2007. Springer Verlag.

• Julian Padget and Omer Rana, "Mathematical Service Discovery", Book Chapter, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 239, Grid-Based Problem Solving Environments, eds. P.W. Gaffney and J.C.T Pool, Springer Verlag, pp. 351-368, November 2007

• Agustin Caminero, Omer Rana, Maria Caminero and Carmen Carrion, "An Autonomic Network-Aware Scheduling Architecture for Grid Computing", at Middlware for Grid Computing workshop, alongside ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Newport Beach, Orange County, California, USA, November 26-30, 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Ali Shaikh Ali, Omer F.Rana, Alex Hardisty, Mahesh Subramanian, Stephen Luzio, David R. Owens and Edward C. Conley, "Portal Technologies for Patient-centred Integrated Care", European Conference on eHealth, 11-12 October 2007, Oldenburg, Germany

• M. Marcias, G. Smith, O. Rana, J. Guitart and J. Torres, "Enforcing Service Level Agreements using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager", Workshop on Economic Models and Algorithms for Grid Systems, alongside ACM/IEEE Grid 2007, Austin, Texas, USA, September, 2007

• Liviu Joita, Isaac Chao, Pablo Cachin, Omer F. Rana, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, and Oscar Ardaiz, "Service Level Agreements in Catallactic Oriented Grid Markets", Usage of Service Level Agreements in Grids Workshop, alongside ACM/IEEE Grid 2007, Austin, Texas, USA, September, 2007, CoreGrid/Springer series

• Omer Rana, Martijn Warnier, Thomas B. Quillinan, and Frances Brazier, "Managing Violations in Service Level Agreements", Usage of Service Level Agreements in Grids Workshop, alongside ACM/IEEE Grid 2007, Austin, Texas, USA, September, 2007, CoreGrid/Springer series

• Lican Huang, Asif Akram, Rob Allan, David W. Walker, Omer F. Rana, Yan Huang, "A workflow portal supporting multi-language interoperation and optimization", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Journal, 2007.

• Ian Wootten, Shrija Rajbhandari, Omer Rana, ``Automatic Assertion of Actor State in Service Oriented Architectures", Int. Conf. on Web Services, July 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Simone A. Ludwig and Omer F. Rana, "Comparing Semantic Registries -- OWLJessKB and InstanceStore", Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing Performance: Aspects, Issues and Approaches, alongside IEEE HPDC 2007, Monterey Bay, California, June 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Simon Caton, Omer Rana and Bruce Batchelor, ``Dynamic Condor-based Services for Distributed Image Analysis", Proceedings of IEEE CCGrid 2007 conference, Rio de Janeiro, May 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press

• Adina Riposan, Ian Taylor, Omer Rana and Edward C. Conley, ``Alchemist Multimodal Workflows for Diabetic Retinopathy Research, Disease Prevention and Investigational Drug Discovery", Proceedings of HealthGrid 2007, Geneva, Switzerland, April 2007

• Cecilia Gomes, Omer Rana and Jose Cunha, ``Extending Grid-based Workflow Tools with Patterns/Operators", Int. Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, (special issue on Workflows), 2007

• Christos Georgousopoulos, Omer F. Rana, ``Choosing a Load Balancing Scheme for Agent-Based Digital Libraries", Int. Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Architectures (ISPA), Sorrento, Italy, December 2006. Springer Verlag.

• Vikas Deora, Arnaud Contes, Omer F. Rana, Shrija Rajbhandari, Ian Wootten, Kifor Tamas, Laszlo Z.Varga, ``Navigating Provenance Information for Distributed Healthcare Management", at IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence Conference, Hong Kong, December 2006.

• Martin Wolstencroft, Omer Rana and Huw Davies, ``Distributed Storage of High-Volume Environmental Simulation Data: Mantle Modelling", at IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence Conference, Hong Kong, December 2006.

• Shrija Rajbhandari, Arnaud Contes, Omer F.Rana, Vikas Deora, and Ian Wootten, ``Establishing Workflow Trust Using Provenance Information", IEEE Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE), Dublin, Ireland, October 2006.

• Shrija Rajbhandari, Arnaud Contes, Omer F.Rana, Vikas Deora, and Ian Wootten, ``Trust Assessment Using Provenance in Service Oriented Application", at SISS workshop, alongside EDOC conference, Hong Kong, October 2006. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Mahesh Subramanian, Ali Shaikh Ali, Omer Rana, Alex Hardisty and Edward C. Conely, "Healthcare@Home: Research Models for Patient-Centred Healthcare Services", John Vincent Atanasoff International Symposium on Modern Computing, 3-6 October 2006, Sofia, Bulgaria. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Nick Avis, Gao Shu and Omer Rana, ``Investigating Visualisation Ontologies", Proceedings of UK eScience All-Hands Meeting, Nottingham, September 2006

• Tom Goodale, Simone Ludwig, Bill Naylor, Julian Padget and Omer Rana, "Service-Oriented Matchmaking and Brokerage", Proceedings of UK eScience All-Hands Meeting, Nottingham, September 2006

• Anas Tawileh, Wendy Ivins and Omer Rana, "Soft Systems Approach for Managing Open Source Software Quality", Proceedings of 10th UK System Sciences Conference, St Anne's College, Oxford, September 2006

• Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana, Pablo Chacin, Isaac Chao, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Oscar Ardaiz, "A Catallactic Market for Data Mining Services", Special Issue "Data Analysis, Access and Management on Grids", Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, 2006. Elsevier.

• Anas Tawileh. Omer Rana, Wendy Ivins and Steve McIntosh, ``Managing Quality in the Free and Open Source Software Community", Proceedings of the 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 4-6, 2006, Acapulco, Mexico.

• Simone A. Ludwig, Omer F. Rana, William Naylor and Julian Padget, "Mathematical Service Discovery: Architecture, Implementation and Performance", pages 35-52, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience Journal, volume 7 number 2, 2006.

• Gao Shu, Omer F. Rana, Nick J. Avis, and Chen Dingfang, "Ontology-based Semantic Matchmaking Approach", Journal of Advances in Engineering Software, 2006, Elsevier.

• Omer Rana and Jeremy Hilton, "Securing the Virtual Organisation" (in two parts), Network Security Magazine, April and May 2006. Elsevier.

• Ian Wootten, Omer Rana and Shrija Rajbhandari, "Recording Actor Provenance Data in Scientific Workflows", Proceedings of International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, May 2006, Chicago, USA (post proceedings by Springer Verlag -- to appear)

• Ian Wootten, Shrija Rajbhandari, Omer Rana and Jaspreet Pahwa, "Actor Provenance Capture with Ganglia", CCGrid06, Singapore, May 2006. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Shrija Rajbhandari, Ian Wootten, Ali Shaikh Ali and Omer F. Rana, "Evaluating Provenance-based Trust for Scientific Workflows", CCGrid06, Singapore, May 2006. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Maozhen Li, Bin Yu, Chang Huang, Yonghua Song, Omer F. Rana, "Service Matchmaking with Rough Sets", CCGrid06, Singapore, May 2006. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Lican Huang, David W. Walker, Omer F. Rana, and Yan Huang, "Dynamic Workflow Management Using Performance Data", (short paper), CCGrid06, Singapore, May 2006. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Simone Ludwig, Omer Rana, William Naylor and Julian Padget, "Matchmaking Framework for Mathematical Web Services", Journal of Grid Computing, 2006.

• Anas Tawileh and Omer Rana, ``Free and Open Source Software Quality Assurance", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications, April 24 - 28, 2006, Damascus, Syria.

• Hameeda Alshabib, Omer Rana and Ali Shaikh Ali, "Deriving Ratings Through Social Network Structures", Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAS-P2P 2006) at ARES 2006, Vienna, Austria, April 2006. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Liviu Joita, Omer Rana, Pablo Chacin, Oscar Ardaiz, Isaac Chao, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, "Application Deployment Using the Catallactic Grid Middleware", Middleware for Grid Computing at ACM/USENIX/IFIP Middleware 2005, Grenoble, France, November 2005

• Ali Shaikh Ali, Simone A. Ludwig and Omer Rana, "Semantic Selection of Data Mining Web Services based on Trust Policy", IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2005), Nov 14-16, Vaxjo, Sweden

• Ali Shaikh Ali, Omer F. Rana, Ian Parmee, Johnson Abraham, Mark Shackelford, Web-Services based Modelling/Optimisation for Engineering Design, The Second International Workshop on Grid Computing and its Application to Data Analysis (GADA'05), Cyprus, November 1-4, 2005, Springer Verlag.

• Asif Akram, Rob Allan and Omer Rana, ``Virtual Communities and Community Coordinator", First International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG'05), November 28-29, Beijing, China. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• S.A. Ludwig, W. Naylor, O.F. Rana and J. Padget, "Matchmaking of Mathematical Web Services", Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids (LaSCoG) in proceedings of 6th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Poznan, Poland, September 2005.

• Omer Rana, Jeremy Hilton, Liviu Joita, Peter Burnap, Jaspreet Singh Pahwa, John Miles, and W. Alex Gray, "Secure Virtual Organisations: Protocols and Requirements", ISSE 2005 Securing Electronic Business Processes, edited by Sachar Paulus, Norbert Pohlmann, and Helmut Reimer, Vieweg Verlag, 2005

• Lican Huang, David W. Walker, Yan Huang, Omer F. Rana, "Dynamic Web Service Selection for Workflow Optimisation", Proceedings of 4th UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting (AHM), Nottingham, UK, September 2005.

• Pete Burnap, Alex Gray, John Miles, Omer .F. Rana, ``A Service Oriented Infrastructure to Facilitate Trust in Collaborative Working", (poster), Proceedings of 4th UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting 2005, Nottingham, UK, September 2005.

• S.A. Ludwig, W. Naylor, J. Padget and O.F. Rana, "Matchmaking Support for Mathematical Web Services", Proceedings of 4th UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting (AHM), Nottingham, UK, September 2005.

• S.A. Ludwig, O.F. Rana, W. Naylor and J. Padget, "Matchmaking Portal for the Discovery of Numerical and Symbolic Services", Proceedings of 4th UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting (AHM), Nottingham, UK, September 2005.

• P. Burnap, J. S. Pahwa, L. Joita, W. A. Gray, O. Rana, and J. C. Miles, "Grid based e-Procurement", Computing in Civil Engineering, 2005 ASCE Reston ISBN 0-7844-0794-0

• I.C. Parmee, J. Abraham, M. Shackelford, D. Spilling, O. F. Rana, A. Shaikhali, Introducing Grid-based, Semi-autonomous Evolutionary Design Systems. Int. Conf. on Engineering Design, ICED 05, Melbourne, Australia, August 2005

• I.C. Parmee, J. Abraham, M. Shackelford, O. F. Rana, A. Shaikhali, 2005, Towards Autonomous Evolutionary Design Systems via Grid-based Technologies. ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, July 2005

• Catallaxy-based Grid Markets, T. Eymann, O. Ardaiz, M. Catalano, P. Chacin, I. Chao, F. Freitag, M. Gallegati, G. Giulioni, L. Joita, L. Navarro, D. Neumann, O. Rana, M. Reinicke, R. Schiaffino, B. Schnizler, W. Streitberger, D. Veit and F. Zini, Workshop on Smart Grid Technologies, July 2005, alongside AAMAS, Utretch, The Netherlands
  (a longer version of this paper appears in the Journal of Grid and Multi-Agent Systems (IOS Press), pp 297--307, 2005)

• Supporting Program Indexing and Querying in Source Code Digital Libraries Y. Yusof and O. F. Rana, Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS), July 2005, alongside AAMAS, Utretch, The Netherlands

• Agent-based Matchmaking of Mathematical Web Services (poster), Simone Ludwig, Omer Rana, Bill Naylor, Julian Padget, AAMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005

• Mobile Agent-Based Service Provision in Distributed Data Archives, Christos Georgousopoulos and Omer F. Rana, Scientific Applications of Grid Computing, LNCS 3458 (edited by Pilar Herrero, Maria S. Perez, and Victor Robles), Springer, 2005.

• Formalising Trust for On-line Communities (poster), Ali Shaikh Ali, Omer Rana, AAMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005

• Workflow Optimisation for e-Science Applications, David W. Walker, Omer F. Rana, Yan Huang, and Lican Huang, 27th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2005

• Web Services Composition for Distributed Data Mining, Ali Shaikh Ali, Omer F. Rana and Ian J. Taylor, Workshop on Web and Grid Services for Scientific Data Analysis, in conjunction with 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2005), Oslo, Norway, June 14, 2005. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• A Shell for Supporting Service Negotiation, Simone A. Ludwig, Omer F. Rana, Daniel J. Veit, Journal of Decision Systems, 2005

• Performance-sensitive Service Provision in Active Digital Libraries, Christos Georgousopoulos, Omer F. Rana, IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, Hong Kong, April 2005

• Network QoS Provision for Distributed Grid Applications, Rashid Al-Ali, Shaleeza Sohail, Omer Rana, Abdelhakim Hafid, Gregor von Laszewski, Kaizar Amin, Sanjay Jha and David Walker, International Journal of Simulation Systems (IJSIM), 2005

• An Abstraction Model for a Grid Execution Framework, Kaizar Amin, Gregor von Laszewski, Rashid Al-Ali, Omer Rana, and David Walker, Journal of Systems Architecture. Elsevier, 2005

• Evidence-aware Trust Model for Dynamic Services, Omer F. Rana, Ali Shaikhali and Rashid J. Al-Ali, book chapter, in ``High Performance Computing: Paradigms and Infrastructure", edited by Laurence Yang and Minyi Guo, John Wiley, 2005

• A Model for Quality-of-Service Provision in Service Oriented Architectures, Rashid Al-Ali, Omer Rana, Gregor von Laszewski, Abdelhakim Hafid, Kaizar Amin and David Walker, Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Inderscience, 2005

• WS-QoC: Measuring Quality of Service Compliance, Ali Shaikhali, Omer Rana and David Walker, (Forum Papers), International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC-04), New York, US, November 2004

• Pattern/Operator based Problem Solving Environments, Cecilia Gomes, Omer F. Rana, and Jose Cunha, EuroPar 2004, Springer Verlag, Pisa, Italy, August 2004

• A Double Auction Economic Model for Grid Services, Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana, W. Alex Gray, and John Miles, EuroPar 2004, Springer Verlag, Pisa, Italy, August 2004

• Analysis and Provision of QoS for Distributed Grid Applications, Rashid J. Al-Ali, Kaizar Amin, Gregor von Laszewski, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker, Mihael Hategan, and Nestor Zaluzec, Journal of Grid Computing, Kluwer, 2004

• A Grid-Enabled Security Framework for Collaborative Virtual Organisations, L. Joita, O. Rana, P. Burnap, J. S. Pahwa, A. Gray and J. Miles, 5th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE), Toulouse, France, August 2004

• Reputation-based Semantic Service Discovery, Shalil Majithia, Ali Shaikhali, Omer F. Rana and David W. Walker, Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next generation Grid (ETNGRID-2004) at 13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2004), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, June 14-16, 2004. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Collaborative Engineering Virtual Teams in a Grid Environment Supporting Consortia in the Construction Industry, John Miles, Liviu Joita, Jaspreet Singh Pahwa, Pete Burnap, Alex Gray, Omer Rana, 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), Weimar, June 02-04, 2004

• Template Mining in Source-Code Digital Libraries, Yuhanis Yusof and Omer Rana, International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories at IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Triana Applications within Grid Computing and Peer to Peer Environments, Ian Taylor, Matthew Shields, Ian Wang, and Omer Rana, Journal of Grid Computing, Kluwer Academic, 2004

• QoS Support for High-Performance Scientific Applications, Rashid Al-Ali, Kaizar Amin, Gregor von Laszewski, Mihael Hategan, Omer Rana, David Walker and Nester Zaluzec. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid) Chicago IL, USA, April 2004. IEEE Computer Society.

• Engineering Scalable Multi-Agent Communities, O.F.Rana and S.J.Lynden, Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol: 11, No. 2, 2004

• An OGSA-based Quality of Service Framework, Rashid Al-Ali, Kaizar Amin, Gregor von Laszewski, Omer Rana and David Walker, 2nd International Workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), Shanghai, China, December 2003, Springer Verlag

• Organising Service-Oriented Peer Collaborations, Asif Akram and O.F.Rana, International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Italy, December 2003. Springer Verlag

• Grid Performance and Resource Management using Mobile Agents, B. Di Martino, O.F. Rana, Chapter in book "Performance Analysis and Grid Computing", edited by V. Getov, M. Gerndt, A. Hoisie, A. Malony, and B. Miller, Kluwer, November 2003

• Patterns and Operators for Grid Software Development, Omer F. Rana, Maria Ceclia Gomes and Jose C. Cunha, IADIS International Conference WWW/INTERNET 2003, Algarve, Portugal, November 5-8 2003

• Engineering High-Performance Legacy Codes as CORBA Components for Problem-Solving Environments, M.Li, D.W.Walker, O.F.Rana, Y.Huang, P.T.Williams, and R.C.Ward, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 63, pp 1152-1163, 2003. Academic Press

• Timelets: A Data Model for Immense-Scale, Sub-Second GIS, Robert M. Akscyn and Omer F. Rana, NSF International Workshop on Next Generation Geospatial Information, October 19-21, 2003, Cambridge (Boston), Massachusetts, USA

• Supporting Collaborative Working of Construction Industry Consortia via the Grid, Pete Burnap, Liviu Joita, Jaspreet Singh Pahwa, Alex Gray, Omer Rana, John Miles, in Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2003, held 2-4 September 2003 in Nottingham, UK

• Rashid Al-Ali, Omer Rana and David Walker. G-QoSM: A Framework for Quality of Service. in Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2003, held 2-4 September 2003 in Nottingham, UK

• Creating and Managing Grid Services, Omer F. Rana, Ali Shaikhali and Gregor von Laszewski, Book Chapter, in "Grid Computing: A Practical Guide to Technology and Applications" by Ahmar Abbas, Charles River Associates Publishers, 2003

• Structuring Peer-2-Peer Communities, Asif Akram, Omer F. Rana, (poster presentation), 3rd IEEE International Conference on Peer-2-Peer Computing, Linkoping, Sweden, September 2003

• Self-Organising Applications: A Survey, S. Kouadri Mostefaoui, O.F. Rana, N. Foukia, S. Hassas, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, c. Van Aart, A. Karageorgos, Workshop Notes: First International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, at AAMAS, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003

• Supporting FIPA Interoperability for Legacy Multi-Agent Systems, Christos Georgousopoulos, Omer F. Rana, and Anthony Karageorgos, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop AOSE 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003, Springer, 2004

• Pattern Operators for Grid Environments, M. Cecilia Gomes, Omer F. Rana, and Jose C. Cunha, Journal of Scientific Programming, IOS Press, 2003

• SGrid: A Service Oriented Model for the Semantic Grid, M. Li, P.v.Santen, D.W.Walker, O.F.Rana, and M.A.Baker. Special Issue on Semantic Grid and Knowledge Grid: The Next Generation Web, Future Generation Computer Systems Journal (FGCS), 2003. Elsevier Science.

• A Pattern based Software Engineering Tool for Grid Environments, Cecilia Gomes, Jose C. Cunha, and Omer F. Rana, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Concurrent Information Processing and Computing, Sinaia, Romania, July 2003

• Coordination in Utility Managed Multi-Agent Groups, Fernanda Barbosa, Jose Cunha, Omer F. Rana, and Steven J. Lynden, 10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications, Parallel and Distributed Computing Track, Madeira Island, Portugal, July 2003

• QoS Adaptation in Service-Oriented Grids, Rashid Al-Ali, Abdelhakim Hafid, Omer F. Rana, and David W. Walker, Middleware for Grid Computing workshop at ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2003 (a longer version of this paper was also selected to appear in the Concurrency and Computation: Practise and Experience journal -- a special issue from the workshop, 2004)

• PortalLab: A Web Services Toolkit for Building Semantic Grid Portals, Maozhen Li, P. van Santen, David W. Walker, Omer F. Rana, Mark A. Baker, Proceedings of CCGrid Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, May 2003. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Rashid Al-Ali, Ali ShaikhAli, Omer Rana and David Walker. Supporting QoS-Based Discovery in Service-Oriented Grids. Proceedings of the Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW'03) at IPDPS, Nice, France, April 2003. IEEE Computer Society Press.

  Steven J. Lynden and Omer F. Rana. LEAF: A Toolkit for Developing Coordinated Learning Based MAS, International Workshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing at IPDPS, Nice, France, April 2003. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Supporting Peer-2-Peer Interactions in the Consumer Grid, Ian J. Taylor, Omer F. Rana, Roger Philp, Ian Wang, and Matthew Shields, 8th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS) at IPDPS, Nice, France, April 2003. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Component-based Problem Solving Environments for Computational Science, Maozhen Li, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker, Matthew Shields, Yan Huang, book chapter in ``Component-based Software Development'' (Ed: Kung-Kiu Lau), World Scientific Publishing, 2003 (to appear)

• Agent Based Semantic Grids: Research Issues and Challenges, Omer F. Rana and Line Pouchard, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, 2003 (to appear)

• G-QoSM: Grid Service Discovery Using QoS Properties, Rashid J. Al-Ali, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker, Sanjay Jha and Shaleeza Sohail, Journal of Computing and Informatics (Special issue on Grid Computing), Ed: Domenico LaForenza, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 363-382, 2002

• Combining State and Model-based Approaches for Mobile Agent Load Balancing, Christos Georgousopoulos and Omer F. Rana, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Mobile Computing and Applications Track, March 2003. ACM Press.

• UDDIe: An Extended Registry for Web Services, Ali ShaikhAli, Omer F. Rana, Rashid Al-Ali, David W. Walker Workshop on Service Oriented Computing: Models, Architectures and Applications at SAINT Conference, Florida, US, January 2003. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• An Agent Infrastructure for On-Demand Processing of Remote-Sensing Archives, Y. Yang, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker, R. Williams, M. Caffarro, and G. Aloisio, Journal of Digital Libraries (Springer Verlag) -- to appear

• Service Design Patterns for Computational Grids, Omer F. Rana and David W. Walker, book chapter, in book "Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing", (ed: F. A. Rabhi and S. Gorlatch), Springer Verlag, ISBN 1-85233-506-8, November 2002

• Coordinated Learning to support Resource Management in Computational Grids, Steven Lynden, Omer F. Rana, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Peer-2-Peer Computing, September 2002, Linkoping, Sweden. IEEE Computer Society Press

• Coordinating Learning Agents via Utility Assignment, S. Lynden and O.F.Rana, Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Manchester, UK August 2002, IEEE Computer Society Press

• An Approach to Conforming a MAS into a FIPA-compliant system, Christos Georgousopoulos and Omer F. Rana, First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July 2002, ACM Press

• A FIPA Compliant Software Toolkit for Learning based MAS (poster), Steven Lynden and Omer F. Rana, First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July 2002, ACM Press

• Agent based Data Management in Digital Libraries, Y. Yang, O.F.Rana, D.W.Walker, G. Aloisio, M. Cafaro, R. Williams, Journal of Parallel Computing, Elsevier Science, 2002

• Building Grid Services with Jini and JXTA, O. F. Rana, V. S. Getov, E. Sharakan, S. Newhouse and R. Allan, Global Grid Forum Working Document, Toronto, February 2002.

• The Consumer Grid, I. J. Taylor, R. Philp, M. Shields, O. Rana, and B. Schutz, Global Grid Forum Working Document, Toronto, February 2002.

• Object-Oriented Distributed Computing Based on Remote Class Reference, Y. Huang, D. W. Walker, and O. F. Rana, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2002

• Applying Conflict Management Strategies in BDI Agents for Resource Management in Computational Grids, Omer Rana, Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham, and James Harland, Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Computer Science, January 2002, Melbourne, Australia.

• Data Management for Grid Environments, Heinz Stockinger, Omer F. Rana, Reagan Moore, Andre Merzky, High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2001

• Towards an XML and Agent-Based Framework for the Distributed Management of Multi-Spectral Data, Y. Yang, O. F. Rana, D. W. Walker, R. Williams and G. Aloisio, 6th International Digital Media Symposium, Bradford, UK, April 2001

• Resource Discovery for Dynamic Clusters in Computational Grids, Omer F. Rana, Daniel Bunford-Jones, David W. Walker, Matthew Addis, Mike Surridge and Ken Hawick, Heterogeneous Computing Workshop at IPDPS/SPDS, San Francisco, California, April 2001. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• A Modelling Approach for Agent Based Systems Design, Omer F. Rana, Agent Oriented Software Engineering (eds P Ciancarini and M Wooldridge) Springer-Verlag LNCS 1957, January 2001

• The Software Architecture of a Distributed Problem Solving Environment, D. W. Walker, M. Li, O. F. Rana, M. S. Shields and Y. Huang, Concurrency: Practise and Experience, January 2001. John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

• Agent based Service Integration for Distributed Problem Solving Environments, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker, HICSS-34. IEEE Computer Society Press, January 2001

• Issues in Building Agent-Based Computational Grids, O. F. Rana and Luc Moreau, UK Multi-Agent Systems Workshop, Oxford, December 2000

• Progress in multi-agent systems research, Omer Rana, Chris Preist and Michael Luck, The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol 15:3, 2000. Cambridge University Press.

• Agent Based Resource Discovery For Dynamic Clusters, O. F. Rana, D. Bunford-Jones, D. W. Walker, M. Addis, M. Surridge and K. Hawick, IEEE Conference on Cluster Computing, November 2000. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• A Wrapper Generator for Wrapping High Performance Legacy Codes as Java/CORBA Components, M. Li, O. F. Rana, M. S. Shields and D. W. Walker, SuperComputing 2000, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 2000. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• A Collaborative Code Development Environment for Computational Electromagnetics, Matthew Shields, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker, David Golby, IFIP WG2.5 Working Conference 8, Software Architecture for Scientific Computing Applications, Ottawa, Canada, October 2000.

• Wrapping MPI based Legacy codes as Java/CORBA Components, Maozhen Li, Omer F. Rana and David Walker, Future Generation Computer Systems (Special Issue: High Performance Java) September 2000. Elsevier Science Publishers.

• A Software Agent Based Virtual Enterprise for Electronic Commerce, Omer F. Rana and Mario Kupries, International Journal of Technology Management, Special Issue on Infrastructure for Electronic Commerce, September 2000

• A Java/CORBA based Visual Program Composition Environment for PSEs, Matthew Shields, Omer Rana, David Walker, Maozhen Li and David Golby, Concurrency: Practice and Experience Journal, August 2000. John Wiley and Sons.

• `The Agent Grid': Agent based resource Integration in Problem Solving Environments, Omer F. Rana and David W. Walker, 16th IMACS World Congress on Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2000.

• Automating Performance Analysis from UML Design Patterns, Omer F. Rana and Dave Jennings, European Conference on Parallel Processing (EuroPar), Munich, Germany, August 2000. Springer Verlag.

• Implementing Problem Solving Environments for Computational Science, Omer F. Rana, Maozhen Li, Matthew Shields, David Walker and David Golby, European Conference on Parallel Processing (EuroPar), Munich, Germany, August 2000. Springer Verlag.

• Automating Component Integration in a Distributed Problem Solving Environment, Maozhen Li, Omer F. Rana, Matthew S. Shields, David Walker and David Golby, Workshop on Active Middleware Services at High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) 9, Pittsburgh, USA, August 2000. Kluwer Academic.

• Community Learning and Data Management, S. J. Lynden and Omer F. Rana, Workshop on Self Organisation and Multi-Agent Systems (SOMAS), BT Centre at Milton Keynes, UK, July 2000

• Emergent Coordination for Distributed Information Management, Steven J. Lynden, Omer F. Rana, Steve Margetts and Antonia J. Jones, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), San Deigo, California, USA, July 2000. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Analysing Java Execution Semantics Using Stochastic Petri Nets, Omer F. Rana, Matthew Shields, and Andrew Jones, 16th UK Performance Evaluation Workshop, Durham, July 2000.

• Automating Parallel Implementation of Neural Learning Algorithms, Omer F. Rana, International Journal of Neural Systems, June 2000, World Scientific Publishing.

• What is Scalability in Multi-Agent Systems, Omer F. Rana and Kate Stout, Autonomous Agents 2000, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000. ACM Press.

• Managing Performance in Mobile Agent Systems, Omer F. Rana, Autonomous Agents 2000, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000. ACM Press.

• Mobile Agents and the SARA Digital Library, Yanyan Yang, Omer F. Rana, Christos Georgousopoulos, David Walker and Roy Williams, IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries, Washington DC, May 2000. IEEE Computer Society.

• PADDMAS: Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Application Suite, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker, Maozhen Li, Steven Lynden and Mike Ward, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS/SPDP), Cancun, Mexico, May 2000. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• An XML-Based Component Model for Wrapping Legacy Codes as Java/CORBA Components, Maozhen Li, Omer F. Rana and David Walker HPC Asia, Beijing, China, May 2000. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• A Mobile Agent-Based Architecture for On-Demand Processing of Remote-Sensing Archive, Y. Yang, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker, Roy Williams, HPC Asia, Beijing, China, May 2000. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Performance Analysis of Java using Petri nets, Omer F. Rana and Matthew S. Shields, High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN), Amsterdam, May 2000. Springer Verlag.

• Dynamic Resource Discovery through MatchMaking, Omer F. Rana, High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN), Amsterdam, May 2000. Springer Verlag.

• Beyond Components: A Flexible Approach to Information Systems Design, Omer F. Rana and Steve McIntosh, UKAIS Conference, Cardiff, April 2000. McGraw Hill.

• Agent Based Data Analysis in the SARA Digital Library, Omer F. Rana, Yanyan Yang, Christos Georgousopoulos, David Walker and Roy Williams, International Workshop on Advanced Data Storage/Management for HPC (Data Management 2000), Daresbury Laboratory, UK, February 2000

• A Performance Model for Task and Interaction Patterns in Mobile Agent Systems, Omer F. Rana and David W. Walker, 9th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC), February 20-22, 2000, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• The Software Architecture of a Distributed Problem Solving Environment, David W. Walker, Maozhen Li, Omer F. Rana, Matthew S. Shields and Yan Huang, Oak Ridge Laboratory Technical Report, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, December 1999

• Architecture of an Intelligent Resource Management System, Omer F. Rana, David W. Walker and Yan Huang, 18th UK Planning and Scheduling Workshop, Manchester, December 1999

• Software Performance Prediction extracted from Designs, Omer F. Rana and Dave Jennings, Software Performance Prediction Workshop, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, November 1999

• Performance Analysis and Mapping Strategies for Automating Neural System Development, Omer F. Rana, Antonia J. Jones and Peter G. Harrison, Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, MIT, November 1999. IASTED Press.

• HPJava based Parallel Data Mining Framework, Omer F. Rana and Donald Fisk, IRI99, Atlanta, Georgia USA, November 1999

• Component-Based Software Development in PSEs, Maozhen Li, Omer F. Rana and David W. Walker, IRI99, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 1999

• A Design and Management Framework for Mobile Agent Systems, Omer F. Rana 7th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Maryland, USA October 1999. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• An XML Based Component Model For Generating Scientific Applications and Performing Large Scale Simulations in a Meta-Computing Environment, Omer F. Rana, Maozhen Li, David W. Walker and Matthew Shields, Generative Component Based Software Engineering Conference, Erfert, Germany, September 1999

• Automating Performance Analysis of Neural Algorithms, Omer F. Rana, Antonia J. Jones and Peter G. Harrison, Fifteenth Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Bristol, UK, July 1999

• A Distributed Framework for Parallel Data Mining using HPJava, O Rana and D Fisk, BT Technical Journal, Vol 17 No 3, July 1999. Kluwer Academic.

• A Java/CORBA Based Visual Program Composition Environment, Matthew Shields, David Walker, Omer Rana and David Golby, (poster), ACM JavaGrande Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, June 1999

• A Model of the Meeting Design Pattern for Distributed Agent Systems, Omer F. Rana and Chiara Biancheri, Application of Petri Nets to Intelligent System Development, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, Springer Verlag, June 1999

• Bringing together Mobile Agents and Data Analysis in PSEs, Omer F. Rana and David W. Walker , PDPTA, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Springer Verlag, June 1999

• Agent based High Performance Computing (preface), Omer Rana, David Kotz and Kate Stout, Autonomous Agents99, Workshop on Agent Based High Performance Computing, Seattle, Washington, USA, May 1999

• The Use of Java in High Performance Computing: A Data Mining Example, David Walker and Omer F. Rana, High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN), Amsterdam, Springer Verlag, February 1999. Springer Verlag.

• Java based Mobile-Agents for Parallel Scientific Computing, Omer F. Rana and David W. Walker, Technical Report, Computer Science Department, Cardiff University, February 1999

• A Petri Net Model of the Meeting Design Pattern for Mobile-Stationary Agent Interaction, Omer F. Rana and Chiara Biancheri , HICSS-32, Maui, Hawaii, January 1999. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Making Java work for High End Computing, G. Thiruvathukal et al., SuperComputing98, Orlando, Florida, November 1998 (contribution to edited work)

• High Performance Java, David W. Walker and Omer F. Rana , JTAP/JISC Report, August 1998

• From Neural Learning Algorithms to Parallel Architectures: A Practical Design Methodology, PhD Thesis, Imperial College, 1998
  

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