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PROJECTS

2011 - Present: “A Power Efficient and Flexible Mote-on-a-Chip for Wireless Sensor Networks”

This project is a collaboration between XJTLU (China), the University of Liverpool (UK), the University of Seoul (South Korea) and University College Cork (Ireland). This project will design a power efficient and flexible mote-on-a-chip platform which provides optimal support for common WSN functionality, with no redundant features and a rich interface between the hardware and software layers.

2010 - Present: “TEPAWSN: An Integrated Methodology for the Developing Sensor Networks Using Formal Methods”

This project is a collaboration between XJTLU (China), the University of St. Andrews (UK) and the University of Liverpool (UK) and addresses the problem of developing formal methods to specify, analyze and develop WSN applications.

2009 - Present: “Software Technology for Adaptable Distributed Middleware (STADiUM)”

The STADiUM project addresses the problem of providing end-to-end middleware support for wireless sensor networks. This project has resulted in a suite of middleware tools including LooCI, PMA and QARI. This project is led by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).

2009 - 2010: “REDE - Wireless Sensor Network Based River Monitoring”

This project applies wireless sensor network technologies to tackle the serious problems of pollution and river monitoring in the city of Sao Carlos in Brazil. This project was a collaboration between Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China), the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).

2008 – 2009 : “Isis – Protecting Children in Online Social Networks”

The Isis project built on our previous work to provide a framework to prevent the abuse of children in digital communities such as chat, P2P and social networking systems. This project was a collaboration between Lancaster University (UK) and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (UK).

2007 – 2009 : “FREE – Flood Risk From Extreme Events”

In the FREE project, the GridStix platform was re-deployed on the River Dee in North Wales, where it was used to evaluate the use of on-site modeling and dense sensor deployments for providing flood warnings. This project is a collaboration between Lancaster University (UK) and the Environment Agency (UK).

2005 – 2007 : “North West Grid”

In NWGRID, we developed a powerful platform for Grid-attached wireless sensor networks, called ‘GridStix’. The GridStix platform was deployed and evaluated in a flood monitoring and warning scenario on the River Ribble in the Yorkshire Dales from 2006 to 2007. This project was conducted at Lancaster University (UK).

IN THE NEWS

PUBLICATIONS

Submitted for Review / In Progress

[A] “A Component and Binding Model for Building Dynamic Sensor Network Applications”, Hughes D., Thoelen K., Matthys N., Fang L., Horre W., Huygens C., Joosen W., Guan S., to be submitted to Springer JISA Journal.

[B] “A Component and Binding Model for Building Dynamic Sensor Network Applications”, Hughes D., Thoelen K., Matthys N., Horré W., Del Cid J., Michiels S., Huygens C., Joosen W., to be submitted to PerCom 2011.

[C] "Formal Modeling, Analysis and Development of Smart Grids", Hughes D., Lee K., Man K.L., to be submitted to DATICS-ISSOCC'11.

Journals

[70] “A Middleware Platform to Support River Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks”, Hughes D., Ueyama J., Matthys N., Horré W., Michiels S., Huygens C., Joosen W., Man K. L., Guan S., to appear in the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, JBCS, Springer.

[69] “Composition Approaches for Cyber Physical Systems”, Wan K., Hughes D., Man K., Krilavičius T., to appear in the International Journal of Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems (IJDATICS).

[68] “Sensor Middleware to Support Enterprise Deployments”, del Cid J., Michiels S., Joosen W., Hughes D., to appear in the International Journal of Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems (IJDATICS).

[67] “Streamlining Development for Networked Embedded Systems Using Multiple Paradigms”, Huygens C., Hughes D., Legaisse B., Joosen W., in IEEE Software, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 45 – 52, IEEE.

[66] “Specification, Analyzing Challenges and Approaches for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)”, K. Wan, K. Man, D. Hughes, in Engineering Letters, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 308 – 315, IAENG.

[65] “Quality Awareness in Software Deployment for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Horré W., Hughes D., Michiels S., Joosen W., in the Journal of Software (JSW), Vol. 5, No. 11, November 2010, pp. 9 – 18, Academy Publishing.

[64] “Building Wireless Sensor Network Applications with LooCI”, Hughes D., Thoelen K., Horré W., Matthys N., Michiels S., Huygens C., Joosen W., Ueyama J., in press in the International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC), Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 38-64, IGI.

[63] “A Graph Based Approach to Supporting Software Reconfiguration in Distributed Sensor Network Applications”, Hughes D., Horré W., Lee K., Michiels S., Joosen W., Man K. L., in the Journal of Internet Technology, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp 561-571, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan.

[62] “Towards Open Tracing of P2P File Sharing”, Hughes D., Lee K., Walkerdine J., in the International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 31-40, IARIA.

[61] “Towards the Provision of Site Specific Flood Warnings using Wireless Sensor Networks” Smith P., Hughes D., Beven K., Cross P., Tych W., Coulson G., Blair G., in the Inter-Science journal on Meteorological Applications, Vol. 16, No.1, January 2009, pp. 57-64, Wiley.

[60] “An Experiment with Reflective Middleware to Support Grid-based Flood Monitoring”, Hughes D., Greenwood P., Coulson G., Blair G., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., in the Inter-Science Journal on Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 20, No. 11, November 2007, pp. 1303-1316, Wiley.

[59] “A Framework for P2P Application Development”, Walkerdine J., Hughes D., Rayson P., Simms J., Gilleade K., Mariani J., Sommerville I., in the Journal of Computer Communications: special edition on the Foundations of Peer-to-Peer Computing, Vol. 31, No. 2, March 2008, pp. 387-401, Elsevier.

[58] “Is Deviant Behaviour the Norm on P2P File Sharing Networks?”, Hughes D., Gibson S., Walkerdine J., Coulson G., published in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 7, No. 2, February 2006 IEEE.

[57] “Free Riding on Gnutella Revisited: the Bell Tolls?”, Hughes D., Coulson G., Walkerdine J., in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 2005, IEEE.

Books and Book Chapters

[56] “PAFESD: Process Algebras for Electronic System Design”, [AMAZON] Man K. L., Krilavicius T., Hughes D., to be published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, 2011.

[55] “Overlay-based Middleware for the Pervasive Grid”, [AMAZON], Paul Grace, Danny Hughes, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Barry Porter, Francois Taiani., in the Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications, IGI Press, 2009.

[54] “The Evolution of P2P Network Architectures”, [AMAZON], Hughes D., Coulson G., Walkerdine J., in the Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications, IGI Press, 2009.

[53] “P2P File Sharing and the Life and Death of Gnutella”, [AMAZON], Hughes D., Walkerdine J., in the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication, Idea Group Reference, 2008. 

Conferences

[52] “Modeling and Analysis of Radiation Therapy System with Respiratory Compensation using Uppaal”, Man K.L., Krilavičius T., Wan K., Hughes D., in the proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2011), Busan, Korea, May 2011, IEEE.

[51] “Sensor Middleware to Support Diverse Data Qualities”, del Cid J., Matthys N., Huygens C., Hughes D., Michiels S., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2011, IEEE.

[50] “Composition Approaches for Cyber Physical Systems”, Wan K., Hughes D., Man K., Krilavičius T., in the proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Enterprise Applications (NESEA’10), Suzhou, China, November, 2010, IEEE.

[49] “Sensor Middleware to Support Enterprise Deployments”, del Cid J., Michiels S., Joosen W., Hughes D., in the proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Enterprise Applications (NESEA’10), Suzhou, China, November, 2010, IEEE.

[48] “Extending Sensor Networks into the Cloud using Amazon Web Services”, Lee K., Murray D., Hughes D., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Enterprise Applications (NESEA’10), Suzhou, China, November, 2010, IEEE.

[47] “Policy-driven Tailoring of Sensor Networks”, Matthys N., Huygens C., Hughes D., Ueyama J., Michiels S., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 2nd International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (SCUBE’10), Miami, Florida, December, 2010, LNCS.

[46] “Expressing and Configuring Quality of Service in Multi-purpose Wireless Sensor Networks”, del Cid J., Hughes D., Michiels S., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 2nd International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (SCUBE’10), Miami, December, 2010, LNCS.

[45] "An Event-based Component Model for Sensor Networks: a Case Study for River Monitoring", Ueyama J., Hughes D.,  Matthys N., Horre W., Michiels S., Huygens C., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the Tools Session of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC2010).

[44] “QARI: Quality Aware Software Deployment for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Horré W., Hughes D., Michiels S., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG’10), Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 642-647, April 2010, IEEE.

[43] “A Wireless Sensor Network Based Green Marketplace for Electrical Appliances”, Hughes D., Man K. L., Lee K., Ueyama J., in the proceedings of the 2^nd International Conference on Future Networks (ICFN’10), pp. 299-303, January 2010, IEEE.

[42] “LooCI: A Loosely-coupled Component Infrastructure for Networked Embedded Systems”, Hughes D., Thoelen K., Horré W., Matthys N., Michiels S., Huygens C., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM’09), pp. 195-204, December 2009, ACM

[41] “Exploiting Extreme Heterogeneity in a Flood Warning Scenario using the Open Overlays Middleware”, Hughes D., Bencomo N., Blair G., Coulson G., Grace P., Porter B., short paper in the proceedings of the ACM/IFIP international conference on Middleware (Middleware 2008), October 2008, pp. 54-57, December 2008, IFIP/ACM/LNCS.

[40] “Supporting IPv6 Interaction with Wireless Sensor Networks Using NP++”, Jakeman M., Hughes D., Coulson G., Lee K., Pink S., in the proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA’08), Dallas, Texas, USA, pp. 409-419, October 2008, LNCS.

[39] "The Provision of Site Specific Flood Warnings Using Wireless Sensor Networks.", Paul Smith, Keith Beven, Wlodek Tych, Danny Hughes, Gordon Blair, in the proceedings of the European Conference on Flood Risk Management (FloodRisk’08), Oxford, UK, September 2008, CRC press.

[38] "Genie: Supporting the Model Driven Development of Reflective, Component-based Adaptive Systems", Bencomo N., Grace P., Flores C., Hughes D., and Blair G., in the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2008, Leipzig, Germany, pp. 811-814, May 2008, IEEE.

[37] “Experiences with Open Overlays: A Middleware Approach to Network Heterogeneity”, Grace P., Hughes D., Porter B., Blair G., Coulson G., Taiani F., in the proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys’08), pp. 123-136, March 2008, ACM/IEEE.

[36] "Goal-Based Modeling of Dynamically Adaptive System Requirements", Goldsby H. J., Sawyer P., Bencomo N., Hughes D., Cheng B. H. C., in the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS 08), pp. 36-45, Belfast, Northern Ireland, pp. 36-45, March 2008, IEEE.

[35] “The Effect of Viral Media on Business Usage of P2P”, Walkerdine J., Hughes D., Lee K., short paper in the proceedings of the 7th international conference on Peer-to-Peer systems (P2P’07), pp. 249–250, May 2007, IEEE.

[34] “On the Penetration of Business Networks by P2P File Sharing”, Lee K., Walkerdine J., Hughes D, in the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP’07), Santa Clara, California, USA, pp. 23-29, July 2007, IEEE.

[33] “Using Grid Technologies to Optimise a Wireless Sensor Network for Flood Management”, Greenwood P., Hughes D., Porter B., Grace P., Coulson G., Blair G., Taiani F., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Boulder, Colorado, USA, pp. 389–390, November 2006, ACM.

[32] “An Intelligent and Adaptable Flood Monitoring and Warning System”, Hughes D., Greenwood P., Coulson G., Blair G., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., in the proceedings of the 5th UK E-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM’06), Nottingham, UK, September 2006. RECIPIENT OF THE BEST PAPER AWARD

[31] “Monitoring Challenges and Approaches for P2P File Sharing Systems”, Hughes D, Walkerdine J., Lee K., in the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Internet Surveillance and Protection (ICISP’06), pp 18 – 24, Cap Esterel, France, August 2006, IEEE press.

[30] “Intelligent Dependability Services for Overlay Networks”, Porter B., Coulson G., Hughes D., in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Distributed and Interoperable Systems, Bologna, Italy, June 2006, pp. 199–212, IFIP/LNCS.

[29] “Exploiting P2P in the Creation of Game Worlds”, Hughes D., Gilleade K., Walkerdine J., Mariani J., in the proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Computer Game Design and Technology (CGDT ’05), pp. 125–129, Liverpool, UK, November 2005, ACM.

[28] “Exploiting Diversity in Peer-to-Peer Systems”, Hughes D., Coulson G., Warren I., short paper in the proceedings of the 5th annual Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Conference (DIRC ’05), pp 44–45, Edinburgh, UK, March 2005.

[27] “A Framework for Developing Reflective and Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks (RaDP2P)”, Hughes D., Coulson G., Warren I., short paper in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer computing (P2P’04), pp 282 – 283, Zurich, Switzerland, August 2004, IEEE.

[26] “A Framework for Testing Distributed Systems”, Hughes D., Greenwood P., Coulson G., short  paper in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer computing (P2P’04), 262 – 263, Zurich, Switzerland, August 2004, IEEE.

[25] “AGnuS: The Altruistic Gnutella Server”, Hughes D., Warren I., Coulson G., published in the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer computing (P2P’03), pp. 202 – 203, Linköping, Sweden, September 2003, IEEE. 

Workshops

[24] “Building blocks for owner-federated wireless sensor networks systems”, Huygens C., Matthys N., Maerien J., Hughes D., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Federated Wireless Sensor Systems (FedSens’11).

[23] “Supporting Reconfiguration and Re-use through Self-Describing Component Interfaces”, Thoelen K., Matthys N., Horre W., Huygens C., Joosen W., Hughes D., Fang L., Guan S., in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens’10), Bangalore, India, 2010. ACM.

[22] “Towards a Unified Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)”, Wan K.,  Man K. L., Hughes D., in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Security and Applications (IWISA’10), Qinhuangdao, China, IEEE.

[21] “System Architecture Directions for Tangible Cloud Computing”, Lee K., Hughes D., in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Security and Applications (IWISA’10), Qinhuangdao, China, IEEE.

[20] “Applying a Multi-Paradigm Approach to Implementing Wireless Sensor Network Based River Monitoring”, Ueyama J., Hughes D., Matthys N., Horré W., Michiels S., Huygens C., Joosen W., Man K. L., Guan S., in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Security and Applications (IWISA’10), Qinhuangdao, China, IEEE.

[19] “Experiences with a Multi-network Video Streaming System”, Buyun X., Hughes D., Man K.L., in the proceedings of the Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems track of ICIS'10 (DATICS-ICIS’10), pp. 699-703, Chengdu, China, IEEE.

[18] “Decentralized Fault Detection and Management for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Chen C., Man K.L., Hughes D., in the proceedings of the Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits (DATICS) track of FutureTech'10 (DATICS-FutureTech’10), pp. 1-6, Busan, Korea, IEEE.

[17] “Fine Grained, Application-Centric Security for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Afzal R., Matthys N., Hughes D., Huygens C., Michiels S., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 25^th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC’10), pp. 793-794, Sierre, Switzerland, March 2010, ACM.

[16] “Flexible Integration of Data Qualities in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Matthys N., Huygens C., Hughes D., Michiels S., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 4^th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens'09), pp. 31-36, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA, December 2009, ACM.

[15] “Adaptable Service and Resource Management in Wireless Sensor Networks” Del Cid J., Hughes D., Michiels S., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 4^th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens'09), pp. 1-6, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA, December 2009, ACM.

[14] “Fine Grained Tailoring of Component Behaviour for Networked Embedded Systems”, Matthys N., Hughes D., Michiels S., Huygens C., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 7^th IFIP Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems (SEUS’09), pp. 156-167, Santorini, Greece, November 2009, LNCS.

[13] “A Graph Based Approach to Supporting Reconfiguration in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Horré W., Lee K., Hughes D., Michiels S., Joosen W., in the proceedings of the 1^st  International Workshop on Applications of Graph Theory in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks (Graph-Hoc’09), p. 326-331, Chennai, India, December 2009, IEEE.

[12] “Resource Management Middleware to Support Self Managing Wireless Sensor Networks”, Del Cid J., Matthys N., Hughes D., Michiels S., Joosen W., in proceedings of the 1^st international Workshop on Architectures and languages for self-managing distributed systems (Self-Man’09), San Francisco, California, USA, September 2009, IEEE.

[11] “Middleware Support for Dynamic Reconfiguration in Sensor Networks”, Grace, P., Hughes, D., Porter, B., Coulson, G., Blair, G., in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE), pp. 1-6, Marina Del Ray, California, USA, March 2009, IEEE.

[10] “Supporting Law Enforcement in Digital Communities through Natural Language Analysis”, Hughes D., Rayson P., Walkerdine J., Lee K., Greenwood P., Rashid A., May-Chahal C., Brennan M., in the proceedings of the 2^nd International Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF’08), pp. 122-134, Washington D.C., USA, August 2008, LNCS.

[09] “The Evolution of the GridStix Wireless Sensor Network Platform”, Coulson G., Hughes D., Blair G., Grace P., in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE 08), co-located with International Conference of Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 08), pp. 1-6, Santorini, Greece, June 2008, IEEE.

[08] “AdaPtP - a Framework for Building Adaptable Peer-to-Peer Systems”, Hughes D., Coulson G., Warren I., in the proceedings of the 1^st International Workshop on Performance for Peers (P4P2P’08), Warwick, UK, May 2008.

[07] “Managing Heterogeneous Data Flows in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a ‘Split Personality’ Mote Platform”, Hughes D., Daude M., Coulson G., Blair G., in the proceedings of the 2^nd International Workshop on SensorWebs, Databases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS 2008), pp. 145-148, Turku, Finland, July 2008, IEEE.

[06] “Visualizing the Analysis of Dynamically Adaptive Systems Using i* and DSLs”, Sawyer P., Bencomo N., Hughes D., Grace P., Goldsby H. J., Cheng B. C. H., in the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV'07), pp. 3–13, Delhi, India, October 15th, 2007, IEEE.

[05] “An Open Tracing System For P2P File Sharing Systems”, Hughes D., Lee K., Walkerdine J., published in the proceedings of the second International Workshop on P2P Systems and Applications (P2PSA ’07), pp. 3–9, Morne, Mauritius, May 2007, IEEE press. RECIPIENT OF THE BEST PAPER AWARD

[04] “Dynamic Reconfiguration in Sensor Middleware”, Grace P., Coulson G., Blair G., Porter B., Hughes D., in the proceedings of the first International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens'06), pp. 1-6, Melbourne, Australia, November 2006, ACM

[03] “GridStix: Supporting Flood Prediction using Embedded Hardware and Next Generation Grid Middleware”, Hughes D., Greenwood P., Coulson G., Blair G., Pappenberger F., Smith P., Beven K., in the proceedings of the 4^th International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'06), pp. 621–626, Niagara Falls, USA, June 2006, IEEE.

[02] “Improving QoS for Peer-to-Peer Applications through Adaptation”, Hughes D., Warren I., Coulson G., published in the proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS’04), pp. 178–183, Suzhou, China, May 2004, IEEE.

PhD Thesis

[01] “AdaPtP - a Framework for Building Adaptable Peer-to-Peer Systems”, Hughes D, Lancaster University, August 2007.