Publications

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Books and Dissertations

Paul A.S. Ward A Scalable Partial-Order Data Structure for Distributed-System Observation. 2001
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Journals and Refereed Book Chapters

Evan P.C. Jones, Lily Li, Jakub K. Schmidtke, and Paul A.S. Ward. Practical Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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Thomas Reidemeister, Klemens Boehm, Erik Buchmann, and Paul A.S. Ward. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks in Distributed Hash Tables. Submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
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Evan P.C. Jones and Paul A.S. Ward. Routing Strategies for Delay-Tolerant Networks. Submitted to Computer Communication Review,
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Deyi Li, X. Shi, Paul Ward, and M. M. Gupta. A soft inference mechanism based on cloud models, In T. Martin and F. A. Fontana, editors, Logic Programming and Soft Computing, pp.163-188, Wiley, 1998.

Refereed Conferences and Workshops

Kamran Jamshaid, Lily Li, and Paul A.S. Ward. Gateway Control of Wireless Mesh Networks. Submitted to WiMeshNet, 2006.
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Mohammad A. Munawar and Paul A.S. Ward. Adaptive Monitoring in Enterprise Software Systems. In SIGMETRICS 2006 Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML)., 2006.
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Michael Jarrett and Paul A.S. Ward. Trusted Computing for Protecting Ad-hoc Routing. In the Fourth Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2006.
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Mohammad A. Munawar and Paul A.S. Ward. System Models for Problem Determination. In IBM Academy of Technology 4th Proactive Problem Prediction, Avoidance and Diagnosis Conference, 2006.
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Vijay Dheap and Paul A.S. Ward. Event-Driven Response Architcture for Service-based Computing, In Proceedings of the 2005 CAS Conference, Toronto, October 2005.
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Self-Healing in the WebSphere Environment. Eric Labadie, Mohammad Munawar, and Paul Ward. CASCON Workshop on Engineering Autonomic Systems, October 2005.
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Evan P.C. Jones, Lily Li, and Paul A.S. Ward. Practical routing in delay-tolerant networks. In the SIGCOMM 2005 Workshop on Delay Tolerant Networking (WDTN-05), Philadelphia, USA, Sept. 2005.
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Evan P.C. Jones, Martin Karsten, and Paul A.S. Ward. Multipath load balancing in multi-hop wireless networks. In the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications 2005. Pages 158-166.
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Mohammad A. Munawar and Paul A.S. Ward. Are two interfaces better than one?. In the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, 2005. Pages 119-125.
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Paul A.S. Ward and Dwight S. Bedasse. Fast convex closure for efficient predicate detection. In Euro-Par 2005 Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3648, pages 30-39. Springer-Verlag, August 2005.
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Mohammad A. Munawar and Paul A.S. Ward. Better Performance or better manageability? In ICSE Workshop on the Design and Evolution of Autonomic Application Software, 2005.
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Thomas Reidemeister, Mohammad A. Munawar and Paul A.S. Ward. Memory-usage prediction in systems using automatic memory management. In IBM Academy of Technology 3rd Proactive Problem Prediction, Avoidance and Diagnosis Conference, 2005.
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Thomas Reidemeister, Klemens Boehm, Erik Buchmann, and Paul A.S. Ward. Malicious behaviour in content-addressable peer-to-peer networks. In the Third Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2005. Pages 319-326.
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Dushyant Bansal and Paul A.S. Ward. Third-party flow control. In the Third Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2005. 118-124 pages.
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Amol Shukla, Lily Li, Anand Subramanian, Paul A.S. Ward, and Tim Brecht. Evaluating the Performance of User-Space and Kernel-Space Web Servers, In Proceedings of the 2004 CAS Conference, Toronto, October 2004. Pages 189-201.
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Paul A.S. Ward, Tao Huang, and David J. Taylor. Clustering Strategies for Cluster Timestamps. In Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing, pages 73-81. IEEE Computer Society Press, August 2004.
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Ann Lee and Paul A.S. Ward. A Study of Routing Algorithms in Wireless Mesh Networks. Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference. December, 2004.
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Automatic Subscription and Notification for Event-Driven Web Services. Paul Ward and Vijay Dheap. CASCON Workshop on publish/subscribe middleware.
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Vijay Dheap, Mohammad A. Munawar, Sagar Naik, and Paul A.S. Ward. Parameterized Neighborhood-Based Flooding For Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. Milcom 2003.
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Paul A.S. Ward and David J. Taylor. Self-organizing hierarchical cluster timestamps. In R. Sakellariou, J. Keane, J. Gurd, L. Freeman, editors, EuroPar'01 Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 2150, pages 46-56. Springer-Verlag, 2001. Manchester, August, 2001.
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Paul A.S. Ward and David J. Taylor. A hierarchical cluster algorithm for dynamic, centralized timestamps. In IEEE 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Phoenix, April 2001.
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Paul A.S. Ward. A framework algorithm for dynamic, centralized dimension-bounded timestamps. In Proceedings of the 2000 CAS Conference, Toronto, November 2000.
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Paul A.S. Ward. An offline algorithm for dimension-bound analysis. In Dhabaleswar Panda and Norio Shiratori, editors, Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing, pages 128-136. IEEE Computer Society, 1999.
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Paul A.S. Ward. An online algorithm for dimension-bound analysis. In P. Amestoy, et al, editors, EuroPar'99 Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 1685, pages 144-153. Springer-Verlag, 1999.
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Technical Reports

Event-Based Self-Management. Paul A.S. Ward, Dwight S. Bedasse, Tao Huang, Mohammad A. Munawar and Jia Jun Wu. 2005.
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Collection, Association for Problem Determination, and Knowledge Dissemination in Autonomic Computing. Mohammad A. Munawar and Paul A.S. Ward. 2003.
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Vijay Dheap and Paul A.S. Ward. High-Level Design of Event-Driven Web-Services Architecture. 2003.
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Dushyant Bansal and Paul A.S. Ward. Reducing Bandwidth Utilization in Peer-to-Peer Networks. ECE Technical Report Number 2002-17. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1, December 2002. 2002.
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Paul A.S. Ward. Issues in Scalable Distributed-System Management. Technical Report CS-2001-01, Shoshin Distributed Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1, January 2001.
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Paul A.S. Ward and David J. Taylor. Centralized Cluster Timestamps. Technical Report CS-2000-16, Shoshin Distributed Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1, October 2000.
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Paul A.S. Ward. On the scalability of distributed debugging: Vector clock size. Technical Report CS98-29, Shoshin Distributed Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1, December '98.
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