Brian Shand
Senior Research Fellow
Tel: +44 [0]1223 213 629
Email: Brian.Shand@cbcu.nhs.uk
Vacancy
Smart Flow EPSRC grant: Post-doc and PhD positions in Event-Based Middleware
There is a job opening for a post-doctoral research associate (RA) on this grant, starting in October 2008 for 3 years. Closing date: 7 April 2008.
Brief biography
Brian Shand is researching new techniques for rule-based processing and dissemination of healthcare data, at the Clinical and Biomedical Computing Unit first within Cambridge University and now the NHS, in close collaboration with the Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre (ECRIC). He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge in distributed systems.
Selected publications
Pietzuch, P., Eyers, D., Kounev, S., and Shand, B.. Towards a Common API for Publish/Subscribe. In International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS), June 2007: 104-115.
Shand, B. and Rashbass, J.: Middleware Support for Monitoring: Privacy and Audit in Healthcare Applications. CoopIS (Cooperative Information Systems) International Conference 2006, In Proceedings of OTM Workshops (1) 2006: 3-4
Shand, B. and Rashbass, J.: Traceability and Timeliness in Messaging Middleware. RDDS 2006, In Proceedings of OTM Workshops (2) 2006: 1551-1554
Shand, B. and Rashbass, J. (Nov 2005) Protecting Privacy in Tabular Healthcare Data: Explicit Uncertainty for Disclosure Control. Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), Alexandria, VA, USA, November 2005: 20-26
Shand, B., Dimmock, N. and Bacon, J. (Nov 2004) Trust for Ubiquitous, Transparent Collaboration. Wireless Networks, 10(6): 711-721
Pietzuch, P.R., Shand, B. and Bacon, J. (Jan/Feb 2004) Composite Event Detection as a Generic Middleware Extension. IEEE Network, Special Issue on Middleware Technologies for Future Communication Networks, 18(1): 44-55
Cahill, V., Shand, B., Elizabeth Gray, Ciarán Bryce, Nathan Dimmock, et al. (Jul-Sep 2003) Using Trust for Secure Collaboration in Uncertain Environments. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2(3): 52-61
Pietzuch, P.R., Shand, B. and Bacon, J. (June 2003) A Framework for Event Composition in Distributed Systems. 4th International Conference on Middleware (Middleware’03), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2003. LNCS 2672, Eds. M Endler and D Schmidt, pp. 62-82. Best paper award.
Shand, B. and Bacon, J. (June 2002) Policies in Accountable Contracts. Policy 2002: IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, pp. 80-91, Monterey, California, USA