Building a new nation: risk, goverance and trust.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J. (2013, January)
Building a new nation: risk, goverance and trust. Presented at Cyber Security 2013, Edinburgh
This presentation outlines some of the opportunities and threats that Scotland faces within an Information Age.
Towards a new health and social care information sharing architecture.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J. (2012, May)
Towards a new health and social care information sharing architecture
This presentation outlines the integration of the safi.re information sharing architecture.
Case Study: moving towards an e-health platform to store NHS patient Information in the cloud.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Ekonomou, E., Lo, O., & Thuemmler, C. (2012, February)
Case Study: moving towards an e-health platform to store NHS patient Information in the cloud. Paper presented at Cloud Computing in the Public Sector: The Way Forward, London
Case Study: Moving Towards an e-health Platform to Store NHS Patient Information in the Cloud The NHS pilot scheme to store patient information in the Cloud How can the health...
DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud.
Conference Proceeding
Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Thuemmler, C., Lo, O., Khedim, A. S., Uthmani, O., …Bell, D. (2011)
DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2011.31
The use of digital technologies in providing health care services is collectively known as eHealth. Considerable progress has been made in the development of eHealth services,...
Intelligence information sharing between the police and their community partners.
Presentation / Conference
Scott, R., Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., & Lawson, A. (2011, June)
Intelligence information sharing between the police and their community partners. Paper presented at Symposium on Security and Cybercrime, Edinburgh Napier University
This presentation will show a newly developed system for information, and will outline the three "R"s involved in information sharing: RISK. Identify and managing risks to ens...
D-FET – A community cloud for enhancing skills using virtualised environments and cloud-based infrastructures.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J., & Macfarlane, R. (2011, June)
D-FET – A community cloud for enhancing skills using virtualised environments and cloud-based infrastructures. Paper presented at Scottish Higher Education Employability Conference: Strengthening Partnerships with Employers, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh
The use of virtualised and cloud-based environments provide an excellent opportunity to enhance learning and to provide students with skills which match exactly to the require...
Towards a framework for the generation of enhanced attack/background network traffic for evaluation of network-based intrusion detection systems
Conference Proceeding
Lo, O. C. W., Graves, J. R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2010)
Towards a framework for the generation of enhanced attack/background network traffic for evaluation of network-based intrusion detection systems. In J. Demergis (Ed.), Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security. , (190-200
There are a multitude of threats faced in computer networks such as viruses, worms, trojans, attempted user privilege gain, data theft and denial of service attacks. To combat...
Ad-hoc routing metrics and applied weighting for QoS support
Conference Proceeding
Migas, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2008)
Ad-hoc routing metrics and applied weighting for QoS support. In 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium. , (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536496
In the vast majority of ad-hoc routing protocols, the hop-counting mechanisms for identifying the optimal route are dominant. However, this approach oversimplifies such a comp...
Metric Evaluation of Embedded Java-Based Proxies on Handheld Devices in Cluster-Based Ad Hoc Routing
Conference Proceeding
Migas, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2005)
Metric Evaluation of Embedded Java-Based Proxies on Handheld Devices in Cluster-Based Ad Hoc Routing. In The 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. , (147-154). https://doi.org/10.1109/ecbs.2005.51
Ad-hoc wireless networks, which use ad-hoc routing methods may prove a good solution in certain applications, especially where networks have to be constructed where there is n...
Enhanced Methods of Coursework Provision in Computer Networks.
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., & Saliou, L. (2005)
Enhanced Methods of Coursework Provision in Computer Networks. In ITRE 2004. 2nd International Conference Information Technology: Research and Education, 111-115. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITRE.2004.1393657
Many computing-related programmes and modules have many problems caused with large class sizes, large-scale plagiarism, module franchising, and an increasing requirement from ...