Active Serial Port: A Component for JCSP. Net Embedded Systems
Conference Proceeding
Clayton, S., & Kerridge, J. (2004)
Active Serial Port: A Component for JCSP. Net Embedded Systems. In P. H. Welch, J. M. Martin, D. Duce, M. Green, & I. R. East (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2004, (85-98
The javax.comm package provides basic low-level access between Java programs and external input-output devices, in particular, serial devices. Such communications are handled ...
Achieving smooth component integration with generative aspects and component adaptation.
Conference Proceeding
Feng, Y., Liu, X., & Kerridge, J. (2006)
Achieving smooth component integration with generative aspects and component adaptation. In M. Morisio (Ed.), Re-Use of Off-the-shelf Components: 9th International Conference on Software Reuse, 260-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/11763864_19
Due to the availability of components and the diversity of target applications, mismatches between pre-qualified existing components and the particular reuse context in applic...
Application of context-mediated behavior to a multi-agent pedestrian flow model (PEDFLOW).
Conference Proceeding
Kukla, R., Willis, A. & Kerridge, J. (2001)
Application of context-mediated behavior to a multi-agent pedestrian flow model (PEDFLOW
Developers of pedestrian models often overlook the fact that pedestrians are subjected to a multitude of influences when walking. The majority of existing models only focus on...
Groovy Parallel! A Return to the Spirit of occam?
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J., Barclay, K., & Savage, J. (2005)
Groovy Parallel! A Return to the Spirit of occam?. In J. F. Broenink, H. W. Roebbers, J. P. Sunter, P. H. Welch, & D. C. Wood (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2005, 13-28
For some years there has been much activity in developing CSP-like extensions to a number of common programming languages. In particular, a number of groups have looked at ext...
Measuring pedestrian trajectories with low cost infrared detectors: Preliminary results.
Conference Proceeding
Armitage, A., Binnie, D., Kerridge, J. & Lei, L. (2002)
Measuring pedestrian trajectories with low cost infrared detectors: Preliminary results. In Galea, E. R. (Ed.). Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics: 2nd International Conference held at the Old Naval College, University of Greenwich, London, 20-22 August 2003, 101-110. ISBN 9781904521082
The accurate measurement of pedestrian trajectories has been difficult to achieve in environments other than carefully controlled laboratories. Traditional techniques include ...
Dynamic Allocation of Tasks in occam3
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J., & Nixon, P. (1994)
Dynamic Allocation of Tasks in occam3. In D. Marini, A. De Gloria, & M. Jane (Eds.), Transputer Applications and Systems '94: Proceedings of the 1994 World Transputer Congress, Cernobbio, Italy, Sept. 5-7, 1994
In many application environments there is a need to able to allocate resources dynamically. The occam programming language has no concept of such dynamic allocation. This pape...
W-SQL an interface for scalable, highly parallel, database machines
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J., Walter, D., & Guiton, R. (1995)
W-SQL an interface for scalable, highly parallel, database machines. In J. Keane, & C. Goble (Eds.), Advances in Databases: 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13 Manchester, United Kingdom, July 12–14, 1995 Proceedings. , (263-276). https://doi.org/10.1007/bfb0000552
The goal of any designer building a scalable database machine is to ensure that the interface between the relational processing part of the machine and the storage system is i...
Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J. (2011)
Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP. In J. F. Broenink, F. R. Barnes, J. Kerridge, P. H. Welch, A. T. Sampson, & J. B. Pedersen (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2011, (131-142). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-774-1-131
It is currently very difficult to purchase any form of computer system be it, notebook, laptop, desktop server or high performance computing system that does not contain a mul...
JCSPre: the Robot Edition to Control LEGO NXT Robots
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J., Panayotopoulos, A., & Lismore, P. (2008)
JCSPre: the Robot Edition to Control LEGO NXT Robots. In P. H. Welch, S. Stepney, F. A. Polack, F. R. Barnes, A. A. McEwan, G. S. Stiles, …A. T. Sampson (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2008, 255-270. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-58603-907-3-255
JCSPre is a highly reduced version of the JCSP (Communicating Sequential Processes for Java) parallel programming environment. JCSPre has been implemented on a LEGO Mindstorms...
Testing and Sampling Parallel Systems
Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J. (2007)
Testing and Sampling Parallel Systems. In A. A. McEwan, S. Schneider, W. Ifill, & P. Welch (Eds.), Communicating Process Architectures 2007, 149-162
The testing of systems using tools such as JUnit is well known to the sequential programming community. It is perhaps less well known to the parallel computing community becau...