Top 4 Publications, Ordered by Impact

• Adam Barker, Christopher D. Walton and David Robertson. Choreographing Web Services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, volume 2, number 2, pages 152-166, IEEE Computer Society, April-June 2009. ** IEEE Featured Article in April-June 2009

  
  

• Adam Barker, Jon B. Weissman and Jano van Hemert. Eliminating the Middle Man: Peer-to-Peer Dataflow. In HPDC'08: Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 55-64. ACM, June 2008. **Acceptance rate: 17%

  
  

• Adam Barker, Jon B. Weissman and Jano I. van Hemert. Reducing Data Transfer in Service-Oriented Architectures: The Circulate Approach. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, volume 5, number 3, pages 437-449, IEEE Computer Society, Third Quarter 2012.




• Suraj Pandey, Adam Barker, Kapil Kumar Gupta and Rajkumar Buyya. Minimizing Execution Costs when using Globally Distributed Cloud Services. In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), pages 222-229, IEEE Computer Society, April 2010.**Acceptance rate: 25%

Refereed Journal Articles

• Adam Barker, Jon B. Weissman and Jano I. van Hemert. Reducing Data Transfer in Service-Oriented Architectures: The Circulate Approach. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, volume 5, number 3, pages 437-449, IEEE Computer Society, Third Quarter 2012.




• Adam Barker, Christopher D. Walton and David Robertson. Choreographing Web Services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, volume 2, number 2, pages 152-166, IEEE Computer Society, April-June 2009. [Bibtex]

**IEEE Featured Article in April-June 2009 issue




• Adam Barker, Jon B. Weissman and Jano I. van Hemert. Avoiding Workflow Bottlenecks Caused By Centralised Orchestration. Springer Journal of Cluster Computing, volume 12, number 2, pages 221-235, Springer, June 2009. [Bibtex]

  
  

• Paolo Besana, Vivek Patkar, Adam Barker, David Glasspool and David Robertson. Sharing Choreographies in OpenKnowledge: A Novel Approach to Interoperability. Journal of Software (JSW), Vol 4, No 8 (2009), pages 833-842, Oct 2009.

  
  

• D. Robertson, C. Walton, A. Barker, P. Besana, Y. Chen-Burger, F. Hassan, D. Lambert, G. Li, J. McGinnis, N. Osman, A. Bundy, F. McNeill, F. van Harmelen, C. Sierra, F. Giunchiglia. Models of Interaction as a Grounding for Peer to Peer Knowledge Sharing. In E. Chang, T. Dillon, R. Meersman and K. Sycara editors, Advances in Web Semantics, vol 1, LNCS-IFIP, 2009. [Bibtex]

Refereed Conference/Symposia/Workshop Publications

• Ward Jaradat, Alan Dearle and Adam Barker. An Architecture for Decentralised Orchestration of Web Service Workflows. To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE 20th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2013).

  
  

• Ward Jaradat, Alan Dearle and Adam Barker. A Dataflow Language for Decentralised Orchestration of Web Service Workflows. To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE 2013 7th International Workshop on Scientific Workflows, in conjunction with IEEE SERVICES 2013.

  
  

• Gary McGilvary, Adam Barker, Ashley Lloyd and Malcolm Atkinson. V-BOINC: The Virtualization of BOINC. To appear in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013).

  **Acceptance rate: 22%

  
  

• Jonathan Stuart Ward and Adam Barker. Semantic Based Data Collection for Large Scale Cloud Systems. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing (DIDC 2012), in conjunction with HPDC'12: The 21st International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 13-22, ACM 2012.

  
  

• Adam Barker and Rajkumar Buyya. Decentralised Orchestration of Service-Oriented Scientific Workflows. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2011), May 2011.

  **Acceptance rate (full papers): 11%

  
  

• Suraj Pandey, Adam Barker, Kapil Kumar Gupta and Rajkumar Buyya. Minimizing Execution Costs when using Globally Distributed Cloud Services. In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), pages 222-229, IEEE Computer Society, April 2010.

  **Acceptance rate: 25%

  
  

• Paolo Besana and Adam Barker. An Executable Calculus for Service Choreography. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2009), volume 5870 of LNCS, pages 373-380. Springer, November 2009. [Slides] [Bibtex]

  **Acceptance rate: 20%

  
  

• Adam Barker, Paolo Besana, David Robertson and Jon B. Weissman. The Benefits Of Service Choreography For Data-Intensive Computing. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE'09), in conjunction with HPDC'09: The 18th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 1-10. ACM, June 2009. [Bibtex]

  
  

• Adam Barker, Jano I. van Hemert, Richard A. Baldock and Malcolm P. Atkinson. An e-Infrastructure to Support Collaborative Embryo Research. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), pages 520-525. IEEE Computer Society, May 2009. [Slides] [Bibtex]

  
  

• Adam Barker, Jon B. Weissman and Jano van Hemert. Eliminating the Middle Man: Peer-to-Peer Dataflow. In HPDC'08: Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pages 55-64. ACM, June 2008. [Slides] [Bibtex]

  **Acceptance rate: 17%

  
  

• Adam Barker, Jano I. van Hemert, Richard A. Baldock, Malcolm P. Atkinson. The Developmental Gene Expression Map Project. In Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, September 2008. [Slides]

  
  

• Adam Barker, Jon B. Weissman, and Jano van Hemert. Orchestrating Data-Centric Workflows. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), pages 210-217. IEEE Computer Society, May 2008. [Slides] [Bibtex]

  **Acceptance rate: 32%

  
  

• Adam Barker and Jano van Hemert. Scientific Workflow: A Survey and Research Directions. In Roman Wyrzykowski et al., editors, Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Revised Selected Papers, volume 4967 of LNCS, pages 746-753. Springer, 2008. [Bibtex]

  
  

• Adam Barker and Robert G. Mann. Flexible Service Composition. In Proceedings of Cooperative Information Agents X, 10th International Workshop, CIA 2006, Edinburgh, September 11-13, 2006, volume 4149 of LNCS, pages 446-460. Springer, 2006. [Bibtex]

  
  

• Adam Barker and Robert G. Mann. Agent-Based Scientific Workflow Composition. In Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XV, volume 351 of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, pages 485-488, 2006. [Bibtex]

  
  

• Adam Barker. Agent-Based Service Coordination for the Grid. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Compiegne, France, September 19-22, 2005, pages 611-614. IEEE Computer Society. [Bibtex]

  
  

• Adam Barker. Agents, Consumers of Service-Oriented Architectures. In Proceedings of The First European Young Researchers Workshop on Service Oriented Computing, Leicester, U.K, April 2005.

  
  

• C. Walton and Adam Barker. An Agent Based e-Science Experiment Builder. In Proceedings of The 1st International Workshop on Semantic Intelligent Middleware for the Web and the Grid, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Valencia, Spain, August 2004. [Bibtex]

Refereed Book Chapters

• Paolo Besana and Adam Barker. Towards Decentralised Clinical Decision Support Systems. Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare 5, pages 27-44, Springer, 2011.




• Christopher Walton and Adam Barker. An Agent Based e-Science Experiment Builder. Selected AKT Papers (2004), Chapter: Semantic Web Services, pages 116-130. Editors: Nigel Shadbolt and Kieron O'Hara, ISBN 85432 8122, October 2004.

Refereed Abstracts

• Alex Voss, Adam Barker, Mahboubeh Asgari, Adrian van Ballegooijen and Ian Sommerville. Studying the Sun’s Corona using an Elastic Virtual Infrastructure for Research Applications (ELVIRA). In Proceedings of the UK Allhands e-Science Meeting, September 2011.

  
  

• Gary McGilvary, Adam Barker and Malcolm P. Atkinson. Optimum Platform Selection and Configuration for Computational Jobs. In Proceedings of the UK Allhands e-Science Meeting, September 2011.

  
  

• Adam Barker, Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Ian Johnson and Brian Matthews. Trust Management of Dynamic Virtual Organisations in XtreemOS. In Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, December 2009.

  
  

• Adam Barker, Paolo Besana, Matthew South, David Glasspool and John Fox. Safe and Sound: ICT Services to Ensure Quality and Safety of Patient Care. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Grand Challenges in ICT and Healthcare, Swansea University, 2009.

Academic Theses

• Adam Barker. Flexible Service Choreography. PhD Thesis, Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2007.

  
  

• Adam Barker. Coordination is Key. MSc by Research, Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2003.

  
  

• Adam Barker. An Implementation of the OASIS Business Transaction Protocol on the CORBA Activity Service. MSc Thesis, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, 2002.

  **Thesis completed at Hewlett Packard Arjuna with Mark Little.

Competitive Scholarships

• Scottish Crucible 2012.
• Medical Research Council (MRC) 4 year Doctoral studentship: 2002 - 2006.
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) studentship: 2001 - 2002.
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) travel grant: Universidad Politechnica de Valencia, 2001.

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