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Publications

  • Paul Brebner, Liam O'Brien, Jon Gray. Performance Modelling for Service Oriented Architectures. 30th International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2008. May 10-18, Leipzig, Germany, 2008.
  • Liam O'Brien, Paul Brebner, Jon Gray. Business Transformation to SOA: Aspects of the Migration and Performance and QoS Issues. 2nd International Workshop on Systems Development in SOA Environments. SDSOA 2008. May 11, 2008.
  • Paul Brebner, Liam O'Brien, Jon Gray. Performance Modelling for e-Government Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). 19th Australian Software Engineering Conference. ASWEC 2008. 25-29 March 2008, Perth, Australia. Experience Report Proceedings. pp. 130-138. Presentation.
  • Quan Z. Sheng, Kerry L. Taylor, Zakaria Maamar, and Paul Brebner. Research in RFID Data: Issues, Solutions, and Directions (Chapter), in: The Internet of Things: from RFID to Pervasive Networked Systems. Editor: L. Yan etl al. Auerback Publications. ISBN: 978-1420052817. February 2008 (in press).
  • Taylor, K., Brebner, P., Kearney, M., Zhang, D., Lam, K., Tosic, V., "Towards Declarative Monitoring of Declarative Service Compositions", in Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Services Engineering (SEIW 2007), ICDE 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, April 16, 2007.
  • P. Brebner and W. Emmerich, "Two Ways to Grid: The contribution of Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) mechanisms to Service-centric and Resource-centric lifecycles", Journal of Grid Computing, Issue: Online First, Springer, 31st January 2006. (pre-publication version)
  • Paul Brebner, Wolfgang Emmerich, "Deployment of Infrastructure and Services in the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)", Proceedings: Third International Component Deployment Conference, CD 2005, Grenoble, France, Dearle, A, Eisenback, S. (Eds.), LNCS Volume 3798/2005, pp. 181-195. (pre-publication version)
  • Paul Brebner, Emmanuel Cecchet, Julie Marguerite, Petr Tma, Octavian Ciuhandu, Bruno Dufour, Lieven Eeckhout, Stéphane Frénot, Arvind S. Krishna, John Murphy, Clark Verbrugg, Middleware Benchmarking: Approaches, Results, Experiences, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 17, Issue 15, pages 1799-1805, 25 December 2005 (Published Online 28 June 2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.918
  • Paul Brebner, Jeffrey Gosper, “The J2EE ECperf benchmark results: transient trophies or technology treasures?”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Volume 16, Issue 10, Pages 1023 – 1036, July 2004.
  • Paul Brebner, Jeffrey Gosper, "J2EE infrastructure scalability and throughput estimation", SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 31, Number 3, December 2003.
  • Paul Brebner, Jeffrey Gosper, "How Scalable is J2EE Technology?", ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2003.
  • Paul Brebner, Ben Logan, Project JebX: A Java ebXML Experience, Third International Workshop on Internet Computing and E-Commerce (ICEC 2003, April, Nice, France, 2003) in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Conference (IPDPS 2003).
  • Ian Gorton, Anna Liu, Paul Brebner, “Rigorous Evaluation of COTS Middleware Technology”, in: IEEE Computer, March 2003, pages 50-55.
  • Brebner, P. (Ed.), Evaluating J2EE Application Servers - Version 2.1, July 2002, CSIRO Publishing and Cutter Consortium.
  • Shuping Ran, Doug Palmer, Paul Brebner, Shiping Chen, Ian Gorton, Jeffrey Gosper, Lei Hu, Anna Liu, Phong Tran, J2EE Technology Performance Evaluation Methology, Distributed Objects and Applications 2002 (DAO’02), Proceedings (addendum) of "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing", University of California At Irvine, pp13-16
  • Paul Brebner and Shuping Ran, “Entity Bean A, B, C's: Enterprise Java Beans Commit Options and Caching”, Proceedings of IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Heidelberg, Germany, November 2001, LNCS 2218, Springer-Verlag, pp 36-55.
  • Shuping Ran, Paul Brebner, Ian Gorton, The Rigorous Evaluation of Enterprise Java Bean Technology, 15th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN-15), 2000.
  • Paul Brebner, SPIE: Software Process Improvement by Example, In "Proceedings of 1998 International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Practice”, SEEP'98, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1998.
  • Daniel Walker, Paul Brebner, Developing a distributed DSS for natural resource management, Third Asia Pacific Distributed Solutions Event, DSTC, Gold Coast, 1997.
  • Berry, M., Colton, J., Young, J., and Brebner P., Software Process Improvement within an Australian Scientific Agency. Proceedings of Vision 1996, Montreal SPIN, October 1996.
  • Brebner, P., “A computer implementation of Kuhn’s paradigm shifts”, in: Proceedings of the 1985 Australasian Philosophy Society Conference
  • Brebner, P., “Autonomous Paradigm-directed discovery of Naïve Scientific Theories by Computer”, First Pan-Pacific Computer Conference, Australian Computer Society, 10-13 September 1985, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 953-973.

Technical reports, conference talks

  • Brebner, P. Service Semantics. Semantic Technologies for Business and Government. NICTA/AGIMO Seminar, 13 November, 2007. "Service Semantics" Presentation (powerpoint).
  • Brebner, P., Event-based Sensor Web Services. In: Proceedings of the CSIRO ICT Centre Conference, 2006.
  • Brebner, P., Standards for Web Services: WSDL 2.0, Web Research and Standards SIG, AUSWEB '06.
  • UK-OGSA Testbed: Final IGR report Document (10 pp)
  • UK-OGSA Evaluation Project Report 2.0: Evaluating OGSA across organisational boundaries PDF Document 27pp)
  • UK-OGSA Evaluation Project Report 1.0: Evaluation of GT3.2 Installation PDF document (28pp)
  • Brebner, P., University College London, Computer Science Department Seminar: "Grid Middleware - Principles, Practice, and Potential", 2004.
  • Brebner, P., Oxford University Computing Laboratory Talk: "Grid middleware is easy to install, configure, debug and manage - across multiple sites (One can't believe impossible things)", 2004.
  • Brebner, P., “UK OGSA Evaluation Project: Initial Findings”, Invited presentation at the: Core e-Science Programme Town Meeting on Grid and Web Services, 23 April 2004, London, UK.
  • Brebner, P. (Ed.), UK OGSA Evaluation Project, Report 1.0, Evaluation of Globus Toolkit 3.2 (GT 3.2) Installation, UK EPSRC Funded project deliverable, 24 September 2004.
  • Brebner, P., "Grid middleware is easy to install, configure, debug and manage - across multiple sites (One can't believe impossible things)", Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 15 October 2004.
  • Brebner, P., "Grid Middleware - Principles, Practice, and Potential", University College London, Computer Science Department Seminar, 1 November 2004.
  • Smith, T., Brebner, P., "Enterprise Java Application Profiling: Object lifetimes and Garbage Collection in J2EE Applications", CMIS Technical report, 2003.
  • Invited talk at BorCon2002, Is your AppServer being crippled by the JVM?, Paul Brebner, 2002, in proceedings of the 5th Annual Borland Conference Asia Pacific, 2002, Sydney.
  • Invited talk at J2EE, .NET and Enterprise Application Summit (IIR conference), J2EE Architecture and Product Best Practices: Determining the benefits of working with J2EE, Paul Brebner, 2002.
  • CSIRO/SEA MTE Seminar series: J2EE, What’s it all about, Paul Brebner, 2002
  • CSIRO/SEA MTE Seminar series: Getting the most out of your J2EE Application Server, Paul Brebner, 2002.
  • Brebner, P., Evaluating J2EE Application Servers: INTERSTAGE Executive Summary, March 2002.
  • Brebner, P., Evaluating J2EE Application Servers: Borland Enterprise Server Executive Summary, June 2002.
  • Brebner, P., Service Oriented Architecture Management (SOAM) by Proxy Management of Web Services (PMOWS), Project/Research Proposal, CMIS Technical Report February 2002.
  • Ian Gorton, Paul Brebner, Shuping Ran, Shiping Chen, Anna Liu, Doug Palmer, Evaluating J2EE Application Servers - Version 1.1, September 2001, CSIRO Publishing and Cutter Consortium, 96 pages.
  • Brebner, P., A scenario-based methodology and initial results for the usability analysis of Enterprise Java Beans development, deployment and monitoring tools, 2001.
  • Brebner, P., Qualitative evaluation methodology and spreadsheet for the evaluation of J2EE Application Servers, 2001.
  • Invited talk at BorCon2001, How to choose an Application Server, Paul Brebner, 2001, in proceedings of the 4th Annual Borland Conference Asia Pacific, 2001, Melbourne.
  • RAN, S, GORTON, I, TRAN P and BREBNER, P, Evaluating Borland Application Server Technology, VisiBroker ITS v1.2, Borland AppServer V4.5.1, Version 1.0, September 2000.
  • Paul Greenfield, Piyush Maheshwari, Paul Brebner, Ian Gorton, The integration of Business E-Commerce Systems: Scoping Study for the National Electronic Authentication Council (NEAC), CSIRO Consultancy report, August 2000.
  • Cresswell, H., Brebner, P., Pierret, C., Paydar, Z., The SH-Pro V1.03 software for predicting and analysing soil hydraulic properties, CSIRO Land and Water, 2000
  • Brebner, P, Develop Better Scientific Software with Less Effort: How Architecture, Object Oriented Methods, and Java Help, November 1999. CSIRO Technical report (CMIS 99/245).
  • BREBNER, P and COLTON, J, CSIRO Technical Report for ATO Public Ruling on Web Site Expenditure.
  • Brebner, P., "Weka: An Algorithm for Learning Complex Concepts from Few Examples", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS report number 8915, 1989.
  • Brebner, P., "Gargantubrain - An heuristic algorithm for learning non-recursive Horn Clauses from Positive and Negative Examples", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS Report number 8802, 1988.
  • Brebner, P., "Deep Thought: An Algorithm for Learning Causal Laws", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS report number 8804, 1988.
  • Brebner, P., "A maximum-difference approach for Optimising Experiment Selection", Sydney Expert Systems Group, 1988.
  • Brebner, P., "Active Experimentation with Omni-Cognate", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS report, 1988.
  • Brebner, P., "Discovering and learning with Universally Quantified First-Order Features", 1988.
  • Brebner, P., "An Evaluation of the Expert System Shell NEXPERT", CSIRO Division of Information Technology (DIT), Technical Report, 1987.
  • Brebner, P., "An efficient first-order hierarchical clustering algorithm", Sydney Expert Systems Group, 1987.
  • Brebner, P., "A Generalisation of Hunt's Concept Learning System", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS report no 8705, 1987.
  • Brebner, P., "Paradigm-directed Computer Learning", Thesis (MSc, Computer Science Department), University of Waikato, 1985, 166 pages.
  • Brebner, P., "A Relational Approach to Natural Language Understanding", Computer Science Department Technical Report, University of Waikato, 1984.