Miranda Mowbray

Biography

Miranda is a researcher in the Automated Infrastructure Lab. The Lab is focused on developing technologies for highly automated, secure, dynamic instantiations and management of cloud computing infrastructures and services. Miranda's Erdos number is 3.

Research interests

Cloud Computing
Online Communities
P2P Systems

Awards

Fellowship of the British Computer Society, awarded 28 May 2009.

2007 ESSL Scientific Impact prize, for Miranda Mowbray and Dieter Gollmann, Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocol.

Publications

(These are peer-reviewed publications for which I was a major co-author, plus a book/thesis/book chapters.)

Nazareno Andrade, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne and Miranda Mowbray, "A Reciprocation-based Economy for Multiple Services in a Computational Grid". Chapter 16 in Market-oriented Grid and Utility Computing, ed. R. Buyya, Publ. Wiley, November 2009.
This book chapter is an extended version of a conference paper by the authors and Jaindson Santana, A reciprocation-based economy for multiple services in peer-to-peer grids.Copyright (c) IEEE, 2006. Proc. IEEE conference on peer-to-peer computing (P2P), Cambridge, UK, Sept 6-8 2006. DOI: 10.1109/P2P.2006.3

Miranda Mowbray and Siani Pearson, A client-based privacy manager for cloud computing. In Proc. Fourth International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (ComsWare), Dublin, Ireland, 16-19 June 2009.

Miranda Mowbray, Network Worm Detection using Markov's and Cantelli's Inequalities. In Proc. Fourth International Simposio Brasileiro de Redes Computadores e Sistemas Distribuidos (SBRC), Recife, Brazil, 25-29 May 2009.

Miranda Mowbray, The Fog over the Grimpen Mire: Cloud Computing and the Law. SCRIPTed Journal of Law, Technology and Society vol 6 issue 1 (April 2009) pp.132-146. DOI:10.2966/scrip.060109.132. Presented at the BrightTalk Cloud Security Summit, 30 Sept 2009; and to the West London branch of the BCS, 13 Oct 2009.

Miranda Mowbray and Antonio Lain, Dominator-tree analysis for distributed authorization. In Proc. PLAS '08, 8th June 2008, Tucson AZ.

Nazareno Andrade, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne, and Miranda Mowbray, Automatic Grid Assembly by Promoting Collaboration in Peer-to-Peer Grids. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol 67 issue 8 (August 2007) pp.957-966. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2007.04.11 

Miranda Mowbray and Dieter Gollmann, Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocol. Copyright (c) IEEE 2007, 20th Anniversary Invited Talk, In proc. Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Venice, July 2007, pp. 295-308. ISBN: 0-7695-2819-8

Miranda Mowbray, How web community organization can help grid computing. Copyright (c) Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. 2007, Int. J. Web Based Communities 3(1), 2007. DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2007.013773

Matei Ripeanu, Miranda Mowbray, Nazareno Andrade and Aliandro Lima, Gifting Technologies: a BitTorrent case study. First Monday 11(11), November 2006.

Miranda Mowbray, Designing Online Learning Communities to Encourage Cooperation, Chapter V in: Niki Lampropolou and Panayiotis Zaphiris (editors) User-centered Design of Online Learning Communities, (Table of contents), publ. Idea Group, Inc, ISBN 1-59904359-9, pp. 102-121, 2006.
Republished as Chapter XIV in: Militiadis Lytras and Patricia Ordones de Pablos (editors) Social Web Evolution: Integrating Semantic Applications and Web 2.0 Technologies, (Table of contents), publ. Information Science Reference, ISBN 978-1-60566-272-5, March 2009.

Antonio Lain and Miranda Mowbray, Distributed authorization using delegation with acyclic paths.  Copyright (c) IEEE 2006, In Proc. Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW), Venice, July 2006, pp.257-269.

Miranda Mowbray, Implementing Pseudonymity. SCRIPT-ed Journal of Law and Technology 3(1), March 2006, pp.22-32.  

Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Aliandro Lima, Gustavo Wagner and Matei Ripeanu, Influences on cooperation in BitTorrent communities. In Proc. 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Economics of peer-to-peer systems (P2PEcon), Philadelphia, PA, pp.111-115.

Dan Twining, Matthew Williamson, Miranda Mowbray and Maher Rahmouni,    Email Prioritization: reducing delays on legitimate mail caused by junk mail. In Proc. USENIX Tech conference, general track, Boston, 27 June - 2 July 2004, pp.45-48.

Nazareno Andrade, Francisco Brasileiro, Walfredo Cirne and Miranda Mowbray, Discouraging Free Riding in a Peer-to-Peer CPU-sharing Grid. In Proc. IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing workshop (HPDC), Honolulu, 4-9 June 2004, pp.129-137.

Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Walfredo Cirne, and Francisco Brasileiro, 
When Can an Autonomous Reputation Scheme Discourage Free-Riding in a Peer-to-Peer System? In Proc. GP2PC at CCGRID 04, Chicago, April 19-22 2004.

Miranda Mowbray,  Ethics for Bots. In Cognitive, Emotive and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making and Human Action, eds Iva Smit and George E Lasker, publ. International Institute for Advanged Studies in Systems Research and Cynbernetics, ISBN 1-894613-51-1, vol 1 pp.24-28, Aug 2002.

Chris Werry and Miranda Mowbray (eds), Online Communities: Commerce,  Community Action, and the Virtual University.  Prentice Hall, 2000 (Japanese edition Pearson Education Japan, 2002), ISBN 0-13-032382-9

Miranda Mowbray, Does Online Gender Masking Work? International Journal of Communication Vol.11, Jan-Dec 2001 (pp.105-120) Editor/Guest editor: U.S. Bahri/Igor E. Klyukanov Published by: Bahri Publications, New Delhi, India, www.bahripublications.org, 2001. 

Miranda Mowbray, Philosophically Based Limitations to Freedom of Speech in Virtual Communities. (c) Springer, Information Systems Frontiers 3(1), pp.123-131, May 2001.

Miranda Mowbray, Observable instability for the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. In Marc Lassonde (ed.), Approximation, Optimization, and Mathematical Economics, (Book page), Physica Verlag 2001. ISBN 3-7906-1363-X.

Miranda Mowbray, Neither Male nor Female: other-gendered chat in Little Italy. M/C journal of media and culture 3.4, August 2000.

Hillary Bays and Miranda Mowbray, Cookies, Gift-Giving and the Internet. First Monday 4(11),  Nov 1999.

Miranda Mowbray, Gunnar Karlsson and Torsten Kohler, Capacity reservation for multimedia traffic. Distributed Systems Engineering 5, pp.12-18 (1998).

Miranda Mowbray, Evolutionarily Stable Strategy Distributions for the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, Journal of Theoretical Biology (1997) 187, Issue 2, pp.223-229.

James A. Davis, Miranda Mowbray, and Simon Crouch, Finding Cyclic Redundancy Check Polynomials for Multilevel Systems. IEEE Transactions on Communications 46(10), 1998, pp.1250-1253.

Gianluigi Ferrari, Ugo Montanari and Miranda Mowbray, Structured transition systems with parametric observations: observational congurences and minimal realizations (abstract), Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (1997) vol 7 pp.241-282.

Miranda Mowbray, Alastair Coles and David Cunningham, New 5B/6T code for data transmission on unshielded twisted pair cable. Electronics Letters 10 June 1993, Vol 29 no. 12 pp.1107-1109.

Miranda Mowbray, Causal Security. In Proc. Computer Security Foundations Workshop V, Franconia New Hampshire, pp.54-62, June 16-18 1992, IEEE Catalog Number 92TH0447-3 (1992), ISBN 0-9536450-1-0

Miranda Mowbray, Finitary logics for some CCS observational bisimulations, Information Processing Letters 42(3), pp. 161-166 (May 1992)

Gianluigi Ferrari, Ugo Montanari and Miranda Mowbray, Causal Streams: Tracing Causality in Distributed Systems. In E. Best, G. Rozenberg, Eds., Proc. 3rd Workshop on Concurrency and Compositionality, Goslar, March 5-8, 1991, pp.99-108.

Gianluigi Ferrari, Ugo Montanari and Miranda Mowbray,  On Causality Observed Incrementally, Finally. Springer LNCS 493 (Proc. TAPSOFT 91) Vol.I pp.26-41 (1991) Eds. S. Abramsky, T.S.E Maibaum, publ. Springer, ISBN 3-540-53982-4. Presented by Ugo Montanari.

Miranda Mowbray, The Submodule Structure of Characteristic p Verma modules for groups of type A1, (Journal contents page) Communications in Algebra 17(6), 1407-1423 (1989)

Miranda Mowbray, Verma Modules in Charateristic p. PhD thesis, University of London, 1988.

Patents

2

Professional activities

Program Committee member for CCCT 2004, ARCS 2005 and 2006, CCGrid 2007, Autonomics 2008.
Reviewer for S&P 1999, Grid 2005, DSN 2009.
Judging panel member for the UK CEED eWell-Being awards 2002.