Dr. Panos Periorellis

Pano's PhotoI am a Computing Scientist specializing in Security and Dependability matters for Distributed Computing and its related forms such as Grid and SOA. I am also proud to have been at the forefront of the development of concepts such as Systems of Systems, and Virtual Organizations. As part of my research I am currently R&Ding cutting edge technologies to support security mechanisms for Service Orientated Computing. In particular I am investigating access control and single sign on for virtual organizations within the GOLD project. I work with Web service standards and specifications and in particular the Web service security family of specs.  I have written numerous papers in the above areas and I am currently preparing a book on WS Security on behalf of Idea Publishing ltd. I act as a reviewer for several journals and I participate in various conference/workshop program committees some of which I organize personally. I maintain strong links with several industrial partners in telecommunications, transactional technologies and SE.

As a brief biographical note, I joined the department in June 2000 as a research associate after successfully completing his Ph.D. in the area of Enterprise Modelling under the supervision of Prof. John Dobson. Working as an RA on the DSoS project I carried out research into the integration of largely autonomous systems. I investigated transactional models for coordinating legacy systems, fault tolerance of component based systems and organisational failures due to technical problems. I was promoted to Senior member of staff in March 2004 and started work on the GOLD project looking into issues of trust, privacy and security.

Since 1997 I have published over 40 papers on distributed computing, web and internet programming, Peer to Peer, enterprise modeling, organizational aspects of software engineering, complex systems, and natural language processing. My research interests remain in the area of enterprise modelling, distributed computing, dependability and complex systems. I hold an an M.Sc and a B.Sc (Hons) degree in Information systems.


Research interests

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  • Distributed Systems
  • Service Oriented Architectures
  • Web Services
  • P2P Systems
  • Security
  • Enterprise Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Graph Theory & Statistical Analysis

School of Computer Science,

University of Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 3RU, Newcastle, UK

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