Dr William Buchanan (Senior Lecturer, Napier University)

Dr William Buchanan (Senior Lecturer, Napier University)

<p>1 Details</p><p>Name: William Buchanan, BSc (Hons.), PhD, CEng. Date of Birth: 6th March, 1961. WWW page: http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~bill http://buchananweb.co.uk Current Post: Reader, School of Computing Email: [email protected] | [email protected]</p><p>2 Conference Papers</p><p>38 Conference papers. Some of the most recent ones are:</p><p> Buchanan W, Migration of Location Services from GMS to 3G, 5th IEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communications, London, Oct 2004 (invited paper).  Buchanan W and Llamas D, Covert Channel Analysis and Detection using Reverse Proxy Servers, 3rd International Conference on Electronic Warfare and Security (EIWC), University of London, June 2004.  Migas, N, Buchanan W and McArtney K, Migration of Mobile Agents in Ad-hoc, Wireless Networks, IEEE ECBS 2004, Prague.  Migas, N, Buchanan W and McArtney K, Mobile Agents for Routing, Topology Dis- covery, and Automatic Network Reconfiguration in Ad-Hoc Networks, Proceedings 10th IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer- Based Systems. IEEE Comput. Soc. 2003, pp.200-6. Los Alamitos.</p><p>3 Papers published in Refereed Journals</p><p>23 Journal papers. Some of the most recent ones are:</p><p> Buchanan WJ, Raja A, and Munoz J, "Critical Analysis and Error Determination of Locating-finding Techniques in GSM", International Journal of Mobile Communica- tions (IJMC), 2004 (accepted).  Buchanan WJ, Network-based Computer Forensics for Misuse Detection, Industrial Management & Data Systems (IMDS) Journal, 2004 (accepted).  Buchanan WJ, Correlation between academic and skills-based tests in computer net- works, British Journal of Education Technology (BJET), 2004 (accepted).  Raja A, Buchanan WJ and Munoz J, "Analytical Review of Mobile Phone-based Loc- ation-finding", IEE Communication Engineer, 2004 (accepted).  Buchanan WJ, Migas N, Sinclair G and McArtney, Analysis of an Agent-based Met- ric-Driven for Ah-hoc, On-Demand Routing, Journal of Ad-hoc Networks, 2004 (ac- cepted).</p><p>4 Book/CD-ROM publications</p><p>25 academic books. Some of the most recent ones are:</p><p> Buchanan WJ, “Mastering Computing”, 2000, Macmillan, ISBN 0333748069.  Buchanan WJ, “Mastering Delphi”, 2002, ISBN 0-333-91897-5, Macmillan.  Buchanan WJ, “Distributed Systems and Networks”, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-077- 1 09583-9.  Buchanan WJ, Handbook of the Internet, Kluwer, June 2002, 2000 pages. ISBN 1- 4020-7289-9. Definitive reference on the Internet + CD-ROM. Two volumes, and contains some of the most comprehensive material on the Internet.  Buchanan WJ, Handbook of Security, Kluwer, June 2004, 2500 pages. Definitive ref- erence on the Internet + CD-ROM. Two volumes, and contains some of the most comprehensive material on the security.  Buchanan WJ, “Security and Forensic Computing”, 2004, CRC Press.  Buchanan WJ, “Mastering Information Technology”, 2004, Palgrave (forthcoming).</p><p>5 Grants and Awards</p><p>Grants over the last few years include:</p><p>• 3-year, EPSRC-funded CASE award in Intelligent Control of Large-Scale Systems. This involves PI Ltd, British Gas Transco and MOBIL. The research involves intelli- gently controlling industrial equipment that cannot be controlled by conventional methods. £60,000. • TCS (Teaching Company Scheme) with Viasystems, North Tyneside. £120K. • TCS with Seven Layer Communications Limited, South Queensferry. TCS Program- ming No. 2966. Development of high-speed configurable networking test equipment. £60,000. • TCS with Justfone plc. Java development for mobile computing using GSM. £120,000. • TCS with Canan. June 2001. Development of a multimedia system for minority lan- guages, such as Scots and Irish Gaelic. Awarded Certificate of Excellence (Grade 1), Jan 2004. • TCS/KTP with Fibrehub Europe Ltd. £60K. • MoD funding research in network fault finding. £20K. • Networking and Security Training for Sun Microsystems. £20K. • .NET Training for Agilent (South Queensferry). £40K.</p><p>Awards include:</p><p> Winning Programme, KTP Awards, 2003 [http://www.dti.gov.uk/ktp/sevenlayer.pdf].  Winning Programme, KTP Awards, 2004 (forthcoming, 1st December 2004).</p><p>Some of my other internal and external activities are:</p><p> 12 PhD/MPhil Examinations/ 9 PhD/MPhil Completions/ 4 External Examinerships.  Chair of the IEEE Conference in ECBS (Electronic Computer Based Systems), Napi- er University, April 2000.  Programme Committee Member, IEEE Conference in ECBS.  Leader, Distributed Systems and Mobile Agents research group, School of Comput- ing.  Area Editor, Journal of Ad-hoc Networks.  Chair of the BCS Colloquium on Mobile Agents, Napier University, September 2004.</p><p>2</p>

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