Alan Colman's Publications

(For publications that are not available on-line, please email Alan Colman.)

PhD Thesis

• Colman, A (2007) 'Role-Oriented Adpative Design', Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. PDF

Journal Papers

• Colman, A and Han. (2007) 'Roles, Players and Adaptive Organisations'. Applied Ontology: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling, vol 2, IOS Press, pp. 105-126. PDF
• Colman, A. and Han, J. (2007) 'Using Role-based Coordination to Achieve Software Adaptability', Science of Computer Programming, vol 64., no. 2, Elsevier, pp. 223-245. PDF
• Colman, A. and Han, J. (2006) 'Adaptive service-oriented systems: an organisational approach', International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering, vol. 21, no. 4, CRL, pp.235-246.
• Colman A and Han, J. (2006) ‘Using Association Aspects to Implement Organisational Contracts' in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 150(3), Elsevier, pp37-53. PDF
• Colman A. and Leung, Y (2000) 'Using Intentional Models for the Design of Multi-level systems' in International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Academic Press, June 2000, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 1007-1029. PDF
• Colman A. and Leung, Y (1995) 'Knowledge Analysis of Tasks as a basis for interface design of complex developmental systems' in Australian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 2-16.

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

• Tran, M.H., Colman, A. and Han, J. (2010) ' Service-based Development of Context-aware and Adaptive Automotive Telematics', Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'2010), 22-26 March, University of Oxford, UK . IEEE (to appear)
• Kapuruge, M, Han, J., and Colman, A. (2010) 'Support for business process flexibility in service compositions: An evaluative survey' In Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference 2010 (ASWEC'10), Auckland, New Zealand, IEEE Computer Society Press (to appear)
• Tran, M.H.,Han, J and Colman, A. (2009) 'Social Context: Supporting Interaction Awareness in Ubiquitous Environments' In Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (Mobiquitous’09), 10 pages, Toronto, Canada, July 2009. IEEE PDF
• King, J. and Colman, A. (2009) 'A Multi-faceted Management Interface for Web Services' In Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference 2009 (ASWEC'09), Gold Coast, Australia, IEEE Computer Society Press PDF
• Colman, A., Tran, M. and Han, J. (2008) 'An Adaptive Architecture for Context-Aware Interaction in Pervasive Applications'. Proceedings of Workshop on Context‐Aware Pervasive Communities: Infrastructures, Services
  and Applications (CAPC 2008), May, 2008, Sydney, Australia. Published in A. Zaslavsky, K. Truong (Eds.): Pervasive 2008 Workshop Proceedings, pp. 237-244. PDF
• Colman, A., Pham, L. D., Han, J., and Schneider, J. (2007) 'Towards Matching Dynamic Business-Level Protocols in Adaptive Service Compositions'. Proceedings of Advances in Semantics for Web Services (semantics4ws2007), September, 2007, Brisbane, Australia. Published in A. ter Hofstede, B. Benatallah, and H.-Y. Paik (Eds.): BPM 2007 Workshops, LNCS 4928, pp. 502–507, Springer-Verlag 2008. PDF
• Han, J. and Colman, A. (2007) 'The Four Major Challenges of Engineering Adaptive Software Architectures' Keynote paper for the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive Software Systems (SEASS 2007), Beijing, China. Proceedings of COMPSAC 2007 - Vol. 2:565 - 572 PDF
• Colman, A. (2007) 'Exogenous management in autonomic service compositions'. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems 2007 (ICAS 2007), Athens, Greece, IEEE Computer Society Press. Received Best Paper Award. PDF
• Pham, L. D., Colman, A. and Schneider, J. (2007) 'Dynamic Protocol Aggregation and Adaptation for Service-Oriented Computing'. In Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference 2007 (ASWEC'07), Melbourne, Australia, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp39-48. PDF
• Colman, A., Pham, L. D., Han, J., and Schneider, J. (2006) 'Adaptive application-specific middleware'. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Middleware For Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC 2006), November 2006, Melbourne, Australia, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 184, ACM Press, 6-11. PDF
• Colman A and Han, J. (2005) 'An Organisational Approach to Building Adaptive Service-oriented Systems' 1st International Workshop on Engineering Service Compositions (WESC'05) in IBM Research Report RC23821, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005, IBM, pp1-8. PDF
• Colman A and Han, J. (2005) 'Organizational Roles and Players' In Proceedings of The American Association for Artificial Intelligence 2005 Fall Symposium on Roles, An Interdisciplinary Perspective , November 2005, Arlington , Virginia , USA , pp 55-62. AAAI. PDF
• Colman A and Han, J. (2005) 'Coordination Systems in Role-based Software' In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION'05), LNCS 3454, Namur, Belgium, April 2005, pp 63-78, Springer PDF (Substantially extended version to be published in SCP - see above)
• Colman A and Han, J. (2005) ‘On the autonomy of software entities and modes of organisation' 1st International Workshop on Coordination and Organisation (CoOrg 2005) PDF
• Colman A and Han, J. (2005) ‘Using Association Aspects to Implement Organisational Contracts' 1st International Workshop on Coordination and Organisation (CoOrg 2005) (Extended version published in ENTCS - see above)
• Colman A and Han, J. (2005) 'Operational Management Contracts for Adaptive Software Organisation' in Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference 2005 (ASWEC'05), Brisbane, Australia, March/April 2005, pp 170-179. IEEE Computer Society Press. PDF
• Colman A and Han, J. (2005) 'Organisational Abstractions for Adaptive Systems' in Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 38, Computer Society Press IEEE PDF

Technical Reports

• Pham, L.D., Colman, A. and Han, J. (2006) 'The Implementation of Message Synchronisation, Queuing and Allocation in the ROAD Framework' CeCSES Report: SUT.CeCSES-TR009, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne 33 pages PDF

Masters Thesis

• Alan Colman, “Using Intentional Models for the Design of Multi-level systems” Masters thesis, Swinburne University of Technology , 1999.