Professor Gordon Blair

Distinguished Professor

My Role

EPSRC Senior Fellow in Digital Technology and Living with Environmental Change (DT/LWEC)

Co-director of the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science (CEEDS), a joint initiative between Lancaster University and CEH

Member of the Digital Environment Expert Network

Selected Publications

The Role of Ontologies in Emergent Middleware: Supporting Interoperability in Complex Distributed Systems
Blair, G., Bennaceur, A., Georgantas, N., Grace, P., Issarny, V., Nundloll-Ramdhany, V., Paolucci, M. 12/2011
Conference contribution/Paper

Experiences with open overlays: a middleware approach to network heterogeneity
Grace, P., Hughes, D., Porter, B., Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., Taiani, F. 2008
Conference contribution/Paper

A generic component model for building systems software
Coulson, G., Blair, G., Grace, P., Taiani, F., Joolia, A., Lee, K., Ueyama, J., Sivaharan, T. 02/2008 In: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 26, 1, p. 1-42. 43 p.
Journal article

The Case for Reflective Middleware.
Blair, G.S., Campbell, R.H., Costa, F., Kon, F. 1/06/2002 In: Communications of the ACM. 45, 6, p. 33-38. 6 p.
Journal article

DSI: Reducing the Global ICT Footprint via Self-adaptive Large-scale (DCMS Supplement)
01/12/2022 → 31/05/2023
Research

DSI: Design Principles and Responsible Innovation for a Sustainable Digital Economy (Paris-DE)
01/09/2021 → 28/02/2025
Research

IAA: Scoping out the potential for a solar park ecological impacts virtual lab
01/08/2021 → 30/06/2022
Research

Future Places: A Digital Economy Centre on Understanding Place Through Pervasive Computing
01/10/2020 → 30/09/2025
Research

Carbon footprint of different computer technologies
01/03/2020 → 31/03/2020
Research

Methodologically Enhanced Virtual Labs for Early Warning of Significant or Catastrophic Change in Ecosystems: Changepoints for a Changing Planet
15/11/2019 → 14/05/2021
Research

Knowledge Transfer partnership with Jeremy Benn Associates Ltd
03/05/2019 → 31/08/2021
Research

DSI: Monitoring and predicting the effects of climate change on crop yields
01/02/2019 → 31/07/2020
Research

Containerisation of the Current Environment Agency Diatom Bioinformatics Pipeline
15/01/2019 → 11/03/2019
Research

DSI: Data Science of the Natural Environment
16/04/2018 → 15/04/2024
Research

Adaptive Brokerage for the Cloud
01/01/2018 → 30/09/2023
Research

Cyber Security of the Internet of Things
29/02/2016 → …
Research

Cyber Security of the Internet of things
28/02/2016 → 31/08/2019
Research

Declarative and Interoperable Overlay Networks, Applications to Systems of Systems (DIONASYS)
01/12/2014 → 30/12/2018
Research

NERC Environmental Big Data Project
01/05/2013 → 01/05/2014
Consultancy

Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change
01/11/2011 → 30/04/2015
Research

Environmental Virtual Observatory pilot
01/11/2011 → 31/12/2013
Research

  • Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science
  • DSI - Environment
  • FST Sustainability Advisory Committee
  • HighWire Doctoral Training Centre
  • SCC (Distributed Systems)