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2025

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76
Citations
30103
World Ranking
1319
National Ranking
76

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
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Overview

Alan Burns is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Hardware and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their body of work cover a range of areas such as Real-Time Systems Scheduling, Embedded Systems Design Techniques, Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance, Petri Nets in System Modeling, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Data Stream Mining Techniques, and Machine Learning and Data Classification.

Alan Burns has contributed regularly to multiple academic venues. These include:

  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Journal of Systems Architecture
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Research Directions Cyber-Physical Systems

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on system architectures and real-time systems. Recent publications include:

  • "Build real-time communication for hybrid dual-OS system" (2020), Journal of Systems Architecture
  • "A High-Resilience Imprecise Computing Architecture for Mixed-Criticality Systems" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • "Scheduling IDK classifiers with arbitrary dependences to minimize the expected time to successful classification" (2023), Real-Time Systems
  • "Priority Assignment on Partitioned Multiprocessor Systems With Shared Resources" (2020), IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • "Optimally ordering IDK classifiers subject to deadlines" (2022), Real-Time Systems

Alan Burns has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Sanjoy Baruah
  • Cliff B. Jones
  • Xiaotian Dai
  • Robert I. Davis
  • Zhe Jiang

Best Publications

  • Real-Time Systems and Programming Languages: Ada, Real-Time Java and C/Real-Time POSIX

    Alan Burns;Andrew J. Wellings

  • Applying new scheduling theory to static priority pre-emptive scheduling

    Neil C. Audsley;Alan Burns;Mike M. Richardson;Ken Tindell

  • A survey of hard real-time scheduling for multiprocessor systems

    Robert I. Davis;Alan Burns

  • Controller Area Network (CAN) schedulability analysis: Refuted, revisited and revised

    Robert I. Davis;Alan Burns;Reinder J. Bril;Johan J. Lukkien

  • Real Time Scheduling Theory: A Historical Perspective

    Lui Sha;Tarek Abdelzaher;Karl-Erik Årzén;Anton Cervin

  • Calculating controller area network (can) message response times

    K. Tindell;A. Burns;A.J. Wellings

  • An extendible approach for analyzing fixed priority hard real-time tasks

    K. W. Tindell;A. Burns;A. J. Wellings

  • Real-Time Systems and Programming Languages

    Alan Burns;Andrew J. Wellings

  • Hard Real-Time Scheduling: The Deadline-Monotonic Approach

    N.C. Audsley;A. Burns;M.F. Richardson;A.J. Wellings

  • Mixed Criticality Systems - A Review

    Alan Burns;Robert I. Davis

  • Fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling: an historical perspective

    Neil C. Audsley;Alan Burns;Robert I. Davis;Ken W. Tindell

  • Weakly hard real-time systems

    G. Bernat;A. Burns;A. Liamosi

  • Allocating hard real-time tasks: an NP-hard problem made easy

    K. W. Tindell;A. Burns;A. J. Wellings

  • Response-Time Analysis for Mixed Criticality Systems

    S.K. Baruah;A. Burns;R.I. Davis

  • Scheduling hard real-time systems: a review

    A. Burns

  • Scheduling slack time in fixed priority pre-emptive systems

    R.I. Davis;K.W. Tindell;A. Burns

  • Preemptive priority-based scheduling: an appropriate engineering approach

    Alan Burns

  • Guest Editorial: A Review of Worst-Case Execution-TimeAnalysis

    Peter Puschner;Alan Burns

  • Hierarchical fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling

    R.I. Davis;A. Burns

  • Hrt-Hood: A Structured Design Method for Hard Real-Time ADA Systems

    A. Burns;A. J. Wellings

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Wellings
Andy Wellings University of York
Robert I. Davis
Robert I. Davis University of York
Sanjoy Baruah
Sanjoy Baruah Washington University in St. Louis
John A. McDermid
John A. McDermid University of York
Jim Woodcock
Jim Woodcock University of York
Eduardo Tovar
Eduardo Tovar Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Maciej Koutny
Maciej Koutny Newcastle University
Daniel Mosse
Daniel Mosse University of Pittsburgh
Giorgio Buttazzo
Giorgio Buttazzo Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Lui Sha
Lui Sha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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