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Gordon S. Blair is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans both Environmental Science and Computer Science, with notable contributions in the intersections of these fields.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Information Systems. Their research topics prominently include Green IT and Sustainability, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Research Data Management Practices, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, and Urban Green Space and Health.

Gordon S. Blair has published extensively in various venues, with frequent appearances in the journal Patterns. Other publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), SSRN Electronic Journal, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Diversity and Distributions.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Gordon S. Blair include:

  • "The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations" (2021, Patterns)
  • "A meta-analysis of phosphatase activity in agricultural settings in response to phosphorus deficiency" (2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)
  • "Digital twins of the natural environment" (2021, Patterns)
  • "The climate impact of ICT: A review of estimates, trends and regulations" (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations" (2022, Patterns)

The scientist often collaborates with several frequent coauthors, including Kelly Widdicks, Vatsala Nundloll, Bran Knowles, Richard Bassett, and Peter A. Henrys. These collaborations reflect ongoing research partnerships over multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Models@ run.time

    G. Blair;N. Bencomo

  • The case for reflective middleware

    Fabio Kon;Fabio Costa;Gordon Blair;Roy H. Campbell

  • An architecture for next generation middleware

    G. S. Blair;G. Coulson;P. Robin;M. Papathomas

  • The real climate and transformative impact of ICT:A critique of estimates, trends and regulations

    Charlotte Freitag;Mike Berners-Lee;Kelly Widdicks;Bran Knowles

  • The Design and Implementation of Open ORB 2

    Gordon S. Blair;Geoff Coulson;Anders Andersen;Lynne Blair

  • A generic component model for building systems software

    Geoff Coulson;Gordon Blair;Paul Grace;Francois Taiani

  • An Efficient Component Model for the Construction of Adaptive Middleware

    Michael Clarke;Gordon S. Blair;Geoff Coulson;Nikos Parlavantzas

  • The design of a configurable and reconfigurable middleware platform

    Geoff Coulson;Gordon S. Blair;Michael Clarke;Nikos Parlavantzas

  • ReMMoC: A Reflective Middleware to Support Mobile Client Interoperability

    Paul Grace;Gordon S. Blair;Sam Samuel

  • Developing a Context Sensitive Tourist Guide

    Nigel Davies;K. Cheverst;Gordon S. Blair;K. Mitchell

  • A Component Model for Building Systems Software

    Geoff Coulson;Gordon S. Blair;Paul Grace;Ackbar Joolia

  • CSCW and distributed systems: the problem of control

    Tom Rodden;Gordon Blair

  • The design of a QoS-controlled ATM-based communications system in Chorus

    G. Coulson;A. Campbell;P. Robin;O. Blair

  • An Aspect-Oriented and Model-Driven Approach for Managing Dynamic Variability

    Brice Morin;Franck Fleurey;Nelly Bencomo;Jean-Marc Jézéquel

  • Reflection, self-awareness and self-healing in OpenORB

    Gordon S. Blair;Geoff Coulson;Lynne Blair;Hector Duran-Limon

  • Limbo: a tuple space based platform for adaptive mobile applications

    N. Davies;S. P. Wade;A. Friday;G. S. Blair

  • GREEN: a configurable and re-configurable publish-subscribe middleware for pervasive computing

    Thirunavukkarasu Sivaharan;Gordon Blair;Geoff Coulson

  • A reflective framework for discovery and interaction in heterogeneous mobile environments

    Paul Grace;Gordon S. Blair;Sam Samuel

  • L 2 imbo: a distributed systems platform for mobile computing

    Nigel Davies;Adrian Friday;Stephen P. Wade;Gordon S. Blair

  • Exploiting reflection in mobile computing middleware

    Licia Capra;Gordon S. Blair;Cecilia Mascolo;Wolfgang Emmerich

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoff Coulson
Geoff Coulson Lancaster University
Nigel Davies
Nigel Davies Lancaster University
Nelly Bencomo
Nelly Bencomo Durham University
Adrian Friday
Adrian Friday Lancaster University
Fabio Kon
Fabio Kon Universidade de São Paulo
Keith Cheverst
Keith Cheverst Lancaster University
Keith Beven
Keith Beven Lancaster University
Valérie Issarny
Valérie Issarny French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Howard Bowman
Howard Bowman University of Birmingham
Jonathan Walpole
Jonathan Walpole Portland State University

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