James Kennedy, PhD

James Kennedy is CTO with CoAudit Ltd. which provides audit management solutions to its customers. He was a founding member of the Centre for Unified Computing in University College Cork and has worked on the WebCom project since its inception as lead architect and build development manager.

James earned his PhD in University College Cork (Ireland) in 2004 and has worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in UCC until co-founding CoAudit Ltd. in 2008.

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Publications

Book Chapters

[1]	John P. Morrison, David A. Power, Brian C. Clayton, Adarsh Patil, Philip D. Healy and James J. Kennedy
	WebCom-G: Middleware to Hide the Grid
	Grid Technologies Emerging from Distributed Architectures to Virtual Organizations, Vol. WIT Press 2006, PP. 271-307, Editors: M.P. Bekakos, G.A. Gravvanis and H.R. Arabnia

Journal Papers

[2]	John P. Morrison, David A. Power and James J. Kennedy
	An Evolution of the WebCom Metacomputer
	The Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms. Special Issue on Computational Science and Applications, Vol. 2003(2), PP. 263-276, 2003

[3]	John P. Morrison, James J. Kennedy and David A. Power
	Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance in a Condensed Graphs base Metacomputer
	The Journal of Internet Technologies. Special Issue on Web based Programming, Vol. 3(4), PP. 221-234, December, 2002

[4]	John P. Morrison, James J. Kennedy and David A. Power
	WebCom: A Volunteer-Based Metacomputer
	The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 18(1), PP. 47-61, January, 2001

Conference Papers

[5]	Brian C. Clayton, Therese Enright, David A. Power, James J. Kennedy and John P. Morrison
	An Extensible Framework for Distributing Work in a Heterogeneous Environment Using Webcom.
	Accepted for publication, PDPTA, 2007

[6]	John P. Morrison, and James Kennedy
	Fault Tolerance Mechanism Exploiting Referential Transparency in the Condensed Graphs Model
	Proceeding of PDPTA 2001: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, June, 2001

[7]	John P. Morrison, David A. Power and James J. Kennedy
	Dynamic Determination and Explotatation of Load Balancing Factors in the WebCom Metacomputer
	Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2001), Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., June 25-28, 2001

[8]	John P. Morrison, David A. Power and James J. Kennedy
	Master Promotion and Client Redirection in the WebCom System
	Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., June 26-29, 2000

[9]	John P. Morrison, James J. Kennedy and David A. Power
	A Condensed Graphs Engine to Drive Metacomputing
	International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 1999), Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. June 28 - July 1, 1999

Workshop Papers

[10]	John P. Morrison, James J. Kennedy and David A. Power
	Fault Tolerance in a Hierarchical Metacomputer
	International Workshop on Metacomputing Systems and Applications, Valencia, Spain, September 3-7, 2001

[11]	John P. Morrison, James J. Kennedy and David A. Power
	Extending WebCom: A Proposed Framework for Web Based Distributed Computing
	Workshop on Metacomputing Systems and Applications, ICPP2000, 2000

[12]	Simon N. Foley, Thomas B. Quillinan, John P. Morrison, David A. Power and James J. Kennedy.
	Exploiting KeyNote in WebCom: Architecture Neutral Glue for Trust Management.
	Proceedings of The Fifth Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems, PP. 101-119, Reykjavik, Iceland, October 12-13, 2000

[13]	John P. Morrison, James J. Kennedy and David A. Power
	WebCom: A Web-Based Distributed Computation Platform
	Workshop on Distributed computing on the Web, Rostock, Germany, June 21-23, 1999

Presentations

[14]	John P. Morrison, David A. Power and James J. Kennedy
	The WebCom Metacomputer
	The Irish Association for High Performance Computing (IAHPC), National University of Ireland, Cork, May 8, 2000