Computer Science @ University of St Andrews

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Dr Iain Oliver

Dr Iain Oliver

Research Fellow

Email: iao@st-andrews.ac.uk

Room: 0.13 - Jack Cole Building, North Haugh

Direct phone: +44 (0)1334 463273

Home page: http://iao.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk

Recent Publications

The Web in Education

Allison, C , Miller, AHD , Oliver, IA, Michaelson, R & Tiropanis, T 2012, ' The Web in Education ' Computer Networks , vol 56, no. 18, pp. 3811–3824.

Living history with Open Virtual Worlds: Reconstructing St Andrews Cathedral as a stage for historic narrative

Kennedy, S , Dow, L , Oliver, IA , Sweetman, RJ , Miller, AHD , Campbell, A , Davies, CJ, McCaffery, JP , Allison, C , Green, D , Luxford, JM & Fawcett, R 2012, ' Living history with Open Virtual Worlds: Reconstructing St Andrews Cathedral as a stage for historic narrative '. in M Gardner, F Garnier & CD Kloos (eds), Proceedings of the 2nd European Immersive Education Summit: EiED 2012. E-iED, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Madrid, Spain, pp. 146-160, 2nd European Immersive Education Summit, Paris, France, 26-27 November.

Growing the use of Virtual Worlds in education: an OpenSim perspective

Allison, C , Campbell, A , Davies, CJ , Dow, L , Kennedy, S, McCaffery, JP , Miller, AHD , Oliver, IA & Perera, GIUS 2012, ' Growing the use of Virtual Worlds in education: an OpenSim perspective '. in M Gardner, F Garnier & CD Kloos (eds), Proceedings of the 2nd European Immersive Education Summit: EiED 2012. E-iED, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Madrid, Spain, pp. 1-13, 2nd European Immersive Education Summit, Paris, France, 26-27 November.

Mongoose: throughput redistributing virtual world

Oliver, IA , Miller, AHD & Allison, C 2012, ' Mongoose: throughput redistributing virtual world '. in Proceedings of the 2012 21st International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN). IEEE, International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN 2012), Munich, Germany, 30-2 August.

Virtual Machines for Virtual Worlds

Sanatinia, A, Oliver, IA , Miller, AHD & Allison, C 2012, ' Virtual Machines for Virtual Worlds '. in CLOSER 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science.

Virtual worlds, real traffic: interaction and adaptation

Oliver, IA , Miller, AHD & Allison, C 2010, ' Virtual worlds, real traffic: interaction and adaptation '. in W Feng & K Mayer-Patel (eds), MMSys '10: Proceedings of the first annual ACM SIGMM conference on Multimedia Systems . ACM Press - Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 305-316.

Mongoose: A TCP Fair Second Life client

Oliver, I , Allison, C & Miller, A 2010, ' Mongoose: A TCP Fair Second Life client '. in Proceedings of the 11th Annual PostGraduate Symposium on The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting . PGNet 2010, United Kingdom, 21 June.

Metaverses as a Platform for Game Based Learning

Getchell, K, Oliver, I , Miller, A , Allison, C & Miller, AHD 2010, ' Metaverses as a Platform for Game Based Learning '. in Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2010 . pp. 1195--1202, 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2010, Perth, Australia, 20-24 April.

Traffic Management for Multi-User Virtual Environments

Oliver, I & Miller, A 2009, ' Traffic Management for Multi-User Virtual Environments '. in PGNET 2009 - Proceedings of the 10th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting.

Global Connections for Lasting Impressions: Experiential Learning about TCP

Allison, C , Miller, AHD , Oliver, I & Sturgeon, T 2009, ' Global Connections for Lasting Impressions: Experiential Learning about TCP '. in M Spaniol, Q Li, R Klamma & RWH Lau (eds), Advances in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5686, Springer, pp. 48-57, 8th International Conference on Web Based Learning (ICWL 2009) , Aachen, Germany, 19-21 August.