Publications

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DBLP

Epubs

Eprints 

 

Edited Books

[1] Joseph Morris, Benjamin Aziz, and Frederic Oehl (editors). Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Formal Methods. Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), British Computer Society, July 2003.

 

Ph.D. Thesis

[2] Benjamin Aziz.  A Static Analysis Framework for Security Properties in Mobile and Cryptographic Systems. Ph.D. Thesis, Dublin City University, 2003.

 

M.Sc. Dissertation

[3] Benjamin Aziz.  Mobile Proxies. M.Sc. Dissertation, Trinity College Dublin, 1999.

 

Book Chapters

[4] Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz, Fabio Martinelli, Marinella Petrocchi and Paolo Mori. Trust Management for Grid Systems. In Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments: From Social Concept to System Development, IGI-Global, December 2009.

 

Journals (impact factor source: www.scimagojr.com)

[5] Benjamin Aziz and Geoff Hamilton. Verifying a Delegation Protocol for Grid Systems. Future Generation Computer Systems: The International Journal of Grid Computing and eScience, Elsevier, 27(5): 476–485, 2011. Current IF is 2.365

 

[6] Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz and Gheorghe Silaghi. Reputation Management in Collaborative Computing Systems. Journal of Security and Communication Networks, 3(6): 546–564, John Wiley and Sons, 2009.

 

[7] Benjamin Aziz, Simon Foley, John Herbert and Garret Swart. Configuring Storage Area Networks Using Mandatory Security. Journal of Computer Security, 17(2):191-210, IOS Press, 2009. Current IF is 1.805

 

[8] Benjamin Aziz and Geoff Hamilton. Modelling and Analysis of PKI-based Systems Using Process Calculi. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 18(3):593-618, World Scientific, 2007. Current IF is 0.679

 

[9] Benjamin Aziz, Simon Foley, John Herbert and Garret Swart. Reconfiguring Role Based Access Control Policies Using Risk Semantics. Journal of High Speed Networks: Special Issue on Managing Security Policies, Modelling Verification and Configuration, 15(3):261-273, IOS Press, 2006. Current IF is 0.392

 

[10] Benjamin Aziz, Geoff Hamilton and David Gray. A Static Analysis of Cryptographic Processes: The Denotational Approach. Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming, 64(2):285-320, Elsevier, August 2005. Current IF is 1.196

 

Conferences

[11] Benjamin Aziz.  Towards Goal-Driven Digital Forensics Investigations.  In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cybercrime, Security and Digital Forensics (Cyfor-12), London, UK, May 2012 (to appear).

 

[12] Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz, Szymon Maj and Brian Matthews. An Autonomic Security Monitor for Distributed Operating Systems (Invited Paper).  In Proceedings of the 4th European Conference ServiceWave 2011, Poznan, Poland, LNCS 6994: 112-121, Springer, October 2011.

 

[13] Benjamin Aziz.  Correcting a Delegation Protocol for Grids.  In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2011), Toulouse, France, LNCS 6863: 198-209, Springer, August 2011.

 

[14] Benjamin Aziz, Shirley Crompton and Michael Wilson.  A Metadata Model for Data Centric Security.  In Proceedings of the 8th FTRA International Conference on Secure and Trust Computing, Data Management, and Applications (STA 2011), Crete, Greece, CCIS 186: 21-28, Springer, June 2011.

 

[15] Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas and Michael Wilson.  SecPAL4DSA: A Policy Language for Specifying Data Sharing Agreements.  In Proceedings of the 8th FTRA International Conference on Secure and Trust Computing, Data Management, and Applications (STA 2011), Crete, Greece, CCIS 186: 29-36, Springer, June 2011.

 

[16] Alvaro E. Arenas, Benjamin Aziz, Juan Bicarregui and Michael D. Wilson. An Event-B Approach to Data Sharing Agreements. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods (iFM 2010), Nancy, France, LNCS 6396: 28-42, Springer, October 2010.

 

[17] Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Ian Johnson, Matej Artac, Ales Cernivec and Philip Robinson. Management of Security Policies in Virtual Organisations. In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Security and Cryptography (Secrypt 2010), Athens, Greece, July 2010.

 

[18] Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Shirley Crompton and Brian Matthews. From Community to Resource Policies: A Tool for the Automatic Refinement of VO Policies. In Proceedings of the 2009 UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Oxford, UK, December 2009.

 

[19] Benjamin Aziz and Geoff Hamilton. Detecting Man-in-the-Middle Attacks by Precise Timing. In Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (Securware 2009), Athens, Greece, 81-86,IEEE Computer Society, June 2009 (won best paper award).

 

[20] Federico Stagni, Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz and Fabio Martinelli. On Usage Control in Data Grids. In Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP International Conference on Trust Management (TM'09), Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 300/2009, 99-116, June 2009.

 

[21] Syed Naqvi, Philippe Massonet, Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Fabio Martinelli, Paolo Mori, Lorenzo Blasi and Giovanni Cortese. Fine-grained continuous usage control of service based Grids the GridTrust Approach. In Proceedings of ServiceWave 2008, Madrid, Spain, December 2008.

 

[22] Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz, Philippe Massonet and Christophe Ponsard. A Goal-Oriented Approach to Grid Security Requirements. In Proceedings of the 2008 UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, September 2008.

 

[23] Michael D. Wilson, Alvaro Arenas, Brian M. Matthews, Shirley Crompton and Benjamin Aziz. Security Policies in Scientific Data Sharing Agreements. In Proceedings of the 2008 UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, September 2008.

 

[24] Lorenzo Blasi, Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz, Paolo Mori, Umberto Rovati, Bruno Crispo, Fabio Martinelli and Philippe Massonet. A Secure Environment for Grid-Based Supply Chains. In Proceedings of the eChallenges e-2008 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2008.

 

[25] Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz and Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi. Reputation Management in Grid-based Virtual Organisations. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Security and Cryptography (Secrypt 2008), Porto, Portugal, INSTICC, July 2008.

 

[26] Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Fabio Martinelli, Ilaria Matteucci and Paolo Mori. Controlling Usage of Business Processes through Fine-Grained Security Policies. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2008), Turin, Italy, LNCS 5185:100-117, Springer, September 2008.

 

[27] Juan Bicarregui, Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz, Philippe Massonet and Christophe Ponsard. Towards Modelling Obligations in Event-B. In Proceedings of the ABZ 2008 Conference, London, UK, LNCS 5238:181-194, Springer, September 2008.

 

[28] Benjamin Aziz. Measuring the Speed of Information Leakage in Mobile Processes. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST'06), Kuressaare, Estonia, LNCS 4019:36-50, Springer, July 2006.

 

[29] Benjamin Aziz, David Gray and Geoff Hamilton. A Static Analysis of PKI-based Systems. In Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS'05), Certosa di Pontignano (Siena), Italy, LNCS 3701:51-65, Springer, October 2005.

 

[30] Garret Swart, Benjamin Aziz, Simon Foley and John Herbert. Trading Off Security in a Service Oriented Architecture. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, Storrs, CT, USA, LNCS 3654:295-309, Springer-Verlag, August 2005.

 

[31] Garret Swart, Benjamin Aziz, Simon Foley and John Herbert. Automatic Configuration of Services for Security, Bandwidth, Throughput and Availability. In Forum proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (IC-SOC'04), New York, USA, IBM Technical Report RA221, November 2004.

 

[32] Benjamin Aziz, Simon N. Foley, John Herbert and Garret Swart. Configuring Storage-Area Networks for Mandatory Security. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, Sitges, Spain, 144:357-370, Kluwer, July 2004.

 

[33] Bruno Blanchet and Benjamin Aziz. A Calculus for Secure Mobility. In Proceedings of the 8th Asian Computing Science Conference (Asian'03), Mumbai, India, LNCS 2896:188-204, Springer-Verlag, December 2003.

 

[34] Benjamin Aziz, David Gray, Geoff Hamilton, Frederic Oehl, James Power, and David Sinclair. Implementing Protocol Verification for E-Commerce. In Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet (SSGRR'01), L’Aquila, Italy, August 2001.

 

Symposia

[35] Benjamin Aziz. Application of Formal Analysis to Enhancing Trust in a Complex Grid-based Operating System. In Proceedings of the 3rd International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Architecting Critical Systems (ISARCS 2012), Bertinoro, Italy, June 2012 (to appear).

 

[36] Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro E. Arenas and Michael Wilson.  Model-based Refinement of Security Policies in Collaborative Virtual Organisations. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSOS’11), Madrid, Spain,  LNCS 6542: 1-14, Springer, February 2011.

 

[37] Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Juan Bicarregui, Christophe Ponsard and Philippe Massonet. From Goal-Oriented Requirements to Event-B Specifications. In Proceedings of the First NASA Formal Methods Symposium, California, USA, 96-105, NASA, April 2009.

 

[38] Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz, Juan Bicarregui, Brian Matthews and Erica Yang. Modelling Security Properties in a Goal-based Operating System with Anti-Goals. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SRIES 2008), Barcelona, Spain, 1429-1436, IEEE Computer Society, March 2008.

 

[39] Benjamin Aziz and Christian Jensen. Adaptability in CORBA: The Mobile Proxy Approach. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'00), Antwerp, Belgium, 295-304, IEEE Press, September 2000.

 

Workshops

[40] Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Giovanni Cortese, Bruno Crispo and Silvio Causetti. A Secure and Scalable Grid-based Content Management System. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2010), Krakow, Poland, 404-409, IEEE Computer Society, February 2010.

 

[41] Shirley Crompton, Benjamin Aziz and Michael Wilson. Sharing Scientific Data: Scenarios and Challenges. In Proceedings of the W3C Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios, Luxembourg, November 2009.

 

[42] Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz and Juan Bicarregui. Policy Refinement in Virtual Organisations. In Proceedings of the 2008 Formal Aspects of Virtual Organisations Workshop (FAVO2008), Turku, Finland, May 2008.

 

[43] Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Juan Bicarregui, Brian Matthews and Erica Yang. A Formal Security Requirements Model for a Grid-based Operating System. In Proceedings of the BCS-FACS 2007 Christmas Workshop: Formal Methods in Industry, London, UK, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), BCS, December 2007.

 

[44] Alvaro Arenas, Benjamin Aziz, Juan Bicarregui and Brian Matthews. Managing Conflicts of Interest in Virtual Organisations. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM'07), Dresden, Germany, ENTCS 197(2):45-56, Elsevier, September 2007.

 

[45] Benjamin Aziz. A Semiring-based Quantitative Analysis of Mobile Systems. In Proceedings of the 3th International Workshop on Software Verification and Validation (SVV'05), Manchester, UK, ENTCS 157(1):3-21, Elsevier, May 2006.

 

[46] Benjamin Aziz, Geoff Hamilton and David Gray. A Denotational Approach to the Static Analysis of Cryptographic Processes. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Verification and Validation (SVV'03), Mumbai, India, ENTCS 118:19-36, Elsevier, December 2005.

 

[47] David Gray, Benjamin Aziz and Geoff Hamilton. SPIKY: A Nominal Calculus for Modelling Protocols that use PKIs. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Security Analysis of Systems: Formalism and Tools (SASYFT'04), Orleans, France, Technical Report RR-2004-11, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orleans, June 2004.

 

[48] Benjamin Aziz and Geoff Hamilton. A Privacy Analysis for the Pi-calculus: The Denotational Approach. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Specification, Analysis and Validation for Emerging Technologies (SAVE'02), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2002.

 

[49] Benjamin Aziz and Geoff Hamilton. A Denotational Semantics for the Pi-Calculus. In Proceedings of the 5th Irish Workshop in Formal Methods (IWFM'01), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), BCS, July 2001.

 

Posters

[50] Adam Barker, Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Ian Johnson, Brian Matthews and Erica Y. Yang. Trust Management of Dynamic Virtual Organisations in XtreemOS, UK e-Science 2009 All Hands Meeting, December 2009.

 

Technical Reports

[51] Benjamin Aziz, Alvaro Arenas, Ian Johnson, Erica Yang, Matej Artac, Ales Cernivec, Philip Robinson and Yvon Jegou. Trust Management in the XtreemOS Operating System. XtreemOS Technical Report 5, 2010.

 

[52] Federico Stagni, Alvaro Arenas and Benjamin Aziz. On Usage Control in Data Grids. CoreGrid Technical report TR-0154, STFC RAL, Oxfordshire, UK, 2008.

 

[53] Benjamin Aziz. A Static Analysis of the Applied Pi-Calculus. Technical report 2006/15, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2006.

 

[54] Benjamin Aziz and Geoff Hamilton. Modelling and Analysis of PKI-based Systems using Process Calculi. Technical report 2006/14, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2006.

 

[55] Benjamin Aziz and Christian Jensen. Adaptability in CORBA: The Mobile Proxy Approach. Technical report TCD-CS-2000-57, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, December 2000.

 

[56] Benjamin Aziz. Mobile Proxies. Technical report TCD-CS-1999-60, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, December 1999.

 

[57] Benjamin Aziz. A Video Display Generator (VDG). B.Sc. technical report, University of Garyounis, Benghazi, Libya, July 1995.

 

European Deliverables

[58] Methodology and Design Alternatives for Federation and Interoperability. EU FP6 Project XtreemOS Deliverable D3.5.15, 2010.

 

[59] Methodology and Design Alternatives for Trust Services in XtreemOS. EU FP6 Project XtreemOS Deliverable D3.5.9, 2010.

 

[60] Fourth Specification of the Security and VO Management Services. EU FP6 Project XtreemOS Deliverable D3.5.13, 2009.

 

[61] Evaluation Report. EU FP6 Project GridTrust Deliverable D5.3, 2009.

 

[62] VO Management System. EU FP6 Project GridTrust Deliverable D4.3, 2009.

 

[63] A Framework for Reasoning about Trust and Security in Grids at Requirement and Application Levels. EU FP6 Project GridTrust Deliverable D4.1, 2009.

 

[64] Methodologies and tools for data sharing agreement infrastructure. EU FP7 Consequence Deliverable D2.1, 2008.

 

[65] Models and Framework for Metadata Generation and Policy Infrastructure. EU FP7 Consequence Deliverable D3.1, 2008.

 

[66] Requirements Specification for the Sharing Sensitive Scientific Data Test Bed. EU FP7 Consequence Deliverable D6.1, 2008.

 

[67] Integration of TSP Policies in the UCON Model and Integration of the UCON Model with the VO Model. EU FP6 GridTrust Deliverable D3.3, 2008.

 

[68] Reasoning about Trust and Security Properties in Dynamic Virtual Organisations: State of the Art. EU FP6 Project GridTrust Deliverable D2.1, 2007.

 

[69] Reasoning about Trust and Security Properties in Virtual Organisations. EU FP6 Project GridTrust Deliverable D2.2, 2007.

 

[70] Report on Formal Analysis of Security Properties. EU FP6 project XtreemOS Deliverable D3.5.6, 2007.

 

 

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