Newcastle University

Introduction

Graham Morgan is a Senior lecturer in the School of Computing Science. Graham leads the Game Engineering MSc at Newcastle and carries out research in the areas of systems and simulation.

• Goulding D, Smith R, Clark L, Ushaw G, Morgan G. Real-time ambient occlusion on the Playstation 3. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1319.
• Sharp C, Morgan G. A Many Systems Interpretation of Concurrency Control. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1299.
• Kenwright B, Davison R, Morgan G. Dynamic Balancing and Walking for Real-Time 3D Characters. In: Motion in Games: 4th International Conference (MIG). 2011, Edinburgh, UK: Springer.
• Solaiman K, Morgan G. Later Validation/Earlier Write: Concurrency Control for Resource-Constrained Systems with Real-Time Properties. In: IEEE 30th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops. 2011, Madrid, Spain: IEEE.
• Kenwirght B, Davison R, Morgan G. Real-Time Deformable Soft-Body Simulation using Distributed Mass-Spring Approximations. In: The Third International Conference on Creative Content Technologies (CONTENT). 2011, Rome, Italy: IARIA.
• Parkin S, Morgan G. Toward reusable SLA monitoring capabilities. Software: Practice and Experience 2011, (epub ahead of print).
• Morgan G. Challenges of Online Game Development: A Review. Simulation & Gaming 2009, 40(5), 688-710.
• Morgan G. Chapter 3 Highly Interactive Scalable Online Worlds. In: Zelkowitz, MV, ed. Social Networking and the Web. Burlington, MA; London: Academic Press, 2009, pp.75-120.
• Morgan G, Lee JK. Controversy in Video Game Invention: The Infallible Pioneer Patents. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1173.
• Clarke D, Morgan G. E-Commerce with Rich Clients and Flexible Transactions. In: 1st International Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Dependable Distributed Systems (STFSSD). 2009, Tokyo, Japan: IEEE Computer Society.
• Mazzucco M, Morgan G, Panzieri F, Sharp C. Engineering distributed shared memory middleware for Java. In: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. 2009, Springer.
• Martin D, Van Moorsel A, Morgan G. Efficient Resource Management for Game Server Hosting. In: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC). 2008, Orlando, Florida: IEEE.
• Kistijantoro AI, Morgan G, Shrivastava SK, Little MC. Enhancing an Application Server to Support Available Components. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 2008, 34(4), 531-545.
• Zhu L, Morgan G. Runtime Evolution for Online Gaming: A Case Study using JBoss and Drools. In: GDTW: 6th International Game Design and Technology Workshop and Conference. 2008, Liverpool, UK: School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University.
• Parkin S, Ingham D, Morgan G. A message oriented middleware solution enabling non-repudiation evidence generation for reliable web services. In: Service Availability: 4th International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS). 2007, Durham, New Hampshire, USA: Springer.
• Mazzucco M, Morgan G, Panzieri F. Design and Evaluation of a Wide-Area Distributed Shared Memory Middleware. Bologna, Italy: Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, 2007. UBLCS-2007-19.
• Parkin SE, Andras P, Morgan G. Evolutionary optimization of parameters for distributed virtual environments. In: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). 2007, Singapore: IEEE.
• Lu F, Parkin S, Morgan G. Load Balancing for Massively Multiplayer Online Games. In: 5th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games. 2006, Singapore: ACM.
• Parkin S E, Andras P, Morgan G. Managing Missed Interactions in Distributed Virtual Environments. In: Virtual Environments 2006: 12th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments. 2006, Lisbon, Portugal: Eurographics Association.
• Kistijantoro AI, Morgan G, Shrivastava SK. Transaction manager failover: A case study using JBOSS application server. In: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. 2006, Montpellier, France: Springer.
• Morgan G, Lu F, Storey K. Interest Management Middleware for Networked Games. In: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D). 2005, Washington, DC: ACM SIGGRAPH.
• Morgan G, Parkin S, Molina-Jimenez C, Skene J. Monitoring Middleware for Service Level Agreements in Heterogeneous Environments. In: Challenges of Expanding Internet: E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government. 5th IFIP Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business, and e-Government (I3E). 2005, Poznan, Poland: Springer.
• Morgan G, Storey K. Scalable Collision Detection for Massively Multiplayer Online Games. In: IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA). 2005, Taipei, Taiwan: IEEE Computer Society.
• Morgan G. Scalable Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 888.
• Storey K, Lu F, Morgan G. Determining Collisions between Moving Spheres for Distributed Virtual Environments. In: Proceedings of the Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI). 2004, Crete, Greece: IEEE.
• Morgan G, Storey K, Lu FY. Expanding spheres: A collision detection algorithm for interest management in networked games. In: Third International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC). 2004, Eindhoven, Netherlands: Springer.
• Morgan G, Smith R (eds.). Workshop on Quality of Service for Application Servers (QoSAS). 2004, Jurerê Beach Village, Santa Catarina Island, Brazil.
• Kistijantoro AI, Morgan G, Shrivastava SK, Little MC. Component Replication in Distributed Systems: a Case study using Enterprise Java Beans. In: 22nd International Symposium On Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). 2003, Florence, Italy: IEEE Computer Society Press.
• Woodman S, Morgan G, Parkin S. Portal Replication for Web Application Availability Via SOAP. In: 8th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS). 2003, Guadalajara, Mexico: IEEE Computer Society.
• Morgan G, Lu F. Predictive Interest Management: An Approach to Managing Message Dissemination for Distributed Virtual Environments. In: First International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media Content Production: Architectures, Technologies, Applications, Tools (Richmedia). 2003, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Ezhilchelvan PD, Morgan G. A Dependable Distributed Auction System: Architecture and an Implementation Framework. In: 5th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS).2001,Dallas, Texas, USA:IEEE Computer Society Press
• Ezhilchelvan P, Khayyambashi M-R, Morgan G, Palmer D. Measuring the cost of scalability and reliability for Internet-based, server-centered applications. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS). 2001, Rome: IEEE.
• Morgan G, Shrivastava SK. Implementing flexible object group invocation in networked systems. In: International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). 2000, New York, NY, US: IEEE Computer Society.
• Morgan G, Rischbeck T. Implementing Scalable Networked Virtual Environments using Replicated VRML Servers. In: International SRDS Workshop on Object-Oriented Reliable Distributed Systems (WOODS), held as part of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). 2000, Nürnberg, Germany: IEEE Computer Society.
• Morgan G, Ezhilchelvan PD. Issues in designing group invocation and management policies for using replica groups over the Internet. In: International 19th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). 2000, Nürnberg, Germany.
• Morgan G, Ezhilchelvan PD. Issues in designing group invocation and management policies for using replica groups over the Internet. In: International SRDS Workshop on Dependable System Middleware and Group Communication (DSMGC), held as part of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). 2000, Nürnberg, Germany: IEEE Computer Society.
• Morgan G, Ezhilchelvan PD. Policies for Using Replica Groups and their Effectiveness over the Internet. In: 2nd International Workshop on Networked Group Communication (NGC). 2000, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA: ACM Press.
• Morgan G, Shrivastava SK, Ezhilchelvan PD, Little MC. Design and Implementation of a CORBA Fault-Tolerant Object Group Service. In: Distributed applications and interoperable systems II : IFIP TC6 WG6.1 second International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS'99). 1999, Helsinki, Finland: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Morgan G. [PhD Thesis] A Middleware Service for Fault-Tolerant Group Communications. Newcastle upon Tyne: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1999.