Alan Burns

18.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
361 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Alan Burns is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Burns has authored 361 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 293 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 184 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 135 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Alan Burns's work include Real-Time Systems Scheduling (281 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (157 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (143 papers). Alan Burns is often cited by papers focused on Real-Time Systems Scheduling (281 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (157 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (143 papers). Alan Burns collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Alan Burns's co-authors include Robert I. Davis, Andy Wellings, K. Tindell, Sanjoy Baruah, Neil Audsley, Guillem Bernat, Johan J. Lukkien, Reinder J. Bril, Fengxiang Zhang and Mike Richardson and has published in prestigious journals such as MIS Quarterly, ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Alan Burns

333 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

A survey of hard real-time scheduling for multiprocessor ... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2011 2007 2004 2015 100 200 300 400 500

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Burns United Kingdom 52 10.2k 5.8k 3.7k 873 693 361 11.8k
Aloysius K. Mok United States 32 3.7k 0.4× 3.0k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 610 0.7× 585 0.8× 190 5.7k
Giorgio Buttazzo Italy 46 6.7k 0.7× 4.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.5× 544 0.6× 790 1.1× 254 8.8k
Hermann Kopetz Austria 31 3.3k 0.3× 3.1k 0.5× 1.2k 0.3× 555 0.6× 542 0.8× 144 4.8k
Daniel D. Gajski United States 38 6.0k 0.6× 3.3k 0.6× 834 0.2× 417 0.5× 1.8k 2.6× 300 6.8k
Samarjit Chakraborty Germany 32 2.7k 0.3× 1.6k 0.3× 960 0.3× 309 0.4× 1.3k 1.8× 331 4.4k
Frank Vahid United States 39 4.2k 0.4× 2.6k 0.4× 368 0.1× 392 0.4× 1.5k 2.1× 295 5.3k
Twan Basten Netherlands 32 2.3k 0.2× 2.2k 0.4× 555 0.2× 419 0.5× 622 0.9× 241 3.9k
Oleg Sokolsky United States 33 1.1k 0.1× 1.1k 0.2× 1.2k 0.3× 979 1.1× 257 0.4× 215 3.7k
Donatella Sciuto Italy 30 2.9k 0.3× 1.6k 0.3× 352 0.1× 401 0.5× 2.0k 2.9× 434 4.3k
Wayne Wolf United States 32 2.8k 0.3× 2.1k 0.4× 285 0.1× 549 0.6× 1.2k 1.8× 165 4.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Burns

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Burns

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All Works

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Abdelzaher, Tarek, Kunal Agrawal, Sanjoy Baruah, et al.. (2023). Scheduling IDK classifiers with arbitrary dependences to minimize the expected time to successful classification. Real-Time Systems. 59(3). 348–407. 12 indexed citations
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Burns, Alan, Ian J. Hayes, & Cliff B. Jones. (2019). Deriving Specifications of Control Programs for Cyber Physical Systems. The Computer Journal. 63(5). 774–790. 2 indexed citations
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Baruah, Sanjoy, Alan Burns, & Zhishan Guo. (2016). Scheduling Mixed-Criticality Systems to Guarantee Some Service under All Non-erroneous Behaviors. 131–138. 38 indexed citations
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Burns, Alan, et al.. (2013). Performance comparison between the SRP and DFP synchronization protocols in MaRTE OS. Bone Research. 5. 17019–17019. 1 indexed citations
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Hayes, Ian J., Alan Burns, Brijesh Dongol, & Cliff B. Jones. (2011). Comparing Models of Nondeterministic Expression Evaluation. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series. 6 indexed citations
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Burns, Alan, et al.. (2009). Real-Time Systems and Programming Languages: Ada, Real-Time Java and C/Real-Time POSIX. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks. 129 indexed citations
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Burns, Alan & Sanjoy Baruah. (2008). Sustainability in Real-time Scheduling. Journal of Computing Science and Engineering. 2(1). 74–97. 59 indexed citations
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Wellings, Andy & Alan Burns. (2007). Real-time utilities for Ada 2005. 1–14. 7 indexed citations
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Bril, Reinder J., Johan J. Lukkien, Robert I. Davis, & Alan Burns. (2006). Message response time analysis for ideal controller area network (CAN) refuted. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 619. 290–3. 21 indexed citations
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Davis, Robert I. & Alan Burns. (2006). Hierarchical Fixed Priority Pre-Emptive Scheduling. 389–398. 191 indexed citations
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Lima, George & Alan Burns. (2001). A Timely Distributed Consensus Solution in a Crash/Omission-Fault Environment.
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Burns, Alan, Andy Wellings, Frank Burns, et al.. (2001). Modelling and verification of an atomic action protocol implemented in Ada. Computer Systems: Science & Engineering. 16. 173–182. 1 indexed citations
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Burns, Alan & Andy Wellings. (1998). Concurrency in Ada (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Bernat, Guillem & Alan Burns. (1997). Combining ( m n )-hard deadlines and dual priority scheduling.. 46–57. 2 indexed citations
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Audsley, Neil, Alan Burns, Mike Richardson, & Andy Wellings. (1995). Data Consistency in Hard Real-Time Systems.. Informatica (slovenia). 19. 19 indexed citations
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Burns, Alan. (1995). Preemptive priority-based scheduling: an appropriate engineering approach. Prentice-Hall, Inc eBooks. 225–248. 191 indexed citations
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Burns, Alan, et al.. (1993). Allocating And Scheduling Hard Real-Time Tasks On A Point-To-Point Distributed System. 18 indexed citations
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Burns, Alan, et al.. (1991). TARDIS: An Architectural Framework for Timely and Reliable Distributed Information Systems. 1. 1 indexed citations
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Burns, Alan. (1985). Concurrent programming in Ada. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 37 indexed citations

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