Martin C. Atkins

martin at mca-ltd.com

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I am currently the technical director of Mission Critical Applications Limited, the company that I started with my wife, Divya, in 1999.

Education

My Background

Professional Interests

Other (hopefully useful!) Stuff

Other Interests

Publications

  1. The Measurement and Valid Use of Utility in Adaptive Real-Time Systems, D.Prasad, A. Burns and M.Atkins, Real-Time Systems Jounal, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 25, Issue 2-3, pp 277-296, September - October 2003.
  2. On defining a 'hurt' metric to measure dissatisfaction with products, Divya Prasad, Martin Atkins, John McDermid and Ian Wand, in Proceedings of ESCOM ENCRESS '98, Rome (May 1998).
  3. Global Synchronisation in Linda, Paul Butcher, Alan Wood and Martin Atkins, CONCURRENCY: Practice and Experience 6(6), pp 505-516 (September 1994).
  4. Principles of Object-Oriented Systems, M. C. Atkins and A. W. Brown, Chapter 39 in the Software Engineer’s Reference Book, edited by John A. McDermid. Published by Butterworth-Heinemann, London. ISBN 0-7506-1040-9. 1032pp. March 1991.
  5. Implementation Techniques for Object-Oriented Systems, M. C. Atkins, D.Phil Thesis, University of York, Department of Computer Science, 1998.
  6. The Active Deallocation of Objects in Object-Oriented Systems, M. C. Atkins and L. R. Nackman, SOFTWARE - Practice and Experience 18(11), pp 1073-1089 (November 1988). Also published as IBM Research Report RC 13091 (November 1987). An extended version of this paper also became chapter 5, "Active Deallocation of Objects", in my thesis.
  7. The Composers’ Desktop Project, M. C. Atkins et al., in Proceedings of the 1987 International Computer Music Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (August 1987).