Gary Wills

Gary Wills graduated from the University of Southampton with an Honours degree in Electromechanical Engineering and then a PhD in Industrial Hypermedia systems. He is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institute of Engineering Technology, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy. He is also an adjunct professor at the Cape Peninsular University of Technology and a research professor at RLabs. Gary’s main research projects revolve around providing people with relevant information in order for them to carry out a task. Gary’s research projects focus on System Engineering and applications for industry, medicine and education.

Publications

Expert Review of the Land Registration Framework in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Manar Altamimi, Gary Wills, Nawfal Al Hashimy. © 2022. 18 pages.
The aim of this article is to present a framework of the influencing factors in the land registration system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The framework is mainly developed to...
Developing a Framework and an Instrument for Measuring System Openness
Tope Omitola, Gary Wills. © 2020. 42 pages.
This article describes the process of developing a framework and an instrument for measuring and ascertaining the openness of a system applicable to system architectures and...
A Resource Allocation Model for Desktop Clouds
Abdulelah Alwabel, Robert John Walters, Gary B. Wills. © 2019. 22 pages.
Cloud computing is a new paradigm that promises to move IT a step further towards utility computing, in which computing services are delivered as a utility service....
A Resource Allocation Model for Desktop Clouds
Abdulelah Alwabel, Robert John Walters, Gary B. Wills. © 2016. 21 pages.
Cloud computing is a new paradigm that promises to move IT a step further towards utility computing, in which computing services are delivered as a utility service....
Cloud Computing and Frameworks for Organisational Cloud Adoption
Victor Chang, Robert John Walters, Gary B. Wills. © 2016. 25 pages.
This chapter presents a selected review for Cloud Computing and explains the issues and risks of adopting Cloud Computing in a business environment. Although all the risks...
A University of Greenwich Case Study of Cloud Computing: Education as a Service
Victor Chang, Gary Wills. © 2015. 22 pages.
This chapter proposes a new Supply Chain Business Model in the Education domain and demonstrates how Education as a Service (EaaS) can be delivered. The implementation at the...
Delivery and Adoption of Cloud Computing Services in Contemporary Organizations
Victor Chang, Robert John Walters, Gary Wills. © 2015. 519 pages.
The ubiquity of technology has not only brought the need for computer knowledge to every aspect of the modern business world; it has also increased our need to safely store the...
Cloud Computing and Frameworks for Organisational Cloud Adoption
Victor Chang, Robert John Walters, Gary B. Wills. © 2015. 25 pages.
This chapter presents a selected review for Cloud Computing and explains the issues and risks of adopting Cloud Computing in a business environment. Although all the risks...
A Resource Allocation Model for Desktop Clouds
Abdulelah Alwabel, Robert John Walters, Gary B. Wills. © 2015. 20 pages.
Cloud computing is a new paradigm that promises to move IT a step further towards utility computing, in which computing services are delivered as a utility service....
Performance Evaluation of Multi-Core Multi-Cluster Architecture (MCMCA)
Norhazlina Hamid, Robert John Walters, Gary B. Wills. © 2015. 26 pages.
A multi-core cluster is a cluster composed of numbers of nodes where each node has a number of processors, each with more than one core within each single chip. Cluster nodes are...
The Financial Clouds Review
Victor Chang, Chung-Sheng Li, David De Roure, Gary Wills, Robert John Walters, Clinton Chee. © 2013. 22 pages.
This paper demonstrates financial enterprise portability, which involves moving entire application services from desktops to clouds and between different clouds, and is...
A University of Greenwich Case Study of Cloud Computing: Education as a Service
Victor Chang, Gary Wills. © 2013. 22 pages.
This chapter proposes a new Supply Chain Business Model in the Education domain and demonstrates how Education as a Service (EaaS) can be delivered. The implementation at the...
The Financial Clouds Review
Victor Chang, Chung-Sheng Li, David De Roure, Gary Wills, Robert John Walters, Clinton Chee. © 2012. 22 pages.
This paper demonstrates financial enterprise portability, which involves moving entire application services from desktops to clouds and between different clouds, and is...
Business Integration as a Service
Victor Chang, Robert John Walters, Gary Wills. © 2012. 25 pages.
This paper presents Business Integration as a Service (BIaS) which enables connections between services operating in the Cloud. BIaS integrates different services and business...
Towards a Structured Cloud ROI: The University of Southampton Cost-Saving and User Satisfaction Case Studies
Victor Chang, Gary Wills, Robert John Walters, Wendy Currie. © 2012. 22 pages.
Organisational Sustainability Modelling (OSM) is a new way to measure Cloud business performance quantitatively and accurately, and is a key area offered by Cloud Computing...
Mobile Instant Messaging used to Provide Support and Advice to South African Youth
Marlon Parker, Julia Wills, Lucille Aanhuizen, Lester Gilbert, Gary Wills. © 2012. 19 pages.
Drug Advice Support (DAS), via mobile instant messaging originated in RLabs, South Africa. The question in this research was could DAS be scaled up in different geographical and...
The Financial Clouds Review
Victor Chang, Chung-Sheng Li, David De Roure, Gary Wills, Robert John Walters, Clinton Chee. © 2011. 23 pages.
This paper demonstrates financial enterprise portability, which involves moving entire application services from desktops to clouds and between different clouds, and is...
Case Studies and Organisational Sustainability Modelling Presented by Cloud Computing Business Framework
Victor Chang, David De Roure, Gary Wills, Robert John Walters. © 2011. 28 pages.
In this paper, Cloud Computing Business Framework (CCBF) is proposed to help organisations achieve good Cloud design, deployment, migration, and services. Although organisations...
International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)
Victor Chang, Peng Liu, Muthu Ramachandran. Est. 2010.
The International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) focuses on computing theories and empirical analyses of shared knowledge relevant to businesses....
Co-Design and Co-Deployment Methodologies for Innovative m-Learning Systems
David Millard, Yvonne Howard, Lester Gilbert, Gary Wills. © 2010. 17 pages.
Building innovative m-learning systems can be challenging, because innovative technology is tied to innovative practice, and thus the design process needs to consider the social...