The University of Wollongong

Nicholas Paul Sheppard

Publications


The publishers of the papers linked here have kindly given permission for me to make my own versions available. These papers are made available for personal use and are not to be re-distributed. Please contact the article's original publisher for other uses.

Combinatorial Optimisation

J. H. Kingston and N. P. Sheppard, On Reductions for the Steiner Problem in Graphs
Workshop version: Tenth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (AWOCA '99), Perth, WA, Australia, 1999, pp. 34-43. [Download]
Journal version: Journal of Discrete Algorithms 1 (2003), pp. 77-88. [Download]

J. H. Kingston and N. P. Sheppard, On the Hardness of Computing Maximum Self-Reduction Sequences, Discrete Mathematics 226 (2000), pp. 243-253. [Download]

N. P. Sheppard, Self-Reduction for Combinatorial Optimisation, PhD Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. [Download]

Multimedia Security

N. P. Sheppard, R. Safavi-Naini and P. Ogunbona, On Multiple Watermarking, Workshop on Multimedia and Security 2001, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 3-6. [Download]

N. P. Sheppard, R. Safavi-Naini and P. Ogunbona, Digital Watermarks for Copyright Protection
Conference version: Information Technology and the Emerging Law (ITeL) 2001, Wollongong, Australia. [Download]
Journal version: Journal of Law and Information Science 12 (2002), pp. 110-128.

N. P. Sheppard, R. Safavi-Naini and P. Ogunbona, Secure Multimedia Authoring with Dishonest Collaborators, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Multimedia Security and Rights Management, October 2004, pp. 2214-2223. [Download]

R. Safavi-Naini, N. P. Sheppard and T. Uehara, Import/Export in Digital Rights Management, ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management 2004, Washington DC, USA, pp. 99-110. [Download]

H. Vasanta, R. Safavi-Naini, N. P. Sheppard, and J. M. Surminen, Distributed Management of OMA DRM Domains, International Workshop on Information Security Applications 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, pp. 237-251. [Download]

N. P. Sheppard and R. Safavi-Naini, Sharing Digital Rights with Domain Licensing, ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Protection and Security 2006, Santa Barbara, California, USA, pp. 3-12. [Download]

N. P. Sheppard and R. Safavi-Naini, Modelling Social Networks as Authorised Domains with Decay, International Workshop on Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods 2007, Koblenz, Germany, to appear.

N. P. Sheppard, On Implementing MPEG-21 Intellectual Property Management and Protection, ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management 2007, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, pp. 10-22. [Download]

Privacy

N. P. Sheppard and R. Safavi-Naini, Protecting Privacy with the MPEG-21 IPMP Framework, International Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2006, Cambridge, UK, pp. 152-171. [Download]

F. Salim, N. P. Sheppard and R. Safavi-Naini, Enforcing P3P Policies Using a Digital Rights Management System, International Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2007, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 200-217.

Location-based Services

R. Safavi-Naini, N. P. Sheppard, M. Surminen, Location-based DRM using WiFi Access Points, International Symposium on Communications and Information Technology 2007, Sydney, Australia, pp. 882-886. [Download]

A. Muhlbauer, R. Safavi-Naini, F. Salim, N. P. Sheppard, M. Surminen, Location Constraints in Digital Rights Management, Computer Communications 31(6), 2008, pp. 1173-1180. [Download]

Students' Papers Under my Supervision

Q. Liu, R. Safavi-Naini and N. P. Sheppard, Digital Rights Management for Content Distribution, Australasian Information Security Workshop 2003, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 49-58. [PDF 224k]

R. Scealy, R. Safavi-Naini and N. P. Sheppard, Performance Measurement of Watermark Embedding Patterns, International Workshop on Digital Watermarking 2003, Seoul, Korea, pp. 77-85. [Download]

G. E. Wheeler, R. Safavi-Naini and N. P. Sheppard, Weighted Segmented Digital Watermarking, International Workshop on Digital Watermarking 2004, Seoul, Korea, pp. 89-100. [Download]

Q. Liu, R. Safavi-Naini and N. P. Sheppard, A License Transfer System for Supporting Content Portability in Digital Rights Management, IFIP International Information Security Conference 2005, Chiba, Japan, pp. 189-204.

Q. Liu, R. Safavi-Naini and N. P. Sheppard, Maintaining Count Constraints in a Household Domain in DRM, International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage 2005, San Francisco, USA, pp. 69-75.

S. Stamm, N. P. Sheppard and R. Safavi-Naini, Implementing Trusted Terminals with a TPM and SITDRM, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 197(1), February 2008, pp. 73-85.


Nicholas Paul Sheppard: nps@uow.edu.au