Siani Pearson

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Senior Researcher
Bristol

Biography

Siani is a senior researcher in the Cloud and Security Research Lab. The focus of her research is on privacy enhancing technologies, accountability and the cloud.

She is currently a technical lead on the following projects/activities:

  • Regulatory compliance advisors: joint projects between HP Labs, HP Enterprise Services and Privacy Office
  • EnCoRe (Ensuring Consent and Revocation): collaborative project led by HP, funded by UK Technology Strategy Board
  • Accountability in the cloud 

 

Research interests

  • privacy techniques for cloud computing
  • accountability
  • sticky policies
  • consent and revocation management
  • decision support systems
  • risk assessment and Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
  • privacy-enhanced access control
  • privacy policies and their management 
  • trust technologies
  • privacy and usability

Awards

Best paper award, 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom), Beijing, 2009.

Publications

  • Siani Pearson and Marco Casassa Mont, “Sticky Policies: An Approach for Privacy Management across Multiple Parties”, Special Issue on Security and Privacy in an Online World, IEEE Computer, pp. 26-34, July 2011.
  • Siani Pearson, “Toward Accountability in the Cloud”, View from the Cloud, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Computer Society, July/August issue, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 64-69, 2011.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont and Gina Kounga, “Enhancing Accountability in the Cloud via Sticky Policies”, Secure and Trust Computing, Data Management and Applications, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 187, Springer Berlin Heidelburg, pp. 146-155, 2011.
  • Nick Papanikalaou, Siani Pearson and Marco Casassa Mont, “Towards Natural-Language Understanding and Automated Enforcement of Privacy Rules and Regulations in the Cloud: Survey and Bibliography”, Secure and Trust Computing, Data Management and Applications, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 187, Springer Berlin Heidelburg, pp. 166-173, 2011.
  • Ryan K L Ko, Peter Jagadpramana, Miranda Mowbray, Siani Pearson, Markus Kirchberg, Qianhui Liang, Bu Sung Lee, “TrustCloud: A Framework for Accountability and Trust in Cloud Computing”, 2nd IEEE Cloud Forum for Practitioners (ICFP), IEEE Computer Society, Washington DC, USA, 7-8 July 2011.
  • R.K.L. Ko, B.S. Lee and S. Pearson, “Towards achieving accountability, auditability and trust in cloud computing”, A. Abraham et al. (Eds.), ACC 2011, Part IV, CCIS 193, pp. 432–444, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
  • Siani Pearson and Tomas Sander, “A decision support system for privacy compliance”, Strategic and Practical Approaches for Information Security Governance: Technologies and Applied Solutions, IGI Global, 2011, in press.
  • Siani Pearson, “Privacy Models and Languages: Assurance Checking Policies”, Digital Privacy, ed. J. Camenisch, D. Sommer and R. Leenes, LNCS 6545, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelburg, pp. 363-375, 2011.
  • Dieter Sommer, Siani Pearson, Stephen Crane, “Introduction: Privacy, Trust and Identity Management”, Digital Privacy, ed. J. Camenisch, D. Sommer and R. Leenes, LNCS 6545, Springer, pp. 141-150, 2011.
  • Siani Pearson and Tariq Elahi, “Privacy Assurance Checking”, Digital Privacy, ed. J. Camenisch, D. Sommer and R. Leenes, LNCS 6545, Springer, pp. 427-456, 2011.
  • Stephen Crane and Siani Pearson, “Security/Trustworthiness Assessment of Platforms”, Digital Privacy, ed. J. Camenisch, D. Sommer and R. Leenes, LNCS 6545, Springer, pp. 457-484, 2011.
  • Simone Fischer-Hubner, John Sőren Pettersson, Mike Bergmann, Marit Hansen, Siani Pearson and Marco Casassa Mont, “Human Computer Interaction”, Digital Privacy, ed. J. Camenisch, D. Sommer and R. Leenes, LNCS 6545, Springer, pp. 569-596, 2011.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, and Nick Papanikolaou. “A Conceptual Model for Privacy Policies with Consent and Revocation Requirements.” Privacy and Identity 2010, volume 352, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Springer, 2011.
  • Siani Pearson and Azzedine Benameur, 'A Decision Support System for Design for Privacy', Privacy and Identity 2010, volume 352, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Springer, 2011.
  • Siani Pearson and Damien Allison, “Privacy Compliance Checking using a Model-Based Approach”, E-Business Applications for Product Development and Competitive Growth: Emerging Technologies, e. I. Lee, Business Science Reference, New York, IGI Global, pp. 199-220, 2011.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Gina Kounga, Siani Pearson and Archie Reed, “End-to-End Policy-Based Encryption and Management of Data in the Cloud”, Proc. HP Techcon 2011, 2011.
  • Siani Pearson, Tomas Sander and Kieran McCorry, “A Regulatory Compliance Advisor for the Financial Services Industry”, Proc. HP Techcon 2011, 2011.
  • David Tancock, Siani Pearson and Andrew Charlesworth, “A Privacy Impact Assessment Tool for Cloud Computing”, Proc. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Science 2010, Indianapolis, USA, IEEE, pp. 667-676, December 2010.
  • Siani Pearson and Yun Shen, “Context-aware design pattern selection”, no. 558023, Research Disclosure, p. 987, October 2010.
  • Siani Pearson and Azzedine Benameur, “Privacy, Security and Trust Issues Arising from Cloud Computing”, Proc. IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Indianapolis, USA, IEEE, pp. 693-702, December 2010.
  • Tomas Sander and Siani Pearson, “Decision Support for Selection of Cloud Service Providers”, International Journal on Computing (JoC), GTSF, 2010.
  • Ioannis Agrafiotis, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, Nick Papanikolaou, Marco Casassa Mont, and Siani Pearson. “Defining consent and revocation policies.” Pre-Proceedings of PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School 2010: Privacy and Identity Management for Life, Helsingborg, Sweden, August 2010.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, and Nick Papanikolaou. “EnCoRe: Towards a conceptual model for privacy policies.” Pre-Proceedings of PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School 2010: Privacy and Identity Management for Life, Helsingborg, Sweden, August 2010.
  • Siani Pearson and Azzedine Benameur, “Decision Support for Design for Privacy: A System Focused on Privacy by Policy”, Pre-Proceedings of PrimeLife/IFIP Summer School 2010: Privacy and Identity Management for Life, Helsingborg, Sweden, August 2010.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Yun Shen, Gina Kounga, Siani Pearson, “Technical Architecture for the Case Study on Employee Data”, Encore Public Deliverable D2.1, ed. Pete Bramhall, v1, February 2010, available via http://www.encore-project.info/deliverables_material/D2.1%20EnCoRe%20Architecture%20V1.0.pdf
  • Ioannis Agrafiotis, Pete Bramhall, Sadie Creese, Liam Curren, Paul Hopkins, Kay Hughes, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Siani Pearson, Simon Wiseman, “Scoping out the compliance framework and research plan”, Encore Deliverable 5.1, December 2009, available via https://extcollab.hpl.hp.com/encore-twiki/pub/EnCoReWork/WP5DeliverablesDiscussion/Final_D5.1.doc
  • David Tancock, Siani Pearson and Andrew Charlesworth, 'Analysis of Privacy Impact Assessments within Major Jurisdictions', Proc. PST 2010, Ottawa, Canada, IEEE, August 2010.
  • Siani Pearson and Yun Shen, “Context-Aware Privacy Design Pattern Selection”, Trustbus 2010: 7th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, LNCS 6264, pp. 69-80, Springer, 2010.
  • Nick Papanikolaou, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, Marco Casassa Mont and Siani Pearson, “ENCORE: Towards a holistic approach to privacy”, Proc. International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2010), Athens, Greece, pp. 171-176, July 2010.
  • Siani Pearson and Tomas Sander, “A Mechanism for Policy-Driven Selection of Service Providers in SOA and Cloud Environments”, Proc. NOTERE 2010: 10th Annual Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems, pp. 333-338, IEEE, 2010.
  • Tomas Sander and Siani Pearson, “Decision Support for Cloud Computing Provisioning”, Proc. Cloud Computing and Virtualisation (CCV), 2010.
  • Siani Pearson, “Addressing Complexity in a Privacy Expert System”, E. Hüllermeier, R. Kruse, and F. Hoffmann (Eds.), IPMU 2010, Part II, CCIS 81, pp. 612–621, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
  • Miranda Mowbray, Siani Pearson, Yun Shen, 'Enhancing Privacy in Cloud Computing via Policy-based Obfuscation', Journal of Supercomputing, March 2010.
  • Siani Pearson, Tomas Sander and Rajneesh Sharma, “Privacy Management for Global Organisations”, Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security, J. Garcia-Alfaro et al. (Eds.), LNCS 5939, pp. 9-17, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelburg, 2009.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, Nick Papanikolaou, “Towards an Integrated Approach to the Management, Specification and Enforcement of Privacy Policies”, Proc. W3C Workshop on Access Control Application Scenarios, Abbaye de Neumunster, Luxemboug, 17-18 November 2009.
  • Siani Pearson and Andrew Charlesworth, “Accountability as a Way Forward for Privacy Protection in the Cloud”, Proc. 1st CloudCom 2009, ed. M.G. Jaatun, G. Zhao, C. Rong, Beijing, Springer LNCS 5931, pp. 131-144, December 2009.
  • Siani Pearson, Yun Shen and Miranda Mowbray, “A Privacy Manager for Cloud Computing”, Proc. 1st CloudCom 2009, ed. M.G. Jaatun, G. Zhao, C. Rong, Beijing, Springer LNCS 5931, pp. 90-106, December 2009. Won the best paper award for this conference.
  • Sadie Creese, Paul Hopkins, Siani Pearson and Yun Shen, “Data Protection-Aware Design for Cloud Computing”, Proc. 1st CloudCom 2009, ed. M.G. Jaatun, G. Zhao, C. Rong, Beijing, Springer LNCS 5931, pp. 119-130, December 2009.
  • Siani Pearson, Prasad Rao, Tomas Sander, Alan Parry, Allan Paull, Satish Patruni, Venkata Dandamudi-Ratnakar and Pranav Sharma, “Scalable, Accountable Privacy Management for Large Organizations”, INSPEC 2009: 2nd International Workshop on Security and Privacy Distributed Computing, Enterprise Distributed Object Conference Workshops (EDOCW 2009), IEEE, pp. 168-175, September 2009.
  • Miranda Mowbray and Siani Pearson, “A Client-Based Privacy Manager for Cloud Computing”, Proc. COMSWARE’09, Article no. 1621897, ACM, June 2009.
  • Siani Pearson, “Taking Account of Privacy when Designing Cloud Computing Services”, Cloud 2009: ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges of Cloud Computing, Vancouver, IEEE, pp. 44-52, May 2009.
  • Siani Pearson and Damien Allison, “A Model-Based Privacy Compliance Checker”, International Journal of E-Business Research, Special Issue on Privacy, 5(2), pp. 63-83, IGI Global, April-June 2009.
  • Siani Pearson and Tomas Sander, “Privacy Accountability for a Global Enterprise”, Article in HP Secure Advantage Newsletter, Dec 2008.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Cassasa Mont and Stephen Crane, “Analysis of Trust Properties and Related Impact of Trusted Platforms”, Trust Management in Virtual Environments, ed. R. K. Jain, pp. 25-46, Icfai University Press, 2008.
  • Stephen Crane, Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson, “On Helping Individuals to Manage Privacy and Trust”, Trust Management in Virtual Environments, ed. R. K. Jain, pp. 123-140, Icfai University Press, 2008.
  • Simone Fischer-Hűbner, John-Sőren Pettersson, Mike Bergmann, Marit Hansen, Siani Pearson, and Marco Casassa-Mont, “Digital privacy”, Aquisti et al. (eds.), Digital Privacy - Theory, Technologies, and Practices, Auerbach Publications, 2008.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont and Manny Novoa, “Securing Information Transfer within Distributed Computing Environments”, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Jan/Feb issue, volume 6, number 1, pp. 34-42, IEEE, 2008.
  • Siani Pearson, “Privacy Models and Languages: Assurance Checking Policies”, Prime: Privacy and Identity Management for Europe, J. Camenish, R. Leenes, D. Sommer (eds.), pp. 225-237, 2008.
  • Dieter Sommer, Siani Pearson, Stephen Crane, “Introduction: Privacy, Trust and Identity Management”, Prime: Privacy and Identity Management for Europe, J. Camenish, R. Leenes, D. Sommer (eds.), pp. 119-126, 2008.
  • Siani Pearson and Tariq Elahi, “Privacy Assurance Checking”, Prime: Privacy and Identity Management for Europe, J. Camenish, R. Leenes, D. Sommer (eds.), pp. 289-317, 2008.
  • Stephen Crane and Siani Pearson, “Security/Trustworthiness Assessment of Platforms”, Prime: Privacy and Identity Management for Europe, J. Camenish, R. Leenes, D. Sommer (eds.), pp. 319-344, 2008.
  • John Sőren Pettersson, Siani Pearson et al., “Human Computer Interaction”, Prime: Privacy and Identity Management for Europe, J. Camenish, R. Leenes, D. Sommer (eds.), pp. 427-452, 2008.
  • Tariq Ehsan Elahi and Siani Pearson, “Privacy Assurance: Bridging the Gap Between Preference and Practice”, C. Lambrinoudakis, G. Pernul, A.M. Tjoa (eds.), Proc. TrustBus 2007, LNCS 4657, pp. 65-74, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
  • Simone Fischer-Hűbner, John Sőren Pettersson, Mike Bergmann, Marit Hansen, Siani Pearson and Marco Casassa Mont, “HCI Designs for Privacy-Enhancing Identity Management“, Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies and Practices, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.
  • Rahul Biswari, Prashant Choudhary, Prasenjit Dey, Siani Pearson and Tomas Sander, “Development of a Comprehensive Privacy Model for Business Process Outsourcing”, Proc. HP Tech Con 2007, 2007.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont, “A System for Privacy-aware Resource Allocation and Data Processing in Dynamic Environments”, Proc. I-NetSec06, IFIP, vol. 201, Springer Boston, pp. 471-482, 2006.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson, Robert Thyne, “A Systematic Approach to Privacy Enforcement and Policy Compliance Checking in Enterprises”, Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, LNCS 4083, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 91-102, 2006
  • Siani Pearson and Marco Casassa Mont, “Provision of Trusted Identity Management using Trust Credentials”, Trust Management, LNCS 3986, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 267-282, 2006.
  • Siani Pearson, “Towards Automated Evaluation of Trust Constraints”, Trust Management, LNCS 3986, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 252-266, 2006.
  • John Sőren Petterson, Simone Fischer-Hűbner, Marco Casassa Mont and Siani Pearson, “How Ordinary Internet Users can have a Chance to Influence Privacy Policies”, Proc. NordiCHI 2006, pp. 473-476, ACM, 2006.
  • Siani Pearson, Tomas Sander and Prasenjit Dey, “Privacy Modeling and Anonymisation Research for Business Processing Outsourcing”, Proc. ECSR Workshop, HP, 2006.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont and Manny Novoa, “Strengthening Identity Management within Enterprises using Trusted Computing”, Proc. HP TechCon, 2006.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson and Robert Thyne, “A Systematic Approach to Privacy Enforcement and Policy Compliance Checking”, Proc. HP TechCon, 2006.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson and Robert Thyne, “A Flexible Systemic Approach to Privacy Enforcement and Policy Compliance Checking from HPLabs”, http://webnt.hpl.hp.com/hpso/news/06%20-%20February/feb%20main%20body, HP Security Office Newsletter, February 2006.
  • Siani Pearson and Marco Casassa Mont, “Strengthening identity management using trusted computing”, http://webnt.hpl.hp.com/hpso/news/06 - August/newslettermain, HP Security Office Newsletter, August 2006.
  • Siani Pearson and Tomas Sander, “Opportunities for Improving the Privacy of Business Process Outsourcing”, HP Confidential Report, 35 pp, July 2006.
  • Siani Pearson, “Trusted Computing: Strengths, Weaknesses and Further Opportunities for Enhancing Privacy”, Trust Management, Proc. iTrust 2005, LNCS 3477, ed: Peter Herrmann, Valérie Issarny, Simon Shiu, pp. 305-320, 2005.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont and Stephen Crane, “Persistent and Dynamic Trust: Analysis and the Related Impact of Trusted Platforms”, Trust Management, Proc. iTrust 2005, LNCS 3477, ed: Peter Herrmann, Valérie Issarny, Simon Shiu, pp. 355-363, 2005.
  • Siani Pearson, “How Trusted Computers Can Enhance Privacy Preserving Mobile Applications”, Proc. WOWMOM 2005, pp. 609-613, IEEE Computer Society, 2005.
  • Marco Casassa Mont and Siani Pearson, “An Adaptive Privacy Management System for Data Repositories”, Proc. TrustBus, LNCS 3592, pp. 236-245, 2005.
  • Anderson, Camenisch, Crane, Fischer-Hübner, Pearson, Pettersson, Leenes, Sommer, “Trust in PRIME”, Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Symp. on Signal Processing and IT, IEEE, 2005.
  • Thomas Roessler, Giles Hogben, Marco Casassa Mont and Siani Pearson, “Position Paper: Rule Language Requirements for Privacy-Enabled Identity Management”, Proc. Rule Languages for Interoperability 2005, 2005.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont and Pete Bramhall, “Privacy Management for Enterprises”, Proc. ECSR Workshop, HP, December 2005.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson and Pete Bramhall, “An Adaptive Privacy Management System for Data Repositories”, Proc. HP TechCon 04, 2004.
  • Siani Pearson, “Privacy Enhancing Uses of Trusted Platform Technology”, Proc. ICCCCT ’03, July 2003 (republished in SCI Journal).
  • Michael Kinateder and Siani Pearson, “A Privacy-Enhanced Peer-to-Peer Reputation System”, Proc. EC-Web 2003, pp. 206-215, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
  • Marco Casassa-Mont, Siani Pearson and Pete Bramhall, “Towards User Control and Accountable Management of Privacy and Identity Information”, Proc. ESORICS, pp. 146-161, LNCS 2808, Springer, 2003.
  • Marco Casassa-Mont, Siani Pearson and Pete Bramhall, “Towards Accountable Management of Identity and Privacy: Sticky Policies and Enforceable Tracing Services”, Proc. DEXA 2003, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 377-382, 2003.
  • Yolanta Beres, Pete Bramhall, Marco Casassa Mont, Mickey Gittler and Siani Pearson, “On the Importance of Accountability and Enforceability in Enterprise Privacy Languages”, Proc. W3C Workshop on Enterprise Privacy Languages and the Future of P3P, Kiel, June 2003.
  • Siani Pearson, “A Trusted Mechanism for User Self-Profiling in E-Commerce”, Trust, Reputation and Security: Theories and Practice, LNAI 2631, Springer, pp. 177-193, 2002.
  • Siani Pearson (editor), Trusted Computing Platforms: TCPA Technology in Context, Prentice-Hall, July 2002.
  • Chris Preist and Siani Pearson, “An Adaptive Choice of Messaging Protocol in Multi Agent Systems”, Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems, LNAI 2403, ed Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael Fisher and Chris Preist. pp. 227-242, Springer, 2002.
  • Siani Pearson, “Trusted Computing Platforms, the Next Security Solution”, Informit.com, August 2002.
  • Siani Pearson, “How can You Trust the Computer in Front of You” Informit.com, September 2002.
  • Siani Pearson, “An Introduction to Trusted Platform Technology”, Proc HP World 2002, September 2002.
  • B. Balacheff, L. Chen, S. Pearson, G. Proudler and D. Chan, “Computing platform security in cyberspace”. Information Security Technical Report, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 54-63, Elsevier, 2000.
  • B. Balacheff, D. Chan, L. Chen, S. Pearson, and G. Proudler, “Securing intelligent adjuncts using trusted computing platform technology”, J. Domingo-Ferrer, D. Chan and A. Watson (eds.), Proc. 4th Working Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, pp. 177-196, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
  • B. Balacheff, D. Chan, L. Chen, S. Pearson, and G. Proudler, “How can you trust a computing platform”, Proc. Information Security Solutions Europe Conference (ISSE 2000), Spain, 2000.
  • Siani Pearson, Liqun Chen and Athanasios Vamvakas, “On enhancing user authentication with biometric data protection for smart card and other trusted hardware”, Proc. Gemplus Developers’ Conference 2000, June 2000.
  • Liqun Chen, Siani Pearson and Athanasios Vamvakas, “On enhancing biometric authentication with data protection”, R. Howlett and L. Jain (eds.), Proc. 4th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies (KES 2000), pp. 249-252, IEEE, 2000.
  • Chris Preist and Siani Pearson, “An Adaptive Choice of Messaging Protocol in Multi-Agent Systems”, Proc. ICMAS 1998, Y. Demazeau (ed.), pp. 457-458, IEEE Computer Society, 1998.
  • S. Pearson, C. Preist, T. Dahl and E. de Kroon, “An Agent Based Approach to Task Allocation in a Computer Support Team”, Proc. PAAM'97, Springer, 1997.
  • T. Dahl, S. Pearson and C. Preist, “An Agent Communications Platform developed in Object-Oriented Prolog”, Proc. PAP'97, Springer, 1997.
  • Siani Pearson, “Analysing Choice of Messaging Protocol in Multi-Agent Systems”, Proc. FoMAS ’97, 1997.
  • Chris Preist and Siani Pearson, “An Adaptive Choice of Messaging Protocol in Multi-Agent Systems”, Working Notes, Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems, pp.89-104, December 1997.
  • Siani Baker (now Pearson) and Alan Smaill, “A Proof Environment for Arithmetic with the Omega Rule”, Integrating Symbolic Mathematical Computation and Artificial Intelligence, LNCS 958, AISMC-2, pp. 115-130, Springer-Verlag, 1994.
  • Siani Baker (now Pearson), “A New Application for Explanation-based Generalisation within Automated Deduction”. In A. Bundy (ed.), 12th International Conference on Automated Deduction, LNCS 814, Springer-Verlag, pp. 177-191, 1994.
  • Siani Baker (now Pearson), Andrew Ireland and Alan Smaill, “On the Use of the Constructive Omega Rule within Automated Deduction”, Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning, LNCS 624, LPAR ’92, pp. 214-225, Springer-Verlag, 1992.
  • Siani Baker (now Pearson), CORE manual, Technical Paper 10, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1992.
  • Siani Baker (now Pearson), “Aspects of the Constructive Omega Rule within Automated Deduction”, PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992.
  • Co-editor, Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 1991-92.

HPL External Technical Reports

  • Siani Pearson, “Towards Accountability in the Cloud”, HPL-2011-.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont, Liqun Chen, Archie Reed, “End-to-End Policy-Based Encryption and Management of Data in the Cloud”, HPL-2011-.
  • Nick Papanikolaou, Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont and Ryan Ko, “Towards Greater Accountability in Cloud Computing through Natural-Language Analysis and Automated Policy Enforcement”, HPL-2011-118. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2011/HPL-2011-118l  
  • Nick Papanikolaou, Siani Pearson and Marco Casassa Mont, “Towards Natural-Language Understanding and Automated Enforcement of Privacy Rules and Regulations in the Cloud: Survey and Bibliography”, HPL-2011-117. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2011/HPL-2011-117l  
  • Yun Shen and Siani Pearson, “Privacy Enhancing Technologies: A Review”, HPL-2011-113. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2011/HPL-2011-113l
  • Ryan K L Ko, Peter Jagadpramana, Miranda Mowbray, Siani Pearson, Markus Kirchberg, Qianhui Liang, Bu Sung Lee, “TrustCloud: A Framework for Accountability and Trust in Cloud Computing”, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2011-38, 2011. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2011/HPL-2011-38l
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, Nick Papanikolaou, ”Towards A Conceptual Model For Privacy Policies”, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2010-82, 2010. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2010/HPL-2010-82l
  • Nick Papanikolaou, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearon, “EnCoRe: Towards a Holisitic Approach to Privacy”, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2010-83, 2010. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2010/HPL-2010-83l
  • Siani Pearson, Simple Mode: Addressing Knowledge Engineering Complexity in a Privacy Expert System, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2010-75, June 2010. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2010/HPL-2010-75l
  • Yun Shen and Siani Pearson, “Context-Aware Privacy Design Pattern Selection”, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2010-74, June 2010. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2010/HPL-2010-74l
  • David Tancock, Siani Pearson and Andrew Charlesworth, “The Emergence of Privacy Impact Assessments”, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2010-63, May 2010. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2010/HPL-2010-63l
  • Sadie Creese, Paul Hopkins, Siani Pearson and Yun Shen, “Data Protection-Aware Design for Cloud Computing”, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2009-192, August 2009. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-192l
  • Siani Pearson and Andrew Charlesworth, “Accountability as a Way Forward for Privacy Protection in the Cloud”, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2009-178, August 2009. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-178l
  • Siani Pearson, Yun Shen and Miranda Mowbray, “A Privacy Manager for Cloud Computing”, HP Labs Technical Report, HPL-2009-156, July 2009. Available via
    http://library.hp.com/techpubs/2009/HPL-2009-156l
  • Siani Pearson, 'Taking Account of Privacy when Designing Cloud Computing', HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2009-54, March 2009. Available via http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-54l
  • Miranda Mowbray and Siani Pearson, 'A Client-Based Privacy Manager for Cloud Computing', HP Labs Technical Report, HPL-2009-55, March 2009. Available via http://library.hp.com/techpubs/2009/HPL-2009-55l
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson, Gina Kounga, Yun Shen and Pete Bramhall, “On the Management of Consent and Revocation in Enterprises: Setting the Context”, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2009-49, February 2009.
  • Siani Pearson and Damien Allison, “A Model-Based Privacy Compliance Checker”, HP Labs External Technical Report, HPL-2008-193, November 2008.
  • Siani Pearson and Tomas Sander, “Ensuring Compliance in Global Outsourcing”, HP Labs Internal Technical Report, HPL-2008-192, October 2008.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont and Manny Novoa, “Securing Information Transfer within Distributed Computing Environments”, HPL-2007-70, April 2007.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont, “A System for Privacy-Aware Resource Allocation and Data Processing in Dynamic Environments”, HPL-2006-185, 28 March 2007.
  • Tariq Ehsan Elahi and Siani Pearson, “Towards Enhanced Privacy Assurance Mechanisms and Systems for On-line Participants”, HPL-2006-189, January 2007.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson and Robert Thyne, “A Systemic Approach to Policy Enforcement and Policy Compliance Checking in Enterprises”, HPL-2006-44, 2006.
  • Siani Pearson and Marco Casassa Mont, “A System for Privacy-aware Resource Allocation and Data Processing in Dynamic Environments”, HPL-2006-185, 2006. Available via http://library.hp.com/techpubs/2006/HPL-2006-185l
  • Stephen Crane, Marco Casassa Mont and Siani Pearson, “On helping individuals to Manage Privacy and Trust”, HPL-2005-53, 2005.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Stephen Crane and Siani Pearson, “Handling Privacy Obligations and Constraints to Underpin Trust and Assurance”, HPL-2005-54, 2005.
  • Siani Pearson, Marco Casassa Mont and Stephen Crane, “Analysis of Trust Properties and Related Impact of Trusted Platforms”, HPL-2005-55, 2005.
  • Marco Casassa Mont, Siani Pearson and Pete Bramhall, “An Adaptive Privacy Management System for Data Repositories”, HPL-2004-211, November 2004.
  • Michael Kinateder and Siani Pearson, “A Privacy Enhanced Peer-to-Peer Reputation System”, HPL-2004-203, 2004.
  • Yolanta Beres, Pete Bramhall, Marco Casassa Mont, Mickey Gittler and Siani Pearson, “Accountability and Enforceability of Enterprise Privacy Policies”, HPL-2003-119, 2003.
  • Marco Cassassa Mont, Siani Pearson and Pete Bramhall, “Towards Accountable Management of Identity and Privacy: Sticky Policies and Enforceable Tracing Services”, HPL-2003-49, 2003.
  • Siani Pearson, “How can you trust the computer in front of you”, HPL-2002-222, 2002.
  • Siani Pearson, “Trusted Platforms: The Next Security Solution”, HPL-2002-221, 2002.
  • Liqun Chen, Siani Pearson and Athanasios Vamvakas, “A Trusted Biometric System”, HPL-2002-185, 2002.
  • Siani Pearson, “Trusted Agents that Enhance User Privacy by Self-Profiling”, HPL-2002-196, 2002.
  • Siani Pearson, “Future Directions for Software Licensing”, HPL-98-163, 1998.
  • Siani Pearson, “Dongles and Dongle-like Devices: a key technology for the future”, HPL-98-75, 1998.
  • Chris Preist and Siani Pearson, “An adaptive choice of messaging protocol in multi-agent systems”, HPL-98-08, 1998.
  • Siani Pearson, “An Overview of Agent Technology”, HPL-96-40, 1996.
  • Siani Pearson, “Linearisation of Omega Proofs: A New Method of Generalisation within Automated Reasoning”, HPL-95-93, 1995.

Patents

62

Professional activities

Fellow British Computer Society (FBCS)
Senior member IEEE (SMIEEE)
Certified privacy professional (CIPP/IT)