A Site Configuration Engine. - Mark Burgess (Comput. Syst., 1995)

Adaptive Locks For Frequently Scheduled Tasks With Unpredictable Runtimes. - Mark Burgess; Demosthenes Skipitaris (LISA, 1997)

Distributed Resource Administration Using Cfengine. - Mark Burgess; Ricky Ralston (Softw. Pract. Exp., 1997)

Computer Immunology. - Mark Burgess (LISA, 1998)

Automated System Administration with Feedback Regulation. - Mark Burgess (Softw. Pract. Exp., 1998)

Theoretical System Administration. - Mark Burgess (LISA, 2000)

System Administration Research, Part 3. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2000)

Letters to the Editor. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2000)

Predictable configuration management in a randomized scheduling framework. - Mark Burgess; Frode Eika Sandnes (DSOM, 2001)

Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Part 2. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2001)

Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Part 3. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2001)

Reports on the 4th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2000). - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2001)

A report from Peter Salus on COOTS '01. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2001)

Letters to the Editors. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2001)

Epilogue. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2001)

Two Dimensional Time-Series for Anomaly Detection and Regulation in Adaptive Systems. - Mark Burgess (DSOM, 2002)

Measuring system normality. - Mark Burgess; Hårek Haugerud; Sigmund Straumsnes; Trond Reitan (ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., 2002)

A Scaled, Immunological Approach to Anomaly Countermeasures: Combining pH with Cfengine. - Kyrre M. Begnum; Mark Burgess (Integrated Network Management, 2003)

Scalability of Peer Configuration Management in Partially Reliable and Ad Hoc Networks. - Mark Burgess; Geoffrey Canright (Integrated Network Management, 2003)

Talking to the Walls (Again). - Mark Burgess (LISA, 2003)

Archipelago: A Network Security Analysis Tool. - Tuva Stang; Fahimeh Pourbayat; Mark Burgess; Geoffrey Canright; Kenth Engø; Åsmund Weltzien (LISA, 2003)

On the theory of system administration. - Mark Burgess (Sci. Comput. Program., 2003)

Anomaly Detection: Whatever Happened to Computer Immunology? - Mark Burgess (LISA, 2004)

A graph-theoretical model of computer security. - Mark Burgess; Geoffrey Canright; Kenth Engø-Monsen (Int. J. Inf. Sec., 2004)

Configurable immunity for evolving human-computer systems. - Mark Burgess (Sci. Comput. Program., 2004)

Topics in system administration. - Mark Burgess (Sci. Comput. Program., 2004)

Scalability of Peer Configuration Management in Logically Ad Hoc Networks. - Mark Burgess; Geoffrey Canright (IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag., 2004)

Talking to the Walls. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2004)

An Approach to Understanding Policy Based on Autonomy and Voluntary Cooperation. - Mark Burgess (DSOM, 2005)

Voluntary Cooperation in Pervasive Computing Services. - Mark Burgess; Kyrre M. Begnum (LISA, 2005)

Summary of Stability of Adaptive Service Level Agreements. - Kyrre M. Begnum; Mark Burgess; Tore Møller Jonassen; Siri Fagernes (POLICY, 2005)

Principle Components and Importance Ranking of Distributed Anomalies. - Kyrre M. Begnum; Mark Burgess (Mach. Learn., 2005)

The Profession of System Administration. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2005)

Uncertainty in Global Application Services with Load Sharing Policy. - Mark Burgess; Sven Ingebrigt Ulland (DSOM, 2006)

Predictable Scaling Behaviour in the Data Centre with Multiple Application Servers. - Mark Burgess; Gard Undheim (DSOM, 2006)

Adaptive provisioning using virtual machines and autonomous role-based management. - Kyrre M. Begnum; Mark Burgess; John A. Sechrest (ICAS, 2006)

Promise theory - a model of autonomous objects for pervasive computing and swarms. - Mark Burgess; Siri Fagernes (ICNS, 2006)

Modeling Next Generation Configuration Management Tools. - Mark Burgess; Alva L. Couch (LISA, 2006)

A Promise Theory Approach to Collaborative Power Reduction in a Pervasive Computing Environment. - Mark Burgess; Frode Eika Sandnes (UIC, 2006)

Report on Policy 2006: Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks. - Hanan Lutfiyya; Mark Burgess; Duminda Wijesekera (J. Netw. Syst. Manag., 2006)

Probabilistic anomaly detection in distributed computer networks. - Mark Burgess (Sci. Comput. Program., 2006)

A control theory perspective on configuration management and Cfengine. - Mark Burgess (SIGBED Rev., 2006)

On the stability of adaptive Service Level Agreements. - Kyrre M. Begnum; Mark Burgess; Tore Møller Jonassen; Siri Fagernes (IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag., 2006)

Autonomic Computing - The Music of the Cubes. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2006)

Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part 1: Cabbage Patch Kiss. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2006)

Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part2: Babel, Babble, Toil, and Grammar. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2006)

Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part3: A Shocking Lack of Ad-Hocracy. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2006)

Improving Anomaly Detection Event Analysis Using the EventRank Algorithm. - Kyrre M. Begnum; Mark Burgess (AIMS, 2007)

Understanding Promise Theory Using Rewriting Logic. - Kyrre M. Begnum; Mark Burgess (AIMS, 2007)

Norms and Swarms. - Mark Burgess; Siri Fagernes (AIMS, 2007)

Fault Detection in Autonomic Networks Using the Concept of Promised Cooperation. - Remi Badonnel; Mark Burgess (DSOM, 2007)

Reliability of Service Level Estimators in the Data Centre. - Jon Henrik Bjornstad; Mark Burgess (Integrated Network Management, 2007)

Network Patterns in Cfengine and Scalable Data Aggregation. - Mark Burgess; Matthew Disney; Rolf Stadler (LISA, 2007)

Master Education Programmes in Network and System Administration. - Mark Burgess; Karst Koymans (LISA, 2007)

Key research challenges in network management. - Aiko Pras; Jürgen Schönwälder; Mark Burgess; Olivier Festor; Gregorio Martínez Pérez; Rolf Stadler; Burkhard Stiller (IEEE Commun. Mag., 2007)

A process algebra based framework for promise theory - Jan A. Bergstra; Inge Bethke; Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2007)

Biology, immunology and information security. - Mark Burgess (Inf. Secur. Tech. Rep., 2007)

A risk analysis of disk backup or repository maintenance. - Mark Burgess; Trond Reitan (Sci. Comput. Program., 2007)

Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part4: There's No I/O Without U. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2007)

A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine - Mark Burgess; Æleen Frisch (USENIX Association, 2007)

Service Load Balancing with Autonomic Servers: Reversing the Decision Making Process. - Remi Badonnel; Mark Burgess (AIMS, 2008)

Dynamic pull-based load balancing for autonomic servers. - Remi Badonnel; Mark Burgess (NOMS, 2008)

On the complexity of determining autonomic policy constrained behaviour. - Mark Burgess; Lars Kristiansen (NOMS, 2008)

Integrating cfengine and scli: Managing network devices like host systems. - Jürgen Schönwälder; Vladislav Marinov; Mark Burgess (NOMS, 2008)

Program Promises - Demissie B. Aredo; Mark Burgess; Simen Hagen (CoRR, 2008)

A static theory of promises - Jan A. Bergstra; Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2008)

Special issue on mathematical methods in network management. - Michael Alexander; Mark Burgess (Int. J. Netw. Manag., 2008)

Knowledge Management and Promises. - Mark Burgess (AIMS, 2009)

Management without (Detailed) Models. - Alva L. Couch; Mark Burgess; Marc Chiarini (ATC, 2009)

Local and Global Trust Based on the Concept of Promises - Jan A. Bergstra; Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2009)

The Cloud Minders. - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2009)

Eigenvectors of directed graphs and importance scores: dominance, T-Rank, and sink remedies. - Johannes Bjelland; Mark Burgess; Geoffrey Canright; Kenth Engø-Monsen (Data Min. Knowl. Discov., 2010)

The Business Value of System Administration. - Mark Burgess; Carolyn Rowland (login Usenix Mag., 2010)

Testable system administration. - Mark Burgess (Commun. ACM, 2011)

On system rollback and totalized fields: An algebraic approach to system change. - Mark Burgess; Alva L. Couch (J. Log. Algebraic Methods Program., 2011)

Is DevOps the Future of Sysadmin? - Mark Burgess (login Usenix Mag., 2013)

Promises, Impositions, and other Directionals. - Jan A. Bergstra; Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2014)

A Promise Theory Perspective on Data Networks. - Paul L. Borrill; Mark Burgess; Todd Craw; Mike Dvorkin (CoRR, 2014)

Spacetimes with Semantics. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2014)

Early Prototype Assessment of a New Virtual System for Training Procedural Skills of Automotive Service Operators: LARTE Tool. - Simone Borsci; Glyn Lawson; Mark Burgess; Bhavna Jha (HCI (3), 2015)

Spacetimes with Semantics (II), Scaling of agency, semantics, and tenancy. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2015)

On the scaling of functional spaces, from smart cities to cloud computing. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2016)

Spacetimes with Semantics (III) - The Structure of Functional Knowledge Representation and Artificial Reasoning. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2016)

Effectiveness of a multidevice 3D virtual environment application to train car service maintenance procedures. - Simone Borsci; Glyn Lawson; Bhavna Jha; Mark Burgess; Davide Salanitri (Virtual Real., 2016)

A Spacetime Approach to Generalized Cognitive Reasoning in Multi-scale Learning. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2017)

Remote real-time collaboration through synchronous exchange of digitised human-workpiece interactions. - John Oyekan; Vinayak Prabhu; Ashutosh Tiwari 001; Vinubha Baskaran; Mark Burgess; Rob Mcnally (Future Gener. Comput. Syst., 2017)

After the BlockCLoud Apocalypse. - Mark Burgess; Anil Somayaji (NSPW, 2018)

Spacetime-Entangled Networks (I) Relativity and Observability of Stepwise Consensus. - Paul L. Borrill; Mark Burgess; Alan H. Karp; Atsushi Kasuya (CoRR, 2018)

Koalja: from Data Plumbing to Smart Workspaces in the Extended Cloud. - Mark Burgess; Ewout Prangsma (CoRR, 2019)

From Observability to Significance in Distributed Information Systems. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2019)

Locality, Statefulness, and Causality in Distributed Information Systems (Concerning the Scale Dependence Of System Promises). - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2019)

A Promise Theoretic Account of the Boeing 737 Max MCAS Algorithm Affair. - Jan A. Bergstra; Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2020)

Candidate Software Process Flaws for the Boeing 737 Max MCAS Algorithm and Risks for a Proposed Upgrade. - Jan A. Bergstra; Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2020)

Information and Causality in Promise Theory. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2020)

Testing the Quantitative Spacetime Hypothesis using Artificial Narrative Comprehension (II) : Establishing the Geometry of Invariant Concepts, Themes, and Namespaces. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2020)

Testing the Quantitative Spacetime Hypothesis using Artificial Narrative Comprehension (I) : Bootstrapping Meaning from Episodic Narrative viewed as a Feature Landscape. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2020)

On system rollback and totalised fields. - Mark Burgess; Alva L. Couch (CoRR, 2021)

Characterization of Frequent Online Shoppers using Statistical Learning with Sparsity. - Rajiv Sambasivan; Mark Burgess; Jörg Schad; Arthur Keen; Christopher Woodward; Alexander Geenen; Sachin Sharma (CoRR, 2021)

On The Scale Dependence and Spacetime Dimension of the Internet with Causal Sets. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2022)

Continuous Integration of Data Histories into Consistent Namespaces. - Mark Burgess; Andras Gerlits (CoRR, 2022)

Agent Semantics, Semantic Spacetime, and Graphical Reasoning. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2025)

On The Role of Intentionality in Knowledge Representation: Analyzing Scene Context for Cognitive Agents with a Tiny Language Model. - Mark Burgess (CoRR, 2025)