| 2002 | SAC | Editorial message: special track on inter-disciplinary approaches to the design of dependable computer systems. | John E. Dobson, Cliff B. Jones, Rob Procter, Mark Rouncefield, Robin Williams |
| 2001 | ACSAC | Building Reliable Secure Computing Systems out of Unreliable Insecure Components. | John E. Dobson, Brian Randell |
| 2001 | RE | What Happens before Requirements Engineering? | Bridgette Wessels, John E. Dobson |
| 1998 | DBSEC | Security and Privacy Issues for the World Wide Web: Panel Discussion. | Bhavani Thuraisingham, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, John E. Dobson, Martin S. Olivier |
| 1995 | DBSEC | Report of Discussion Sessions Following Presentations. | John E. Dobson |
| 1995 | DBSEC | Messages, Communication, Information Security: Protecting the User from the Data. | John E. Dobson, Mike Martin |
| 1994 | RE | Organisational requirements definition for information technology systems. | John E. Dobson, Ros Strens |
| 1993 | COMPSAC | A framework for modelling evolving requirements. | Andrew J. C. Blyth, J. S. Chudge, John E. Dobson, Ros Strens |
| 1993 | Group | ORDIT: a new methodology to assist in the process of eliciting and modelling organizational requirements. | Andrew Blyth, J. S. Chudge, John E. Dobson, Ros Strens |
| 1993 | NSPW | How responsibility modelling leads to security requirements. | Ros Strens, John E. Dobson |
| 1993 | RE | The change and evolution of requirements as a challenge to the practice of software engineering. | Susan Harker, Ken D. Eason, John E. Dobson |
| 1992 | COMPSAC | The ORDIT approach to requirements identification. | John E. Dobson, Andrew J. C. Blyth, J. S. Chudge, Ros Strens |
| 1991 | DBSEC | Information and Denial of Service. | John E. Dobson |
| 1990 | DBSEC | Enterprise Modeling and Security Policies. | Mike Martin, John E. Dobson |
| 1989 | DBSEC | Conversation Structures as a Means of Specifying Security Policy. | John E. Dobson |
| 1989 | SP | A Framework for Expressing Models of Security Policy. | John E. Dobson, John A. McDermid |
| 1988 | DBSEC | Security Models and Enterprise Models. | John E. Dobson, John A. McDermid |
| 1987 | DBSEC | Security and Databases: A Personal View. | John E. Dobson |
| 1986 | SP | Building Reliable Secure Computing Systems out of Unreliable Insecure Components. | John E. Dobson, Brian Randell |
| 1986 | SRDS | Reliability and Security Issues in Distributed Computing Systems. | Brian Randell, John E. Dobson |