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CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications

Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010)
CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications. In CICIS'10 Proceedings, (209-216). https://doi.org/10.1109/cisis.2010.21
In a pervasive environment, it is essential for computing applications to be context-aware. However, one of the major challenges is the establishment of a generic and dynamic ...

Achieving smooth component integration with generative aspects and component adaptation.

Conference Proceeding
Feng, Y., Liu, X., & Kerridge, J. (2006)
Achieving smooth component integration with generative aspects and component adaptation. In M. Morisio (Ed.), Re-Use of Off-the-shelf Components: 9th International Conference on Software Reuse, 260-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/11763864_19
Due to the availability of components and the diversity of target applications, mismatches between pre-qualified existing components and the particular reuse context in applic...

Interoperable Services for Federations of Database System

Conference Proceeding
Roantree, M., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. J. (2002)
Interoperable Services for Federations of Database System. In A. Caplinskas, & J. Eder (Eds.), Advances in Databases and Information Systems: Fifth East-European Conference ADBIS' 2001
The problems associated with defining interoperable protocols for heterogenous information systems has been the subject of researchers for many years. While numerous solutions...

Measuring pedestrian trajectories with low cost infrared detectors: Preliminary results.

Conference Proceeding
Armitage, A., Binnie, D., Kerridge, J. & Lei, L. (2002)
Measuring pedestrian trajectories with low cost infrared detectors: Preliminary results. In Galea, E. R. (Ed.). Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics: 2nd International Conference held at the Old Naval College, University of Greenwich, London, 20-22 August 2003, 101-110. ISBN 9781904521082
The accurate measurement of pedestrian trajectories has been difficult to achieve in environments other than carefully controlled laboratories. Traditional techniques include ...

Multiple overlapping classifications: issues and solutions

Conference Proceeding
Raguenaud, C., & Kennedy, J. (2002)
Multiple overlapping classifications: issues and solutions. In J. Kennedy (Ed.), Proceedings of 14th International conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management - SSDBM 2002, 77-86. doi:10.1109/ssdm.2002.1029708
This paper discusses issues and solutions for supporting multiple overlapping classifications in database systems. These classifications are commonly found in science, althoug...

A Simulation of Interactions Between the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis and Shipping using Dynamically Variable Temporal Granularity to Minimise Run Time

Conference Proceeding
Clyne, H., & Kennedy, J. (2001)
A Simulation of Interactions Between the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis and Shipping using Dynamically Variable Temporal Granularity to Minimise Run Time. In F. Ghassemi, D. White, D. Cuddy, & T. Nakanishi (Eds.), MODSIM 2001 : International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 10-13 December 2001 : integrating models for natural resources management across disciplines, issues and scales : proceedings, 813-818
Collisions with ships are a major cause of mortality (~35%) for the severely endangered North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis, currently numbering only around 370 ind...

Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language

Conference Proceeding
Roantree, M., Kennedy, J. B., & Barclay, P. J. (2001)
Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language. In C. Batini, F. Giunchiglia, P. Giorgini, & M. Mecella (Eds.), Cooperative Information Systems; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (150-163). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44751-2_13
View mechanisms play an important role in restructuring data for users, while maintaining the integrity and autonomy for the underlying database schema. Although far more comp...

Using a metadata software layer in information systems integration.

Conference Proceeding
Roantree, M., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. J. (2001)
Using a metadata software layer in information systems integration. In Advanced systems engineering: CAiSE'01 - Software Engineering meets Information Systems Engineering (299-314). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45341-5_20
A federated information system requires that multiple (often heterogenous) information systems are integrated to an extent that they can share data. This shared data often tak...

Conceptual Modelling for Database User Interfaces

Conference Proceeding
Cooper, R., McKirdy, J., Griffiths, T., Barclay, P. J., Paton, N. W., Gray, P., …Goble, C. (2000)
Conceptual Modelling for Database User Interfaces. In H. Arisawa, & T. Catarci (Eds.), Advances in Visual Information Management. VDB 2000. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing (129-138). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35504-7_9
Model-based user interface development environments show promise for improving the speed of production and quality user interfaces. Such systems usually have seperate descript...

The Prometheus database for taxonomy

Conference Proceeding
Raguenaud, C., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. (2000)
The Prometheus database for taxonomy. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2000 (250-252). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssdm.2000.869793
This paper presents the work carried out in the Prometheus project and its motivation, taxonomy. Taxonomy presents challenges to common database systems. Because of its comple...