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Improving data quality in data warehousing applications

Conference Proceeding
Li, L., Peng, T., & Kennedy, J. (2010)
Improving data quality in data warehousing applications. In J. Filipe, & J. Cordeiro (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 379-382. https://doi.org/10.5220/0002903903790382
There is a growing awareness that high quality of data is a key to today’s business success and dirty data that exits within data sources is one of the reasons that cause poor...

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...

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...

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management.

Conference Proceeding
(2002)
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management. In J. Kennedy (Ed.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Managementdoi:10.1109/SSDM.2002.1029697
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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...

The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification.

Conference Proceeding
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Hand, C. (1999)
The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification. In N. W. Paton, & T. Griffiths (Eds.), Proceedings [of] IEEE User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems (UIDIS) 1999, 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1109/UIDIS.1999.791461
Techniques for visualising hierarchies have concentrated on displaying static structures or, in the case of dynamic hierarchies, adding or deleting nodes from the hierarchy. H...