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Managing Changes to Engineering Products Through the Co-ordination of Human and Technical Activities
Changes to engineering products need to be effectively co-ordinated with other members in the development team. Current approaches to managing change have limitations and often require further manual, ad-hoc a...
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Establishing a Taxonomy of Quality for Use in Information Filtering
When searching for information within a distributed heterogeneous environment, it is often difficult to ascertain the quality of the obtained results. Sometimes it may be possible to estimate the quality, but ...
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An Algorithm for Determining Related Constraints
Constraints are a class of business rules that many organisations implement in their information systems. However, it is common that many implemented constraints do not get documented. This has led researchers...
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Experiences with a Hybrid Implementation of a Globally Distributed Federated Database System
The SPICE project is develo** a globally distributed federated database of biological knowledge, forming a ‘catalogue of life’ by harnessing specialist expertise on classification of groups of organisms. The...
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Advertising Database Capabilities for Information Sharing
The development of networking technology has resulted in a computing environment which is highly distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic. In order for the autonomous software components in such an environment t...
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SPICE: A Flexible Architecture for Integrating Autonomous Databases to Comprise a Distributed Catalogue of Life
In the SPICE project we are building a distributed catalogue of life, which will eventually be formed from up to 200 autonomous taxonomic databases. We are faced with a number of challenges, which include the ...