Advances in Databases
16th Brirish National Conference on Database BNCOD 16 Cardiff, Wales, UK, July 6–8, 1998 Proceedings
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16th Brirish National Conference on Database BNCOD 16 Cardiff, Wales, UK, July 6–8, 1998 Proceedings
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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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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 ...
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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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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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This paper describes the development and analysis of a prototype patient information system. The aim is to identify how a large, multi-provider clinical information system can be used to improve the way patien...
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The need for accessing independently developed database systems using a unified or multiple global view(s) has been well recognised. This paper addresses the problem of redundancy of object retrieval in a mult...
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Traditional healthcare information systems have been developed and organized as silos. However, recent changes in healthcare delivery models have resulted in the widespread creation of MultiDisciplinary care T...