Advances in Databases
16th Brirish National Conference on Database BNCOD 16 Cardiff, Wales, UK, July 6–8, 1998 Proceedings
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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...
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There are methods proposed for managing various aspects of quality of service (QoS) in service oriented computing environments, but existing effort tends to adopt a provider-centric perspective, aiming largely...
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Service Level Agreements (SLAs) define a set of consumer expectations which must be met by a provider if a contract is not to be broken. Since providers will potentially be providing many different services to...
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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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In the BiodiversityWorld project we are building a GRID to support scientific biodiversity-related research. The requirements associated with such a GRID are somewhat different from other GRIDs, and this has i...
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The use of a service-based approach in Grid computing will lead to such services becoming valuable economic commodities. Current economics models on the Internet are concerned with the creation, sale and purch...
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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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Virtual organisations (VOs) are composed of a number of individuals, departments or organisations each of which has a range of capabilities and resources at their disposal. These VOs are formed so that resourc...
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We present a framework to facilitate automated synthesis of scientific experiment workflows in Semantic Grids based on high-level goal specification. Our framework has two main features which distinguish it fr...
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The ability to gauge the quality of a service is critical if we are to achieve the service oriented computing paradigm. Many techniques have been proposed and most of them attempt to calculate the quality of a...
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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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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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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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16th Brirish National Conference on Database BNCOD 16 Cardiff, Wales, UK, July 6–8, 1998 Proceedings