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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...

    Wendy K. Ivins, W. Alex Gray, John C. Miles in On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems… (2004)

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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 ...

    Mikhaila Burgess, W. Alex Gray, Nick Fiddian in Advances in Databases (2002)

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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...

    Gaihua Fu, Jianhua Shao, Suzanne M. Embury, W. Alex Gray in Advances in Databases (2002)

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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...

    Xuebiao Xu, Andrew C. Jones, Nick Pittas… in Advances in Web-Age Information Management (2001)

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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...

    Suzanne M. Embury, Jianhua Shao, W. Alex Gray… in Advanced Information Systems Engineering (2000)

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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 ...

    Andrew C. Jones, Xuebiao Xu, Nick Pittas… in Database and Expert Systems Applications (2000)

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    Advances in Databases

    16th Brirish National Conference on Database BNCOD 16 Cardiff, Wales, UK, July 6–8, 1998 Proceedings

    Suzanne M. Embury, Nicholas J. Fiddian, W. Alex Gray… in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1998)