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...
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 Teallach tool: Using models for flexible user interface design.
Conference Proceeding
Barclay, P. J., Griffiths, T., McKirdy, J., Paton, N. W., Cooper, R., & Kennedy, J. (1999)
The Teallach tool: Using models for flexible user interface design. In J. Vanderdonckt, & A. Puerta (Eds.), Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces II. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces (139-157). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4295-3_12
Model-based user interface development environments aim to provide designers with a more systematic approach to user interface development using a particular design method. Th...
A multidatabase layer for the ODMG object model
Conference Proceeding
Roantree, M., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. J. (1999)
A multidatabase layer for the ODMG object model. In C. Rolland, & G. Grosz (Eds.), Oois '98: Proceedings 1998 International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems, 9-11 September 1998, Paris (93-110). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0895-5_8
The lack of a common object model has been addressed to some extent by the specification of the ODMG Object Model standard. However, the problem still exists for designers of ...
A lightweight presentation model for database user interfaces.
Conference Proceeding
Gray, P., Cooper, R., Kennedy, J., McKirdy, J., Barclay, P. J., & Griffiths, T. (1998)
A lightweight presentation model for database user interfaces. In C. Stephanidis, & A. Waern (Eds.), 4th ERCIM Workshop on "User Interfaces for All"
The Teallach project is building a system which eases the design and implementation of
user interfaces (web-based or otherwise) to object-oriented database applications. Teall...
A framework for user-interfaces to databases
Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, K., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. J. (1996)
A framework for user-interfaces to databases. In T. Catarci, M. F. Costabile, S. Levialdi, & G. Santucci (Eds.), Proceedings [of the] 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI'96 (81-90). https://doi.org/10.1145/948449.948462
A framework for user-interfaces to databases (IDSs) is proposed which draws from existing research on human computer interaction (HCI) and database systems. The framework is d...
Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface
Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, K., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. J. (1995)
Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface. In C. Goble, & J. Keane (Eds.), Advances in Databases: Proceedings [of the] 13th British National Conference on Database - BNCOD13, 1995 (101-119). https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0000543
We propose a conceptual approach to defining interfaces to databases which uses the features of a fully object oriented data language to specify interface objects combined wit...