A Simulation of Interactions Between the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis and Shipping using Dynamically Variable Temporal Granularity to Minimise Run Time (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clyne, H., & Kennedy, J. (2001, December). A Simulation of Interactions Between the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis and Shipping using Dynamically Variable Temporal Granularity to Minimise Run Time. Presented at MODSIM 2001 International congress on Modelling and Simulation

Collisions with ships are a major cause of mortality (~35%) for the severely endangered North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis, currently numbering only around 370 individuals. Although having a great impact upon the chances of survival of th... Read More about A Simulation of Interactions Between the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis and Shipping using Dynamically Variable Temporal Granularity to Minimise Run Time.

Case-based reasoning and evolutionary computation techniques fro FPGA programming. (2001)
Thesis
Job, D. E. Case-based reasoning and evolutionary computation techniques fro FPGA programming. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4272

Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roantree, M., Kennedy, J. B., & Barclay, P. J. (2001, September). Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language. Presented at 9th International Conference, CoopIS 2001, Trento, Italy

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 complex than their relational counterparts, numerous object-oriented view mecha... Read More about Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language.

Describing team work with activity theory (2001)
Journal Article
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2001). Describing team work with activity theory. Cognition, Technology and Work, 3, 127-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00011528

The proposal that activity theory might serve as a model or theory for computer-supported cooperative working remains an open question. Here we demonstrate the usefulness of activity theory in elucidating a series of small group software design meeti... Read More about Describing team work with activity theory.

Using a metadata software layer in information systems integration. (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roantree, M., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. J. (2001, June). Using a metadata software layer in information systems integration. Presented at CAiSE'01 - Software Engineering meets Information Systems Engineering. Conference, Interlaken, Switzerland

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 takes the form of a federated schema, which is a global view of data taken fro... Read More about Using a metadata software layer in information systems integration..

Sagittal joint kinematics, moments, and powers are predominantly characterized by speed of progression, not age, in normal children. (2001)
Journal Article
Stansfield, B., Hillman, S., Hazlewood, M., Lawson, A., Mann, A. M., Loudon, I. R., & Robb, J. E. (2001). Sagittal joint kinematics, moments, and powers are predominantly characterized by speed of progression, not age, in normal children. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, 21, 403-411

Twenty-six healthy 7-year-old children were enrolled in a 5-year longitudinal study to examine the importance of age and speed in the characterization of sagittal joint angles, moments, and powers. In 740 gait trials, children walking at self-selecte... Read More about Sagittal joint kinematics, moments, and powers are predominantly characterized by speed of progression, not age, in normal children..

Teallach's presentation model . (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barclay, P. J., & Kennedy, J. (2000, May). Teallach's presentation model

This short paper describes the presentation model used by the Teallach model-based user-interface development environment. Teallach's presentation model provides both abstract and concrete interactors, which are first-class objects that may be freely... Read More about Teallach's presentation model ..

A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Hand, C. (2000, May). A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies. Presented at ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2000

The visualisation of hierarchical information sets has been a staple of Information Visualisation since the field came into being in the early 1990's. However, at present, support for visualising the correlations between multiple, overlapping sets of... Read More about A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies..

The Prometheus database for taxonomy (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Raguenaud, C., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. (2000, July). The Prometheus database for taxonomy. Presented at Proceedings. 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistica Database Management

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 complexity and the necessary treatments applied to its data, common database mode... Read More about The Prometheus database for taxonomy.

Supporting decision making in design using shape grammars. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M. (2000, October). Supporting decision making in design using shape grammars. Presented at DMUCE 00, Second International Conference on Decision Making in Urban and Civil Engineering

This paper describes part of the development process of a system aimed at supporting the work of interior architects. Two prototype systems are described together with detailed interviews conducted with a professional design practitioner. It will be... Read More about Supporting decision making in design using shape grammars..

Conceptual Modelling for Database User Interfaces (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cooper, R., McKirdy, J., Griffiths, T., Barclay, P. J., Paton, N. W., Gray, P., Kennedy, J., & Goble, C. (2000, May). Conceptual Modelling for Database User Interfaces. Presented at Visual Database Systems - VDB5, 2000, Fukuoka, Japan

Model-based user interface development environments show promise for improving the speed of production and quality user interfaces. Such systems usually have seperate descriptions of domain, task and presentation to structure. The Teallach system app... Read More about Conceptual Modelling for Database User Interfaces.

Towards a methodology for developing visualizations (2000)
Journal Article
GRAHAM, M., KENNEDY, J., & BENYON, D. (2000). Towards a methodology for developing visualizations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(5), 789-807. https://doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.2000.0415

This paper presents a case study of the development of a visualization to represent and explore the relationships between multiple hierarchical structures, specifically botanical taxonomies. The case study outlines the visualization's development fro... Read More about Towards a methodology for developing visualizations.

Supporting design through the strategic use of shape grammars (2000)
Journal Article
Edmonds, E., Smyth, M., & Edmonds, E. A. (2000). Supporting design through the strategic use of shape grammars. Knowledge-Based Systems, 13(6), 385-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0950-7051%2800%2900079-4

This paper is concerned with the early processes of design, particularly in the context of spatial arrangements. We are interested in the strategies that a designer uses in order to achieve success and with the opportunities that might exist for comp... Read More about Supporting design through the strategic use of shape grammars.

Developing the behavioural rules for an agent-based model of pedestrian movement. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Willis, A., Kukla, R., & Kerridge, J. (2000, September). Developing the behavioural rules for an agent-based model of pedestrian movement. Paper presented at 25th European Transport Congress

The PEDFLOW project aims to develop a realistic and flexible planning tool capable of simulating the effects of microscopic environmental layout on various aspects of pedestrian movement. Behavioural research can help establish realistic values for s... Read More about Developing the behavioural rules for an agent-based model of pedestrian movement..

A dual-level presentation model for developing user-interfaces. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barclay, P. J., & Kennedy, J. (2000, May). A dual-level presentation model for developing user-interfaces. Presented at ADVANCED VISUAL INTERFACES International Working Conference - AVI 2000

The visualisation of hierarchical information sets has been a staple of Information Visualisation since the field came into being in the early 1990’s. However, at present, support for visualising the correlations between multiple, overlapping sets of... Read More about A dual-level presentation model for developing user-interfaces..

Integrating measurement techniques in an Object-Oriented systems design process. (1999)
Thesis
Li-Thiao-Te, P. systems design process. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9468

The theme of this thesis is the assessment of quality in class hierarchies. In particular, the notion of
inheritance and the mechanism of redefinition from a modelling perspective are reviewed. It is
shown that, in Object-Oriented languages, contro... Read More about Integrating measurement techniques in an Object-Oriented systems design process..

The Teallach tool: Using models for flexible user interface design. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barclay, P. J., Griffiths, T., McKirdy, J., Paton, N. W., Cooper, R., & Kennedy, J. (1999, October). The Teallach tool: Using models for flexible user interface design. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Des

Model-based user interface development environments aim to provide designers with a more systematic approach to user interface development using a particular design method. This method is realised through tools which support the construction and link... Read More about The Teallach tool: Using models for flexible user interface design..

The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Hand, C. (1999, September). The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification. Presented at IEEE User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems (UIDIS) 1999

Techniques for visualising hierarchies have concentrated on displaying static structures or, in the case of dynamic hierarchies, adding or deleting nodes from the hierarchy. However, none have adequately dealt with the situation of visualising change... Read More about The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification..

Teallach: a model-based user interface development environment for object databases (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Griffiths, T., Barclay, P. J., McKirdy, J., Paton, N. W., Gray, P. D., Kennedy, J., Cooper, R., Goble, C. A., West, A., & Smyth, M. (1999, September). Teallach: a model-based user interface development environment for object databases. Presented at User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems, 1999

Model-based user interface development environments show promise for improving the productivity of user interface developers, and possibly for improving the quality of developed interfaces. However, model-based techniques have rarely been applied to... Read More about Teallach: a model-based user interface development environment for object databases.

Providing views and closure for the object data management group object model (1999)
Journal Article
Roantree, M., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. (1999). Providing views and closure for the object data management group object model. Information and Software Technology, 41(15), 1037-1044. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0950-5849%2899%2900042-7

The ODMG Object Model uses a standard for object-oriented database designers,
while attempting to address some issues of interoperability. This research is focused
on the viability of using the ODMG data model as a canonical data model in a
multid... Read More about Providing views and closure for the object data management group object model.