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MISSION: Multi-agent Integration of Shared Statistical Information over the inter(Net)


Publications


Book chapter

McClean, S.I., Scotney, B.W. (2000) Uncertainty Handling for Distributed Database Integration and Knowledge Discovery, Information, Uncertainty, Fusion, eds. Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R. & Zadeh, L.A., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 209-220.

Journal articles

McClean, S.I., Scotney, B.W. & Shapcott, C.M. (2000) Incorporating Domain Knowledge into Attribute-oriented Data Mining, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 6, 535-548

McClean, S.I., Scotney, B.W. & Shapcott, C.M. (2000) Using Background Knowledge in the Aggregation of Imprecise Evidence in Databases. The Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol.32) pp.131-143.

McClean S., Scotney B., and M. Shapcott (2001) Aggregation of Imprecise and Uncertain Information in Databases, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, 13(6), 902-912.

McClean S, Scotney B and K Greer (2002) A Scalable Approach to Integrating Heterogeneous Aggregate Views of Distributed Databases, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering

McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer (2002) Learning Temporal Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences. The Journal of Soft Computing, Springer.

Scotney, B.W., Dunne, J. & McClean, S.I. (2002) Interoperability of Macro and Meta Data Models for Statistical Processing and Publication in a Distributed Environment, Journal of Research in Official Statistics

Bryan Scotney, John Dunne, Sally McClean (2002) Statistical Database Modelling and Compatibility for Processing and Publication in a Distributed Environment. ROS Journal

McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer (2002) Temporal Probabilistic Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences. The Journal of Soft Computing, Springer.

Bryan Scotney and Sally McClean (2003) Using Evidence Theory for Knowledge Discovery from Distributed Imprecise and Uncertain Data, Journal of Information Sciences

Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney and Steve Robinson (2003) Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Gene Expression Sequences, AI Review Journal

Conference papers

Páircéir R, McClean SI, Scotney BW (2002) Efficient Calculation of Random Slopes Models from a Set of Distributed Databases using Sufficient Statistics, Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), Ballycastle, 15-17 May, Pages 55-56

McClean SI, Páircéir R, Scotney BW, Greer KRC (2002) Transparent Querying of Distributed Heterogeneous Statistical Databases, Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), Ballycastle, 15-17 May, Pages 48-48

McClean SI, Scotney BW, Palmer F (2002) Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Sequences via Schema Mapping, Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), Ballycastle, 15-17 May, Pages 49-51

Greer Kieran, McClean Sally and Bryan Scotney (2000) Knowledge Discovery through the Integration of Distributed Aggregates, The Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PADD 2000), 89-110.

Rónán Páircéir, Sally McClean and Bryan Scotney (2000) Discovery of multi-level rules and exceptions from a distributed database. Conference proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining KDD2000) August 20-23 (2000) Boston, MA, USA.

Rónán Páircéir, Sally I. McClean, Bryan Scotney (2000) Using Hierarchies, Aggregates and Statistical models to discover Knowledge from Distributed Databases, AAAI Technical report Workshop on "Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data" as part of AAAI '00) Austin, Texas, July.

Joanne Lamb and Colin Smart (2000) Tailored Desktop Information from a Distributed, Heterogeneous Data Warehouse, Decision Sciences Institute 2000 Proceedings

Bryan Scotney and Sally McClean (2001) Interoperability of Macro and Meta Data Models for Statistical Processing and Publication, Proceedings of MetaNet

Sally McClean, and Bryan Scotney (2001) Using Classification Metadata to provide Inter-Operability between Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Databases, Proceedings of Metanet

Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Kieran Greer and Rónán Páircéir (2001) Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Distributed Databases , PKDD Workshop on Ubiquitous Data Mining. (PKDD'01) September 3-7 (2001

Yaxin Bi and Joanne Lamb (2001) Metadata Encoded in XML: Enabling Complex Query Formulation in Distributed Statistical Databases, Proceedings of IIWas conference

McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer (2001) Temporal Probabilistic Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences. , Proceeding of Software 2002) Belfast, April 2002) eds. David Bustard, Weiru Liu and Roy Sterritt, LNCS 2311) 191-205, Springer.

Joanne Lamb (2001) MISSION (Multi-Agent Integration of Shared Statistical Information Over the [inter]Net) -The data archive perspective, Proceedings of IASSIST 2001

Karen Brannen and Joanne Lamb (2001) Using agent technology to disseminate statistics via the Web, ‘The Challenge of the Internet’ Proceedings of the ASC International Conference on Survey Research Methods

Karel Pagrach (2001) User Interface for access to Statistical Databases, the MISSION perspective, Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001

Sally McClean, Jun Hong, Bryan Scotney, Michalis Hatzopoulos and Isambo Karali (2001) Using Intelligent Software Agents to Query Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Databases, Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001) 769-774

Bryan Scotney, John Dunne, and Sally McClean (2001) Interoperability of Macro and Meta Data Models for Statistical Processing and Publication in a Distributed Environment, Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001 (241-248)

Joanne Lamb, D. Kardaras, B. Karakostas and E. Papathanassiou (2001) A framework Towards Developing the Mass Customisation of Statistical Information System Services , Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001 (273-282)

Yaxin Bi and Joanne Lamb (2001) Facilitating Integration of Distributed Statistical Databases Using Metadata and XML, Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001

Defeng Ma and Joanne Lamb (2001) User Workspace for Access the Statistical Data from the Library , Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001 (249-256)

Harold Pardue and Joanne Lamb (2001) A business model for open source software and the development of internet based systems for national statistics, Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001

Sally McClean, Rónán Páircéir, Bryan Scotney and Kieran Greer (2002) A Negotiation Agent for Distributed Heterogeneous Statistical Databases, Proceedings of the 14th SSDBM conference 2002

McClean, S.I., Karali, I., Scotney, B.W., Greer, K.C.R., Kapos, G.-D., Páircéir, R., Hong, J., Bell, D.A. & Hatzopoulos, M. (2002) Agents for Querying Distributed Statistical Databases over the Internet, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol 11, No 1, March 2002, pp. 63-94.

McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer (2002) Temporal Probabilistic Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences. , Proceeding of Soft-ware 2002, Belfast, April 2002, eds. David Bustard, Weiru Liu and Roy Sterritt, LNCS 2311, 191-205, Springer.

McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer (2002) Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Sequences via Schema Mapping. , XIII. International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS2002) Conference, Lyon, June 2002, LNCS, Springer.

McClean S, Karali I, Scotney B, Greer K, Kapos G-D, Pairceir R, Hong J, Bell D, and M Hatzopolous (2002) Agents for Querying distributed statistical databases over the Internet. , International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT)

Sally McClean, Rónán Páircéir, Bryan Scotney, Kieran Greer (2002) A Negotiation Agent for Distributed Heterogeneous Statistical Databases, Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), IEEE Computer Society (2002) pp. 207-216

McClean S, Karali I, Scotney B, Greer K, Kapos G-D, Pairceir R, Hong J, Bell D, and M Hatzopolous (2002) Agent-based query processing of heterogeneous distributed statistical data via an ontology server., Proceedings of the EKAW02 Workshop, Ontologies for Multi-Agent Systems, pp105-120) Siguenza, Spain, Sept 30.

Yaxin Bi (2002) The MISSION Client: Navigating Ontology Information for Query Formulation and Publication in Distributed Statistical Information Systems, Proceedings in Computational Statistics 2002

Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney and Kieran Greer (2003) Knowledge Discovery from Heterogeneous Distributed Data on the Semantic Web, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.

Defeng Ma, Karen Barrie, and Joanne Lamb (2003) Dynamic Harmonisation of Distributed Data for Public Users: Expectations and Reality, Proceedings of the ASC's 4th International Conference

Bryan Scotney and Sally McClean (2003) Knowledge Discovery from Databases on the Semantic Web, The Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2003).

Dunne, J and Keane, T (2003) Working Towards Integrated Distributed Statistical Dissemination Systems, Statistics Canada IT Conference: Quality in IT - From Theory to Reality- April 2003

Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Hans Rutjes & Jannes Hartkamp (2003) Metadata with a MISSION: Using Metadata to Query Distributed Statistical Meta-information Systems, Dublin Core 2003, Seattle, September 2003