Database Research Group



Database Research Group

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Overview

Welcome to the home page of the Database Research Group at the University of the West Scotland. We have been active in these overlapping areas of research since the early 2000: Database Theory, Semantic Information Theory, and Information Integration. We do both theoretical and systems work in those areas.


Current Research Directions

1. We try and extend human knowledge in IS construction. Our intellectual weapons for achieving this are a set of theories that are concerned with the semantic aspects of information including organisational semiotics, plus conventional tools such as mathematics and database theories;

2. We aim to provide much needed theoretical underpinnings (like the Information Capacity theory) for existing methods, techniques and technologies in the area of advanced and complex IS, in particular information integration;

3. To this end, we will develop our specific ontology, concepts and mechanisms through a combination of synthesising and extending existing ones and inventing our own;

4. A particularly interesting scholarly question is the role that information theories play in IS particularly in ISD.


Recent News From Group

Latest: DR YANG WANG Yang Wang successfully completed the minor changes of her PhD thesis. Yang Wang successfully defended her PhD thesis at the viva voce on the 24th of September 2008. The external examiner commented at the end of the event that the viva voce was 'enlightening, inspiring and of a good academic nature'. F/T and P/T PhD Studentships 2008
Latest Publication
Wang, S and Feng, J (2008) a Hermeneutic Approach to ‘Information Analysis’ for information requirements. To appear in a book entitled ‘Challenges in Information Technology Management’. Xu K, Feng J and Crowe M (2008), Defining the Notion of ‘Information Content’ and Reasoning about it in a Database, Knowledge and Information Systems (Received: 5 February 2007 Revised:23 December 2007 Accepted: 19 January 2008 Published online: 11 March 2008. The printed version will follow in a forthcoming issue). Feng J and Wang S (2008) 'Constructing a Data Schema from an Information Flow Model', WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 7, Vol 5, July 2008. This article is downloadable from http://www.wseas.us/e-library/transactions/information/2008/31-141.pdf Wang S, Wang Yin and Feng J (2008). The Analysis of the Theoretical Foundation of Information Service: A Hermeneutic Approach. Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2008, Sup.1:84-87. (EI indexed)

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