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.
1. Wang S and Feng J
(2008), The Analysis of the Process of Information Realizing in the
Context of IS: A Hermeneutic Approach, WSEAS Transactions on
Business and Economics (Accepted: 12 March 2008).
2. 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).
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