MISSION Papers

Below is a list of presentations, papers and articles published or presented by partners in the MISSION project.

Publication Title Authors Type In Status Year
 

'Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Sequences via Schema Mapping'

 McClean SI, Scotney BW, Palmer F

paper

Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), Ballycastle, 15-17 May, Pages 49-51 Published 2002
 

'Transparent Querying of Distributed Heterogeneous Statistical Databases'

 McClean SI, Páircéir R, Scotney BW, Greer KRC

paper

Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), Ballycastle, 15-17 May, Pages 48-48 Published 2002
 

'Efficient Calculation of Random Slopes Models from a Set of Distributed Databases using Sufficient Statistics'

 Páircéir R, McClean SI, Scotney BW

paper

Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), Ballycastle, 15-17 May, Pages 55-56 Published 2002
 

'Interoperability of Macro and Meta Data Models for Statistical Processing and Publication in a Distributed Environment'

 Scotney, B.W., Dunne, J. & McClean, S.I.

paper

Journal of Research in Official Statistics Accepted 2002
 

'Learning Temporal Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences.'

 McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer

paper

The Journal of Soft Computing, Springer Accepted 2002
 

'Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Sequences via Schema Mapping'

 McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer

paper

XIII. International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS2002) Conference, Lyon, June 2002, LNCS, Springer. Published 2002
 

'Temporal Probabilistic Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences.'

 McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer

paper

Proceeding of Soft-ware 2002, Belfast, April 2002, eds. David Bustard, Weiru Liu and Roy Sterritt, LNCS 2311, 191-205, Springer. Published 2002
 

'Agents for Querying Distributed Statistical Databases over the Internet'

 McClean, S.I., Karali, I., Scotney, B.W., Greer, K.C.R., Kapos, G.-D., Páircéir, R., Hong, J., Bell, D.A. & Hatzopoulos, M.

paper

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol 11, No 1, March 2002, pp. 63-94. Published 2002
 

'Using Intelligent Software Agents to Query Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Databases'

 Sally McClean, Jun Hong, Bryan Scotney, Michalis Hatzopoulos and Isambo Karali

paper

Proceedings of NTTS, 769-774 Published 2001
 

'Using Classification Metadata to provide Inter-Operability between Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Databases'

 Sally McClean, and Bryan Scotney

paper

Proceedings of Metanet Published 2001
 

'Using agent technology to disseminate statistics via the Web'

 Karen Brannen and Joanne Lamb

paper

‘The Challenge of the Internet’ Proceedings of the ASC International Conference on Survey Research Methods Published 2001
 

'User Workspace for Access the Statistical Data from the Library'

 Defeng Ma and Joanne Lamb

paper

Proceedings of NTTS, 249-256 Published 2001
 

'User Interface for access to Statistical Databases, the MISSION perspective'

 Karel Pagrach

paper

Pre Proceedings NTTS / ETK conference 2001
 

'Tailored Desktop Information from a Distributed, Heterogeneous Data Warehouse'

 Joanne Lamb and Colin Smart

paper

Proceedings of NTTS, 769-774 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Orlando, Florida 19 –25 November 2000 Published 2000
 

'MISSION (Multi-Agent Integration of Shared Statistical Information Over the [inter]Net) -The data archive perspective'

 Joanne Lamb

paper

Proceedings of IASSIST 2001 Published 2001
 

'Metadata-based Agent Hierarchy and its Application to Distributed Aggregation and Harmonisation'

 D Bell, K Greer, J Hong, S McClean, R Páircéir, B Scotney

paper

IJCAI 2001 Submitted 2001
 

'Interoperability of Macro and Meta Data Models for Statistical Processing and Publication'

 Bryan Scotney and Sally McClean

paper

Proceedings of Metanet Published 2001
 

'Interoperability of Macro and Meta Data Models for Statistical Processing and Publication in a Distributed Environment'

 Bryan Scotney, John Dunne, and Sally McClean

paper

Proceedings of NTTS, 241-248 Published 2001
 

'Facilitating Integration of Distributed Statistical Databases Using Metadata and XML'

 Yaxin Bi and Joanne Lamb

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS Published 2001
 

'Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Sequences via Schema Mapping'

 Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, and Fiona Palmer

paper

Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) submitted 2001
 

'Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Distributed Databases'

 Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Kieran Greer and Rónán Páircéir

paper

PKDD Workshop on Ubiquitous Data Mining accepted 2001
 

'Agents for Querying Distributed Statistical Databases over the Internet'

 S. McClean, I. Karali, B. Scotney , K. Greer, G.-D. Kapos, R. Pairceir,J. Hong , D. Bell, M. Hatzopoulos

Paper

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) submitted 2001
 

'A Scalable Approach to Integrating Heterogeneous Aggregate Views of Distributed Databases'

 Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney and Kieran Greer

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering./TD> Submitted 2001
 

'A framework Towards Developing the Mass Customisation of Statistical Information System Services'

 Joanne Lamb, D. Kardaras, B. Karakostas and E. Papathanassiou

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS, 273-282 Published 2001
 

'A business model for open source software and the development of internet based systems for national statistics'

 Harold Pardue and Joanne Lamb

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS Published 2001
 

'Incorporating Domain Knowledge into Attribute-oriented Data Mining'

 McClean, S.I., Scotney, B.W.

Journal

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Published 2000
 

'Using Background Knowledge in the Aggregation of Imprecise Evidence in Databases'

 McClean, S.I., Scotney, B.W. & Shapcott, C.M

Journal

The Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 32, pp.131-143 Published 2000
 

'Uncertainty Handling for Distributed Database Integration and Knowledge Discovery'

 McClean, S.I., Scotney, B.W.

Book chapter

Information, Uncertainty, Fusion, eds. Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R. & Zadeh, L.A., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.209-220. Published 2000
 

'Knowledge Discovery through the Integration of Distributed Aggregates'

 Greer, K., McClean, S.I. & Scotney, B.

Conference proceedings

 International Journal of Intelligent Systems Published 2000
 

'Incorporating Domain Knowledge into Attribute-oriented Data Mining'

 McClean, S.I., Scotney, B.W.

Journal

The Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PADD 2000), 89-110. Published 2000
 

'Discovery of multi-level rules and exceptions from a distributed database.'

 Páircéir, R., McClean, S.I. & Scotney, B.

Conference proceedings

Conference proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining KDD2000, August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA. Published 2000
 

'Using Hierarchies, Aggregates and Statistical models to discover Knowledge from Distributed Databases'

 Páircéir, R., McClean, S.I. & Scotney, B.

Workshop paper

AAAI Technical report Workshop on "Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data" as part of AAAI '00, Austin, Texas, July. Published 2000
 

'Querying Distributed Statistical Databases Using Statistical Metadata and XML'

 Bi, Y., McClean, S.I. & Scotney, B.W.

Conference proceedings

Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing. The Netherlands, pp 15-16 Published 2000
 

'Clustering Heterogeneous Distributed Databases'

 Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, and Kieran Greer

Conference proceedings

Proceedings of the Distributed and Parallel Knowledge Discovery Workshop, Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining KDD2000, August 20-23, pp 20-29, Boston, MA, USA. Published 2000
 

Tailored Desktop Information from a Distributed, Heterogeneous Data Warehouse

 Joanne Lamb and Colin Smart

Conference proceedings

Decision Sciences Institute 2000 Proceedings Published 2000
 

Interoperability of Macro and Meta Data Models for Statistical Processing and Publication

Bryan Scotney and Sally McClean

Paper

 Proceedings of Metanet Published 2001
 

Using Classification Metadata to provide Inter-Operability between Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Databases

 Sally McClean, and Bryan Scotney

Paper

Proceedings of Metanet Published 2001
 

Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Distributed Databases

Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Kieran Greer and Rónán Páircéir

Paper

PKDD Workshop on Ubiquitous Data Mining. (PKDD'01) September 3-7, 2001, Freiburg, Germany Published 2001
 

Metadata Encoded in XML: Enabling Complex Query Formulation in Distributed Statistical Databases

 Yaxin Bi and Joanne Lamb

Paper

Proceedings of IIWas conference, Linz, Austria Published 2001
 

Aggregation of Imprecise and Uncertain Information in Databases

 McClean S., Scotney B., and M. Shapcott

Paper

IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, 13 (6), 902-912. Published 2001
 

Temporal Probabilistic Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences

 McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer

Paper

Proceeding of Software 2002, Belfast, April 2002, eds. David Bustard, Weiru Liu and Roy Sterritt, LNCS 2311, 191-205, Springer. Published 2001
 

MISSION (Multi-Agent Integration of Shared Statistical Information Over the [inter]Net) -The data archive perspective

 Joanne Lamb

Paper

Proceedings of IASSIST 2001 Published 2001
 

Using agent technology to disseminate statistics via the Web

 Karen Brannen and Joanne Lamb

Paper

‘The Challenge of the Internet’ Proceedings of the ASC International Conference on Survey Research Methods Published 2001
 

User Interface for access to Statistical Databases, the MISSION perspective

 Karel Pagrach

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001 Published 2001
 

Using Intelligent Software Agents to Query Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Databases

 Sally McClean, Jun Hong, Bryan Scotney, Michalis Hatzopoulos and Isambo Karali

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001, 769-774 Published 2001
 

Interoperability of Macro and Meta Data Models for Statistical Processing and Publication in a Distributed Environment

 Bryan Scotney, John Dunne, and Sally McClean

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001, 241-248 Published 2001
 

A framework Towards Developing the Mass Customisation of Statistical Information System Services

Joanne Lamb, D. Kardaras, B. Karakostas and E. Papathanassiou

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001, 273-282 Published 2001
 

Facilitating Integration of Distributed Statistical Databases Using Metadata and XML

 Yaxin Bi and Joanne Lamb

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001 Published 2001
 

User Workspace for Access the Statistical Data from the Library

Defeng Ma and Joanne Lamb

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001, 249-256 Published 2001
 

A business model for open source software and the development of internet based systems for national statistics

 Harold Pardue and Joanne Lamb

Paper

Proceedings of NTTS/ETK 2001 Published 2001
 

A Scalable Approach to Integrating Heterogeneous Aggregate Views of Distributed Databases

 McClean S, Scotney B and K Greer

Paper

IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering Published 2002
 

A Negotiation Agent for Distributed Heterogeneous Statistical Databases

 Sally McClean, Rónán Páircéir, Bryan Scotney and Kieran Greer

Paper

dings of the 14th SSDBM conference 2002 Published 2002
 

Agents for Querying Distributed Statistical Databases over the Internet

 McClean, S.I., Karali, I., Scotney, B.W., Greer, K.C.R., Kapos, G.-D., Páircéir, R., Hong, J., Bell, D.A. & Hatzopoulos, M.

Paper

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol 11, No 1, March 2002, pp. 63-94 Published 2002
 

Temporal Probabilistic Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences

 McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer

Paper

Proceeding of Soft-ware 2002, Belfast, April 2002, eds. David Bustard, Weiru Liu and Roy Sterritt, LNCS 2311, 191-205, Springer. Published 2002
 

Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Sequences via Schema Mapping

 McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer

Paper

XIII. International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS2002) Conference, Lyon, June 2002, LNCS, Springer. Published 2002
 

Learning Temporal Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences

 McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer

Paper

The Journal of Soft Computing, Springer. Published 2002
 

Interoperability of Macro and Meta Data Models for Statistical Processing and Publication in a Distributed Environment

 Scotney, B.W., Dunne, J. & McClean, S.I

Paper

Journal of Research in Official Statistics. Accepted 2002
 

Efficient Calculation of Random Slopes Models from a Set of Distributed Databases using Sufficient Statistics

 Páircéir R, McClean SI, Scotney BW

Abstract

 Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), Ballycastle, 15-17 May, Pages 55-56 Published 2002
 

Transparent Querying of Distributed Heterogeneous Statistical Databases

 McClean SI, Páircéir R, Scotney BW, Greer KRC

Abstract

 Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), Ballycastle, 15-17 May, Pages 48-48 Published 2002
 

Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Sequences via Schema Mapping

 McClean SI, Scotney BW, Palmer F

Abstract

 Proceedings of Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI), Ballycastle, 15-17 May, Pages 49-51 Published 2002
 

Agents for Querying distributed statistical databases over the Internet

 McClean S, Karali I, Scotney B, Greer K, Kapos G-D, Pairceir R, Hong J, Bell D, and M Hatzopolous

Paper

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) Published 2002
 

A Negotiation Agent for Distributed Heterogeneous Statistical Databases

 Sally McClean, Rónán Páircéir, Bryan Scotney, Kieran Greer

Paper

Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), IEEE Computer Society, 2002, pp. 207-216 Published 2002
 

Statistical Database Modelling and Compatibility for Processing and Publication in a Distributed Environment

 Bryan Scotney, John Dunne, Sally McClean

Journal paper

 ROS Journal Published 2002
 

Temporal Probabilistic Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences

 McClean S., Scotney B., and F. Palmer

Paper

The Journal of Soft Computing, Springer Published 2002
 

Agent-based query processing of heterogeneous distributed statistical data via an ontology server

 McClean S, Karali I, Scotney B, Greer K, Kapos G-D, Pairceir R, Hong J, Bell D, and M Hatzopolous

Workshop paper

Proceedings of the EKAW02 Workshop, Ontologies for Multi-Agent Systems, pp105-120, Siguenza, Spain, Sept 30. Published 2002
 

The MISSION Client: Navigating Ontology Information for Query Formulation and Publication in Distributed Statistical Information Systems

 Yaxin Bi

Paper

Proceedings in Computational Statistics 2002 Published 2002
 

Using Evidence Theory for Knowledge Discovery from Distributed Imprecise and Uncertain Data

 Bryan Scotney and Sally McClean

Paper

 Journal of Information Sciences Accepted 2002
 

Knowledge Discovery from Heterogeneous Distributed Data on the Semantic Web

 Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney and Kieran Greer

Paper

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Submitted 2003
 

Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Gene Expression Sequences

 Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney and Steve Robinson

Paper

AI Review Journal Accepted 2003
 

Dynamic Harmonisation of Distributed Data for Public Users: Expectations and Reality

 Defeng Ma, Karen Barrie, and Joanne Lamb

Paper

 Proceedings of the ASC's 4th International Conference Accepted 2003
 

Knowledge Discovery from Databases on the Semantic Web

 Bryan Scotney and Sally McClean

Paper

 The Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2003). Submitted 2003
 

Working Towards Integrated Distributed Statistical Dissemination Systems

 Dunne, J and Keane, T

Paper

 Statistics Canada IT Conference: Quality in IT - From Theory to Reality- April 2003 Published 2003
 

Metadata with a MISSION: Using Metadata to Query Distributed Statistical Meta-information Systems

 Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Hans Rutjes & Jannes Hartkamp

Paper

Dublin Core 2003, Seattle, September 2003 Accepted 2003
 

Using Hierarchies, Aggregates and Statistical models to discover Knowledge

 Rónán Páircéir, Sally I. McClean, Bryan Scotney

Conference presentation

CASI Conference of Applied statistics in Ireland 2000 - 18 May 2000
 

Process Metadata for Verifiable Quality

 Karen Brannen and Colin Smart

Conference poster

Compstat 2000, Voorburg, NL - 2000
 

Sharing Statistical Information over the Internet

 Joanne Lamb

Workshop

UN/ECE Workshop on publication of statistics to the media, Voorburg, NL - 2000
 

The Mission project

 Joanne Lamb

Workshop presentation

 ONS Workshop on Web-publishing and Metadata, London - 2001
 

Using Classification Metadata to combine Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Databases

 Sally McClean and Bryan Scotney

Workshop presentation

 Metanet Meeting, Vienna, 9-12th October, 2001 - 2001
 

Using Classification Metadata to combine Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Databases

 Sally McClean and Bryan Scotney

Project Meeting presentation

 Cosmos Meeting, Essex, 31st October-2nd November, 2001 - 2001
 

Sharing Statistical Information over the Internet: The MISSION project

 Joanne Lamb

Conference presentation

 e-statistics conference, Basel, Switzerland, 29th November 2001 - 2001

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