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Suzanne Embury's Publications

 

2011

  • K. Belhajjame, N.W. Paton, A.A.A. Fernandes, C. Hedeler, S.M. Embury
    User Feedback as a First Class Citizen in Information Integration Systems, in Proceedings of 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR'11), Asilomar, CA, USA, January 9-12, Online Proceedings: www.crdrdb.org, pp. 175-183, 2011.
  • C. Hedeler, K. Belhajjame, N.W. Paton, A.A.A. Fernandes, S.M. Embury, L. Mao, C. Guo
    Demo: Pay-As-You-Go Mapping Selection in Dataspaces, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'11), Athens, Greece, ACM Press, pp. 1279-1282, 2011.

2010

  • K. Belhajjame, N.W. Paton, S.M. Embury, A.A.A. Fernandes, C. Hedeler
    Feedback-Based Annotation, Selection and Refinement of Schema Mappings for Dataspaces, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'10), Lausanne, Switzerland, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 426, pp. 573-584, 2010.
  • C. Hedeler, K. Belhajjame, L. Mao, N.W. Paton, A.A.A. Fernandes, C. Guo, S.M. Embury
    Flexible Dataspace Management Through Model Management, in Proceedings of the 2010 EDBT/ICDT Workshops, Lausanne, Switzerland, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2010.
  • R. Singh, S. Bechhofer, K. Belhajjame, S.M. Embury
    Automatically Identifying Bounds on Semantic Annotations for Bioinformatics Web Service Input Parameters, in Current Trends in Web Engineering - 10th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2010 Workshops, Vienna, Austria, Springer, LNCS 6385, pp. 232-243, 2010.

2009

  • C. Hedeler, K. Belhajjame, A.A.A. Fernandes, S.M. Embury, N.W. Paton
    Dimensions of Dataspaces, in Proceedings of 26th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'09), Birmingham, UK, Springer, LNCS 5588, pp. 55-66, 2009.
  • C. Hedeler, K. Belhajjame, N.W. Paton, A. Campi, A.A.A. Fernandes, S.M. Embury
    Dataspaces, in Search Computing: Challenges and Directions (Outcomes of the 1st SeCO Workshop on Search Computing Challenges and Directions), Como, Italy, Springer, LNCS 5950, pp. 114-134, 2009.
  • S.M. Embury, P. Missier, S. de F. Mendes Sampaio, R.M. Greenwood, A.D. Preece
    Incorporating Domain-Specific Information Quality Constraints into Database Queries, in J. Data and Information Quality 1(2), 2009.

2008

  • P. Missier, S.M. Embury, R. Stapenhurst
    Exploiting Provenance to Make Sense of Automated Decisions in Scientific Workflows, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'08), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Springer, LNCS Vol. 5272, pp. 174-185, 2008.
  • N. Emran, S.M. Embury, P. Missier
    Model-Driven Component Generation for Families of Completeness, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Quality in Databases and Management of Uncertain Data (DQB/MUD'08), Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 123-132, 2008.
  • D. Stead, N.W. Paton, P. Missier, S.M. Embury, C. Hedeler, B. Jin, A.J.P. Brown, A.D. Preece
    Information Quality in Proteomics, in Briefings in Bioinformatics 9(2), pp. 174-188, 2008.
  • A.D. Preece, P. Missier, S.M. Embury, B. Jin, R.M. Greenwood
    An Ontology-Based Approach to Handling Information Quality in e-Science, in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 20(3), pp. 253-264, 2008.
  • J.A. Siepen, K. Belhajjame, J.N. Selley, S.M. Embury, N.W. Paton, C.A. Goble, S.G. Oliver, R. Stevens, L. Zamboulis, N.J. Martin, A. Poulovassilis, P. Jones, R.G. Côté, H. Hermjakob, M.M. Pentony, D.T. Jones, C.A. Orengo, S.J. Hubbard
    ISPIDER Central: an Integrated Database Web-Server for Proteomics, in Nucleic Acids Research 36 (Web-Server-Issue), pp. 485-490, 2008.
  • K. Belhajjame, S.M. Embury, N.W. Paton, R.D. Stevens, C.A. Goble
    Automatic Annotation of Web Services Based on Workflow Definitions, in ACM TWEB 2(2), 2008.

2007

  • L. Lin, S.M. Embury, B. Warboys
    Tool Support for Implementing Business Rules in Database Applications, in Proceedings of 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'07), Vol. 1, Beijing, China, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 157-162, 2007.
  • P. Missier, S.M. Embury, C. Hedeler, R.M. Greenwood, J. Pennock, A. Brass
    Accelerating Disease Gene Identification Through Integrated SNP Data Analysis, in Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS'07), Philadelphia, PA, USA, Springer, LNCS 4544, pp. 215-230, 2007.
  • R. Krenicky, D. Willmor, S.M. Embury
    Exploratory Design of Derivation Business Rules Using Query Rewriting, in Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'07), Boston, MA, USA, pp. 467-472, 2007.
  • P. Missier, S.M. Embury, R.M. Greenwood, A.D. Preece, B. Jin
    Managing Information Quality in e-Science: the Qurator Workbench, demo, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'07), Beijing, China, ACM Press, pp. 1150-1152, 2007.

2006

  • K. Belhajjame, S.M. Embury and N.W. Paton
    On Characterising and Identifying Mismatches in Scientific Workflows, in Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2006), Hinxton, UK, Springer, LNCS 4075, pp. 240-247, 2006.
  • L. Zamboulis, H. Fan, K. Belhajjame, J.A. Siepen, A.C. Jones, N.J. Martin, A. Poulovassilis, S.J. Hubbard, S.M. Embury, N.W. Paton
    Data Access and Integration in the ISPIDER Proteomics Grid, in Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2006), Hinxton, UK, Springer, LNCS 4075, pp. 3-18, 2006.
  • P. Missier, S.M. Embury, R.M. Greenwood, A.D. Preece, and B. Jin
    Quality views: Capturing and Exploiting the User Perspective on Data Quality, in Proceedings of 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2006), Seoul, South Korea, ACM Press, pp. 977-988, 2006.
  • A Preece, B Jin, P Missier, S Embury, D Stead, and A Brown
    Towards the Management of Information Quality in Proteomics, in Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2006), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 936-940, 2006.
  • A Preece, B Jin, E Pignotti, P Missier, S Embury, D Stead and A Brown
    Managing Information Quality in e-Science using Semantic Web Technology, in Proceedings of 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Springer, LNCS 4011, pp. 472-486, 2006.
  • K. Belhajjame, S.M. Embury, N.W. Paton, R. Stevens and C.A. Goble
    Automatic Annotation of Web Services Based on Workflow Definitions, in Proceedings of 5th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, GA, USA, November, LNCS 4273, Springer, pp. 116-129, 2006.
  • D. Willmor and S.M. Embury
    An Intensional Approach to the Specification of Test Cases for Database Applications, in Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2006), Shanghai, China, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 102-111, 2006.
  • D. Willmor and S.M. Embury
    Testing the Implementation of Business Rules using Intensional Database Tests, in Proceedings of 1st Testing Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART), Windsor, United Kingdom, pp. 115-126, 2006.
  • K. Belhajjame and S.M. Embury
    A Model-Driven Approach to Service Composition in Virtual Enterprises, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006), Chicago, Illinois, USA, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 214-221, 2006.
  • S.M. Embury, D. Willmor and L. Dang
    Assessing Impacts of Changes to Business Rules through Data Exploration, in Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2006), IEEE Computer Society, Tahiti, French Polynesia, 2006.

2005

  • D. Willmor and S.M. Embury
    A Safe Regression Test Selection Technique for Database-Driven Applications, in Proceedings of 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2005), Budapest, Hungary, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 421-430, 2005.
  • L. Lin, S. M. Embury, and B. C Warboys
    Facilitating the Implementation and Evolution of Business Rules, in Proceedings of 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2005), Budapest, Hungary, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 609-612, 2005.
  • D. Willmor and S.M. Embury
    Exploring Test Adequacy for Database Systems, in Proceedings of the 3rd UK Software Testing Research Workshop (UKTest 2005), 5-6 September 2005, Sheffield, UK.
  • J. Shao, Y. Ibrahim and S.M. Embury
    An Approach to Tracking Data Derivation in Information Systems, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2005), Shanghai, China. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 65-69, 2005.
  • P. Missier, A.D. Preece, S.M. Embury, B. Jin, R.M. Greenwood, D. Stead, A. Brown
    Managing Information Quality in e-Science: A Case Study in Proteomics, in Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling, Proceedings of ER 2005 Workshops AOIS, BP-UML, CoMoGIS, eCOMO and QoIS, J. Akoka et al. (eds.), Klagenfurt, Austria, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3770, pp. 423-432, 2005.
  • P. Missier and S.M. Embury
    Provider Issues in Quality-Constrained Data Provisioning, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems (IQIS'05), L. Berti-Equille, C. Batini, D. Srivastava (eds.), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, ACM Press, pp. 5-15, 2005.
  • P Missier, S Embury, M Greenwood, A Preece, & B Jin
    An Ontology-Based Approach to Handling Information Quality in e-Science in Proceedings of 4th e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM2005), 2005.

2004

  • S.M. Embury and P.M.D. Gray
    Functional Approaches to Constraint Handling and State Change, in Functional Approaches to Computing with Data, P.M.D. Gray, L. Kerschberg, P.J.L. King and A.P. Poulovassilis (eds.), pp. 96-115, Springer, 2004.
  • G.J.L. Kemp, P.M.D. Gray, and S.M. Embury
    Optimisation Strategies for Functional Queries in a Distributed Environment, in Functional Approaches to Computing with Data, P.M.D. Gray, L. Kerschberg, P.J.L. King and A.P. Poulovassilis (eds.), pp. 189-210, Springer, 2004.

2003

  • B. Jin and S.M. Embury
    Reducing Disruption in Time-Tabled Condition Monitoring, to appear in Proceedings of the Sixth IFIP TC-11 WG 11.5 Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems (IICIS’03), S. Jajodia and L. Strous (eds.), Lausanne, Switzerland, Kluwer, November 2003.
  • L. Lin, S.M. Embury and B.C. Warboys
    Business Rule Evolution and Measures in Business Rule Evolution, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE’03), Helsinki, Finland, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 121-125, September 2003.
  • S. M. Embury and J. Shao
    Analysing the Impact of Adding Integrity Constraints to Information Systems, in Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 03), J. Eder and M. Missikoff (eds.), Klagenfurt, Austria, Springer LNCS vol. 2681, pp. 175-192, June 2003.

2002

  • A.B. Earls, S.M. Embury and N.H. Turner
    A Method for the Manual Extraction of Business Rules from Legacy Source Code, in BT Technology Journal, Vol. 20(4), pp. 127-143, October 2002. Electronic Edition
  • B. Jin and S.M. Embury
    Increasing the Accuracy of Time-Tabled Condition Monitoring, in Proceedings of 5th International IFIP TC-11 WG 11.5 Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems, M. Gertz (ed.), Bonn, Germany, Kluwer, pp. 21-35, November 2002.
  • J. Shao, S.M. Embury, G. Fu, X. Liu and W.A. Gray
    Unlocking Business Rules for Maintaining Information Systems, in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Database Maintenance and Re-engineering (DBMR'2002), M. Piattini and C. Calero (eds.), Montreal, Canada, pp. 17-30, October 2002.
  • G. Fu, J. Shao, S.M. Embury, W.A. Gray
    Representing Constraint Business Rules Extracted from Legacy Systems, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems (DEXA 2002), A. Hameurlain, R. Cicchetti and R. Traunmüller (eds.), Aix-en-Provence, France, Springer, LNCS 2453, pp. 464-473, September 2002. Electronic Edition
  • G. Fu, J. Shao, S.M. Embury, W. A. Gray
    An Algorithm for Determining Related Constraints, in Proceedings of 19th British National Conference on Databases, B. Eaglestone, S. North and A. Poulovassilis (eds.), Sheffield, UK, Springer, LNCS 2405, pp. 134-149, July 2002. Electronic Edition

2001

  • S.M. Embury, S.M. Brandt, J.S. Robinson, I. Sutherland, F.A. Bisby, W.A. Gray, A.C. Jones and R.J. White
    Adapting Integrity Enforcement Techniques for Data Reconciliation, in Information Systems, 26(8), pp. 657-689, December 2001. Electronic Edition
  • B. Jin and S.M. Embury
    Non-Intrusive Assessment of Organisational Data Quality, in Proceedings of 2001 Conference on Information Quality, E.M. Pierce and R. Katz-Haas (eds), Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2001.
  • S.M. Embury and J. Shao
    Assisting the Comprehension of Legacy Transactions, in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Reverse Engineering (in conjunction with WCRE'2001), K. Hogshead Davis and J.H. Jahnke (eds.), Stuttgart, Germany, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 345-355, October 2001. Electronic Edition.
  • G. Fu, J. Shao, S.M. Embury, X. Liu and W.A. Gray
    A Framework for Business Rule Presentation, in Proceedings of 12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2001), A. Min Tjoa and R. Wagner (eds.), Munich, Germany, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 922-926, September 2001.
  • N.J. Caine and S.M. Embury
    LOIS: the "Lights Out" Integrity Subsystem, in Proceedings of 18th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'01), B.J. Read (ed.), Chilton, UK, July, Springer LNCS V. 2097, pp. 57-74, 2001. Electronic Edition.
  • J. Shao, X.K. Liu, G. Fu, S.M. Embury and W.A. Gray
    Querying Data-Intensive Programs for Data Design, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'01), K.R. Dittrich, A. Geppert and M.C. Norrie (eds.), Interlaken, Switzerland, June, Springer LNCS V.2068, pp. 203-218, 2001. Electronic Edition.

2000

  • A.C. Jones, I. Sutherland, S.M. Embury, W.A. Gray, R.J. White, J.S. Robinson, F.A. Bisby and S.M. Brandt
    Techniques for Effective Integration, Maintenance and Evolution of Species Databases, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, O. Günther and H.-J. Lenz (eds.), Berlin, July, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 3-13, 2000. Electronic Edition.
  • P.M.D. Gray, G.J.L. Kemp, P. Brunschwig and S.M. Embury
    Collection Views: Dynamically Composed Views which Inherit Behaviour, in Proceedings of 17th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'00), B. Lings and K.G. Jeffery (eds.), Exeter, UK, July, Springer LNCS V.1832, pp. 102-121, 2000. Electronic Edition.
  • S.M. Embury, J. Shao, W.A. Gray and N. Fishlock
    Advertising Database Capabilities for Information Sharing, in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'00), B. Wängler (ed.), Stockholm, June, Springer LNCS V.1789, pp. 47-63, 2000. Electronic Edition.
  • G. Fu, X. Liu, J. Shao, S.M. Embury and W.A. Gray
    Business Rule Extraction from Legacy Information Systems, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Reverse Engineering, E. Chikofsky and K. Hogshead Davis (eds.), Zurich, March, 2000.

1999

  • S.M. Embury, A.C. Jones, I. Sutherland, W.A. Gray, R.J. White, J.S. Robinson, F.A. Bisby and S.M. Brandt
    Conflict Detection for Integration of Taxonomic Data Sources, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Z.M. Özsoyoglu, G. Özsoyoglu and W.-C. Hou (eds.), Cleveland Ohio USA, pp. 204-213, 1999. PostScript.
  • J.-C. Pazzaglia and S.M. Embury
    Extending the Metadata Capabilities of a Non-Extensible DBMS, in Proceedings of Third IEEE Metadata Conference, C. Miller and R. Musick (eds.), Bethesda USA, April, 1999. HTML.
  • P.M.D. Gray, S.M. Embury, K.Y. Hui and G.J.L. Kemp
    The Evolving Role of Constraints in the Functional Data Model, in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, special issue on Functional Approach to Intelligent Information Systems, P.M.D. Gray, P.J.H. King and L. Kerschberg (eds.), No. 12, pp. 113-137, 1999.
  • S.M. Embury and P.M.D. Gray
    Database Internal Applications, in ``Active Rules in Databases'', N.W. Paton (ed.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 339-366, 1999.

1998

  • I. Sutherland, S.M. Embury, W.A. Gray, A.C. Jones, F.A. Bisby, S.M. Brandt, J. Robinson and R.J. White
    Knowledge Integrity Testing for the Integration of Taxonomic Databases, in Proceedings of the CP98 Workshop on Constraints in Bioinformatics/Biocomputing, D. Gilbert (ed.), Pisa Italy, October 1998. Word Document.
  • P.M.D. Gray, Z. Cui, S.M. Embury, W.A. Gray, K. Hui and A.D. Preece
    An Agent-Based System for Handling Distributed Design Constraints, in Proceedings of Agents'98 Workshop on Agent-Based Manufacturing, M. Gini and M. Boddy (eds.), Minneapolis, May 1998.
  • J.-C. Pazzaglia and S.M. Embury
    Bottom-Up Integration of Ontologies in a Database Context, in Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB'98), A. Borgida, V.K. Chaudhri and M. Staudt (eds.), Seattle USA, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 10, pp. 7.1-7.7, May, 1998. PostScript.

1997

  • P.M.D. Gray, A.D. Preece, N.J. Fiddian, W.A. Gray, T.J.M. Bench-Capon, M.J.R. Shave, N. Azarmi, M. Wiegand, M. Ashwell, M. Beer, Z. Cui, B. Diaz, S.M. Embury, K. Hui, A.C. Jones, D.M. Jones, G.J.L. Kemp, E.W. Lawson, K. Lunn, P. Marti, J. Shao and P.R.S. Visser
    KRAFT: Knowledge Fusion from Distributed Databases and Knowledge Bases, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, R.R. Wagner (ed.), Toulouse, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997, pp. 682-691.PostScript.
  • S. Grufman, F. Samson, S.M. Embury, P.M.D. Gray and T. Risch
    Distributing Semantic Constraints Between Heterogeneous Databases, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'97), W.A. Gray and P. Larson (eds.), Birmingham, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997, pp. 33-42. PostScript.

1996

  • S. Embury
    Coping with Constraint Violation: the Practical Face of Database Integrity, in Integrity in Databases - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects (FMLDO'96), S. Conrad, H.-J. Klein and K.-D. Schewe (eds.), Schloss Dagstuhl, September 1996, pp. 141-148. A preliminary version of this paper is available as technical report AUCS/TR9603.
  • S.M. Embury and P.M.D. Gray
    A Modular Compiler Architecture for a Data Manipulation Language, in Proceedings of 14th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD14), R. Morrison and J. Kennedy (eds.), Edinburgh, Springer-Verlag LNCS, 1996, pp. 170-188. PostScript.

1995

  • S.M. Embury and P.M.D. Gray,
    Planning Complex Updates to Satisfy Constraint Rules Using a Constraint Logic Search Engine, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Rules in Database Systems (RIDS'95), T. Sellis (ed.), Glyfada, Athens, Greece, Springer-Verlag LNCS 985, 1995, pp. 230-244. An expanded version of this paper is available as technical report AUCS/TR9507.
  • S.M. Embury and P.M.D. Gray,
    Compiling a Declarative High-Level Language for Semantic Integrity Constraints, in Proceedings of the 6th IFIP TC-2 Working Conference on Data Semantics (DS-6), R. Meersman and L. Mark (eds.), Stone Mountain, Georgia, Chapman and Hall, 1995. PostScript.
  • S.M. Embury and P.M.D. Gray,
    The Declarative Expression of Semantic Integrity in a Database of Protein Structure, in Proceedings of the Basque International Workshop on Information Technology (BIWIT'95), A. Illarramendi and O. Diaz (eds.), San Sebastian, Spain, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 216-224, 1995. PostScript.

1994


1993

  • S.M. Embury, P.M.D. Gray and N.D. Bassiliades
    Constraint Maintenance Using Generated Methods in the P/FDM Object-Oriented Database, in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Rules in Database Systems (RIDS'93), N.W.Paton and M.H.Williams (eds.), Springer Verlag Workshops in Computing Series, 1993, pp. 364-381.
  • N.W. Paton, S. Leishman, S.M. Embury and P.M.D. Gray
    On Using Prolog to Implement Object-Oriented Databases, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 35, No. 5, May 1993, pp 301-311.

1992

  • O. Diaz and S.M. Embury
    Generating Active Rules from High-Level Specifications, in Proceedings of 10th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD10), P.M.D. Gray and R. Lucas (eds.), Aberdeen, Springer-Verlag LNCS 618, 1992.
  • S.M. Embury, Z. Jiao and P.M.D. Gray,
    Using Prolog to Provide Access to Metadata in an Object-Oriented Database, in Proceedings of 1st International Conference on the Practical Application of Prolog, C. Moss (ed.), London, Applied Workstations Ltd., 1992. PostScript.