SQL, data mining, decision support systems, ecology, environmental management, environmental science computing, forestry, geographic information systems, natural resources, query processing, statistical analysis, timber

Rennolls, Keith, Richards, Tim, Fedorec, Alex, Ibrahim, Moh, McManus, Kevin and Butler, Alun (2004) Models and tools for an integrated European environmental management and decision support system, (IEEMDSS). In: Proceedings: 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, USA, pp. 615-619. ISBN 0769521959 ISSN 1529-4188 (doi:10.1109/DEXA.2004.1333543)

autonomic algorithms, application dreaming

Butler, Alun R., Ibrahim, Mohamed, Rennolls, Keith and Bacon, Liz (2004) On the persistence of computer dreams: an application framework for robust adaptive deployment. In: Proceedings: 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, USA, pp. 716-720. ISBN 0769521959 ISSN 1529-4188 (doi:10.1109/DEXA.2004.1333559)

autonomic systems, interfaces, air-space management,

Anthony, Richard, Butler, Alun and Ibrahim, Mohammad (2005) Layered autonomic systems. Proceedings - Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2005. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, pp. 383-384. ISBN 0 7695 2276 9 (doi:10.1109/ICAC.2005.36)

autonomics, emergent behaviour, self-healing, layered architectures, clusters

Anthony, Richard, Butler, Alun and Ibrahim, Mohammad (2005) Composing emergent behaviour in a fault intolerant system. In: Proceedings: 16th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA’05). IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, USA, pp. 145-149. ISBN 0769524249 (doi:10.1109/DEXA.2005.65)

database management, information storage and retrieval, information systems applications (incl. Internet), multimedia information systems, artificial intelligence (incl. Robotics), business information systems

Butler, Alun, Bacon, Liz and Ibrahim, Mohamed (2003) SOFT – generating highly flexible object code from XML specifications. In: Database and Expert Systems Applications: 14th International Conference, DEXA 2003, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-5, 2003. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2736). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 8-17. ISBN 978-3-540-40806-2 ISSN 0302-9743 (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45227-0_2)

emergence, autonomic systems, self-* behaviors

Anthony, Richard, Butler, Alun and Ibrahim, Mohammed (2007) Exploiting emergence in autonomic systems. In: Parashar, Manish and Hariri, Salim, (eds.) Autonomic computing: concepts, infrastructure and applications. CRC Press, pp. 121-148. ISBN 9780849393679

internet, agriculture, distributed databases, geographic information systems, monitoring, natural resources

Rennolls, Keith, Richards, Tim, Fedorec, Alex, Ibrahim, Moh, McManus, Kevin and Butler, Alun (2004) Requirements and design of an integrated European environmental information communication system, (IEEICS). In: Proceedings: 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, USA, pp. 610-614. ISBN 0769521959 ISSN 1529-4188 (doi:10.1109/DEXA.2004.1333542)

internet, data mining, electronic commerce, web applications, consumer markets, data harvesting, key business data, self-optimising data farming model, application software, availability, computer science, databases, flexible structures, HTML, hardware, Moore's Law, XML

Burnell, D., Al-Zobaidie, A., Windall, G. and Butler, A. (2004) Self-optimising data farming for web applications. In: Proceedings: 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems (DEXA 2004). IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, USA, pp. 436-440. ISBN 0769521959 ISSN 1529-4188 (doi:10.1109/DEXA.2004.1333513)