Publications (10)
Orthogonal Persistence Revisited
Alan Dearle, Graham Kirby, Ron Morrison
The social and economic importance of large bodies of programs and data that are potentially long-lived has attracted much attention in the commercial and research communities. Her…
A Generic Storage API
Graham Kirby, Evangelos Zirintsis, Alan Dearle +1
We present a generic API suitable for provision of highly generic storage facilities that can be tailored to produce various individually customised storage infrastructures. The pa…
Constructing Active Architectures in the ArchWare ADL
Ron Morrison, Graham Kirby, Dharini Balasubramaniam +6
Software that cannot change is condemned to atrophy: it cannot accommodate the constant revision and re-negotiation of its business goals nor intercept the potential of new technol…
Working Document on Gloss Ontology
Joelle Coutaz, Alan Dearle, Sophie Dupuy-Chessa +5
This document describes the Gloss Ontology. The ontology and associated class model are organised into several packages. Section 2 describes each package in detail, while Section 3…
First Smart Spaces
Graham Kirby, Alan Dearle, Andrew McCarthy +6
This document describes the Gloss software currently implemented. The description of the Gloss demonstrator for multi-surface interaction can be found in D17. The ongoing integrati…
Report on the XBase Project
Evangelos Zirintsis, Graham Kirby, Alan Dearle +1
This project addressed the conceptual fundamentals of data storage, investigating techniques for provision of highly generic storage facilities that can be tailored to produce vari…