Professor Alex Gray

Research

• Metadata and its role in integration and interoperation of heterogeneous distributed information systems: the enrichment of metadata with quality measures and knowledge from knowledge bases and ontologies to improve the linking of data; reverse engineering of legacy systems to find conceptual models and business rules;
• The design and architecture of distributed systems to support distributed concurrent working over networks in the areas of bioinformatics, concurrent engineering and health informatics - this includes the role of constraints, and architecture issues such as scalability and autonomy;
• The role of metadata in constructing the information and knowledge layers of the Information GRID.