Establishing a postgraduate research programme in spatial data management

Author

Cockcroft, Sophie K. ; Firns, Peter G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Otago Univ., Dunedin, New Zealand

fYear

1994

fDate

22-25 Nov 1994

Firstpage

313

Lastpage

318

Abstract

To cope with the supervision of increasing numbers of postgraduate students, a useful strategy is to establish research programmes comprising a number of interrelated projects. The success of such a programme is dependent upon the existence of clearly stated long-term and medium-term objectives. The paper describes a research programme, being developed within the University of Otago´s Department of Information Science, centred on issues related to the analysis, design and development of spatially referenced databases. The programme aims to specify and validate theoretical models, and to develop software tools, for the management of spatially referenced databases

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; computer science education; formal specification; formal verification; software tools; visual databases; Otago University Information Science Department; clearly stated long-term objectives; clearly stated medium-term objectives; database analysis; database design; database development; database management; interrelated projects; postgraduate research programme; postgraduate student supervision; software tools; spatial data management; spatially referenced databases; theoretical model specification; theoretical model validation; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Context modeling; Data structures; Database systems; Dictionaries; Environmental management; Management information systems; Software development management; Spatial databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Education Conference, 1994. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Dunedin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5870-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEDC.1994.475353

Filename

475353