Mediator-Based Evolutionary Design and Development of Image Meta-Analysis Environments

Authors: Fredriksson J.¹; Svensson P.²; Risch T.³

Source: Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Volume 17, Numbers 2-3, December 2001 , pp. 301-322(22)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

We discuss how emerging object-relational database mediator technology can be used to integrate academic freeware and commercial-off-the-shelf software components to create a sequence of gradually more complex and powerful, always semantically and syntactically homogeneous, database centered Image Meta-Analysis Environments. We show how this may be done by definition and utilization of a use-case-based evolutionary design and development process. This process allows subsystems to be produced largely independently by several small specialist subprojects, turning the system integration work into a high-level domain modelling task.

Keywords: information system architecture; evolutionary development; human brain imaging; problem-solving environment; mediator technology; object-relational database

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Division of Human Brain Research, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. jesperf@nada.kth.se 2: Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Data and Information Fusion, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm, Sweden. pers@nada.kth.se 3: Department of Information Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Tore.Risch@dis.uu.se

Publication date: 2001-12-01