Prof. Malcolm Crowe
University of the West of Scotland, UK
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Professor Crowe is based in the School of Engineering and Computing, University of the West of Scotland, UK. In 2002 he began to develop his own database management system, Pyrrho, as a way of researching novel approaches and issues in data management. As part of this work, in 2016, he developed a design for logical data warehousing, integrating relational databases using REST and ETags, as a radical alternative to other big data approaches such as extract-transform-load. This new contribution is particularly useful in smart cities and intelligent agriculture, where successful applications depend on the integration of customer data with botanical knowledge and real-time observations from independent sources such as mobile agricultural machines, satellites and drones. For such disparate sources of big data, with multiple ownership issues, logical data warehousing is very attractive, and justifies schema and intelligent cache negotiation for real-time data management.