Research Themes

This page lists some of the current projects in the School, ordered by theme.

Accessible Technologies

Active projects

• Accessibility Cloud
• Accessible Resources Pilot Project
• Captioning Personal Display Client/Server
• e-Assessment in Higher Education (EASiHE)
• Liberated Learning Consortium
• Multiple Speaker Real Time Synchronised Captioning
• Net4Voice
• OSCA: On-Screen Communication Access
• PicBoard
• Real Time Synchronised Caption Annotation
• Real Time Synchronised Caption Editing
• The Magnifier

Previous projects

• JISC TechDis ToolBar
• LExDis - Disabled learners’ experiences of e-learning
• Multimedia Annotation and Community FOlksonomy Building (MACFOB)
• Web2Access

Agent Based Computing

Active projects

• A Learning-based Approach for Efficient Long-term Information Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
• ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks
• Control and Management of Autonomous Mobile Sensors
• Instant Knowledge
• Intelligent Decentralised Energy-Aware Systems (iDEaS)

Previous projects

• Adaptive Energy-Aware Sensor Networks
• Agent-Based Control of Decentralised Systems
• AgentLink II: Continuation of a Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing
• AgentLink III: A Co-ordination Network for Agent-Based Computing
• ANNA: Acquisition for Networks of Negotiating Agents
• ANS: Autonomic Networked System Management Tool for Ubicomp in the Home
• ARGUS II: Decentralised Data Fusion
• Autonomic Supply Chains in Computational Economies
• BluNotes
• BluScreen
• Brokerage in an Information Economy
• Coalition Formation Algorithms for Virtual Organisations
• CONOISE-G: Virtual Organisations and the Grid
• Dynamic Service Composition
• FEEL: Non-intrusive services to support focused, efficient and enjoyable local activities
• FloodNet
• HealthAgents
• High Performance and Robust Systems
• Hyperion: Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems
• Infrastructures for Agent-Based Systems
• Knowledge Capture, Sharing and Reuse in the Design Process
• Magnitude: Mobile AGents Negotiating for ITinerant Users in the Distributed
• Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems
• MobileVCE: Software Agents for Future Mobile Communication Environments
• MOHICAN: MObile Handsets In Cooperative Agents Network
• Novel Heuristics for Coalition Structure Generation in Multi-agent Systems.
• Practical Negotiation for Electronic Commerce
• Robocup Rescue
• Semantic Firewall
• Team-Oriented Problem Solving in a Battlefield Simulation
• The Information Exchange
• Trading Agent Competition
• Transitioning Applications to Ontologies
• Virtual Organisations for E-Science

Applied Electromagnetism

Active projects

• Magnetic Field Technologies to support Multi-Sensor Device

Previous projects

• Electrically Small Antennas - Very High Permittivity Dielectric Resonator Antenna

Artificial Intelligence

Active projects

• ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks

Previous projects

• Autonomic Supply Chains in Computational Economies
• Hyperion: Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems

Artificial Life

Previous projects

• Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems

Assessment

Active projects

• e-Assessment in Higher Education (EASiHE)
• LifeGuide: Behavioural Intervention Grid

Previous projects

• Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 questions
• Developing and piloting a web based interactive self-management programme for the treatment of multiple sclerosis fatigue
• e3an - Electrical and Electronic Engineering Assessment Network
• MathAssess
• Minibix
• mPLAT: Mobile Placement Learning and Assessment Toolkit
• PeerPigeon: REST Services for Resource Submission and Distribution to Peer Review Groups
• Rendering and Response processing services for QTIv2 questions
• Report on eAssessment Quality (REAQ)
• Technologies for On-line Interoperable Assessment

Behavioural Synthesis

Previous projects

• Cryptographic Synthesis

Bio-inspired computing

Previous projects

• Microfluidic whole-cell biosensor

Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-chip

Active projects

• 3D AC-electroosmotic micropump using C-MEMS
• Formation of Artificial Lipid Bilayers using Droplet Dielectrophoresis
• Higher-order forces and torques on dielectric particles
• Higher-order forces and torques on dielectric particles
• Higher-order forces and torques on dielectric particles
• Impedance spectroscopy for label-free cell analysis
• In-situ sensor system for marine measurement
• Integrated flow-cytometer on chip for in situ particle counting and sampling
• Label-free impedance spectroscopy and AC electrokinetics
• Micro-fabrication and Microfluidic Technology for Marine Micro-system
• Micro-fluidic impedance spectroscopy
• Point of Care Full Blood Count

Previous projects

• Dielectrophoretic Separation of Particles
• Microfabrication and micro- fluidic technology for Marine Science
• Microfluidic whole-cell biosensor
• Optical waveguide sensors for highly sensitive detection and quantification of cytokines in biological fluids
• Single cell manipulation with dielectrophoresis

Bioelectrostatics

Active projects

• Allergen Denaturing
• Electrostatic aerosol charging
• Electrostatic Air Care
• Electrostatic Allergen Control
• Electrostatic Bacteria Kill

Biologically Inspired Computing and Robotics

Previous projects

• myGrid

Biometrics

Previous projects

• Automatic Gait Recognition
• DTC - Biometric Data Fusion for Secure Environments

Biomimetics

Previous projects

• Biomimetically Inspired Nano-photonics

Business Process Modelling

Active projects

• Modelling and analysis of long running transactions

Previous projects

• Automated Validation of Business Critical Systems with Component Based Designs
• Autonomic Supply Chains in Computational Economies
• High-Integrity Component-Based Engineering for Enterprise Systems
• RICES Reasoning about Information Consistency across Enterprise Solutions

Channel coding

Active projects

• Energy Consumption Analysis of Error Resilient Communication Protocols for Body Area Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Chemoinformatics

Previous projects

• Kernel methods for molecular data

Communications

Previous projects

• MobileVCE: Software Agents for Future Mobile Communication Environments
• Sensor probes for glaciology

Computer Science Education

Active projects

• Southern Perspectives: Review of ICS Education Agenda in the South of England
• TOPS - teaching over performing students

Content Based Retrieval

Active projects

• VIPS - vasari image processing library

Previous projects

• ArtEquAKT
• eCHASE
• OntoMedia
• SCULPTEUR

Control Systems

Active projects

• Algebraic and Behavioural Systems Theory
• Developments to the Theory of the Nonlinear Gap Metric and Applications to Robust Adaptive Control
• Norm optimal Iterative Learning Control for Chain conveyor system
• Performance of Nonlinear Controllers

Previous projects

• A comparison between output feedback control designs
• A Performance Theory for Robust Adaptive Control
• A Practical Assessment of ILC Control Stategies
• Control of a multifingered adaptive end effector
• Iterative Learning Control of Multi-axis Systems

Decentralised Architectures

Active projects

• A Learning-based Approach for Efficient Long-term Information Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
• ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks
• Control and Management of Autonomous Mobile Sensors

Decentralised Information Systems

Active projects

• A Learning-based Approach for Efficient Long-term Information Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
• ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks
• Control and Management of Autonomous Mobile Sensors
• EnAKTing the Unbounded Data Web: Challenges in Web Science
• Intelligent Decentralised Energy-Aware Systems (iDEaS)

Previous projects

• Adaptive Energy-Aware Sensor Networks
• Agent-Based Control of Decentralised Systems
• AIMS: Academic Information Management Systems
• ARGUS II: Decentralised Data Fusion
• Autonomic Supply Chains in Computational Economies
• CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences EPrint Archive
• COHSE: Informed WWW Link Navigation Using Ontologies
• Communities of Collocation
• Equator
• FEEL: Non-intrusive services to support focused, efficient and enjoyable local activities
• Hyperion: Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems
• Knowledge Capture, Sharing and Reuse in the Design Process
• LinkMe: Distributed Link Services for Mobile Environments
• Magnitude: Mobile AGents Negotiating for ITinerant Users in the Distributed
• Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems
• Market-Based Recommender Systems
• MOHICAN: MObile Handsets In Cooperative Agents Network
• Ontoportal
• OpCit: The Open Citation Project
• OpenKnowledge
• PASOA: Provenance-Aware Service-Oriented Architecture
• QuIC: Queries in Context
• Rendering and Response processing services for QTIv2 questions.
• Robocup Rescue

Dependable Systems

Active projects

• Customization and Adaptation of Automatically Generated Code

Previous projects

• OMII-Europe Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for Europe
• ReSIST: Resilience for Survivability in IST
• Rigorous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems (RODIN)

Design, Automation, Simulation and Optimisation

Active projects

• COCONUT: A Correct-by-Construction Workbench for Design and Verification of Embedded Systems

Previous projects

• NOTOS: New algOrithm for LTL mOdel checking with Satisfiability
• Paradigm Unifying System Specification Environments for proven Electronic design
• VERTIGO - Verification and Validation of Embedded System Design Workbench

Digital Libraries

Active projects

• Center for Digital Library Research
• eBank UK
• GNU EPrints: Open Archive Software
• KeepIt - repository preservation
• Open Impact
• Perspectives in Electronic Publishing

Previous projects

• Churchill Archive Project
• CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences EPrint Archive
• Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment
• Digital Libraries in Support of Innovative Approaches to Learning and Teaching in Geography
• eCHASE
• EdScene - Scenarios for Academic Information
• EdSpace - An Educationally focussed Repository for the University of Southampton
• Hua Miao Archive
• Institutional Repository Research Assessment
• Interoperable Repository Statistics
• Malibu - Hybrid Libraries
• mSpace - improving access to information for building new knowledge
• OntoMedia
• OpCit: The Open Citation Project
• Open Journal Project
• Preserv
• Preserv2
• Repository for the Laboratory
• TARDis
• Turing Archive Project
• Virtual Orthopaedic European University

Disaster Management

Active projects

• ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks

Previous projects

• Adaptive Energy-Aware Sensor Networks

E-Business Technologies

Active projects

• ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks

Previous projects

• Agent-Based Control of Decentralised Systems
• ARGUS II: Decentralised Data Fusion
• ART : Agent Reputation Testbed Competition
• Brokerage in an Information Economy
• Coalition Formation Algorithms for Virtual Organisations
• Infinite State Model Checking using Partial Evaluation
• Management Reporting System
• Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems
• Market-Based Recommender Systems
• Practical Negotiation for Electronic Commerce
• Trading Agent Competition
• Virtual Organisations for E-Science

E-Business Technologies

Previous projects

• Autonomic Supply Chains in Computational Economies
• Market Blended Insight

e-Defence

Active projects

• ITA: International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences

Previous projects

• Adaptive Energy-Aware Sensor Networks
• AKTiveSA: Knowledge-Intensive Fusion for Improved Situation Awareness
• Hyperion: Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems
• MIMEX: Multivariant Information Management and Exploitation
• OntoMediate: Ontological Mediation and Semantic Gateways for Domain/Enterprise Translations
• SEMIOTIKS: Semantically-Enhanced Information Extraction for Improved Knowledge Superiority

e-Science

Active projects

• eBank UK
• Maestro - A Collaborative Semantic Grid for Music
• myExperiment
• NeuroHub

Previous projects

• CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid
• Combechem
• Grimoires: Grid RegIstry with Metadata Oriented Interface: Robustness, Efficiency, Security
• mSpace - improving access to information for building new knowledge
• myGrid
• OMII-Europe Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for Europe
• PASOA: Provenance-Aware Service-Oriented Architecture
• Semantic Firewall
• Sensor Web for the study of Glaciers

Educational Enhancement

Active projects

• TOPS - teaching over performing students

Previous projects

• CORAL: Creating Opportunities for Research and Learning
• Electronic Visualisation of nineteenth-century French literary-scientific texts
• Grid-Enabled Data Collection and Analysis - Semantic Annotation in Skills-Based Learning
• Minibix

ELearning, Platforms and Tools

Active projects

• Captioning Personal Display Client/Server
• ECS 2020 Vision
• ECS-TV
• Learning Societies Toolkit
• Liberated Learning Consortium
• Multiple Speaker Real Time Synchronised Captioning
• Real Time Synchronised Caption Annotation
• Real Time Synchronised Caption Editing

Previous projects

• ADAPT: Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT.
• CLAReT: Contextualised Learning Activity Repository Tools
• Digital Libraries in Support of Innovative Approaches to Learning and Teaching in Geography
• E-Framework Services for Course Evaluation
• EdScene - Scenarios for Academic Information
• EdSpace - An Educationally focussed Repository for the University of Southampton
• Electronic Visualisation of nineteenth-century French literary-scientific texts
• European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI)
• Faroes: Repositories for Sharing Learning Resources in Distributed Social Spaces
• FREMA: e-Learning Framework Reference Model for Assessment
• LExDis - Disabled learners’ experiences of e-learning
• Minibix
• MURLLO - Management, Use and Re-purposing of Language Learning Objects
• PeerPigeon: REST Services for Resource Submission and Distribution to Peer Review Groups
• Remora: mobile applications to support the training of social workers in the wild
• Rendering and Response processing services for QTIv2 questions
• Rendering and Response processing services for QTIv2 questions.
• Report on eAssessment Quality (REAQ)
• Virtual Orthopaedic European University

Electrostatics

Active projects

• Bipolar Charging of Powders
• Electrostatic Separation of Water from Oil

Previous projects

• Electrostatic Charging of Insulators
• Electrostatic ignition hazards in mining processes

Embedded Systems

Active projects

• COCONUT: A Correct-by-Construction Workbench for Design and Verification of Embedded Systems

Formal Methods

Active projects

• COCONUT: A Correct-by-Construction Workbench for Design and Verification of Embedded Systems
• DEPLOY
• Modelling and analysis of long running transactions
• Verifying Shared Memory Communication for Low-Power Multi-core SoCs

Previous projects

• Automated Validation of Business Critical Systems with Component Based Designs
• High-Integrity Component-Based Engineering for Enterprise Systems
• Infinite State Model Checking using Partial Evaluation
• Methodologies and Technologies for Industrial Strength Systems Engineering
• NOTOS: New algOrithm for LTL mOdel checking with Satisfiability
• Paradigm Unifying System Specification Environments for proven Electronic design
• Rigorous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems (RODIN)
• Trusted Software Agents and Services
• VERTIGO - Verification and Validation of Embedded System Design Workbench

Grid and Distributed Computing

Active projects

• myExperiment
• Semantic Media – Pervasive Annotation for e-Research

Previous projects

• ARGUS II: Decentralised Data Fusion
• CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid
• Combechem
• CONOISE-G: Virtual Organisations and the Grid
• Dynamic Service Composition
• EU Provenance: Enabling and Supporting Provenance in Grids for Complex Problems
• European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI)
• FloodNet
• Grimoires: Grid RegIstry with Metadata Oriented Interface: Robustness, Efficiency, Security
• Meeting Memory Technologies Informing Collaboration
• myGrid
• OMII-Europe Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for Europe
• Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
• PASOA: Provenance-Aware Service-Oriented Architecture
• Semantic Firewall
• Transitioning Applications to Ontologies
• Virtual Organisations for E-Science

Grid and Distributed Computing

Active projects

• myGrid

High Voltage Engineering

Active projects

• Cryogenic Dielectrics
• Electric Field Determination in DC Polymeric Power Cable in the Presence of Space Charge and Temperature Gradient
• FEAR - Finite Element Analysis for cable Ratings
• Impulse ageing of polymeric materials
• Modelling and Parameter Estimation of High Voltage Transformers for Partial Discharge Detection and Identification
• Modelling the Aging Processes of Polymeric Insulation using Electroluminescence and Space Charge Measurement Data
• Potential decay of corona charged LDPE film
• Renewable materials for high voltage applications
• Silicone oil degradation analysis (SODA)
• Space charge measurement and analysis in polyethylene film
• Substation Earthing
• Surface Discharge in the Inter-phase barrier region of large Transformers
• The effect of cross-linking byproduct on electrical properties of soaked LDPE.
• Three Phase Partial Discharge monitoring of MV PILC cables

Previous projects

• Continuous Online PD Monitoring for HV Cables
• Continuous Online PD Monitoring for HV Cables
• Continuous Online PD Monitoring for HV Cables
• Effect of LN2 Bubble Dynamics on Insulation Performance of High Temperature Superconducting Power Apparatus
• Effect of nucleating agent on a polyethylene blend
• Mechanical Deformation of Dielectrics
• Partial Discharge Discrimination
• Penetrant Diffusion in Dielectrics
• Polar/non-polar Polymer Blends: On structural evolution and the electrical properties of PE and EVA blends
• Supergen V: Amperes: Infrastructure for reducing environmental impact
• Surface discharge measurement using the pockels effect

Human Computer Interaction

Active projects

• doingPad
• musicSpace: using and evaluating e-Science Design Methods and Technologies to Improve Access to Heterogeneous Music Resources fo
• myExperiment

Previous projects

• Amateur Fiction Online - The Web of Community Trust
• BluScreen
• Equator
• Grid-Enabled Data Collection and Analysis - Semantic Annotation in Skills-Based Learning
• iGesture
• mSpace - improving access to information for building new knowledge
• mSpace Mobile: exploratory search in the palm of your hand
• myTea: Best Practice in eScience
• RichTags: Supporting Better Exploration of Digital Repositories with Semantic Social Tagging
• Signage

Image Processing

Active projects

• Adaptive Hyper and Multi Spectral Data Fusion for Target Detection and Tracking
• Personal Information Navigator Adapting Through Viewing (PinView)
• VIPS - vasari image processing library

Previous projects

• Automatic Gait Recognition
• DTC - Biometric Data Fusion for Secure Environments
• FingArtPrint
• iGesture
• Learning for Adaptable Visual Assistants
• SCULPTEUR

Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology Education

Active projects

• eCert

Intelligent Control

Previous projects

• Sensor probes for glaciology

Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning

Active projects

• A Learning-based Approach for Efficient Long-term Information Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
• ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks

Interaction

Active projects

• doingPad
• musicSpace: using and evaluating e-Science Design Methods and Technologies to Improve Access to Heterogeneous Music Resources fo

Previous projects

• Amateur Fiction Online - The Web of Community Trust
• Developing and piloting a web based interactive self-management programme for the treatment of multiple sclerosis fatigue
• RichTags: Supporting Better Exploration of Digital Repositories with Semantic Social Tagging
• smarttea: interaction design in the eScience Lab

Interaction with Knowledge and semantics

Active projects

• OneShare

Previous projects

• allAboutMePrints
• IBWiki: A Semantic Wiki for the e-Framework Upper Level
• InnovationBase
• Semantic Technologies in Learning and Teaching (SemTech)

Knowledge Technologies

Active projects

• eBank UK
• ITA: International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences
• Semantic Media – Pervasive Annotation for e-Research

Previous projects

• 3Clix project
• AKT: Advanced Knowledge Technologies
• AKTiveSA: Knowledge-Intensive Fusion for Improved Situation Awareness
• Amateur Fiction Online - The Web of Community Trust
• ANS: Autonomic Networked System Management Tool for Ubicomp in the Home
• ArtEquAKT
• Artiste
• Aspects of Knowledge Mangement within Industry
• CLAReT: Contextualised Learning Activity Repository Tools
• CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid
• COHSE: Informed WWW Link Navigation Using Ontologies
• Combechem
• CROSI - Capturing, Representing, and Operationalising Semantic Integration
• Equator
• European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI)
• FIRM: Factory Information Resource Management
• HealthAgents
• IBWiki: A Semantic Wiki for the e-Framework Upper Level
• IPAS: Integrated Products and Services
• Knowledge Capture, Sharing and Reuse in the Design Process
• Meeting Memory Technologies Informing Collaboration
• MIAKT: Medical Imaging and Advanced Knowledge Technologies
• MIMEX: Multivariant Information Management and Exploitation
• mSpace - improving access to information for building new knowledge
• mSpace Mobile: exploratory search in the palm of your hand
• OntoMedia
• OntoMediate: Ontological Mediation and Semantic Gateways for Domain/Enterprise Translations
• Ontoportal
• OpenKnowledge
• PeerPigeon: REST Services for Resource Submission and Distribution to Peer Review Groups
• ReSIST: Resilience for Survivability in IST
• SCULPTEUR
• SEMIOTIKS: Semantically-Enhanced Information Extraction for Improved Knowledge Superiority
• Signage
• TAGora - Semiotic Dynamics in Online Communities
• Transitioning Applications to Ontologies
• WiCK: Writing in the Context of Knowledge

Knowledge Technologies

Active projects

• EnAKTing the Unbounded Data Web: Challenges in Web Science
• LivingKnowledge

Previous projects

• dotAC: Exploring the UK research landscape
• Market Blended Insight

Learning Technologies

Active projects

• Captioning Personal Display Client/Server
• Liberated Learning Consortium
• Multiple Speaker Real Time Synchronised Captioning
• Net4Voice
• Real Time Synchronised Caption Annotation
• Real Time Synchronised Caption Editing

Previous projects

• ADAPT: Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT.
• Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 questions
• Developing and piloting a web based interactive self-management programme for the treatment of multiple sclerosis fatigue
• Digital Libraries in Support of Innovative Approaches to Learning and Teaching in Geography
• E-Framework Services for Course Evaluation
• e3an - Electrical and Electronic Engineering Assessment Network
• European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI)
• LExDis - Disabled learners’ experiences of e-learning
• Multimedia Annotation and Community FOlksonomy Building (MACFOB)
• MURLLO - Management, Use and Re-purposing of Language Learning Objects
• Report on eAssessment Quality (REAQ)
• Technologies for On-line Interoperable Assessment
• Virtual Orthopaedic European University

Logic

Previous projects

• Towards a Modular Approach to Model-Based Verification: logical, semantical and algorithmic support

Machine Learning

Active projects

• Adaptive Hyper and Multi Spectral Data Fusion for Target Detection and Tracking
• Adaptive Numerical Modelling of Aluminium Alloys
• ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks
• Classification of Imbalanced Materials Data
• Instant Knowledge
• Personal Information Navigator Adapting Through Viewing (PinView)

Previous projects

• Agent-Based Control of Decentralised Systems
• ARGUS II: Decentralised Data Fusion
• Delimiting kernel-based learning methods
• Development and Application of String Type Kernels
• Kernel methods for molecular data
• Learning for Adaptable Visual Assistants
• Optimisation methods for machine learning
• Robocup Rescue
• Statistical Learning Algorithms for Intelligent Knowledge Discovery
• Statistical Multi-Lingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation (SMART)

Machine Translation

Previous projects

• Statistical Multi-Lingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation (SMART)

Machine Vision

Previous projects

• Learning for Adaptable Visual Assistants

Materials & Technology

Previous projects

• High-k Dielectrics
• Monolithic Active Pixel Arrays
• Optical manifestations of planar chirality
• Silicon Photovoltaics
• Thick-film piezoelectrics for MEMS: Optimisation and Applications
• Towards plasmonics: active control of surface plasmon-polariton waves

Medical Engineering

Active projects

• Southampton Hand

Previous projects

• MIAKT: Medical Imaging and Advanced Knowledge Technologies
• Optical waveguide sensors for highly sensitive detection and quantification of cytokines in biological fluids
• Submicron fabrication of biomolecular patterns using optical methods

MEMS

Previous projects

• Microfluidic Devices and BioMEMS
• Thick-film piezoelectrics for MEMS: Optimisation and Applications
• Vibration Energy Scavenging

MEMs and NEMs

Active projects

• A MEMS Based Electrostatic Levitation and Control System for Target Delivery Applications
• Development of a Low Acutation Voltage RF MEMS Switch
• Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting
• Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting
• Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting
• Interface for Micro-Machined Vibratory Gyroscope
• Interface for Micro-Machined Vibratory Gyroscope
• Mechanical amplification in inertial sensors
• Micromachined Actuators
• Micromachined Inertial Sensors
• Micromachining and testing of electrostatic actuators for optical tuning
• Multi Degree of Freedom Inertial Navigation MEMS Sensor
• Optical MEMS - Atom Chips
• Resonant Nano-Electro-Mechanical Sensors for Molecular Mass-Detection
• Suspended Gate Silicon Nanodots Memory
• Ultra Sensitive Charge-based Chemical/Biosensors Using Suspended Silicon Nanostructures

Mobile Learning

Previous projects

• mPLAT: Mobile Placement Learning and Assessment Toolkit
• Remora: mobile applications to support the training of social workers in the wild

Model-Based Verification

Active projects

• Verifying Shared Memory Communication for Low-Power Multi-core SoCs

Previous projects

• Towards a Modular Approach to Model-Based Verification: logical, semantical and algorithmic support

Modelling and Simulation

Active projects

• Electric Field Determination in DC Polymeric Power Cable in the Presence of Space Charge and Temperature Gradient
• Impulse ageing of polymeric materials
• Magnetic Field Technologies to support Multi-Sensor Device
• Modelling and Measurement of Partial Discharges from a Spherical Cavity and Ellipsoidal Cavity
• Modelling and Parameter Estimation of High Voltage Transformers for Partial Discharge Detection and Identification
• Modelling of surface discharges
• RoCiT - Ratings of Cables in Tunnels

Previous projects

• Design and optimisation of the high temperature superconducting generator with a coreless rotor
• Electrically Small Antennas - Very High Permittivity Dielectric Resonator Antenna
• The measurement and modelling of electroluminescence in high voltage polymeric cable insulation.

Multimedia

Active projects

• LiveMemories
• LivingKnowledge
• Maestro - A Collaborative Semantic Grid for Music
• VIPS - vasari image processing library

Previous projects

• Equator
• FingArtPrint
• Mavis: Multimedia Thesaurus and Intelligent Agent support for content based retrieval
• OntoMedia
• OpenKnowledge
• OpenQuicktime

Multimedia Source Compression

Active projects

• Joint Sensing, Communications and Intelligence Techniques for Body Area Wireless Sensor Networks

Multiple Access, Modulation and Transceivers

Active projects

• SOWN: The Southampton Open Wireless Network

Nanomaterials and Dielectrics

Active projects

• Micro fabrication production technology for MEMS on new emerging smart textiles/flexibles
• Use of confocal Raman spectroscopy to characterise dielectric systems.
• Vertical MOSFET's

Previous projects

• Ageing of Dielectrics
• Ageing of Dielectrics
• An Investigation into the structure and properties of Polyethylene Oxide Nanocomposites
• Effect of LN2 Bubble Dynamics on Insulation Performance of High Temperature Superconducting Power Apparatus
• Effect of nucleating agent on a polyethylene blend
• Electrostatic Charging of Insulators
• Electrostatic Charging of Insulators
• High-k Dielectrics
• Mechanical Deformation of Dielectrics
• Mechanical Deformation of Dielectrics
• Metal Oxide Tunnel Transistor
• Nanodielectrics: relationships between polar and non polar molecules
• Penetrant Diffusion in Dielectrics
• Polar/non-polar Polymer Blends: On structural evolution and the electrical properties of PE and EVA blends
• Polyethylene / Montmorillonite Nanocomposites
• SiGe Heterojunctions for MOS Technologies (HMOS)
• Silicon Germanium MOS (SIGMOS)
• Supergen V: Amperes: Infrastructure for reducing environmental impact

Nanophotonics and Biomimetics

Active projects

• Antireflective surfaces by Nanosphere Lithography
• Biomimetic Nanostructured Surfaces for Antireflection in Photovoltaics
• Helium Ion Microscopy and Spectroscopy
• Influence of 2D chirality on the transmission and diffraction from asymmetric dielectric gratings
• Nano Rresonant Cavity Technology Devices For Nano Sensing
• Nanoplasmonics at low temperatures
• Planar Waveguide Design for On Chip Nonlinear Optical Devices
• Plasmonic enhancement of silicon solar cells
• Rare-Earth Doped Planar Upconversion Waveguide Lasers
• Semiconductor Nanowire Photonic Integrated Circuits
• Semiconductor Nanowire Photonic Integrated Circuits
• Semiconductor Nanowire Photonic Integrated Circuits
• Semiconductor Nanowires for Photonic Integrated Circuit Applications

Previous projects

• Biomimetically Inspired Nano-photonics
• NANO RESONANT CAVITY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES FOR NANO SENSING APPLICATIONS
• Planar Waveguide Design for On Chip Nonlinear Optical Devices

Nanoelectronics

Active projects

• Antireflective surfaces by Nanosphere Lithography
• Carbon Nanotube Spintronics
• Helium Ion Microscopy and Spectroscopy
• Low Cost Si Nanowire Biosensors by Recrystallization Technologies
• Ni/Ge Schottky barriers for nanoelectronic and spintronic applications
• Nickel Palladium alloy contacts for Carbon nanotube Spintronics
• Schottky barriers for spin injection
• Semi-insulating Si for RF circuits
• Silicon thin film solar cells
• Suspended Gate Silicon Nanodots Memory
• Ultra Sensitive Charge-based Chemical/Biosensors Using Suspended Silicon Nanostructures
• Vertical MOSFET's

Previous projects

• Feasibility of Novel Deca-Nanometer Vertical MOSFETs for Low-cost Radio Frequency Circuit Application
• Feasibility of Novel Deca-Nanometer Vertical MOSFETs for Low-cost Radio Frequency Circuit Application
• Ge catalytic growth of Carbon Nanotubes
• Low temperature seeded crystallization of amorphous Si for transistor-in-Grain technology
• Low temperature seeded crystallization of amorphous Si for transistor-in-Grain technology
• Submicron fabrication of biomolecular patterns using optical methods

Perception, Cognition and Language

Previous projects

• CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences EPrint Archive

Pervasive Computing and Networks

Active projects

• ECS-TV
• GEANT IPv6 Working Group
• IPv6 Testbed
• MailScanner: E-Mail Gateway Virus+Spam Scanner
• Network on Memory Management
• Semantic Media – Pervasive Annotation for e-Research
• SOWN: The Southampton Open Wireless Network

Previous projects

• 6WINIT
• ANS: Autonomic Networked System Management Tool for Ubicomp in the Home
• Bermuda 2
• BluScreen
• Communities of Collocation
• Equator
• EU IPv6 Task Force
• Euro6IX
• FEEL: Non-intrusive services to support focused, efficient and enjoyable local activities
• FloodNet
• Grid-Enabled Data Collection and Analysis - Semantic Annotation in Skills-Based Learning
• Hystream: Applying Open Hypermedia to Multimedia Streams
• iGesture
• JANET QOS Phase 2
• LICHEN: Location Independent Collaboration in Higher Education Networks
• LinkMe: Distributed Link Services for Mobile Environments
• Magnitude: Mobile AGents Negotiating for ITinerant Users in the Distributed
• MAST - Multicast Audio Streaming Toolkit
• MOHICAN: MObile Handsets In Cooperative Agents Network
• Sensor Web for the study of Glaciers
• Signage
• Trusted Software Agents and Services

Pervasive Computing and Networks

Active projects

• Algorithms to Ensure Data Resilience in Sensor Networks
• Joint Sensing, Communications and Intelligence Techniques for Body Area Wireless Sensor Networks
• NeuroHub
• Sensor networks for glaciers: Glacsweb

Previous projects

• 6INIT
• 6NET

Quantum Devices

Previous projects

• Metal Oxide Tunnel Transistor

Quantum Electronics and Spintronics

Active projects

• Schottky barriers for spin injection
• Self-Assembled Magnetic Nanostructures
• SiGe quantum well infrared photodetectors
• Suspended Gate Silicon Nanodots Memory

Renewable Energy

Active projects

• Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting
• Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting
• Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting

Previous projects

• Integrating Renewable Energy Sources into a Domestic Environment

Research Led Learning

Previous projects

• CORAL: Creating Opportunities for Research and Learning

Reusable Learning Objects

Previous projects

• CLAReT: Contextualised Learning Activity Repository Tools
• e3an - Electrical and Electronic Engineering Assessment Network
• EdSpace - An Educationally focussed Repository for the University of Southampton
• MURLLO - Management, Use and Re-purposing of Language Learning Objects

System design and RF

Active projects

• Semi-insulating Si for RF circuits

Previous projects

• Spectrum Monitor for Cognitive Radio

Robotics

Previous projects

• Control of a multifingered adaptive end effector

Robotics and Control

Previous projects

• Iterative learning control for re-education of upper limb

Security & Trust

Active projects

• Instant Knowledge

Previous projects

• Amateur Fiction Online - The Web of Community Trust
• Trusted Software Agents and Services

Semantic Web

Active projects

• doingPad
• ITA: International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences
• LifeGuide: Behavioural Intervention Grid
• Maestro - A Collaborative Semantic Grid for Music

Previous projects

• 3Clix project
• AKTiveSA: Knowledge-Intensive Fusion for Improved Situation Awareness
• ArtEquAKT
• Dynamic Service Composition
• eCHASE
• EdScene - Scenarios for Academic Information
• Electronic Visualisation of nineteenth-century French literary-scientific texts
• Grid-Enabled Data Collection and Analysis - Semantic Annotation in Skills-Based Learning
• HealthAgents
• IBWiki: A Semantic Wiki for the e-Framework Upper Level
• MIMEX: Multivariant Information Management and Exploitation
• OntoMediate: Ontological Mediation and Semantic Gateways for Domain/Enterprise Translations
• OpenKnowledge
• Preserv2
• ReSIST: Resilience for Survivability in IST
• SCULPTEUR
• SEMIOTIKS: Semantically-Enhanced Information Extraction for Improved Knowledge Superiority
• TAGora - Semiotic Dynamics in Online Communities

Sensor Technology

Previous projects

• Adaptive Energy-Aware Sensor Networks
• ARGUS II: Decentralised Data Fusion
• Ferroelectric composite sol-gel fabrication
• Micromachined ultrasonic filter with thick-film piezoelectric drive for microfluidic applications
• Multi-modal and self-cleaning instrumentation for the oil and gas industry using thick-film materials
• Optical waveguide sensors for highly sensitive detection and quantification of cytokines in biological fluids
• Resonant Microsensor Modules for Measurement of Physical Quantities (REMISE)
• Sensor probes for glaciology
• Sensor Web for the study of Glaciers
• Thick-film magnetostrictive actuators for MEMS
• Thick-film piezoelectrics for MEMS: Optimisation and Applications
• Thick-film sensors for prosthetic hands
• Vibration Energy Scavenging
• WIRE-less monitorinG Online of straiN and temperaturE (WIRGONE)

Silicon Based Photonics

Previous projects

• Monolithic Active Pixel Arrays
• Optical manifestations of planar chirality
• Towards plasmonics: active control of surface plasmon-polariton waves

Silicon Electronic Devices

Previous projects

• Lateral SiGe HBTs
• Metal Oxide Tunnel Transistor
• SiGe Heterojunctions for MOS Technologies (HMOS)
• SiGeC HBTs on insulator for rf communications
• Silicon Germanium MOS (SIGMOS)

Social Network Analysis

Previous projects

• TAGora - Semiotic Dynamics in Online Communities

Software Engineering

Active projects

• Customization and Adaptation of Automatically Generated Code

Previous projects

• Automated Validation of Business Critical Systems with Component Based Designs
• High-Integrity Component-Based Engineering for Enterprise Systems
• Infinite State Model Checking using Partial Evaluation
• Methodologies and Technologies for Industrial Strength Systems Engineering
• RICES Reasoning about Information Consistency across Enterprise Solutions

Student Centred Learning

Previous projects

• CORAL: Creating Opportunities for Research and Learning

Superconductivity

Active projects

• Cryogenic Dielectrics
• The effect of electric fields on liquid nitrogen bubble behaviour and boiling heat transfer enhancement

Previous projects

• Design and optimisation of the high temperature superconducting generator with a coreless rotor
• Design, build and test a high temperature superconducting demonstration synchronous generator
• Effect of LN2 Bubble Dynamics on Insulation Performance of High Temperature Superconducting Power Apparatus

Systems Engineering

Active projects

• DEPLOY

Previous projects

• Automated Validation of Business Critical Systems with Component Based Designs
• Methodologies and Technologies for Industrial Strength Systems Engineering
• Paradigm Unifying System Specification Environments for proven Electronic design
• RICES Reasoning about Information Consistency across Enterprise Solutions
• Rigorous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems (RODIN)

Technology Enhanced Learning

Active projects

• e-Assessment in Higher Education (EASiHE)
• ECS 2020 Vision
• OneShare

Previous projects

• allAboutMePrints
• MathAssess
• Semantic Technologies in Learning and Teaching (SemTech)

Trust and Provenance

Previous projects

• ART : Agent Reputation Testbed Competition
• CONOISE-G: Virtual Organisations and the Grid
• Dynamic Service Composition
• EU Provenance: Enabling and Supporting Provenance in Grids for Complex Problems
• MIMEX: Multivariant Information Management and Exploitation
• PASOA: Provenance-Aware Service-Oriented Architecture

Virtual Communities and Social Systems

Active projects

• A VRE to support cross-disciplinary and crossinstitutional collaboration in internet-based behavioural research (IBBRE)
• LifeGuide: Behavioural Intervention Grid
• The development and evaluation of an internet-based smoking cessation intervention (ISCI)
• Virtual Research Integration Collaboration (VRIC)

Previous projects

• A Primary care trial of an Infection control website to Modify Influenza-like illness (ILI) and RTI Transmission (PRIMIT)
• Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment
• Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Primary Care: (MIBS)
• PRimary care Infection Management for Everyday practice (PRIME)

Web Science

Active projects

• doingPad
• Learning Societies Toolkit
• Open Impact
• Perspectives in Electronic Publishing

Previous projects

• ADAPT: Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT.
• AIMS: Academic Information Management Systems
• Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment
• Equator
• European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI)
• FIRM: Factory Information Resource Management
• Grid-Enabled Data Collection and Analysis - Semantic Annotation in Skills-Based Learning
• Management Reporting System
• Market-Based Recommender Systems
• MIMEX: Multivariant Information Management and Exploitation
• mSpace - improving access to information for building new knowledge
• mSpace Mobile: exploratory search in the palm of your hand
• OntoMediate: Ontological Mediation and Semantic Gateways for Domain/Enterprise Translations
• Rendering and Response processing services for QTIv2 questions.
• ReSIST: Resilience for Survivability in IST
• SCULPTEUR
• SEMIOTIKS: Semantically-Enhanced Information Extraction for Improved Knowledge Superiority
• TAGora - Semiotic Dynamics in Online Communities
• Virtual Orthopaedic European University
• WiCK: Writing in the Context of Knowledge

Web Science

Active projects

• A VRE to support cross-disciplinary and crossinstitutional collaboration in internet-based behavioural research (IBBRE)
• EnAKTing the Unbounded Data Web: Challenges in Web Science
• LifeGuide: Behavioural Intervention Grid
• LiveMemories
• Virtual Research Integration Collaboration (VRIC)

Previous projects

• dotAC: Exploring the UK research landscape
• Market Blended Insight

Wireless Networking

Active projects

• Energy Consumption Analysis of Error Resilient Communication Protocols for Body Area Wireless Sensor Network Applications
• Joint Sensing, Communications and Intelligence Techniques for Body Area Wireless Sensor Networks
• SOWN: The Southampton Open Wireless Network

Wireless Systems

Previous projects

• Vibration Energy Scavenging

Condition monitoring

Active projects

• Modelling and Measurement of Partial Discharges from a Spherical Cavity and Ellipsoidal Cavity
• Modelling and Parameter Estimation of High Voltage Transformers for Partial Discharge Detection and Identification
• Surface Discharge in the Inter-phase barrier region of large Transformers
• Three Phase Partial Discharge monitoring of MV PILC cables

Previous projects

• Partial Discharge Discrimination
• The measurement and modelling of electroluminescence in high voltage polymeric cable insulation.

Liquid dielectrics

Active projects

• Silicone oil degradation analysis (SODA)
• Surface Discharge in the Inter-phase barrier region of large Transformers
• The effect of electric fields on liquid nitrogen bubble behaviour and boiling heat transfer enhancement

Previous projects

• Supergen V: Amperes: Infrastructure for reducing environmental impact

Solid dielectrics

Active projects

• Charge transport mechanisms in corona charged polymeric materials
• Charge transport mechanisms in corona charged polymeric materials
• Cryogenic Dielectrics
• Impulse ageing of polymeric materials
• Modelling the Aging Processes of Polymeric Insulation using Electroluminescence and Space Charge Measurement Data
• Renewable materials for high voltage applications
• Space Chare Dynamics and Electroluminance Modelling in Solid Dielectrics
• Surface Discharge in the Inter-phase barrier region of large Transformers
• The effect of cross-linking byproduct on electrical properties of soaked LDPE.
• Three Phase Partial Discharge monitoring of MV PILC cables

Previous projects

• An Investigation into the structure and properties of Polyethylene Oxide Nanocomposites
• Effect of nucleating agent on a polyethylene blend
• Nanodielectrics: relationships between polar and non polar molecules
• Polar/non-polar Polymer Blends: On structural evolution and the electrical properties of PE and EVA blends
• Polyethylene / Montmorillonite Nanocomposites
• Supergen V: Amperes: Infrastructure for reducing environmental impact

HTS power apparatus

Active projects

• Cryogenic Dielectrics
• The effect of electric fields on liquid nitrogen bubble behaviour and boiling heat transfer enhancement

Space and surface charge

Active projects

• Electric Field Determination in DC Polymeric Power Cable in the Presence of Space Charge and Temperature Gradient
• Modelling of surface discharges
• Modelling the Aging Processes of Polymeric Insulation using Electroluminescence and Space Charge Measurement Data
• Potential decay of corona charged LDPE film
• Space Chare Dynamics and Electroluminance Modelling in Solid Dielectrics
• Space charge measurement and analysis in polyethylene film
• The effect of cross-linking byproduct on electrical properties of soaked LDPE.

Previous projects

• Surface discharge measurement using the pockels effect
• The measurement and modelling of electroluminescence in high voltage polymeric cable insulation.

Environmental modelling

Active projects

• FEAR - Finite Element Analysis for cable Ratings
• Modelling and Measurement of Partial Discharges from a Spherical Cavity and Ellipsoidal Cavity
• Modelling of surface discharges
• RoCiT - Ratings of Cables in Tunnels

Novel Sensors

Active projects

• Design and Human Evaluation of Haptic Devices for Hand Rehabilitation from Sensory Deficits due to Neurological Impairment
• Joint Sensing, Communications and Intelligence Techniques for Body Area Wireless Sensor Networks
• Micro fabrication production technology for MEMS on new emerging smart textiles/flexibles

Energy Harvesting

Active projects

• Energy Harvesting Network
• Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting
• Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting
• Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting
• Next Generation Energy-Harvesting Electronics - Holistic Approach
• Silicon thin film solar cells
• System Level Harvested-Energy Management

Systems Design

Active projects

• Micro fabrication production technology for MEMS on new emerging smart textiles/flexibles
• Next Generation Energy-Harvesting Electronics - Holistic Approach
• Reliable Low Power Circuit Design Techniques
• Verifying Shared Memory Communication for Low-Power Multi-core SoCs

Modeling and Simulation

Active projects

• Multi-Processor Electronic Design Automation
• Next Generation Energy-Harvesting Electronics - Holistic Approach

Bionanotechnology and Biosensors

Active projects

• Formation of Artificial Lipid Bilayers using Droplet Dielectrophoresis

Photovoltaics and Energy

Active projects

• Plasmonic enhancement of silicon solar cells
• SiGe quantum well infrared photodetectors

Previous projects

• Ge catalytic growth of Carbon Nanotubes

Wireless Sensing and Sensor Networks

Active projects

• ALADDIN: Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks
• Control and Management of Autonomous Mobile Sensors
• LifeGuide: Behavioural Intervention Grid
• Lightweight Signal Processing Algorithms and Architectures for Pervasive Healthcare
• Low-Cost, Long-Term Distributed Patient Research Platform
• Sensor networks for glaciers: Glacsweb
• System Level Harvested-Energy Management
• Unobtrusive Welfare Monitoring System

Previous projects

• Instrumented Forearm Crutches for Patient Rehabilitation

Low-Energy Sustainable Systems

Active projects

• Energy Harvesting Network
• Energy-Harvesting Sensor Nodes
• Investigation into Low Power and Reliable System-on-Chip
• Next Generation Energy-Harvesting Electronics - Holistic Approach
• System Level Harvested-Energy Management
• Verifying Shared Memory Communication for Low-Power Multi-core SoCs
• Verifying Shared Memory Communication for Low-Power Multi-core SoCs

Pervasive Healthcare and Telemedicine

Active projects

• Design and Human Evaluation of Haptic Devices for Hand Rehabilitation from Sensory Deficits due to Neurological Impairment
• Energy Consumption Analysis of Error Resilient Communication Protocols for Body Area Wireless Sensor Network Applications
• Joint Sensing, Communications and Intelligence Techniques for Body Area Wireless Sensor Networks