- Date:
- 2008-2012
- Themes:
- Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks, Decentralised Information Systems, Agent Based Computing, Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning, Decentralised Architectures
We are entering a new age in the evolution of computer systems, in which pervasive computing technologies seamlessly interact with human users [Satyanarayanan, 2001;Weiser, 1991]. These technologies serve people in their everyday lives at home and work by functioning invisibly in the background. They free them from tedious routine tasks and create a smart environment around them [Cook and Das, 2004]. In the influential article ââ¬ÅThe Computer for the 21st Centuryââ¬?, Mark Weiser described smart environments as a ââ¬Åphysical world that is richly and invisibly interwoven with sensors, actuators, displays, and computational elements, embedded seamlessly in the everyday objects of our lives, and connected through a continuous networkââ¬? [Weiser, 1991]. For example, this would be an intelligent building, or a smart traffic control system. Now, since such smart environments need information about their surroundings, they rely first and foremost on sensory data from the real world. More accurately, this data is provided by wireless sensor networks, which are responsible for sensing as well as for information collecting [Lewis, 2004]. Thus, improving the efficiency of these tasks in the networks of wireless sensors is of necessity. Given this, we will focus on efficient long-term (e.g. lifetime-long) information collection of these networks, using learning-theory to tackle this challenge.
Primary investigators
- Long Tran-Thanh
- Nick Jennings
- acr
Associated research group
- Agents, Interaction and Complexity
- Date:
- 2009-2009
- Themes:
- Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction with Knowledge and semantics
- Funding:
- JISC
The JISC Funded Faroes Project has been working to reinvent Teaching and Learning Repositories learning from the best practices of Web 2.0. They have successfully deployed an innovative repository called The Language Box that acts as a community repository for Language teachers. The Faroes team has discovered that more sophisticated profile pages give users a home within the repository, act as a focus for their work, and help them feel more ownership of the work that they deposit. This increases the visibility of the repository and encourages more deposits.
The allAboutMePrints project will build on the work of Faroes to make Sophisticated Profile pages available to any repository based on the EPrints Project. The project will:
- Add Live Data features to the existing Faroes profile system ââ¬â including download statistics and news about commentary and ratings
- Develop a MePrints Profile Plugin that can be redeployed to other EPrints installations, whether they are teaching or research repositories
- Develop a MePrints Profile Widget that users can include on their personal web spaces, and which will bring in information about their EPrints deposits allAboutMePrints will work alongside existing extensions such as IRStats and SNEEP, and its functionality will degrade gracefully if these are not present when it is deployed.
The Live Data features and widgets will be developed in collaboration with the existing Language Box community, and will be of deployed to the Language Box as well as being made available for installation in repositories in other institutions.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- hcd
- Les Carr
Associated research group
- Learning Societies Lab
- Date:
- 2009-2011
- Themes:
- Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction with Knowledge and semantics
- Funding:
- JISC
The OneShare project will build on the existing EdShare Southampton and Language Box repositories in order to create a Deposit Once methodology, where students and practitioners can use a Virtual Learning Environment, Community or Institutional Repository as part of single system, knowing that a deposit made in to any one of those systems will be propagated to the others.
To achieve this three challenges need to be overcome:
- Community Attitudes to copyright and ownership need to be understood and supported in order to build practitioner confidence and encourage a change of culture towards open content.
- Institutional Policy needs to be developed in order to support practitioners in sharing their materials, and to incorporate repository use into institutional practices.
- Technology Integration needs to be enabled between Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), Institutional and Community Repositories, so that users depositing resources in any one of these systems will be able to see them through the others.
The OneShare project will tackle these three challenges, using the Language Box and EdShare Southampton as exemplars to develop guidance materials, EPrints software extensions, and a deposit once architecture that can be repurposed at other institutions. Our objective is for the Deposit Once methodology to help teaching and learning repositories gain greater acceptance with users and institutions across the UK, supporting efforts to allow teachers and lecturers to share their materials, and create a public library of open content.
Primary investigators
- hcd
- David Millard
Secondary investigators
- Les Carr
- saw
Partners
- The Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies, Southampton
- University of Portsmouth
Associated research group
- Learning Societies Lab
- Funding:
- Microsoft Research
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- cjl07r
- gj07r
Associated research groups
- Agents, Interaction and Complexity
- Science and Engineering of Natural Systems Group
- Date:
- 2005-2007
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- JISC
Investigated long-term preservation for institutional repositories (IRs), by identifying preservation services in conjunction with specialists, such as national libraries and archives, and building support for services into popular repository software, in this case EPrints. The project moved towards a powerful and flexible framework based on granular Web services and providers. An exemplar service produced by the project was PRONOM-ROAR, which allies a digital file format identification service, PRONOM from the National Archives, with a Web registry of repositories (ROAR).
This project was superseded by the Preserv2 project.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- sh94r
- jmnh
- tdb2
- dt2
Partners
- The British Library
- The National Archives
- University of Oxford
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2009-2010
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- JISC
A JISC project to enable a diverse range of digital content presented by institutional repositories - research papers, science data, arts, teaching materials and theses - to be managed effectively today, tomorrow and beyond.
The project will build on the work begun in the Preserv and Preserv2 projects.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- sh94r
- dt2
- hcd
- dm2
Partners
- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton
- University of the Arts London
- University of Northampton
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Learning Societies Lab
- Date:
- 2008-
- Themes:
- Pervasive Computing and Networks, Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
This project aims to develop algorithms so that when network failures mean that nodes cannot communicate their data to the base station the gathered sensor readings can be backed up to other nodes. These backup copies can then be used to recover the data in the event of the original sensing node failing.
Primary investigator
- pjb08r
Secondary investigator
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Pervasive Systems Centre
- Date:
- 2006-2010
- Themes:
- Energy Harvesting, Renewable Energy, MEMs and NEMs
- Funding:
- EPSRC
This research programme is aimed to develop a new generation of micro/nano thermoelectric generator for power harvesting applications by using the latest submicron micromachining processes. Such a device is intended initially for use in power harvesting applications and will be demonstrated powering a wireless sensor node from modest temperature gradients at ambient room temperature.
- Date:
- 2006-2010
- Themes:
- Energy Harvesting, Renewable Energy, MEMs and NEMs
- Funding:
- EPSRC
This research programme is aimed to develop a new generation of micro/nano thermoelectric generator for power harvesting applications by using the latest submicron micromachining processes. Such a device is intended initially for use in power harvesting applications and will be demonstrated powering a wireless sensor node from modest temperature gradients at ambient room temperature.
- Date:
- 2006-2010
- Themes:
- Energy Harvesting, Renewable Energy, MEMs and NEMs
- Funding:
- EPSRC
This research programme is aimed to develop a new generation of micro/nano thermoelectric generator for power harvesting applications by using the latest submicron micromachining processes. Such a device is intended initially for use in power harvesting applications and will be demonstrated powering a wireless sensor node from modest temperature gradients at ambient room temperature.