- Date:
- 2006-2009
- Themes:
- Knowledge Technologies, Grid and Distributed Computing, Agent Based Computing
- Funding:
- EU (FP6-026460)
Significant initiatives such as WSMO, METEOR-S, ODE-SWS, SWSI, and others are creating the engineering platforms for next-generation service-based component federation and service-based application integration. Trial testbeds in large-scale commercial settings are on-going, and progress is promising for the short-to-medium-term uptake of this new technology in enterprise applications development.
The goal of the TAO project is to define a low-cost route to transitioning legacy systems to the open semantic Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), which will enable semantic interoperability between heterogeneous data resources and distributed applications. This low-cost migration path will be accessible to both SMEs (which are cost sensitive) and large enterprises (with huge investments in complex and critical IS).
TAO is motivated by the realisation that the time is now right for the creation of an open source infrastructure to aid transitioning of legacy applications, via ontologies and refactoring into Semantic Web Services (SWSs), to SOAs. This will enable the multitude of companies to take-up these new developments without having to re-implement their applications. In this way TAO will widen the uptake of B2B and B2C eCommerce models, which:
- are scaleable: services can be distributed on many machines, with no single point of failure;
- have component-based architectures: that can have alternative implementation and tuning to support different service levels for different users in various market sectors;
- encompass heterogeneous knowledge: consistent access across media types, associated semantic annotations (metadata), databases, and ontologies;
- support multi-purpose access: for humans, services and Grid applications;
- are supported by a development and integration toolset.
TAO will tackle several major bottlenecks of knowledge technologies in the areas of semi-automatic creation of ontologies; automated methods for metadata creation and augmentation of legacy content; and distributed heterogeneous repositories. The project will build on and enhance research and technology from diverse areas into an infrastructure for transitioning legacy systems.
Primary investigator
- trp
Secondary investigators
- Nicholas Gibbins
- hw
- amms
Partners
- University of Sheffield
- Atos Origin
- Joà ¾ef Stefan Institute
- Mondeca
- Ontotext
- Dassault Aviation
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2006-2010
- Themes:
- Agent Based Computing, Decentralised Information Systems, Machine Learning
RoboCupRescue Simulation Project is an open resource of research results. Various people worldwide participate in this simulator for research, entertainment, training, or education via the Internet. A diverse spectrum of possibilities of this technology will contribute to the creation of the safer social system in the future.
Here at Southampton, we are developing new agent strategies and testbeds to allow intelligent agents to coordinate in a robust fashion in environments that are uncertain and dynamic. The RoboCup Rescue Project is mainly driven as a sub-project of the ALADDIN Project.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigators
- iv
- rkd
- mhaw05r
- nnc
- gc2
- saw06r
- rck05r
- pv
- tr
- Date:
- 2006-2008
- Themes:
- Trust and Provenance, E-Business Technologies
The essential problem posed by this competition is one that we all face in daily life. That is, how do we make good decisions in the face of uncertainty? Part of the answer to that question lies in making good assumptions. We are use to thinking of assumptions as bad things because we tend only to notice them when they are exposed in a negative light. However, that fact remains that, without taking risks on our assumptions, we would never achieve anything.
With artificial intelligence, there is no exception. Many of the real life problems that we target here at Southampton require computers to make decisions, despite not having all the relevant information available. The type of problem that inspired this competition is just one example of this, in which our agent had to identify which of its competitors provided reliable information, decide how best to use that information, and how best to spend its income to make a profit. With this in mind, our starting point had to be good assumptions about our competitors' strategies, based on careful consideration of the rules of the game. The rest of the work involved churning those assumptions though the mathematical machinery of statistics, and implementing the solutions we got out.
Primary investigators
- rkd
- tdh
- Nick Jennings
- wtlt
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2006-2010
- Themes:
- Nanoelectronics, Photovoltaics and Energy
- Funding:
- EPSRC ("Metal-Free Carbon nanotube Growth for nanoelectronics applications")
A metal catalyst free growth method of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has been developed using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of CNTs on carbon implanted SiGe islands on Si substrates. From SEM and Raman measurements, the fabricated CNTs are identified as single wall CNTs (SWNTs) with diameter ranging from 1.2 to 1.6 nm. Essential parts of the substrate preparation after CVD SiGe growth and carbon implant are a chemical oxidization by hydrogen peroxide solution and a heat treatment at 1000ðC prior to CNT growth. We believe that these processes enhance surface decomposition and assist the formation of carbon clusters, which play a role in seeding CNT growth. The growth technique is a practical method of growing metal free CNTs, opening up the prospect of merging CNT devices into silicon very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) technology.
Primary investigators
- pa
- Kees De Groot
- tu
- David Smith (Physics)
Secondary investigators
- mk09v
- Bourdakos Konstantinos (Physics)
Partner
- University of Oxford
Associated research groups
- Nano Research Group
- Southampton Nanofabrication Centre
- Date:
- 2006-2008
- Themes:
- Knowledge Technologies, Dependable Systems, Web Science, Semantic Web
- Funding:
- EU (026764)
ReSIST is an NoE that addresses the strategic objective ââ¬ÅTowards a global dependability and security frameworkââ¬? of the Work Programme, and responds to the stated ââ¬Åneed for resilience, self-healing, dynamic content and volatile environmentsââ¬?.
It will integrate leading researchers active in the multidisciplinary domains of Dependability, Security, and Human Factors, in order that Europe will have a well-focused coherent set of research activities aimed at ensuring that future ââ¬Åubiquitous computing systemsââ¬?, the immense systems of ever-evolving networks of computers and mobile devices which are needed to support and provide Ambient Intelligence (AmI), have the necessary resilience and survivability, despite any residual development and physical faults, interaction mistakes, or malicious attacks and disruptions.
The objectives of the Network are:
- Integration of teams of researchers so that the fundamental topics concerning scalably resilient ubiquitous systems are addressed by a critical mass of co-operative, multi-disciplinary research.
- Identification, in an international context, of the key research directions (both technical and socio-technical) induced on the supporting ubiquitous systems by the requirement for trust and confidence in AmI.
- Production of significant research results (concepts, models, policies, algorithms, mechanisms) that pave the way for scalably resilient ubiquitous systems.
- Promotion and propagation of a resilience culture in university curricula and in engineering best practices.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigators
- Ian Charles Millard
- aoj04r
- br205r
Partners
- Budapest UTE (HG)
- City U. (UK)
- TU Darmstadt (DE)
- Deep Blue Srl (IT)
- France Telecom R&D (FR)
- IBM Research GmbH (CH)
- Institut Eurecom (FR)
- IRISA (FR)
- IRIT (FR)
- LAAS-CNRS (FR)
- Lisbon U. (PT)
- Newcastle upon Tyne U. (UK)
- Pisa U. (IT)
- Qinetiq (UK)
- Roma U. ââ¬ËLa Sapienzaââ¬â¢ (IT)
- Ulm U. (DE)
- Vytautas Magnus U. (LT)
Associated research groups
- Dependable Systems & Software Engineering
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2005-2012
- Themes:
- High Voltage Engineering, Environmental modelling
- Funding:
- National Grid plc
This project aims to validate or improve existing cable ratings methods for high power cable transmission circuits used on the National Grid. FEA models are being developed to deal with a range of circuit configurations to solve for complex circuit designs and geometries. Having benchmarked existing methods for buried cable circuits, both with and without forced cooling, the project investigated the possible thermal constraints posed by cable joints. The next phase of work will involve thermal modelling of cable crossings.
Primary investigators
- Paul Lewin
- jp2
- sgs
Secondary investigator
- zh2g09
Partner
- National Grid
Associated research groups
- Electrical Power Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Date:
- 2006-2006
- Themes:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Web Science, Decentralised Information Systems
- Funding:
- JISC
In the recent JISC/CETIS conference it was recommended that the community needed to ââ¬Ëkick startââ¬â¢ the use of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability version 2.0 specifications. At this meeting it was felt that in order to achieve this there needed to be a robust set of tools and services that conformed to the QTIv2 specification. The R2Q2 project will concentrate on refactoring the QTI Specification to provide a service that moves towards a reliable and definitive QTI v2 render & response processing engine.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigator
Partner
- Hull University
Associated research groups
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Learning Societies Lab
- Web and Internet Science
- Date:
- 2005-2008
- Themes:
- Image Processing, Multimedia
- Funding:
- European Commission
FingArtPrint is a European project to build a system to take "fingerprints" of works of art so that they can identified. A combination of 3D surface scanning and multispectral imaging combines to make a unique data record of the object which can be compared to check its authenticity.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigator
- sg02r
Partners
- ICN Amsterdam
- NanoFocus
- ELDIM
- University of Paris
- Ormilia
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2005-2011
- Themes:
- Agent Based Computing, Disaster Management, Machine Learning, Decentralised Architectures, Decentralised Information Systems, E-Business Technologies, Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning, Wireless Sensing and Sensor Networks, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding:
- EPSRC, BAE Systems
This project aims to develop techniques, methods and architectures for modelling, designing and building decentralised systems that can bring together information from a variety of heterogeneous sources in order to take informed actions. To do this, the project needs to take a total systems view on information and knowledge fusion and to consider the feedback that exists between sensing, decision making and acting in such systems. Moreover, it must be able to achieve these objectives in environments in which: control is distributed; uncertainty, ambiguity, imprecision and bias are endemic; multiple stakeholders with different aims and objectives are present; and resources are limited and continually vary during the systemââ¬â¢s operation.
More specifically, the main aims of the project are:
- To devise techniques that enable an actor to effectively balance acting and information gathering in dynamic, uncertain, multi-actor environments.
- To devise techniques that enable an actor to fuse, in a decentralised manner, inter-related information that is uncertain, incomplete, imprecise and ambiguous.
- To develop machine learning algorithms that are
efficient and effective in dynamic, multi-actor
environments that are uncertain and incomplete. - To develop coordination mechanisms that enable collectives to plan and act collaboratively in order to achieve common goals.
- To develop methods for modelling and predicting the system behaviour that will ensue from specifications of the local behaviour of the individual actors.
- To develop mechanisms that ensure desirable overall properties emerge based on local actions and views.
- To develop decentralised system architectures that can operate effectively in uncertain and dynamic environments and that are robust, scaleable and flexible in their operation.
To ensure the specific methods and techniques developed in the research fit together to give a coherent whole, the project will develop a number of software demonstrations. These will be in the broad area of disaster management.
Primary investigators
- Nick Jennings
- Prof. Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London)
- Prof. David Hand (Imperial College London)
- Prof. Steve Roberts (Oxford University)
- Dr. David Leslie (University of Bristol)
Secondary investigators
- acr
- Sarvapali Ramchurn
- tr
- iv
- acc
- gc2
- rs06r
- Sebastian Stein
- mp3
- as07r
- ksm08r
- fmdf08r
Partner
- BAE Systems
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Agents, Interaction and Complexity
- Date:
- 2005-2010
- Themes:
- Human Computer Interaction, Knowledge Technologies, Web Science
mSpace Mobile is a combined interaction and systems design project to integrate multiple streams of information into one interface to support exploratory search while on the move.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- ar5
- mw1
- das05r
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group