- Date:
- 2005-2008
- Theme:
- Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- DTI
A fundamental shift is occurring in many industries away from the selling of products (e.g. cars) to the provision of services (e.g. transport, car leasing). Essential to the long-term success of businesses in this emerging global environment is the creation of new Integrated Products And Services (IPAS). These require knowledge transfer between three very different worlds: new service design, new product design, and the operation of existing products and services in the field. IPAS will integrate and apply a number of disparate generic technologies that are currently in the research phase and span the disciplines of computer science, engineering design, knowledge management, manufacturing and work psychology. IPAS will significantly improve these generic technologies, which are critical to the effective exploitation of intra and inter-enterprise computing, and validate them by application to a complex real world challenge. IPAS deliverables include: a Designer Knowledge Desktop, defined work social issues and solutions, process simulations and optimisation, and a life cycle cost modelling toolkit.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigator
- sw2
Partners
- Rolls-Royce plc
- Data Systems & Solutions
- Epistemics
- University of Sheffield - AKT and IWP
- University of Cambridge - UTP and EDC
- University of Aberdeen - AKT
- University of Southampton - UTP
Associated research groups
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Agents, Interaction and Complexity
- Web and Internet Science
- Date:
- 2005-2008
- Themes:
- Agent Based Computing, Pervasive Computing and Networks, Human Computer Interaction
- Funding:
- Department
Within a ubiquitous environment, market-based approaches can be used to select the most appropriate material for a public display, depending on factors such as the audience's preferences and diversity of interest. Likewise, strategies used by agents to compete for customer attention should strive to be rational, based on contextual observations of user-preferences within the local environment, and should include a reward mechanism based on audience responses. Ubiquitous devices such as bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, can be used to uniquely identify and detect the presence of individuals within a localised environment, without the need for deploying bespoke hardware. BluScreen, developed by Dr Terry R. Payne at the University of Southampton, is an auction-based framework for presenting consumer advertisements is described, whereby agents (representing consumer advertisements) can compete for consumer attention, where consumer interest is determined through observations of ambient bluetooth activity.
Presentations...
Slides presented at the European Conference of AI, Aug 2006
In the Press...
- BBC South Today - 11th October 2005
- New Scientist - 12th Sept 2006
- SlashDot - 13th Sept 2006
- Engadget - 13th Sept 2006
- Technovelgy - 13th Sept 2006
- MediaBuyerPlanner - 13th Sept 2006
- Gearlog - 14th Sept 2006
- Digital Signage News - 14th Sept 2006
- IBM Developer Works - 14th Sept 2006
- LiveScience - 17th Sept 2006
- Discovery Channel, CA - 19th Sept 2006
- InformationLiberation - 19th Sept 2006
- Evening Standard - 21st Sept 2006
- London Lite - 21st Sept 2006
- Mobile News - 25th Sept 2006
- HERO - Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the UK - 21st Nov 2006
- Living IT - Business article: "Advertising screen tailors ads to its audience", 2006
- HERO - Business article: "Shopping is a Feeling", 2006
Primary investigators
- trp
- Nick Jennings
- acr
Secondary investigators
- Matt Sharifi
- Etty David
- Heather Packer
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Grid and Pervasive Computing Group
- Date:
- 2005-2008
- Theme:
- Agent Based Computing
One of the goals of pervasive computing is to knit computers, sensors, etc within the fabric of the building or environment. Yet one of the oldest means of communication in an office environment is through leaving a note on the door. However, there is always the concern that the note can be removed, or viewed by everyone.
BluNotes is a project that explores ways of leaving e-notes; electronic notes that can be displayed on the door. By targetting an e-note for a specific recipient, the message can be presented on a display when the recipient is nearby, and then hidden when the recipient leaves. It explores the use of situated displays, and identification of everyday ubiquitous devices, such as bluetooth enabled phones or PDAs.
BluNotes was recently featured in a BBC South Today News bulletin (24Mb); this clip was taken from a longer bulletin (76Mb) that also included details on mSpace.
Primary investigator
- trp
Secondary investigator
- Matt Sharifi
Associated research groups
- Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group
- Grid and Pervasive Computing Group
- Date:
- 2004-2007
- Themes:
- Semantic Web, Digital Libraries, Content Based Retrieval
- Funding:
- EU
eCHASE worked on improving access to multimedia collections, particularly picture libaries and archives. This was done by semantically integrating metadata from different sites and producing semantic web interfaces. Also techniques to manage media and information for authors. It used the CIDOC CRM ontology in order to semantically integrate disparate resources.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigator
- pass
Partners
- ORF
- Getty Images
- deAgostini
- HP
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Web and Internet Science
- Date:
- 2005-2006
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- JISC
Research Assessment is a complex activity involving decisions made by many parties (individual researchers, research managers, institutional administrators, external assessors) and potentially involving many interoperating software systems. This project aims to to develop practical solutions for integrating DSpace and EPrints repositories and repository workflows into RAE activities (both from institutional and natonal perspectives), and to advise repository managers on how to deploy these solutions in their local contexts.
Primary investigators
- Les Carr
- John MacColl, University of Edinburgh
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2005-2007
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- JISC
Download data is being logged by every repository as a by-product of the Web requests they receive. This raw data is being and turned into useful download statistics for individual papers and users by a few institutional repositories (e.g. University of Tasmania, Southampton University), thematic repositories (e.g. RePEc) and OAI services (e.g. Citebase). However, there is no consensus over what data needs to be collected, what filtering mechanisms are appropriate, and what analyses are useful for academics in various disciplines. To create effective research statistics services, an interoperable usage statistics service will be created for all OAI-PMH-compliant repositories. This project will investigate the requirements for UK and international stakeholders and build generic collection and distribution software for all IRs. The approach will be demonstrated by a pilot statistics analysis service modelled as an OAI service provider. Working with partners experienced in analysis of usage statistics for electronic documents, and an international consultative committee of key OAI archive and service managers, the principal deliverables will be:
- An API for gathering download data implemented for common IR platforms
- A set of agreed standards defining the basis for measuring and reporting usage of materials deposited in IRs and aggregated with data from other sources where such materials can be found.
Primary investigators
Partners
- Key Perspectives Ltd
- Arthur Sale, U Tasmania
- David Goodman, Long Island U
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2005-2007
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- JISC
This project will address the area of interactions between repositories of primary research data, the laboratory environment in which they operate and repositories of research publications into which they ultimately feed (through documented interpretation and analysis of the results and in explicit linking and citation of the data sets). It will develop prototype services and tools to address the issues of working with, disseminating and reporting on experimental data. In collaboration with scientific equipment manufacturers the project will develop methods to make raw experimental data available and richly annotated with metadata, as it is generated in the laboratory. The possibilities for aggregating heterogeneous raw experimental data from different sources and experiments, via effective management of the repository for the laboratory, will also be explored and prototype tools developed to enable, manipulate and derive reports for publication purposes. It will also engage in discussions with publishers and societies to determine anticipated requirements.
Primary investigators
- Les Carr
- Jeremy Frey
- Simon Coles
Secondary investigators
- aw1
- tmb
- Date:
- 2004-2005
- Theme:
- Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- Hewlett Packard Research Labs
Semantic integration has become a much-debated topic and it is viewed as a solution provider in both industrial and academic settings. As systems become more distributed and disparate within and across organisational boundaries and market segments, there is a need to preserve the meaning of concepts used in everyday transactions of information sharing. The emergence of the Semantic Web, and its anticipated industrial uptake in the years to come, has made these transactions, arguably, easier to implement and deploy on a large scale in a distributed environment like the Internet. However, at the same time it poses some interesting challenges. For instance, we observe that the demand for knowledge sharing has outstripped the current supply. Moreover, even when knowledge sharing is feasible, this is only within the boundaries of a specific system, when certain assumptions hold, and within a specific domain. The reason for this shortcoming is, probably, the very environment and technologies that created a high demand for sharing: the more ontologies are being deployed on the Semantic Web, the higher the demand to share them for the benefits of knowledge sharing to achieve semantic integration.
CROSI, which stands for (C)apturing, (R)epresenting, and (O)perationalising (S)emantic (I)ntegration aims to overcome these problems by working on a systematic approach to semantic integration which will enable us to: (a) capture and expose semantics, (b) codify them in knowledge representation formats, and (c) operationalise them for the benefit of integration. Our experience in this area draws upon existing and ongoing work under the AKT project in the area of ontology mapping.
Primary investigators
- yk1
- Nigel Richard Shadbolt
- Dave Reynolds
Secondary investigator
- bh
Partner
- Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol, UK
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2005-2010
- Themes:
- Quantum Electronics and Spintronics, Nanoelectronics
- Funding:
- EPSRC (Platform grant on high frequency Si nanodevices)
Electrodeposition is being used to fabricate magnetic microstructures directly on patterned n-type Si wafers of various substrate resistivities. The Ni-Si Schottky barrier is characterized and found to be of very high quality for relatively low Si resistivities (1-2 Ohmcm with leakage currents order of magnitudes lowe than for sputtered barriers. This shows that electrodeposition of magnetic materials on Si is a viable fabrication technique for magnetoresistance and spintronics applications. This technique will be used to investigate spin injection into Si and to fabricate spin transistors
Primary investigator
- mk09v
Secondary investigators
- mkh05r
- xl04r
Associated research groups
- Nano Research Group
- Southampton Nanofabrication Centre
- Date:
- -2007
- Themes:
- Security & Trust, Interaction, Human Computer Interaction, Knowledge Technologies
The projects interests and goals are whether:
- a reader's standing in the community and their trustworthiness in the context of abiding by the communities standards can be calculated by the number of potential paths existent in the web of trust between the reader and the author/archivist therefore
- the community that exists around fan fiction can be used as a way of negotiating access to stories where either the reader has preferences (either personal or imposed) about the types of stories they do or do not wish to view or the writer wishes to restrict the availability of their work.
- That this concept can be implemented as part of a series of semantic web applications which will allow authors and archivists to restrict their work if they wish to while providing readers with a easier way to find the types of stories they wish to read.
The ultimate goals of the project is to provide recommendations relating to the usability of the above system and what services would be most desired for example recommendation systems, rating systems etc.
Primary investigators
- kf03r
- monica schraefel
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group