- Date:
- 2005-2007
- Themes:
- Knowledge Technologies, Content Based Retrieval, Digital Libraries, Multimedia
The project aims to create a model for marking up media and media content. Old url was http://ontomedia.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Primary investigators
- kf03r
- moj
- Mischa Tuffield
- monica schraefel
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group
- Date:
- 2005-2006
- Theme:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools
- Funding:
- JISC (Reference models)
Primary investigator
- hcd
Secondary investigators
Associated research groups
- Learning Societies Lab
- Web and Internet Science
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Date:
- 2005-2009
- Themes:
- Agent Based Computing, E-Business Technologies, Decentralised Information Systems, Artificial Life
- Funding:
- EPSRC
The marketplace is a dynamic place, in which the participants trade their goods and services with an intention to maximise their own utilities. Through such trading highly efficient resource allocations can be attained in dynamic and uncertain environments.
Against this background, this EPSRC funded project (in the Novel Computation call) intends to apply market-based paradigms to the design, control and evolution of complex distributed computational systems. The targetted applications include resource allocation in utility data centres, decentralised control of content delivery and multiple robotic systems. It is a collaboration between several leading UK universities, specialised in economic mechanism design, multi-agent systems and evolutionary computation. Our main role in this project is to devise the participant strategies in response to the resource constraints and the chosen market mechanism. The interactions between various agents, the behaviours that emerge and the approaches to the selection of strategies will also be examined.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- Enrico Harm Gerding
- Alessandro Farinelli
- ap06r
- Adam Prugel-Bennett
- Professor Robin Mason (Economics Dept)
- zr
- ab06v
- Edith Elkind
Partners
- University of Liverpool
- University of Birmingham
- Hewlett Packard Research Labs
- BAE Systems
- BT Research Labs
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group
- Agents, Interaction and Complexity
- Date:
- 2000-2003
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- Self funded - no external funds requested
Songs and Stories and a Glossary of Phrases of the Hua Miao of South West China.
This electronic archive has been created from documents handwritten by the Hua Miao. The documents were given to the Parsons brothers who were born in South-West China in 1906 and returned there as Methodist Missionaries before and after the Second World War.
The archive consists of over 200 songs that record the early history, aspects of Miao social life and some "narratives", essentially folk stories. There is also a "Phrase Book" here called a Glossary.
The Parsons brothers, using a PC/AT and Wordstar, supplied electronic versions of the documents. The Project involved translating these Wordstar documents (containing many special characters to display the Hua Miao script) into a form suitable for a modern word processor (in the case Word97) and then creating the website using HTML and PDF.
The archive contains a concordance for the Songs and a look-up for words in the Glossary.
Using the special features developed in the Digital Libraries Group it is possible to look at the original hand-written documents.
All the original documents have now been encoded and can be seen in the archive. The project is complete.
Primary investigator
- str
Secondary investigator
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2004-2007
- Theme:
- Behavioural Synthesis
- Funding:
- EPSRC
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- jg04r
- Andrew Brown
Associated research groups
- Electronic Systems and Devices Group
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Date:
- 2003-2006
- Theme:
- Renewable Energy
- Funding:
- EPSRC
2 year project developing a test installation of small scale renewable energy sources in a domestic environment. This includes Solar, Wind generation, Power management, control and monitoring.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- ms01r
- Andrew Brown
Partner
- BP Solar
Associated research groups
- Electronic Systems and Devices Group
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Date:
- 2004-2005
- Theme:
- Agent Based Computing
- Funding:
- EU
AgentLink III is a successor to AgentLink II, the IST-funded Network of Excellence for agent-based systems established in August 2000. Agent-based systems are one of the most vibrant and important areas of research and development to have emerged in information technology in the 1990s, and underpin many aspects of the broader IST FP6. Many observers believe that agents represent the most important new paradigm for software development since object-orientation.
An agent is a computer system that is capable of flexible autonomous action in dynamic, unpredictable, typically multi-agent domains. Some application domains where agent technologies will play a crucial role include: Ambient Intelligence, the seamless delivery of ubiquitous computing, continuous communications and intelligent user interfaces to consumer and industrial devices; Grid Computing, where multi-agent system approaches will enable efficient use of the resources of high-performance computing infrastructure in science, engineering, medical and commercial applications; Electronic Business, where agent-based approaches are already supporting the automation and semi-automation of information-gathering activities and purchase transactions over the Internet; the Semantic Web, where agents are needed both to provide services, and to make best use of the resources available; Bioinformatics, where intelligent agents may support the coherent exploitation of the data revolution occurring in biology; and others including monitoring and control, resource management, and space, military and manufacturing applications, for example.
AgentLink III will act as a unifying focus for agent-based activities in these different domains. As with AgentLink and AgentLink II, the long-term goal of AgentLink III is to put Europe at the leading edge of international competitiveness in this increasingly important area.
Primary investigators
- trp
- mml
Partners
- University of Liverpool
- University of Bologna
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Whitestein Technologies AG
- Czech Technical University
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2004-2008
- Themes:
- Agent Based Computing, Grid and Distributed Computing, Semantic Web, Trust and Provenance
- Funding:
- EPSRC, BAE Systems
Our work is concerned with the dynamic composition of services. We plan to investigate how an agent can choose from a range of services, offered by external providers, and compose them to satisfy its individual goals. While some attention will be paid to the automatic construction of workflows, most emphasis will be placed on issues surrounding coordination and negotiation between service providers and clients, which are assumed to be autonomous and self-interested entities.
Primary investigators
- Nick Jennings
- trp
Secondary investigator
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Agents, Interaction and Complexity
- Date:
- 2004-2007
- Themes:
- Pervasive Computing and Networks, Decentralised Information Systems
- Funding:
- EPSRC
Exploiting the spatio-temporal rhythms of the city to disseminate information within a community
Primary investigator
- trp
Secondary investigator
- jel03r
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2003-2005
- Themes:
- Pervasive Computing and Networks, Grid and Distributed Computing, Agent Based Computing
- Funding:
- DTI
The FloodNet project centres upon the development of providing a pervasive, continuous, embedded monitoring presence. By processing and synthesizing collected information over a river and functional floodplain, FloodNet obtains an environmental self-awareness and resilience to ensure robust transmission of data in adverse conditions and environments. This new class of environmental monitoring will greatly enhance the data quality and density that is available to decision makers, and transform the way environments are explored, monitored and controlled.
FloodNet provides a dynamic infrastructure for sensors. It allows for the spatio-temporal understanding of an environment through coordinated efforts between it's sensor nodes, which are fixed at specific points within a river or floodplain. Each sensor communicates wirelessly within its local network, thus distributing information about its environment, and thus providing a self aware, intelligent sensor network. The intelligent routing element of the system will provide the basis by which the system will be data transmission aware and robust.
Primary investigators
- David De Roure
- Dr Craig Hutton
Secondary investigators
- smv
- Jing Zhou
- Jeff Neal
- Donald Gavin Cruickshank
Partners
- ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd
- Halcrow Ltd
- IBM
- MAC Ltd
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Grid and Pervasive Computing Group