- Date:
- 2004-2006
- Themes:
- Web Science, Digital Libraries, Virtual Communities and Social Systems
- Funding:
- JISC
The Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment project aims to offer a Virtual Research environment (VRE) by providing integrated computer support across the research and educational cycles, because these activities are intrinsically coupled as a part of the requirements of the surgeonââ¬â¢s Continuing Professional Development. Research should be undertaken and papers published to achieve goals under the learning contracts with their Professional organisations.
The CORE project will be implemented as a Grid/Web-based environment for supporting a critical subset of the e-science cycle: the collation and analysis of experimental results, the organisation of internal project discussions, and the production of appropriate outline documents depending upon the requirements of conferences and journals selected for dissemination. The CORE will allow surgeons to: create technical material (non research material for education), analyse data (from their own trials or data entered from journals), investigate hypotheses (from their own work or as meta or thematic reviews), discuss the finding from their or others work, and prepare and submit articles for review, using semantic Web services.
Primary investigators
- Gary Wills
- Lester Gilbert
- hcd
- Wendy Hall
- Les Carr
- sg01v
Secondary investigators
- cw2
- yws01
Associated research groups
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Learning Societies Lab
- Web and Internet Science
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2004-2004
- Theme:
- Pervasive Computing and Networks
- Funding:
- JISC
In the LICHEN project we propose to extend and complement the work of the UKERNA Wireless Advisory Group and TERENA TF-Mobility (which is establishing a RADIUS-based hierarchy of trust for Location Independent Networking) by investigating and developing a generic system for managing and applying authorisation policy pertaining to resources accessed by users in different administrative domains. These users would typically be members of short-lived, distributed collaborations between multi-site ââ¬â and often multi-disciplinary ââ¬â groups.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- Josh Howlett
- Mark O'Leary
Partners
- University of Bristol
- University of Manchester
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2004-2007
- Themes:
- Formal Methods, Systems Engineering, Dependable Systems
- Funding:
- European Commission
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- Michael Leuschel
- mrp
- Colin Snook
- ne01
- ae03r
- Abdolbaghi Rezazadeh
Partners
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Coordinator)
- Aabo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- ClearSy System Engineering, France
- Nokia Corporation, Finland
- Praxis Critical Systems Ltd, UK
- AT Engine Controls Ltd, UK
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Associated research group
- Dependable Systems & Software Engineering
- Date:
- 2004-2010
- Theme:
- Grid and Distributed Computing
- Funding:
- EPSRC
Our vision for the Open Middleware Infrstructure Institute (OMII) is for it to become the source for reliable, interoperable and open-source Grid middleware, ensuring the continued success of Grid-enabled e-Science in the UK. We intend
- To create a one-stop portal and software repository for open-source Grid middleware, including comprehensive information about its function, reliability and usability.
- To provide quality-assured software engineering, testing, packaging and maintenance of software in the OMII repository, ensuring it is reliable and easy to both install and use.
- To lead the evolution of Grid middleware at international level, through a managed programme of research and wide-reaching collaboration with industry.
Primary investigators
Associated research groups
- Dependable Systems & Software Engineering
- Grid and Pervasive Computing Group
- Date:
- 2004-2005
- Theme:
- Human Computer Interaction
- Funding:
- EPSRC
Traditionally, scientists have used paper lab books to capture the process and results of their experiments; these results have then been written up and published in journals, months (or years) later.
The Semantic Web and Semantic Grid, however, are motivating a possible sea change in the way scientists make their work available. With the Semantic Grid, a Web-based technology for sharing data and computation, scientists can share information in richer forms than traditional lab books and publishing has allowed. They will be able to make rafts of data generated in experiments available to other scientists, and to the public for compariosn exploration and study; they can share analyses of information and collaborate in new ways.
At the heart of this new technology-supported endeavor sits very traditional practices: a human scientist writing notes during an experiment into a paper lab book.
To move this crucial data from paper, where only one person can see it at a time, to the Web, where the community can benefit from it, we need innovative means of data capture that support how scientists work.
The myTea Best Practice project is about taking the lessons learned from the Smart Tea project in CombeChem (about capturing previously paper-based information into new digital forms) and applying that within the myGrid eScience project's work to support Bioinformaticians.
About the project
The myTea project is a year long collaboration between Smart Tea/CombeChem (University of Southampton) and myGrid (University of Mancher) eScience projects to develop an integrated experimental capture system for bioinformatitians. The project is funded by EPSRC.
Primary investigators
- monica schraefel
- Robert Stevens, UManchester
Secondary investigators
- David De Roure
- Jeremy Frey, Chemistry, USouthampton
- Chris Greenhalgh, UNottingham
- Carole Goble, UManchester
Partners
- EPSRC
- myGrid
- CombeChem
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2001-2006
- Themes:
- Materials & Technology, MEMS, Sensor Technology
- Funding:
- EPSRC
This is an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship for Dr Steve Beeby to continue his research in the development and optimisation of active thick-film materials. The project is particularly concerned with the application of such thick-film materials to MEMS devices and this research has close links with other ECS projects (microfilter and sensors for prosthetic hands).
Primary investigator
Associated research groups
- Electronic Systems and Devices Group
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Date:
- 2004-2007
- Themes:
- MEMS, Sensor Technology, Wireless Systems
The VIBES project is concerned with harvesting energy from environmental vibrations for the powering of remote wireless sensor nodes. The energy scavenging device is a MEMS device fabricated using silicon micromachining technology.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- John Tudor
- Neil White
- Russel Neil Torah
- Elena Koukharenko
- Peter Glynne-Jones
Partners
- Phillips Research Eindhoven
- Phillips Research Aachen
- TIMA
- LPMO
- NMRC
- MEMSCAP
- MetraVib
- Phillips Digital Systems Labs Leuven
- Date:
- 2004-2007
- Themes:
- Grid and Distributed Computing, Agent Based Computing, E-Business Technologies
- Funding:
- EPSRC
This project seeks to carry out the fundamental computer science research that is necessary to support the entire virtual organisation (VO) lifecycles as it exists for the e-science.
This involves dealing with the following main challenges:
- Composing services in order to achieve a particular objective;
- Recruiting an appropriate set of agents to meet service specifications;
- Assigning individual duties to the constituent agents;
- Monitoring the performance of the VO;
- Reconfiguring the VO in face of changing circumstances.
As our solution, we adopt a service-oriented view of e-Science applications in which the individual computational entities are agents. These agents offer a variety of services to one another and the agents negotiate with one another to determine the terms and conditions under which they can gain access to the services. These inter-related services form a VO. An agent can participate in one or more VOs by sharing some or all of its resources.
The underpinning technologies that assemble, manage, monitor and adjust the VO can be generic. In particular, we have focused on the issue of coalition formation and used this as the basis for forming effective VOs.
Primary investigators
- Nick Jennings
- Michael Wooldridge
Secondary investigators
- tr
- imp04r
- gc2
- Minghua He
Partner
- University of Liverpool
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2002-2005
- Theme:
- Agent Based Computing
- Funding:
- EPSRC (GR/S03/706/01)
The project tackles the problem of information overload in a novel way -- by shifting the burden away from the information seeker and onto the information provider. Rather than obliging an information seeker to trawl through sources of information the emphasis is instead squarely upon the information provider to persuade clients that the information they have on offer is of value.
The solution relies upon the representation of uses interests in a multi-agent system, upon the societal roles employed, and upon argumentation theoretic commitment-based interaction between the agents in that system. In particular, the project has the following aims:
- To develop a coherent model of commitment, dialogue and social context for multi-agent systems;
- To build a test bed for the evaluation of this model; and
- To evaluate the model within the domain of distributed information management.
Primary investigators
- Nick Jennings
- nnc
Secondary investigators
- Dr. Tim Norman - University of Aberdeen
- Dionysis Kalofonos - University of Aberdeen
- Dr. Chris Reed - University of Dundee
- Simon Wells - University of Dundee
Partners
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Dundee
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- -2005
- Themes:
- Image Processing, Human Computer Interaction, Pervasive Computing and Networks
Investigating the use of gestures through image recognition in ubiquitous computing environments
Primary investigators
- Jonathon Stephen Hare
- Maria Karam
- Paul Lewis
- monica schraefel
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group