- Date:
- 2004-2007
- Themes:
- Grid and Distributed Computing, Decentralised Information Systems, e-Science, Trust and Provenance
- Funding:
- EPSRC
PASOA aims to investigate the concept of provenance and its use for reasoning about the quality and accuracy of data and services in the context of eScience. The problems of determining the origin of a result or deciding when results of analysis are no longer valid become important concerns in open Grid environment, where providers are dynamically organised in virtual organanisations to offer services to the community. In this context, provenance data is an annotation able to explain how a particular result has been derived.
Objectives of the PASOA project
- To define execution and service provenance in relation to workflow enactment.
- To conceive algorithms to reason over provenance data, in order to help scientists to achieve better utilisation of Grid resources for their specific tasks.
- To design a distributed cooperation protocol to generate provenance data in workflow enactment.
- To investigate value-added properties that can be deduced from provenance-based data.
- To engineer a proof of concept software architecture to support provenance generation and reasoning in Grid environments.
Primary investigators
- lavm
- Dr Omer Rana
- Professor David Walker
Secondary investigators
- sm
- pg03r
- Ben Carroll
Partner
- University of Cardiff
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2003-2005
- Themes:
- Pervasive Computing and Networks, Sensor Technology, e-Science
- Funding:
- DTI
An important challenge today is to understand climate change and its effect on sea level rise. Glaciers are a key element, but their behaviour is poorly understood. The melting of West Antarctica's ice is not only controlled by snow fall and surface melting but also by processes under the ice. Our research aims to use technological advances to understand what happens beneath glaciers and how they are affected by climate.
A combination of technologies has made sensor webs possible. These will eventually be spread around the world and will give us a clearer picture of how we are changing our environment. In order to make successful sensor webs issues such as: communications, low-power, robustness and adaptability have to be solved. A combination of mechanical engineering, electronics, computer science and environmental science are needed.
The aim of this project is to study climate change through its effects on glaciers. We are using âSubglacial Probesâ beneath the glacier, communicating to the surface via radio links. They contain various sensors and their position and orientation is sensed by the surface system.
Primary investigators
- Kirk Martinez
- Dr J.K. Hart
Secondary investigator
- Dr Royan Ong
Partners
- BTExact
- Intellisys
Associated research groups
- Grid and Pervasive Computing Group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2002-
SOWN (the Southampton Open Wireless Network) is a project which originally aims to build free-to-use wireless mesh networks in Southampton. It has since evolved to deploy wireless 'home nodes' in staff or student accommodation, with a view to providing innovative network services. It also provides network connectivity in many outdoor areas around campus not yet covered by eduroam.
SOWN is being developed and operated by SUWS (the Southampton University Wireless Society).
For more information please visit the SOWN webpage.
Primary investigators
- Tim Chown
- David Newman
- Christopher Malton
Secondary investigators
- gmb1g08
- tw16g08
Associated research group
- Web and Internet Science
- Date:
- 2002-2005
- Themes:
- Pervasive Computing and Networks, Human Computer Interaction, Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- Department
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- Danius Michaelides
- Stephen Harris
- David Millard
- icm02r
- hrm
- Mark Weal
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- -2005
- Theme:
- Interaction
- Funding:
- EPSRC
Part of the world wide eScience Semantic Grid effort is to get the data crafted by individual scientists out of the lab and onto the Grid, where it can be accessed, compared and processed within the global science community.
To that end, the Smart Tea Project is focussing on the experimental process in the Lab itself in order to understand how the (usually hand written) information generated in the lab can be transformed into information accessible beyond the confines of a single experimental entry in a single paper-based lab book.
This involves looking at interaction issues from capturing data in the lab environment to representing that data later for access in multiple contexts, from one scientists' review of the information, to a supervisor working with a student, to multiple scientists comparing the raw data.
Primary investigators
- monica schraefel
- David De Roure
- Jeremy Frey
Secondary investigators
- gvh
- hrm
- Graham Smith
- trp
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2004-2008
- Themes:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Grid and Distributed Computing, Knowledge Technologies, Learning Technologies, Web Science
- Funding:
- EU (IST Programme Framework VI)
The European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI) project has the ambitious goal to develop software technologies for effective human learning. With the ELeGI project we will promote and support a learning paradigm shift. A new paradigm focused on knowledge construction using experiential based and collaborative learning approaches in a contextualised, personalised and ubiquitous way will replace the current information transfer paradigm focused on content and on the key authoritative figure of the teacher who provides information.
We have chosen a synergic approach, sometimes called "human centred design", to replace the classical, applicative approach to learning. With consideration of humans at the centre, learning is clearly a social, constructive phenomenon. It occurs as a side effect of interactions, conversations and enhanced presence in dynamic Virtual Communities: experimental research concepts integrating new powerful developments of services in the Semantic GRID, the leading edge of currently available and future ICT technologies, with highly innovative and powerfully significant scenarios of human learning.
The ELeGI project has three main goals:
- Goal 1. To define new models of human learning enabling ubiquitous and collaborative learning, merging experiential, personalised and contextualised approaches.
- Goal 2. To define and implement an advanced service-oriented Grid based software architecture for learning. This will allow us to access and integrate different technologies, resources and contents that are needed in order to realise the new paradigm. This objective will be driven by the pedagogical needs and by the requirements provided by the test-beds (SEES) and informed by the experience gained through implementing the demonstrators.
- Goal 3. To validate and evaluate the software architecture and the didactical approaches through the use of SEES and demonstrators. The project will build extensively on advanced work already done, creating new learning environments rather than creating new learning resources per se.
Primary investigator
- hcd
Secondary investigators
Partners
- SCHLUMBERGESEMA (now ATOS)
- CENTRO DI RICERCA IN MATEMATICA PURA ED APPLICATA (CRMPA)
- CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE ON METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEARNING & KNOWLEDGE (CEMSAC)
- UNIVERSIT� MONTPELLIER 2
- TELINDUS
- UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREW
- UNIVERSITY OF GRANZ
- THE OPEN UNIVERSITY (UK)
- COUNCIL FOR THE CENTRAL LABORATORY FOR THE COUNCIL RESEARCH
- HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE (University of Stuttgart )
- THE RUHR-UNIVERSIT�T BOCHUM
- KAUNAS TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
- COMMUNICATION & SYSTEMES - SYSTEMES D'INFORMATION
- FRIEDRICH ALEXANDER UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN-NUMBERG
- HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY
- UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
- RESIST
- FACULTES N.D. DE LA PAIX, NAMUR
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
- UNIVERSIT� DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L�ADOUR-IUT DE BAYONNE
- CENTRALE RECHERCHE SA
- EUROPEAN MICROSOFT INNOVATION CENTER
Associated research groups
- Learning Societies Lab
- Grid and Pervasive Computing Group
- Date:
- 2002-2004
- Themes:
- Assessment, Learning Technologies
- Funding:
- JISC (X4L)
TOIA brings together practitioners from UK Further and Higher Education to pool experience and expertise in the fields of online assessment, interoperability, technological education and involvement in UK and European funded projects.
It is a key project aim to provide the education sector with cutting edge online assessment tools that are both very practical and embody best practice within the implementation and interpretation of IMS specifications.
Primary investigators
- hcd
- saw
- Professor Grainne Conole
Secondary investigator
- gp2
Partners
- University of Strathclyde
- Edexcel
- Glenrothes College
- Loughborough University
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Newark & Sherwood College
Associated research groups
- Learning Societies Lab
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2003-2008
- Themes:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Digital Libraries, Learning Technologies
- Funding:
- NSF, JISC International Digital Libraries Research Programme
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom Joint Information System Committee (JISC) have jointly funded the DialogPlus project as part of their Digital Libraries in the Classroom initiative. The project combines the efforts of geographers, education specialists, and computer scientists at Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara (U.S.) and the University of Southampton and the University of Leeds (U.K.) to develop and deploy reusable digital learning nuggets through the Alexandria Digital Library.
Goals
Two primary goals of DialogPlus are:
- to develop a distributed information infrastructure that supports the teaching and learning of Geography;
- to establish innovative approaches to teaching and learning, based on this infrastructure.
Specifically, we want to:
- show how undergraduate and postgraduate Geography programs in the consortium universities can be enriched and developed through cross-national collaboration and on-line delivery;
- demonstrate how major geospatial resources concerning the environment and human population can be used in study programs;
- show how important skills in the analysis of spatial information through the use of Geographical Information Science and Earth Observation software and functions can be taught on-line in undergraduate programs;
- develop on-line learning and teaching resources to use on campus so geography courses can be delivered to students in other disciplines, overcoming scheduling problems.
Primary investigators
- hcd
- Professor Grainne Conole
- Mike Freeston
Secondary investigators
- cpb
- kf
- Professor Dave Martin
- Dr Sally Priest
- Mr Samuel Leung
Partners
- School of Geography (Southampton)
- Research and Graduate School of Education
- University of California Santa Barbara
- University of Leeds
- Pensylvania State University
Associated research group
- Learning Societies Lab
- Date:
- 2002-2004
- Themes:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Web Science, Learning Technologies
- Funding:
- EU (Socrates Programme - Minerva)
This project's main objective is to establish a European platform of standards (guidelines, techniques and tools) for user modeling -based adaptability and adaptation, in the sense of the new paradigm of intelligent human -computer interaction, based on the new generation of ODL tools, towards individualization of the learning process. The project's main contribution is in going one step further than plain user modeling, by creating a common structure for the ODL systems' adaptive response to specific user needs, thereby creating a basis for modern European Education.
Primary investigator
- hcd
Secondary investigator
- gp2
Partners
- Eindhoven TU
- Milano Politechnical University
- Instituto Trentino di Cultura
- University of Twente
- University of Nottingham
Associated research groups
- Learning Societies Lab
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2000-2003
- Themes:
- Learning Technologies, Reusable Learning Objects, Assessment
- Funding:
- FDTL
The project has built a question bank (repository) of peer reviewed items suitable for use in the teaching of electrical and electronic engineering. Although the project life has technically ended, the resources developed by e3an are being actively and widely used for research and implementation in a range of related UK projects (eg: COLA, TOIA) and research studies which focus on interoperability and reusable learning objects. Suggested contacts Will Davies, Hugh Davis.
Primary investigators
- hcd
- saw
Secondary investigator
- rmc
Partners
- Bournemouth University
- Portsmouth University
- Southampton Institute
Associated research group
- Learning Societies Lab