- 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
- 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