- 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
- Date:
- 2005-2006
- Themes:
- Grid and Distributed Computing, Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- JISC
Context
Meetings pervade the life of almost all researchers, and increasingly, these take the form of telephone and videoconferences amongst geographically dispersed colleagues. Supporting distributed meetings that are as productive as face-to-face meetings is a primary challenge for research and development in this field. This is the motivation for this proposal.
The Access Gridâ⢠(AG) is an open collaboration and resource management architecture that already provides many of the capabilities proposed by the JISC for a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). The overall aim of the project is to extend the functionality of the AG with advanced meeting support and information management tools that were developed and validated in the recent e-Science project, CoAKTinG. The project will also deploy this environment as a prototype VRE with end-user communities in order to test, evaluate and discover further user requirements.
Our end-user partners represent a cross-section of communities interested in the potential of the proposed VRE to meet their needs. The areas represented by our partners include performance art, social science, middleware development and minority communities. These diverse users will help the project to evaluate the generic value of its capabilities. A phased deployment and evaluation process is planned, starting with the immediate project team as users, to address obvious usability and technical issues, before extending to the project partners who will subject the tools to a more formal evaluation.
Aims and Objectives
The specific objectives are to:- Extend the AG's VRE infrastructure with new collaboration functionalities from the CoAKTinG project
- Provide a set of extensions to CoAKTinG tools to make their installation and administration simpler in both an AG and non-AG context
- Observe the use of and evaluate the improved VRE with end-user communities.
Primary investigators
- Michael Daw
- David De Roure
- Simon Buckingham Shum
- Rob Procter
Secondary investigators
- Tim Chown
- Danius Michaelides
- bpj00r
- Andrew Rowley
- Michelle Bachler
Partners
- University of Manchester
- University of Edinburgh
- Open University
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2004-2005
- Themes:
- Grid and Distributed Computing, e-Science
- Funding:
- OMII
A Grimoire is a magician's manual for invoking demons (Oxford English Dictionary). Likewise, the Grimoires registry hosts descriptions of services and workflows, which a scientist can use for forming their complex scientific experiments. However, service and workflow interfaces are sometimes underspecified and therefore difficult to use in an automated manner; hence, the myGrid registry augments their interfaces with metadata such as functionality, semantic information about their inputs and outputs, or various metrics (e.g. perceived quality of service, trust).
Primary investigator
- lavm
Secondary investigator
- wf
Partner
- University of Manchester
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2003-2006
- Themes:
- Agent Based Computing, Grid and Distributed Computing, Trust and Provenance
- Funding:
- Welsh e-science centre
Conoise-G seeks to support robust and resilient virtual organisation formation and operation. It aims to provide mechanisms to assure effective operation of VOs in the face of disruptive and potentially malicious entities in dynamic, open and competitive environments.
Primary investigators
- Nick Jennings
- mml
Secondary investigators
- jp03r
- wtlt
Partners
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Cardiff
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2002-2005
- Themes:
- Knowledge Technologies, Medical Engineering
- Funding:
- EPSRC
MIAKT is a joint initiative between the AKT IRC, specialising in knowledge technologies for the management and synthesis of appropriate information and knowledge content, and the MIAS IRC, specialising in the intelligent analysis and handling of medical data. The aim of the project is to apply the capabilities of AKT and MIAS to collaborative medical problem solving using knowledge services provided via the e-Science Grid infrastructure.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigators
- dpd
- bh
Partners
- University of Oxford
- University of Sheffield
- Kings College London
- Open University
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2003-2010
- Themes:
- Human Computer Interaction, Knowledge Technologies, Web Science, e-Science, Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- EPSRC, JISC
mSpace is an interation design and engineering approach to improve discovery of and access to information to help a person build new knowledge. Its main approach is to present information in context, and to support rich exploration of the relationships exposed in those contexts. mSpace does this by offering several powerful tools for pulling together diverse information sources on the back end, and by providing powerful manipulations on that information in the front end. These approaches combined enable a person to organize an information space to suit their interests.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigators
- das05r
- ar5
- mw1
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group