- 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
- 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