- Date:
- 2002-2004
- Themes:
- e-Science, Grid and Distributed Computing, Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- EPSRC (GR/N15764/01)
CoAKTinG (Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid) is a project that started in June 2002 and runs for 24 months. It is funded by the UK e-Science Programme.
The Objective is to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science collaboration through the novel application of advanced knowledge technologies such as:
- Ontologies to enhance multi-modal and multi-media time phased group discussions and problem solving
- Knowledge-based planning and task support to enhance issue-based process/activity discussions
- Scholarly discourse and argumentation to enhance collaborative meeting structures
- Presence and visualisation to enhance group peripheral awareness at a distance
Primary investigators
- David De Roure
- Nigel Richard Shadbolt
- Simon Buckingham-Shum
- Marc Eisenstadt
- Austin Tate
Secondary investigators
- Danius Michaelides
- Jessica Chen-Burger
- Michelle Bachler
- Stephen Potter
- Jiri Komzak
- krp
- njh
- rmb00r
- bpj00r
- John Domingue
- Enrico Motta
- Jeff Dalto
- John Levine
- Jussi Stader
- Natasha Lino
- Clauirton Siebra
Partners
- KMi, Open University
- AIAI, University of Edinburgh
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2000-2002
- Theme:
- Knowledge Technologies
- Date:
- 2000-2003
- Theme:
- Agent Based Computing
- Funding:
- EU (IST 1999-29003)
The long term objective of AgentLink II is to put Europe at the leading edge of international competitiveness in the area of agent-based computing. The medium term goals of AgentLink II are:
- to gain competitive advantage for European industry by promoting and raising awareness of agent systems technology;
- to facilitate improvement in the standard, profile, and industrial relevance of European research in the area of agent-based computer systems;
- to promote excellence of teaching and training in the area of agent-based systems;
- to provide a widely known, high quality European forum in which current issues, problems, and solutions in the research and development of agent-based computer systems may be debated and resolved.
Primary investigator
- mml
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2001-2001
- Themes:
- Web Science, E-Business Technologies
Management reporting is a complex, multistage activity which takes place in the context of other business processes and makes use of the multiple information systems that may have been provided for other purposes -- general documentation, project management, financial control, email communication and business presentation. Managers treat information from these sources as ``harvestable, contextualisable data'', which is combined, summarised, and reinterpreted in management reports.
However, most of the activities employed in report creation are often supported only peripherally by an organisation's IT infrastructure. In our scenario, the only support which the management team enjoyed were in document creation (Microsoft Office) and a shared (albeit ad-hoc) storage environment, where organisation and discovery was achieved by the judicious use of file naming and directory organisation. The remaining areas were filled in by human nous, effort, memory and detective work.
This project attempts to relate the management reporting process to existing Web, open hypermedia, and Semantic Web research, and describe why we chose to develop a bespoke solution - the Management Reporting System (MRS) - rather than employ an existing system to support this process. MRS combines elements of open hypermedia (fitting hypertext functionality to the tools and environments that the author naturally uses), document creation (rather than link or annotation creation or document storage) and knowledge reuse (instead of text reuse), to provide support for Web-based management reporting.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigators
- tmb
- Simon Kampa
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- -2008
- Funding:
- EPSRC
This research is concerned with the non-destructinve testing of cable insulation and associated semiconducting sheaths that insulate high voltage cables. The current inspection procedure for testing the cable insulation utilises conventional X-ray and photographic film technologies. With this system, it is possible to produce clear images of the cable insulation and identify defects as small as 50 �m, however process is labour intensive, time consuming, requires a dark room for processing, uses specialist knowledge, can be subject to interpretation and other human errors, produces significant chemical waste, and it is difficult to catalogue inspection results. For these reasons, there is a drive to convert the system into an automated digital system. It is hoped that as a result of this research such a system will be produced.
Primary investigator
Secondary investigator
- Adrian Robinson
Partner
- National Grid Plc
Associated research groups
- Electrical Power Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Date:
- 2002-2005
- Themes:
- High Voltage Engineering, High Voltage Engineering, High Voltage Engineering
- Funding:
- The National Grid Company plc
This project is concerned with the development of a novel technique for the remote inspection and monitoring of partial discharge events in high voltage cable systems using an optical network. The measurement mechanism uses the capacitive coupler-measured PD signal and applies it across an electro-optic modulator (EOM), which modulates the intensity of the transmitted laser light as an approximately linear function of the voltage applied across it. The optical network supplies polarised laser light via optical fiber to the EOM input, and monitors the optical output from the modulator using an high speed optical receiver. The EOM is compact and passive requiring no power to operate.
Primary investigator
Partner
- The National Grid Company plc
Associated research groups
- Electrical Power Engineering
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Theme:
- Control Systems
- Funding:
- EPSRC
The gap metric and its variants play a fundamental role in robust linear control. In an important paper, Georgiou and Smith established a far-reaching generalisation of the gap metric to nonlinear systems. This project initially developed a new approach torobust adaptive control within this robust uncertainty framework.
A second line of research considers the relationship between nonlinear graph topologies and various formulations of the gap metric. In particular relationships between the theory of the gap metric and nonlinear co-prime factorisations have been developed. This is mostly in the context of gain-function notions of stability.
Primary investigator
- mcf
Secondary investigator
- wb
Associated research group
- Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group