- Date:
- 1999-2004
- Theme:
- Control Systems
- Funding:
- EPSRC
This project considered the relative performance between two standard classes of robust adaptive controllers, namely designs based on the dead-zone and projection modification.
Simple criteria were established to indicate when each design outperformed the other w.r.t. to a non-singular performance cost functional penalising both the output and the control transient.
Primary investigator
- mcf
Secondary investigator
- Ahmad Sanei
Associated research group
- Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group
- Date:
- 2001-2004
- Theme:
- Control Systems
This project concerns the comparison between various output feedback controllers for nonlinear systems. Performance is assessed by a non-singular cost-functional and techniques are developed to bound these costs.
Primary investigator
- mcf
Secondary investigator
- cx00r
Associated research group
- Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group
- Date:
- 2003-
- Themes:
- Pervasive Computing and Networks, Formal Methods, Security & Trust
- Funding:
- DTI
The Trusted Software Agents and Services (TSAS) project is investigating and demonstrating the Trust issues that arise from accessing software services and utilising agent technology in PervasiveComputing environments. The project is developing software/hardware demonstrators with which to explore and highlight trust matters in the context of applications such as home finance or tele-medicine. The project is also examining the appropriate validation techniques that can help to achieve assurance of trustworthiness in such technologies.
The project is a part of the DTI Next Wave Technologies and Markets programme. The project is a collaborative effort involving the QinetiQ Distributed Technology Group, together with the Declarative Systems and Software Engineering (DSSE) group, and the Intelligence Agents Multimedia (IAM) group, both at the University of Southampton.
Primary investigators
- Michael Leuschel
- David De Roure
Secondary investigator
- Stephane Lo Presti
Partner
- QinetiQ
- Date:
- 2001-2005
- Themes:
- e-Science, Biologically Inspired Computing and Robotics, Grid and Distributed Computing
- Funding:
- EPSRC (GR/R67743/01)
To date Grid development has focused on the basic issues of storage, computation and resource management needed to make a global scientific community's information and tools accessible in a high performance environment. However, from an e-Science viewpoint, the purpose of the Grid is to deliver a collaborative and supportive environment that allows geographically distributed scientists to achieve research goals more effectively. MyGrid aims to design, develop and demonstrate higher level functionalities over an existing Grid infrastructure that support scientists in making use of complex distributed resources
myGrid is a research project that will extend the Grid framework of distributed computing, producing a virtual laboratory workbench that will serve the life sciences community. The integration environment will support patterns of scientific investigation that include:
- accumulating evidence
- assimilating results
- accessing community information sources
- collaborating with disparately located researchers via electronic forums
Scientists will have the ability to customize the work environment to reflect their preferences for resource selection, data management and process enactment. MyGrid's applicability to the bioinformatics community will be tested through use cases our academic and industry partners develop. Minimally, the environment will be able to support activities relating to the analysis of functional genomic data and the annotation of pattern databases.
Primary investigators
- lavm
- David De Roure
- mml
- trp
Secondary investigators
- sm
- jp
- jwd02r
- hkvt99r
- sw2
Partners
- University of Manchester
- University of Newcastle
- University of Sheffield
- University of Nothingham
- EBI
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2001-2005
- Themes:
- e-Science, Grid and Distributed Computing, Knowledge Technologies
- Funding:
- EPSRC (National e-Science Programme), EPSRC (GR/R67729/01)
The goal of the project is to develop an e-Science test-bed that integrates existing structure and property data sources, and augments them within a grid-based information and knowledge environment. The synthesis of new chemical compounds by combinatorial methods provides major opportunities for the generation of large volumes of new chemical knowledge and is the principal drive behind the project. An extensive range of primary data needs to be accumulated, integrated and relationships modelled, so that maximum knowledge can be derived. The service-based grid-computing infrastructure extends to devices in the laboratory and involves enriched systems, (including multimedia and live metadata), full support for provenance and innovative techniques for automation throughout the environment. The results of the project will impact on the design of materials through the prediction of properties and the identification of suitable compounds in a variety of applications.
Primary investigators
- Jeremy Frey
- Mike Hursthouse
- David De Roure
- Mike Surridge
- mml
- lavm
- trp
- monica schraefel
- Sue Lewis
- Alan Welsh
Secondary investigators
- hrm
- Graham Smith
- gvh
- njh
- Sam Peppe
- Hongchen Fu
- Dave Woods
- Ralph Mansson
Partners
- Chemistry Department
- Mathematics Department
- Bristol University Chemistry Department
Associated research groups
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- IT Innovation Centre
- Date:
- 1994-
- Themes:
- Web Science, Digital Libraries
Perspectives In Electronic Publishing is a new model electronic publication, perhaps best described as a journal-centred portal, with enhancements for exploring selected full-text papers on a focussed topic - in this case, on electronic publishing. The idea was to create an interconnected 'journal' that allows users to explore individual lines of enquiry more efficiently. In this case the journal frames a user-centric information environment, where selected documents can be distributed and accessed anywhere on the Web. Editorially-added links act as the binding between the resources selected for inclusion, and the selection and commentary on documents exercise the journalâs editorial âvoiceâ. A âjournalâ based on this model was built and subjected to extensive evaluation by a targetted specialist group. The evaluation provided strong reactions both for and against the model, revealing some of the challenges that radical new electronic journal models face if the structure of the traditional printed journal is to be displaced in favour of journals that can properly exploit the prospect of fully interconnected and accessible networked distribution.
Primary investigators
- sh94r
- Wendy Hall
Secondary investigator
- tmb
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Theme:
- Control Systems
The aim of this project is to examine and verify the implementation of different iterative learning control algorithms on real-time application,a Chain conveyor system, also to have a detailed performance comparison of these algorithms, againest each other.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigator
- tsmat99r
Associated research group
- Information: Signals, Images, Systems Research Group
- Date:
- 2002-2003
- Themes:
- ELearning, Platforms and Tools, Digital Libraries, Web Science, Learning Technologies
- Funding:
- EU
Framework 5 EU Project focussing on the training of Surgeons in Arthroscopy; EC-project VOEU ("Virtual Orthopaedic European University", IST-1999-13079).
The virtual university provides tools for clinicians supporting the learning of information and clinical skills. The web services are xml based and so the view one sees is dependent upon the userââ¬â¢s personal profile. This takes into consideration the training grade of the individual, their location and the deanery responsible for providing their training. The principle concept is to provide individuals with their specified learning material. It is structured as essential, important, further reading, based upon their level of knowledge, state of preparation for examinations, attendance at specific courses, monitoring of clinical posts etc. New material from audits and trials can be integrated seamlessly.
The workload of individuals is negotiated and agreed as part of structured learning agreements that are managed on-line. It is tied in automatically to the clinical post, mapping user experience to the syllabus and the curriculum. The system has successfully undergone formal usability testing by clinicians having been designed for surgery but is generic and can be adopted by all medical disciplines and is now ready for implementation and continued development with dedicated partners, adapting the technologies to the specific needs of user groups.
Primary investigators
- Les Carr
- Gary Wills
- Wendy Hall
- sg01v
Secondary investigators
- gp98r
- cpb
- tmb
- ral01r
- Prof Grainne Conole (RGSE)
Partners
- Royal College of Surgeons
- Research and Graduate School of Education
Associated research groups
- Electronic and Software Systems
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Learning Societies Lab
- Date:
- 2002-2005
- Theme:
- Digital Libraries
- Funding:
- JISC
TARDIS is one of a cluster of complementary projects funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of the Focus on Access to Institutional Resources Programme (FAIR).
TARDIS will be building a sustainable multidisciplinary institutional archive of e-Prints to leverage the research created within Southampton University using both self-archiving and mediated deposit.
Consideration will be given to including all types of research output in a variety of formats. It is based firmly on the experience of building pilot archives in both Ocean and Earth Sciences and in Electronics and Computer Science.
While developing the archive, TARDIS will be specifically feeding back into the pioneering EPrints software (http://software.eprints.org/) developed within the prestigious Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group in the University of Southampton. Looking at the adaptive process, we will be gearing it to provide ease of use by archive administrators and end users. Strategies and documentation will address technological, cultural and organisational issues and the development of the e-Print archive concept for use in wider applications.
The technical and management issues relating to electronic authentication will also be addressed in a related JISC funded project led by Information Support Services (ISS) at the University of Southampton and using the TARDIS archive as the test bed.
Primary investigators
- Pauline Simpson
- jmnh
- Christopher Gutteridge
Partner
- University of Southampton Libraries
Associated research group
- Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
- Date:
- 2002-2005
- Themes:
- Content Based Retrieval, Image Processing, Web Science, Knowledge Technologies, Semantic Web
3D museum object retrieval and the semantic web. Semantic integration of data sources was used to produce a common search across museums and collections. Content-based retrieval was implemented for 2D images as well as for 3D objects.
Primary investigators
Secondary investigator
- pass
Partners
- IT Innovation
- Louvre research labs
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Giunti
- National Gallery