ECS graduate Dr Reena Pau is currently featured as Woman of the Week on the ‘She’s the Geek’ web site, run by Rene Parker in Cape Town. The web site aims to educate and empower women globally through technology, especially mobile technology. The ‘She’s the Geek’ community provides training, consulting, guest posts, technology reviews, talks and everything related to women and technology.

Having completed her PhD earlier this year with Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Reena is currently working in the University of Southampton School of Education, exploring reasons for the decline in the number of women choosing to study and work in technology. While a student in ECS Reena founded the ECSWomen group in 2005, and she has recently taken over the organization of Theano, a University of Southampton group for women in engineering, science and mathematics. She also has an established reputation for her innovative work in outreach, particularly the Murder Mystery event held at the University’s Science and Engineering Day.

In the ‘She’s the Geek’ feature Reena reflects on how technology has changed her life: ‘I find that I can do so much more with my day with social networking and email. I couldn’t live without my mobile phone and laptop. I find technology empowering. But I need to make sure it doesn’t overpower me!’

She admits to spending almost every waking hour on the Internet: ‘I spent yesterday dog-sitting at a friend’s house who didn’t have the Internet. I spent the whole day thinking about life online. I took the dog out for a lot of walks to take my mind off it!’

Reena also stresses the importance of self-belief: ‘You need to believe in yourself. If you don’t, then no one will.’

‘I was very interested in Rene’s website and differences in attitudes of women to science and technology,’ says Reena. 'I found that mobile technology in South Africa was a real life line, as well as being a communication tool. It seems to me that this is a true example of how technology can actually help people.’

Three Professors from the School of Electronics and Computer Science feature in the list of ‘100 most important figures in British Science’ published in today’s (Thursday 7 October) Times newspaper.

Professor Dame Wendy Hall, featured at no. 26, is one of only five women in the top 30. Eureka says of her: ‘When in 1977 Wendy Hall went for a job interview after completing her PhD, she was turned down because she was a woman. Big mistake. A pioneer of hypermedia and computer science, she has since published 414 papers, sat on the Council for Science and Technology and been appointed a dame. [She] has also helped to set up the Web Science Trust, which looks at the impact of the internet. She continues to fight for women in science.’

Professor Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, was appointed a Professor of Computer Science in ECS in 2004. He is also Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eureka says of him: ‘The creation of an early forebear of the World Wide Web …may have been Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s first important achievement, but his insistence that such a system should be free and open to all was revolutionary.’ Both Sir Tim and Dame Wendy are Founder Directors of the Web Science Trust.

Professor David Payne, Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre, has carried out world-leading research at the University of Southampton for over 40 years. Eureka says: ‘Professor Payne’s research on the amplification of light revolutionised modern telecommunications and enabled information to flow across the world. Today his work is critical in improving broadband speed.’

The Eureka list aims to identify the most important and interesting people in British science, ‘those pushing back the boundaries of scientific understanding, transforming our lives through innovation and changing our attitudes to science, each other and the world’, writes The Times Editor, James Harding. It covers researchers, inventors, engineers, communicators, policymakers and practitioners.

He adds: ‘…our aim has been to produce a list in keeping with the spirit of this magazine – in awe of science, fascinated by the future and convinced that our best hope of answering the problems of life on Earth lies in human ingenuity.’

All three Southampton professors in the list are members of the new Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences, of which Dame Wendy is Dean.

Dame Wendy said: ‘I'm just thrilled to be in such an eminent list. It is great to have the spotlight put on science in this way.

‘It's wonderful to see our new Faculty’s achievements highlighted so prominently in a list of the best in British science, and a great tribute to the support for research and scientific endeavour at the University of Southampton.’

A major new research project led by Professor Nick Jennings of the University of Southampton will aim to develop true partnerships between people and computers.

At a time when humans are becoming increasingly dependent on computers, the Orchid Project brings together over 60 researchers from a range of disciplines at the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Nottingham, together with industrial partners at BAE Systems, PRI Ltd and the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR).

The five-year programme, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) with significant investment from the industrial partners, will tackle the challenge of understanding, designing, building, and deploying systems that are composed of human-agent collectives (HACs).

HACs will become an increasing feature of our daily lives as mobile phones, sat-navs, sensing systems, and other electronic devices become more powerful and more ubiquitous. Embryonic and relatively unsophisticated examples of current human interactions with autonomous software entities include the crowd-sourcing that provides a growing element of our traffic information, user-generated content for weather reports, and our interactions with software that can find us hotels according to our preferences.

Professor Jennings says: “We are fast approaching an ‘era of ubiquity’ where each of us will become increasingly dependent on multiple smart and proactive computers that we carry with us, access at home and at work, and that are embedded into the world around us.

“This will profoundly change the ways in which we work with computers. Rather than issuing instructions to passive machines, we will increasingly work in partnership with highly interâ€?connected computational components (agents) that are able to act autonomously and intelligently.â€?

Professor Jennings, of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton, believes that human-agent collectives – people and computational agents operating at a global scale – offer tremendous potential and, if realised correctly, will help meet key societal challenges.

However, these benefits are mirrored by the threat of equally concerning pitfalls as we shift to become increasingly reliant on systems that interweave human and computational endeavour.

The Orchid Project therefore has ambitious aims: the researchers will tackle the entire lifecycle of systems composed of humanâ€?agent collectives, from the underpinning theory to the application of the systems in the real-world critical domains of energy systems and disaster response. In doing so, they will define the new science of systems composed of humanâ€?agent collectives, demonstrate the commercial, industrial and societal impact of such systems, and enhance the UK’s competitiveness in this key area of the knowledge economy.

Professor Jennings says: “We are bringing together three worldâ€?class academic groups with multidisciplinary expertise in the areas of artificial intelligence, agentâ€?based computing, machine learning, decentralised information systems, participatory systems, and ubiquitous computing. These multiple insights will be essential in developing a principled science that will define the future development of human-agent collectives.

“We know that humans and software agents will continually and flexibly establish a range of collaborative relationships with one another, but their global scale and decentralised nature means control and information will be widely dispersed among a large number of potentially self-interested actors with different aims and objectives -some of whom may be humans, others may be software agents.

“For these systems to meet their goals, issues such as trust, fairness, efficiency, and stability will all have to be optimized against a background of potential uncertainty, bias, and ambiguity. Our real-world application domains of energy systems and disaster response will provide the opportunity to develop and demonstrate intelligent agents and explore how humans can work with them, how they respond to varying degrees of autonomy, and what incentives need to be put in place to encourage socially desirable behaviour.â€? Orchid continues Professor Jennings’ research in the ALADDIN programme, a five-year strategic research programme funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and BAE Systems, which developed a multi-agent toolbox across a range of data and information applications. Orchid takes this work into new areas of even greater significance and complexity.

“The breadth of our multidisciplinary approach, coupled with our focus on industrial applications, means that this research can be expected to be truly transformational,â€? adds Professor Jennings. “This enables us to build critical systems in the future that will be powerful but also reliable.â€?

____ This research takes place in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia research group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. If you are interested in undertaking PhD research in this group, see our Research pages for further information.

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Researchers at the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) have won an award for producing an artificial intelligence that is able to guide scientific experimentation within a laboratory.

PhD students Chris Lovell and Gareth Jones today (Friday 8 October) received the Carl Smith Award for best student paper at the thirteenth international conference on Discovery Science, currently being held in Canberra (6 to 8 October).

The artificial intelligence, developed by Chris Lovell, mimics the techniques used by successful human scientists. The software, called an artificial experimenter, looks at the data available, builds hypotheses and then chooses the experiments to perform, all without human interaction.

"Experimentation is expensive. Scientists always want to learn as much as they can from the smallest number of experiments possible. The new techniques we have developed try to address this problem,� said Dr Klaus-Peter Zauner of the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems Group at ECS, who supervised this research as part of a Microsoft European Fellowship.

As well as learning from small numbers of experiments, the software is designed to question whether the data obtained is correct. "Biological experimentation can be error prone,â€? Dr Zauner added. “Measurements taken may not always be representative of what actually happens. Our system tries to detect erroneous data, so it can ignore it." The artificial experimenter has been used to characterise the response from a biological system. Currently these experiments have been performed manually in the laboratory, but the next step is to join the software with an automated platform that can perform microscale experiments, to allow for fully autonomous experimentation.

The lab-on-chip platform, being developed by Gareth Jones, will allow the cost of experimentation to be reduced further, by decreasing the volumes of chemicals required per experiment. When completed, the platform will perform the experiments requested by the artificial experimenter, providing it with the results obtained to allow the software to develop new hypotheses and decide on the next experiments to perform. The work has been carried out as part of a Microsoft European Fellowship awarded to Dr Klaus-Peter Zauner, along with collaboration from Professor Steve Gunn and Professor Hywel Morgan.

"The artificial experimenter will provide a tool for scientists, which will not only allow them to reduce experimentation costs, but will also allow them to redirect their time from monotonous characterisation experiments, to analysing the results, building theories and determining uses for those results," say the researchers in their paper. The full text is available at: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21593/1/LovellC10ArtExpEnzRespChar.pdf

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Scientists working on biometrics at the University of Southampton have developed a new technique to identify people by their ears.

In a paper entitled A Novel Ray Analogy for Enrolment of Ear Biometrics just presented at the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, scientists from the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) described how a technique called the image ray transform can highlight tubular structures such as ears, making it possible to identify them.

The research which was carried out by Professor Mark Nixon, Dr John Carter and Alastair Cummings at ECS, describes how the transform is capable of highlighting tubular structures such as the helix of the ear and spectacle frames and, by exploiting the elliptical shape of the helix, can be used as the basis of a method for enrolment (the discovery, localisation and normalisation of the image) for ear biometrics.

Professor Nixon, one of the UK's earliest researchers in this field, first proved that ears were a viable biometric back in 1999. He said then that ears have certain advantages over the more established biometrics as they have a rich and stable structure that is preserved from birth to old age and instead of ageing they just get bigger. The ear also does not suffer from changes in facial expression and is fixed in the middle of the side of the head against a predictable background, unlike face recognition which usually requires the face to be captured against a controlled background.

However, the fact that ears can be concealed by hair led Professor Nixon and his team to research their use as a biometric further and to come up with new algorithms to make it possible to identify and isolate the ear from the head.

The new technique presented by the scientists achieves 99.6% success at enrolment across 252 images of the XM2VTS database, displaying a resistance to confusion with hair and spectacles. These results show great potential for enhancing the detection of structural features.

"Feature recognition is one of the biggest challenges of computer vision," said Professor Nixon. "The ray transform technique may also be appropriate for use in gait biometrics, as legs act as tubular features that the transform is adept at extracting. The transform could also be extended to work on 3D images, both spatial and spatio-temporal, for 3D biometrics or object tracking. As a general pre-processing technique for feature extraction in computer images the technology is now pervading manufacturing, surveillance and medical applications."

The research, published in a paper entitled A Novel Ray Analogy for Enrolment of Ear Biometrics, was presented at the recent IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, held in Washington DC.

A copy of at: A Novel Ray Analogy for Enrolment of Ear Biometrics can be accessed at: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21546/

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EPrints, the first software that made it possible for institutions to create repositories in which to self-archive their research papers online, celebrates its 10th birthday next week during Open Access Week.

Open Access Week, which will take place from 18-24 October, is a global event now entering its fourth year. It provides an opportunity for the academic and research community worldwide to showcase the resources and benefits of Open Access (OA), share the year’s new developments with colleagues, and inspire the ever swifter and broader spread of this revolution in the creation and communication of knowledge.

The University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) will also be celebrating EPrints during Open Access Week. ECS has been at the forefront of the OA movement since the early 1990s and was the first institution in the world to adopt an open access mandate (in 2002), requiring its researchers to self-archive all their research online. The School designed EPrints, the first software created for this purpose, which now drives many of the world’s leading institutional repositories and is much emulated by other softwares.

"ECS pioneered the institutional repository, designing the EPrints software as a means of encouraging open access in 1999," said Dr Les Carr, EPrints Technical Director. "Since 2002 when we adopted our own mandate, our repository has grown to over 4000 open access full-text research publications, capturing close to 100 per cent of our annual refereed research output."

In 2005, the School launched EPrints Services to provide training and repository-hosting services for research institutions across the world. "EPrints Services has proved a great success," said Dr Carr, "enabling us to pass on the expertise that we have developed over the years and to help institutions to customise their own OA repositories for their needs."

EPrints is being developed to support emerging Open Data and Open Science agendas through projects funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). ECS researchers, including Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Professor Stevan Harnad, Professor Tony Hey, Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Dr Les Carr, have been at the forefront of designing and advocating these changes in scientific practice and arguing for changes in national and international scientific policies.

During Open Access Week, the EPrints team will showcase the numerous successes made possible by the software over the last 10 years.

Six ECS students received scholarships from the School to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, held in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this month.

The six students, Norhidayah Azman, Betty Purwandari, Jenny Lantair, Karolina Kaniewska, Carly Wilson, Rosy Ibrahim and Maria Apampa were accompanied by Jane Morgan and dr mc schraefel from the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia research group in ECS. dr schraefel was the only international speaker on a panel of women in Human Computer Interaction, specifically discussing the nature of women's research careers in HCI.

Jenny Lantair writes about the experience: "I recently returned from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference 2010 - it was quite an unforgettable experience. The conference itself is huge. Around 2140 people attend, mostly women, from 29 different countries, all of whom were students (960 of us), university staff or working in industry. At any point in the conference one could strike up a conversation with the women around, simply about how is it being a female in computing, job opportunities, or one of my favourite questions 'Do you offer internships'? So many wonderful companies offer well paid internships in the States that I shall have a hard time deciding which one to go for, they were all so persuasive.

The main benefits from attending GHC is the networking opportunities and the chance to hear a mix of inspiring and amazing cutting-edge women talk about their work and their lives, whether it’s one-on-one around the breakfast table, in a group at a workshop or in a crowd of thousands watching them upon the main stage. I found the chance to talk to women I would never have met otherwise really refreshing. Having a conversation with another woman and not knowing whether they head up R&D at Yahoo, are a lead researcher at IBM or just another student like you is quite an exciting experience.

For example I held a fairly animated discussion with two other women I assumed were other students (purple hair and dreadlocks are normally our area rather than businesswomen's) and it wasn’t until later we talked about what we had each been doing that summer that I discovered one was the head of the Google summer of code project and the other was the presenter of an American podcast I listen to! They both gave me their cards and that’s what I loved - everyone there is just another woman you can talk to. If I had tried to contact such people I would have had to jump through hoops, but at GHC an interested ear and some conversation is all that is needed.

The talks themselves were fascinating; what with the wide variety of lectures going on at any one point a talk could be found to suit you at any time of the day. Most of the day 9-5 there were nine different lectures going on ranging from security to industry, open source development to managing your own research team. If there wasn’t something on that appealed for you or you had just reached saturation point on lectures, you could stroll around the tables and talk to a range of companies, from the NSA to Amazon. The highlights for me were the Open Source track which was a whole day of Open Source talks from a range of panellists which culminated in a hackfest. This was coding as a large group for a group called the Sahana foundation. This is a group set up to help manage natural disasters, with the larger goal of saving lives. This was a great experience since I got the chance to code with other interested students and we learnt how large coding projects stretching the globe worked.

A very inspiring speaker was Jan Moolman who presented a talk about using technology to end violence against women, whether as an aid to prevent the initial violence, ensure the perpetrator was arrested or simply as a tool to help the victim recover afterwards. It was a very moving and at points scary talk as some of the animated recovery tools was a mix of brightly coloured cheerful cartoons, the emotionless voice of the victim recounting the series of events and the brutal violence which had occurred. Jan’s talk was very impassioned though and I’m hoping to get involved with the “Take back the techâ€? movement in the near future as a way to support her amazing work.

Finally every day there was a keynote speaker, all amazing women such as the CEO of Yahoo Carol Bartz, Barbara Liskov of MIT (creator of the LIskov Substitution Principle and Turing award winner), and my favourite Duy-Loan Le of Texas Instruments. Duy-Loan was a brilliant speaker who was very inspiring; she managed to mix sparkling humour with her life story, personal advice for the audience and serious messages about what helped her and others become successful women. She really made any personal problems one had feel inconsequential with what she had been through and yet not only did she survived through them, but she grew into a successful engineer and became the first woman to become a senior fellow at TI. After a tiring whirlwind of a conference we ended up at the Atlanta aquarium for a disco hosted by Microsoft and Google. It was a great way to end such an event and if any women (or men) are reading this and still aren’t sure I would say go for it, it’s an amazing event (being held in Portland next year which looks lovely) and it leaves you feeling refreshed and energized about your work. It’s a great way for final year students to meet prospective employers and get a head start over everyone else when graduation comes around.

Last of all I would like to say thank you to everyone who helped organise the scholarships this side of the Atlantic, especially Jane Morgan who made it such a good trip and ensured the rest of us could have an enjoyable time."

Researchers at the University of Southampton have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant to study the movement of glaciers.

Professor Jane Hart from the School of Geography and Dr Kirk Martinez of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) have been awarded £284,612 to study a phenomenon known as glacier 'stick-slip' motion as it affects the Skalafellsjökull glacier in Iceland.

According to the team, scientists know surprisingly little about 'stick-slip' motion, the term given to the events which cause ice sheet movement, and occur in the normal course of glacier sliding. "Due to the logistical problems of studying glaciers and the subglacial environment, we know very little about the process,� said Professor Hart. "Until recently, it was assumed that glaciers flowed slowly and continuously, but there is a growing body of evidence that glacier movement can be episodic and can be modelled in a similar way to earthquakes as stick-slip motion."

To measure the ‘stick’ phase, the researchers plan to use an innovative wireless multisensory probe which they developed to use on Glacsweb, a project which deployed the world’s first wireless probe to measure in-situ processes at the base of a glacier in Briksdalsbreen, Norway.

They plan to use a GPS and accelerometers on the glacier surface to measure the ‘slip’ phase.

"This research is significant because it uses the most recent technological advances in wireless sensor network research to understand a fundamental property of glacier dynamics," Dr Martinez added. "Environmental Sensor Networks provide a unique way of studying glacial motion and the associated responses of the ice and till. The Glacsweb system is the only glacial wireless system in use today and serves as an ideal platform to investigate new scientific problems."

The project will continue for three years and the data collected will be sent back daily to a server in the UK via the mobile phone network, and published on the Web for other researchers.

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This research is taking place in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia research group in ECS. If you are interested in PhD research in this group, you can find further information on our Research Admissions pages.

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Professor Nick Jennings of the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) has just been listed as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers.

The listing, which appears today (Friday 22 October) on ISIHighlyCited.Com has identified Professor Jennings as one of the most highly cited researchers of our time in both engineering and computer science, and as someone who has contributed to the progress of science through his insight and accomplishments. He is one of only 20 academics worldwide to be listed in both categories.

ISIHighlyCited.com, developed by Thomson Reuters, is the first online community composed of and designed completely for highly cited scientific researchers. It highlights the top 250 pre-eminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work for the period 1981-2008.

Professor Jennings is an internationally-recognised authority in the areas of agent-based computing and intelligent systems. His research covers both the theory and the application of such systems. Specifically, he has undertaken fundamental research on automated bargaining, auctions, markets, mechanism design, trust and reputation, coalition formation and decentralised control.

He has also pioneered the application of multi-agent technology; developing some of the first real-world systems (in domains such as business process management, energy systems, sensor networks, disaster response, telecommunications, and eDefence) and generally advocating the area of agent-oriented software engineering. He has just completed the ALADDIN programme, a five-year strategic research programme funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and BAE Systems, which developed a multi-agent toolbox across a range of data and information applications for emergency scenarios. This research will be further developed in the new ORCHID programme. Also funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) with significant investment from the industrial partners, ORCHID will tackle the challenge of understanding, designing, building, and deploying systems that are composed of human-agent collectives (HACs).

Professor Jennings joined ECS in 1999 and has achieved much in the 11 years since then. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence and has attracted over £13M of grant income for his work in this field. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. More recently still, he was appointed as a Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government.

Commenting on his listing on ISIHighlyCited.Com, he says: “I am delighted to be joining this prestigious grouping of academics who have all had a major impact on the scientific landscape through the take-up of the ideas and solutions they have presented in their published work.â€?

Professor Sheng Chen of the Communications Group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science is listed in the engineering category. His research interests are in Adaptive signal processing for communications, machine learning and neural networks, modeling and identification of nonlinear systems, finite-precision digital controller design, evolutionary computation methods and optimization. He was appointed a Professor in ECS in 2005, and received a Doctor of Science degree from the University in the same year. He has 244 publications listed the ISI database.

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Professor Nick Jennings is Head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. If you are interested in PhD research positions in this group you can find out more information on our Research Admissions pages.

Professor Sheng Chen is a member of the Communications Group in ECS. If you are interested in PhD research positions in this group you can find out more information on our Research Admissions pages.

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The first community model capable of tracing the origins of computer-generated information is now available. University of Southampton researcher, Professor Luc Moreau, says that the new model will lead to better degrees of trust online.

The new paper entitled 'The open provenance model core specification', by Professor Luc Moreau of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and a community of international researchers, describes a new data model, the Open Provenance Model (OPM), designed to represent the provenance of information. The paper has just become available online at Future Generation Computer Systems.

“Provenance is a term used in diverse areas such as art, archaeology and palaeontology, which describes the history of an object since its creation,â€? said Professor Moreau. “Its main focus is to establish that the object has not been forged or altered, and we have found that we can now do the same with computer-generated data. By understanding where data comes from, users can decide to trust data.â€?

In 2006, Professor Moreau launched the Provenance Challenge series, an international, multidisciplinary activity, aiming to exchange provenance between information systems. It led to the design of the OPM, its actual use in the Provenance Challenge, and its revision according to an open-source-like community process.

The team have now developed a model which traces the origins of information and allows these provenance details to be shared between systems. The new model has already had some take-up by academia and industry. The next step is for a provenance data model of this kind to receive a seal of approval from the standardisation body.

“Provenance is well understood in the context of art or digital libraries, where it refers respectively to the documented history of an art object, or the documentation of processes in a digital object's life cycle,â€? said Professor Moreau. “Interest in provenance in the e-science community is also growing, since it is perceived as a crucial component of workflow systems that can help scientists ensure reproducibility of their scientific analyses and processes.â€?

The open provenance model core specification paper and full list of authors is available at: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21449/, and related specifications can be found at http://openprovenance.org/.

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This research takes place in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia research group of ECS. You can find further information about PhD opportunities in the School on the ECS Research Admissions page.

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