Our main current research themes are listed below. The activities in these themes are inter-related, and many members of the department contribute to more than one theme.
Computing Science Research Coordinator: Dr Tim Norman
We are developing the processes of acquiring, modelling, using, and re-using knowledge. Example application: e-engineering in the aerospace industry, making the accumulated expertise of 100s of engineers available to a designer working on a jet engine, by modelling and re-using meaningful knowledge from a company's intranet.
Research within the NLG Group is concerned with both theoretical and practical aspects of information presentation to human users, mainly through the automatic generation of text or speech, but also considering to some extent visual presentation.
We are examining how to create networks of autonomous software entities that can act on a human's behalf in a complex environment, acquiring information, learning, and interacting with other agents. Example application: e-business, building robust electronic marketplaces of agents that buy and sell products and services.
We are researching techniques to analyse, simulate, and model time series and spatial data in a range of quantitative, qualitative, and linguistic representations, with particular emphasis on applications in the Life and Medical Sciences.
Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK
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