This is a summary of active projects (in various sub-areas) within the group. Follow the links for more detailed information.

Intelligent Agents for Information Management

• Multi-Threaded Offline Meta-Search Engine - Remora

  A client-server approach (implemented in Java). Searches are conducted using Lycos, Excite, and Yahoo search engines. Results (unique set of URLs) are clustered and returned to user by email or as a Web page.

• Organising Information Resources

• Collaborative Web Browsing - COWBRA

Learning in Multi-Agent Systems

• Knowledge Refinement in Multi-Agent Systems

• Communicating Inductive Inferences in a Multi-Agent Context

Novel Machine Learning Techniques

• Instance-Based Learning Using Set-Valued Attributes

• Dimensionality Reduction for Text Categorisation

• Pruning Methods for Hierarchical Clustering

• Less-Naive Bayesian Learning

Data-Mining Techniques/Applications

• Learning Profiles of Customer Behaviour
  (Customer Relationship Management)

Phone: +44 (0)1224 272270
Fax: +44 (0)1224 273422

pedwards@csd.abdn.ac.uk