Jan Chircop
Supervisor: Dr Christopher
Buckingham
Start Date: 10/2004
Expected Finish
Date: 09/2009
PhD Project Summary
Title: Concept
learning within social organisations
Steve Dalton
Email: daltons@aston.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Aniko
Ekart
Associate Supervisor: Prof Ian
Nabney
Start Date: 10/2005
Expected Finish Date: 08/2011
PhD Project Summary
Title: A novel subspace clustering algorithm
Jan Duracz
Room: MB306
Phone: +44 (0)121 204
3242
Email: duraczja@aston.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Michal
Konečný
Advisor: Prof Ian Nabney
Start Date:
10/2005
Expected Finish Date: 12/2010
PhD Project Summary
Title: High
Integrity Floating Point Computation
Description: The project's aim is to add the ability
to verify floating point programs to the SPARK/SPADE language and tools.
This project is funded by an EPSRC CASE award with Praxis HIS, Ltd.
Mitch Eccles
Room: MB360
Phone: +44 (0)121 204
3632
Email: ecclesm@aston.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Tony Beaumont
Associate Supervisor: Dr David Evans
Start Date:
10/2008
Expected Finish Date: 09/2011
PhD Project Summary
Title:
Michael Garlick
Room: MB271
Phone: +44 (0)121 204
3632
Email: garlicmj@aston.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Maria Chli
Advisor: Dr Radu Calinescu
Start Date: 01/2009
Expected Finish Date: 03/2012
PhD Project Summary
Title:
Description: The project endeavours to study the long-term
effects of fair trade markets as well as investigate factors and
policies to enhance their fairness and efficiency. More specifically,
the goals of the project can be summarised in the following:
- To produce agent-based market models to simulate traditional and fair trade markets.
- To investigate how one can construct realistic
agents in a fair trade market based on evidence from psychology and
insights from moral philosophy.
- To carry out a set of simulations and what-if
scenarios shedding light on fairness and efficiency of each market,
effects of different governmental policies, effects of different
retailer policies.
Sherif Hegazy
Room: MB360
Phone: +44 (0)121 204
3632
Email: hegazys@aston.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Christopher Buckingham
Start Date:
10/2007
Expected Finish Date: 09/2010
PhD Project Summary
Title:
Richard Jones
Email: jonesrm1@aston.ac.uk
Supervisors: Dr Dan Cornford
Associate Supervisor: Dr Lucy Bastin
Start Date: 10/2008
Expected Finish Date:
10/2011
PhD Project Summary
Title:
Description: Richard
will explore and implement efficient methods for managing workflows in web
services which are able to account for uncertainty in inputs and internal
parameters, using computationally efficient emulator methods. This work will
link with existing workflow tools such as BPEL, and GRID solutions such as
Taverna and Kepler. The work will form part of the UncertWeb project.
Ryszard Maciol
Email:
maciolrp@aston.ac.uk
Supervisors: Dr Yuan Yuan
Advisor: Prof Ian
Nabney
Start Date: 10/2008
Expected Finish Date:
10/2011
PhD Project Summary
Title:
Keith Priscott
Room: MB306
Phone: +44 (0)121 204
3632
Supervisor: Dr Christopher
Buckingham
Start Date: 10/2003
Expected Finish
Date: 12/2006
PhD Project Summary
Title: Integrating
knowledge structures by defining a shared ontology
Victoria Radtchenko
Email: radtchev@aston.ac.uk
Supervisors: Dr Jo Lumsden
Associate Supervisor: Dr Dan Cornford and Dr Lucy Bastin
Start Date: 10/2010
Expected Finish Date:
10/2013
PhD Project Summary
Title:
Description: Victoria will explore the relation between data quality, uncertainty and trust in Earth observation
data. In particular, she will develop mechanisms for communicating trust, via
the use of triggers, to user of Earth observation data, using both desktop and
mobile computing devices. She will also consider the communication of data
quality to users of Earth observation data. The work forms part of the GeoViQua
project.
Paul Richards
Email: richardp@aston.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Aniko
Ekart
Associate Supervisor: Dr David
Evans
Start Date: 10/2007
Expected Finish Date: 08/2011
PhD Project Summary
Title: Computer
aided design of knitwear
Tom Richens
Room: MB306
Phone: +44 (0)121 204
3632
Email: richentm@aston.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof Ian
Nabney
Advisor: Dr Christopher Buckingham
Start Date:
10/2007
Expected Finish Date: 09/2010
PhD Project Summary
Title: Enhancing
WordNet-like lexical databases
Michael Winsper
Room: MB271
Phone: +44 (0)121 204
3632
Email: winsperm@aston.ac.uk
Supervisor: Dr Maria Chli
Advisor: Prof Ian
Nabney
Start Date:
10/2008
Expected Finish Date: 09/2011
PhD Project Summary
Title:
Description: Decentralised supply chain formation, a subclass of the task allocation problem, involves determining the set of producers within a network able to supply goods to one or more consumers at the lowest cost. This problem, made more difficult by resource contention and input complementarities, has been tackled in a number of ways, including double and combinatorial auctions, multi-party negotiations, and argumentation-based approaches. In this project we cast the task allocation problem as an optimization of a Markov Random Field (MRF) energy function. Optimising this class of energy functions is known to be NP-hard but efficient approximations to the global minimum can be obtained using Loopy Belief Propagation and its variant methods. In this project we apply Loopy Belief Propagation to the supply chain formation problem, involving the decentralised passing of messages between network participants. We intend to evaluate our approach against previous auction-based and negotiation-based decentralized supply chain formation methods.
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