Intelligent Media Systems & Services Laboratory (imss)

Informatics Research Centre, Computer Science Department

School of Systems Engineering University of Reading, UK

http://www.irc.reading.ac.uk/imss/index.htmatta.badii@reading.ac.uk

• Architectures for Semantic Integration-and-Continuity (I & C)• Reconfigurable personalised service-oriented software engineering • P2P networked services, ad-hoc teams knowledge services support• Agent technologies and collaborative-creative computing • Dynamic trust, advocacy and privacy enhancing technologies

• Technology-enhanced learning and creativity acceleration• Enterprise Application Integration, System Testability Frameworks• Dynamic QoS evaluation, Living Lab/E&AR evaluation approaches• Tools for online self-report, opinion mining (the PopEval Family)• Technology Diffusion & Appropriation, User-Intimate Co-Design

• Secure AAA – Identity Management, Device Interrogation• Workflow-embedded knowledge management and CBR• Multi-channel cross-media production and distribution• Neuro-genetic techniques for large scale pattern recognition

Social-Solution Technologies

Partner in the EU FP6 Flagship IP AXMEDIS Leading the R&D on the Axmedis Workflow Integration,Leading a number of UK-EPSRC-funded Research Networks:• EPSRC Research Network on IS Evaluation & Enterprise

Integration (NISE, Steering Board member)• EPSRC Research Network on E-Government IS Evaluation (

EGISE, Steering Board Member) • Network of alliances with industry and public sector gateway

organisations • Good access to key user groups ie the young + senior citizens & Local and central government administration;• Linking in special testbeds to strengthen systems evaluation

Strong research links in North America, Europe, China, Australia

Imss

Application Areas:

Creative Collaboration Framework Reference Semantic Architecture Layers

• Ontology engineering, methods, tools, testability and evaluation frameworks to support collaborative-creativity spaces: 

• Generalisation ontologies and ad-hoc team semantic models to support accelerated creativity, productivity, dynamic trust and relationship building

• Semantic-cooperative standards /profiles/behaviour-based models• Service identification, innovation, description, selection and bundling• Personalised secure identity management, environment assessment tools

• Social network analysis and negotiation• Interrogation and/or online self-report, opinion mining and visualisation• workflow-embedded knowledge integration services, creativity-productivity evaluation• Testability Frameworks and Experience-and-Application based deep usability

relationships modelling, dynamic socio-technical evaluation 

• 4G-capable dynamic local and global trust–aware collaborative-creativity environment. Supported by ad-hoc service composition and semantic modelling of ad-hoc teams, adhoc outsourcing and dynamic QoS optimisation.

• SLA negotiation, service selection, match-making, bundling and contracting to provide seamless semantic- cooperative and workflow-embedded knowledge services in support of P2P networks, nomadic workers and distributed communities of practice and/or citizens generally at their mobile homes/offices and mobile leisure.

• e-Manufacturing, e-Participation, e-Health, e-Learning

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