Active projects
| Project | Description |
Type |
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| COHSE (Conceptual Open Hypermedia Service) |
The aim of COHSE is to research into methods to improve significantly the quality, consistency and breadth of linking of WWW documents at retrieval time (as readers browse the documents) and authoring time (as authors create the documents). | Funded |
| CoreGRID |
CoreGRID is a European "Network of Excellence" (NoE) that aims to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies by bringing together a critical mass of well-established researchers from 42 institutions. | Funded (European Commission) |
| DynamO (Dynamic Ontologies) |
Dynamo aims to develop a logical basis for a dynamic ontology language that is fully compatible with current, standard static ontology languages and provides the necessary expressive power for the structured representation of e-Science services. | Funded (EPSRC) |
| Extending Expressive Description Logics. | The project investigates different extensions of expressive description logics that are motivated by the use of Description Logics as the logical underpinning of ontology languages such as OWL, studies their computational complexity, and designs practical reasoning algorithms for them. | Funded |
| FAME-PERMIS |
A JISC funded project to design and develop a middleware solution to integrate multi-level authentication services to achieve authentication strength linked fine-grained access control and to support single-sign-on. | Funded |
| Knowledge Web |
Knowledge Web aims to support the transition process of Ontology technology from Academia to Industry | Funded (European Union 6th Framework Programme) |
| LOGO | LOGO aims to develop logics and reasoning techniques that will form the foundations of the next generation of ontology languages and reasoning systems. | Funded (EPSRC) |
| Modularity of Ontologies |
The goal of this project is to develop meaningful notions and related reasoning services for composing and decomposing ontologies to serve as the basis for the collaborative development and re-use of ontologies. | Funded (EPSRC) |
| Monty |
The Manchester Curated Ontology Library aims to provide a collection of ontologies annotated with a number of metrics and properties including, for example, expressivity, size and satisfiability. | Pilot study |
| mygrid |
Providing support for the eScientist performing in silico experiments. | Funded |
| On-Demand Data Integration: Dataspaces by Refinement |
The aim of the project is to investigate how a dataspace management system (DSMS) can provide integrated access to heterogeneous data sources with minimal up-front costs and incremental improvement using information from different sources (e.g. the users, the data in the different sources). | Funded |
| OntoGrid |
The OntoGrid project is producing the technological infrastructure for the rapid prototyping and development of knowledge-intensive distributed open services for the Semantic Grid | Funded |
| Pedro |
The Pedro project has developed an extensible model-driven data capture tool for XML data, including support for ontology-based data entry; the resulting software has been widely used, in particular in the life sciences. | Funded (UK e-Science Programme and BBSRC) |
| REOL |
REOL aims to design efficient reasoning systems for very expressive ontology languages | Funded (EPSRC) |
| REWERSE (Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics) |
REWERSE aims to establish Europe as a leader in reasoning languages for the Web | Funded (European Union 6th Framework Programme) |
| RIAM (Reciprocal Interoperability between the Accessible and Mobile Webs) |
The aim of RIAM is to investigate ways in which to integrate, to mutual advantage, research into the Accessible and Mobile World Wide Webs (Web), to develop a common infrastructure, and to validate this infrastructure using existing Web documents and Mobile client simulators. | Funded (EPSRC) |
| SADIe |
SADIe investigates the use of ontologies to explicate the implicit semantics provided by Cascading Style Sheets and XHTML in order to transcode a Web page so that it is accessible by visually impaired users. | Pilot study |
| SASWAT (Single-Structured Accessibility Stream for Web 2.0 Access Technologies) |
Allowing visually impaired web users better access to Web 2.0 websites. | Pilot study |
| Semantic Sensor Grids for Rapid Application Development for Environmental Management (SemSorGrid4Env) |
"This project is concerned with developing techniques to enable sensor networks to be easily discoverable, integrated with each other, and also integrated with other types of data sources (e.g. a relational database with historical data), thus enabling mashups to be developed, in an impromptu manner, that combine independent sensor networks and other types of data sources. | Funded |
| Service Level Agreement Based Scheduling Heuristics project |
The Service Level Agreement Based Scheduling Heuristics project aims to establish a framework for efficient job scheduling on Grid-enabled high-performance (parallel) computing resources, based on the notion of Service Level Agreements, which may be negotiated between the submitter of each job, superschedulers and local schedulers. | Funded (EPSRC) |
| shimmer |
An experiment with the Web Ontology Language (OWL) to provide semantic matching of biomedical web services. | Pilot study |
| TONES (Thinking ONtologiES) |
TONES aims to study and develop automated reasoning techniques for tasks associated with ontologies, and devise methodologies for the deployment of such techniques, on | Funded (European Union 6th Framework Programme) |
| ViCRAM (Visual Complexity Rankings and Accessibility Metrics) |
ViCRAM is a project that will relate user's implicit understanding of Web page visual complexity with its layout to develop a heuristic framework that will be used for describing Web page visual complexity and as guidelines for transcoding a Web page into a less visually complex and more accessible one. | Funded |
