Current and Recent Funded Research Projects
PRAISE: Performance and pRactice Agents Inspiring Social Education
Aim: a system for enabling online communities to practice and perform together using state of art in music analysis gesture analysis, natural language and community management
Duration 2013-2016
Funding Source European Union FP7 Strep Project
Total Project value: 3,500,000 Euros
Partners: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish Research Council, Spain; Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris; VUB University Brussels,
Principal Investigator
ACE: Autonomic Agents For Online Cultural Experiences
Aim: to enable users to synchronously share their online experiences including social synchronous browsing and annotation
Duration: 2011-2013
Goldsmiths: 325,000 Euros
1st call of the ERA-NET CHIST-ERA (European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences\Technologies
Partners: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish Research Council, Spain; Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research, France
Principal Investigator
Vconect: Video Communications For Networked Communities
Aim: novel video communication technologies for communities building intelligent multi-camera and multi-location video communication combined with synchronous video share
Duration: 2011-2014
Total Project value 5,500,000 Euros
Funding Source European Union FP7 Strep Project
Partners: BT, Alcatel-Lucent (Belgium), Portugal Telecom, CWI (Netherlands), Fraunhofer (Germany), Joanneum Research (Austria), Eurescom (Germany), University College Falmouth (UK)
Co-investigator
Creativeworks - AHRC Digital Economy Hub
Aim: build new partnerships and commercial opportunities between academia and the Creative Economy
Duration: 2012 - 2016
Total Project value: 4,000,000 pounds
Funding Source: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Partners: Queen Mary, University of London (lead institution); Birkbeck College; Central School of Speech and Drama; City University; the Courtauld Institute; Kingston University; Guildhall School of Music and Drama; King's College London; Royal Holloway; School of Oriental and African Studies; Roehampton University; Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance; University of the Arts
Co-investigator and Goldsmiths lead
TA2: Together Anywhere, Together Anytime
Aim: development of new technologies to foster relationships between friends and family via video communication
Duration: 2008 -- 2012
European Union FP7 Integrated Project
Total Project value: 18,000,000 Euros
Goldsmiths value: 2,000,000 Euros
Partners: BT, Alcatel-Lucent (Belgium), Philips (Netherlands), Ravensburger (Germany) Limbic Entertainment (Germany), Fraunhofer (Germany), TNO (Netherlands), (Netherlands), CWI (Netherlands), IDIAP (Switzerland), Joanneum (Austria), Eurescom (Germany), Interactive Institute (Sweden)
Co-Investigator
OMRAS2: A Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology
Aim: framework for annotating and searching collections of both recorded music and digital score representations
Duration 2007 - 2011
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Project Value 2,183,000 pounds
Goldsmiths Value 735,000 pounds
Web (project): http://www.omras2.com
Partners: Queen Mary, Kings College, Royal Holloway, Lancaster University, University of Surrey
Principal Investigator
ECRIS: Energy Conservation through Resource-Literacy and Intelligent Systems
Aim: to apply intelligent agent system technology to build in home devices to help users conserve energy
Technology Strategy Board
2007 -- 2009
Project Value 235,000 pounds
Partners: Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and Onzo Ltd.
Principal Investigator
Modelling Stem Cells and Leukemia
Aim: to bring together stem cell researchers spanning theory, computational modelling and wet-lab practitioners and carers to look at how to understand Leukemia treatment
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Project Value 30,000 US Dollars
Year: 2008
Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London
Partners: Leipzig University
PI, Chair and Organiser
Designing physical artefacts from computational simulations and building computational simulations of physical systems
Aim: to understand the relationship between designing simulations and designing physical artefacts
Duration: 2005 -- 2006
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council
Design for the 21st Century
Project Value: 45,000 Pounds
Principal Investigator
The SMART Agent Framework
with Michael Luck
The richness of the agent metaphor that leads to many different uses of the term has also caused a situation where there is no commonly accepted notion of what it is that constitutes an agent. In response, we have developed a framework that precisely and unambiguously provides meanings for common concepts and terms, enables alternative models of particular classes of system to be described within it, and provides a foundation for subsequent development of increasingly more refined concepts. Our concern has been to develop well-defined formal concepts that can be used both as the basis of implementation, and also as a general framework for further research. This collaboration has been nearly 15 years with Michael Luck.
Agent Systems Specification
with Michael Luck
Complementing other strands of research, this work aims to start with implemented systems and formalise their architectures and operation in specifications that may then be used to inform more conceptual work. The benefits include better understanding and description of these systems, and the closer integration of agent theory and practice. Some of the most important work came with specifying the dMARS architecture with colleagues Michael Luck, Michael Georgeff and Mike Wooldridge. With the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Spain, we are building a definitive, operational model of an electronic institution. Electronic Institutions are the intelligent agents’ counterpart of human organisations, and are designed to provide support, trust and legitimacy in electronic commerce applications.