“When we work with industrial collaborators there is no ‘them’ and ‘us’,” says Prof Nick Jennings from the University of Southampton. “Good communication and a close working relationship were the key reasons why our project was so successful.”
For five years Jennings headed up the ALADDIN project, which involved four universities...
A group of computer scientists from the UAE, US and UK have won a seemingly impossible worldwide challenge: to track down five ‘suspects’ of a jewel heist in five different cities within 12 hours. Their win redefines the limits of technology-mediated social mobilization and rapid information gathering.
The ‘Tag Challenge’, took...
ORCHID is delighted to be one of 60 projects selected to highlight achievements across the University of Southampton as part of its Jubilee Project. To find out more via this link to the Jubilee Project.
Researchers from the University of Southampton will be collaborating with scientists from Masdar Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to tackle the MyHeartMap Challenge, using social network and crowdsourcing.
The team has launched its own website to attract team recruits who will help...
Researchers in ECS-Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton have launched new software which allows organisations to develop evacuation plans using a combination of crowdsourcing and computer simulations.
Dr Sarvapali Ramchurn and a team of researchers in the ECS Agents, Interaction and Complexity research group have devised CollabMap and...
Researchers from the ORCHID project will present their work on the use of computerised agents for home energy management and disaster responses this week at TechWorld, the UK’s leading technology event.
A team led by Professor Nick Jennings and Dr Alex Rogers of ECS-Electronics and Computer Science at the University of...
Researchers at the University of Southampton will present their work on the use of computerised agents for home energy management and disaster responses at TechWorld this week. A team led by Professor Nick Jennings and Dr Alex Rogers at the University’s ECS – Electronics and Computer Science has been invited...
A Southampton-led research project is set to create true partnerships between people and computers, helping to tackle some of today’s most pressing challenges.
The way in which we interact with computers is changing fast. With high-speed internet, social networking and over five billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide, we no longer need...
IT SOUNDS strange, but leaving your cellphone plugged in when you’re not using it could help cut your carbon footprint. Even better, it could reduce your electricity bill. We just need to start using smart-software agents – programs that act on our behalf – to manage how we store our...
Nick Jennings, professor of computer science at Southampton University’s school of electronics and computer science, and an expert in software agents, says the coming intelligent grid to manage the country’s energy distribution and consumption, will rely on cooperation between autonomous software agents to control and manage itself.
A centralised control system...
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