Architectures for Semantic Integration-and-Continuity (I & C)

1. Intelligent Media Systems & Services Laboratory (imss)Informatics Research Centre, Computer Science DepartmentSchool of Systems EngineeringUniversity of Reading, UKhttp://www.irc.reading.ac.uk/imss/index.htmatta.badii@reading.ac.uk

2. Social-Solution Technologies • 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

3. Imss • 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

4. 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 

5. Application Areas: • 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