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2. www.inf.ed.ac.uk

3. School of Informatics • Formed in 1998 by joining: • Department of Artificial Intelligence • Department of Cognitive Science • Department of Computer Science • Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute • Human Communications Research Centre • Links to Departments of Linguistics, Psychology, Neurosciences, High Performance Computing, National e-Science Centre, etc. • Only group in UK to achieve highest 5* Research Rating in 2001 UK Research Assessment. By far the biggest concentration of world-leading scientists in this area in the UK. • Excellent rating in the most recent (1994) SHEFC Teaching Quality Assessment exercise.

4. Informatics Research Institutes • Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications • Basic and applied research and development in knowledge representation and reasoning. Through its Applications Institute (AIAI) it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with this research. • Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation • Theoretical and empirical study of brain processes and artificial learning systems, drawing on neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, computational science, mathematics and statistics. • Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems • Basic and applied study of communication among humans and between humans and machines using text, speech, and graphics for interactive dialog. • Institute for Computing Systems Architecture • Architecture and engineering of future computing systems: performance and scalability; innovative algorithms, architectures, compilers, languages and protocols. • Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour • Linking computational action, perception, representation, transformation and generation processes to real or virtual worlds: computer vision, mobile and assembly robotics, music perception and visualization. • Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science • Developing and applying foundational understanding of computation and communication: formal models, mathematical theories, and software tools.

5. Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute www.aiai.ed.ac.uk Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications and its Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute

6. AIAI Applications Focus • Knowledge Management & Knowledge Systems • Knowledge Modelling, Ontologies, Development Methodologies, Intelligent Documents, Case-Bases, Organisational Memories • Planning & Activity Management • Activity Planning, Intelligent Task Management, Intelligent Workflow, Process Standards & Modelling, Intelligent Agents, Cooperation • Adaptive Systems • Case-Based Reasoning, Adaptive Scheduling Methods, Adaptive Process Control, Machine Learning, data Mining • Intelligent Interfaces • Multi-lingual, multi-modal, task support interfaces • Intelligent Process Panels • New Ventures • Umbrella title for drawing on and making new links to skills available in other parts of Informatics, the rest of the University and further afield Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications and its Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute

7. Some Key Achievements • Knowledge-Based Systems for Analysis Tasks: • RAF Expert Provisioner • £10m saved ahead of deployment due to improved models, £30m per annum saved in RAF spares, now going Tri-forces. • EASE – estimates occupational exposure to hazardous substances for health & safety regulators • In use across Europe • Knowledge-Based Systems for Synthesis Tasks: • BT Yellow Pages Layout - lays out all new directories • Uses a custom “Layout language” that can also be used for other directories • Innovative AI Applications Award in 1998 • GhostWriter - multi-lingual support for aero-engine maintenance procedures • Can generate English or French from plan representations • Enterprise - enterprise knowledge and process management • Enterprise ontology, KQML agents, workflow tools • O-Plan and I-X - command, planning and control • Non-combatant Evacuation Operations, US Army Small Unit Operations, emergency assistance, disaster relief • Optimum-AIV • System used for assembly, integration and test for ESA Ariane-IV launches Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications and its Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute

8. AIAI’s Clients and Collaborators Aerospace • British Aerospace • Boeing • European Space Agency • Lockheed Martin • Rolls-Royce Associates Petrochemical • AEA Technology • Amoco • Conoco • Elf Enterprise • Exxon • ICI • PSTI • Shell • Texaco Defence • DARPA • DSTL • DSTO • QinetiQUS JFCOM • US PACOM Bioinformatics • BBSRC • Lab 901 • Lifescan • Unilever Other Areas • British Telecom • EUMETSAT • Hewlett Packard • Kodak • Logica • Motorola • RBS • Slam Games • Standard Life

9. AIAI Working Around the Globe

10. http://www.aktors.org

11. Edinburgh Focus in AKT Support to the collaborative process of knowledge modelling, maintenance and use • Formal Aspects of the Knowledge Life Cycle • Multi-perspective approach to knowledge modelling and acquisition • Framework to support knowledge modelling, maintenance and usage processes • Ontologies as the basis for shared and communicable models • Agent-based approaches to web-accessible task support • Synthesis of knowledge presentations • Semantic Web Services Brokering, Composition and Coordination • Specific focus on task-related, activity and process knowledge, and its underlying rationale, in the context of all testbeds Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications and its Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute

13. DARPA CoAX – Coalition Agents eXperiment AIAI, BBN, CMU, Dartmouth, DSTO, GITI, Lockheed Martin ATL, NRL, Potomac Inst., U.Maryland, U.Michigan, QinetiQ, UT-Austin, UWF/IHMC Support from AFRL, ARL, Boeing, DRDC, DSTL, ISX, MITRE, MIT Sloan, NWDC, OBJS, Schafer, Stanford, TTCP, USC/ISI, USPACOM http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/

15. Technology Transfer via… • Consultancy • Application Involvement • Continuing Education and Visitors • Affiliateship Programme

16. The Forum – a New Home for Informatics