Best wishes for your study, please provide the URL for the finished results.
Prof. Austin Tate, Technical Director
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
University of Edinburgh, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN, UK
E-mail: A.Tate@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44(0)131 650 2732 Fax: +44(0)131 650 6513
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The Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at the University of
Edinburgh is a non-profit technology institute within the University
which works with industry and government agencies worldwide in the
followings principal areas:
- Process Management
- Information Management
AIAI has a permanent staff of approximately 25 people organised into
three technical groups:
- Knowledge-Based Planning and Scheduling
- Knowledge-Based Decision Suport
- Knowledge Engineering Methods
We work with organisations such as the USAF Rome Laboratory, ARPA, US
oil majors, Japanese IT companies such as Hitachi and Toshiba, European
organisations and companies such as the European Space Agency and
British Telecom, and multi-nationals such as IBM, Unilever, etc. Our
work is a mixture of joint projects, and technology transfer via
training, awareness programs, and publications.
We are working in the areas of manufacturing, and enterprise
integration technologies which are relevant to virtual and agile
manufacturing.
Further details of our work can be found via our WWW Home Page
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/ especially in the projects section. The
most relevant projects may be: Enterprise, O-Plan and TOSCA,
Contributors technologies from AIAI cross-related to your interest areas
are:
1. VISUALIZATION:
TechWorld and PlanWorld Viewers
2. ENVIRONMENT CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES:
AIAI`s systems integration architecture as seen in O-Plan, Enterprise, etc.
3. MODELING TECHNOLOGIES:
Enterprise and activity ontology work, task modelling, etc.
4. REPRESENTATION:
ditto
5. META-MODELING:
AUSDA/ASPEN, Enterprise tool descriptions, Enterprise task models.
6. INTEGRATING INFRASTRUCTURE & ARCHITECTURE:
AIAI's Systems Integration Architecture and standards components
descriptions as in O-Plan, Enterprise, etc.
7. SIMULATION:
8. METHODOLOGY:
Use of CommonKADS, TOPKAT Tool, Appoach in Enterprise and O-Plan.
9. INTEGRATION OF LEGACY DATA:
In Enterprise.
10. MANUFACTURING CHARACTERIZATION:
TOSCA - Hitachi problem characterisation, TOSCA Manufacturing Domain
Description Language.
11. VERIFICATION, VALIDATION & MEASUREMENT
none.
12. WORKFLOW:
O-Plan (and perhaps Enterprise) are based on an intelligent workflow model
as the main driver of the system. WE are members of the International
Workflow Management Coalition and are inputting our activity ontology work
to this and other international initiatives.
13. CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TRADES:
Three level (STrategic, Tactical, Operational agent mdoel in O-Plan
and TOSCA).