PhD Studentship: Investigating Laser Transparent Ceramics for use as moulds in the Superplastic Form - http://info.uwe.ac.uk/vacancies/job_details.asp?ref=PHD/030807 - Since 1997, scientists working in the Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) at UWE have been investigating novel ways of developing the phenomena of Superplastic Forming and Diffusion Bonding (SPF/DB). SPF provides extraordinary ductility to many metals allowing complex shapes to be produced, whilst DB joins components without using fasteners, welding or adhesives but with strengths similar to the parent material. The work has led to the vision of an integrated cell in which laser(s) will be used to perform, not only the SPF/DB operations, but most of the pre and post forming work as well. Central to fulfilling the vision is the use of ceramic moulds in which the components will be directly heated by a laser beam(s) and subsequently formed.

Systems Engineering Estimation & Decision Support

Decision Support and Cost Management Consultancy

Our Consultancy Involves - Assisting with:-

Pre Production

Choice of design options
Determining cost of an early product or process design
Communication of designs

Production

Management of the Supply Chain
Reduction of Non Value Adding Activity
Provision of a better product or service

The aim is to reduce the costs of design and production, and manage risk and uncertainty. To achieve this we show where problems are by modelling the supply chain. We also assist with the flow of information to support design and production. To report on this we visualise the supply chain to aid in determination of root causes of production problems such as excess work in progress.

Expertise

Our expertise is in working with organisations involved in manufacturing or distribution of products. We apply techniques for managing, categorising and visualising information, to support costing of complex products and management of supply chains. This can assist companies to minimise their production and distribution problems.

Our main area of research and consultancy is that of software techniques for analysing and reporting on the costs involved in design and manufacture of products, and integrating such tools into the infrastructure that exists in organisations.

We have experience of working with aerospace and other organisations including Rolls-Royce, Airbus, a wholesale supplier, and Koala Publishing. Research projects have involved providing means to visualise cost information. Visualisation permits in depth analysis in order to locate high cost and risk. This is aided by our knowledge of Semantic Web techniques.

Approach

We visit the 'shop floor' and discuss options with employees in design and production, and with other software users. Initially we work on a small pilot project. We can then expand best practice wider in the business and its supply chain.

Knowledge Transfer

We provide collaboration and consultancy with our partners Knowledge West and Bath University. We also provide continuous professional development training and education with Bristol University.

Case Studies

Airbus

The ACCS (Aerospace Composite Costing System) project sponsored by Airbus UK provided an integrated cost modelling system for engineers planning the manufacture of wing-box components. ACCS allowed for the costing of novel composite moulding processes.

Rolls-Royce

The ICES (Implied Cost Evaluation System) focused on modular and automated modelling for costs of ownership, and total life-cycle costs for complex components and assemblies. Templates of both the product model and process planning sequence were created, together with tools to assist modellers to develop the cost model, and model uncertainty. The full cost breakdown was visualised with a cost map of the total product model.

The DATUM (Design Analysis Tool for Unit cost Modelling) project involving UWE and Southampton University and sponsored by Rolls-Royce was a program of design to cost research. The role of cost modeling within the design process for the development of a civil gas turbine engine was investigated. The novel application of a generic financial modeling tool to an engineering cost estimating problem was demonstrated, together with modelling of uncertainty. The tool was used to capture and disseminate costing knowledge and develop cost models. UWE are continuing to develop cost models for Rolls-Royce.

Design Analysis Tool for Unit cost Modelling - http://argos.e-science.soton.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=project:project_description - Executive Summary - The DATUM project seeks to exploit work that was carried out by UWE for the EPSRC ICES (Implied Cost Evaluation System) project for which Rolls Royce was a research partner. - The DATUM project has prototyped a number of software architectures, user interfaces and data models. Furthermore, a thorough world-wide survey of possible software tools has been carried out and a short-list of these has been compiled. All of the tools on this short-list have been evaluated. - In addition, an extensive evaluation of existing RR tools has been carried out (including CAPPe).

Wholesale Supplier

The project is in collaboration with one of the leading wholesalers in UK. The aim of this project is to reduce or eliminate non-value added activities in wholesale supply chains. Overall the research aims to provide an analytical framework that would provide a process for reducing the costs associated with inventory, obsolescence, long lead times and distribution. The models were developed using lean, process modelling and decision supporting tools, based on information and data collected from industrial partner. The models were adapted to alternate supply chain/inventory scenarios with the objective of developing a supportable argument for a more efficient and harmonised supply chain. The models will direct attention to opportunities to streamline business operations and accelerate the pace of innovation and provide the visibility needed to target areas of continuous improvement.

Research

The SEEDS team is part of the Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/centres/amrc.html. Our expertise is in working with organisations mainly those involved in manufacturing or distribution of products. We apply techniques for managing, categorising and visualising information to support costing of complex products and managing of supply chains.

We are involved in cost modelling solutions, and have experience of working with aerospace and other organisations. We have been working with Rolls-Royce aerospace, Airbus, a wholesale supplier and Koala Publishing. Research projects have involved providing means to visualise cost information generated by estimation packages, essential for cost estimation. Visualisation of the cost information permits in depth analysis so as to locate high cost and risk. This is aided by our knowledge of Semantic Web technologies. The Semantic Web is an approach invented by Tim Berners-Lee (a UK physicist at the time), for information sharing and retrieval. This technology is more affordable than traditional software development and enables integration of software systems.

We provide collaboration and consultancy through Knowledge West with Bath University and a cost modelling collaboration with Southampton University and companies including Rolls-Royce. We also provide continuous professional development training and education with AMRC, and Bristol University.

A further project, the Design Analysis tool for Unit-cost Modelling project (DATUM), applies the ICES technology using commercial, web based tools. We are working to enable users to program by means of our Semantic Web research and consultancy. To achieve this we are using a systematic computer independent approach to our Decision Support and costing modelling.

We apply techniques in managing, categorising and visualising information to provide decision support for design and manufacture .... details

SEEDS Consultancy Information - HTML - SEEDS Consultancy - Word - .doc - Adobe Acrobat - .pdf

SEEDS Faculty Information System Listing - Faculty Information System - SEEDS Listing

SEEDS Information - HTML - SEEDS Information - Word - .doc - Adobe Acrobat - .pdf

SEEDS Introduction - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/centres/amrc/seeds.html

SEEDS Research - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/centres/amrc/seedsresearch.html

SEEDS Research Page List - http://www.squidoo.com/uweseeds

Our Location is - Location on Multimap

News and Events

Computing or Aerospace events - Events

Space Horizons Project

Space Horizons - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/JANS/spacehorizons/ - Space Horizons is a project that aims to deliver ideas on space and any other related information. Based in the South-West of England, Space Horizons also promotes the idea of space tourism which we are very much involved with. It's the place to be for any space related news, events and information in the South West of England! - Information Technology Management for Business - Year 2.

Space Horizons - UWE - JANS Student Group Project

4th February 2008 - The A380 - Managing a large distributed project from cradle to market place

18.00 for 18.30

IET Bristol

HH Wills Laboratory

University of Bristol

Tyndall Avenue

Bristol BS8 1TL

The lecture will cover the A380 project from cradle to marketplace, and in particular the following aspects:

The reasons why Airbus decided to make the A380 from a market point of view.

The design of the A380 and the hurdles faced by the project team.

Where the programme is now and the plans for the future.

The lecture will primarily be from an engineering point of view but will also address some of the more significant Project Management issues.

Further Information - http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/s-west/brist/calendar/a380.cfm - Events.

CPD in Engineering Newsletter Summer 2007

CPDA in Engineering Newsletter Summer 2007 - Adobe PDF File - University of the West of England, University of Bristol, and University of Bath - The Newsletter of the Bristol and West of England Consortium for Continuing Professional Development in Aerospace (CPDA).

More Information about CPDA - (Continuing Professional Development in Aerospace) - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/#ContinuingProfessionalDevelopmentinAerospace.

23 August 2007 - UWE leads the way in Research Council success

Research Funding - UWE News 2007 The University of the West of England won more Research Council grants last year than any other modern university and more than many of the traditional universities.

"New Business Opportunities in Space"

One-day space conference. Organised by the West of England Aerospace Forum (WEAF).

Tuesday 24 July 2007 at Exeter, Devon

Details http://www.weaf.co.uk

Space is a fast-growing business. Data from satellites of various kinds is finding ever wider applications. ESA and NASA have ambitious plans for new programmes involving human spaceflight. Space tourism is within sight of becoming a serious business. - WEAF is offering its members an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in this one-day conference. - The major players of the space industry will outline new opportunities, SMEs will be able to market themselves, and space tourism companies will outline their plans. - This is a conference for both aviation and space companies, because space tourism blends current space technology with carrying passengers safely, and this requires aviation skills and experience.

The New Space Age - Presentation to WEAF Space Conference - http://www.weaf.co.uk/documents/NewSpaceAgeWEAF.pdf - 24 July 2007 by David Ashford, Bristol Spaceplanes Limitedand - Fabian Eilingsfeld, Price Systems.

SME Presentation - Scisys - http://www.weaf.co.uk/documents/SCISYS_Space_2007.pdf - with a focus on Space Exploration... - Presentation to WEAF Space Conference - July 2007 - Chris Lee, SciSys Space - Chair of UKspace Space Science Industrial Committee.

SME Presentation - IGG Components - http://www.weaf.co.uk/documents/IGGSpacepresentationWEAF.pdf - Roger Buckley - IGG - ALTER Technology Group.

SME Presentation - SEA - Making a living in space - http://www.weaf.co.uk/documents/ChrisChalonerSEA.pdf - perspectives from the viewpoint of a South-West SME - Dr Chris P Chaloner - Business Development Executive, Aero-Space Division.

Vacancy - PhD Studentship: Investigating Laser Transparent Ceramics

Monday 14 May 2007

University of the West of England

Aerospace Machining - new approaches and materials

Dr Farid Dailami - Head of school of Mechanical Manufacturing and Aerospace

Developments and techniques have been developed at the University for the high speed machining of new materials including, Titanium, Aluminium and Composites. New techniques developed, and models designed, to overcome the challenges and issues associated with this technology will be described.

The IEE and IIE have merged to form the Institution of Engineering and Technology IET. The IET Bristol are holding this event.

Institution of Engineering and Technology IET - Bristol Local Network - http://www.iee.org/OnComms/Branches/UK/England/West/Bristol/.

BAE Systems/EPSRC Strategic Partnership:

BAE Systems/EPSRC Strategic Partnership: Service and Support Engineering Solutions http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/BAESystems.htm.

* How can the life-cycle costs associated with the sustainment/ support of complex delivery systems be minimised?

* How can the business proposition and the relationship across several product and service providers be structured?

* How can the entire operation be transformed to embed a service culture - 'servitisation'?

* How can modelling visualisation technology be applied to meet the service and support challenge?

* How can capability be accurately modelled?

DTI - Spring 2007 Competition

DTI (Department of Trade & Industry) - Spring 2007 Competition - http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/technologystrategy/competitions-for-funding/page37788.html#Technology_areas - Key Dates - Background to the Spring 2007 Competition - Technology Priority Areas (PDFs) - Guidance for Applicants.

SEEDS assist with Knowledge West Cost Engineering Study

Cost Engineering Capability Study (South West Aerospace & Defence) - http://www.knowledgewest.org.uk/news/archive.asp?id=42 - A scoping report into Cost Engineering practices in the South West region discussing the issues of moving towards open book tendering and cost estimating practices within the supply chain. - Knowledge West - 12/12/2006 - Researchers - Mr David Evans (University of the West of England, Bristol) - Dr Richard McIntosh (University of Bath) from the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre - With assistance from: Professor A R Mileham and Dr L B Newnes (University of Bath) - Dr J Lanham and Dr R Marsh (University of the West of England, Bristol)

Discovering Bristol Science City

South West of England Regional Development Agency (SWERDA) - Discovering Bristol Science City - http://www.southwestrda.org.uk/news/release.asp?ReleaseID=1839 - 2nd February 2007.

Conference

ATIO, CEIAT, and the LTA - http://www.kat-net.com/events/display.php?id=76 - Hastings Europa Hotel - Belfast, Northern Ireland - 18-20 September, 2007 - Call for Papers - http://www.aiaa.org/events/atio/06-0590_ATIO07CFP.pdf - ATIO, CEIAT, and the LTA TC have come together to create a unique international event that will explore this theme of Aviation: Industry Without Borders. The joint conference will bring together researchers, designers, analysts, manufacturers, integrators, and operators in a diverse program intended to foster the exchange of ideas and to spark dialogue on how to enhance aviation and the aviation system of today while preparing for the needs and issues of tomorrow. Participants will explore new systems analysis methodologies, discuss new aircraft designs and manufacturing techniques, and identify potential ways in which the community can address the challenges it now faces in security, economics, and the environment.

DET2007 - http://www.det-conf.org.uk/index.html - 19-21 September 2007 - University of Bath - Digital Enterprise Technology - 4th International CIRP-Sponsored Conference (DET2007) - Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) is "the collection of systems and methods for the digital modelling and analysis of the global product development and realisation process, in the context of lifecycle management." The principal aim of DET 2007 is to provide an international forum for the exchange of leading edge scientific knowledge and industrial experience regarding the development and integration of the various aspects of DET.

Vanguard Software has released the next generation of DecisionPro, now called the Vanguard System.

Vanguard System - Web-based Collaborative Modeling for Enterprise Simulation and Planning - http://www.vanguardsw.com/vanguard-system/vanguard-system.pdf.

CPDA in Engineering Newsletter Autumn 2006

CPDA in Engineering Newsletter Autumn 2006 - Adobe PDF File - University of the West of England, University of Bristol, and University of Bath - The Newsletter of the Bristol and West of England Consortium for Continuing Professional Development in Aerospace (CPDA).

I-ESA 2007 International Conference

I-ESA 2007 International Conference - http://www.aidima.es/iesa2007/web/index.htm - Madeira Island (Portugal), 28-30 March 2007 - Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications.

Supply Chain Modelling Forum - 8th November 2006 at the Ansty Hall Hotel, Ansty, Coventry

Supply Chain Modelling Forum - Tushar Daine Presenting - http://www.radical.co.uk/modellingforum/modellingforum.htm - 8th November 2006 at the Ansty Hall Hotel, Ansty, Coventry.

Abstract

Supply chain Modelling - Transition from Push to Pull in Wholesale Supply Chains - Lessons to be Learned from Lean - Abstract.

Innovate 2006 - November 2nd

Innovate 2006 - http://www.innovate2006.co.uk/ - QEII conference centre - 2 November 2006 - Innovate 2006 provides UK business with a major opportunity to engage with and understand the Technology Strategy and the role that Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs) are playing in supporting its development.

General Electric Release ACUITy software - Open Source

Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) is an open-source framework and architecture for developing semantically-enabled mixed initiative user interfaces. Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) - September 22 2006

XML Access Languages - XML UK.org

XML Access Languages - XML UK.org - Includes presentation by Chris Wallace - SEEDS member - Tuesday 26 September - CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - Didcot, Oxfordshire.

Publications, UWE, Southampton University, Rolls-Royce

Preview - DATUM Project: Cost Estimating Environment for Support of Aerospace Design Decision Making - JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT - 2006 vol. 43 no. 4 - James Scanlan and Abhijit Rao - Southampton University - Christophe Bru, Peter Hale, and Rob Marsh - UWE. - September 15 2006

SEEDS News Archive

News Archive Archive.

Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration

Vacancy - PhD Studentship: Investigating Laser Transparent Ceramics

Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/#KnowledgeTransferandCollaboration.

Relevant Agencies

Collaboration and Proposal Links - Bid, Consultancy and KTP Information.

Continuing Professional Development in Aerospace

"Two key areas currently established are the CPDA (Aerospace) and FLIC - Flexible Learning in Context. Both programmes operate in close collaboration with industrial partners and users. Furthermore, the IGT - Institute of Grinding Technology, historically based on face to face training either at UWE or in company, is now developing distance/e-learning material to be piloted with IGT steering group. Future areas under development include and Statistics, E-skills - web design and related web-technology, Electronics and Control." (Prof. Colin Fudge, UWE). - From - CPDA in Engineering Newsletter Summer 2007 - Adobe PDF File - University of the West of England, University of Bristol, and University of Bath - The Newsletter of the Bristol and West of England Consortium for Continuing Professional Development in Aerospace (CPDA).

CPDA in Engineering Newsletter Summer 2007

Continuing Professional Development in Aerospace - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/#ContinuingProfessionalDevelopmentinAerospace.

University and Industry Collaboration

Vacancy - PhD Studentship: Investigating Laser Transparent Ceramics

INTEROP - Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software - INTEROP is a Network of Excellence supported by the European Commission for a three-year-period - INTEROP aims to create the conditions of an innovative and competitive research in the domain of Interoperability for Enterprise Applications and Software.

Managing investment uncertainty through cost modelling

A discussion of how universities can collaborate more closely with businesses in raising the standard of cost modelling, management and prediction practices. Knowledge West

System Engineering AIN Public Web page - Aerospace Innovation Networks - System Engineering.

TANET - Technology Application Network - TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATION SPANNING the whole of the UNITED KINGDOM AND BEYOND! - TANet is a unique network of over 20 co-operating Universities, Technology Centres and Key Business Partners providing the most comprehensive support for the SME Manufacturing sector for the whole of the UK.

UWE consultancy and KTP

Consultancy - The Academic Consultancy Unit - RBI (Research, Business and Innovation) - UWE.

Information Systems Practice 3 Student Consultancy Projects - UWE's student consultancy scheme.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - UWE Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - RBI (Research, Business and Innovation) - UWE.

The QuickMark Market Research - Pilot Project - Market research can help to reduce uncertainty and risk, and aid decision-making before developing new products and services. This can help to move businesses closer to making effective decisions and gain a competitive advantage.

Useful Links

Intellectual Ventures - http://www.intellectualventures.com - Intellectual Ventures is an invention company.

Managing investment uncertainty through cost modelling

A discussion of how universities can collaborate more closely with businesses in raising the standard of cost modelling, management and prediction practices. Knowledge West January 27 2006

Knowledge West - Knowledge West - Welcome to Knowledge West

System Engineering AIN Public Web page - Aerospace Innovation Networks - System Engineering.

Research

Vacancy - PhD Studentship: Investigating Laser Transparent Ceramics

Research projects have involved providing means to visualise cost information generated by estimation packages, a task severely missing at the present day. Visualisation of the cost information will permit analysing the cost information in depth so as to locate not only over cost areas, but also areas of cost which are problematic for other reasons (e.g. uncertainty), or which present the best cost reduction opportunities. Prior to visualising information, it was necessary to assess cost estimation methodologies so as to evaluate the usefulness of their output for visualisation.

Parametric Cost Estimation (PCE) techniques were first evaluated. It was determined that despite their requirements of a low volume of input data, making them suitable at stages where little is known about a product, their output did not provide enough details to benefit from a visualisation tool, unless a large number of such models are used to increase the data volume (which would be time consuming and costly).

Research was then carried on to study an alternative to PCE, namely Generative Cost Estimation (GCE). GCE do generate an ideal input to hypothetical cost visualisation tools in that an extensive hierarchical cost information structure can be produced, containing simultaneously numerous data fields (e.g. time and uncertainty in addition to a cost figure), at a detailed level (e.g. in the form of a complete Bill Of Materials, or as a process sequence).

Using CGE it is possible to generate costs from fundamental equations, process models and accounting rules. Hence the cost estimate can be compared with parametric models and any differences fully rationalised and understood.

A visualisation tool was created. It was vital to ensure that this tool could read data from a wide number of formats to make it compatible with numerous cost estimation packages used by our partners (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, DecisionPro (now Vanguard System), and generic formats such as text, Comma Separated Values and eXtensible Markup Language XML). The tool contains a combination of hypertextual and exploratory techniques allowing for both knowledge discovery and data analysis in one package. Graphical representations were used to take advantage of human cognition, thus increasing knowledge discovery efficiency, mainly thanks to a graphical hierarchies representation tool named Cost Map. The efforts invested into easing the migration of knowledge from depositories or generation packages to the visualisation tool were repeated to ensure that the Cost Map itself could be distributed easily to a wide range of users, independently from their location, hardware and software configurations. This was possible by implementing exporting facilities in platform independent formats such as raster pictures as well as vector graphics in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. These outputs make the Cost Map usable in documents produced by packages such as the Microsoft Office suite, as well as interactive web based pages. Lighter SVG versions were also produced for compatibility with mobile devices (e.g. Pocket PCs and mobile phones offering a particular SVG implementation viewer).

This approach makes it possible to display a holistic view of costs for a complex product. The use of a cost map permits designers to quickly identify priority areas for a complex design, which may have many levels of assembly and many thousands of parts. Hence, for example, the designer will be able to identify areas of high cost uncertainty (therefore potentially high cost risk) or areas of high relative cost.

Research has been undertaken into the ability to analyse cost with stochastic input variables. Hence enabling the cost model to allow designers to describe the current level of uncertainty of the product attributes (and possibly process uncertainty for new or poorly understood processes). This allows a cost estimate to be computed as a distribution. Further work has been undertaken into allowing wide access to cost models by the use of web-based tools that run through standard web browsers.

We have developed and used technigues to enable decision support during product development, whilst minimising dependence on specialist software and detailed programming effort. The basis of this is an Ontology that can be visualised and edited in tree form. We are using the open standard Stanford University Ontology tool Protege. This Ontology can be translated into a Decision Support tool called Vanguard System (formerly DecisionPro). Software we have created using Vanguard System allows calculations of the cost of a design to be made, and provides a colour-coded representation of the product tree. It is then possible to output this tree in the form of web pages, interactive diagrams and code in programming languages such as the Java based costing tool Cost Estimator. This enables people who are computer literate but are not software developers to produce decision support and cost models. It is possible to search the information both in Protege and on the Web as it is represented using searchable semantic web languages.

Costing/Decision Support

Cost Mapping

Cost Map - Cost Map Samples - Modelling and Visualisation of Cost

Cost Method Selection

Cost Method Selection - Cost Methods

SEEDS assist with Knowledge West Cost Engineering Study

Information Management

eXtensible Markup Language - XML Explanation and Examples

Information Management - XML, XQuery examples - Searching, sorting and visualisation information and XML, XQuery examples - using eXist XML database

Resource Description Framework - RDF Explanation and Examples

Modelling

Alloy Modelling Language

Alloy - Chris Wallace Page - Alloy related links - Information and Papers on the Alloy Modelling Language.

Cost Modelling and Mapping

Cost Dave Evans David Evans Home Page.

Cost Map Samples - Christophe Bru Christophe Bru Home Page

Cost Modelling - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/CostModelling.htm.

Cost Modelling References - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/costreferences.xml.

DATUM Project - Publications, UWE, Southampton University, Rolls-Royce

DATUM Project: Cost Estimating Environment for Support of Aerospace Design Decision Making - JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT - 2006 vol. 43 no. 4 - James Scanlan and Abhijit Rao - Southampton University - Christophe Bru, Peter Hale, and Rob Marsh - UWE. - September 15 2006

End User Programming

Usability Survey

A survey on usability, any feedback would be very welcome on the research topic (or about the survey) - Click Here to take part in a usability survey, and support my PhD research, for anyone who does not want to remain anonymous, we would be pleased to take an interest in their research.

The survey compares these interfaces -

Taxonomy - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning/ELearningDemonstration1.htm.

Diagrammatic - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning/ELearningDemonstration2.htm.

And asks for further advice on end-user programming.

I'm interested in feedback from anyone, whatever their level of IT skills.

Create polls and vote for free. dPolls.com

End User Programming - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/EndUserProgramming.htm.

End User Programming - Example Interfaces - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/EndUserProgramming.htm#ExampleInterfaces.

End User Programming - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/#EndUsertoSoftwareTranslation - End User to Software Translation.

Institute for End-User Programming - IEUC - Welcome to The IEUC Homepage.

General Electric Release ACUITy software - Open Source

General Electric - ACUITy enterprise modelling tool - Paper

Modelling - ACUITy semantic web application - An Ontology-Based Architecture for Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology - A Aragones, J Bruno, A Crapo, M Garbias.

General Electric - ACUITy enterprise modelling tool - Presentation

Modelling - Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) - Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) - Hewlett-Packard Jena Conference Presentation - Andrew W Crapo.

Modelling

Cost Modelling - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/CostModelling.htm.

Cost Modelling References - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/costreferences.xml.

Energy modelling page - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Energy.htm - Ways to reduce energy usage, pollution, and better management of supply chains.

Engineering Examples - Aerospace - http://wiki.vanguardsw.com/bin/browse.dsb?dir/Engineering/Aerospace/ - These examples illustrate creation of component tree definitions that are then transformed to Web based representations. The information is translated from Protege to DecisionPro (now Vanguard System) to other software as required. Another type of transformation performed is that from a tree based to interactive diagrammatic representation. Further calculations can then be performed in whatever software represents the results to the user.

Examples and Explanations - Visualisation and Interaction

Modelling - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Modelling.htm.

Modelling Decision Support and Knowledge Management

Modelling - Examples and Explanations - Modelling, Decision Support and Knowledge Management

Nasa Aircraft Engines - Simulation - Requires Java Virtual Machine (free download)

Nasa Engine Simulation - EngineSim Version 1.7a .

Process Modelling

Process Modelling - PSL - Process Specification Language and XML (Extensible Markup Language) - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/ProcessSpecificationLanguage.htm.

Program Transformation

Program Transformation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/ProgramTransformation.htm.

QSEE Modelling Tool - Chris Wallace

QSEE use at UWE CEMS - QSEE at CEMS - Chris Wallace.

Software Engineering

About the SERG group

Software Engineering Page - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm.

Software Engineering Research Group - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/researchgroup.php?menu=off&group=serg - SERG's mission is to bridge the gap between software engineering research and its application to different disciplines.

SERG is led by Dr. Odeh and has a number of acadmic and industrial associates.

Projects

MammoGrid - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/project.php?menu=off&name=mammogrid - With the advent of the information age in radiology clinicians are being presented with analysis opportunities hitherto unforeseen, both in terms of data volumes and in data interpretation. Grids computing promises to resolve many of the difficulties in facilitating medical image analysis to allow clinicians to collaborate without having to co-locate.

OntoREM: Ontology-driven Requirements Engineering Methodology - This research aims to investigate and develop an Ontology driven Requirements Engineering Methodology (OntoREM) that addresses the needs of complex, trans-national and multidisciplinary fields with particular reference but not limited to the aerospace industry.

SoAgile: Adaptive Model-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures for Agile Cyber-Enterprise Processes - The SoAgile project aims to design, develop, demonstrate, and disseminate a service-adaptable virtualisation layer and an encompassing evolutionary service-oriented and model-driven engineering environment.

My SERG and CCCS (Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems) Page

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/members.php?menu=off&expand=peterhale#peterhale.

Supply Chain Modelling Forum - 8th November 2006 at the Ansty Hall Hotel, Ansty, Coventry

Tushar Daine Presenting - http://www.radical.co.uk/modellingforum/modellingforum.htm - 8th November 2006 at the Ansty Hall Hotel, Ansty, Coventry.

Abstract - Transition from Push to Pull in Wholesale Supply Chains - Lessons to be Learned from Lean - Abstract.

Systems Engineering and Simulation

Systems Engineering and Simulation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/systemsengineering.htm

Systems Modelling

Systems Modelling research Group - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/groups/smrg.html - Investigating, modelling, analysing, re-engineering, designing, and simulating processes

Semantic Web Modelling

Mark Butler Semantice Web - Now at Hewlett-Packard - Mark Butler Profile

Semantic Web Modelling Centre Concept

Concept - We are proposing to share modelling knowledge by using semantic web techniques to enable a wide range of people to create web models to visualise common problems. Semantic web software will be used to categorise and manage these models. Events would take place to allow a community of developers and users to share their knowledge - html word pdf

Semantic Web Modelling Explanation

Semantic Web Modelling Explanation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/#SemanticWebModellingCentreofExcellence - Semantic Web Modelling.

Semantic Web Modelling Centre Proposal

Draft Proposal - html word pdf

Semantic Web Modelling Centre Proposal - Examples Page

Modelling - Models visualisation information - Aerospace and other models in SVG XML etc

TopBraid Composer

TopBraid Composer - The Complete Semantic Modeling Toolset - a visual modeling environment for creating and managing ontologies. TopBraid Composer is based on Protege and other tools including Jena and Java Eclipse, into a professional ontology editor and knowledge-base framework. Composer is based on the Eclipse platform and uses Jena as its underlying API.

UWE Student Project

Semantic Web Modelling - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Web%20Semantic/Index.html - Investigating and implement the idea of 'ModConsWest' (Modelling and Constructionism with Web based E-Learning Semantic Tools)" - Lee Ediagbonya and Awaab Eltahir.

Related UWE Semantic Web Information

Mark Butler Semantice Web - Now at Hewlett-Packard - Mark Butler Profile

User Driven Modelling

User Driven Modelling - Explanation and Examples - Visual Creation of Models - Peter Hale.

User Driven Modelling - Blog - Explanation and Examples - Visual Creation of Models

User Driven Modelling - Articles - Explanation and Examples - Visual Creation of Models

User Driven Modelling Semantic Wiki - http://www.visualknowledge.com/wikikey/A143074S3496911 - Community.

Vanguard System (DecisionPro) Server

Vanguard Project - Cost Modelling Network

Vanguard Global Knowledge Portal - http://wiki.vanguardsw.com/ - Vanguard - Global Knowledge Portal - network of example models - to provide solutions to common problems.

Visualisation

Examples and Explanations - Visualisation and Interaction

Flash - Flash Wing Box - Interactive Diagrams

SVG - SVG Wing Box - Interactive Diagrams

Visualisation and Interaction Page - Visualisation and Interaction

Related Research

Requirements Engineering

CEMS Graduate School conference - 2005 Page 114-119 - Reverse engineering ontology to conceptual data models page and a poster presentation is available Poster - Haya El-Ghalayini, Mohammed Odeh, Richard McClatchey, Tony Solomonides.

This paper is also explains the above research - Engineering Conceptual Data Models from Domain Ontologies: A Critical Evaluation - El-Ghalayini, H., Odeh, M., McClatchey, R. (2005) Engineering Conceptual Data Models from Domain Ontologies: A Critical Evaluation - IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications, part of the 23rd Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria pp 222-227.

CEMS Graduate School conference - 2005 Page 98-102 - Using Use Case Models to Generate Object Points - Ayman Issa, Mohammed Odeh, David Coward.

CEMS Graduate School poster presentation - Summer 2006 - Deriving Conceptual Data Models from Domain Ontologies for Bioinformatics - Haya El-Ghalayini, Mohammed Odeh, Richard McClatchey, and Dawn Arnold.

Semantic Web, Grid Computing, Ontologies

Bridging the Gap Between Business Process Models and Grid-Based Service Oriented Architectures' - Graduate Poster Presentation - Ali Maheri. - Autumn 2005 - Zaheer Abbas Kahan, Mohammed Odeh, Richard McClatchey

Dr Peter Bloodsworth - http://www.agent-research.co.uk/ - The main focus of my research program is to apply multi-agent systems to real-world problems, finding novel solutions where necessary to overcome important challenges. Interdisciplinary research is central to my aims, I have already applied my research in the area of Healthcare and envisage future collaboration in other domains.

Modelling Links

Internal

Advanced Computation in Design and Decision-making (ACDDM) - Home Page - ACDDM Information.

Alistair Clark - Principal Lecturer in Operational Research (OR) - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~arclark/ - Production Planning and Scheduling.

Free (or nearly-free) software for OR - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/%7Earclark/free_or_software.htm - Compiled and maintained by Alistair Clark.

Institute for People-Centred Computation (IP-CC) - http://www.ip-cc.org.uk/ - IP-CC Information.

Representation of Equations - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#RepresentationofEquations.

External

Advanced Knowledge - AKT - http://www.aktors.org/akt/events/docsympjan2006/material/slides/aber.ppt - Acquisition and Maintenance of Constraints in Enginering Design - Suraj Ajit - University of Aberdeen.

Aeronautical Information (AICM/AIXM) - http://www.eurocontrol.int/aim/public/standard_page/interop_aicm.html - AICM is a conceptual/logical model that uses entities, attributes and relationships in order to describe aeronautical features such as airports, runways, navaids, obstacles, routes, terminal procedures, airspace structures, services and related aeronautical data.

AKT Doctoral Symposium, Aberdeen Univeristy, UK, 25 January 2006 - http://www.aktors.org/akt/events/docsympjan2006/ - Proceedings and Materials.

Alloy Analyzer - 3.0 Beta - Alloy Analyzer Home Page - The Alloy Analyzer is a tool developed by the Software Design Group for analyzing models written in Alloy, a simple structural modeling language based on first-order logic.

BBC Radio 4 - From the production line to the NHS - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20070104.shtml - Peter Day finds out how some NHS pioneers are trying to apply the mysteries of "lean" operating systems to hospitals and doctors' practices. Japanese management techniques have revolutionised the car industry, but what do waste-averse production lines have to do with the delicate business of health care? - 2 November 2006.

BBC Radio 4 - Material World - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20061214.shtml - 2nd item - Complexity Science 14th December 2nd Item - Complexity Science is a broad and multi-disciplinary subject covering biology, mathematics, chemistry and physics. Complexity Scientists study large and complex systems, often turning to the natural world for inspiration on how these systems operate.

BBC Radio 4 - Material World - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20070125.shtml - Carl Linnaeus - Taxonomies, also Space Exploration - 25 January 2007.

BBC Radio 4 - Material World - Mananging Uncertainty in Complex Models - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20070419.shtml - Radio 4 Broadcast - Thursday 19 April 2007 - In many branches of science, more and more predictions are made by running computer models. But as these models get increasingly complex, a better understanding of the mathematics of uncertainty is becoming essential, especially when important policy decisions hinge on the scientists' predictions.

Boeing - Michael Uschold - Ontologies: An Emerging Discipline - http://courses.washington.edu/imt530/schedule/8b.pdf - Boeing - Phantom Works - Invited lecture at University of Washington, Feb 21, 2006.

Boeing - Michael Uschold, Michael Gruninger - Ontologies and Semantics for Seamless Connectivity - http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0412/12.uschold-9.pdf - Boeing, Univerity of Maryland - Association for Computer Machinery - Special Interest Group on Management of Data - SIGMOD Record December 2004 Vol 33 Number 4.

Boeing - Michael Uschold - Ontologies Ontologies Everywhere - but Who Knows What to Think? - http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/submissions/slides/1.2_Uschold.pdf - Boeing - Phantom Works - 9th Intl. Protege Conference - July 23-26, 2006 - Stanford, California - July 24 Morning Session.

Bournemouth University - Software Systems Modelling Group - School of Design, Engineering and Computing - http://www.sosym.co.uk/ - The Software Systems Modelling Group (SoSyM) is a multi-disciplinary computing group focussing on the research, development and application of innovative modelling, tools and technologies for software systems.

British Computer Society - Computational thinking - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.11837 - 'Teaching students and young professionals to think is more important than teaching them professionalism' said one of the delegates at a recent BCS Thought Leadership debate, which aimed to discuss what computational thinking is and how it impacts upon our everyday lives. Justin Richards reports.

Business Process Execution Language - http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-10-13-a.html - XML Cover Pages - IBM and SAP AG Release WS-BPEL Extension for Sub-Processes (BPEL-SPE) - October 13, 2005.

Business Process Modelling Group (BPMG) - http://www.bpmg.org.

Business Process Modelling - Keith Harrison-Broninski - http://www.nunneyjazzcafe.org/harrison_broninski/keith/.

Clockwork - http://clockwork.open.ac.uk/ - Open - University - Knowledge Media Institute - Creating Learning Organisations with Contextualised Knowledge-Rich work Artifacts.

Code Generation 2008 - http://www.codegeneration.net/conference/index.php - 25th-28th June 2008 - Cambridge, UK - A growing number of developers are using or planning to use model-based code generation - are you ready for the next evolutionary step in software? - WHO'S CG2008 FOR? - CG2008 is for software practitioners and those with a stake in the future of their development organisation.

Crossing State Lines: Adapting Object-Oriented Frameworks to Functional Reactive Languages - http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/ick-adapt-oo-fwk-frp/paper.pdf - Functional and Logic Programming Symposium, 2006 - Daniel Ignatoff, Gregory H. Cooper, and Shriram Krishnamurthi - Computer Science Department, Brown University.

Decision Support System Resources - DSS Resources - Knowledge Repository about Decision Support Systems by Dan Power.

Dmoz Open Directory Project - Programming Languages - Programming Languages Reference - Alphabetic List of Programming Languages - Definitions and Links.

Dmoz Open Directory Project - Visual Languages - Programming Languages Reference - Visual Languages.

EquMath.Net - http://equmath.net - EquMath is resource for math lessons from Algebra to Differential Equations!.

Equplus - http://equplus.net - Science and Math Equations.

Functional and Logic Programming - FLOPS 2006 - Eighth International Symposium - http://nicosia.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/FLOPS2006/ - 24-26 April 2006 - Fuji Susono, Japan - Next FLOPS will be held in Spring 2008.

General Electric - ACUITy enterprise modelling tool - Paper about ACUITy semantic web application - An Ontology-Based Architecture for Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology - A Aragones, J Bruno, A Crapo, M Garbias

Himalia - http://www.himalia.net/index.html - Model-driven user interfaces - Himalia is the first and only high-abstraction level User Interface Builder.

Health Informatics Forum - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.8951 - The Way Forward for NHS Health Informatics - Where should NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) go from here? A report on behalf of the British Computer Society (BCS) by the BCS Health Informatics Forum Strategic Panel. Published: 15th December 2006.

INCOSE - International Council on systems Engineering - Bristol - http://www.incose.org.uk/bristol.htm - Welcome to the homepage of the Bristol Local Group of INCOSE UK. Information related to the purpose of the group, forthcoming events and contact details.

Integrating Aircraft Cost Modeling into Conceptual Design - Centre of Excellence for Integrated Aircraft Technologies (CEIAT), School of Aeronautical Engineering Queens University Belfast - R. Curran, M. Price, S. Raghunathan, E. Benard , S. Crosby , S. Castagne, P. Mawhinney.

Learning inexpensive parametric design models using an augmented genetic programming technique - PETER C. MATTHEWS, DAVID W.F. STANDINGFORD, CARREN M.E. HOLDEN, KEN M. WALLACE, - AI EDAM (2006), 20: 1-18 Cambridge University Press.

Logic Programming Associates - http://www.lpa.co.uk/ - We design and support world-class products for Artificial Intelligence, including state-of-the-art Prolog compilers, Chimera Agents, the flex expert system and VisiRule graphical business rules.

LPA VisiRule 1.0 - http://www.lpa.co.uk/vsr.htm - LPA VisiRule 1.0 - VisiRule is a graphical tool for developing and delivering business rules systems and components simply by drawing the decision logic.

MetaEdit+ DSM environment - http://www.metacase.com/ - MetaEdit+ is aimed at the expert developer looking to gain productivity by generating full code directly from models. First you design the modeling language with MetaEdit+ Workbench and then other developers model with the language in MetaEdit+.

MathLang: experience-driven development of a new mathematical language - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/kamareddine04mathlang.html - F. Kamareddine, et al., 2004 - Abstract: In this paper we report on the design of a new mathematical language and our method of designing it, driven by the encoding of mathematical texts. MathLang is intended to provide support for checking basic well-formedness of mathematical text without requiring the heavy and dicult-to-use machinery of full type theory or other forms of full formalization. At the same time, it is intended to allow the addition of fuller formalization to a document as time and e ort permits.

MOdel driven MOdernisation of Complex Systems - http://www.viewzone.org/momocs/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=20&Itemid=17 -MOMOCS aims at studying a methodology and related tools for fast reengineering complex systems. The project is studying how to solve the dilemma between rigorous methodologies and agile and unstructured one, allowing the modernisation engineer to concentrate on what to do and not how to do it.

Model-Driven Program Transformation of a Large Avionics Framework - http://www.cis.uab.edu/gray/Pubs/gpce-2004.pdf - Jeff Gray, Jing Zhang, Yuehua Lin, Suman Roychoudhury, Hui Wu, Rajesh Sudarsan, Aniruddha Gokhale, Sandeep Neema, Feng Shi, and Ted Bapty.

NASA - Cost Estimating Web Site - http://cost.jsc.nasa.gov/models.htm - Online Cost Models.

NASA Open Source Software - http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/ - AMES Research Center.

NASA - Parametric Cost Estimating Handbook - http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/PCEHHTML/pceh.htm.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Process Specification Language (PSL) - A Few PSL Basics....

Product Meets Process - http://www.intelligententerprise.com/print_article.jhtml?articleID=177100932 - Michael McClellan and Keith Harrison-Broninski - Product lifecycle management apps can help you gain control over disjointed activities, but globalization and emerging compliance requirements beg for a more process-oriented approach.

Quantrix - http://www.quantrix.com/ - Quantrix delivers financial and quantitative modeling software for professionals pushing the limits of traditional spreadsheets.

QSEE Technologies - QSEE Technologies - Modelling Tools.

Rolls-Royce - Securing the Future at Rolls-Royce - http://www.e-steel.com/resources/pdfs/Rolls-Royce_A_Closer_Look.pdf - Managing Materials Risk for the Extended Supply Chain.

SciSys - http://www.scisys.co.uk/ - supplier of bespoke software systems, IT based solutions and support services to the space and defence industries.

Spime - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spime - a currently-theoretical object that can be tracked through space and time throughout the lifetime of the object. The convergence of six emerging technologies, related to both the manufacturing process for consumer goods, and through identification and location technologies.

The Institute for End User Computing, Inc. The IEUC Homepage - http://www.ieuc.org/home.html - as edited on Wednesday, May 17, 2006.

Vanguard - http://www.lean-service.com/home.asp - The Toyota System for Service Organisations.

Vanguard Home Page - http://www.vanguardsw.com/

Vanguard Global Knowledge Portal - http://wiki.vanguardsw.com/ - Iris - Global Knowledge Portal - network of example models - to provide solutions to common problems.

Vanguard Global Knowledge Portal - Spar Example - Wing Spar Example - Spar - Translated from Protege Ontology - outputs results to other languages - e.g. XML, SVG, Java.

Vanguard System performs costing and decision support calculations based on equations entered in Protege. The resultant calculated tree is then output into a variety of visualation tools that read and display semantic XML based languages, or translated into other languages such as Java for Cost Estimator.

VIDE - VIsualize all moDel drivEn programming - http://vide.tnmsoft.de/ - To enable the development of flexible, robust and evolvable software based on UML. Build a fully visual action programming platform.

Vision Spaceport Synergy Team - http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/nexgen/Nexgen_Downloads/VSPcostReportNEW_1_by_CCT_1999.doc - Spaceport Cost Model Research Report - December, 1999.

Visual Knowledge - http://www.visualknowledge.com - Semantic WIKI - Visual Knowledge build conventional applications that are driven by ontologies rather than by code. A great deal of our underlying systems and frameworks are also model driven.

Visualization and the process of modeling: a cognitive-theoretic view - Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data - Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining - Andrew W. Crapo, Laurie B. Waisel, William A. Wallace, Thomas R. Willemain.

Research and Study

Research News

Vacancy - PhD Studentship: Investigating Laser Transparent Ceramics

UWE leads the way in Research Council success - 23 August 2007

Research Funding - UWE News 2007 The University of the West of England won more Research Council grants last year than any other modern university and more than many of the traditional universities.

Research Study

Useful Information and advice on Research Study and Aerospace - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/#ResearchStudy.

Publications

SEEDS Publications - Publications list

Other Publication

Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) Publications - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/AMRC Publications - 280306.htm.

Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems (C3S) Presentations - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/presentations.php?menu=off.

Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems (C3S) Publications - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/publications.php?menu=off.

Modelling Publications - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Modelling.htm#UsefulPublications.

Semantic Web Publications - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm#UsefulPublications.

People

Member Home Pages

Mark Butler Semantice Web - Now at Hewlett-Packard - Mark Butler Profile

Profile Mark Butler

Christophe Bru Cost Map Samples - Christophe Bru Home Page

Profile Christophe Bru

Tushar Daine Research Information - Tushar Daine Home Page Supply Chain Modelling Forum - 8th November 2006 at the Ansty Hall Hotel, Ansty, Coventry Abstract - Transition from Push to Pull in Wholesale Supply Chains - Lessons to be Learned from Lean - Abstract.

Profile Tushar Daine

David Evans Research Information - David Evans Home Page

Profile David Evans

Peter Hale Semantic Web Samples - Peter Hale Home Page

Profile Peter Hale

Peter Hales' Blog Weblog

Martin Jonik Research Information - Martin Jonik Home Page

Profile Martin Jonik

John Lanham Research Information - John Lanham Home Page

Profile John Lanham

Rob Marsh Research Information - Rob Marsh Home Page

Profile Rob Marsh

Chris Wallace Research and Teaching information - Chris Wallace Home Page

Profile Chris Wallace

Chris Wallaces' Blog Weblog

Terry Winnington Research and Teaching information - Terry Winnington Home Page

Profile - Terry Winnington

Member Profile Viewer

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Members - emails

Aerospace - Further Information

Space Horizons Project

Space Horizons - UWE - JANS Student Group Project

Aerospace - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/aerospace.htm.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Currently we have a two-centre lecture series and are now intending to establish a further centre in the South West. This would enable both interested industry and academic bodies to benefit. - Further Information - Word - Adobe PDF.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - London - http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorth.htm - The British Computer Society's SocioTech group hosts talks and events that relate to IT technology and its social impact. The talks are an excellent opportunity to find out about the variety of work in academic research and industry.

Conferences - Computing and Aerospace

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/Events.htm.

Conferences - recent and future

20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - http://ase.cs.uni-essen.de/ase/past/ase2005/ - Long Beach, California, USA, November 7-11, 2005 - papers, demonstrations, tutorials.

21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - http://www.ase-conference.jp/ - Tokyo, JAPAN, September 18-22, 2006 - papers, demonstrations, tutorials.

30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) - http://icse08.upb.de/ - The International Conference on Software Engineering is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of software engineering. - 10 - 18 May, 2008 in Leipzig, Germany.

3D-MINTEGRATION 2007 Conference http://www.3d-mintegration.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=1 - will be held at the Systems Engineering Innovation Centre at Loughborough on October 29/30.

3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference - http://www.eswc2006.org/ - Budva, Montenegro from the 11th - 14th June, 2006.

BPMDS07 in conjunction with CAiSE'07 - 8th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support - http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds07 - Adequate Design of Business Processes and Support Systems: Reusability, Best Practices, Theory, - are They the Right Answers? - 11-15 June 2007, Trondheim, Norway.

CE 2006 Conference Website - http://www.ce2006.org/ - 13th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications Antibes France 18 - 22 September, 2006.

Code Generation 2007 - http://www.codegeneration.net/cg2007/ - 18th-20th May 2007 - Cambridge, UK - Code Generation, Model-Driven Software Development.

ECEC 2007 - http://85.255.195.219/cms/?q=node/98 - April 25-27, 2007, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands - The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology (Eurosis).

ECEC'2008 - Concurrent Engineering - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/433 - April 9-11, 2008, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal - The conference aim of ECEC'2008 is to provide European Researchers with a forum, where they can discuss the latest developments linked to concurrent engineering focused on European research projects.

Emerging Technologies (EmTech) Conference at MIT - http://www.technologyreview.com/events/tretc/ - September 25-27, 2007 - MIT Campus.

EPDE07 - The 9th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education - http://www.cfdr.co.uk/epde07/ - 13th-14th September 2007 - Newcastle upon Tyne - The 9th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education is organised by the School of Design at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne in participation with the Design Education Special Interest Group (DESIGN) of the Design Society, the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED), in collaboration with the British-HCI Group, and endorsed by the Design Research Society (DRS).

ERIMA07 - European Symposium on Innovative Management Practices - http://www.erima.estia.fr/ - Bidart (Biarritz) - France March 15-16th 2007.

ESM 2006 - European Simulation and Modelling Conference - October 23-25, 2006 - LAAS, Toulouse, France.

ESM'2007, October 22-24, 2007 - European Simulation and Modelling Conference - More details - SIMULA Workshop: "40 Years of SIMULA, the first OO Simulation Language." - Workshop Simulation with Petri Nets - Workshop Modelling and Simulation with Bond Graphs - DEVS Workshop - CoSSoM'07 - Complex systems and self-organization modelling - Fluid Flow Modelling Simulation Workshop - Workshop on Multi-agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S) - Simulation of Electrical Systems - Westin Dragonara Hotel, St. Julian's, Malta.

European RailsConf 2006 - Ruby On Rails - September 14 and 15 London.

Eurosis - Euromedia 2007 - http://85.255.195.219/cms/cms/?q=node/147 - April 25-27, 2007, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands - The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology

EuroSys2007 - Call for Papers - Lisbon from March 21st to 23rd 2007.

Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit - Overview - 19-20 June 2007 - Rome - Marriott Park Hotel - Over the last few years, it has become more and more apparent that in the brave new service-oriented world, application integration and development are two sides of the same coin. So we?ve listened to our clients and enhanced the agenda for 2007 with an added focus on Application Development, Open Source and B2B multi enterprise to give you the full spectrum for managing your application infrastructure and address the key issues across the application cycle.

HCI 2007 - http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2007/ - Happy 21st HCI! - 3-7 September 2007 - at Lancaster University - Our field is constantly changing, with useful and ground breaking research being conducted in such areas as design methodology, tangible user interfaces and collaborative interaction, to name but a few. The desire to improve and innovate, coupled with the drive to keep moving forward and 'explore new frontiers', in human-computer interaction, will be constant throughout this conference and so is reflected in the title 'not as we know it'.

IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) - http://www.iadis.org/ - Home page with Conference Details.

IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2007 http://www.mccsis.org/ - Lisbon, Portugal 3 - 8 July 2007.

IASTED 2008 - Software Engineering - http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-598.html - SE 2008 - as part of the 26th IASTED International Multi-Conference on APPLIED INFORMATICS - February 12 - 14, 2008 Innsbruck, Austria.

ICE - http://www.ice-conference.org/2006/ - 12th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising - Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan, Italy, 26-28 June 2006.

ICE'2008: the 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENT ENTERPRISING - Lisbon - Portugal, 23-25 June 2008 - http://www.ice-conference.org/ - The ICE conference is a premier forum to enable practitioners, researchers as well as tool vendors to present, demonstrate and share the results and achievements of their work in the broad domain of Concurrent Enterprising.

ICEC and IPMA - Global Congress on Project Management - ICEC and IPMA - Ljubljana - Slovenia.

IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing - http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/vlhcc/ - 2006 - Brighton, UK September 4th-8th.

I-ESA 2007 International Conference - http://www.aidima.es/iesa2007/web/index.htm - Madeira Island (Portugal), 28-30 March 2007 - Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications.

I-ESA 2008 - http://www.aidima.es/iesa2008/ - Interoperability for Enterprise Software Applications Pre-conference March 25th 2008 - Conference March 26th - 28th 2008 - Berlin, Germany.

IET International Conference on Agile Manufacturing (ICAM) 2007 - http://conferences.theiet.org/icam07/ - ICAM07 - Durham University - Because agility is defined as the ability of a system to adapt itself to rapid and unexpected changes, the concept soon was applied to fields beyond manufacturing. The entire production process, starting from the customer order, and passing through product development, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain management, delivery and services, should be agile in order to be competitive. Also, for the software development industries, process industries and services industries, agility either is or will be essential. Agility covers both technical and managerial aspects.

IFAC conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing - http://cidyt.mty.itesm.mx/ifac-CEA07/ - IFAC - CEA - Monterrey - Mexico - October 2-5, 2007.

IFAC/IFIP/IFORS IEA Symposium - Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems - http://www.ifac-hms-2007.com/ - Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel Seoul Korea - September 4-6th 2007 - International Federation of Automatic Control.

Int'l Industrial control & Automation Technology Exhibition and Conference - Automation Technology Egypt 2007 - http://www.smbegypt.com/ - 8th to 11th March 2007. Cairo - Egypt - contact info@smbegypt.com.

International Workshop on Semantic Modelling and Model-Driven Architecture - SMMDA 2006 - 11 July 2006.

ISC'2007 - Industrial Simulation - http://85.255.195.219/cms/?q=node/176 - June 11-13, 2007, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.

ISPE - The 14th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering:Research and Applications - http://www.ispe-org.net - July 16-20, 2007 - Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil.

ISWC 2006 - http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/ - The 5th International Semantic Web Conference will be hosted in Athens, GA, USA - November 5 (Sunday) - 9 (Thursday) 2006.

Jena User Conference - Presentations and Papers - First Jena User Conference - Proceedings.

Leaders of Industry Conference - London 25th September 2007 - http://www.eiil.net/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=216&Itemid=40 - Conference to be held at IMechE Headquarters, 1 Birdcage Walk, London - The European Engineer - An Endangered Species ? - 25th September 2007 [12.00 - 18.00] - Both European business and society in general have an obligation to ensure a home-grown supply of innovators to allow manufacturing and other technology-led business sectors to lead the world towards ever higher standards of operational efficiency and lower consumption of natural resources whilst at the same time meeting the increasing demands of global consumers. This requires an increase in the number of young people pursuing school and university choices that will enable them to pursue a career in science, engineering or related disciplines.

Model-Driven User-Centric Design and Engineering - MDUCDE 2007 - http://www.zmmi.de/MDUCDE2007/ - Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel Seoul Korea - September 5th 2007 - The workshop aims to: - Bring together a community integrating people and knowledge from human-computer interaction as well as human-machine interaction - Discuss issues on advanced and future user interface design, engineering, and automatic generation - Leveraging model-driven and automatic application of ergonomic knowledge in software and system engineering - Identify needs, goals, and future research areas in user-centric design.

National Science and Engineering Week - http://www.the-ba.net - The BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) - 9-18 March 2007.

"New Business Opportunities in Space". One-day space conference. Organised by the West of England Aerospace Forum (WEAF). Details http://www.weaf.co.uk - Tuesday 24 July 2007 at Exeter, Devon - Space is a fast-growing business. Data from satellites of various kinds is finding ever wider applications. ESA and NASA have ambitious plans for new programmes involving human spaceflight. Space tourism is within sight of becoming a serious business. - WEAF is offering its members an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in this one-day conference. - The major players of the space industry will outline new opportunities, SMEs will be able to market themselves, and space tourism companies will outline their plans. - This is a conference for both aviation and space companies, because space tourism blends current space technology with carrying passengers safely, and this requires aviation skills and experience.

Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference - http://www.informs-cs.org/wsc05papers/297.pdf - Simulation and the Semantic Web - M. E. Kuhl, N. M. Steiger, F. B. Armstrong, and J. A. Joines, eds.

Sakai Conference - 5th Sakai Conference with OSP - Conference - May 30 - June 2 2006.

Sixth International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development - aosd.07 - Vancouver, British Columbia March 12-16, 2007.

Spa 2007 - 25th-28th March - http://www.spaconference.org/spa2007/programme.html - BCS - Homerton College - Cambridge - British Computer Society - Software Practice Advancement Group.

SVG Open 2006 - 5th Annual World Conference - Victoria BC - October 16th -19th.

SVG.Open - http://www.svgOpen.org - SVG.Open 2007 Conference, Tokyo, Japan - September 2007.

TCT 2007 - The rapid product development and rapid manufacturing event - http://www.time-compression.com/x/exhibition.html - 26th/27th September, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK - TCT 2007 is the only UK event focused on providing solutions for accelerating products to market. Whether you are working for a global engineering concern or an SME the Rapid Product Development and Rapid Manufacturing technologies on show at TCT 2007 will help you to reduce time and cost to market, and have a demonstrable impact on the bottom line.

Virtual Concept Conference - http://www.virtualconcept.estia.fr/2006/index.php - Cancun, Mexico - From 26th of November to 1st of December 2006.

VRAP 2007 - 3rd international conference on advanced research in virtual and rapid prototyping - http://www.dem.estg.ipleiria.pt/vrap2007/ - Leiria, 24th to 29th September 2007 and The 1st CoSpaces Annual Conference will be held on 26th - 28th September 2007 in conjunction with VR@P 2007 in Leiria, Portugal. - The conference will take place at the School of Technology and Management which is at an important industrial centre and historical city of Portugal, Leiria, distant around 1 hour from Lisbon. This School provides education in the sectors of technology and management for more than 5000 students and is one of the five Schools forming the Institute Polytechnic of Leiria. VRAP is designed to be a major forum for the Scientific exchange of multi-disciplinary and inter-organisational aspects of virtual and physical prototyping and related areas.

Web 2.0 Conference - http://www.web2con.com/web2006/ - November 7-9 2007 - San Francisco.

Winter Simulation Conference WSC '06 - http://www.wintersim.org/ - Monterey, California, USA - December 3-6, 2006.

WMSCI 2007 11th. World Multi-Conference - Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: - http://www.iiis-cyber.org/wmsci2007/website/default.asp?vc=1 - July 8-11, 2007 - Orlando, Florida, USA.

WWW 2006 - Edinburgh Conference - May 23-26 2006.

XML 2006 - http://2006.xmlconference.org/ - XML 2006 - The world's oldest and biggest XML conference - 4-7 December - Boston, USA.

XML Access Languages - XML UK.org - Includes presentation of Chris Wallace - SEEDS member - Tuesday 26 September - CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - Didcot, Oxfordshire.

XML Prague Conference - Prague Conference - June 17-18 Prague 2006.

XTech Conference - Building Rich, Encapsulated Widgets Using XBL, XForms and SVG - Mark Birbeck, x-port.net Ltd.

XVIII Workshop on Supervising and Diagnostics of Machining Systems - http://www.itma.pwr.wroc.pl - MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION - 12 - 15 March 2007, Karpacz, Poland.

Conferences - Computing and Aerospace

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/Events.htm.

Links

Internal Links

AMRC (Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre) Links - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/#Links.

AMRC and SEEDS Pages

AMRC Index - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/centres/amrc/index.html

AMRC Overview - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/centres/amrc.html

AMRC Research - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/

SEEDS About us - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/SEEDS.html

SEEDS Introduction - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/centres/amrc/seeds.html

SEEDS Research - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/centres/amrc/seedsresearch.html

External Links

AMRC (Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre) External Links - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/#ExternalLinks.

Aerospace

Aerospace Innovation Networks - Aerospace Innovation Networks - List of Subjects.

Airbus - http://www.airbus.com/

Airbus A380 - A380 Airbus - News and demonstrations.

Association of Aerospace Universities (AAU) - http://www.aau.ac.uk

Bath University - Professor Peter Johnson - Head of Department of Computer Science, Head of HCI Group.

Bristol Spaceplanes - http://www.bristolspaceplanes.com/ - Bristol Spaceplanes Limited, based in Bristol, England, was formed in 1991 to provide technical assistance and consultancy to commercial organisations and aerospace companies interested in commercial opportunities in space. Since then it has prepared plans to develop the Ascender sub-orbital spaceplane, designed in-house from off-the-shelf technology by our experienced design team. Ascender operates like an aeroplane, however its rocket motor propels it to an altitude of 100km. During your Ascender flight, you will experience several minutes of weightlessness, see the earth below you, and bright stars against a black sky: a truly transforming experience.

Boeing - http://www.boeing.com/.

Integrating Aircraft Cost Modeling into Conceptual Design - Centre of Excellence for Integrated Aircraft Technologies (CEIAT), School of Aeronautical Engineering Queens University Belfast> - R. Curran, M. Price, S. Raghunathan, E. Benard , S. Crosby , S. Castagne, P. Mawhinney.

Queens University Belfast - Belfast University School of Aeronautical Engineering - Home Page.

Rolls-Royce - http://www.rolls-royce.com/.

Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund - http://www.rafbf.org/ - The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund exists to provide assistance to those of the extended Royal Air Force Family who need support as a consequence of poverty, sickness, disability, accident, infirmity or other adversity.

Stirling Dynamics Ltd - http://www.stirling-dynamics.com/ - Stirling Dynamics is an independent company specialising in structures, aerodynamics, dynamics and control engineering in the aerospace, marine and other industries.

System Engineering AIN Public Web page - Aerospace Innovation Networks - System Engineering.

Westland - http://www.whl.co.uk/ - Welcome to the Westland website. It is designed to provide visitors with an insight into the global breadth and scope of the company's many activities in international aerospace and defence markets.

Engineering and Technology Partnerships

Association of Aerospace Universities (AAU) - http://www.aau.ac.uk

BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) - http://www.the-ba.net.

Bath University - Professor Peter Johnson - Head of Department of Computer Science, Head of HCI Group.

Business Process Modelling Group (BPMG) - http://www.bpmg.org.

Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) UK - http://www.savebritishscience.org.uk/ - CaSE.

Energy Community - http://www.visualknowledge.com/vkgw/vk?ObjectKey=A23781S1028&ObjectMessage=renderForm:&formContext=A48011S3496911 - Let's look at our Networked Improvement Community (NIC) and ask ourselves: "What is our NIC's 'Improvement Vector'?" and "Can we work together on improving how we improve?".

Engineering and Technology Board - http://www.etechb.co.uk/ - etb - Promoting the vital contribution of scientists, engineers and technologists.

European Institute for Industrial Leadership (EIIL) - http://www.eiil.net/mambo/ - The European Institute for Industrial Leadership (EIIL) is a not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to developing future leaders of technology-led and manufacturing industry in Europe.

Grid Computing Now - http://grid.globalwatchonline.com/epicentric_portal/site/GRID - This web-site represents the hub of activity for the Grid Computing Now! Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), a key element of the Information and Communication Technology strategy within the DTI Technology Programme.

Institute for End User Computing, Inc. The IEUC Homepage - http://www.ieuc.org/home.html - as edited on Wednesday, May 17, 2006.

Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining - Integrated Manufacturing Processes Committee - Materials Science and Technology Division.

Intellectual Ventures - http://www.intellectualventures.com - Intellectual Ventures is an invention company.

IP-CC - http://www.ip-cc.org.uk - The Institute for People-Centered Computation

Knowledge West - Knowledge West - Welcome to Knowledge West

Knowledge Transfer Networks - http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/tech-priorities-uk/about_the_programme/KTN/page12567.html - A Knowledge Transfer Network is a single national over-arching Network in a specific field of technology or business application.

Koala Publishing Ltd - CheckPoint '06 - London Conference - Date To be Announced - will be November

NIST - Advanced Technology Program - National Insitute of Standards and Technology - What's New in ATP.

NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology - Process Specification Language (PSL) - A Few PSL Basics....

RosettaNet - http://portal.rosettanet.org/cms/sites/RosettaNet/ - RosettaNet member companies represent $1.2 trillion dollars in annual revenue, and transact billions of dollars in transactions within their trading networks using RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIPs).

Scenta - http://www.scenta.co.uk/scenta.cfm - Scenta - Careers and More in Science and Technology.

SciSys - http://www.scisys.co.uk/ - supplier of bespoke software systems, IT based solutions and support services to the space and defence industries.

South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) - South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) - Inspire SW Projects.

South West of England Regional Development Agency (SWERDA) - Discovering Bristol Science City - http://www.southwestrda.org.uk/news/release.asp?ReleaseID=1839 - 2nd February 2007.

South West of England Regional Development Agency (SWERDA) - Innovation Initiatives - http://www.southwestrda.org.uk/what-we-do/innovation/innovationinitiative/inspire-sw-projects.shtm#eef- Inspire SW - Projects.

System Engineering AIN Public Web page - Aerospace Innovation Networks - System Engineering.

Vanguard - http://www.lean-service.com/home.asp - The Toyota System for Service Organisations.

VE Forum.org - http://www.ve-forum.org/ - the open forum for all who are active or interested in the field of networks and virtual organizations.

West of England Aerospace Forum - http://www.weaf.co.uk/

West of England Aerospace Forum - http://www.weaf.co.uk/competitiveness/lean_exc.html - Lean Manufacturing Excellence Course.

West of England Metals and Materials Association - http://www.bath.ac.uk/mrc/seminars/wemma/

Semantic Web Organisations in Bristol

Hewlett-Packard - HP Labs Semantic Web Research - http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/

Hewlett-Packard - Semantic Blogging Demonstrator - Artificial Immune Systems

Koala Publishing Ltd - http://www.koalapub.co.uk/

Software Projects/Collaborations

AlFresco - http://www.alfresco.com/ - Alfresco offers true Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.

Association of Aerospace Universities (AAU) - http://www.aau.ac.uk.

Bath University - Professor Peter Johnson - Head of Department of Computer Science, Head of HCI Group.

Bristol SkillSwap - http://groups.google.com/group/bristolskillswap/ - Free New Media Training - For the community, by the community - edmitchell.co.uk.

British Computer Society (BCS) - http://www.bcs.org - Home page.

British Computer Society (BCS) - Conferences and Papers - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.7927 - Conferences and Paper.

Cetus Links - Object-Orientation - Cetus Links - Thousands of Links on Objects and Components.

Components Engine - Electronic Parts Catalog (epc)
Components engine : software for the creation of interactive spares part catalogue and spare parts, consultation over the web and cd-rom and paper, management of the order of store and discounts, exploded drawings, manual working.

Datum Project (Design Analysis Tool for Unit cost Modelling) - Rolls-Royce, UWE, Southampton University - Datum Project.

Decision Support System Resources - DSS Resources - Knowledge Repository about Decision Support Systems by Dan Power.

Institute for End-User Programming - IEUC - Welcome to The IEUC Homepage.

FIPER and Cost Estimator - http://www.engineous.com/product_FIPER_specifications.htm

General Electric - ACUITy enterprise modelling tool - Paper - ACUITy semantic web application - An Ontology-Based Architecture for Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology - A Aragones, J Bruno, A Crapo, M Garbias.

General Electric - ACUITy enterprise modelling tool - Presentation - Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) - Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) - Hewlett-Packard Jena Conference Presentation - Andrew W Crapo.

General Electric Release ACUITy software - Open Source - Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) is an open-source framework and architecture for developing semantically-enabled mixed initiative user interfaces - Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) - September 22 2006.

The Institute for End User Computing, Inc. The IEUC Homepage - http://www.ieuc.org/home.html - as edited on Wednesday, May 17, 2006.

Koala Publishing Ltd - CheckPoint '06 - London Conference - Date To be Announced - November

Kurt Cagle - Kurt Cagle - Web site

Kurt Cagle - Kurt Cagle - Article - Thoughts on Complexity

Metamomix - http://www.metatomix.com/news/060307.html - Metatomix Provides Free Semantic Toolkit for Eclipse Developers Worldwide.

Nucleus Research - http://www.nucleusresearch.com/ - Research and Advisory Service.

OpenAdvantage - http://www.openadvantage.org/ - If your company is in the West Midlands Region you could qualify for free help - West Midlands Open Source Solution Centre.

OpenLearn - Open University - http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ - Making Educational Resources Freely Available.

Previous Projects and future work - Cost Modelling for Aircraft Design Optimisation

program-transformation.org - Home Page - Program-Transformation.Org: The Program Transformation Wiki.

Protege Home - http://protege.stanford.edu/

Protege SEEDS Page - http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UserDrivenProgramming

Rainbow portal - http://www.rainbowportal.net/

Simkin - Simkin XML based open source scripting language.

Technische University - Eindhoven - SequoiaView Homepage - Tool for viewing large trees.

TopBraid Composer - The Complete Semantic Modeling Toolset - a visual modeling environment for creating and managing ontologies. TopBraid Composer is based on Protege and other tools into a professional ontology editor and knowledge-base framework. Composer is based on the Eclipse platform and uses Jena as its underlying API.

Vanguard Home Page - http://www.vanguardsw.com/

Vanguard Global Knowledge Portal - http://wiki.vanguardsw.com/Iris - Global Knowledge Portal - network of example models - to provide solutions to common problems.

XML Directory - XML Directory

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