I'm developing a survey on usability, I don't think it's quite right yet, but I would still welcome anyone using it to leave feedback on my 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, I 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

Survey Results - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/EndUserProgramming.htm#SurveyResults - http://www.toluna.com/polls/37921/Do_You_Think_End-User_Programming_can_be_made_possible?.

Modelling

Research Aim

The intention for this research is to partner with industry, other academics, and interested people in order to build a semantic web modelling system for end user programming. In order to achieve this it is important to examine applications that aim to assist in this, and then write extensively about how they can be used and how they helped towards this goal. The intention is to particularly target modelling that is too complex for use of spreadsheets, and sharing of information via an ontology.

This research arises out of projects to create systems to facilitate management of design and cost related knowledge within aerospace organisations. The aim of using this knowledge is to reduce the costs of designing and manufacturing products. This research identifies ways that problems arising from the model development process can be addressed, by a new way of providing for the creation of software. Experience was gained from projects, which have used a combination of proprietary software solutions and bespoke software. It is possible to identify the approach of User Driven Programming (UDP) as an effective software development technique. This research unites approaches of Object Orientation, the Semantic Web, and Relational Databases and Event Driven programming. The Model Driven Semantic Web [Frankel] explains the opportunities for and importance of this kind of research. The approach encourages much greater user involvement in software development. The advantages of increasing user involvement in software development are explained by [Olsson].

Within this research the terms user, and domain expert are used interchangeably. The user is a domain expert who wants a problem represented and modelled using software. The domain is engineering but this research could be applied to other domains. The users/domain experts may well be computer literate and able to model certain problems using a software tool such as a spreadsheet. For reasons that I be explain throughout my research, this is only sufficient for simpler problems. The reasons that spreadsheets should not be used to represent complex models are connected with difficulties in maintaining, extending, and reusing spreadsheet models. So to be able to model a complex problem, the users/domain experts currently must specify their requirements to other software experts, who may or may not have domain knowledge themselves. It is difficult to find and afford to employ those who have sufficient expertise in both the software and the domain. Someone without the domain knowledge may not understand the requirements. Putting the right team together is a difficult balancing act, and project teams will not be able to model a problem such as a new design unless all team members can access relevant software, to understand the problem to be modelled and solved [Rodgers et al.]. An additional problem is that novice modellers often have little or no training in modelling. 'Little is known about how they go about their tasks and whether they succeed' [Willemain and Powell]. So it is important to make technologies accessible for modellers to use, and to enable the models to be shared and navigated easily so that expert modellers can assist novices to create better models.

More information is available here - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm#TheNeedforOntologiestoaidModelling.

Research Summary

The intention behind this work is to enable users to program integrated applications. Tools will be created to enable users to develop software in a way familiar to many, from their use of spreadsheets and web page creation tools. End User Programming is an important area of research because many people who are experts in their domain want to create software models to aid their decision making [Scaffidi et al.]. Semantic Web techniques should be used to assist non-programmers to create software. This software could allow interactive visual modelling of information. This corresponds to the type of work normally undertaken using spreadsheets. In order to model complex problems in spreadsheets it is necessary to use macro languages, and track relationships between values in cells. These are difficult tasks, and mistakes lead to incorrect answers, this has led to a spreadsheet crisis where incorrect and undocumented spreadsheets are produced by individuals who have little formal training [Erwig et al.] [Scanlan et al.]. Creation of correct spreadsheets is difficult when the structure of the relationships in the spreadsheet is not clearly visible, this is why development of alternative representations and visualisations was undertaken. The aim is to find an alternative way of representing these models, which does not require the user to write code. The tool created must make it easy to interact with and change the models, and easy to share information with colleagues. The main application areas of the tool would be Knowledge Management, Decision support, and Simulation. There are many new semantic web applications aimed at the modelling community that have been developed over the last couple of years. The developers of these applications are willing to provide them free in the hope of allowing them to be used to create modelling tools for industrial problems. These applications and the methodology for the use and development of the applications are explained later and in http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm.

This modelling research specialises mainly in User Driven Model Development. This research unites approaches of object orientation, the semantic web, relational databases, and event driven programming. 'The Model Driven Semantic Web' [Frankel et al.] explain the opportunities for and importance of this kind of research. Tim Berners-Lee defined the semantic web as 'a web of data that can be processed directly or indirectly by machines' [Berners-Lee]. With this in mind the research proposed will examine ways of structuring information, and enabling processing and searching of the information to provide a modelling capability. The project will also investigate increasing user involvement in software, and enable provision of templates to enable non-programmers to develop modelling software for the purposes that interest them. The advantages of increasing user involvement in software development are explained by [Olsson]. This involvement is essential to avoid communication problems and misunderstanding that result from expert users having so little influence on tool creation. To assist in this project, it is essential that new ways of enabling collaboration between all those involved in software creation and use are investigated.

Background and Introduction to the Semantic Web System

There is an urgent need for semantic web tools to illustrate the benefits this technology can provide for industry, this paper 'EASE: The European Association Semantic Web Education' [Scaffidi et al.] explains this need. There is also a need for education in the use of semantic web technologies for industry. Some industry tools are available, explained by European Association Semantic Web Education [Diederich et al.] and in the [Jena User Conference], or being developed at present, but they are still difficult for industry employees to find. [REASE (the repository of EASE for learning units)] provides a way to find and create learning materials for industrial applications of semantic web technologies. This project would undertake to create semantic web models for industry for use as modelling tools, and for educational use. These will then be publicises extensively to encourage industry user involvement.

Use of the semantic web is to be a means for open standard representation of information, transformation into different representations as required, and for provision of a high level interface as a tool for model creation, and translation to program code. The proposed project involves creation of an elaborator or translator that converts the diagrammatic representation of the problem into software. Translations can be performed into any programming or meta-programming language or open standard information representation language, the visualisation of the model created can be displayed on the web.

The diagram below illustrates the aim of having a two way translation between all levels in a hierarchy of translation between human and computer, and between different software environments. This definition from [Wikipedia] and used in this UWE paper by [Simons and Parmee] explains the aim 'a kind of action that occurs as two or more objects have an effect on each other. The idea of a two-way effect is essential to the concept of interaction, as opposed to a one way causal effect. Combinations of many simple interactions can lead to surprising emergent phenomena'. This communication strategy will improve opportunities for end user modelling and programming, sharing of information, and education of both users and computer software. The analogy of educating computer software to do what the user intends is called programming by demonstration in 'Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration' [Cypher]. The user has the role of an educator of the software which acts as an apprentice to learn what is required. The user is thus able to instruct the software and so program solutions, using an adaptive modelling tool.

This diagram explains proposed two way translation mechanism

Two way Translation Mechanism

The tool will enable users to build their taxonomy representation of the model from a library held in an open standard ontology [Uschold and Gruninger]. Flexibility is essential when different organisations are not all using the same systems. An important reason for creating the open standard ontology is that it can be accessed by many different users and/or applications. The open standard OWL (Web Ontology Language) will be used and is explained in [Bechhofer and Carrol]. In addition to the use of open standard ontology language it's also possible to use agreed semantics for the domain of engineering modelling. The ontology is made up of taxonomies for each domain such as parts, processes, and materials. Wherever possible, agreement on the terminology, and method of use, for each taxonomy should be sought, or a published standard used. The language most relevant for this purpose is the Process Specification Language (PSL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). A representation of this PSL-XML [Lubell] can be used with OWL, both OWL and PSL-XML can be based on RDF-XML (Resource Description Framework) implemented with XML (eXtensible Markup Language). This makes the translation process simpler and can enable interaction with other systems. The central section of figure 1 illustrates the core modelling functionality. Decision Support and Modelling tool provided by Vanguard Corporation [Vanguard Software] has been used, for calculation and modelling. http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm describes other newly released tools to be evaluated for this purpose.

The detail and accuracy of the information that can be provided to define engineering products varies along the product development chain. The most important time to identify opportunities for cost reduction are early in the product life cycle before most of the costs are committed, so it is important to analyse the new design as soon as possible so that it can be costed by a process of analysis and refinement. Scanlan et al. (2006) make this point. This also implies however that the costing tool must be continuously refined as designs are refined, and/or new designs and products created. An ontology based modelling approach can assist with this as it allows the software design to be adjusted by redefining the ontology structures. Visualisation of these structures can ease this task and so increase the range of people who can undertake it. Semantic Web visualisation can make the models accessible and searchable, by a wide range of users.

Process Specification Language (PSL) Page - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/ProcessSpecificationLanguage.htm.

The intention behind this research is to provide a tool that can be used by people who don't have access to CAD tools or other specialist software. It is to aid communication of product information throughout an organisation. Background research has been on semantic web techniques that can be applied to this problem.

The aim of this research is 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. Open standard Ontology tool Protégé from Stanford University is used. This Ontology can be translated into a Decision Support tool called DecisionPro (now renamed Vanguard System), which runs the model. Software 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. It is possible to search the information both in Protégé and on the web as it is represented using searchable semantic web languages.

Software that is been investigated for representing ontologies and translating to program code and visualisation is Stanford University's [Protégé], Hewlett Packard's [Jena], and [Kaon]. Applications that are built with ontology tools such as the above, which include a development environment for calculation and decision support are [Metatomix m3t4], [TopBraid Composer], General Electric's [ACUITy] enterprise modelling tool, and Visual Knowledge's [Semantic Wiki] visualiser. These tools include Java Eclipse extensions for high level programming. Transformations that can translate the ontology into representations in other languages and tools have also been investigated. This translation for decision support tools [Vanguard System] and [Cost Estimator], and languages including XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language), and Java has been provided. XML has mainly been used as a neutral format for representing information, but its rich structure makes it suitable for use as a programming language e.g. [AspectXML]. Further research can be undertaken into representing the information in Meta languages such as [metaL] and [Simkin]. The result documents could be searched using XQuery within [Exist] and [SPARQL] (Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language) and edited using XForm editors such as [Orbeon XForms]. Translation of XML to the most appropriate format for reusable industry documentation will be achieved with the help of [Koala Publishing], who are experts in this field.

End User Programming for Modelling

An important area of research is a technique for End User Programming, that of allowing visual modelling of information. This corresponds to the type of work normally undertaken using spreadsheets. This research involves using Semantic Web technologies to enable end user programming.

Schrage (1991) explains how difficult it can be to find the underlying assumptions that are represented in a spreadsheet scenario. The difficulty of tracking the information and assumptions in a spreadsheet make it hard to integrate the model with other software applications. However, the large numbers of domain experts who undertake spreadsheet development indicates their desire to be creators of software models. Improvements are required in order to ease problems of Maintenance, Extensibility, Ease of Use, and Sharing of Information.

When engineering organisations design and manufacture products they categorise this process into stages. From the early concept stage to the final design stage and manufacture, software is used to aid and record the process. It is common for different software to be used at different stages. If the software applications do not use open standard languages to communicate between these stages and between the various teams involved information gets lost, and not re-used as the chain of information breaks. An open standard is a language whose structure and syntax has been agreed by the World Wide Web consortium (W3C). The detail and accuracy of the information that can be provided to define the product varies along this chain. The best opportunities for cost reduction are early in the product life cycle, so it is important to gather together any information that is available on that component and any similar products. It is also important that users who enter information about a design concept be guided by historical values where possible and guidance information such as explanations, diagrams, and examples. It is essential that visual feedback is provided at every stage in the model development process in order to deal with this complex information.

The work involves allowing non-programmers to model complex problems visually and without having to use programming languages. Information is created in a visual tree using an Ontology editor, the information is then transformed, and all calculations performed. Further transformations can be performed into any programming language or open standard information representation language, and this can be displayed on the web. Also transformations can be performed between a tree representation and other styles of representation e.g. an interactive CAD style representation, using SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).

The use of functional language within nodes of a tree gives all the advantages of spreadsheet use in enabling programming by use of expressions, and allowing users to ignore problems of ordering calculations, and of memory use, so simplifying program statements and allowing something closer to natural expression. The additional advantage is that of displaying the expressions in the appropriate context. Including the context of the information allows a person to discover meanings or relationships in the information which would not always be obvious. This is why translation capabilities were provided to different representations of modelling problems to visualise it in the context the user expects.

With visual diagrammatic modelling it was possible to include one model within another as a software component, and demarcate responsibility for building, maintenance, and updating of each model. This was difficult using spreadsheets, and possible with non-visual programming though the link between individual responsibilities and code produced was not as clearly identified, because non-programmers cannot participate in code production, and this was not so clearly visualised. As an example of visualisation and interaction for cost modelling of an aircraft wingbox, different experts might build software models for wing spars, wing skins etc, and another expert might be responsible for the overall wing cost model. The wing spar and skins model can then be inserted into the overall wingbox cost model. Such a system makes generic modelling more achievable.

Automated Generation of Modelling Programs Using Jena and Protege - article.

This work can involve co-operation with the [Institute for End User Computing (IEUC)]. Other End-User Programming Consortiums are [End-Users Shaping Effective Software (EUSES)] and [Network of Excellence on End User Development (EUD.Net)]. Program Transformation allows for writing in one representation or language, and translating to another. This is particularly useful for language independent programming, or for high level and End User Programming that can then be translated to a language more easily interpreted by computer systems. Techniques such as Model Driven Programming [Frankel et al.][Gray et al.], Generative Programming [Gray et al.][Marsh et al.], Aspect Oriented Programming [Murphy et al.], and Meta Programming and Language Oriented Progamming [Mens et al.][Dmitriev] will be used to create the modelling environment for End Users.

Collaboration, simulation and modelling have been investigated to assist us in determining the requirements for future research in modelling of problems. Huhns and Paternò both explain that alternatives to the current approach to software development are required. This should allow translation from a model-based representation of software to the actual software. This could involve automatically producing software for a semantic web site from visual representations of the problem. The core of this modelling infrastructure would be automated generation of models written using World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards based languages and the visualisation of information represented in such W3C standard ways. Modelling languages have been investigated such as Alloy examined by Wallace, in order to establish how modelling languages can be used as an interface to an End-User Programming environment. Transformation from a model building environment to program code has been investigated by Gray et al. MathML can assist in this process by providing an open representation of functions as XML (eXtensible Markup Language). Functions entered by the model developer can then be translated to this open representation and translated to programming languages and/or read by programming languages. Guibert et al. explain and expands on Smiths work with an example demonstrating how numbers fail to reveal the concept behind them. The example is a numerical representation of a triangle. This representation is 'fregean' because it does not show the concept of a triangle. Next to this is a diagram of the triangle that does show the concept.

Enabling Decision Support and Costing of Product Designs by using Visual Metaphors - HTML - HTML Version - Word - Word Adobe Acrobat PDF

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

MathML - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML#MathML.

Modelling and Semantic Web Methodology - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/ModellingSemanticWeb.htm.

Research in Modelling Simulation and Collaboration Over the Web - article.

Translation for De-abstraction - article - Peter Hale.

Peter Hale User Driven Modelling - Blog.

Visualisation and Interaction - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Visualisation.htm.

Web Taxonomy Creation - Article - Ezine Article - An important contribution to Public Understanding of Science and for enabling of new insights would be creation of an online systematic representation of scientific information that gives a holistic view of related knowledge. This would reuse information and ideas provided by other researchers. These systems organise and visualise information...

This kind of research is being applied by this company - Himalia - http://www.himalia.net/index.html - Model-driven user interfaces - Himalia is the first and only high-abstraction level User Interface Builder.

Modelling References

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

Frankel, D., 2004. Hayes, P. Kendall, E. McGuinness, D., The Model Driven Semantic Web - 1st International Workshop on the Model-Driven Semantic Web (MDSW2004) Enabling Knowledge Representation and MDA® Technologies to Work Together (2004).

Olsson, E., 2004, What active users and designers contribute in the design process, Interacting with Computers 16 (2004) 377-401.

Rodgers, P. A., Caldwell, N. H., M., Clarkson, P.J., Huxor, A. P, 2001. The management of concept design knowledge in modern product development organizations. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 14(1), pp 108-115.

Willemain, T. R., Powell S. G., 2006, How novices formulate models. Part II: a quantitative description of behaviour, Journal of the Operational Research Society, pp1-12 http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/2602279a.html.

Scaffidi, C., Shaw, M., Myers, B. (2005). Estimating the Numbers of End Users and End User Programmers, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, (VL/HCC'05): 207-214 Dallas, Texas.

Erwig M, Abraham R, Cooperstein I, Kollmansberger S, Automatic Generation and Maintenance of Correct Spreadsheets, 2005, ICSE 2005 27th International Conference on Software Engineering p 136- 145.

Scanlan J, Rao A, Bru C, Hale P, Marsh R, DATUM Project: Cost Estimating Environment for Support of Aerospace Design Decision Making, 2006, Journal of Aircraft - 2006 vol. 43 no. 4.

Schrage, M., (1991) Spreadsheets: Bulking Up On Data [online]. Available from: http://www.systems-thinking.org/buod/buod.htm Los Angeles Times [Accessed 30 July 2008].

Berners-Lee T, 1999, Weaving the Web, Harper San Francisco, ISBN 0062515861.

Institute for End User Computing http://www.ieuc.org/home.html.

Network of Excellence on End User Development EUD.Net http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/eud-net.htm.

End-Users Shaping Effective Software (EUSES) http://eusesconsortium.org/.

Gray J, Zhang J, Lin Y, Roychoudhury S, Wu H, Sudarsan R, Gokhale A, Neema S, Shi F, Bapty T, Model-Driven Program Transformation of a Large Avionics Framework, 2004, Third International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering GPCE.

Marsh R, Hill T, Scanlan J, Dunkley M, Cleevely P, 2001, Probabilistic Pseudo-generative Cost Modelling Through Virtual Template Propagation CEAS Conference on Multidisciplinary Aircraft Design and Optimization June 2001 Maternushaus Koln, Germany.

Murphy G C, Walker R J, Baniassad E L A, Robillard M P, Lai A, Kersten M A, Does aspect-oriented programming work?, 2001, Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 10 (October 2001) Pages: 75 - 77, ISSN:0001-0782

Mens K, Michiels I, Wuyts R, 2002, Supporting Software Development through Declaratively Codified Programming Patterns. Expert Systems with Applications 23 405-413.

Dmitriev S, http://www.onboard.jetbrains.com/is1/articles/04/10/lop/ - Language Oriented Programming: The Next Programming Paradigm.

Diederich, J, Nejdl, W, Tolksdorf R, 2006, EASE: The European Association for SemanticWeb Education, SWET2006 Beijing, China.

Jena User Conference, 2006, Bristol, UK http://jena.hpl.hp.com/juc2006/proceedings.html - Proceedings (2006).

REASE the repository of EASE for learning units http://ubp.l3s.uni-hannover.de/ubp.

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction - Interaction.

Simons, C. L. Parmee, I. C., 2006, A manifesto for cooperative human / machine interaction in object-oriented conceptual software design, Advanced Computation in Design and Decision Making group Technical Report TR091006 - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~clsimons/Publications/CooperativeInteraction.pdf.

Cypher, A, 1993, Watch What I Do Programming by Demonstration, MIT Press, ISBN:0262032139.

Uschold, M, Gruninger M, 2004, Ontologies and Semantics for Seamless Connectivity, Association for Computer Machinery - Special Interest Group on Management of Data - SIGMOD Record December 2004 Vol 33 No. 4.

Bechhofer S., Carrol J. (2004) Parsing owl dl: trees or triples? - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/713845.html - Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web, NY, USA pp 266 - 275.

Lubell J, 2006 http://ats.nist.gov/psl/xml/process-descriptions.html - XML Representation of Process Descriptions.

Vanguard Software http://wiki.vanguardsw.com/ - Global Knowledge Portal.

Protégé http://protege.stanford.edu/ - welcome to protégé.

Jena http://jena.sourceforge.net/ - Jena - A Semantic Web Framework for Java.

Kaon http://kaon.semanticweb.org/ - Welcome to KAON

Metatomix m3t4 http://www.metatomix.com/news/060307.html - Metatomix Provides Free Semantic Toolkit for Eclipse Developers Worldwide.

TopBraid Composer http://www.topbraidcomposer.com/ - The Complete Semantic Modeling Toolset.

Aragones, A., Bruno, J., Crapo, A., Garbiras M. (2006) An Ontology-Based Architecture for Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology. Jena User Conference 2006, Bristol, UK.

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.

Vanguard System http://www.vanguardsw.com/products/vanguard-studio/.

Koonce, D., Judd, R., Keyser, T., Bailey, M. A. (2000) Cost Estimation Tool Integrated into FIPER, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics http://www.engineous.com/resources.htm.

AspectXML Project - http://www.aspectxml.org/.

MetaL http://www.meta-language.net/ - MetaL: An XML based Meta-Programming language.

Simkin http://www.simkin.co.uk/ - A high-level lightweight embeddable scripting language which works with Java or C++ and XML.

Exist http://exist.sourceforge.net/xquery.html - Open Source Native XML Database.

SPARQL http://dret.net/glossary/sparql - Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language.

Orbeon Xforms http://www.orbeon.com/ - Form-based web applications, done the right way.

Koala Publishing http://www.koalapub.co.uk/ Using XML software tools to create structured technical documentation.

Morris, S., Neilson, I., Charlton, C., Little, J. (2001) Interactivity and collaboration on the WWW - is the 'WWW shell' sufficient?. Interacting with Computers, 13, 717-730.

Huhns, M. (2001) Interaction-Oriented Software Development. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 11 259-279 - http://www.cse.sc.edu/~huhns/journalpapers/HuhnsIJSEKE.pdf.

Paternò, F. (2005) Model-based tools for pervasive usability. Interacting with Computers 17 (3), 291-315 - http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/cameleon/pdf/last-model-based%20approaches-IwC.pdf - Science Direct.

Alloy http://alloy.mit.edu/ - The Alloy Analyzer - 3.0 Beta.

Using Alloy in process modelling, Wallace C., 2003, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 45 (15), 1031-1043 - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~sjgreen/ChrisWallace.pdf.

W3C Math Home - http://www.w3.org/Math/Overview.html - What is MathML?

Guibert N, Girard P, Guittet L, (2004), Example-based Programming: a pertinent visual approach for learning to program, University of Poitiers, Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces - Pages: 358 - 361 - ISBN:1-58113-867-9.

Web-Based Modelling

An open standard web driven method of collaboration is required to make it possible for organisations and individuals to become more deeply involved in projects that are well coordinated using web technologies. [Morris et al.]; examine Interactivity and collaboration on the web. [Aziz et al.] examine how open standard software can assist in an organisation's collaborative product development. This approach is outlined in [Ciancarini et al.] that explains ways of designing a document-centric coordination application over the Internet. [Nidamarthi et al.] explain how web based collaboration can aid the design process. [Cheng et al.] explain how web-based systems can assist a manufacturing firm to understand its supply chain. [Huang and Mak] evaluate issues in the development and implementation of web applications for product design and manufacture. [Mohamed and Celik] created a web based system for allowing building designers to analyse the affect of design alternatives on cost and scheduling. [Reed et al.] show how web based modelling and simulation can be used in the aircraft design process. [Kim et al.] explain their approach to modelling and simulation. [Zhang et al.] review Internet-based product information sharing and visualisation. [Li] examines the role of web based services for distributed process planning optimization. Gutowski (2001) examine web based costing of composites.

The intention is to further the research of others into the approach of web based collaboration, and use semantic web software and techniques to achieve this. The above research reinforced the view that this is a robust approach. Modelling collaborations based on these techniques would bring together experts in engineering, systems modelling, computing, and Human Computer Interaction.

Modelling and Semantic Web Methodology - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/ModellingSemanticWeb.htm.

SWIG-UK Powerpoint Presentation - at Hewlett-Packard - Bristol UK - semantic web interest group - InteractiveModellingandVisualisationofInformation.ppt - November 23rd 2007 - other presentations are at http://swig.networkedplanet.com/special.html - including a UWE presentation http://swig.networkedplanet.com/cccs_hp.ppt - Health-e-Child.

Web-Based Modelling References

Aziz, H., Gao, J., Maropoulos, P., Chewing, W. M. (2005) Open standard, open source and peer-to-peer tools and methods for collaborative product development. Computers in Industry, 56, 260-271.

Cheng K, Pan P Y, Harrison D K, Web-based design and manufacturing support systems: implementation perspectives 2001, Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 p 14-27

Ciancarini, P., Rossi, D., Vitali, F., (2001) Designing a document-centric coordination application over the Internet. Interacting with Computers, 13 677-693.

Gutowski, T. G., Haffner, S. M., Pas J. W., 2002, Web Based Cost Estimation for Advanced Composites. Proceedings of the 2002 NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2002.

Huang, G. Q., Mak, K. L. (2001) Issues in the development and implementation of web applications for product design and manufacture. Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 14 (1), 125-135.

Kim Y., Choi Y., Bong Yoo S. (2001) Brokering and 3D collaborative viewing of mechanical part models on the Web, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 14 (1), 28-41.

Mohamed Abdulrezak, Tahir Celik, Knowledge based-system for alternative design, cost estimating and scheduling 2002, Knowledge-Based Systems 15 177-188

Nidamarthi S., Allen R. H., Ram D. S. (2001) Observations from supplementing the traditional design process via Internet-based collaboration tools, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 14 (1), 95-107.

Reed, J. A., Follen, G. J., Afjeh A. A. (2000) Improving the Aircraft Design Process Using Web-Based Modeling and Simulation. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 10 (1), 58-83.

Zhang, S., Weimen, S., Hamada, G. (2004) A review of Internet-based product information sharing and visualization. Computers in Industry, 54, 1-15.

Li, W. D. (2005) A Web-based service for distributed process planning optimization. Computers in Industry, 56, 272-288.

Modelling Links

Alloy Modelling Language

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

Using Alloy in process modelling, Wallace C., 2003, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 45 (15), 1031-1043 - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~sjgreen/ChrisWallace.pdf.

Cost

Cost - Dave Evans - Research Information - David Evans Home Page.

Cost Mapping - Christophe Bru - Cost Map Samples - Christophe Bru Home Page

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

The Need for Ontologies to aid Modelling

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm#TheNeedforOntologiestoaidModelling.

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).

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

Early Research - Peter Hale

MSc Research Summary - The earliest research was into providing a user driven model development example that would provide the kind of user interface and visualisation required for interactive costing.

Economic Models

Economic Models - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/EconomicModels/ModelsVisualised.htm.

End User Programming

Enabling Decision Support and Costing of Product Designs by using Visual Metaphors - HTML - HTML Version - Word - Word Adobe Acrobat PDF

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

End-User Programming - Modelling of Information - Article

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

Energy

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.

Modelling Decision Support and Knowledge Management

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 Protégé 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.

Model-Driven Programming - http://ezinearticles.com/?Model-Driven-Programming&id=1350655 - Spahn et al. (2007) explain that end-users are domain experts not IT professionals, and because they cannot program their own solution, this is requiring them to communicate their needs to IT developers. Spahn et al. argue for the empowerment of users to customise software by providing an abstraction layer to hide technical details and allow for concentrating on business needs. Model-Driven Programming and the Semantic Web are explained by Frankel et al. (2004), and they discuss how these techniques can be combined. Bringing together model-driven programming with the Semantic Web can enable diagrammatic programming, and translation to structured and searchable Semantic Web output, this eases visualisation and interaction problems at each stage of translation. Visualisation and interaction with ontologies is important for model-driven programming research in this thesis. Frankel et al. investigate translation of UML and entity relationship diagrams that use graphical notations and store in formats such as XMI into OWL.

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

Modelling and Semantic Web Methodology - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/ModellingSemanticWeb.htm.

Models - Examples

Models for Visualisation and/or calculation - Semantic Web Modelling Examples Page - Semantic Web Examples.

Models Visualised - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/EconomicModels/ModelsVisualised.htm - Table of visualisation of the translated models.

PMXML Information

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/PMXML.htm.

Process Modelling

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

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

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.

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 - British Computer Society - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.7312 - Business Process Modelling and Management.

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

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

Bridging the Gap Between Business Process Models and Grid-Based Service Oriented Architectures' - Graduate Poster Presentation - Ali Maheri. - Autumn 2005 - Graduate Poster Presentation - Autumn 2006 - Zaheer Abbas Kahan, Mohammed Odeh, Richard McClatchey.

DSA2006 - http://dsa2006.blogspot.com/ - This blog supports the group of students taking Data, Schemas and Applications UFIEKG-20-3, a module taught in the Information Systems School at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK.

Process architectures and process models: opportunities for reuse. Green, S., Beeson, I., Kamm, R., 2007. In: 8th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support BPMDS07 and CAiSE'07 11-15 June 2007, Trondheim, Norway.

Process Modelling Blog - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.139 - Jon Holt.

Process modelling competency - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.197 - Process Modelling Blog - From business processes to techniques and tools. - Jon Holt - 8 Oct 2007.

Process modelling vs process management - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.50 - Bristish Computer Society BCS Blog - Process Modelling Blog - From business processes to techniques and tools. - Jon Holt - 23 Jul 2007.

Process transformation - perspectives on "Business Process Management" BPM driven process transformation - the new wave in Business IT alignment (by Roeland Loggen) - http://process-transformation.blogspot.com/2008/04/convergence-of-process-model-silos.html - There is a new wave. It's the combination of: the process oriented enterprise - service oriented solutions - Rich Internet, Web 2.0 and collaboration - New technology: BPM suites - Process improvement frameworks, such as Lean-Six Sigma - Agile thinking.

SRML case study: simple self-describing process modeling and simulation - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1371486 - Reichenthal, S.W. Boeing, Anaheim, CA, USA; 2004, Simulation Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Winter - Volume: 2, pp 1461- 1466 - ISBN: 0-7803-8786-4.

Using Alloy in process modelling, Wallace C., 2003, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 45 (15), 1031-1043 - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~sjgreen/ChrisWallace.pdf.

Program Transformation

Drag and Drop Programming - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2007/08/drag-and-drop-programming.html.

Meta Programming - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm#MetaProgramming.

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

Programming with XML - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#ProgrammingwithXML.

QSEE Modelling Tool - Chris Wallace

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

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

Semantic Web Modelling

A project was created by Leaver (2008) to enable End-User functionality for web based ontology construction and search. This was also used within my research to create an online wing ontology and search this.

Leaver, N., (2008) Using RDF as an Enabling Technology. MSc. Dissertation, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Semantic Web Applications - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2008/05/semantic-web-applications.html - This article is about the need for provision of Semantic Web applications to increase the amount of Semantic Web information that could be searched. This could result in a virtuous circle of Semantic Web applications creating Semantic Web information, and so justifying the creation of more Semantic Web applications to access it. The article advocates the use of Semantic Web applications for modelling and end-user programming, and integration into business applications. - 5th May 2008

Semantic Web Collaboration - http://ezinearticles.com/?Semantic-Web-Collaboration&id=1160019 - This article discusses how Semantic Web/Web 2.0 collaboration can enable ontology editing. This helps reach agreement on the meaning of terms, and encourages end-user modelling/programming by enabling simplified development of online applications. This could be an efficient way of managing large ontologies with multiple users. - 9th May 2008.

A web interface has been developed for Protégé WebProtege http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WebProtege. An example of the use of this is shown here - where I used WebProtege to create an ontology and a search is made for information on the cure cycle for composites manufacturing.

Web Protege

Modelling and Semantic Web Methodology - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/ModellingSemanticWeb.htm.

Peter Bloodsworth

Home page - http://agent-research.co.uk/ - Welcome to my homepage. I am Peter Bloodsworth a Research Fellow in the Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Before that I was a Research Student within the CAP group at Oxford Brookes University. Prior to this I studied for a BSc in Computing and Mathematics at Bristol UWE - its nice to be back again. I also own a consultancy business - Agentsis Consulting (website pending still!!). - My research is mainly within the field of Artificial Intelligence, especially that involving:

Complex distributed systems
Multi-agents
The Semantic Web and ontological representation
Information extraction
Data integration
Healthcare application of agents

Other areas of interest include:

Java programming
Linux construction and administration
Grid computing
Decision support systems

Peter Bloodsworth Talks with Talis about multi-agent systems, Ontologies, and the Health-e-Child project - http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2007/11/peter_bloodsworth_talks_with_t.php - In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Dr Peter Bloodsworth of the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. We discuss his research background, and the evolution of his interests from multi-agent systems toward the use of Semantic Web Ontologies. We conclude by looking at the ways in which this research is being put into practice with the European Health-e-Child project. - 27th November 2007.

Peter Bloodsworth Talks with Talis about multi-agent systems, Ontologies, and the Health-e-Child project - http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/peter-bloodsworth-talks-with-talis-about-multi-agent-systems-ontologies-and-the-health-e-child-proje/4773248/ - Video from Talking with Talis.

Programming with XML - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#ProgrammingwithXML.

RDF Resource Description Framework/Semantic Web - RDF information/Semantic Web.

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

Semantic Web Modelling - Semantic Web Modelling.

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

Semantic Web/Web 2.0 Research - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm#SemanticWebandWeb2Research - Examples from Research.

The Need for Ontologies to aid Modelling

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm#TheNeedforOntologiestoaidModelling.

UWE Student Project - 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.

XForms - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Ajax/ajax.htm#XForms

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.

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

Requirements Engineering.

Service-Oriented Architecture - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm#ServiceOrientedArchitecture.

UML - Unified Modeling Language.

STEPml

STEPml Information - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/STEPml.htm.

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.

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

Supply Chain Article - http://itnow.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/6/10 - In chains - Richard Platts, MBCS - ITNNOW - British Computer Society (BCS) - A supply chain is a set of coordinated and linked supplier-customer relationships by which raw materials and intermediate products are transformed into final products. Although commonly referred to as a chain, in practice the various relationships form a complex multidimensional network of organisations. It is usually the case that no one organisation controls the overall supply chain for any particular product. Typically there are dominant organisations that exert influence on others but in a free market economy competition ensures that can change. - November 07.

Taxation Futures for Sustainable Mobility

Faculty of the Built Environment - http://www.built-environment.uwe.ac.uk/research/cep/researchProjectDetails.asp?ProjectID=164&GroupID=CEP - Economic instruments have been widely advocated to encourage more sustainable forms of transport, but the UK transport taxation regime was designed mainly to provide a reliable income stream rather than behavioural change. Increases in fuel tax have not delivered significant behavioural change and have faced severe political resistance.

User Driven Modelling

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

User Driven Modelling - Background - User Driven Modelling Explanation.

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

Visualisation

Examples and Explanations - Visualisation and Interaction.

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) - SVG Wing Box - Interactive Diagrams

Visualisation and Interaction Page - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Visualisation.

Early Stage Modelling

In the early stages of design of a component or a system there may not be enough information for the designer to create a structured diagram(s) to represent the problem.

The Advanced Computation in Design and Decision-making group at UWE aims to assist with this by a combination of human decision making and computing technology to assist the designer in evaluating options.

This is explained further on these pages of the group, and the Institute for People-Centred Computation IP-CC collaboration that includes UWE.

Advanced Computation in Design and Decision-making (ACDDM)

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

UWE Graduate School - Supporting software design with interactive, evolutionary search - C. L. Simons and I. C. Parmee - ACDDM.

Institute for People-Centred Computation

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

Operational Research

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.

Related UWE Research

MammoGrid

Graduate Poster - MammoGrid - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/graduateschool/news/posters/21-09-06/mammo-grid.pdf - Autumn 2006.

Mathematics, Statistics, and Excel

Mathematics and Statistics tutorials - http://science.uwe.ac.uk/MathsStats/videolink/examples.htm - Essential Mathematics & Statistics for Science - Excel, and Statistics Tutorials - Dr G Currell & Dr A A Dowman - Applied Sciences - Further Information -UWE scientists develop web based chemistry tutorials - UWE news 1st November 2006.

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.

Software Engineering.

UML - Unified Modeling Language.

Semantic grid

Bridging the Gap Between Business Process Models and Grid-Based Service Oriented Architectures' - Graduate Poster Presentation - Ali Maheri. - Autumn 2005 Graduate Poster Presentation - Autumn 2006 - Zaheer Abbas Kahan, Mohammed Odeh, Richard McClatchey

Tracking Assembly Lifecycle

Cooperative Repositories & Information System for Tracking Assembly Lifecycle - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/graduateschool/news/posters/21-09-06/cristal.pdf - Graduate Poster Presentation - Ali Maheri - Autumn 2005.

Systems Modelling

Systems Modelling research Group - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/groups/smrg.html.

External Links

A Space Surveillance Ontology: Captured in an XML Schema - http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/space_pulvermacher.pdf - October 2000, Mary K. Pulvermacher - Daniel L. Brandsma - John R. Wilson.

A Theory of Compatible Versions - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1684 - XML.com - David Orchard - December 20, 2006.

ACostE - http://www.acoste.org.uk/2001/webpages/index.htm - The Association of Cost Engineers.

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.

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.

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.

Athena - European Integrated Project - http://www.athena-ip.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=89 - ATHENA - Advanced Technologies for interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise Networks and their Applications - is an Integrated Project sponsored by the European Commission in support of the Strategic Objective 'Networked businesses and government'.

BBC Radio 4 - Connect - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/connect/pip/69tbv/ - Quentin Cooper presents the series exploring the application of technology to solve problems on a human scale. Quentin explores the science that helps to keep transport moving in extreme weather. - 5 September 2007.

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 - In Business - Computers Chipped - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml - For 40 years, computer chips have doubled in speed and power every two years. But maintaining the pace of improvement is becoming more difficult. Peter Day investigates. - 6 September 2007.

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_20071129.shtml - 2nd item - Intelligent agents - A new breed of intelligent agents could soon be saving our cities and negotiating crucial deals on the Stock Exchange.

BBC Radio 4 - Material World - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20080828.shtml - Tracking Traffic - In a bank holiday week, traffic can be the main topic of conversation. This week Quentin Cooper investigates how artificial intelligence is being applied to traffic navigation systems for the first time. - The Institute of Industrial Research at Portsmouth University has teamed up with the Traffic Research Laboratory to develop the 'Congestion Avoidance Dynamic Routing Engine' (CADRE). - Instead of a regular sat nav system that gets information about the car’s location from a satellite and tells you where you are on a map, the CADRE uses ‘fuzzy logic’ to imitate how humans think and make decisions, and constantly takes on new information from fellow users to keep up to date with how traffic is moving. - 28 August 2008.

Boeing - Michael Uschold - Ontologies: An Emerging Discipline - Boeing - Phantom Works - Invited lecture at University of Washington, Feb 21, 2006.

Boeing - Michael Uschold - Ontologies and Semantics for Seamless Connectivity - http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0412/12.uschold-9.pdf - Boeing - Phantom Works - 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. Protégé 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 (BCS) - 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.

British computer Society (BCS) - Dealing with complexity in large-scale complex IT systems - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.17049 - 'We (the UK engineering population) are currently unprepared or at least under prepared for large scale complex IT projects' said Stuart Jobbins, from Rolls Royce, one of the introductory speakers at a recent BCS Thought Leadership debate. - The second speaker was Professor Justin Keen (University of Leeds) who also had an interesting perspective on the nature of complexity and how organisations can potentially deal with ever increasing levels of increasing complexity in IT systems. They were joined by leading figures from the academic, medical and business communities to debate this issue. - January 2008.

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 Framework (eTOM) - http://www.tmforum.org/browse.aspx?catID=1647 - About the TM Forum - The TM Forum is an industry association focused on transforming business processes, operations and systems for managing and monetizing on-line Information, Communications and Entertainment services. The Forum has over 650 global members from across the converging industries of telecom, cable, media and the Internet.

Business Process Modelling - British Computer Society - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.7312 - Business Process Modelling and Management.

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

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

CAD-Based Cost Estimation for a Blended Wing Body - http://mdob.larc.nasa.gov/hilites/hl.01/RACRSS_Cost_8.01.html - Han P. Bao and Jamshid A. Samareh - Multidisciplinary Optimization Branch, NASA Langley Research Center.

CHISEL (Computer-Human Interaction and Software Engineering lab) - http://www.thechiselgroup.org - University of Victoria - We are interdisciplinary researchers with diverse backgrounds based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria.

CHISEL - Model Driven Visualiztion - http://www.thechiselgroup.org/?q=mdv - University of Victoria - Model Driven Visualization (MDV) is an approach to designing and generating visualizations using meta-models and model transformations.

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

Complexity Digest - http://www.comdig.org/ - Networking the Complexity Community.

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)

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.

DAME - diagnostics and decision support across the Grid - The Universities of Leeds, Oxford, Sheffield, and York together with commercial partners Data Systems and Solutions, Rolls-Royce, Cybula are collaborating on the DAME project to demonstrate how Grid technology can form the basis of a decision support system using distributed data mining and analysis.

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

Decision Support Systems - http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journalimpactfactors.cws_home/505540/description#impactfactor - and Electronic Commerce - Journal.

Decision Support System Resources - http://www.DSSResources.COM/ - DSSResources.COM (Decision Support Systems Resources) is a web-based knowledge repository. The mission of this site is to help people who are interested in learning about how to use information technologies and software to improve decision making.

Distributed Constructionism - http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/Distrib-Construc.html - Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Northwestern University (accepted: March 1996; published: July 1996) - This paper introduces the concept of distributed constructionism, building on previous research on constructionism and on distributed cognition. It focuses particularly on the use of computer networks to support students working together on design and construction activities, and it argues that these types of activities are particularly effective in supporting the development of knowledge-building communities. The paper describes three main categories of distributed constructionist activities: discussing constructions, sharing constructions, and collaborating on constructions. In each category, it describes ongoing research projects at the MIT Media Lab and discusses how these projects support new ways of thinking and learning.

Emerging Distributed Computing Technologies - http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/David.W.Walker/IGDS/GridCourse.htm - This module is given as part of the MSc in Information Systems Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at Cardiff University. It is designed for study via the web, supplemented by a couple of lab sessions, some tutorial style lectures, and an investigative study topic.

Engineering ontologies - http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.hunter/tradepress/eng.html - Anthony Hunter.

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

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

ESA - An ESA Approach to Linked Cost-Engineering Databases - http://esapub.esrin.esa.it/pff/pffv7n1/novv7n1.htm - M. Novara System Studies Division, ESTEC, G. Wnuk - Cost Analysis Division, ESTEC.

ESA - Cost - Engineering - http://www.esa.int/techresources/ESTEC-Article-fullArticle_item_selected-39_1_00_par-50_1100182718714.html.

ESA - Engineering Costing Techniques in ESA - http://www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bullet81/greve81.htm - D. Greves &: B. Schreiber - Cost Analysis Division, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

E-Steel - http://www.e-steel.com/home.shtml - Managing Supply Risk & Material Price Volatility of your Extended Supplier Network.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/ - EUROSIS is a division of The European Technology Institute.

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

Gartner Group Report - Gartner Says Business Application Vendors Face Challenge to Move to ' The Process of Me' - http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_152638_11.html - Person to Process Interaction is the Next Innovation Step in Business Software Press Release 2006.

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.

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.

Generative Programming - Generative Programming - Methods, Tools, and Applications - Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich W. Eisenecker - Addison-Wesley, June 2000.

Haskell - http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction - Haskell is a computer programming language. The language is named for Haskell Brooks Curry, whose work in mathematical logic serves as a foundation for functional languages.

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.

How novices formulate models. Part II: a quantitative description of behaviour - http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/2602279a.html - T R Willemain and S G Powell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA - Journal of the Operational Research Society 2006, pp1-12.

IBM Deep Computing Visualization Solutions for Product Lifecycle Management - http://www-03.ibm.com/solutions/plm/doc/content/bin/Deep_Computing_Visualization_for_PLM.pdf - IBM Deep Computing and Visualization.

IBM - Ease of Use - http://www-03.ibm.com/easy/page/558 - User Engineering.

IBM - End User Development Tools - https://www-927.ibm.com/ibm/cas/sites/dublin/dsl.shtml - IBM Dublin.

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.

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (IJMIC) - http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijmic.

INTEROP Portal - http://www.interop-noe.org/ - Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software.

INTEROP - public deliverables of INTEROP-NoE and ATHENA-IP are already available on the INTEROP-VLab website http://www.interop-vlab.eu - the platform of INTEROP-VLab has been chosen by the European Commission (DG INFSO, unit D4 'Networked Enterprise and RFID) to be the official repository of public deliverables from all projects in the domain of Enterprise Interoperability conducted under the 6th and 7th framework programmes.

Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation - http://www.dmem.strath.ac.uk/~pball/simulation/simulate.html - Peter Ball Design Manufacture & Engineering Management, University of Strathclyde.

ISC 2007 - Industrial Simulation Conference - Delft University of Technology - Delft, The Netherlands.

IT Modeller - http://www.itmodeller.co.uk/ - Context Modelling.

Jeffrey G. Gray, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham - Home Page - Department of Computer and Information Sciences - Software Composition and Modeling Laboratory.

Journal of the Operational Research Society - http://www.orsoc.org.uk/publication/jors.htm.

Knowledge Based Systems Inc - http://www.idef.com/pdf/IDEFFAMI.pdf - IDEF Family of Methods for Concurrent Engineering and Business Re-Engineering Applications.

Koala Publishing - http://www.koalapub.co.uk/thankyou.asp?download=Introduction%20to%20S1000d - S1000D - An Introduction - S1000D is an independent standard used by major aerospace and defence organisations around the world.

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 Resources - http://home.btconnect.com/lpa_resources/ - Powerpoint Presentations.

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.

Matlab - Aerospace Toolbox 1.0 - http://www.mathworks.co.uk/products/aerotb/ - Aerospace reference standards, environmental models, and aerodynamic coefficient importing.

Matlab - Improving an Engine Cooling Fan Using Design for Six Sigma Techniques - http://www.mathworks.co.uk/company/newsletters/digest/2006/july/cooling.html?s_cid=MLD0706ukTA2 - MATLAB Digest - July 2006 - Stuart Koxala and Dan Doherty.

MATLAB Digest - January 2007 - Accelerating Flight Vehicle Design - http://www.mathworks.co.uk/company/newsletters/digest/2007/jan/flightsim.html - By Arkadiy Turevskiy, Stacey Gage, and Craig Buhr.

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+.

MODAF.com - http://www.modaf.com/ - MODAF provides a rigorous way to present an enterprise architecture, and is a key enabler to MOD's Network Enabled Capability (NEC). It defines a set of key business and technical information for describing an enterprise architecture.

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.

Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science (MoSeS) - http://www.ncess.ac.uk/research/nodes/MoSeS/ - Moses is a three year project running at the University of Leeds from September 2005. - The objective of the project is to develop representation of the entire UK population as individuals and households, together with a package of modelling tools which allows specific research and policy questions to be addressed. The components of the Moses project are a baseline representation of the UK population; a dynamic modelling capability; a grid-enabled portal for policy analysis; and a series of application scenarios.

Mosaic Portrait - http://mosaicportrait.co.uk/ - Mosaic Portrait solves the most important task of Artificial Intelligence - the generation of new systemic knowledge from available data. This new non-trivial knowledge, in the form of rules and hypotheses, is applied to resolve many practical problems and exploit otherwise hidden potentials in diverse areas of human activity including pharmaceutical and medical fields, finance and risk management, and industrial and manufacturing applications.

Multidisciplinary Design Tools for Affordability - (2003) - Blair M., Hartong A. - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Technosoft - AML, Adaptive Modeling Language.

Nasa Aircraft Engines - Simulation - Requires Java Virtual Machine (free download) - EngineSim Version 1.7a .

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....

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/02/14/functional.html - Functional Programming and XML - Bijan Parsia - February 14, 2001.

Past, present, and future of decision support technology - Decision Support Systems - Volume 33, Issue 2 , June 2002, Pages 111-126 - J.P. Shim, Merrill Warkentin, James F. Courtney, Daniel J. Power.

PLT Scheme - http://www.plt-scheme.org/ - PLT Scheme is an umbrella name for a family of implementations of the Scheme programming language.

The Pragmatic Programmer - The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt and David Thomas.

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.

Process Modelling Blog - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.139 - Jon Holt.

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.

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

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.

Russ Miles - http://www.umlranch.com/ - Welcome to the UML Ranch.

So you think you can design an Aeroengine? - http://royalsociety.org/exhibit.asp?id=4662 - Economic development and the desire of modern society to travel mean that the number of flights taken worldwide is increasing 8% year on year. As a result, air travel is fast becoming a major contributor to climate change. Flying to Australia and back generates more carbon dioxide than the average driver in one year. 'The trick of keeping hundreds of tonnes of people and machine in the air and transporting them thousands of miles will always have some environmental consequences, the aim is to minimise the impact', says Phil Withers of the School of Materials at the University of Manchester. - Using state of the art techniques, Phil and his colleagues are working with Rolls-Royce to ensure the safety of new materials and manufacturing processes for the next generation of jet engines. - So You Think You Can Design a Jet Engine PDF.

So you think you can design an Aeroengine? - Source the Royal Society

Softartisans - http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-371.aspx - ASP based Web Spreadsheet tool for putting Excel spreadsheets on the web.

Software Abstractions - Resources and Additional Materials - Book with sample chapters online - Daniel Jackson.

Spatial Ontology COP - http://www.visualknowledge.com/vkgw/vk?ObjectKey=A23781S1028&ObjectMessage=renderForm:&formContext=A46322S7724986 - Welcome to the Spatial Ontology Working Group.

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.

SRML - Simulation Reference Markup Language - http://www.w3.org/TR/SRML/ - W3C Note 18 December 2002.

SRML case study: simple self-describing process modeling and simulation - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1371486 - Reichenthal, S.W. Boeing, Anaheim, CA, USA;

Technosoft Adaptive Modelling - http://www.technosoft.com/publications.php.

Technosoft Adaptive Modelling - http://www.technosoft.com/docs/AIAA_2002_1296_SDM_02.pdf - STRUCTURAL DESIGN, ANALYSIS, OPTIMIZATION, AND COST MODELING USING THE ADAPTIVE MODELING LANGUAGE.

The Data Warehousing Information Center - http://www.dwinfocenter.org.

The International Society of Parametric Analysts - http://www.ispa-cost.org - ISPA is a professional society dedicated to the improvement and promotion of: - parametric cost modeling techniques and methodologies - risk analysis - econometrics - design-to-cost - technology forecasting - cost management.

The MediaDoc Project - http://www.isi.edu/isd/media-doc/media-doc-body.html - At USC's Information Sciences Institute we have been studying the process that people go through when they are trying to understand software, and have developed a tool called MediaDoc that generates software explanations to support this understanding process.

The Mozart Programming System - http://www.mozart-oz.org/ - The Mozart Programming System is an advanced development platform for intelligent, distributed applications.

The Semantic Discovery System - http://www.insilicodiscovery.com/v2/index.php - We aim to Accelerate Research in Information Discovery focused Organisations. - The Semantic Web will put enormous new power in the hands of everyone trying to get valuable answers from the web - instead of frustrating Google searches, people will get fast, accurate and highly valuable answers - because they will finally be able to ask the exact questions they really want. Our product - SDS - focuses this new Semantic Web power not just on the 'Web' but also on the valuable information locked inside organisational databases - for the first time, ordinary people will be able to get answers that would otherwise have taken impossible amounts of programming. - http://www.meaning2go.com/ - Ian Goldsmid - http://www.linkedin.com/in/iangoldsmid.

The Sim Blog - http://thesimblog.org/ - The purpose of this blog is to discuss topics related to all areas of discrete event simulation, robotic simulation, and PLC emulation. - Joe Hugan.

TopBraid Composer - The Complete Semantic Modeling Toolset - a visual modeling environment for creating and managing ontologies. TopBraid Composer is based on Protégé 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.

UGS - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - http://www.ugs.com/index.shtml - UGS works collaboratively with clients to create open enterprise solutions that enable them to transform their process of innovation and maximize value throughout all phases of the product lifecycle.

UML for Ontology Development. - Kogut, P. & Cranefield, S. & Hart, L. & Dutra, M. & Baclawski, K. & Kokar, M. & Smith, J. 2002. - http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/whitepaper.aspx?docid=92641, The Knowledge Engineering Review Vol 17(1) pp 61-64.

Understanding ebXML - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-ebxml/ - Untangling the business Web of the future - IBM DeveloperWorks - David Mertz.

University of Victoria, University of Grenoble - Visualization in the Context of Model Driven Engineering - R. Ian Bull,Jean-Marie Favre.

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 - Engineering - Aerospace - http://wiki.vanguardsw.com/bin/browse.dsb?dir/Engineering/Aerospace/ - 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 Protégé Ontology - outputs results to other languages - e.g. XML, SVG, Java.

Vanguard System performs costing and decision support calculations based on equations entered in Protégé. 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.

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

Venice Consulting Ltd - http://www.veniceconsulting.co.uk/ - Welcome to the web site of Martyn Ould at Venice Consulting. - I have thirty-five years' experience working with business processes and software development processes for major organisations, at all levels. In that time I have developed simple but powerful approaches to thinking about both, approaches that I use on assignments for clients, describe in my books, and teach in my courses.

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 Exploration of Time-Series Data - http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher/ - University of Maryland - Human Computer Interaction Lab.

Visual modeling for software intensive systems - Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, Journal, Volume 17, Issue 6 - December 2006, Pages 503-507.

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.

VisSim - http://www.vissim.com/ - VisSim is a visual block diagram language for modeling and simulation of complex nonlinear dynamic systems.

W3C Math Home - http://www.w3.org/Math/Overview.html - What is MathML? - MathML 2.0, a W3C Recommendation was released on 21 Feb 2001. A product of the W3C Math working group, MathML is a low-level specification for describing mathematics as a basis for machine to machine communication. It provides a much needed foundation for the inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages.

WEB based cost estimation models for the manufacturing of advanced composites - https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/8558 - Authors: Pas, Joshua W. (Joshua Wasawit), 1977 - Thesis advisor: Timothy Gutowski. Department: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

Why a Web 2.0 User Interface Matters - Intalio - http://www.intalio.com/news/bpm-20-blog-post/?post=2006/05/29 - Written by Ismael Ghalimi for IT|Redux - This is the twelfth edition of our weekly BPM 2.0 post. Today, I will try to explain why a web 2.0 user interface matters. Like with any other application, the most difficult part in deploying a business process powered by a BPMS of sorts is in getting active support from end users. For the deployment to succeed, the application has to be actually used by end users, and user interfaces play the most critical role in this.

UML (Unified Modeling Language)

The paragraphs below examine the need for users to be enabled to program, and the tools that could be created to assist this. The way UML (Unified Modeling Language) tools could be adapted to enable developers to provide an environment for users to program, and the methodology for development of new UML tools to help users to create software themselves are also examined. UML is explained in this research because it can be used for Model-Driven Programming. Model-Driven Programming is an important part of the user driven programming approach.

UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. Grady Booch, Jim Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson united the Booch and OMT (Object Modeling Technique) methods for representing object oriented structures. This allows software design to proceed independently of a specific language. There are now many UML tools available.

The UML tool Rational Rose was used in order to illustrate the concept of creating an object oriented hierarchy and using this as an editor for a Web based ontology. This approach worked, but later research has used the same approach using ontology editor tools linked to a relational database. Nilsson et al. (2002) also used UML as a meta-model for Semantic Web research. Either approach could be used for User-Driven-Programming, but whatever tool is used the user interface for the tool used to create the ontology needs to be customised to support ease of use for users who are computer literate but not specialist software developers.

XMI (XML Metadata Interchange)

The XML Metadata Interchange specification provides a standard format for describing UML model elements. Most UML tools contain functionality for exporting data in the XMI format. The figure shows part of a UML design translated into XMI. A stylesheet is used to display the XMI on the Web in a readable form. A user can click on an associated term to view that term.

XMI Taxonomy - Product Data Structure - Visualised with Stylesheet

XMI Taxonomy - Product Data Structure - Visualised with Stylesheet

(Kogut et al., 2002) and (Baclawski et al., 2001) explain how UML can be used as a tool to produce ontologies. Kogut et al. make the point that UML was originally designed for human-human communication, but is being driven to become more formal and ‘machine-processable’ and is now being used to generate code and schemas. Baclawski et al. translate from UML diagrams to ontologies represented in graph based languages; thus demonstrating the use of translation to aid diagrammatic visualisation and editing for ontology creation, and enabling closing of gaps between UML and ontology languages and modelling. UML is important as it is a key part of the Model Driven Semantic Web. Frankel et al. (2004) explain this and comment on collaboration and technologies for co-operative systems that combine UML, ontology environments and software environments into an overall system or Model Driven Architecture. El-Ghalayini et al. (2005) have researched reverse engineering of conceptual data models from ontologies.

UML is important in the concept of model driven software development. The Eclipse Open Source Java Framework provides this kind of environment. The Metatomix m3t4 application makes use of this. Metatomix provides a free semantic toolkit for Eclipse developers. This research is explained in detail in Chapter 7 Use of Open Standards and Semantic Web techniques.

There are important gaps in the functionality of UML tools for user centred design. Palanque and Bastide (2003) identify these gaps "For the team of methodologists (Rumbaugh, Jacobson, Booch) that shaped the UML, User Centred Design was not a central concern." These gaps are of even greater importance when attempting to make it possible for people who are not programmers to create software. Johnson (2004) makes the point that UML tools need to be extended to better enable modelling of collaborative tasks. Repenning (2007) explains the need for enhancements to UML to aid end-user programming. Engels (2007) also explains that UML (Unified Modeling Language) should be extended to allow development of user interfaces in order to assist end-users to program. UML tools could assist software developers in creating a modelling environment suitable for domain experts to use to solve their problems. To achieve this would require a major change in UML tools to enable modelling of user interaction as the core concern. For example Abraham and Erwig (2007) integrate spreadsheet modelling into the UML modelling process. Enabling users themselves to create software using UML type tools would require development of a new type of UML tool specifically designed for ordinary users. This would be compact and simple, but provide enough capabilities to ensure users' designs are robust. This would also fill a gap left by engineering and scientific modelling tools which are powerful but do not have collaboration, communication, and ease of use as central concerns.

In 'End-User Design' http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1099 Professor Alexander Repenning of University of Lugano explains the need for enhancements to UML (Unified Modeling Language) to aid end-user programming. In 'Model-Driven Development for End-Users, too!?' http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1085 Gregor Engels of University of Paderborn argues that UML (Unified Modeling Language) should be extended to allow development of user interfaces in order to assist end-users to program - "The UML is strong in modelling the internal functionality of a software system, but weak in modelling user interface aspects of a system. Thus, with respect to the well-known MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern, the UML supports the Model aspect, while neglecting the View and Controller aspect."

References

Abraham, R., Erwig, M., 2007. Exploiting Domain-Specific Structures For End-User Programming Support Tools. In: End-User Software Engineering Dagstuhl Seminar. - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1086.

Baclawski, K., Mieczyslaw, K., Kogut, P., Hart, L., Smith, J., Holmes, W., Letkowski, J., Aronson, M., 2001. Extending UML to Support Ontology Engineering for the Semantic Web. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools, pp 342-360.

El-Ghalayini, H., Odeh, M., McClatchey, R. 2005. Engineering Conceptual Data Models from Domain Ontologies: A Critical Evaluation - 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.

Engels, G., Model-Driven Development for End-Users, too!? In: End-User Software Engineering Dagstuhl Seminar. - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1085.

Frankel, D., Hayes, P., Kendall, E., McGuinness, D., 2004. The Model Driven Semantic Web - 1st International Workshop on the Model-Driven Semantic Web (MDSW2004) Enabling Knowledge Representation and MDA® Technologies to Work Together (2004).

Johnson, P., 2004, Interactions, collaborations and breakdowns - TAMODIA 2004 INVITED TALKS - Peter Johnson - 15-16 November - Prague, Czech Republic.

Kogut, P. & Cranefield, S. & Hart, L. & Dutra, M. & Baclawski, K. & Kokar, M. & Smith, J. 2002. UML for Ontology Development. - http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/whitepaper.aspx?docid=92641, The Knowledge Engineering Review Vol 17(1) pp 61-64.

Lieberman, H., 2007. End-User Software Engineering Position Paper - In: End-User Software Engineering Dagstuhl Seminar. - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1092.

Nilsson, M., Palmér, M., Naeve, A., 2002. Semantic Web Metadata for e-Learning - Some Architectural Guidelines - WWW2002 Hawaii USA.

Palanque, P., Bastide R., 2003 - UML for Interactive Systems: What is Missing. http://www.se-hci.org/bridging/interact/p96-99.pdf - INTERACT 2003 Closing the Gaps: Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction Zürich, Switzerland.

Repenning, A., 2007. End-User Design. In: End-User Software Engineering Dagstuhl Seminar. - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1099.

Scientific Modelling

In "End User Programming for Scientists: Modelling Complex Systems" http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1077 Andrew Begel of Microsoft Research explains - "Model creation cannot be turned over to a programmer-for-hire without causing the model to become a black box. In order to ensure the validity of the model and stand behind its experimental results, the scientist must be intimately knowledgeable about its innards as well as its outward behaviors."

Aerospace Modelling and Visualisation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/aerospacemodellingandvisualisation.htm.

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

Taxonomies and Visualisation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Taxonomies.htm.

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Implementation based on Space Horizons - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/JANS/spacehorizons/ - Project for Information Technology Management for Business - Year 2.

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Arctic melt faster than forecast - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6610125.stm - Arctic ice is melting faster than computer models of climate calculate, according to a group of US researchers. - Richard Black - Environment correspondent, BBC News website (Science/Nature) - 30 April 2007 - Sea Ice Loss Predictions Aren't Conservative Enough - Universe Today - 1st May 2007.

BBC Radio 4 - Frontiers - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/frontiers_20070523.shtml - Peter Evans celebrates the 300th anniversary of Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish Natural Historian, who gave us many of the names of plants and animals we still use today. - 23rd May - Peter Evans.

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 - Encyclopedia Of Life - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20070517.shtml - As the tercentenary of the Swedish botanist, and father of taxonomy, Carolus Linnaeus approaches, a global consortium has promised to catalogue all 1.2 million known living species on an online Encyclopaedia of Life - 17 May 2007.

BBC Radio 4 - Material World - HECToR The Supercomputer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20080327.shtml - Quentin Cooper is at Edinburgh's International Science festival and is joined by Professor Arthur Trew, Director of Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre and Professor Richard Kenway, Mathematical Physics, Edinburgh University to find out how Hector can help develop life saving drugs, model climate change and help us better understand the behaviour of the smallest fundamental particles. - 27 March 2008.

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.

BBC Science/Technology News - Exploring the virtual ant colony - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7563372.stm - Journey through an ant colony. Courtesy of Texas A&M University. - Ground-penetrating radar has been used to nondestructively map an ant colony for the first time. - The results have been digitised and fed into an interactive visualisation system so that the colony can be explored virtually. - The system is inexpensive compared to earlier approaches and could be used in many fields. - Visitors at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles have been putting the system through its paces this week. - 18 August 2008.

BBC Science/Technology News - Nasa set to join petaflop elite - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7389877.stm - Nasa is making a bid to join the elite group using supercomputers whose power is measured in petaflops. - By 2009 the US space agency aims to be running a petaflop supercomputer that will be able to do 1,000 trillion calculations per second. - 8 May 2008.

Biggest ever cosmos simulation - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4600981.stm - Astronomers have used supercomputers to re-create how the Universe evolved into the shape it is today - BBC Science - 1 June, 2005.

Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge - http://biodiversity.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod/ - Cardiff University, UK, 10th July 2008 - FINAL programme now available - In association with the 25th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2008) we are holding a Biodiversity Informatics workshop immediately after the main BNCOD conference, which runs from 7th to 9th July 2008.Programme.

Climate prediction: No model for success - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7381250.stm - By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst, BBC News - Pier Luigi Vidale smiles fondly as he gazes at the image unfolding on his screen. - It is a rare and beautiful view of Planet Earth. - Curlicues of cloud formations swirl around the Antarctic at the bottom of the screen as if captured by time-lapse photography. - The image resembles a view of the Earth from space, stretched full frame. - But a small yellow ball scudding along the bottom of the screen hints at another story. - The ball is the Sun, heating the surface as it passes and provoking a daily puff of cloud from the Amazon rainforest in this computer-generated climate model. - The animation comes from research led by Dr Vidale at Reading University's Walker Institute. - It is designed to provide long-term data to help scientists distinguish between heating trends and natural climatic fluctuations. - This week, about 150 of the world's top climate modellers have converged on Reading for a four day meeting to plan a revolution in climate prediction. - 6 May 2008.

Computer models suggest planetary and extrasolar planet atmospheres - http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/9607.html - Tony Fitzpatrick - June 14, 2007 -- The world is abuzz with the discovery of an extrasolar, Earth-like planet around the star Gliese 581 that is relatively close to our Earth at 20 light years away in the constellation Libra. - Bruce Fegley, Jr., Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has worked on computer models that can provide hints to what comprises the atmosphere of such planets and better-known celestial bodies in our own solar system.

Computers 'hold climate clues' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7386447.stm - BBC Science/Technology - Scientists say funding supercomputers is vital in the battle to better understand climate change. - Yet much uncertainty remains as the underlying science is not fully understood. Roger Harrabin reports.

Cosmic cookery: growing galaxies in a computer - http://royalsociety.org/exhibit.asp?id=3575 - EXHIBIT 15 - The Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2005 - Scientists at the University of Durham are attempting to recreate the entire evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang to the present day using 'The Cosmology Machine', one of the 'top 500' supercomputers in the world.

Cost of Energy Calculator - http://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/jenkins/CBC/Calculator/index.html - Welcome to the Energy Cost Calculator Site! From this site you can link to simple web-based cost calculators that allow you to determine the cost of energy based on your own technical, financial, and economic assumptions.

eBank UK - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/ - eBank UK started as a JISC-funded project within the Semantic Grid Programme. The project is being led by UKOLN in partnership with the Intelligence, Agents & Multimedia Group, Department of Electronics & Computer Science, and the Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton and the Digital Curation Centre. Former partners include the Combechem project at the University of Southampton and the PSIgate Physical Sciences Information Gateway at the University of Manchester.

End User Programming for Scientists: Modeling Complex Systems - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/1077/ - Andrew Begel - Microsoft Research - In: End-User Software Engineering - Dagstuhl Seminar - Summary - http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=2007081 - Margaret M. Burnett, Gregor Engels, Brad A. Myers and Gregg Rothermel - From 18.01.07 to 23.02.07, the Dagstuhl Seminar 07081 End-User Software Engineering was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl.

ESA - An ESA Approach to Linked Cost-Engineering Databases - http://esapub.esrin.esa.it/pff/pffv7n1/novv7n1.htm - M. Novara System Studies Division, ESTEC, G. Wnuk - Cost Analysis Division, ESTEC.

ESA - Cost - Engineering - http://www.esa.int/techresources/ESTEC-Article-fullArticle_item_selected-39_1_00_par-50_1100182718714.html.

ESA - Engineering Costing Techniques in ESA - http://www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bullet81/greve81.htm - D. Greves &: B. Schreiber - Cost Analysis Division, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

ESA - Modelling and Simulation - http://www.esa.int/TEC/Modelling_and_simulation/.

ESA - Reduced Model Simulations for the CDF - http://www.esa.int/techresources/ESTEC-Article-fullArticle_par-28_1191248174974.html - 12 December 2007 - Accurate simulations of complex systems require complex numerical models and are consequently expensive in terms of computation time, whereas preliminary design phases require fast simulations in order to evaluate, at system level, multiple technical solutions.

ESA - Simulation Model Portability - http://www.esa.int/TEC/Modelling_and_simulation/TEC2DCNWTPE_0.html - ESA has been involved in space simulation development for a number of years, and is developing simulations for a variety of applications including analysis, engineering, test and validation, operations preparation and training. These simulators are developed by different groups and at different stages within a space project. In order to decrease the overall simulator development cost within a space project, ESA has been leading the development of the Simulation Model Portability (SMP) specification.

E-science's first five years are a success - http://itnow.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/48/4/30.pdf - British Computer Society Thought Leadership - Helen Boddy.

Google and NASA - GoogleNASA - Google and NASA Ames announced today that they'll be forming a new partnership to work together on several space-related projects - UniverseToday - December 18th, 2006.

How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time - http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/how.pdf - Hal R. Varian - This is an essay for Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, edited by Michael Szenberg, University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation - http://www.dmem.strath.ac.uk/~pball/simulation/simulate.html - Peter Ball Design Manufacture & Engineering Management, University of Strathclyde.

ITT in Space & Earth Science - ITT continues to provide a wide range of innovative solutions to customers in the Department of Defense, Intelligence, Space Science, and Commercial Aerospace to help them visualize and understand critical events - on the Earth, in the air, or in space.

Java Climate Model - http://jcm.chooseclimate.org/.

Light is shed on darkest galaxies - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6360757.stm - The mystery of how the darkest galaxies in the Universe came to exist may have been solved by scientists - BBC Science - 15 February 2007.

Mammals family tree [1.6MB] - Use zoom tool to see mammal details on the circle's edge - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6503045.stm - BBC News Science - Mammal rise 'not linked' to dinos - PDF Family tree visualisation.

Matter Should Dominate the Universe Forever - http://www.universetoday.com/2007/04/25/matter-should-dominate-the-universe-forever/ - Universe Today - April 25th, 2007.

Modeling Exoplanet Atmospheres - http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1318 - Centauri Dreams - Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration.

Models 'key to climate forecasts' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6320515.stm - BBC Science/Nature - By Dr Vicky Pope - UK Met Office's Hadley Centre - The state of the Earth's atmosphere is influenced by many factors - The only way to predict the day-to-day weather and changes to the climate over longer timescales is to use computer models. - 2 February 2007.

Modelling of the Heart - Oxford University - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5145920.stm - Case studies: The three Rs - Some researchers are working on ways to lower the numbers of animals used in scientific experiments - BBC News.

Nasa and Google form cosmic union - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6192523.stm - Detailed 3D images of the Moon and Mars will soon be just a click away for web users, following a deal between search giant Google and US space agency Nasa. - BBC News Technology - 19th December 2006.

'No Sun link' to climate change - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6290228.stm - BBC Science News - By Richard Black BBC Environment Correspondent - A new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing modern-day climate change. - 10 July 2007.

Parallel Planet Earth Being Created - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/07/parallel-planet.html - Daily Galaxy - News - US Department of Defense (DOD) is developing a parallel mirror of Planet Earth on a massive, global scale, called the Sentient World Simulation. Billions of individual "nodes" virtually reflect every man, woman, and child. - July 24, 2007.

Professor Jessie Kennedy - http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/people/op/onepeople/peopleid/41/status/Academic_staff - Napier University Edinburgh - Centre for Information and Software Systems - Current research projects: Information Visualisation of Microarray Time-course Data, SEEK, Taxon Concept Modelling, TaxVis - Past research projects: NIGEL, OPAL: The Partner Lens, Prometheus, Prometheus II, Teallach - Current research grants: MATSE, SEEK - Past research grants: Capturing and Relating Character Concept Definitions in Plant Taxonomy, Interactive Visualisation Tools for Supporting Taxonomists working Practice, OPaL, Prometheus, Systematic Generic Support for User Interfaces to Databases, TDWG Core Ontology, TDWG Taxon Concept Transfer Schema, Visualisation Tools for Integrating Large Alternative Linnaean Taxonomies.

Scientific Modeling - http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/Ozone/modeling.html#Volcano_model - Nasa - Educational Resources.

Scientific Modelling and End User Programming - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PublicScience.htm#ScientificModelling.

Scientific Visualisation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PublicScience.htm#UWEExamples.

Scientists compile 'book of life' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6638017.stm - BBC Science News - Long-snouted aardvarks will rub shoulders with skunk-like zorillas in an ambitious plan to provide a virtual snapshot of life on Earth. - 9 May 2007.

Scientists seek galaxy hunt help - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6289474.stm - BBC Science News - A new project known as Galaxy Zoo is calling on members of the public to log on to its website and help classify one million galaxies. - 11 July 2007.

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

Semantic Learning Webs. Stutt, A. and Motta, E. (2004). Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2004 (10). Special Issue on the Educational Semantic Web. ISSN:1365-893X http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/2004/10 - Examples of Climate Change Modelling, Continental Drift.

Supercomputers Pitch in to Search for Missing Matter - Universe Today - Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have used a powerful supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputing Center to try and figure out where missing mass could be hiding, and they think they've got a good place to look. - Written by Fraser Cain - December 6th, 2007.

Supporting Scientists' Everyday Work: Automating Scientific Workflows. An action research project involving scientists from the National Research Council Canada and the Institute for Ocean Technology analyzed difficulties in using software to collect data and manage processes. The project identified three requirements for increasing research productivity - IEEE Software - July/August 2008 (Vol. 25, No. 4) pp. 52-58 - Mark Vigder, Norman G. Vinson, Janice Singer, Darlene Stewart, Keith Mews, National Research Council Canada.

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

Ten-year climate model unveiled - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6939347.stm - BBC News - 9th August 2007 - Scientists say they have developed a model to predict how ocean currents, as well as human activities, will affect temperatures over the next decade.

Tree of Life Web Project - http://www.tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html - Explore the Tree of Life.

UK e-Science All Hands Meeting: Virtual globes visualise the Earth's environment - http://www.nesc.ac.uk/news/press_release/20070914.htm - Research Councils UK: UK e-Science Programme Press Release - UK e-Science All Hands Meeting: Virtual globes visualise the Earth’s environment - An environmental scientist has won an award for showing how virtual globes, such as Google Earth, can be used to visualise complex scientific data and reveal new insights into environmental processes. Dr Jon Blower from the University of Reading and colleagues were awarded ‘Best Paper’ at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in Nottingham this week for their paper describing how such virtual globes can aid scientific research and communicate results to a wide public. "This is more than just eye candy", said Dr Blower. "Visualisation is extremely important for revealing new information about environmental processes from the local level right up to the global scale." - Google Earth is a computer-based 3D representation of the Earth on which you can superimpose your own information. Based on satellite imagery, it can also show you, rather alarmingly, an image of your house from space. The Reading scientists have used it, however, to visualise two or more scientific datasets simultaneously.

Research Councils UK - The image above shows how the passage of Hurricane Katrina affected sea surface temperature in the Gulf of Mexico. One dataset shows sea surface temperature, with red colours being warmer. The other tracks the passage and intensity of the hurricane, with red dots representing greater intensity. "The image shows that the hurricane caused the sea on the right-hand side of the storm to cool, which is where the strong winds would have caused upwelling of colder subsurface water," says Dr Blower. "You can also see the hurricane grow in strength as it picks up energy from the warm ocean." A video revealed precisely how the storm and the sea affect each other.

UK forecasts to zoom in on towns - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6917519.stm - Weather forecasters will soon be able to zoom in on regions that are the size of a town, UK meteorologists have said. - BBC Science News - 26 July 2007.

Universe Today - Black Holes are Key to the Evolution of the Universe - A supercomputer simulation has retraced the evolution of the Universe, giving astronomers new clues on where they should point their telescopes. - July 3rd, 2007.

Universe Today - Finding Dark Energy in a Supercomputer - Written by Fraser Cain - Dark energy is probably the most influential force in the cosmos, overwhelming the pull of dark matter, and absolutely dominating the meager impact of regular matter. And scientists have absolutely no idea what it is. But a new supercomputer simulation by cosmologists at Durham University might give astronomers a few places to look; to know how to measure this mysterious force. - January 14th, 2008.

Universe Today - NASA Flips for Petaflops - Written by Nancy Atkinson - NASA is collaborating with Intell and SGI to create one of the world's fastest supercomputers whose power will be measured in petaflops. By 2009 the US space agency wants to develop a computational system that will be able to do 1,000 trillion calculations per second. And by 2012 it hopes to have boosted the power of this machine to 10 petaflops, to help with modelling and simulation. - May 8th, 2008.

Universe Today - Supercomputer Will Simulate Colliding Black Holes - You just know this is going to take some serious computer horsepower. Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation was recently awarded $330,000 from the National Science Foundation to simulate collisions between black holes. - September 17th, 2007.

VizNET UK - http://www.viznet.ac.uk/ - Researchers in scientific, engineering, social sciences,and the arts and humanities communities are generating ever increasing amounts of complex data. Analysis and presentation of this data in meaningful and optimal manner relies on effective use of visualization techniques. vizNET (a UK National Visualization Network) a collaboration between a number of visualization centres in the UK has been established to share knowledge, communicate best practice between application domains, provide training and support to researchers in visualization. vizNET is in the process of establishing a Visualization Support Network spanning the UK Academic Research Community. vizNET will offer technical guidance to new users (entry level visualization) to advanced users (expert visualization users). Consolidating the strengths of major visualization centres and groups across the UK will help the UK to realize the full potential of emerging visualization techniques and resources at a National and Regional level. vizNET is funded by the JISC Support of Research Committee.

Why Biologists Want to Program Computers - Tisdall, James - http://www.oreilly.com/news/perlbio_1001.html - 15th October 2001 - O'Reiily Network - The students (from vice presidents to principle investigators to junior lab assistants) who attend these courses do so to learn about programming for biology research. I've often been asked to give my perspective on the benefits of learning programming, considering the expenditure of time and effort that is required to learn this new and important laboratory skill. - Over the last decade there has been an accelerating interest in acquiring programming skills on the part of biologists. My new book Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics from O'Reilly & Associates is designed to address the need for training in this area by teaching programming in the context of biologically relevant data and results. - This article will examine why a biologist would want to learn to program. There are two main reasons: scientific, and economic. I hope that the discussion will also be of some use to programmers thinking of entering the bioinformatics field. But first, I'll take a short tour of some history, define some terms, and make some general comments about how programming fits into biology research..

Local Events

September 2008

VoCampOxford2008 - http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampOxford2008 - Weds 24th and Thurs 25th September 2008. - Wolfson College, Oxford, UK - WhatIsVoCamp - What's the Problem? - Continued growth of the Web of Data/Semantic Web is heavily dependent on the availability of vocabularies/ontologies that can be used to publish data. While a number of key vocabularies are in widespread use, there are also many areas with little or no vocabulary coverage, hindering the ability to publish data in these domains. - What is VoCamp? - VoCamp is a series (hopefully) of informal events where people can spend some dedicated time creating lightweight vocabularies/ontologies for the Semantic Web/Web of Data. The emphasis of the event(s) is not on creating the perfect ontology in a particular domain, but on creating vocabs that are good enough for people to start using for publishing data on the Web. The intention is to follow a "paper first, laptops second" format, where the modelling is done initially on paper and only later committed to code. The VoCamp idea is heavily influenced by BarCamp, although the VoCamp should only have presentations where strictly necessary. - What Next? - The first VoCamp event will take place in Oxford, UK in September 2008 (VoCampOxford2008). But you can run your own VoCamp too...

October 2008

Thursday 9 October 2008

Informing Digital Futures: Strategies for Citizen Engagement

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

University of the West of England - room 2B020 - in B block - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/maps/frenchay_map.shtml - 18:30 for 19:00 start

Professor Leela Damodaran, Loughborough University

Summary

In the present digital revolution we often seem trapped in a Kafkaesque world of technological advances, some desired, some disliked or even feared, which we cannot influence but must accept.

This talk discusses the urgent need to redress this situation. It will argue that technologies succeed or fail according to their relevance and value to people, who need to be actively engaged in order to create shared visions, and influence their implementation.

All too often ICT advances are regarded purely as a technical challenge where the designers believe that systems analysis will of itself yield complete and comprehensive functional specifications.

The talk will highlight the crucial benefits and added value to be gained from empowering citizens to shape ICT design decisions. Finally, it will provide specific practical guidance, based on sound academic research, for policy makers, administrators and ICT professionals on the strategies, methodologies, tools and techniques needed to change design practice.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20503 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216. - British Computer Society BCS Bristol page - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/49.

Thursday 23 October 2008

A Re-conceptualisation of the Interpretive Flexibility of Information Technologies: Redressing the balance between the Social and the Technical

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

University of the West of England - room 2B020 - in B block - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/maps/frenchay_map.shtml - 18:30 for 19:00 start

Professor Neil Doherty Loughborough University

Summary

Interpretive flexibility - the capacity of a specific technology to sustain divergent opinions - has long been recognised as playing an important role in explaining how technical artefacts are socially constructed. What is less clear is how a system's technical characteristics might limit its ability to be interpreted flexibly.

This gap in the literature has largely arisen because recent contributions to this debate have tended to be rather one-sided, focussing almost solely upon the role of the human agent in shaping the technical artefact, and in so doing either downplaying or ignoring the artefact's shaping potential.

The broad aim of this presentation is to reappraise the nature and role of interpretive flexibility but giving as much consideration to how an information system's technical characteristics might limit its ability to be interpreted flexibly, as we do to its potential for social construction.

In this presentation the results of two in-depth case studies, are used in order to propose a re-conceptualisation of the role of interpretive flexibility. In short, this model helps explain how the initial interpretations of stakeholders are significantly influenced by the scope and adaptability of the system's functionality.

Stakeholder interpretations will then, in turn, influence how the system's functionality is appropriated and exploited by users, to allow divergent interpretations to be realised and sustained.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20504 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216. - British Computer Society BCS Bristol page - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/50.

November 2008

Friday 7 November 2008

Extending Collaboration with Social Software

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

University of the West of England - room 2B020 - in B block - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/maps/frenchay_map.shtml - 18:30 for 19:00 start

Paula Dantas Senior IT Specialist for Lotus at IBM UK Ltd

Summary

The days when "Collaboration" meant "E-Mail" are well and truly over. Not only is real time collaboration becoming an accepted part of office life, but it is being extended to deliver Unified Communications and Collaboration.

However this is just the start. Web 2.0 is extending traditional Team Collaboration and Document Sharing solutions with Social Software designed to run within an enterprise and encourage better dissemination of information and faster decision making, as well as empowering employees to deliver the innovation companies need to maintain their competitive advantage.

This session looks at IBM's internal experiences from our research into social software and the impact it is having on the way we do business.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20505 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216.

November 11th 2008

Semantic Web Interest Group - SWIG-UK event

==== SWIG-UK - A Semantic Web Community Event

Hewlett-Packard Bristol

We would like to invite users and developers interested in the semantic web to attend a community event to be held at HP Labs Bristol, UK on Tuesday 11 November 2008. This will be an opportunity for you to meet other users and developers and to share experiences with semantic web applications.

The day will a mixture of discussion, demos, short presentations, with a few longer presentations if offered. The objective is to allow people to share experiences of using the semantic web. The agenda will be driven by the attendees; it is not limited to Jena applications nor limited to the UK.

Please register early so we know there is critical mass for the event.

Registration: swig-uk-2008@sparql.net

Further Information - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/semanticweb-southwest/ - Directions: http://www.hpl.hp.com/bristol/directions.html.

December 2008

Thursday 4 December 2008

The NHS National Programme for Information Technology: A Sociotechnical Perspective

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

University of the West of England - room 2B020 - in B block - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/maps/frenchay_map.shtml - 18:30 for 19:00 start

Professor Emeritus Ken Eason Bayswater Institute / Loughborough University

Summary

Launched in 2002 the NHS National Programme for Information Technology is a very large 10-year programme to create electronic patient records that can be shared across all the NHS Trusts in England.

It is funded to deliver interoperable technical systems but has as its fundamental objective the development of healthcare practices based on electronic records. This implies major changes to the work practices of nearly a million NHS staff and means that the Programme is an attempt at very large-scale sociotechnical systems change.

This presentation will review the progress of the programme from a sociotechnical systems perspective after 6 years and examine whether and how changes in working practice are being accomplished. The findings show not only the impact of the Programme on the NHS Trusts but also the effect of the Trusts on the technology suppliers and the organisation of the programme itself.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20506 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216. - British Computer Society BCS Bristol page - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/52.

British Computer Society (Bristol) - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=event/new - Programme Card - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/2007/progcard.pdf - BCS Bristol Events.

Science, Engineering and the Public - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PublicScience.htm.

TP.CG.08 - The UK Chapter of the Eurographics Association presents The sixth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2008 Conference (TP.CG.08) - http://www.eguk.org.uk/TPCG08/ - University of Manchester, UK - 9-11th June 2008 - Hosted by Research Computing Services - in co-operation with Eurographics - (Paper submission deadline March 10th 2008) - PAPER SUBMISSION TOOL IS NOW ONLINE - Proceedings published by EG and placed on the EG Digital Library - TP.CG.08 is the 26th conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics Association. The aim of the conference is to focus on theoretical and practical aspects of Computer Graphics and to bring together top practicioners, users and researchers, which will hopefully inspire further collaboration between participants particularly between academia and industry. - VizNET competition - Selected entries will feature in the vizNET website. The Eurographics UK Chapter (EGUK) will host a session at their annual conference, TP.CG '08 which will be held at the University of Manchester, UK June 9th-11th to showcase the winning entries. EGUK will pay for a full conference ticket - entrance, tutorials, socials and accommodation - for the winning submission.

Grid Computing

UWE connected to the GRID

From UWE Bulletin July 2007 Page 9 - http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/UWENews/images/bulletinJuly07.pdf.

Thanks to the efforts of the Health-e-Child project UWE is now connected to the GRID, thus providing the technical capability to support larger integrated research projects. The Grid provides a huge computing and storage resource by unifying individual computing resources of various organisations. This is a real first for UWE and gives us the potential to join the major league for collaborative research in computer science.

Richard McClatchey, Director of the Centre for Complex Co-operative Systems (CCCS) explains, "The UWE Grid has grown from the Health-e-Child project that started in 2006. We were tasked with bringing together information from a diverse range of information sources on a pan-European basis to build an integrated information access point for clinicians. To do this we have been working towards a vertical integration of data, information, and knowledge that spans the entire spectrum from genetic to clinical to epidemiological to build a comprehensive view of child health."

Richard continues, "We needed to build a Grid system to make this huge project feasible and one added bonus of this work is that UWE now has a link through the Grid to international activities thereby exposing wider collaborative resources for future research. Grid nodes are routinely used in e-Science and many universities have access but we believe that UWE is one of first post '92 universities to provide this capability."

This establishment of the Grid at UWE means that researchers can now link to many external international Grid services, can provide the potential to work collaboratively with other Grid centres and can source information in many diverse areas including bio-informatics, pharmaceutical drug analysis, mathematical modelling/simulations, complex data mining and analysis, collaborative design and industrial analysis, complex weather forecasting and disease simulations, to name but a few.

researchers are planning to link the UWE Grid node to the UK National Grid Service (NGS) which connects all the major universities and research centres across UK. This will enable researchers from CCCS, UWE and other organisations in the region to exploit the availability of Grid resources nationally. The UK national Grid is further connected with the European and American Grids and the UWE Grid node will thus facilitate an unprecedented computing resource for meeting the scientific challenges of the 21st century.

Links

A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing - http://www.springerlink.com/content/p51644n742558655/ - Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia - Published online: 24 January 2006 - Abstract With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Such application scenarios require means for composing and executing complex workflows. Therefore, many efforts have been made towards the development of workflow management systems for Grid computing. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy that characterizes and classifies various approaches for building and executing workflows on Grids. We also survey several representative Grid workflow systems developed by various projects world-wide to demonstrate the comprehensiveness of the taxonomy. The taxonomy not only highlights the design and engineering similarities and differences of state-of-the-art in Grid workflow systems, but also identifies the areas that need further research. - Key words Grid computing - resource management - scheduling - taxonomy - workflow management.

Autonomous Semantic Grid Project - http://asg.niit.edu.pk/asg_home.html - Autonomous Semantic Grid Project is aimed to provide an infrastructure for emerging distributed applications by improvements and using already available technologies. This project is in progress in collaboration with three organizations i.e. NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Communication Technologies (Comtec) Sendai, Japan and Department of Computing Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) USA.

BBC Science/Technology News - 'Big Bang' experiment starts well - Computing - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7508242.stm - The Cern facility has been intimately involved in the development of computing and the internet. BBC science and technology reporter Jonathan Fildes explains why. - In 1989 a computer scientist sat at his desk in a laboratory on the French-Swiss border and changed the world. - He invented a computer system to allow jobbing physicists working on a newly built particle accelerator to easily swap data amongst themselves. - The system quickly morphed, exploding into what is known as the world wide web. - Now a team at the Cern laboratory is at it again. This time, however, rather than just allowing scientists to share information, they have built a system that will also allow them to share computer power. - It is called the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) and promises to transform any old desktop PC into the equivalent of a supercomputer. It has been developed to analyse the colossal amounts of data flowing from Cern's newest particle accelerator. - 6 September 2008.

BBC Science/Technology News - Handling the LHC's data - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7560404.stm - The Large Hadron Collider will be generating vast amounts of data when it begins operating. - BBC science correspondent David Shukman explains how a new computing system called the Grid will help to crunch the numbers. - 18 August 2008.

BBC Technology news - HP, Intel, Yahoo in cloud tie-up - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7531352.stm - Chip giant Intel is teaming up with web firm Yahoo and hardware company HP to create virtual research centres for cloud computing. - Cloud computing offers online storage and promises a range of new services for data and devices that are plugged into the cloud. - Initially six data centres will be available for pre-selected researchers to test new applications. - Research firm Gartner has dubbed cloud computing as influential as e-business. - 29 July 2008.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS - Proposals Submission Deadline: 12/31/2007 (2nd Call) - Full Chapters Due: 3/31/2008 - Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support: Advancing Effective Virtual Organizations - A book edited by Dr Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom - http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/computing/staff/nik-bessis/chapter-call.

Centre for EScience - Bristol (CERB) - http://escience.bristol.ac.uk/home.htm - Grid Computing and EScience.

E-Health and Grids - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/researchgroup.php?menu=off&group=ehealthgrids.

Foster, I., Kesselman C., Nick, J. M., Tuecke, S., 2001. The Physiology of The Grid [online]. Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, Available from: http://www.globus.org/alliance/publications/papers/ogsa.pdf.

Foster, I. Kesselman, C. Tuecke, S., 2001. The Anatomy of The Grid. International Journal of Supercomputer Applications, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, University of Southern California.

GENIEfy: Creating a Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system modelling framework for the community - http://www.genie.ac.uk/GENIEfy/index.htm - The GENIE project's aim is to build simplified and faster-running models of the Earth's climate system, and make them easier to use and more widely available to other people who want & need to use them.

Goble C., De Roure D., The Grid: an application of the semantic web. 2002, ACM SIGMOD Record Vol 31 (4) Special Issue: Special section on semantic web and data management table of contents pp 65-70.

Grid competition closing soon - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20433 - 4 August 2008 - The deadline is 1 September for submissions that describe how grid computing technologies can be applied to solve an environmental problem. - The 'Grid Computing for a Greener Planet' competition is supported by BCS, Microsoft, Intellect, 451 Group, Memset, the National e-Science Centre, Oxford e-Research Centre, WWF and The Technology Strategy Board. - The competition will invite participants to harness the power of grid to help minimise the environmental impact of human activity. - Bob Harvey, chair of the BCS Carbon Footprint Working Group, says, 'Ensuring that IT professionals contribute effectively to a more sustainable future is vitally important. Grid computing has a role to play in this and BCS believes that it is an area in which the UK can excel.' The competition is open to UK residents and has two entry tracks, one professional and one non-professional. Entrants will be judged primarily on their project's feasibility, scope and creativity.

Health-e-child - http://www.health-e-child.org/ - An integrated platform for European paediatrics based on a Grid-enabled network of leading clinical centres.

How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web - Scientific American - http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-lhc-may-change-internet - The LHC Computing Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle reams of information - By Mark Anderson - September 4, 2008 - When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins smashing protons together this fall inside its 17-mile- (27-kilometer-) circumference underground particle racetrack near Geneva, Switzerland, it will usher in a new era not only of physics but also of computing. - Before the year is out, the LHC is projected to begin pumping out a tsunami of raw data equivalent to one DVD (five gigabytes) every five seconds. Its annual output of 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) will soon dwarf that of any other scientific experiment in history. - The challenge is making that data accessible to a scientist anywhere in the world at the execution of a few commands on her laptop. The solution is a global computer network called the LHC Computing Grid, and with any luck, it may be giving us a glimpse of the Internet of the future.

UK National Grid Serivice - http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/ - The National Grid Service (NGS) aims to provide coherent electronic access for UK researchers to all computational and data based resources and facilities required to carry out their research, independent of resource or researcher location.

Naylor, T., Steele, I., Carter, D., Allan, A., Etherton, J., Mottram, C., 2003. - eSTAR Building an Observational GRID. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ASPC..295...13A - Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) Conference ASP Conference Series, 2003, Exeter University, Liverpool John Moores University, 295.

Olive, M., Rahmouni, H., Solomonides, T., From HealthGrid to SHARE: A Selective Review of Projects - http://geneva2007.healthgrid.org/proceedings/proceedings/pdf/32.pdf - Mark OLIVE, Hanene RAHMOUNI and Tony SOLOMONIDES - CCCS - CEMS Faculty - UWE, Bristol - Proceedings of Healthgrid 2007 - Geneva, Switzerland. April 2007 - also available - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/publications.php?menu=off - PDF.

Oxford e-Research Centre - http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ - Innovative technology for multi-disciplinary research - University of Oxford - e-Horizons - http://www.e-horizons.ox.ac.uk/ - The e-Horizons Project is focused on critically assessing competing visions of the future of media, information and communication technologies and their societal implications. The project’s key strategy is to examine leading-edge developments in the use of information and communication technologies in the sciences and humanities as a window on the future of technology in everyday life. The project gains synergies from pursuing a range of interrelated projects and pooling the strengths of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) with the combined connections with the humanities, social and computer sciences and engineering across the University of Oxford and throughout the world. - e-Research Projects - http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/activities/e-ResearchProjects.xml - This page contains brief details of some of the e-Research projects that Oxford is currently involved in, with links to PDF project summary sheets and project websites where you can find contact details and other relevant information.

Oxford e-Research Centre - Bioinformatics Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford - Poster - http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/activities/projects/bioimage.pdf - BioImage & ImageStore - Semantic web tools for biological research images - http://www.bioimage.org/.

Oxford e-Research Centre - ClimatePrediction.net - http://www.climateprediction.net/ - Join the climateprediction.net experiment! - What is climateprediction.net? - Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century. To do this, we need people around the world to give us time on their computers - time when they have their computers switched on, but are not using them to their full capacity. - the world's largest climate modelling experiment ClimatePrediction.net poster [PDF] - http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/activities/projects/cpdn.pdf - ClimatePrediction.net - The world's largest climate modelling experiment 200,000 participants worldwide!.

Oxford e-Research Centre - Integrative Biology - exploting e-science to combat fatal diseases - Integrative Biology poster [PDF] - http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/activities/projects/ib.pdf - Visit the Integrative Biology website - http://www.integrativebiology.ac.uk/.

Oxford e-Research Centre - Virtual Research Environments Tools & technologies to enhance & support research - http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/activities/projects/vres.pdf.

Peter Bloodsworth

Complex distributed systems
Multi-agents
The Semantic Web and ontological representation
Information extraction
Data integration
Healthcare application of agents

Other areas of interest include:

Java programming
Linux construction and administration
Grid computing
Decision support systems

Publications about e-Science - Research Councils UK - http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/publications - Including e-Science Highlights.

Reading e-Science Centre - http://www.resc.rdg.ac.uk/projects.php - Dynamic online visualization of large-volume environmental data.

SHARE - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/project.php?menu=off&name=share - The SHARE project (Supporting and structuring Healthgrid Activities and Research in Europe) aims to define a roadmap for future healthgrid research, highlighting opportunities, obstacles and potential bottlenecks.

Universe Today - The LHC Will Revolutionize Physics. Can it Revolutionize the Internet Too? - We already know that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the biggest, most expensive physics experiment ever carried out by mankind. Colliding relativistic particles at energies previously unimaginable (up to the 14 TeV mark by the end of the decade) will generate millions of particles (known and as yet to be discovered), that need to be tracked and characterized by huge particle detectors. This historic experiment will require a massive data collection and storage effort, re-writing the rules of data handling. Every five seconds, LHC collisions will generate the equivalent of a DVD-worth of data, that's a data production rate of one gigabyte per second. To put this into perspective, an average household computer with a very good connection may be able to download data at a rate of one or two megabytes per second (if you are very lucky! I get 500 kilobytes/second). So, LHC engineers have designed a new kind of data handling method that can store and distribute petabytes (million-gigabytes) of data to LHC collaborators worldwide (without getting old and grey whilst waiting for a download). - September 4th, 2008.

How the LHC Computing Grid works (CERN/Scientific American) - Universe Today

Science, Engineering and the Public - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PublicScience.htm.

Semantic Web and Semantic Grid Research - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm#SemanticWebandSemanticGridResearch.

Semantic Grid.

Software Engineering

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

SpreadsheetModelling

Spreadsheet modelling for the Airbus wingbox problem involved investigation of problems of Maintenance, Extensibility, Ease of Use, and Sharing of Information. These problems can lead to errors. Scanlan et al. (2006) observe, "By their nature, large spreadsheets are difficult for a third party to comprehend as their inherent flexibility for editing allows users to generate a complex web of cell references which are arduous to audit". Panko (2000) and Paine (2003) also throw light on this problem. Also, the spreadsheet may add to the problem, by hiding the detail behind an elaborate and visually attractive interface, but which does not clearly visualise the spreadsheet structure/content. Scanlan et al. explain that "if the author of such an application leaves the organization, it is commonly abandoned as colleagues are reluctant to master its complexity, and take ownership of it.". Paine ascertains that spreadsheets have almost no features for building applications out of parts that can be developed and tested independently. Panko (2000) suggests that "Given data from recent field audits, most large spreadsheets probably contain significant errors." The most recent audit he cites found errors in at least 86% of spreadsheets audited. Panko reports that 90% of the spreadsheets audited in a study carried out by Coopers and Lybrand were found to have errors, Erwig et al. (2006) also cite a figure of 90% from (Rajalingham, 2001). Scanlan et al. (2006) joins Erwig et al. (2006) in arguing the vulnerability of spreadsheets to mistakes, brittleness of complex spreadsheets, and difficulties in auditing and validating their contents. The studies by Paine, and Panko show that the chances of any given spreadsheet cell containing an error are somewhere between 0.3 and 3%, so that a spreadsheet of only 100 cells has about a 30% chance of having one error or more. An error in one cell can cascade to many other cells and so cause misleading results. Aragones et al. (2006) state, "Desktop spreadsheet users are very creative in their adaptations, but distributed spreadsheets have the problem of distributed, inconsistent inputs and distributed results. There is no easy way to aggregate the collective wisdom of user experience". Hanna (2005) discussed the declarative nature of spreadsheets; this makes them suitable for end-user programming. However, he criticises the lack of structure which makes the semantics of spreadsheet models hard to understand and interpret. This can make it difficult to maintain, re-use, collaborate on and extend spreadsheet models. Declarative semantics provide a means for end-user programming as long as this is within a structured environment, and as long as a sufficiently understandable graphical front end is provided that visualises the structure and semantics to allow interaction. Wakeling (2007) investigates creation of a spreadsheet using Haskell (Hudak. et al., 2007) in order to introduce spreadsheet users to functional programming. Hudak et al. explain the history of Haskell, its support for XML and Web scripting languages, and Haskell Graphical User Interface (GUI) research.

References

Aragones, A., Bruno, J., Crapo, A., Garbiras M., 2006. An Ontology-Based Architecture for Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology - General Electric - ACUITy enterprise modelling tool - Paper - ACUITy semantic web application - A Aragones, J Bruno, A Crapo, M Garbias.

Erwig, M., Abraham, R., Cooperstein, I., Kollmansberger S., Automatic Generation and Maintenance of Correct Spreadsheets - 2005, Oregan State and Houston University - ICSE 2005 27th International Conference on Software Engineering p 136- 145.

Hanna, K., 2005. A document-centered environment for Haskell. In: 17th International Workshop on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages IFL 2005 Dublin, Ireland - September 19-21 2005.

Hudak, P., Hughes, J., Jones, S. P., Wadler, P., 2007. A History of Haskell: being lazy with class. In: The Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III) San Diego, California, June 9-10, 2007.

Paine, J., 2003. Spreadsheet Structure Discovery with Logic Programming, In: Proceedings of European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group EuSpRIG Greenwich, England.

Panko, R. P., 2000. Spreadsheet Errors: What We Know, What We Think We Can Do. Proceedings of European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group EuSpRIG, Greenwich, England, pp 7-17.

Rajalingham, K., Chadwick, D. R., Knight, B., 2001. Classification of Spreadsheet Errors. In: Symp. of the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG).

Scanlan J, Rao A, Bru C, Hale P, Marsh R, DATUM Project: Cost Estimating Environment for Support of Aerospace Design Decision Making, 2006, Journal of Aircraft - 2006 vol. 43 no. 4.

Wakeling, 2007. Spreadsheet functional programming, Journal of Functional Programming, 17(1)(January 2007) pp 131-143 - ISSN:0956-7968.

Systems Engineering and Simulation

Interoperability - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/softwareengineering.htm#Interoperability.

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

External Links

Interop Events - http://interop-vlab.eu/Events - Presentation of events around Enterprise Interoperability.

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.

INTEROP Portal - http://www.interop-noe.org/ - Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software.

Aerospace - Further Information

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

Useful Publications

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.

SEEDS Publications - Publications list.

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

Publications and References

A CGI-based approach for remotely executing a large program for integration of design and manufacture over the Internet 2001 Su Daizhong Nariman Amin Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 55-65.

A Cost Estimating Model for Aerospace Procurement - http://pdf.aiaa.org/preview/CDReadyMATIO2004_1008/PV2004_6237.pdf - P. Watson, R. Curran, A. Murphy, S. Cowan, P. Hawthorne, N. Watson - Pro-COST EST - AIAA 4th Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO) Forum - 20 - 22 September 2004, Chicago, Illinois.

A Decision Support System for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Cost Estimation. Eaglesham, M. 1998. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, PhD

A design environment for product knowledge management and data exchange. Aziz, H., Gao, J.X., Maropoulos, P.G. and Cheung, W.M., In Methods and Tools for Co-operative and Integrated Design, edited by S. Tichkiewith and D. Brissaud, pp. 257-267, 2004 (Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht). (ISBN 1-4020-1889-4).

A design to cost system for innovative product development 2002 Shehab E M Abdalla H S Proc Instn Mech Engrs 216.

A knowledge-based decision support system for cost estimation and pricing decisions in versatile manufacturing companies - http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/proeco/v53y1997i2p119-139.html - International Journal of Production Economics Volume 53, Issue 2 , 20 November 1997, Pages 119-139.

A Knowledge-based system to support procurement decision 2005 Lau H C W A Ning, K F Pun, K S Chin, W H Ip Journal of Knowledge Management 9 1 87-100.

A methodology for modelling manufacturing costs at conceptual design - Computers and Industrial Engineering archive - Volume 35 , Issue 3-4 (December 1998) table of contents Selected papers from the 22nd ICC&IE conference Pages: 623 - 626 -Year of Publication: 1998 - ISSN:0360-8352 - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=306896.307241.

A report on the use of action research to evaluate a manufacturing information systems development methodology in a company - Delvin Grant & Ojelanki Ngwenyama - Delvin Grant, Ojelanki Ngwenyama (2003) - Information Systems Journal 13 (1), 21-35.

A review of Internet-based product information sharing and visualization 2004 Zhang Shusheng William Shen, Hamada Ghenniwa Computers in Industry 54 1-15.

A spreadsheet-based decision support system for wood panel manufacturing (2000) - Buehlmann U, Ragsdale C T, Gfeller B, Decision Support Systems Vol 29.

A STUDY OF LIFE CYCLE COSTING IN THE PERSPECTIVES OF RESEARCH AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Wai M. Cheung, Robert Marsh, Linda B. Newnes, John D. Lanham, Antony R. Mileham, - Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2007 - September 4-7, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

A taxonomy of design guidance for hypermedia design. Kemp, B., Buckner, K., 1999. Interacting With Computers, 12(2), pp 143-160.

A Two-Stage Modeling and Simulation Process for Web-Based Modeling and Simulation 2002 Kim Taewoo Jinho Lee Paul Fishwick ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 12 3.

A Web-based service for distribution process planning optimization 2004 Li W D, Computers in Industry 56.

Activity-Based Costing in a Manufacturing Resource Planning Environment, Sherrard W. Fall 1997 meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), October 26-29, 1997, Dallas, Texas.

Advanced product development integration architecture: an out-of-box solution to support distributed production networks - Cheung, W. M., Matthews, P. C., Gao, J. X., Maropoulos, P. G., 2007. International Journal of Production Research March 2007.

Advances in Concurrent Engineering 1999 Chawdhry P K P Ghoudos, D Vandorpe 1-56676-790-3.

An appraisal of web-based simulation: whither we wander? 2001 Kuljis Jasna, R J Paul Simulation Practice and Theory 9 37-54.

An Intelligent Knowledge-Based System for Product Cost Modelling - http://www.springerlink.com/content/vwmxrqt9raqbmyrw/ - E. Shehab and H. Abdalla - Int J Adv Manuf Technol (2002) 19:49-65.

An Internet-enabled integrated system for co-design and concurrent engineering, 2004, Li W D, J Y H Fuh, Y S Wong, Computers in Industry 55 87-103.

Automatic Generation and Maintenance of Correct Spreadsheets, 2005, ICSE 2005 27th International Conference on Software Engineering p 136- 145.

Brokering and 3D collaborative viewing of mechanical part models on the Web 2001 Kim Yeongho, Youngsang Choi, Sang Bong Yoo International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 28-40.

Causality - Models, Reasoning, and Inference - http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/ - Judea Pearl - Reasoning about Causality.

CEAS Conference on Multidisciplinary Aircraft Design and Optimization 2001 Honlinger H Various 3-932182-21-9 Conference, Aircraft Design, Optimization

Conceptual Process Planning - a definition and functional decomposition. 1999. Feng, S., Zhang, Y., Proceedings of the 1999 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vol. 10 pp. 97-106.

Context sensitive provision and visualisation of enterprise information with a hypermedia based system 1999 Sternemann K H M Zelm Computers in Industry 40.

COSMOA: An Ontology-Centric Multi-Agent System For Coordinating Medical Responses To Large-Scale Disasters, Bloodsworth, P., Greenwood, S., 2005. - AI Communications archive Volume 18 Issue 3 - Agents Applied in Health Care - Pages: 229 - 240 - ISSN:0921-7126 - Citation - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1218877.

Cost Engineering: Why, What and How? - Decision Engineering Report Series - Edited by Rajkumar Roy and Clive Kerr - By Rajkumar Roy - July 2003.

Cost Estimating for Low Volume Long Life Products in Electronic Defence Systems, Robert Marsh, W.M. Cheung, IeMRC Annual Conference, Loughborough University, 5th September 2007.

Cost Estimation During Design Step: Parametric Method versus Case Based Reasoning Method 1999 Duverlie P J M Castelain International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 15 pp. 895-906 - http://www.springerlink.com/content/em2tfc7vxnutu3ql/.

Cost estimation in mechanical production: The Cost Entity approach applied to integrated product engineering - http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/proeco/v103y2006i1p17-35.html - Fehmi H'midaa, Patrick Martin, Francois Vernadat - Int. J. Production Economics 103 (2006) 17-35.

COST ESTIMATION IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS EVALUATION, Wai M. Cheung, Antony R. Mileham, Robert Marsh, Linda B. Newnes, John D. Lanham, Proceedings of DET2007 4th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology - Bath, United Kingdom, 19-21 September 2007.

Cost Estimation Method Selection, 2006, Evans D, ICEC and IPMA - Global Congress on Project Management - Matching User Requirements and Knowledge Availability to Methods - Presentation - Adobe PDF - Paper - Paper - Adobe PDF.

Cost Estimation Method Selection - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/graduateschool/news/posters/01-05-06/David%20Evans%20poster.pdf - UWE Graduate School Poster Presentation Summer 2006 - Adobe PDF - CEMS Graduate School - http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/graduateschool/.

Cost Estimation Method Selection: Matching User REequirements and Knowledge Acailability to Methods - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/DEvans/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Paper%20for%20ICEC.pdf - D.K. Evans, Dr J.D. Lanham, Dr R. Marsh - ICEC and IPMA - Global Congress on Project Management - Ljubljana - Slovenia.

Cost Estimation Tool Integrated into FIPER, Koonce, D., Judd, R., Keyser, T., Bailey, M. A. 2000, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. http://www.engineous.com/resources.htm.

Cost evaluation in design form features. Feng, C., Kusiak, A., Huang, C., 1996. Computer Aided Design, Vol 28(11), pp 879-885.

Cost Modelling for Aircraft Design Optimisation, 2000, Scanlan J, Hill T, Marsh R, Bru C, 2000, Engineering Design Conference June 2000, Brunel University.

Cost Modelling for Aircraft Design Optimization, 2002, J. Scanlan, T. Hill, R. Marsh, C. Bru , M. Dunkley , P. Cleevely, Journal of Engineering Design, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp. 261-269.

Cost modelling using Intranet Technologies, 2001, Scanlan J, Hale P, 7th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising 27th June 2001 Bremen Germany.

Creating, integrating and maintaining local and global ontologies. Uschold, M., 2000. Proceedings of ECAI-2000: The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Amsterdam.

DATUM Project: Cost Estimating Environment for Support of Aerospace Design Decision Making, 2006, Scanlan J, Rao A, Bru C, Hale P, Marsh R, Journal of Aircraft - 2006 vol. 43 no. 4.

Decision Analysis an Integrated Approach (1997) - Golub A. L. ISBN: 0-471-15511-X - http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047115511X.html.

Design and Prototyping of Knowledge Management Software for Aerospace Manufacturing, Hale P, Scanlan J, Bru C, 2003, 10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering - HTML HTML Word doc Adobe PDF

Design of a Meta Model for integrating enterprise systems Wang, C.-B., Chen, T.-Y., Chen, Y.-M., Chu, H.-C., 2005 Computers in Industry 56 305-322.

Designers Need End-User Software Engineering. Gross, M. D., 2007. In: End-User Software Engineering Dagstuhl Seminar February 2007. - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/1090/pdf/07081.GrossMark.ExtAbstract.1090.pdf

Developing an Integrated Framework for Feature-Based Early Manufacturing Cost Estimation, 1997, Qu-Yang, C., Lin, T. S., 1997, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol 13 pp 618-629 - http://www.springerlink.com/content/g00x0512xq656802/.

Development of an intelligent data-mining system for a dispersed manufacturing network 2001 Lau H C W Jaing Bing, WB Lee K H Lau Expert Systems 18 4 175-185.

Discrete-Event Modeling Ontology (DeMO): - http://www.cs.uga.edu/~jam/jsim/DeMO/ - DeMO is an ontology for discrete-event modeling (DEM) (system dynamics for discrete-event systems (DES)). The models in the ontology focus on how state evolves over time.

Discrete-Event Simulation On The Internet and the Web, 1998, Shen C C, scs International Conference on Web-Based Modeling and Simulation, San Diego 57-62.

Distributed, Component-Based Integration Environment For Multidisciplinary Optimal and Quality Design, Wujek, B. A., Koch, P. N., McMillan, M., Chiang, W. A., 2002, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics http://www.engineous.com/resources.htm.

Distributed Constructionism - Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Northwestern University (accepted: March 1996; published: July 1996) http://llk.media.mit.edu/papers/Distrib-Construc.html - Resnick, M., 1996.

Distributed Web-Based Simulation Experiments For Optimization. Chen, C.-H., Yücesan, E., 2001. Journal of Simulation Practice and Theory, 9, pp 73-90.

Enabling Adoption of STEP Standards Through the Use of Popular Technologies 2006, Jardim-Goncalves R, Figay N, Steiger-Garcao A,Leading the Web in Concurrent Engineering, 2006, Edited by Ghodous P, Dieng-Kuntz R, Loureiro G, ISSN 0922-6389.

Enabling interoperability of STEP Application Protocols at meta-data and knowledge level 2006, Agostinho C, Delgado M, Steiger-Garcao, A Jardim-Goncalves R, International Journal of Technology Management Volume 36, Number 4 - Pages: 402 - 421.

End-User Development Techniques for Enterprise Resource Planning Software Systems - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/1097/pdf/07081.SpahnMichael.Paper.1097.pdf - Michael Spahn, Stefan Scheidl, Todor Stoitsev - SAP AG, SAP Research CEC Darmstadt, End-User Software Engineering M. H. Burnett, G. Engels, B. A. Myers, G. Rothermel (Eds.) - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/portals/index.php?semnr=07081.

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.

eSTAR Building an Observational GRID. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ASPC..295...13A - Naylor, T., Steele, I., Carter, D., Allan, A., Etherton, J., Mottram, C., 2003. - Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) Conference ASP Conference Series, 2003, Exeter University, Liverpool John Moores University, 295.

Estimating and Cost (2000) - Sweeney - The Cost Engineer - Vol 38 Issue 4 - Subjects - Projects, Risk, Cost, Estimation.

Extending UML to Support Ontology Engineering for the Semantic Web. Baclawski, K., Mieczyslaw, K., Kogut, P., Hart, L., Smith, J., Holmes, W., Letkowski, J., Aronson, M., 2001. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools, pp 342-360.

Exploiting Domain-Specific Structures For End-User Programming Support Tools. - Abraham, R., Erwig, M., 2007. In: End-User Software Engineering Dagstuhl Seminar. - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1086.

Feature-based cost estimation for packaging products using neural networks 1996 Zhang Y F J Y H Fuh, W T Chan Computers in Industry 32 95-113

Flexibility and safety in a web-based infrastructure for virtual enterprises 2001 Camarinha-Matos L M H Afsarmanesh, A L Osoro Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 66-82

From HealthGrid to SHARE: A Selective Review of Projects - http://geneva2007.healthgrid.org/proceedings/proceedings/pdf/32.pdf - Mark OLIVE, Hanene RAHMOUNI and Tony SOLOMONIDES - CCCS - CEMS Faculty - UWE, Bristol - Proceedings of Healthgrid 2007 - Geneva, Switzerland. April 2007 - also available - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/cccs/publications.php?menu=off - PDF.

Generation and Cognitive Representation of Cost Information over a Network, 2003, Bru C, Scanlan J, Hale P, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, Espoo (Finland), 16-18 June 2003, pp. 301-309.

Himalia: Model-Driven User Interfaces Using Hypermedia Controls and Patterns, Vernazza, L., 2007. - Model-Driven User-Centric Design and Engineering - MDUCDE 2007 - http://www.zmmi.de/MDUCDE2007/ - IFAC/IFIP/IFORS IEA Symposium - Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems - http://www.ifac-hms-2007.com/ - Seoul, Korea - September 4-6th 2007 - International Federation of Automatic Control.

Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems. Fluit, C., Marta, S., Harmelen, F. V., Staab, S., Studer, R., 2003. Springer-Verlag - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/abstracts/OntoHandbook03Viz.html.

Improving the Aircraft Design Process Using Web-Based Modeling and Simulation 2000 Reed John A Gregory J Follen, Abdollah A Afjeh ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 10 1 58-83.

Information systems in supply chain integration and management - http://www.whiceb.com/CICEB/document/Information%20systems%20in%20supply%20chain%20integration.pdf - A. Gunasekaran, E.W.T. Ngai - European Journal of Operational Research 159 (2004) 269-295 - Supply chain management (SCM) is the 21st century global operations strategy for achieving organizational competitiveness. Companies are attempting to find ways to improve their flexibility and responsiveness and in turn competitiveness by changing their operations strategy, methods and technologies that include the implementation of SCM paradigm and information technology (IT). However, a thorough and critical review of literature is yet to be carried out with the objective of bringing out pertinent factors and useful insights into the role and implications of IT in SCM. In this paper, the literature available on IT in SCM have been classified using suitable criteria and then critically reviewed to develop a framework for studying the applications of IT in SCM. Based on this review and analysis, recommendations have been made regarding the application of IT in SCM and some future research directions are indicated.

Information Modeling of Conceptual Design Integrated with Process Planning 2000 Feng Shaw C, Eugene Y Song, The 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress November 5-10 Orlando, Florida.

Information system modelling for engineering design co-ordination 2004 Merlo C, Girard P, Computers in Industry 55 317-334.

Integrating Producibility and Product Performance Tools Within a Web-Service Environment 2003 Beiter Kurt A Ishil Kosuke ASME 2003 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference Chicago USA.

Integrating fieldbuses and factory intranets 2001 Cena G A Valenzano S Vitturi Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 41-54

Interaction-Oriented Software Development 2001 Huhns M N, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 11 3 259-277.

Interactions, collaborations and breakdowns - TAMODIA 2004 INVITED TALKS - Peter Johnson - 15-16 November - Prague, Czech Republic.

Internet-based expert systems, Grove R., 2000, Expert Systems, Vol. 17 No.3

Introduction to Multiple and Collaborative Tasks - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction - Johnson, P., May, J., Johnson, H., 2003. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Volume 10 (4) December 2003 pp 277-280.

Investigating the application of web-based simulation principles within the architecture for a next-generation computer generated forces model - Ernest H. Page, Jeffrey M. Opper - Future Generation Computer Systems Volume 17, Issue 2 (October 2000) pp 159 - 169.

Issues in the development and implementation of web applications for product design and manufacture, 2001, Huang, G. Q., Mak, K. L., International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 125-135

Knowledge based-system for alternative design, cost estimating and scheduling 2002 Mohamed Abdulrezak, Tahir Celik Knowledge-Based Systems 15 177-188

Leading the Web in Concurrent Engineering, 2006, Edited by Ghodous P, Dieng-Kuntz R, Loureiro G, ISSN 0922-6389.

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.

Manufacturing cost modelling for concurrent product development - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V4P-43854DD-8&_user=122883&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F2001&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000010139&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=122883&md5=05432463ebeeab7935bcdacb2e78bd05 - E. M. Shehab, H. S. Abdalla - Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing - Volume 17, Issue 4 , August 2001, Pages 341-353.

Manufacturing Strategy and e-business: an exploratory study 2003 Olhager Jan Merin Rudberg Integrated Manufacturing Systems 14 4 334-345.

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.

Meta-User Interfaces for Ambient Spaces: Can Model-Driven-Engineering Help?. Coutaz, J., 2007. In: End-User Software Engineering Dagstuhl Seminar.

Model-based tools for pervasive usability, 2005, Paterno Fabio, Interacting with Computers 17, 291-315 - http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/cameleon/pdf/last-model-based%20approaches-IwC.pdf - Science Direct.

MODELLING AN ASSEMBLY PROCESS USING A CLOSE COUPLED GENERATIVE COST MODEL AND A DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION, Robert Marsh, Wai M. Cheung, Antony R. Mileham, Linda B. Newnes, John D. Lanham, - Proceedings of - DET2007 4th International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology - Bath, United Kingdom, 19-21 September 2007.

Modelling and Simulating Product Development Process, 2000, Nour M, Scanlan J, 6th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising.

Modelling and Simulating Product Development Process, 2000, Nour M, Scanlan J, Bru C, Proceedings of the 6th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, Toulouse (France), 28-30 June 2000, pp. 111-118.

Modelling manufacturing cost uncertainty with input distributions and exemplars, 2002, Marsh Hill Scanlan Cleeveley Dunkley, 9th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, Cranfield University, JULY, 2002 881-890.

Modelling Processes Using RAD and UML Activity Diagrams:an Exploratory Study - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~sjgreen/RAD&AD_V2.pdf - M. Odeh, I. Beeson, S. Green and J. Sa - In Software Engineering and Information Systems, increasing attention has been focused lately upon modelling organizational processes - as a starting point for developing computer-based systems to support (or control) such processes. A number of process modelling methods are available, but it is not yet clear what the relative merits of these are, nor whether they might be more or less useful in particular contexts. We have applied two well-known process modelling techniques, Role Activity Diagramming and UML Activity Diagramming, to a particular process in our own organization, that of managing the registration of research students. We developed an RAD first and then translated it into a UML AD, to compare the two techniques and check the feasibility of such translation. We conclude that translation from RAD to UML AD is likely to be feasible in particular cases, but will rely on the ability of the translators to establish and maintain the equivalence between the two (i.e. the equivalence will be partly a matter of local interpretation).

Modelling the Thinking Process of an Aerospace Design Organisation (2001) - Nour M, Scanlan J - CEAS Conference on Multidisciplinary Aircraft Design and Optimization June 2001 Maternushaus Koln, Cologne, Germany

Moore's Law and Numerical Modeling. Voller, V. R., Porté-Agel, F., 2002. Journal of Computational Physics, 179, pp 698-703.

Multi-authoring virtual worlds via the World Wide Web - Phillips P., Rodden T., Interacting with Computers, Volume 13, Number 3, February 2001, pp. 401-426(26).

Observations from supplementing the traditional design process via Internet-based collaboration tools 2001 Nidimarthi Srinivas, Robert H Allen, Ram D Spiram Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 95-107

On the insufficiency of ontologies: problems in knowledge sharing and alternative solutions - Correa da Silva F.S.; Vasconcelos W.W., Robertson D.S., Brilhante V., de Melo A.C.V., Finger M., Agusti J., - Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 15, Number 3, March 2002, pp. 147-167(21).

Ontological Approach for Organisational Knowledge Re-use in Product Developing Environments - Wai M Cheung, Paul G Maropoulos, James X Gao, Hayder Aziz - 11th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising - ICE 2005 - University BW Munich, Germany.

Ontological Modeling, 2003, Kalinichenko L, Missikoff M, Schiappelli F, Skvortsov N, Proceedings of the 5th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries RCDL2003, St. - Petersburg, Russia, 2003 - http://synthesis.ipi.ac.ru/synthesis/publications/ontomodeling/.

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

Ontologies Come of Age, 2003. . McGuinness D. L., In: Dieter Fensel, Jim Hendler, Henry Lieberman, and Wolfgang Wahlster, ed. Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential. MIT Press, 2003.

Ontologies for Integrating Engineering Applications - Mihai Ciocoiu, Michael Gruninger, Dana S. Nau, 2000. - Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering 1(1) pp 12-22.

Ontologies For Modeling and Simulation, 2004 Fishwick Paul A, Miller John A, Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference.

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

Ontology-based Customizable 3D Modeling for Simulation, 2005, Park Minho, Fishwick Paul A. http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0010095/park_m.pdf - PhD Dissertation.

Ontology Query Languages for the Semantic Web: A Performance Evaluation. Zhang, Z. 2005. - Thesis - (Under the Direction of John.A.Miller).

OntoWiki - http://3ba.se - Explanation - OntoWiki - A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration - Auer, S., Riechert, T., Dietzold, S., 2006. - 5th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, GA, USA, November 5-9, 2006.

Open standard, open source and peer-to-peer tools and methods for collaborative product development. - Aziz, H., Gao, J., Maropoulos, P., Cheung, W. M., 2005. Computers in Industry, 56, pp 260-271.

OWL-S Editor to Semantically Annotate Web-Services - http://staff.um.edu.mt/cabe2/supervising/undergraduate/owlseditFYP/OwlSEdit.html - University of Malta - Department of Computer Science and A.I. - James Scicluna - The current version of the Owl-S Editor can be downloaded from here. We welcome any feedback related to how the tool was used and how effective it was to solve your particular needs. Let us know so that we can improve the tool.

OWL/SWRL representation methodology for EXPRESS-driven product information model Part I. Implementation methodology, Zhao, W. and Liu, J.K. 2008. Computers in Industry - Article in Press, Corrected Proof - Abstract - This paper presents an ontology-based approach to enable semantic interoperability and reasoning over the product information model. The web ontology language (OWL) and the semantic web rule language (SWRL) in the Semantic Web are employed to construct the product information model. The traditional modeling language called EXPRESS is discussed. The representation methodology for EXPRESS-driven product information model is then proposed. The key of the representation methodology is mapping from EXPRESS to OWL/SWRL. Some illustrated examples are presented. - Keywords - Product information model; OWL; SWRL; EXPRESS; Ontology representation.

OWL Web Ontology Language Guide - http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/ - W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004 - The World Wide Web as it is currently constituted resembles a poorly mapped geography. Our insight into the documents and capabilities available are based on keyword searches, abetted by clever use of document connectivity and usage patterns. The sheer mass of this data is unmanageable without powerful tool support. In order to map this terrain more precisely, computational agents require machine-readable descriptions of the content and capabilities of Web accessible resources. These descriptions must be in addition to the human-readable versions of that information.

Past, present, and future of decision support technology. Shim, J.P., Warkentin, M., Courtney, J. F., Power, D J., 2002, Decision Support Systems 33 pp 111-126 - Decision Support Systems.

Potential Modeling and Simulation Applications of the Web Ontology Language - OWL, 2004 Lacy Lee, William Gerber, Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference.

Preliminary Findings from the DECIDE project, 2002, Hale P, Scanlan J, Bru, C, Dunkley M, ISPE/CE2002 Concurrent Engineering Conference Cranfield University p 839 - HTML HTML Word doc Adobe PDF.

Probabilistic Pseudo-generative Cost Modelling Through Virtual Template Propagation 2001 Marsh Rob Terry Hill, J Scanlan, Martin Dunkley, Paul Cleevely CEAS Conference on Multidisciplinary Aircraft Design and Optimization June 2001 Maternushaus Koln, Cologne, Germany.

Project Performance 2000 - Sweeney - The Cost Engineer - Vol 38 Issue 3 - Subjects - Projects, Risk.

Provision of a Web Based Decision Support system for Wing Box Tooling, 2001, Hale P, Scanlan J, Hill T, Nour M, Bru C, Jocelyn A, Round M, Dunkley M, 7th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising - HTML HTML Word doc Adobe PDF.

Reflections on 10 Years of Software Process Simulation Modeling: A Systematic Review, 2008 - Zhang H, Kitchenham B, Pfahl D, http://www.springerlink.com/content/l523wh65hw414471/ - In: Volume 5007/2008 - Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story pp 345-356 - Abstract - Software process simulation modeling (SPSM) has become an increasingly active research area since its introduction in the late 1980s. Particularly during the last ten years the related research community and the number of publications have been growing. The objective of this research is to provide insights about the evolution of SPSM research during the last 10 years. A systematic literature review was proposed with two subsequent stages to achieve this goal. This paper presents the preliminary results of the first stage of the review that is exclusively focusing on a core set of publication sources. More than 200 relevant publications were analyzed in order to find answers to the research questions, including the purposes and scopes of SPSM, application domains, and predominant research issues. From the analysis the following conclusions could be drawn: (1) Categories for classifying software process simulation models as suggested by the authors of a landmark publication in 1999 should be adjusted and refined to better capture the diversity of published models. (2) Research improving the efficiency of SPSM is gaining importance. (3) Hybrid process simulation models have attracted interest as a possibility to more realistically capture complex real-world software processes.

Renga: A systems approach to facilitating inter-organizational network development 2001 Akkermans Henk System Dynamics Review 17 3 179-193

Research and commercial opportunities in Web-Based Simulation 2001 Miller John A Paul A Fishwick et al. Simulation Practice and Theory 9 55-72

Review of aerospace engineering cost modelling:The genetic causal approach - http://md1.csa.com/partners/viewrecord.php?requester=gs&collection=TRD&recid=A058351861AH - Curran, R, Raghunathan, S, Price, M, Progress in Aerospace Sciences. Vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 487-534. Nov. 2004.

Review of whole-life cost estimating approaches, Antony R. Mileham, Linda B. Newnes, Wai M. Cheung, Robert Marsh, John D. Lanham, Journal of Engineering Design, June 2007.

Risk Analysis Without Monte Carlo Simulation, 2000, Sweeting Jack, The Cost Engineer May 2000 17-20

"Rugplot" Visualization for Preliminary Design - http://www.cden2006.utoronto.ca/data/10042.pdf or http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/I/Papers/cden06rugplot.pdf - CDEN AGM and "Crossing Design Boundaries" Conference in July 2006 - Wiki to go with this paper - http://deseng.ryerson.ca/xiki/View/Oplm/RugPlotPaper.

Simulation and the Semantic Web - Miller, J A., Baramidze, G., - 2005. - Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference.

Structural Design, Analysis, Optimization, and Cost Modeling Using the Adaptive Modeling Language - http://www.technosoft.com/docs/AIAA_2002_1296_SDM_02.pdf - John Marino, Adel Chemaly.

Supporting interactive collaboration on the Web with CORK, Isenhour, P. L, Rosson, M. B., Carroll, J. M., 2001. Interacting with Computers, 13 pp 655-676.

Supporting User Tasks through Visualisation of Light-weight Ontologies. Fluit, C., Sabou, M., Harmelen, F. V., 2003. In: S. Staab and R. Studer, ed. Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems, Springer-Verlag pp 415-434 - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/abstracts/OntoHandbook03Viz.html.

TeleRP-an Internet web-based solution for remote rapid prototyping service and maintenance 2001 Jiang Pingyo Shuichi Fukuda Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 83-94

The management of concept design knowledge in modern product development organizations 2001 Rodgers Paul A H M Nicholas, P Caldwell, John Clarkson, Avon P Huxor Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 108-115

The many faces of agents, Sycara K. P, 1998, AI Magazine, Journal Paper

The Model Driven Semantic Web - Frankel, D. Hayes, P. Kendall, E. McGuinness, D., 1st International Workshop on the Model-Driven Semantic Web (MDSW2004) Enabling Knowledge Representation and MDA® Technologies to Work Together (2004).

The Modeling Methodological Impacts of Web-Based Simulation 1998 Page E H Mitre Corporation, Arnold Buss, Naval Postgraduate School Paul A. Fishwick, University of Florida Kevin J. Healy, Thread Technologies Richard E. Nance, Virginia Tech Ray J. Paul, Brunel University Proceedings of the 1998 SCS International Conference on Web-Based Simulation San Diego 123-128.

The OWL-S Editor - A Development Tool for Semantic Web Services - http://owlseditor.semwebcentral.org/documents/paper.pdf - Daniel Elenius, Grit Denker, David Martin, Fred Gilham, John Khouri, Shahin Sadaati, and Rukman Senanayake - SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA - Abstract. The power of Web Service (WS) technology lies in the fact that it establishes a common, vendor-neutral platform for integrating distributed computing applications, in intranets as well as the Internet at large. Semantic Web Services (SWSs) promise to provide solutions to the challenges associated with automated discovery, dynamic composition, enactment, and other tasks associated with managing and using service-based systems. One of the barriers to a wider adoption of SWS technology is the lack of tools for creating SWS specifications. OWL-S is one of the major SWS description languages. This paper presents an OWL-S Editor, whose objective is to allow easy, intuitive OWL-S service development and to provide a variety of special-purpose capabilities to facilitate SWS design. The editor is implemented as a plugin to the Protege OWL ontology editor, and is being developed as open-source software.

The OWL-S Editor - A Domain-Specific Extension to Protégé - Elenius, D., 2005. - 8th Intl. Protégé Conference - July 18-21, 2005 - Madrid, Spain.

The Rise of Web-Based Simulation: Implications for the High Level Architecture 1998 Page E H Mitre Corporation Proceedings of the 1998 Winter Simulation Conference Washington DC p 1663-1668

Tools Making Cyberspace a Real Place for Design 1999 Mecham Michael, Aviation Week & Space Technology December 6 73-74.

Toward an Object-Oriented Structure for Mathematical Text - http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~jbw/papers/Kamareddine+Maarek+Wells:Toward-an-Object-Oriented-Structure-for-Mathematical-Text:MKM-2005.pdf - Kamareddine, F., Maarek, M., Wells, J. B, 2005, Mathematical Knowledge Management, 4th Int'l Conf., Proceedings, LNCS. Springer-Verlag.

Transfer of knowledge in knowledge management systems: unexplored issues and suggested studies, Huber, G. P., 2001, European Journal of Information Systems, Vol 10 pp 80-88.

Transition from Push to Pull in Wholesale Supply Chains - Lessons to be Learned from Lean, 2006, Daine T, Winnington T, 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

UML for Interactive Systems: What is Missing, Palanque, P., Bastide R., 2003. http://www.se-hci.org/bridging/interact/p96-99.pdf - INTERACT 2003 Closing the Gaps: Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction Zürich, Switzerland.

Using Alloy in process modelling, Wallace C., 2003, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 45 (15), 1031-1043 - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~sjgreen/ChrisWallace.pdf.

Using Formal Design Techniques to Select Cost Estimation Methods for Cost Modelling, D. Evans, J. Lanham, and R. Marsh, 2007 - AIAA-2007-7797, 7th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference (ATIO), Belfast Sept 2007.

Visual modeling for software intensive systems - Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, Journal, Volume 17, Issue 6 - December 2006, Pages 503-507.

VISUAL MODELING OF OWL-S SERVICES - http://members.deri.at/~jamess/pdfs/scicluna-iadis2004.pdf - Msida MSD 06, Malta (Europe) - Mr. James Scicluna, Mr. Charlie Abela, Dr. Matthew Montebello, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta - ABSTRACT - The Semantic Web is slowly gathering interest and becoming a reality. More people are becoming aware of this and are trying to embed Semantic Web technologies into their applications. This involves the use of tools that can handle rapid ontology building and validation in an easy and transparent manner. In the area of Semantic Web Web Services (SWWS) an OWL-S specification defines a set of ontologies through which a semantic description of the service can be created. At times this is not an easy task and could result in an incorrect specification of the description or even lead the fainthearted user to resort to some other type of description language. This paper describes the OWL-S editor tool that provides two methodologies in which such a web services description can be developed without exposing the developer to the underlying OWL-S syntax. These methodologies are based on a mapping from WSDL to OWL-S and on modeling a composite service using standard UML Activity Diagrams.

Visualisation of Cost Information 2002 Bru C, Scanlan J Hale P, Dunkley M, 9th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, Cranfield University.

Visualization and Modelling for Intelligent Systems. Crapo, A. W., Waisel, L. B., Wallace, W. A., Willemain, T. R., 2002. In: C. T. Leondes, ed. Intelligent Systems: Technology and Applications, Volume I Implementation Techniques, 2002 pp 53-85.

Visualization and Protégé - http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/abstracts/Storey.pdf - Margaret-Anne Storey, Robert Lintern, Neil Ernst, David Perrin - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada - 7th International Protégé Conference - Tuesday 6th - Friday 9th, July 2004 - Bethesda, Maryland.

Visualization of Cost Information, 2004 Bru C, Scanlan J, Hale P, International Journal of Agile Manufacturing, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 53-59.

Web Based Cost Estimation for Advanced Composites. Gutowski, T. G., Haffner, S. M., Pas J. W., 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2002.

Web-based design and manufacturing support systems: implementation perspectives 2001 Cheng K, Pan P Y, Harrison D K, Computer Integrated Manufacturing 14 1 p 14-27

Web-Based Simulation: Revolution or Evolution? 1999 Page E H Mitre Corporation, Ernest H. Page, Arnold Buss, Naval Postgraduate School Arnold Buss, Naval Postgraduate School Paul A. Fishwick, University of Florida Kevin Healy, ThreadTec, Inc. Richard E. Nance, Virginia Tech Ray J. Paul, Brunel University - ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.

Web-Integrated Manufacturing: recent developments and emerging issues (2001) - Huang G Q, Mak K L - Computer Integrated Manufacturing Vol 14 Issue 1 p 1-13.

What active users and designers contribute in the design process 2004 Olsson E, Interacting with Computers 16 277-401.

What is knowledge and can it be managed?. Sutton, D. C., 2001. European Journal of Information Systems, Vol 10 pp 72-79.

What makes expert systems survive over 10 years-empirical evaluation of several engineering applications 2003 Nurminen Jukka K, Olli Karaonen and Kimmo Hatonen, Expert Systems with Applications 24 2 199-211.

Where are the Semantics in the Semantic Web? - http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/events/Uschold-talk.htm - Michael Uschold, The Boeing Company - AI Center colloquium - To be published in AI Magazine sometime this year - http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/SemWebCourse_files/WhereAreSemantics-AI-Mag-FinalSubmittedVersion2.pdf.

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British Computer Society Bristol BCS page - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/47.

The Bristol branch is supporting this first "Bristol Knowledge Unconference". The event will be themed around the general subject of Knowledge, which includes:

Daniel Lewis - Bristol Knowledge Unconference: A small progress update - http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/07/15/bristol-knowledge-unconference-a-small-progress-update/ - Daniel Lewis - July 15th, 2008 by daniel - I mentioned a few days ago that I would be setting up a "Bristol Knowledge Unconference". - I've had a few emails about it, and a few blog comments... and I've actually been pleasantly surprised about the broad range of people interested in the event. I am still interested in hearing from others! - So heres the plan: - I'll be visiting various people and organisations this week and next week, to find out what they want from the event and for me to get to know them and them to get to know me (as I am quite new to Bristol), and what we work on. The first of which is tomorrow afternoon. (If you'd like me to come visit you in Bristol then do send me an email, I'll be happy to do so) - I hope to have set a date by Monday 21st July 2008. My feeling so far is that the event will be at some point in the next couple of months (i.e. before the end of September 2008). I will obviously let you know about this as soon as I have set it!

Daniel Lewis - Just a quick note to all of those in the South-West of England (and anyone else interested). - http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/07/10/bristol-knowledge-unconference/ - I am organising a "Knowledge Unconference" in Bristol, which is loosely attached to the "Semantic Web South-West" Group.

The idea will be similar to a BarCamp, except that it is a lot lighter, more social, more hands-on. It will also be only half-a-day long. Plus it will be "themed" around the general subject of Knowledge. So for example:

The Semantic Web / Linked Data / Hyperdata / Data Web

Topic Maps

Information Architecture and Design

Knowledge Acquisition

Knowledge-Based Systems, Knowledge Engineering and Rule-Based Systems (etc)

Knowledge Visualisation

and maybe even, Object Oriented Databases

30 September 2008

Using Open Source and Open Standards to Enable Transformational Government

The Hawthorns, Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol

British Computer Society BCS Bristol Branch

Transformational Government is intended to be an intensive, structural and fundamental change in the operational processes of Government bodies, enabled by the use of Information Systems & Technology in the back-office. It is expected to deliver major efficiency savings across the public sector without any further investment beyond existing budgets.

What does Transformational Government look like in practice within a Local Authority? How can it be implemented without any additional funding? How can intensely technical subjects like open source and open standards contribute to business change? Gavin Beckett, ICT Strategy Manager at Bristol City Council, will attempt to answer these questions and give an overview of Bristol's successes and challenges to date.

Gavin has been a central figure in Bristol's strategic use of Open Source and Open Standards since 2002; was a founder of the Open Source Academy; and works actively with a variety of EU interest groups and government bodies on the adoption of ODF.

Further Information - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/44.

October 2008

Thursday 9 October 2008

Informing Digital Futures: Strategies for Citizen Engagement

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Professor Leela Damodaran, Loughborough University

Summary

In the present digital revolution we often seem trapped in a Kafkaesque world of technological advances, some desired, some disliked or even feared, which we cannot influence but must accept.

All too often ICT advances are regarded purely as a technical challenge where the designers believe that systems analysis will of itself yield complete and comprehensive functional specifications.

Oct 21 (date still being debated)

Semantic Web Interest Group - SWIG-UK event

Hewlett-Packard Bristol

Further Information - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/semanticweb-southwest/ - Directions: http://www.hpl.hp.com/bristol/directions.html.

Thursday 23 October 2008

A Re-conceptualisation of the Interpretive Flexibility of Information Technologies: Redressing the balance between the Social and the Technical

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Professor Neil Doherty Loughborough University

Summary

Stakeholder interpretations will then, in turn, influence how the system's functionality is appropriated and exploited by users, to allow divergent interpretations to be realised and sustained.

November 2008

Friday 7 November 2008

Extending Collaboration with Social Software

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Paula Dantas Senior IT Specialist for Lotus at IBM UK Ltd

Summary

This session looks at IBM's internal experiences from our research into social software and the impact it is having on the way we do business.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20505 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216.

Thursday 20 November 2008

Goals and challenges for the co-evolution of social and technical defence capability

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Professor Karen Carr Head of Centre for Human Systems at Cranfield University

Summary

The threats and constraints faced by our defence capability appear to be increasingly demanding. The diversity of threats taking place in complex political, social and physical environments require defence mechanisms that are at once agile, accurate, global, minimal, rapid and sustainable. Network Enabled Capability, Effects Based Operations and the Comprehensive Approach are some of the initiatives that attempt to meet these requirements.

The manner in which the MoD attempts to develop these aspects of defence capability is subject to many challenges, including the traditionally disjointed approach to the so-called 'moral' and 'physical' components: effectively equipment and personnel. A major part of the new initiatives across defence is the use of Information Technologies to support collaboration between distributed people from different national and professional cultures.

As is well known in many fields, successful collaboration of this sort requires an integrated approach to the development of supporting technology, process, organization and social factors. This lecture will review the obstacles and opportunities within the MoD organization for achieving this integrated approach.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20513 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216.

December 2008

Thursday 4 December 2008

The NHS National Programme for Information Technology: A Sociotechnical Perspective

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Professor Emeritus Ken Eason Bayswater Institute / Loughborough University

Summary

Launched in 2002 the NHS National Programme for Information Technology is a very large 10-year programme to create electronic patient records that can be shared across all the NHS Trusts in England.

9th, 10th, 11th DECEMBER

DECEMBER 2008 CHARRETTE

Institute for People-Centred Computation

BRISTOL

Venue to be confirmed

According to Wikipedia: - '... the word charrette refers to any collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem. They often take place in multiple sessions in which the group divides into sub-groups. Each sub-group then presents its work to the full group as material for future dialogue. Such charrettes serve as a way of quickly generating a design solution while integrating the aptitudes and interests of a diverse group of people'.

We are now coming to the end of the EPSRC Network funding and the AHRC / EPSRC 2nd tranche of funding under the Design for the 21st Century Initiative. The aim of our planned December charrette is to draw together all those main players from the UK, Europe and overseas, who have contributed greatly to our activities. This is also an open meeting however where all are welcome.

Further Information - http://www.ip-cc.org.uk/activities.html.

British Computer Society (Bristol) - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=event/new - Programme Card - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/2007/progcard.pdf - BCS Bristol Events.

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.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - London - http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm - 2008 - January 30th - Dr John P Carney - Industrial and Academic Co-ordinator DSTL/MOD - Confessions of a Knowledge Manager - January 30th.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - London - http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm - Feb 13th - Dr Gordon Hunter - The University of Lethbridge, Canada - Qualitative Research Methods: Fieldwork Experience.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorthCalendar.htm - Karen Gadd : TBA.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorthCalendar.htm - Alistair Sutcliffe: Professor Deputy Head of School of Informatics, University of Manchester - Re-defining Design Quality in HCI.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorthCalendar.htm - Gus Hosein : Visiting Fellow in the Information Systems Group, Department of Management, LSE - Co-director of the Policy Engagement Network, LSE - Senior Fellow, Privacy International - Visiting Scholar, American Civil Liberties Union project on Technology and Liberty - The Danger of Mixing Politics and and System Specifications: the National Identity Scheme and its Challenges.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorthCalendar.htm - 25th April 2007 - Ann Blandford: Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Director of UCL Interaction Centre - Understanding the CASSMs in interactions between users and systems.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - London - http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm - Dr Nadia Papamichail - Manchester Business School - 7th May 2008 - Best practice in decision making.

Other Conferences

Systems Engineering, Estimation, Decision Support - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/#Conferencesrecentandfuture.

2008 Lovelace Lecture - A tribute to Karen Sparck Jones. - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8997 - Ann Copestake will be presenting the 2008 Lovelace Lecture entitled 'What do we mean? Computational approaches to natural language semantics'. - Ann is Reader in Computational Linguistics in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. - Date: Tuesday 13 May 2008 Time: 6.30pm registration for 7pm lecture Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor - The Royal Society of Medicine - 1 Wimpole Street - London W1G 0AE.

2nd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2008 (http://www.sciiis.org/KGCM2008); will be held jointly with The 3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing: KCPR 2008, and The 3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences: KCC 2008. It will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, on June 29th to July 2nd, 2008.

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.

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.

Asian Simulation Technology Conference ASTEC 2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=taxonomy/term/19 - The aim of the Asian Simulation Technology Conference is to give a state of the art overview of industrial simulation related basic research and to provide an annual status report on present day simulation research within a particular Asian country in relation to other Asian/Australasian countries and the rest of the world.

BPM Business Process Management Conference - http://www.irmuk.co.uk/bpm2008/ - Dates 29 September - 1 October - London, UK - IRM UK's BPM Conference Europe is back with the latest advances in the state of the BPM art. It will once again bring the wide-ranging BPM community’s foremost practitioners, thought leaders, and solution providers together in London this autumn. It will be an independent event developed and run in partnership with Roger Burlton of the Process Renewal Group, a world leader and BPM pioneer, and with Paul Harmon of BPTrends, the world's leading BPM knowledge portal. IRM UK, combining with these two collaborators, will guarantee BPM Europe 2008 offers delegates a wide range of speakers and workshop facilitators who will provide a comprehensive coverage and a practical focus on BPM practices. - 29 September - 1 October London, UK.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorthCalendar.htm - Karen Gadd : TBA.

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Thursday 24th January 2008 - title : Provoking Creativity: Imagine What Your Requirements Could be Like - speaker: Neil Maiden, Professor of Systems Engineering and Head of the Centre for Human-Computer Interface Design - Requirements, City University School of Informatics - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London - Specifying requirements is too often seen as a "stenographer's task". The requirements engineer passively listens and records while the stakeholders state their needs. However, this approach relies on stakeholders knowing what they need, and what they want. But people do not know what they want until they see it. Most useful products come not from stakeholders' imagination, but from an invention. Neil shows that requirements engineering should be a creative process and describes techniques to invent requirements based on results from current research. - Neil has directed inter-disciplinary research in requirements engineering for 15 years and is the Editor of the IEEE Software's Requirements column.

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Thursday 21st February 2008 title : Agile Programme Management - speaker : Jennifer Stapleton, Stapleton Business Solutions - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London - Jennifer will talk about how Programmes can be structured, governed and managed so that they can be as responsive to internal and external change as the business requires. - Jennifer has been cited by PMI as one of the world’s most influential women in project and Programme management for her work in the agile arena, particularly in DSDM. She was Technical Director of the DSDM Consortium for 11 years and is the author of "DSDM, Business Focused Development".

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Tuesday 11th March 2008 title : A Practical Method for Complex Business Change Projects: Soft Systems Methods and Public Private speaker : Dr Peter Parkes, Managing Director, Peak Performance venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London -Change Projects are inherently complex. Partnerships, and particularly Public Private Partnerships, are notoriously difficult to govern. Putting the two together has led to some major failures in Benefits Realisation. Peter will talk about practical application of soft systems methods to bid and deliver these challenging projects in complex environments.

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Wednesday 26th March 2008 title : The Scientist, the Accountant, and the Boardroom - speaker : Professor Clive Holtham, Information Management, Cass Business School, City University of London - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London - With the CIO at the boardroom table, have we reached the end of the journey? Or is the information scientist about to grab the Finance Director's hand in a paradigm shift in strategic management? It took the intersection of information management and information technology to move IT from service provider to business enabler. Now the intersection with accountancy and general management beckons another step change in the intelligent exploitation of IT – is this a threat or opportunity for the IT profession?

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Thursday 17th April 2008 title : Science and Engineering: a collusion of cultures - speaker : Professor Sir Tony Hoare, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, Cambridge - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London (Joint event with Kingston and Croydon Branch) - Pure Science and practical Engineering lie at two ends of a wide cultural spectrum, diametrically opposed across many dimensions. In every branch of Engineering Science, the intellectual integrity of the discipline, as well as its practical utility, requires that these cultures must not collide. Rather, they must collude in the old etymological sense of playing fairly together. A particular example treated in this talk is the collusion of the Science of Programming with the Engineering of Software.

BCS (British Computer Society) - London Central - http://www.londoncentral.bcs.org/events/forthcoming-events.php - Thursday 15th May 2008 title : AGM, followed by: Why are Projects Still Failing? - speaker : Richard Morreale, Inspiration Systems - venue : BCS, Southampton Street, London - Why, after spending loads of money over the last 30 years on project management tools, methods and techniques are projects still failing at about the same rate they did 30 years ago? Richard presents what he sees as the issues and what can be done about them. Richard ensures that this will be not only a great session with lots to think about but will also be fun.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 24 January 2008 IT at JET - A Challenging Fusion Research Environment.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 21 February 2008 How Big Business learned to love Virtual Worlds.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 13 March 2008 What's Hot.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 24 April 2008 Annual Branch Visit: Technology in Action - Shrivenham.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Oxfordshire - http://www.oxon.bcs.org/program2007-8.htm#Jan - 22 May 2008 Education in the Internet Age and Branch AGM.

CAiSE'08 - The 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'08) - http://www.lirmm.fr/caise08/ - 16-20 June 2008, Montpellier, France - http://mdisis08.ec-lille.fr - 16th of June 2008 Montpellier, France - First International Workshop on - MDISIS'08 Model Driven Interoperability for Sustainable Information Systems (MDISIS'08) - (held in conjunction with CAiSE'08).

Carbon Trust/BCS Data Centre Tool - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conEvent.1829 - 21st August 2008, 18:00 - BCS, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA - London (Central) Branch & Data Centre Specialist Group - This will be the official launch of the Carbon Trust / BCS beta program for the DCSG Data Centre Simulation Software Tool.

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

CE 2007 - The 14th International Conference on Conccurrent Engineering - http://ce2007.lit.inpe.br/ - Welcome to the official CE'2007 website - Brazil 16th - 20th July.

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

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..

Final Call for Speakers:

Submission Deadline: Friday January 18th 2008

We are seeking high-quality session proposals covering topics on model-driven software development (including Software Factories, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs), Generative Programming, Software Product Lines and related areas).

Sessions could cover topics such as:

- Code Generation and Model Transformation tools and approaches

- Defining and implementing modelling languages

- Domain Analysis and Domain Engineering

- Language evolution and modularization

- Meta Modelling

- Runtime virtual machines versus direct code generation

- Tool and technology adoption

http://www.codegeneration.net/conference/index.php.

CSIE - 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009) - http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CSIE/2009/index.html - March 31 - April 2, 2009 - Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA - CSIE 2009 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in computer science and information engineering.

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.

Digital Enterprise Technology DET2007 - http://www.det-conf.org.uk/index.html - 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 - 19-21 September 2007.

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.

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.

EMMSAD ' 08 - http://www.emmsad.org/ - 16-17 June, 2008, Montpellier, France - held in conjunction with CAiSE '08.

Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI 2008 - http://www.infocybereng.org/imeti2008/website/default.asp?vc=20 - June 29^th - July 2^nd, 2008 - Orlando, Florida, USA - Engineering activities are based on the development of new Knowledge (scientia), new 'made things' (techné) and/or new ways of working and doing (praxis). Scientia, Techné and praxis are three important dimensions of a comprehensive conception of Engineering as a whole. Engineering, as Scientia, is mostly developed in academia; as techné is practiced in industry generating technological innovations; and as praxis is carried out in technical and non-technical organizations, supporting managerial activities and technical procedures, via methodical and methodological design and implementation. This is why Engineering provides one of the most solid academic and professional substrata for bridging among Universities, industries and governments. - Publications and conferences related to Engineering are usually oriented to one of its three dimensions. While this is an adequate thing to do when disciplinary focus is sought, it does not represent Engineering as a whole and it misses the very important synergic relationships among the three kinds of engineering activities mentioned above. This is why a group of scholars, professionals and consultants, in the field of engineering, considered the possibility of initiating a publishing process and organizing a conference where presentations will not be reduced to one of the Engineering's dimensions, but to foster the participation of academics, practitioners and managers in the three dimensions of Engineering, in the same conference, or in the same publication, so they can synergistically interact with each other. A consequence of this purpose is the organization of IMETI 2008, and the publication of multiple-author books series, where submissions will be accepted for the presentation of:

New knowledge (Engineering as Scientia);
New products and services, i.e. technological innovations (Engineering as techné);
New technical and managerial methods and methodologies (Engineering as praxis);
New meta-engineering (Engineering of Engineering activities) knowledge, innovations and methodologies.

More details regarding the notion of Engineering and reasoning supporting the definition given above can be found in the article "The Essence of Engineering and Meta-Engineering: A Work in Progress" (Callaos, 2008) which is available at http://www.iiis.org/Nagib-Callaos/Engineering-and-Meta-Engineering/.

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.

EUROMEDIA 2008 - 14TH ANNUAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/461 - UNIVERSITY OF PORTO - PORTUGAL - APRIL 9-11, 2008 - The 2008 Euromedia conference covers the latest developments in web-multimedia and communications technology while also looking at their implementation in Broadband networking, mobile computing, broadband networking, distributed computing, telematics, E-technology and real world environments like embedded systems, security systems and training systems. - More info about the event can be found on: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/100 - The workshops page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/476 - especially the track on D-TV - The venue page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/478 - The hotel page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/471.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - "The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology".

EUROSIS Conferences Overview - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/2 - EUROSIS organizes a number of conferences each year covering as many aspects as possible of computer simulation and modelling. Here follows the listing of events in chronological order. If you want more information about the specific events please go to the specific conference pages above or below.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/119 - GAMEON-NA 2008, August 13-15, 2008 - 2008 - McGill University, Montreal, Canada (http://www.mcgill.ca/) - The aim of the 4th annual North American Game-On Conference (GameOn'NA 2008) is to bring together academics, researchers and games people from North America in order to exchange ideas on higher-level concepts that contribute to the field of computer gaming research.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/205 - MESM'2008, August 26-28, 2008 - 2008 (websites coming online shortly) - Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan - With an inclusive conference trip to Petra.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - GAME-ON 2008, November 17-19, 2008 - 2008 (websites coming online shortly) - Politechnic University of Valencia, Spain - in combination with the first Spanish Games Conference.

Eurosis - ESM'2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/129 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/21 - October 27-29, 2008 - 2008 - Universite du Havre. Le Havre, France with a trip to Honfleur and Mont Saint Michel - The 22nd annual ESM 2008 (European Simulation and Modelling Conference) is the original European international conference concerned with state of the art technology in modelling and simulation. ESM 2008 aims to provide an overview of academic research in the field of computer simulation.

Eurosis - 2009 so far confirmed

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - ISC'2009, June 2009 Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - MESM'2009 - University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/21 - ESM'2009, October 2009 De Monfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - GAME-ON 2009, November 2009 - University of Applied Sciences, Dusseldorf, Germany.

2010 so far confirmed

Eurosis - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php - ISC'2010, June 2010 Budapest, Hungary.

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

Eurosis - ECEC'2007 - http://85.255.195.219/cms/?q=node/123 - April 25-27, 2007, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands - The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology

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

Eurosis - FUBUTEC 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

FUBUTEC 2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/94 - April 9-11, 2008, FEUP-University of Porto, Porto, Portugal - 5th Annual Future Business Technology Conference 2008 - Limiting Risk in Business through Simulation.

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.

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.

I-ESA 2007 International Conference - http://www.aidima.es/iesa2007/web/index.htm - Madeira Island (Portugal), 26-30 March 2007 - Pre-conference March 26th - 27th, 2007. Conference March 28th - 30th, 2007 - Interoperability for Enterprise Software and Applications and TC184/SC4 Meetings - 26th-30th March 2007 - Portugal http://gris-public.uninova.pt/sc4-portugal2007/.

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

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.

IFIP 8.6 WG Conference on 'Open IT-based innovation' - http://ifip8-6.ceditec.etsit.upm.es/ - IFIP 8.6 2008, hosted by the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. The conference will be held on October 22-24 2008 at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicacion. - Conference - Theme - Today, most innovative firms in the IT sector cannot possess all the knowledge and business assets they need to be competitive. They must frequently rely on formal and informal agreements with partners not only in order to cooperate in technology/product development or system integration, but also to complete their capabilities in the associated technology transfer or diffusion activities. As a consequence, technology based innovation processes are changing to adapt themselves to deep changes in organisational contexts and they are becoming more open.

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 Conference on Digital Factory (ICDF 2008) - http://www.icdf2008.info/ - Coimbatore (India) from August 11-13 - In high precision manufacturing industries, digital systems are widely used to automate various systems and processes. The advances in microchip and computer technology have bridged the gap between traditional electronic control and process control engineering. The increasing demand on quality and productivity of products and services change the industrial dynamics on several fronts including economics, research, technical knowledge, cost, reliability, modernization and so on. To match these demands of increased quality at lower cost, more and more industries are moving towards digital technology. Digital based technology in modern systems established in every field is already changing the existing traditional systems. Besides globalised e-commerce, manufacturing with its growing knowledge is more and more being operated on internet platform also.

International Workshop on Advanced Information Systems for Enterprises (IWAISE'08) - http://www2.lifl.fr/iwaise08/cfp.html - explores trends in the development of advanced information systems for enterprises and investigates various research issues of this domain. - April 19th-20th - University Mentouri of Constantine, Algiers.

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

Interop Events - http://interop-vlab.eu/Events - Presentation of events around Enterprise Interoperability.

INTEROP-VLab UK Pole event will be held on 25-26 February 2008, in University of Coventry (UK). Information to access will be available soon on the INTEROP-VLab portal (http://interop-vlab.eu/backoffice/interop-vlab-poles-news/interop-vlab-uk-pole-meeting) - It will be devoted to presenting the purpose and activities of the UK Pole and INTEROP-VLab. The second day will be devoted to discussing the INTEROP-VLab activities with the members/partners, but the meeting is far as possible open to non-partners - all participants to Monday meeting particularly welcome.

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

ISC'2008 (Industrial Simulation Conference), which will be held at the University of Lyon, France from June 9-11, 2008 - More information about the event can be found on: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/490 - The online registration forms for non-authors - https://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/303 - the ISC'2008 final programme can now be downloaded in doc format from the following links - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/files/ISC2008FINPROG.doc and from http://www.eurosis.org/cms/files/isc/isc2008/ISC2008FINPROG.doc.

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

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

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 Aerospace Forum Conference - 12-13 September 2007 - BRISTOL COUNCIL HOUSE - http://www.aau.ac.uk/naf.htm - National Aerospace Forum - 12th and 13th September 2007.

NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING - SUMMER SCHOOL NN2008 - http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt - July 7-11, 2008, Porto, Portugal - The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of Engineering, Porto University (FEUP). - Following last year experience, this year's edition also includes a POSTER/WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects.

"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 - 24 July 2007 by David Ashford, Bristol Spaceplanes Limited and - Fabian Eilingsfeld, Price Systems.

SME Presentation - Scisys - 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 - Roger Buckley - IGG - ALTER Technology Group.

SME Presentation - SEA - Making a living in space - perspectives from the viewpoint of a South-West SME - Dr Chris P Chaloner - Business Development Executive, Aero-Space Division.

The 7th OOSPLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling - http://www.dsmforum.org/events/DSM07/ - October 21-22, 2007, Montreal, Canada - Domain-Specific Modeling raises the level of abstraction beyond programming by specifying the solution directly using domain concepts. In many cases, final products can be generated automatically from these high-level specifications. This automation is possible because both the language and generators need fit the requirements of only one company and domain.

The International Workshop on Metamodelling - Utilization in Software Engineering and ICSoft - http://www.icsoft.org/MUSE.htm - July 5, 2008 - Porto, Portugal and ICSoft - July 5-8 - Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Metamodelling and modelling theory - Metamodelling and ontologies - Impact of metamodelling on standards development - Use of metamodelling in agent-oriented software engineering - Use of metamodelling in object-oriented software engineering - Metamodels as underpinnings for modelling languages - The role of metamodels in MDA and model transformations - Metamodelling in relation to tool building - Metamodel support for process measurement and improvement - Business reasons for adopting a metamodel - in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008).

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

Visions of Computer Science - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.9878 - Imperial College London September 22-24, 2008 - Paper Submission Deadline May 20, 2008 - The BCS is launching its first international academic conference, intended as a major international event to take place in the UK. This year's theme is 'Visions of Computer Science. We aim to establish the pattern of a high-quality wide-spectrum UK-based conference, with a strong international profile. Moreover, the aim is to energise the UK community and bring it together around positive and inspiring visions of our discipline. - Keynote speakers will include the following ACM Turing Award Winners: Fran Allen, Vint Cerf, Tony Hoare, Dick Karp, Robin Milner, Michael Rabin, Joseph Sifakis.

VIVACE 2007 - Forum 3, 17-19 October 2007 - http://www.vivaceproject.com/content/forum3/forum3.php - Forum 3, 17-19 October 2007 - This public Forum will be held on 17th to 19th October 2007 at the Diagora congress centre at Labège on the south-eastern outskirts of Toulouse. It will comprise plenary sessions interspersed with short parallel sessions. There will be a press briefing on the morning of day 1. - This three-day Forum will be constructed around the full set of services and results developed during the project and will show how these are being and can be exploited both within the European Aeronautical and Space Industry and the transport vehicle market in general. The presentations and demonstrations will cover themes of system and component simulation, whole engine development, supply chain manufacturing workflow simulation, etc. and will represent selected "use cases", i.e. real industrial simulations of a part of the aircraft or the engine or of a development process.

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.

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

Winter Simulation Conference '07 WSC'07 - http://www.wintersim.org/ - J.W. Marriott, on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., during the period December 9-12, 2007 - WSC'07 marks the fortieth anniversary of the Winter Simulation Conference, featuring a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. The conference includes student presentations, exhibits, training sessions by software vendors, business meetings for professional societies and software user groups, and a general reception.

Winter Simulation Conference '08 - http://www.wintersim.org/ - InterContinental Hotel, Miami, Florida - The Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) is the premier international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of system simulation. In addition to a technical program of unsurpassed scope and quality, WSC provides the central meeting place for simulation practitioners, researchers, and vendors working in all disciplines and in the industrial, governmental, military, and academic sectors. WSC'08 will feature a comprehensive program ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. The conference includes student presentations, exhibits, training sessions by software vendors, business meetings for professional societies and software user groups, and a general reception. The theme for WSC 2008 is "Global Gateway to Discovery". December 7-10, 2008.

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.

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