KMi Seminars
The Clockwork Project
This event took place on Tuesday 07 June 2005 at 12:30

 
Dr Zdenek Zdrahal KMi, The Open University

In the talk, the results of the CEC supported project ?Creating Learning Organisations with Contextualised Knowledge-rich Work Artefacts? (Clockwork, 2001-2003) will be presented. The main objectives addressed in the project were:

? Supporting teams in sharing knowledge enriched simulation models of dynamic systems,
? Supporting reuse of simulation and modelling knowledge across the organisation.

The problems of creating and sharing design knowledge in engineering will be discussed. The Clockwork methodology is supported by a web-based toolkit that allows designers to formally and informally annotate and later retrieve engineering models. Examples of Clockwork applications and the development after the end of the project will be also presented.

 
KMi Seminars
 

Multimedia and Information Systems is...


Multimedia and Information Systems
Our research is centred around the theme of Multimedia Information Retrieval, ie, Video Search Engines, Image Databases, Spoken Document Retrieval, Music Retrieval, Query Languages and Query Mediation.

We focus on content-based information retrieval over a wide range of data spanning form unstructured text and unlabelled images over spoken documents and music to videos. This encompasses the modelling of human perception of relevance and similarity, the learning from user actions and the up-to-date presentation of information. Currently we are building a research version of an integrated multimedia information retrieval system MIR to be used as a research prototype. We aim for a system that understands the user's information need and successfully links it to the appropriate information sources, be it a report or a TV news clip. This work is guided by the vision that an automated knowledge extraction system ultimately empowers people making efficient use of information sources without the burden of filing data into specialised databases.

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