Resources. Computing Research Highlight of the Week (November 13 - November. Computing Research Highlight of the Week (July 24 - 31, 2009): V. Centre for Research in Computing | Research | Aspect-oriented mu. This project has devised, and now continues to refine and investigate ways in which Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns (MDSOC) approaches can be applied to the organization of musical materials for the purposes of music composition and musical analysis.
Aspect Oriented Programming is a generic term applied to an emerging set of technologies that facilitate separation of concerns in programming by enabling developers more easily to manage issues of cross-cutting tangling and scattering in programming and software development. While musical composition is quite different from programming or software development, nevertheless, at an abstract level, commonalities and common issues can be identified, making it useful to investigate the adaption and application of AOP techniques to address problems that exist in organising and shaping materials for music composition.
Recent Publications. Centre for Research in Computing | Research | MaTREx: Making Tac. The MaTREx project will investigate techniques for analysing natural language requirements, in order to discover, manage, and mitigate the negative effects of tacit knowledge in requirements. Tacit knowledge is knowledge that we know we have but can't articulate, or knowledge that we don't know that we have but nevertheless use. We rely on tacit knowledge to communicate effectively: we need not make every assumption we hold explicit, allowing us to focus on the essence of what we wish to communicate. As engineers concerned with the development of software and systems, however, we are taught to make our assumptions explicit, and indeed any kind of knowledge that is not made explicit makes our systems analysis more difficult and error prone.
This problem is particularly acute during requirements engineering (RE), when knowledge about the problem world and stakeholder requirements is elicited, and precise specifications of system structure and behaviour are developed. Centre for Research in Computing | Research | CODA: Coherent Dia. The CODA project will develop the theory and technology for automatically creating dialogue content from text in monologue form.
There is ample empirical evidence that presentation of information in the form of a dialogue can be more effective than monologue (e.g., for tutoring and persuasive communication). Since most information is locked up in text (books, leaflets, webpages, etc.), text-to-dialogue generation technology can play an important role in making information available in a form that best meets people's needs for easily processable and engaging information. The effectiveness of dialogue is magnified by the fact that it is eminently suitable for new multimedia presentation styles - for instance, a dialogue can be performed by digital computer-animated characters.
In May 2011, the Papworth Trust commissioned two videos based on their information leaflets for service users. The content of the videos is prepared using the CODA Monologue-to-Dialogue technology. Centre for Research in Computing | Research | CHANGE: Engenderin. Permalink to this page Theme: Ubiquitous ComputingWebsite: Agency: EPSRCPeriod: March 2010 - August 2011 The CHANGE project is a collaboration between Goldsmiths, Nottingham University, Sussex University and The Open University and is investigating how people react when ubiquitous technologies provide them with information about normally invisible behaviour.
We are interested in whether and how people change their everyday habits with respect to environmental concerns and their well-being. Seeing how you are doing compared to an agreed or shared target is known to be an important motivating factor in the extent to which people reduce or increase a behaviour. AstroInformatics 2010. Caltech, June 16-19 (Wed-Sat), 2010 Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA Wireless network: AstroInformatics username: astro password: informatics Conference motivation and goals: Science is being fundamentally transformed and empowered by computation and information technology, and it turn, it stimulates further technological developments.
Astronomy, like many other fields, is becoming exponentially data-rich, and the tasks of data management, data exploration, and knowledge discovery become central to our research enterprise, bringing along many technical and methodological challenges. Information technology also provides the stage where we collaborate and interact, and publish, preserve, and disseminate knowledge. The general philosophy behind the conference is to be future-oriented, and essentially define the emerging discipline of AstroInformatics.
NASA Goddard Announces NASA Center for Climate Simulation | insi. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, today, announced the inception of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation [NCCS]. The new center is being billed as “an integrated set of supercomputing, visualization, and data interaction technologies that will enhance agency capabilities in weather and climate prediction research.” The NASA Center for Climate Simulation has been designed to meet the unique computational needs of the climate modeling community supported by NASA’s Earth Science Division,” said Phil Webster, chief of Goddard’s Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office, which manages NCCS.
The new center will specifically include: Goddard has actually been doing climate research for quite some time. However, with the recent shift in NASA mission goals and the help from a $5million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Goddard is taking the next big step. Computing Research Highlight of the Week (April 23 - 30, 2010):