Enhancing Grid Service Discovery with a Semantic Wiki and the Concept Matching Approach (2009)
Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Bandara, Ayomi, Zaluska, Ed, De Roure, David, Crowder, Richard, ...
An important challenge of realizing the vision of Grid computing that heterogeneous resources are shared in dynamic and multi-institutional virtual organization is that users need to locate, find,...
Navigation Over a Large Ontology for Industrial Web Applications (2009)
Crowder, Richard, Wilson, Max L., Fowler, David, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary, Wong, Sylvia
Ontologies for industrial semantic web applications are often very large. This is especially true in scientific and engineering applications where there exists a large pool of technical terminology...
An Agent-based approach to modelling integrated product teams undertaking a design activity. (2009)
Sim, Yee Wai, Crowder, Richard, Robinson, Mark, Hughes, Helen
The interactions between individual designers, within integrated product teams, and the nature of design tasks, all have a significant impact upon how well a design task can be performed, and hence...
A Semantic Matching Approach for Distributed RDF Data Query on a Knowledge Bus (2009)
Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Crowder, Richard, Tao, Feng, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary
During the past several years, semantic web technologies have been applied to facilitate the sharing of data in new and unexpected ways. Various heterogeneous data are assigned well-defined meaning...
An Agent Based Approach to Modeling Design Teams (2009)
Crowder, Richard, Hughes, Helen, Sim, Yee Wai, Robinson, Mark
It is well recognized that an effective design process is contingent on the joint optimization of both the social and technical aspects of such an activity. Thus interactions between individual...
A conceptual framework for serious games (2009)
Yusoff, Amri, Crowder, Richard, Gilbert, Lester, Wills, Gary
A considerable number of serious games have been developed over the last ten years, with varying degrees of success. Due to a lack of clear standards and guidelines for game developers, it is...
More than the sum of its parts: An agent-based model of team work (2009)
Hughes, Helen, Robinson, Mark, Crowder, Richard, Sim, Yee Wai
Studies have consistently shown that team behaviours differ from the sum of their parts, additionally reflecting complex interactions between team members and their environments. Computer simulation...
A Semantic System for Rapid Information Search and Access (2009)
Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Crowder, Richard, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tao, Feng, Wills, Gary
How to reuse existing data to support applications is an essential issue in various domains. This paper presents semantic approaches to search and access information rapidly in engineering design...
Localisation and Mapping Using a Laser Range Finder: A Goal-Seeking Approach (2009)
Diamantas, Sotirios, Crowder, Richard
In this paper we examine the problem of localisation and mapping of an unknown environment using data from a laser range finder. In order to support our method we detect landmarks in the environment...
Hughes, Helen, Robinson, Mark, Crowder, Richard, Sim, Yee Wai
Exploration of agent based modelling as a tool for studying engineering design teams. Benefits and risks of this approach are illustrated through an ongoing model.
Hughes, Helen, Robinson, Mark, Crowder, Richard, Sim, Yee Wai
Exploration of agent based modelling as a tool for studying engineering design teams. Benefits and risks of this approach are illustrated through an ongoing model.
Can multi-agent systems help us to understand team-working? (2009)
Hughes, Helen, Robinson, Mark, Crowder, Richard, Sim, Yee Wai
This project aims to use multi-agent systems (MAS) to model and simulate engineering teams operating within two large, UK-based manufacturing organisations. In so doing, it seeks to: 1) Integrate...
Reul, Quintin, Sleeman, Derek, Crowder, Richard
The principle objective of Work Package 1 within the IPAS project has been to develop a system to support the engineering designer, so that when during the design or redesign process for a particular...
Knowledge-Based Repository to Support Engineering Design. (2008)
Crowder, Richard, Wong, Sylvia, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary
Manufacturers are currently shifting their focus from selling products to providing services, hence the product’s designers must increasingly consider life-cycle requirements, in addition to...
An Approach to Modelling Integrated Product Teams (2008)
Crowder, Richard, Sim, Yee Wai, Payne, Terry, Robinson, Mark, Jackson, Helan, Romero Ternero, Maria
This paper considers an agent-based approach to organizational modeling within the engineering design domain. It is widely recognized that interactions between individual designers, between (and...
Evolution of a Novel Finger Mechanism for Robust Industrial End Effectors (2008)
Dubey, Venketesh, Crowder, Richard
This paper presents design for a finger mechanism that has evolved from the stringent requirement of ruggedness and reliability in an industrial application. The paper initially describes the need...
Strategies for Maintaining Large Robot Communities (2008)
English, Stephen, Gough, Jeffrey, Johnson, Alexis, Spanton, Robert, Sun, Joanna, Crowder, Richard, ...
The confluence of progress in micro-actuators, power sources, and mixed-signal microelectronics have recently moved swarm robotics and robot communities from simulation to reality. Swarms of 20 to...
Applying Multi-Agent Systems to Organizational Modeling In Industrial Environments (2008)
Romero, Maricarmen, Crowder, Richard, Sim, Yee Wai, Payne, Terry
Towards A New Authoring Methodology for Large- Scale Hypermedia Applications (2008)
Ian Heath, Wendy Hall, Richard Crowder, Gary Wills, Jim Ballantyne
As the amount of information technology increases, managing information resources, so that the correct people can find the information easily, becomes a critical issue. Hypermedia systems are...
Abstract. This paper presents an approach to locating an expert through the use of existing organizational information. This approach was realised through an Expert Finder framework developed by the...
Department of Electronics and Computer Science, (2008)
Gary Wills, Harith Alani, Ronald Ashri, Richard Crowder, Yannis Kalfoglou, Sanghee Kim
Abstract. While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the...
Department of Electronics and Computer Science, (2007)
Gary Wills, Harith Alani, Ronald Ashri, Richard Crowder, Yannis Kalfoglou, Sanghee Kim
Abstract. While knowledge is viewed by many as an asset, it is often difficult to locate particular items within a large electronic corpus. This paper presents an agent based framework for the...
Evaluation of a hypermedia maintenance support application (2003)
Richard Crowder, Gary Wills, Wendy Hall
A large hypermedia application has been developed to demonstrate the concept of factory wide hypermedia to support the maintenance of a major process line. As part of its development cycle, the...
A Future Vision For The Engineering Design Environment: A Future Sociotechnical Scenario (2003)
Richard Crowder, Rob Bracewell, Gareth Hughes, Micky Kerr, David Knott, Mike Moss, ...
This paper presents a future vision for the working practices of designers within a manufacturing organisation. By its very nature the engineering design environment is highly distributed in nature...
A review of the benefits of using hypermedia manuals (2001)
Richard Crowder, Y W Sim, Gary Wills
The acceptance of a hypermedia system to support maintenance applications is to a large extent dependant on the ability to convince management that the system will prove beneficial. This paper...