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Research Areas
Corporate Knowledge Management
Posted: 1st December 1999
No single technology defines knowledge management. In fact, knowledge management is not about technology. It's a multi-disciplinary concern encompassing important aspects of information design, interpersonal communication, organizational dynamics, motivation, training, heuristics, publishing, and business analysis; as well as many technologies.
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e-Commerce and Agent Technologies
Posted: 5th August 2005
Dynamic electronic commerce interactions are based on automated selection of business partners and the execution of business functionality in an open market place, without predefined business transaction choreographies and conversation sequences. Research in this area is centred on the exploitation of the web services infrastructure, definitions of agent technologies and description mechanisms for semantic web resources.
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Network Planning
Posted: 17th January 2005
Network Planning is a great issue for any utility company today because of the time and cost it can take create a suitable and efficient design for a new network. Research in this area focuses on the automation of the planning process via the use of Evolutionary Computing methods, in particular Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO).
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Research Information Management
Posted: 28th November 2011
Research Information Management covers all aspects of research project administration, including financial monitoring and reporting, through to the management of research datasets through the generation of metadata in a standardised format.
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Virtual Supply Chains
Posted: 1st December 1999
A Virtual Supply Chain is the process involved in transforming and transporting raw materials (goods or services) for consumption by the ultimate consumer (end user) operating in a virtual environment, such as over the Internet.
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XML/EDI
Posted: 1st December 1999
XML is a mark-up language for documents containing structured information, where this structured information contains both content (words, pictures, etc.) and procedures (what role that content plays). For example, content in a heading has a different role from content in a table or footnote. Almost all documents have some structure and a mark-up language is a mechanism to identify structures in a document. The XML specification defines a standard way to add mark-up to documents.
