Research Opportunities
Advanced Interaction Group
The Advanced Interaction Group currently has vacancies for graduate research
students in the areas identified below. Interested persons should contact
either Dr. Russell Beale (email R.Beale@cs.bham.ac.uk) or Bob Hendley (email
R.J.Hendley@cs.bham.ac.uk) for informal discussions. Application forms are now
available from the web site.
See http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rxb/aigAd.html for further details and links to
related information.
EPSRC, CASE, and internally-funded studentships are available for suitable
applicants. It is usual for there to be more applicants than studentships,
and applicants requiring funding are encouraged to apply early.
Research Areas
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* Agents and Agent-based Systems
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Agents are semi-autonomous, reactive software components that can be
combined to create complex interacting systems of great power and
functionality.
Numeorus techniques exist that demonstrate learning and adaptive
capabilities. One project aim is to package up these techniques inside
agents, giving them the ability to adapt and improve basic skills through
experiential learning.
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* Information Visualisation
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Complex software systems are extraordinarily difficult to understand
and to manipulate. This work extends earlier work on visual programming
systems to support visualisation of program structures using self
organising systems and virtual reality techniques.
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* Data Mining
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Data mining (also known as Knowledge Discovery in Databases - KDD)
It utilises approaches in machine learning, statistics, and visualization
techniques to discover and present knowledge in a form which is easily
comprehensible to humans.
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* Other Areas
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There are other areas of research that are of interest to the AIG
(detailed on home pages); these include Evolutionary and Emergent
Computation, HCI, CSCW, Neural networks, Information networks and
Intelligent Tutoring Systems. People wishing to pursue research in any
of these areas at Birmingham are encouraged to discuss the matter
informally first.
For more information, visit the URL. Applications can be submitted directly,
though prospective applicants are encouraged to email us to discuss potential
research work in more detail.
For research-related information:
R.J. Hendley
Advanced Interaction Group
Tel: +44 - (0) 121 - 414 4761
For application forms and other postgraduate study information:
Dr. Peter Hancox
Research Students Admissions Tutor
Tel: +44 - (0) 121 - 414 - 4782
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT UK.
Fax: +44 - (0) 121 - 414 - 4281
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