Interest in counterterrorism modelling has increased recently. A common theme in the approaches adopted is the need to develop methods to analyse decisions when there are intelligent opponents ready to increase our risks. Most of the approaches have a clear game theoretic flavour, although there have been some decision analytic based approaches. We have recently introduced a framework for adver...

In the framework of intelligent information systems design, we present an intelligent data integration and user profile modelling. Our approach uses jointly Topic Maps and Description Logics. Topic Maps are used to represent semantic of distributed data. Using the formalized semantic, the distributed data is merged into one repository. Then, Description Logics are used over this repository to c...

Sense making is at the heart of cognitively complex and data intensive decision making processes. It is often conducted in collective spaces through exchange of ideas, discussions, analysing situations, and exploring alternatives. This position paper proposes a novel approach to facilitate collective sense making via a collaboration platform which (a) offers multiple views to collaboration (inc...

The Cybernetics Intelligence Research Group (CIRG) at the University of Reading, UK, is made up of seven full-time academics plus various research assistants and PhD students. We broadly define cybernetic intelligence as the study of intelligence and its applications. Members of CIRG are internationally active in the following areas: embodied machine intelligence (for example, learning mobile r...

This paper proposes an intelligent control approach towards Inverted Pendulum in mechanical engineering. Inverted Pendulum is a well known topic in process control and offering a diverse range of research in the area of the mechanical and control engineering. Fuzzy controller is an intelligent controller based on the model of fuzzy logic i.e. it does not require accurate mathematical modelling ...

This paper describes an architecture for intelligent agents derived from user models. The work extends our previous work on user modelling as a basis for various forms of customised systems. We make use of the um toolkit for representation, management and acquisition of the user models. We hav e used um-models as the basis for customisation of a coaching system, a personalised hypertext for tea...

The EasyLiving project is concerned with development of an architecture and technologies for intelligent environments which allow the dynamic aggregation of diverse I/O devices into a single coherent user experience. Components of such a system include middleware (to facilitate distributed computing), world modelling (to provide location-based context), perception (to collect information about ...

This paper describes an architecture for the usage of Instructional Design (ID) knowledge in intelligent instructional systems. In contrast with other architectures, ontologies are used to represent ID knowledge about both what to teach and how to teach. Moreover, set-theoretic reasoning is used for the provision of inferential services. In particular, the paper shows how settheoretic deduction...

This paper presents an overview of the current field of entertainment robotics based on experiences as spectator during the RoboCup 1999 and building an experimental entertainment robot based on the LEGO platform with digital color camera and various other sensors. RoboCat is a robot cat prototype that shows cat-like behaviour in the real-life environment of typical households. For behavioural ...

PARAMICS and GETRAM/AIMSUN are two microscopic traffic simulation tools that are capable of modelling the functions of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in a large network. This paper compares the Version 4.0 of PARAMICS with Version 4.0 of GETRAM/AIMSUN, based on the experience gained in using them to model a network with a freeway and arterials. The simulation tools were compared in six asp...