1 Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany 2 Department of Neuroimmunology, Institute for Multiple Sclerosis Research and Hertie Foundation, University Medical Centre Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany 3 The Brooke Laboratories, Division of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospi...

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Doctor of Philosophy by Sarvapali Dyanand Ramchurn In this thesis, we propose a panoply of tools and techniques to manage inter-agent dependencies in open, distributed multi-agent systems that have significant degrees of uncertainty. In particular, we focus on situations in which agents are involved in repeate...

This paper introduces a framework for assessing the quality of care of institutional maternity services developed by researchers at the University of Southampton. The framework divides quality into two parts: the quality of the provision of care and the quality of users’ experience of care. Preliminary findings from the application of this framework within a slum area of Mumbai are presented. D...

Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre, Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton, School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; Human Factors Group, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Building 70, Clayton Campus, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia; School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, Uxbridg...

1 Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, K.U.Leuven Naamsestraat 69, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium {David.Martens;Johan.Huysmans; Bart.Baesens;Jan.Vanthienen}@econ.kuleuven.be 2 School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543, Singapore [email protected] 3 University of Southampton, School of Management, Highfield Southampton, SO17 1B...

Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of General Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich Health Care NHS Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom; Cancer Sciences Division, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Division, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom; and Cancer Research UK, St Mark...

7 A list of the Southampton Women's Survey Study Group members and their affiliations can be found in the Acknowledgements section. Hospital. The authors thank the children and their families who participated in the Southampton Women's Survey and all the research staff and computing staff.

1 Ecohydraulics: An Introduction Ian Maddock1, Atle Harby2, Paul Kemp3 and Paul Wood4 1Institute of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ, UK 2SINTEF Energy Research, P.O. Box 4761 Sluppen, 7465 Trondheim, Norway 3International Centre for Ecohydraulics Research, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK 4Department of Geogr...

{Department of Aerospace Sciences, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UK zDepartment of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK xNational Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Industrial Process Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, PR China Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, South...