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Dublin Institute of Technology
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Research Groups in the School of Computing
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The K-Camp Research Group
The K-Camp Research Group within the School of Computing in DIT is headed by Dr Bing Wu. Other researchers within the group are Dr Kudakwashe Dube, an Anorld F Graves Research Fellow, and Mr Essam Mansour, a doctoral research student. This year, the Group is hosting Professor Jian Xing Li from the School of Computers at the National University of Defence Technology, China. Research in the K-Camp Group focuses on investigating the support for complex information and knowledge management by using advanced database concepts, the reactive functionality, agent technologies and XML technologies with applications in health care. Specific areas of the Group's research focus include:
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1 Modelling complex information and knowledge representation;
2 Development of approaches and techniques for computer-based support for clinical practice guidelines and protocols (CPGs), electronic health care records and clinical workflow; 3 Security in health care information systems; and 4 Integration of collaboration, location and mobility awareness in health care information systems. |
Mobile Computing Research Group
This group includes Dr. Fredrick Mtenzi, Ciar�n O'Driscoll and Mark Deegan. The main research focus is the transferring of sessions between devices of differing capabilities, as the session owner moves from location to location within a particular environment and where areas have varying network capabilities. Specifically, this work involves the:
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1 Management of Adaptive Ad-Hoc Networks, design and implementation of energy aware routing protocols;
2 Management of Access, Session transfer, in Adaptive Systems, and 3 Management of Context Aware Information. Further, the group is doing research on security issues in mobile ad hoc networks and sensor network signal processing system. |
Specific on-going postgraduate research work
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� An Active XML Approach to Clinical Guidelines Management Support: Essam Mansour, supervised by Bing Wu and Kudakwashe Dube, is working on developing a unified framework for supporting the management of clinical practice guidelines/protocols within a distributed environment. The framework that is being investigated in this work focuses on the main clinical guidelines management aspects of specification, execution, query, manipulation and dissemination. In this project, special emphasis is placed on incorporating ECA rule paradigm into the XML repository to provide an active XML data management system that is utilized to provide support for the information management aspects of the framework.
� Text Classification: SoC research in the area of text classification focuses on using case-based reasoning (CBR) for text classification, a fundamental task in many modern applications. Mr Matt Healy under the supervision of Dr Sarah Jane Delany is working on the problem of multi-category classification of text using CRB as a machine learning paradigm. � Temporal considerations in negotiation and competition among reinforcement learning agents in society of mind type architectures research is being done by Ciar�n O'Leary. |
Contact: Dr Bing Wu,
Computer Science Department, School of Computing,
Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street, Dublin 8.
Tel: +353 1 42 4819
E-mail: [email protected]