Publicado em: 05/11/2013

Dr. Simon Miles (King’s College London) realiza palestras no INF

Nos dias 5 e 8 de novembro, o Dr. Simon Miles, senior lecturer da King’s College London ministrará palestras no Auditório Prof. Castilho do Instituto de Informática da UFRGS. O Dr. Simon Miles é Coordernador do Grupo Agents and Intelligent Systems da King’s College London.

Palestra 1

Título: Applications of agents and intelligent systems research at King’s College London
Dia/Horário: 3ª feira, 05/11, 12:30-13:30
Local: Auditório Prof. Castilho

Abstract: In this talk, I will give an overview of some of the research topics of myself and my research group, Agents and Intelligent Systems, with a focus on the applications for which that research is providing new possibilities. I will particularly focus on healthcare and medicine, as several of our projects concern applying service-oriented, agent-based, semantic description and data provenance techniques to improving the care of patients and the development of medicines. The talk as a whole should give a sense of the directions of my own work and that of the AIS group.

Palestra 2

Título: Adapting applications to be provenance-aware

Dia/Horário: 6ª feira, 08/11, 12:30-13:30
Local: Auditório Prof. Castilho

Abstract: The provenance of something is its source, origin, or the processes by which it was produced or changed. Understanding the provenance of data, or physical artefacts, is important in many domains, for best knowing how to interpret the data and for determining whether to rely on it. Capturing provenance information automatically is ideal, but requires coordination between the distributed parts of the process being documented. Much recent work has been applied to developing common, generic models of provenance, mechanisms for its capture, storage and query, and for reasoning over it. In particular, the W3C recently produced standards on provenance. In this talk, I will discuss the W3C work, and methods by which application designs and source code can be adapted to cause useful provenance data to be captured.

Short Bio

Simon Miles is a senior lecturer in Informatics at King’s College London, UK, where he is head of the Agents and Intelligent Systems group. He conducts research in the areas of e-science, agent-oriented software engineering, medical informatics, and normative systems, at King’s and, previously, at the Universities of Southampton and Warwick. As part of his work on mechanisms and methodologies for modelling and determining the provenance of data, he was an invited expert member of the W3C working group which published standards for interoperable provenance data in 2013, and he co-led the first two International Provenance Challenges, bringing together international research teams in two six-month exercises to compare their systems using a single, medical application. He has published widely in the areas of multi-agent systems and e-science, and is currently an investigator on several medical informatics projects.