Aladdin

A Southampton-led research project is set to create true partnerships between people and computers, helping to tackle some of today's most pressing challenges.

An interview by the BBC world service with Simon Jewell and Nick Jennings on the ALADDIN project. Click on the source link below to listen to the interview.

Chaos fills battlefields and disaster zones. Artificial intelligence may be better than the natural sort at coping with it
ARMIES have always been divided into officers and grunts. The officers give the orders. The grunts carry them out. But what if the grunts took over and tried to decide...

Co-ordinating military attacks, managing aerial drones and monitoring terrorists online could all become easier with new software under trial by BAE Systems.

The family of computer technologies was originally created as part of the UK’s £5.5m ALADDIN project, which was designed to improve the response of emergency...

London, United Kingdom | Friday marked the completion of the first stage of the successful ALADDIN project, a joint programme between industry, academia and EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council).

ALADDIN (Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks) has delivered new capability in enhancing ...

BAE Systems has completed the first stage of development of a “decision-making” autonomous system that could one day assist the emergency services during natural disasters or terrorist attacks.

The firm’s £5.5 million Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks (Aladdin) system aims to enhance situational...

Coordinating military attacks, managing aerial drones, and monitoring terrorists online could all become easier with new software under trial by BAE Systems; a team of researchers from BAE and the universities of Southampton, Oxford, Bristol and Imperial College London spent five years developing a series of...

Dealing with an environmental disaster or a terrorist incident involves rapidly shifting scenarios, where information changes constantly, and is often conflicting, making it hard to get an effective response and ensure the safety of emergency services personnel. The University of Southampton’s electronics and computer science department is applying its expertise...

IN THE IMMEDIATE aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, following the collapse of the World Trade Center’s south tower, police helicopters circling its stricken twin made some worrying observations. But with the communication systems linking the emergency services stretched to breaking point the resulting evacuation warning, issued 21 minutes before the...

'Information agents' have been developed that could prove invaluable in decision-making and directing the actions of the emergency services in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters or terrorist attacks.

Information agents are pieces of software that can acquire and process real-time data collected from sensor networks in...