7 Nov 2007 - Research Fellow honoured by BCS

Dr Rajdeep Dash has been selected by the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction with the British Computer Society (BCS), as the winner of the Distinguished Dissertation Competition 2007. He will receive his award at the 2007 BCS Roger Needham Lecture at the Royal Society in London on Tuesday 13 November. Although this competition has existed since 1990 this is the first time that a Southampton researcher has won the first prize.

26 Sep 2007 - ECS to develop automated agents for the stock market

Professor Nick Jennings, Professor of Computer Science, led a team which won the Trading-Agent Competition (TAC) - CAT Tournament which was held in Toronto in July. The other team members were Dr Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Dr Ioannis Vetsikas and Dr Raj Dash. The team is now developing this automated stock market further.

15 July 2007 - AladdinRescue wins RobocupRescue Competition

An ECS-designed system which relies on computerised agents to act on its behalf during emergency scenarios has been awarded a RoboCupRescue championship prize.The team, led by Professor Nick Jennings, ECS Professor of Computer Science, developed ECSKernel, a simulator that plugs into a multi-agent research test bed.

31 May 2007 - IAM agent repeats trust success in ART competition

For the second year running an ECS team has won the Agent Reputation and Trust (ART) competition at the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, held this month in Hawaii.

1 June 2006 - Research to the rescue!

Managing the response to an emergency situation is often made more difficult because any large scale disaster or attack...page 1 (1MB) page 2 (6MB)

Source: EPSRC Newsline Issue 36

30 Dec 2005 - Aladdin aims to prevent IT disaster becoming a pantomime

A team of experts led by Professor Nick Jennings, of Southampton University's School of Electronics and Computer Science, has embarked on a five-year research programme aimed at finding ways of ensuring the survival of information systems in extreme situation...more

Source: Romsey Advertiser

8 Dec 2005 - University project builds computer agents to help DR

An ambitious five-year research programme at the University of Southampton aims to find solutions for some of the most complex and challenging problems that we currently face. Its aim is to develop techniques, methods and architectures to build decentralised information systems that can operate effectively in disaster situations....more

Source: Survive News

6 Dec 2005 - Computer agents to aid disaster recovery scenarios

An ambitious five-year research programme is aiming to find solutions for some of the most complex and challenging problems that we currently face. Disaster recovery, particularly the restoration and maintenance of decentralised data and information systems, has been chosen as the real-world application for the ALADDIN project, which comprises a team of experts led by Professor Nick Jennings of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton...more

Sources: Southampton ECS newsletter & Hero- Higher education and research opportunities in the UK

8th Nov 2005 - Out of the ashes

For Professor Nick Jennings, deputy head of ECS, the fire brought his next research project rather too close for comfort. On Friday, he launched a £6m programme for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ... looking at how information systems can be designed to cope in the face of major disasters like earthquakes, terrorism and floods...more

Source: Guardian unlimited

University of Southampton links with BAE Systems in major new research partnership

The University of Southampton has signed a multi-million pound research agreement with BAE Systems and one of its joint venture companies AMS Limited, marking the start of an important new strategic partnership....more

Source: IEE