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Edinburgh Focus

• Formal Aspects of the Knowledge Life Cycle
• Multi-perspective approach to knowledge modelling and acquisition
• Framework to support knowledge modelling, maintenance and usage processes
• Ontologies as the basis for shared and communicable models
• Agent-based approaches to web-accessible task support
• Synthesis of knowledge presentations
• Specific focus on task-related, activity and process knowledge, and its underlying rationale, in the context of all testbeds

Project Resources

• AKT Web Site http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/akt/
  (was http://www.aktors.org - no longer active).
• Participants:
  • University of Aberdeen
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Open University
  • University of Sheffield
  • University of Southampton
• Supporting Organisations
  • Active Navigation
  • Baker Hughes
  • BG Knowledge
  • Boeing
  • BP Amoco
  • British Airways
  • Clifford Chance
  • DERA
  • Epistemics
  • IMS
  • ISX
  • Open University Learning Technologies
  • Parametric Technology Corporation
  • Rolls Royce
  • Teknowledge
  • Unilever
  • University of Edinburgh SELLIC
  • ... and others
• Presentations and Proposals
  • Short Description of IRC in AKT - 24-Sep-1999
  • Presentation to EPSRC - Shockwave - 8-Feb-2000
  • Press Releases
    • Edinburgh Press Release - 5-May-2000
• Edinburgh Contributions
  • Proposal for an Edinburgh Informatics Programme in Knowledge Modelling and Systems - 5-Dec-1997
  • Presentation to University of Edinburgh Informatics Colloqium - Postscript - 13-Dec-2000
  • Presentation on Lifecycle Calculus - Dave Robertson - Sheffield AKT Meeting - Postscript - 29-Jan-2001
  • Presentation to University of Edinburgh Industial Advisory Board - Powerpoint - 13-Mar-2001
• Edinburgh Participants
  • PIs: Dave Robertson and Austin Tate
  • RAs: Stuart Aitken, Jessica Chen-Burger, Stephen Potter, Chris Walton
  • AKT-funded Students:
    • Richard Jensen (Supervisors: Qiang Shen and Dave Robertson)
    • Tom McCallum
    • Dave Lambert
• Discussion Documents
  • Edinburgh AKTORS discussion Group (e-mail to aktors-ed@egroups.com)
  • Open Work Area
  • Protected Work Area

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