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| Background Information - available for download Get much more out of the event ... by reading about the background and the software tools before you come. You'll understand much better the opportunity, the capabilities and the commercial potential if you download and read these succinct 2 pagers beforehand. |
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| Overview of the Instant Knowledge Concepts
Succinct summary of the original concepts and goals of this activity
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| Flyer describing the Event & the Tools
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| TSB Grant for Research & Development - available to SMEs - background
- for an article about this see http://www.theengineer.co.uk/policy-and-business/news/tsb-funding-scheme-for-smes-could-stimulate-economy/1007951.article
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| TSB Grant for Research & Development - available to SMEs - TSB flyer
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| Programme for the Day |
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| 10.00 | Welcome and Introduction
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Glyn Jones, Chairman of the Instant Knowledge Progreamme |
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| 10.10 | Instant Knowledge: Secure Autonomous Business Networking - aka 'Find an Expert'
The original concept for the Instant Knowledge programme was to enable companies to harness and access the tacit knowledge of their employees, enabling staff to rapidly 'find an expert' within their company, to accelerate and change business processes. This tacit knowledge is used to build a dynamic skills database for all the employees within the company.
Previous attempts at skills databases have failed for many reason amoung which are large maintenance overhead, lack of motivation. A Dynamic Skills Database that is continually updated and requires no input from staff is the answer. This is what the Instant Knowledge programme has produced. A short overview of the programme and the resulting Find an Expert system will be presented here. |
Nigel Jefferies, Huawei Technologies |
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| 10.40 | Software Tools
During the Intant Knowledge programme a number of innovative software tools have been produced to support the programme. Each of these software tools given below have been developed for either self-standing use or for use in combination with other technologies to deliver more feature-rich capabilities, such as subscription-based contextual services that a telecoms operator, equipment manufacturer or IT service provider can offer to its enterprise clients.
Some of these tools have been implemented and trialled on Android handsets, some trialled for a member-company staff-finder application and others simulated. There is a 15 minute overview of each area below which will then be followed by the demonstrations themselves. |
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| Autonomous Social Network Creation
...uses information that flows between users from calls, texts, instant messages, emails, etc, to infer and score relationship strengths within a contact list. This can be accessed graphically over time or used to automatically deliver instant information to staff to enable them to do a better and quicker job
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James Irvine, University of Strathclyde |
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| Profile Generators
...analyze large bodies of text to form user profiles that can be used by the recommender system (see below). Input to the profile generators can be documents, such as Word or PDF, emails, and other text tools, such as a Wiki where authorship can be inferred.
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Adam Pruegel-Bennett, University of Southampton |
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| Recommender
...is a Web services application returning rated matches from queries to stored profiles using relationship data. Such matches are output from the profile generators and the social network analysis software respectively. Queries can be explicit or implicit, e.g. text passed passively from another application, with the recommender alerting users when a significant match is found.
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Adam Prueget-Bennett, University of Southampton |
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| Context Recording
...is capable of storing device context clues, such as location and activity. Such clues can be used to refine the recommendations and in a wider use, control context-aware applications, adjusting how users are informed of alerts, for example, to foster service adoption.
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James Irvine, University of Strathclyde |
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| User Interface Recording and Analysis
...is low overhead monitoring software suitable for recording interactions on smart phones. The software records user activity and screen display, allowing software developers to monitor and understand how their applications are actually used in practice.
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Stephen Bell, University of Strathclyde |
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| Privacy Tools
...offer both a Centralized and the more complex Distributed framework (without a central trust server) to enable different levels of anonymity within recommendations, as needed in different organizations, countries and jurisdictions. These privacy tools potentially have much wider application, e.g. to secure any electronic data exchange between mobile devices and for general identity management.
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Allan Tomlinson, Royal Holloway |
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| Social Stream Context Application
... is a tool a user can run on their own handset to mine the IK context data their device is recording in order to provide a summary of past interactions through an intuitive user interface. The advanced life recording facility will help provide immediate benefits to IK users, driving take-up.
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James Irvine, University of Strathclyde |
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| 12.30 | Commercialisation Opportunities
VCE is seeking to make the results of its research in this field available to third parties who have the potential to commercialise the technology, to supply its industrial members with products that could be used to offer new revenue-generating services.
Potential funding mechanisms to allow this include the recently introduced R&D prototype grants from TSB. Opportunities for informal discussion will exist over lunch, with subsequent follow up discussions open to interested attendees. |
Walter Tuttlebee, Chief Executive, Mobile VCE |
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| 12.40 | Demonstrations and Lunch
The demonstations will be available for the attendees to circulate round whilst having lunch
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