Current Projects

• Agent-based Pedagogic Architectures
• Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia
• Automated Assessment
• Computer Science Education
• Contextual Mediation of User Web Interactions
• Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment: GRAPPLE (funding agency: EU FP7)
• Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization
• Learning Objects and Metametadata
• Mobile Learning
• Plagiarism Detection
• Semantic Desktop
• Service-oriented Architectures in Higher Education
• Supporting Technologies
• MALog (funding agency: EU Lifelong Learning)
• Empirical Modelling
• History of Computing
  

Completed Projects

• ALS: Adaptive Learning Spaces (funding agency: EU Minerva Socrates)
• ADAPT: Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT (funding agency: EU Minerva Socrates)
• Artificial Intelligence Techniques applied to Distance Learning (funding agency: Japanese Ministry of Education)
• Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal (funding agency: Northern Ireland Valuation and Lands Agency)
• Development of methods for evaluation of intelligent systems in healthcare and comparison with statistical approaches (funding agency: Medical Research Council)
  
• iBanking - Web Intelligence Tools for Online Banking (funding agency: International Fund for Ireland)
• Intelligent Knowledge and Usage Mining driven Self re-structuring platform: I_KNOWUMINE (funding agency: EU Framework V)
• Knowledge Extraction from Neural Networks (funding agency: Japanese Ministry of Education)
• Personalising e-commerce using web mining: PERSONET (funding agency: EU Framework V)
• Prolearn network of excellence (funding agency: EU IST)
• Web-based Peer Assessment

PhD Projects

• Jin Chen — “CALL: Computer Aided Language Learning on the WWW for Teaching Academic English”
• Safia Belkada — “Discovernet: Adaptive Simulation-Based Learning Environment And Support System for Designing Neural Networks”
• Sarah Lim Choi Keung — “A Trust-based Social Mechanism to Counter Deceptive Behaviour in Multi-agent Systems "
• Jenny Liu — “Agent-based Systems and Group Collaboration"
• Shanshan Yang — “Service-oriented Computing for Education”
• Jane Yin-Kim Yau — “Context-Aware and Adaptive Learning Scheduling for Mobile Learning”
• Amirah Ismail — “A Metametadata Framework to Support Semantic Searching of Pedagogic Data” (completed)
  
• Georgina Cosma — “An Approach to Source-Code Plagiarism Detection and Investigation using Latent Semantic Analysis” (completed)
• Natalia Stash — “Incorporating Learning styles in Adaptive Hypermedia” (completed)
• Shanghua Sun — “ A Multi-Agent System to Support Adaptive Education” (completed)
• Jirarat Sitthiworachart — “An Investigation into Novel Software Tools for Enhancing Students’ Higher Cognitive Skills in Computer Programming” (completed)