This centre conducts research on neural-symbolic computing, knowledge extraction from big data and explainable AI, Semantic Web technologies and knowledge graphs, and analysis of rich media information.
The need for adaptive capabilities arises in every type of computing system but becomes essential in highly distributed systems with heterogeneous components operating under non-centralised forms of control such as:
- cyber–physical systems interacting with the physical world, e.g.
- systems embedded in vehicles or medical devices
- systems in smart devices such as smartphones
- smart appliances; systems controlling critical infrastructures
- systems advocating a computing-as-a-utility approach (e.g. service and cloud-based systems).
Established within the Department of Computer Science at City St George's, University of London, the Research Centre for Adaptive Computer Systems and Machine Learning (ACS-ML) conducts research aimed at addressing fundamental issues related to the engineering of adaptive computer systems.
This includes the fundamental control structures and algorithms for the adaptation of such systems (e.g. autonomic, semi- or fully-supervised structures), and the preservation of quality and security properties in this process.
An essential element in the engineering of adaptive computer systems is the ability to learn from data and knowledge related to them, including, but not limited to:
- data managed and processed by them
- data arising from their operation (e.g., user interaction data, system performance and deployment data, system environment data)
- data that are publicly known for systems similar to them.
To this end, the ACS-ML centre's research will cover:
- neural-symbolic computing
- deep learning with symbolic reasoning
- knowledge extraction from big data and explainable AI
- Semantic Web technologies and knowledge graphs
- analysis of rich media information including video, audio, multimodal and spatiotemporal data analysis.
ACS-ML is also a member of the EPSRC Network+ on Human-Like Computing (HLC) and the City Data Science Institute (DSI).
ACS-ML is also actively involved in the management and delivery of City St George's MSc Data Science and the MSc in Software Engineering.
Publications: Google Scholar
Adaptive Computer Systems and Machine Learning website
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People
- Prof Artur d'Avila Garcez, Professor of Computer Science
- Prof George Spanoudakis, Professor of Software Engineering
- Dr Christos Kloukinas, Reader
- Dr Tillman Weyde, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Chris Child, Lecturer
- Dr Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Lecturer
- Dr Maria Krotsiani, Lecturer
- Dr Ross Paterson, Lecturer
- Pranava Madhyastha, Lecturer
- Dr Jacob Howe, Senior Lecturer, Associate Member
- Dr Laure Daviaud, Lecturer, Associate Member
- Prof Greg Slabaugh, Honorary Fellow
- Dr Emmanouil Benetos, Honorary Fellow
- Prof Andrew Smith, Professorial Fellow.
Centre Director
External associates and regular visitors
- Prof Luis Lamb, UFRGS, Brazil
- Prof Gerson Zaverucha, UFRJ, Brazil
- Prof Pascal Hitzler, Wright, USA
- Prof Dov Gabbay, King's College London, UK
- Prof John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Dr Elias de Oliveira, UFES, Brazil
- Simo Dragicevic, CEO, Bet Buddy Ltd.
- Dr Edjard Mota, UFAM, Brazil
- Luciano Serafini, FBK, Italy
- Dr Michael Spranger, SONY Research, Japan.