Event Archive

Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Thomas Hiscock

Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Thomas Hiscock (University of Aberdeen). Topic: How does a finger get its knuckles? Reaction diffusion models in the tetrapod limb and beyond  

BDI Agents in Natural Language Environments

Developing autonomous agents to deal with real-world problems is challenging, especially when developers are not necessarily specialists in artificial intelligence. This poses two key challenges regarding the interface of the programming with the developer, and the efficiency of the resulting agents. In this talk, we cover a recent work to...

Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Scott Doyle

Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Scott Doyle (University of Aberdeen). Topic: Beyond Sparks: Plasma Science at Aberdeen

Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Victoria Volodina

Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Victoria Volodina (University of Exeter): The importance of uncertainty quantification for model credibility

Stargazing in the Botanic Garden

An opportunity for public and educational engagement in astronomy at amateur, school, and university levels. We will exhibit the University's new 16"-aperture telescope alongside its existing 10"-aperture telescope. Weather permitting, stargazing will be possible in the University's beautiful Cruickshank Botanic Garden.

Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Daniel Chaves

Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Daniel Chaves (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil). Topic to be confirmed.

Summer student presentations for projects supported by the Worthington Fund

Presentations by 3rd year undergraduate University of Aberdeen Physics and Mathematics students on their 3-month summer research projects carried out in the Department of Physics. These projects were supported by the Worthington Fund.  Anticipated schedule:  1305-1325: "Inference or Gene Regulatory Networks from RNA-seq data"; 1325-1345: "Dynamics of coupled logistic maps"; 1345-1405: "Androgen Receptor Signalling".

Towards understanding 3D poses and gestures of multiple hands

Hands are primary interacting tools that provide humans an ability to interact with their outer environments. Therefore, recognizing poses and actions (gestures) of hands from images and videos is essential to comprehensively understand the daily human intentions. Challenges occur when more than one hand appear in an image, due to...

A journey of the adoption of Blockchain in IoT Environments: Opportunities and Challenges

Blockchain technology has emerged as a solution for providing transparency and trusted information in a decentralized and resilient manner. Particularly, there are significant potential benefits in integrating blockchain technology with the Internet of Things (IoT). However, adopting blockchain in hardware-constrained environments presents challenges. This integration introduces new issues, especially in...

Human Interactions and the Implications for Ethical and Responsible RAI (Robotics and AI)

Increasing deployment of advanced technology in daily lives - from embodied robotics to AI algorithms - continues to raiseever more complex questions about the ethical implications of their use, and what that means in practical terms.  One approach is to frame the debate around what we mean by Responsible Robotic and AI (RAI) use. In this talk, Dr. Collins will...

Safety in conversational AI: Meaning is massively influenced by context

While the NLP community has traditionally explored the ethical issues of text-based models (such as hate speech detection, inherent biases of the system etc), real-world conversations and dialogues differ significantly from structured, written text documents, and this brings with it its own unique set of safety challenges. From an understanding...

Multi-Agent Equilibria: From Verification to Modification and Beyond

The classical notion of correctness in formal verification is not appropriate for multi-agent systems–-it does not capture the strategic behaviour of rational agents. As such, a different notion of correctness was proposed through the concept of rational verification. In doing so, we transform multi-agent systems into multi-player games and use...

Quantum Computing for Everyone

To promote and celebrate World Quantum Day on Monday 15 April the University of Aberdeen is running an online event to raise awareness of, and demonstrate, the transformative power of quantum computing.

Exploring TransNational Education (TNE) with Aberdeen Institute as a case study

For decades, TNE existed in one form or another with USA often leading the field in innovative and accessible education aligned to the home-country educational standards but provided locally. In recent years, this form of education has been recognised by many countries as strategic framework to collaborate in developing necessary...

"A Day in the Life" of a digital forensics investigator

Craig Porter from the OpenText company will present a talk about “A Day in the Life” of a digital forensics investigator.  Delving into the captivating world of digital investigations, Porter will shed light on the methodologies, challenges, and pivotal role of a digital forensics investigator. Moreover, Craig will showcase their...

On the Practices for Evaluating Generative AI

Recent years have seen remarkable advancements in Generative AI, ranging from text-to-text models like ChatGPT, to text-to-image models like DALLE3, and most recently, text-to-video models like Sora. With groundbreaking innovations in unsupervised learning and scalable architectures, these generative models demonstrate wide-ranging capabilities in understanding textual instructions and producing responses in...

An Introduction to Quantum Computing

University of Aberdeen staff are invited to attend this online session on the fundamentals and use of quantum computing.

Modelling Extortion Attacks in Cryptocurrencies: Insights into Ethereum Validator Vulnerabilities

Dive into an academic exploration of how ransomware gangs might target cryptocurrencies, with Dr. Darren Hurley-Smith unveiling a unique extortion attack model concerning Ethereum Validators. This seminar encapsulates a research-driven take on a recent Conversation article, supplemented with mitigation strategies.

Data and AI: What it means for education, research and society

Join us for a fascinating online discussion on data and artificial intelligence.

Critical Infrastructure Protection: Current Challenges and Solutions

Join us for an informative seminar with Prof. Leandros Maglaras, one of the world's top cybersecurity experts, as he delves into the evolving challenges and solutions surrounding the protection of our critical digital infrastructures.

Expressive Automated Planning via Satisfiability Modulo Theories

Planning is a fundamental activity, impacting our daily lives in many and varied ways. The planning task consists of selecting a sequence of actions to achieve a specified goal from specified starting conditions. This type of problem arises frequently in many contexts. Consider, for example, holiday planning. Various interleaved elements...

Wearable Activity Trackers and Privacy: Assessment of the Risks, Threats, and Countermeasures

Join us for an enlightening session with Dr. Noé Zufferey, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne as he delves into the privacy threats related to the use of wearable activity trackers.

Uncovering Implicit Inferences for Improved Relational Argument Mining

Argument mining seeks to extract arguments and their structure from unstructured texts. Identifying relations between arguments (such as attack, support, and neutral) is a challenging task because two arguments may be related to each other via implicit inferences. This task often requires external commonsense knowledge to discover how one argument...

CyberForce: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Framework for Malware Mitigation

Join Chao Feng from the University of Zurich as he unveils the CyberForce framework, a novel approach in malware mitigation for IoT devices using federated reinforcement learning.

HW/SW Co-design for Security Systems

Tune in to our online seminar with Huimin Li from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. Unpack the details of HW/SW co-design and its impact on constructing resilient security architectures. Understand how intertwining hardware and software methodologies can result in enhanced and secure electronic solutions.

Lecture: Animal Venoms - Friend or Foe?

This lecture will be delivered by Dr Wael Houssen and Dr Soumya Palliyil and followed by a reception.

Towards a Robust, Effective, and Resource-Efficient Machine Learning Technique for IoT Security Monitoring

Join us for a seminar by Dr. Idris Zakariyya, a renowned cybersecurity professional, as he delves into the challenges and solutions for employing Deep Neural Networks in IoT security monitoring.

It's more than just money: The real-world harms from ransomware attacks

Join Nandita Pattnaik in a comprehensive exploration of the aftermath of ransomware attacks, revealing the intricate spectrum of damages that span beyond monetary losses.

Beyond Bytes and Bugs: Navigating the Human Side of Cybersecurity

Join cybersecurity veteran Paul Baird as he delves beyond technicalities to unravel the humanistic aspects of cybersecurity, emphasizing the often-overlooked non-technical attributes crucial for success in the industry.

A First Look at Digital Rights Management Systems for Secure Mobile Content Delivery

Join Amir Rafi as he delves into the intricate world of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems on mobile platforms, offering a comprehensive security assessment of major DRM technologies in the era of cloud-based content delivery.

High-Profile Data Breach: An In-Depth Analysis of Crypto-Wallet Case.

Join us for an enlightening session with Assistant Professor Svetlana Abramova as she delves into the repercussions of a data breach on crypto-wallet users. Discover key findings, challenges, and valuable lessons from this real-life incident.

Simplifying Parallel Programming and Opportunities for Collaboration with Brazil

This talk concerns Dr. Griebler's research on high-level parallel programming abstractions, stream processing, research tools to perform benchmarks on several parallel computing architectures and distributed systems, and recent data science projects with industry and academic partners. Finally, he will present opportunities for collaborating with Brazil, especially with PUCRS's institutional project of internationalization that...

Chemistry seminar - Professor Jonathan Sessler

RSC Prize Talk Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin

Chemistry seminar - Dr Ming Li

Associate Professor in Materials, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham Further details to follow.

Chemistry seminar - Dr Yi Yu

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, China Further details to follow.

Towards Closed-Loop Interactive Autonomous Systems: Understanding People and their Impacts on Decision Making

At my dissertation defense, I presented Planning and Recognition Together Close the Interaction Loop (PReTCIL) as one of the first ways to integrate algorithms from artificial intelligence (AI) planning and plan, activity, and intent recognition into a single method for adaptive closed-loop interaction in autonomous systems. Despite PReTCIL working out...

What's next for nematic liquid crystals?

Professor Helen Gleeson OBE from the University of Leeds' Soft Matter Physics Group

ChatGPT "passing" things: A(nother) story of cherry-picking, ignoring errors and hope

In Nov 2022 OpenAI released the new ChatGPT language model, taking the world by storm with it. Today, we are flooded by tweets and articles claiming ChatGPT is reaching human-level performance in many tasks. But what tasks? Is ChatGPT ready to assist (or replace) humans? In this talk, we'll cover...

Natural products as a treasure trove against COVID-19

Dr Mostafa Rateb, University of the West of Scotland COVID-19 is a recent pandemic that put all nations under a major panic, with many mortalities in 2020 and 2021. Although vaccine development was ongoing, finding treatment that affects the virus would be of great help to combat the viral mutation. Once...

Achieving collective action through explicit reasoning about expectations

Abstract: This work studies the collective action problem: identifying and implementing mechanisms that allow members of a community to coordinate their actions in order to achieve a social, rather than individual, benefit. Rather than applying the traditional tools of game theory, we are investigating how maintaining explicit social knowledge encoded in...

An information-theoretic framework for grounded dialogue modelling

What are the decision making processes by which humans choose words to achieve goals in their environment? Can we replicate them in a computer system? These are the core questions of grounded dialogue modelling, the study of interactive language use in context. We will start by looking at a few...

Aligning the use of AI in business to real world opportunities

A session to present how organisations with their in-built challenges need to be carefully managed to accept the inevitably of AI systems in their daily work processes.   Examples will be shared of real world scenarios and where AI is already adding value and what the future could look like as...

Accelerating Research Software Understandability Through Knowledge Capture

Research Software is key to understand, reproduce and reuse existing work in many disciplines, ranging from Geosciences to Astronomy or Artificial Intelligence. However, research software is usually difficult to find, reuse, compare and understand due to its disconnected documentation (dispersed in manuals, readme files, web sites, and code comments) and...

Decolonising science

The phrase “decolonising the curriculum” very much seems like a buzzword, but what does it really mean?   In particular, what does it mean for sciences?   I intend to explore the background to “decolonising science”, address some of the issues that this raises, and look at some ideas which not only...

A Personal Perspective on Impact

Most of our funders would like to see non-academic "impact" from the projects they support. In this talk, I'll give a personal perspective on impact, looking at both successes such as the Arria NLG spinout company and the simplenlg open-source package, and failures where expected impact did not materialise, such...

Representation Learning for Relational and Cross-Lingual Data

Utilising real-world relational signals (e.g., structured knowledge) and understanding different languages are two (of the many) fundamental goals of Artificial General Intelligence. The corresponding explorations, however, have been relatively separate. In this talk, I will introduce our recent research outputs on bridging this gap:  - We discovered the unnoticed connections between...

The challenge of adherence to digital healthcare - the case of ASICA

Patient-directed digital healthcare delivery is becoming increasingly prominent and has received impetus from the recent COVID pandemic. Patient-directed digital healthcare is viewed positively by policy makers as a means to increase healthcare access, reduce costs and increase efficiency. Patient-directed digital healthcare also appears to be popular with certain patient groups....

Evolutionary Multi-objective Learning and its Application to Metabolic Engineering Design

Many real-world applications involve optimisation of multiple conflicting objectives simultaneously. Examples include maximizing comfort and minimizing cost while buying or rent a home, minimizing the cost and maximizing the durability of constructed structures, and minimizing the traveling cost and maximum cover of distance.  Such multi-objective optimisation problems require solutions that...

Intention Progression in Multi-Agent Settings

A key problem for rational agents is 'what do do next': which goal the agent should be trying to achieve, and which means it should use to achieve it. In the Belief-Desire-Intention approach to agents, this is termed the 'intention progression problem', and has largely been studied in a single...

Realising Accountability and Audit of AI Systems Using Knowledge Graphs

To realise accountable AI systems, different types of information from a range of sources need to be recorded throughout the system life cycle. In the RAInS project, we argue that knowledge graphs can support capture and audit of such information; however, the creation of such accountability records must be planned...

Bias in the Vision and Language of Artificial Intelligence

Join Dr Margaret Mitchell as she discusses what 'bias' is within AI systems, and how to evaluate biased systems.

Machine Learning-based Anomaly Detection and Perturbation Analysis in Nuclear Reactors

This talk will provide an overview and main results of a recently finished 4-year £5M EU-H2020 project (Sep 2017 – Aug 2021) entitled “Core Monitoring Techniques and Experimental Validation and Demonstration (Cortex - https://cortex-h2020.eu/)” that involved 20 partners from 11 countries (EU, Japan and US). Georgios was leading activities in...

Formal Argumentation, Dialogue, Users and Explanation

In this talk I will describe several related strands of research around the use of argumentation and dialogue for human/machine interaction. These include its use in the context of explanation of program behaviour, as an explanatory mechanism for complex opaque systems such as planners and of computational reasoning process such...

Generating and Reasoning with Argumentation Graphs

In argumentation theory, we study how to model reasoning through the construction and evaluation of arguments using, so called, argumentation semantics. However, this two steps process (generation and evaluation) have been shown to be limiting due to the large number of arguments generated from real-life knowledge bases. Moreover, although it...

CS Seminar: Evaluating Natural Language Generation

A key challenge in Natural Language Generation (NLG) is evaluating the quality of texts produced by an NLG system.   Robust and reliable evaluation is essential to determining whether a new NLG model or system advances state-of-the-art, understanding weaknesses of current NLG systems, and giving users a good understanding of what...

BNAAS - The 20th Biennial National Atomic Spectroscopy Symposium

BNASS (Biennial National Atomic Spectroscopy Symposium) is the biennial meeting of the RSC Atomic Spectroscopy Group and this year, BNASS will celebrate its 20th event! BNASS provides an ideal forum to encourage the exchange of ideas and knowledge in analytical atomic spectroscopy as well as celebrating the developments in atomic...

Analytical Research Forum 2020 (ARF20)

The Analytical Research Forum (ARF) provides the opportunity for early career researchers from analytical communities to present their work.

International workshop on interfaces - Design for Performance

Workshop for material scientists

Why is Physical Organic Chemistry Important in Pharmaceutical Chemical Process Development?

The utility of applying approaches rooted in physical organic chemistry to the development of manufacturing processes for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) will be demonstrated through three AstraZeneca case studies. These will illustrate applications to a reaction, work-up and to control a reaction occurring during the formation and crystallisation of a...

Chemistry Seminar - "Waking-up silent bacterial genes for natural product discovery"

Mining bacterial genomes has revealed a vast number of gene clusters proposed to direct the biosynthesis of novel specialized natural products. However, many of these gene clusters remain silent, or are poorly expressed, in laboratory growth conditions.

Dr Gordon John Florence from St Andrews University

Dr Gordon John Florence from St Andrews University

SNCS Impact Event

Impact is about the difference that research can make. It can occur in many different ways, through enhancing quality of life and health, creation of new products, knowledge exchange, influence on public policy, etc.

National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Metrology: who are we and what do we do?

After a period of business-led research which was accompanied with a dramatic drop in publications and patents, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) turned the page over in 2016 and opened its doors to young scientists and new research ideas. I will briefly talk about NRC Metrology, what do we...

Chemistry Seminar - A multiscale investigation of ash loaded gasoline particulate filters

Dr Gibson is a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests lie in applying synchrotron techniques and vibrational spectroscopy to study heterogeneous catalysts during reaction. She also develops combined techniques, i.e. performing XAFS and DRIFTS studies simultaneously to...

Interdisciplinary Seminar

Speakers: Prof Ran Levi, Mathematics,"Topological analysis of data encoded as a graph" Prof Stefan Hoppler, Institute of Medical Sciences, "Gene regulatory circuitry in Wnt signalling (positive and/or negative?) regulates size of heart muscle in embryonic development"

Oil and Gas UK/Decom North Sea conference

Subject of the conference is the decommissioning of offshore oil and gas installations

Chemistry Graduation Ceremony

Chemistry students will graduate next week

Tuneable properties in titanate-based perovskites: from 'fast ion' conduction to 'weakly temperature dependent' ferroelectric relaxors.

Professor Derek Sinclair, University of Sheffield. Royal Society of Chemistry Peter Day Award 2019 lecture.

Interdisciplinary Seminar - Department of Physics

This is part of a series of interdisciplinary talks from University staff from around the world

Some new aspects of Bacterial-Bacterial and Bacterial-Algal Interactions in the Marine Environment

My research interests are wide ranging. In bioinorganic chemistry, these extend from models for zinc, molybdenum and non-heme iron metalloprotein active sites, to design of metal complexes as artificial restriction enzymes for molecular biology to the mechanisms of iron transport and storage in microorganisms to the design and synthesis of...

Efficient storage mechanisms for building better supercapacitors

We simulate systems consisting of ionic liquids electrolytes and carbon electrodes. We adopt a bottom-up strategy which consists in starting from a simple system with planar graphite electrodes before to tackle the more complex problem of realistic nanoporous electrodes. In our simulations we can apply a potential difference between the...

IGC2 New York

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK will attend the UN Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Genetic Resources of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction in New York in 2019.

Autonomous Semantic Stream Processing

Venue: Room 311, Meston Building

Incorporating World Knowledge to Heterogeneous Information Networks

Venue: Room 234 (CSD Common Room), Meston Building

CPD for teachers/technicians of physics

The Physics Department of the University of Aberdeen will host two professional development days for Teachers and Technicians of Physics. The course will be practically based and will provide an opportunity to try experiments suitable for AH investigations, AH course work and Higher Physics. It is hoped that it will...

Computing Science Seminar. Soto on Using Fuzzy Sets in Data-to-Text systems: A High-Level View of Past and Current Projects

Venue: Room 311, Meston Building

Computing Science Seminar. Zukerman on Interacting with Smart Devices: Acceptability and Trust

Venue: Room 311, Meston Building

Design of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Sustainable Technologies

Royal Society of Chemistry Sustainable Energy Award 2017 http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/SustainableEnergyAward/2017-Winner.asp

Commodity Chemicals at INEOS Grangemeouth

The competitiveness of Grangemouth as a chemicals manufacturing site has been transformed over the past 5 years under INEO Olefins & Polymers UK. This talk describes why that was necessary, how the transformation was generated, and gives an insight into the operating paths and technology used to provide a platform for...

Computing Science Seminar. Cheng on Semantic Data Retrieval: Search, Ranking, and Summarisation

Venue: Computing Science Common Room, Meston Building

Chemistry Department Seminar

Transition metal chalcogenides: what solid state electrochemistry has to do with them

Computing Seminar: Low Code IoT Middleware for Gait Velocity Monitoring at Home

Title:  Low Code IoT Middleware for Gait Velocity Monitoring at Home Abstract: Gait velocity has become a valid and important metric for senior populations. However, existing approaches to measure gait velocity are either limited to specific location or too expensive to be applied. IoT middleware allows the systems to collect data in...

Fine-Grained Access Control via Policy-Carrying Data by Prof. Vasconcelos

Abstract: We address the problem of associating access policies with datasets and how to monitor compliance via policy-carrying data. Our contributions are a formal model in first-order logic inspired by normative multi-agent systems to regulate data access, and a computational model for the validation of specific use cases and the...

Computing Seminar in RGU: Exploring Moral Dilemmas in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments

RGU School of Computing Science and Digital Media Seminar Wednesday 31 May 2017 at 13:00 in Room N117, Sir Iain Wood Building TITLE: Exploring Moral Dilemmas in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments Professor Fotis Liarokapis HCI Laboratory Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University  Brno,  Czech Republic liarokap@fi.muni.cz   ABSTRACT: Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that simulates user experiences in a synthetic way. Immersion into VR is a...

Computing Seminar: Towards Socially Intelligent Robots - Karen Spärck Jones lecture

The 2017 lecture will be given by Dr. Maja Matarić (University of Southern California) who is Professor and Chan Soon-Shiong Chair of Computer Science, Neuroscience & Pediatrics; Founding Director at the USC’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center, and Director of the USC’s Robotics Research Lab. The lecture will take place on...

Computing Seminar "Policy-carrying data: towards a data-sharing economy" by Prof. W. Vasconcelos

This event was cancelled

The title is: Title: Policy-carrying data: towards a data-sharing economy Abstract: This seminar will introduce a formal model (drawing upon notions from normative multiagent systems) to regulate data access, and secondly a computational model that allows both for the validation of specific use cases and the verification of the policy against criteria. Some of...

Computing Seminar: Deep Learning and Ensemble Learning, by Dr. Jayne and Dr. Elyan

Deep Learning and Ensemble Learning Chrisina Jayne and Eyad Elyan There has been a significant research interest in recent years related to deep architectures, which refer to neural network architectures with a larger number of hidden layers. The breakthrough paper published in 2006 by Hinton et al. introduced unsupervised fast, greedy learning...

Computing Seminar: "Neural computation for sequence classification" by Dr. Dybowski

Brief:   The seminar will provide a review of neural-based approaches to sequence classification from feed-forward networks to recurrent neural networks and finishing with the neural Turing machine.   Bio:   I obtained a PhD in computational chemistry at Leeds University looking at symbolic and statistical approaches to the diagnosis of endocrine metabolites. Whilst a research fellow with King's College...

Computing Seminar: "From design patterns to the automated design of algorithms" by Dr. Woodward

Computing Seminar: Speaker: Dr John Woodward from Stirling University http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~jrw/ Title: From design patterns to the automated design of algorithms Abstract:  Design Patterns have informed us when we need to provide solutions to Object Oriented design problems. This talk looks at how design patterns can assist us in building metaheuristic solutions and avoid reinventing the wheel. ...

Computing Seminar "Improving Relevance Ranking for Search Engines" by Yi Chang

Abstract: Relevance ranking of search engine is a billion-dollar challenge, while there is a disadvantage of backwardness in web search competition. Learning to rank algorithms could effectively improve relevance ranking, yet it is a systematic effort to continuously improve the relevance of a search engine. In this talk, I will introduce...

Improving children's engagement with user evaluation questionnaires

Questionnaires are the most commonly used user evaluation method. However, when user evaluation questionnaires are used to evaluate systems with children, there is a tendency for positive results to be generated. Whilst this may be due to the high quality of the system being evaluated, it could also be due...

Computing Science: PGR Workshop

PGR Workshop: Friday 21 October 2.00-3.00pm

Computing Science Seminar. Robertson on "New Frontiers for Computing Science in Population Health"

Abstract: Rapid advances in our ability to acquire and propagate medical data mean that we can radically change the basis for healthcare through precision medicine.  To achieve this at scale, however, requires change in the way we work with data in healthcare systems.  I will discuss recent work on aspects...

Computing Science Seminar. Dr. Meneguzzi on "A Bayesian approach to norm identification"

Abstract: When entering a system, an agent should be aware of the obligations and prohibitions (collectively norms) that affect it. Existing solutions to this norm identification problem make use of observations of either norm compliant, or norm violating, behaviour. Thus, they assume an extreme situation where norms are typically violated,...

Computing Seminar in RGU: Prof Sanjay Jha on "A Changing Landscape: Securing The Internet Of Things (IoT)"

AbstractFirst part of this talk will discuss how the community is converging towards the IoT vision having worked in wireless sensor networking and Machine-2-Machine (M2M) communication. This will follow a general discussion of security challenges in IoT. Finally I will discuss some results from an ongoing projects on security of...

Computing Science Seminar. Kasabov on "Deep Learning, Spiking Neural Networks and Spatio-Temporal Data Machines"

Abstract: The current development of the third generation of artificial neural networks - the spiking neural networks (SNN) along with the technological development of highly parallel neuromorphic hardware systems of millions of artificial spiking neurons as processing elements, makes it possible to model complex data in a more efficient, brain-like way...

Computing Science Seminar. Fuchs "Non-Monotonic Reasoning in Attempto Controlled English"

Abstract: Attempto Controlled English (ACE) is a logic-based knowledge representation language that uses the syntax of a subset of English. RACE is a first-order reasoner for ACE that can show the consistency of a set of ACE axioms and deduce ACE theorems and ACE queries from ACE axioms. In my talk...

Controlled Natural Language Workshop (CNL 2016)

This workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL) has a broad scope and embraces all approaches that are based on natural language and apply restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. This includes (but is certainly not limited to) approaches that have been calledsimplified language, plain language, formalized language, processable language, fragments of language,...

Scottish Argumentation Day 2016

Welcome! The Scottish Argumentation Day 2016 will be hosted by the University of Aberdeen on Monday the 20th of June. This is the third edition of the Scottish Argumentation Day following on from the successful meetings held in Dundee in 2013 and in Aberdeen in 2011. The aim of this edition is to create...

Postgraduate Workshop

Presentations by Computing Science Postgraduates.