Information Systems
The Division was successful in winning programme funding from EPSRC for its world-class research and has highly cited publications (2 staff are in the top 0.12% in CiteSeer). Staff have been invited to chair a number of major international conferences and have won internationally prestigious prizes.
Information Management
Leading members of the group include Professor Carole Goble, Professor Norman Paton, Professor Ian Horrocks, Professor Andy Brass and Professor Terri Attwood.
- Advanced scientific & engineering applications
- Knowledge representation:
- Reasoning systems
- Ontologies
- Semantic Web
- Applications
Informatics Process
The group is led by Professor Brian Warboys
- Evolving business solutions
- Emergent systems
Bio and Health Informatics
The group is led by Professor Alan Rector
- Medical informatics
- Bioinformatics
- Describing and analysing functional data:
- Maxd: database and analysis environment for DNA chip data
- Integrating biological data:
- TAMBIS: ontology-based querying of bioinformatics resources
- GIMS: data warehouse of genomic data
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- E-workbench and GRID architectures
- Large-scale interdisciplinary applications
Text Mining
- Extracting information and knowledge from unstructured text
- Natural language processing
