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Cluster Workshops
A core cluster activity relates to five Workshops. These two-day
meetings comprise presentations from industry and academe interspersed
with round table discussions and sub-group working to address both
global and specific issues. Thus the complex characteristics of each
design domain; their people-centred aspects and computational strategies
are being identified.
The initial Workshop has identified a wide range of issues, some specific to domains, others more generic.
Click here for a summary on Workshop 1
The second Workshop has investigated, in far more detail, the softer, human-centred aspects of our aims and objectives alongside more detailed descriptions of the problems facing us in terms of engineering, product, software, drug and sensor design.
Click here for a summary on Workshop 2
The intention of the third Workshop was to identify those stages and / or aspects of the design process that
have proved difficult to support computationally and to better understand what have we gained and what have
we lost through attempting to formalise design and introduce specific computational tools.
Click here for a summary on Workshop 3
Workshop four was considered a ‘focusing Workshop’. A mass of information had been gathered during previous
activities and this information required further collation, analysis and classification in terms of the five
identified key issues.
Further investigation of these issues and interim processing of information from each Workshop will result in a more finely tuned agenda for the subsequent Workshop. Each event therefore addresses increasingly specific issues in terms of further research requirement. This funneling effect will result in the final distillation of those primary areas where research effort over the next five to ten year period should be concentrated. A fifth, final Workshop will identify and define secondary and tertiary issues to provide comprehensive cover for the planned EPSRC Call.
Speakers from the international design/computational intelligence community are being invited to present at each Workshop.