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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R10707/01
Title:	Granular Computing For Human-Centred Systems Modelling
Principal Investigator:	Bargiela, Professor A
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Project Partners:	Nottingham Traffic Control CEN
Department:	Computing & Mathematics
Organisation:	Nottingham Trent University
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	11 December 2000	Ends:	10 December 2003	Value (£):	19,960
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Design & Testing Technology
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors R&D
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The proposed International Collaboration project explores the promising field of Granular Computing as a paradigm for Human-Centred development of engineering systems. The collaboration builds on the research results concerning fuzzy systems, information and uncertainty which have been achieved, over the last two decades, by the research groups led by the authors of this proposal. On the methodological level the research addresses priority areas of Simulation and Modelling and Systems Integration. The proposed research agenda of granular computing includes a series of key and well defined methodological and algorithmic issues: (1) - Construction of information granules. This deals with both the selection of the formal framework of information granulation and detailed estimation procedure producing information granules; (2) - Characterisation of dimension (granularity) of information granules. This task is crucial for providing better insight as to the essence of the granulation process and its implications; (3) - Synthesis of granular models and the development of the encoding and decoding mechanism for traversing various levels of model and data granularity.The methodological developments are accompanied by the case study evaluation and dissemination activities in the context of real-life systems. The selection of urban traffic systems and Software Engineering processes as the application domains serves to accertain the generality of the methodologies and their applicability in a broad spectrum of human-centred engineering systems.
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