and a Diploma in Social Administration from the Universitv of Dundee. After a short career in management consultancy he joined Glasgow University Library in 1973. In 1981 he was given the responsibility of supervising cataloguing. He is an Associate of the Library Association. The problem

In the first part of this paper we describe our experiments in the automatic and interactive search tasks of TRECVID 2006. We submitted five fully automatic runs, including a text baseline, two runs based on visual features, and two runs that combine textual and visual features in a graph model. For the interactive search, we have implemented a new video search interface with relevance feedback facilities, based on both textual and visual features. The second part is concerned with our approach to the highlevel feature extraction task, based on textual information extracted from speech recogniser and machine translation outputs. They were aligned with shots and associated with high-level feature references. A list of significant words was created for each feature, and it was in turn utilised for identification of a feature during the evaluation. 1.

In this paper we describe our experiments in the automatic and interactive search tasks of TRECVID 2008. We submitted six runs, five of them are automatic and one is interactive. The automatic runs include, a text baseline, two runs based on visual features, and two runs that combine high level features and visual features. For our interactive search submission we developed a search interface based on both textual and low level features, called the Group Interface. 1.

incorporated into English language and literature courses at Glasgow University. We examine some of the pedagogical implications of teaching with new technology and discuss some of our plans for the future. 1. The project The aim of STELLA is1 to examine the applications of computers in tertiary-level English

This paper contains a description of the methodology and results of the three TREC submissions made by the Glasgow IR group (glair). In addition to submitting to the ad hoc task, submissions were also made to NLP track and to the SDR speech `pre-track'. Results from our submissions reveal

As universities struggle to locate themselves on an unsettled landscape, distance education is coming to represent a key response to the threats and opportunities of a changing world. Enabled and driven by globalization, the upsurge of distance education brings into relief issues related

Let U be the quantum group associated to a Lie algebra g of type An. The negative part U − of U has a canonical basis B defined by Lusztig and Kashiwara, with favourable properties. We show how the spanning vectors of the cones defined by Lusztig [12], when regarded as monomials in Kashiwara’s root operators, can be described using a remarkable rectangle combinatorics. We use this to calculate the Lusztig parameters of the corresponding canonical basis elements, conjecturing that translates of these vectors span the simplicial regions of linearity of Lusztig’s piecewise-linear function [9, §2].

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This work describes a novel perspective on the theoretical foundation of human-computer interfaces, framing the problem as a continuous control process. In this view, the system continuously infers a distribution over potential user goals, and provides continuous feedback about its beliefs as it does so. The proper representation and manipulation of uncertainties in interaction – via probability theory – and the explicit inclusion of temporal characteristics – in the form of dynamic systems – are inherent to this framework. The framework is used to derive a novel approach to interaction design, particularly in situations where rich or unusual sensing and display modalities are present. A number of key tools for describing and implementing systems which are consistent with this perspective are presented. The role of system dynamics as a mediating element between sensed state and decision making is described. The work sets out a paradigm for interaction which brings probabilistic models – and thus many of the techniques of modern machine learning – into the interface in a clean and principled manner. The three major techniques for supporting the paradigm outlined in the thesis are: the display of changing probabilistic beliefs; dynamically adjusting system handling qualities

This document describes the Agile Web Engineering (AWE) Process for the construction of Web-based applications. AWE is a lightweight process that has been developed to tackle the problems associated with the development of Web-based applications: short development life-cycle times; small multidisciplinary development teams; delivery of bespoke solutions integrating software and data. In addition AWE encourages: more focus on requirements analysis, including a clear analysis of business needs; better testing and evaluation of deliverables; and clear consideration of the issues associated with the evolution of Web-based applications. By identifying and managing the interaction between business, domain, software and creative design strands within Web Engineering projects, AWE provides a roadmap that allows Web-based endeavours to deliver solutions that satisfy End-