Current projects
- Data Protection: Currently I'm working at ThinkingSAFE Ltd. (http://www.thinkingsafe.com) developing the next multiplatform Data Backup and Restore product. We are developing a number of tools for data protection solutions. Some of the modules are the following: backup agent, server store, deduplication, data transmition, compression and encryption
- Queced: Quering Compressed and Encrypted Data Stores: In information retrieval a classical problem is that of best
match search, or proximity search: either a closest matching document is to be returned in response to a query, or a ranked
set of closest matching documents.
This project will identify new mathematical approaches to best match and proximity searching with particular application
to very large, compressed and encrypted textual data stores. Encryption presents particular challenges in that with a
good approach there should be no relationship between an encrypted document and an encrypted very similar document.
Cluster based multiresolution methods will be developed to exploit the anticipated exact match, at some level of summary,
between encrypted summary data for similar documents.
This project is supported by an EPSRC industrial CASE award and ThinkingSAFE Ltd. made available in collaboration with The Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering. - WS-Talk: Web Services Communicating in the Language of Their Community. http://thames.cs.rhul.ac.uk/wstalk. WS-Talk has been supported by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme, CRAFT COOP-CP-2004-006026.
- AstroGrid: Helping astronomers to access the Virtual Observatory. http://www.astrogrid.org Astrogrid is funded by PPARC. UK.
- IRAIA: Getting Orientation in Complex Information Spaces as an Emergent Behavior of Autonomous Information Agents: IRAIA has been supported by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme IST-1999-10602.