The School of Computer Science in Cardiff

The School of Computer Science in Cardiff University carries out research in a range of areas including Geographic Information Systems, Distributed Processing, Knowledge Management and Immersive Visualisation. There are currently about 50 PhD students associated with the research groups. The School has a state of the art Distributed Immersive Visualisation Facility used in the presentation of complex multi-dimensional results. Research is supported by various sources, including the UK Government (DTI, WDA), Research Councils (BBSRC, EPSRC, PPARC), Europe (EC) and Industry. The annual research income for the School of Computer Science is currently about €3.6 million. In the GIS area, which contributes staff to the proposed project, research interests focus on the areas of geographical information retrieval, with particular reference to geo-ontologies, automated spatial reasoning, multi-scale spatial databases, map generalization,
user interfaces, and spatio-temporal data modelling. Funding for GIS projects in recent years has come primarily from EPSRC grants, the EC and from industrial support.

Key roles in Tripod
UWC will contribute it experience in working with geographic ontologies to focus its efforts on caption creation.