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2004. Research proposal "Market Based Control of Complex Computational Systems" was funded by EPSRC
 
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The Programme of Kick-off Meeting

EPSRC Meeting on July 2-3, 2003
Garth Room, Horton Grange, University Conference Park
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston Park Road Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT

July 2, 2003 (Wednesday)
  • 10:00am - 10:30am Arrival and Tea/Coffee
  • 10:30am - 10:40am Introduction and Background of the cluster
  • 10:40am - 12:40pm *8 minutes* self-introduction about (1) what you are interested in, and (2) what you'd like to contribute to this cluster (2 minutes for changing over speakers) Edmund Burke 
    • Nick Jennings 
    • Ata Kaban 
    • Graham Kendall 
    • Peter McBurney 
    • Paul Marrow 
    • Adam Prugel-Bennett 
    • Jon Rowe 
    • Rob Shipman 
    • Peter Tino 
    • Andy Tyrell 
    • Xin Yao
  • 12:40pm - 2:00pm Lunch 
  • 2:00pm - 3:30pm Brainstorming on the themes/areas that we'd like to concentrate on in this cluster, so that as a whole we'll be the strongest one. Both our strength and weakness should be identified 
  • 3:30pm - 4:00pm Tea break 
  • 4:00pm - 5:30pm Continue brainstorming with a view of potential research proposals that might emerge from each theme/area 
  • 5:30pm - 7:00pm Free time 
  • 7:00pm - 10:00pm Dinner in one of the downtown restaurants 

July 3, 2003 (Thursday) 
  • 9:30am - 11:00am Discuss strategies that we should use to ensure the highest quality of proposals and how to maximise our success rate. This might have impact on what areas that we'd like to focus in this cluster 
  • 11:00am - 11:30am Tea break 
  • 11:30am - 12:30pm Break-out group discussions according to themes/areas with the view of generating joint proposals 
  • 12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch 
  • 2:00pm - 3:30pm Report back from group discussions and evaluate whether a coherent and strong cluster may emerge from the collection of individual proposals, Date for next meeting, Agree on an action plan and timetable that would ensure the timely submission of proposals. 
  • 3:30pm - 4:00pm Tea break and leaving