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Virtual Working Environments

The group's research in on collaborative virtual environments, exploiting the emerging high performance, multi-media networks that will form the information highways. The main emphasis is on system architectures for collaborative working that exploit core strengths in visualisation, constraint based solid modelling and resource management for networks. There are strong links with companies with interest in ATM networks and collaborative computing. The research is application driven through inter-disciplinary projects with the Keyworth Institute of Manufacturing and Information Systems Engineering, the Virtual Science Park project and the School of Chemistry.

Research Staff

Key Publications

Maxfield, Fernando and Dew (1995)
Distributed Virtual Environment for Concurrent Engineering. proc. of VRAIS'95, to appear.

Fa, Fernando and Dew (1993)
Interactive Constraint Solid Modelling using Allowable Motion. proc. of ACM/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Solid Modelling and Applications, 243-252.

Brodlie, Brankin, Banecki, Gay, Poon and Wright (1993)
A Problem Solving Environment Integrating Computation and Visualisation. Proc. of IEEE Visualisation 1993 Conf., IEEE Computer Society Press, 102-109.

Kara, Drew, Hunter, Jackson and Dew (1994)
Effect of packetisation on video applications over ATM and Ethernet networks. in Proc. of the Second IFIP International Workshop on ATM Networks Modelling and Evaluation.

Core Funding:

Keyworth Institute: Distributive Virtual Engineering (grants totalling £70K).

University of Leeds Virtual Science Park (grants from the University, DTI and Leeds TEC totalling £200K, joint with School of Geography).

Collaborative Visualisation and Scientific Analysis (EPSRC ROPA, £100K).

A Network Architecture with Quality-of-Service Guarantees to Support Real-time Collaborative Working Applications (£50K, consortium with Biss Ltd, Torch Communications, IBM UK


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University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
October 1995