Past Grants:
2003-2005
Programme: The Royal Society
Project Title: Efficient Pseudo-Random number generators.
Partners: Novosibirsk State University
Value: £7,800
Objectives: To find efficient procedures for random and and
pseudo-random number generators.
2001-2004
Programme: EPSRC Project
Title: Complexity Approximation Principle and Predictive
Complexity: Analysis and Applications
Partners: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £142,996
Objective: To developimplementation of the Complexity Approximation
Principle and to compare thir performance with other learning algorithms;
to study properties of predictive complexity in general and variants
of predictive complexity for particular games of interest; theoretical
analysis of conditional predictive complexity and predictive information;
to investigate the connections between predictive complexity and
randomness.
2001-2004
Programme: BBSRC
Project Title: Pattern recognition techniques for gene and
promoter identification and classification in plant genomic sequences
Partners: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £150,648
Objective: To develop plant-specific gene prediction algorithms,
based on the SVM technique; to compare the SVM approach with conventional
techniques such as discriminant analysis or Hidden Markov Models
in terms of accuracy and confidence of prediction and to develop
SVM variants adapted to utilize sequence characteristics; to improve
techniques for promoter and regulatroy region recognition and provide
explicit candidates for these regions; to investigate classification
of genes based on promoter sequences.
2000-2003
Programme: BH Vector
Project Title: Support vector machines and related technologies
Partners: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: $330,000
Objectives: To develop medical applications of Support Vector
Machine and Transductive Confidence Machine
2000-2002
Programme: E.U.
Project Title: The Development and Evaluation of New Methods
for Editing and Imputation (EUREDIT)
Partners: Office of National Statistics (UK) University of
York (UK) The Numerical Algorithms Group Limited (UK) Centraal Bureau
voor de Statistiek (CBS) (Netherlands> Tilastokeskus (Statistics
Finland) (Finland) Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO) (Switzerland)
Insiders Wissenbasierte Systeme GmbH (now replaced by (Germany)
Istituto Nazionale Di Statistica (ISTAT) (Spain) Royal Holloway
University of London (UK) University of Southampton (UK) University
of Jyvaeskylae (JyU) (Finland) Statistics Denmark (DSt) (Denmark)
Value: £53,893
Objectives: To develop imputation methods with SVM
1999-2002
Programme: EPSRC - GR/M16856
Project Title: Comparison of the Support Vector Machine and
Minimum Message Length Methods for Induction and Prediction
Partners: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £132,787
Objective: The theoretical analysis and comparison of performance
of these two algorithms; the development of the MML method aimed
at minimising a bound on prediction risk; and further algorithm
development, testing and applications.
1997-2000
Programme: EPSRC - GR/L35812
Project Title: Support Vector and Bayesian Learning Algorithms
Partners: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £142,360
Objective: To develop algorithms for pattern recognition
and regression.
1996-2000
Programme: IFR Ltd (formerly Marconi Instruments)
Project Title:Learning Algorithms for Fault Diagnosis
Partners: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £43,410
Objective: To develop a set of algorithms and software for
fault diagnosis problems.
1996-1999
Programme: EU Framework IV
Project Title: Symbolic Data Analysis (SODAS)
Partners: Royal Holloway, University of London (UK), University
of Paris (France), Office for National Statistics (UK), CDF Thompson
(France) and another 14 partners from EU
Value:Total value of £4 millions; our part is £156,000
Objective: To develop a set of tools for symbolic data analysis.
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