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Publications and Projects

Iceberg has been used to support a diverse range of projects. Much of the work has resulted in the generation of publications and further funding for those projects.

This page provides a link a list of publications generated with support from iceberg. Further details about some of the projects which have been supported is provided below.

Publications list

DAME project

The DAME Project is an e-Science pilot project, demonstrating the use of the GRID to implement a distributed decision support system for deployment in maintenance applications and environments. The four universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Oxford and York are collaborating with Rolls Royce, its information systems partner Data Systems and Solutions, and Cybula Ltd to meet this challenge.

The DAME Project

The LHC Grid for Particle Physics

Support for the Grid PP is provided by the White Rose Grid. This is a Tier-2 High Throughput Computing Node for Particle Physics at Sheffield is providing largest number of cycles to international LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project of any Tier-2 site in UK.

The Grid PP project

WUN Medieval Project

This is a research group of the World Wide University Network. The Medieval Studies group is a thriving cross-disciplinary eHumanities group built around four broad themes :


The four themes are intended to be sufficiently flexible to allow for fresh developments within and around them. They are not meant to be exclusive or restrictive. Each has arisen from a specific initiative, with particular institutions opening up and facilitating one or more projects.
Worldwide University Network
The Medieval Studies group

Computational Systems Biology

As more is discovered about the structure, organisation and behaviour of cells, tissues, organisms and communities of biological systems the need to understand how all of these systems and phenomena work and interact in a holistic fashion becomes more urgent.

The promise of being able to use the power of computers and of recent computational and mathematical modelling techniques to understand and predict important aspects of the behaviour of biological systems is an exciting and vitally important opportunity for medicine and biology.

The Computational Biology Group is at the forefront of this endeavour and is working extremely closely with experimental biologists and clinicians in building realistic and useful models of biological phenomena from the molecular level, to the cellular, tissue, organismal and social levels.

A list of the projects that benefit from Iceberg is as follows:

Computational Systems Biology

  1. Using agent based modelling to investigate foraging strategies and decentralized behaviour of Pharaoh's Ants
  2. Using agent based modelling to investigate sperm transport and navigation in the oviduct.

State-of-the-art speech and language technology

The use of discriminative training techniques in speaker adaptation is a projectrunning on iceberg.

The project is part of a larger project which applies state-of-the-art speech and language technology to the task of recognising spontaneous speech in meetings.

More specifically, it examines the impact of discriminative acoustic model estimation upon the performance of the speech recogniser in this scenario.

For more information visit:
Speech and Hearing Research

Osteoporotic Fracture Risk by Finite Element Analysis of Medical Scans

Osteoporosis-related vertebral and hip fractures are major health problems in the UK. This project aims to develop patient-specific finite element models of the femur and vertebra from the patients´ medical bone scans and apply the models in large clinical studies to assess their ability to estimate the bone strength and to predict of fracture risk.

For further information, see
http://mellanbycentre.dept.shef.ac.uk and
http://www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/nihrbrus/bone-bru.html


Stress Distribution of Finite Element Model of a hip joint

DEEP BORE-HOLES PROJECT

Very deep boreholes are emerging as a safe, secure, environmentally sound and potentially cost effective option for the permanent disposal of high level radioactive waste, including plutonium. Researchers at Sheffield University have been developing a sophisticated numerical model to investigate heat flow
around containers of hot waste in boreholes.

This ongoing project is part of the research undertaken by the collaborative immobilisation science laboratory and has hit the headlines in September 2007.

For further information

Follow the link: Immobilisation Laboratory or Sheffield Immobilisation Group
or contact Neil McTaggart at the Engineering Material Department.

Past Projects

CLEF and CLEF Services - integrating information for the clinical e-Scientist

CLEF aims to develop a high quality, secure and interoperable information repository, derived from operational electronic patient records to enable ethical and user-friendly access to patient information in support of clinical care and biomedical research. CLEF Services is a follow on project rolling out the system developed in CLEF to hospitals and clinical services.

CLEF

MyGrid

The aim of mygrid research at Sheffield is to provide a whole new range of textual services and methods of accessing textual information for the myGrid project. Terminology and relational information is being intelligently extracted from the scientific literature to provide brief templates showing the important points of the papers allowing rapid scanning for useful papers. The extraction of terms and matching of those terms to aliases and abbreviations gives the possibility for a more intelligent method of text searching, taking into account that a single term may be represented in a number of different ways and so discovering information resources that would be missed by more simple string matching systems.

mygrid research at Sheffield

e-Social Science Demonstrator

The aims of this project are:


Collaborative Analysis of Offenders´ Personal and Area-based Social Exclusion

NCESS