Computer Science project at the International Review on e-Science
Date Added: 2nd December 2009
The Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment (DAME) project will be part of the International Review of e-Science in December.
The International Review on e-Science is taking place at the All Hands Meeting 2009 in Oxford in December. The All Hands Meeting has become the annual event where computational scientists and technologists can come together to share, discuss and advance the exciting research that has grown out of the e-Science Programme.
This year's meeting coexists with the IEEE e-Science meeting, bringing the UK community together with the international leaders in e-Science. AHM 2009 is also the central venue for the RCUK Review on e-Science. This will showcase the activities of the e-Science programme and the community it has created.
The Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment (DAME) project, a collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, York and Oxford, and Rolls-Royce, is an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded e-Science project. The project was led by York and completed in 2004 and the results from this review will influence future funding programs in EPSRC.
DAME demonstrated how Grid technology could facilitate the design and development of decision support systems for diagnosis and maintenance of Aero engines, in which geographically distributed resources, actors and data are combined within a virtual organisation. A proof of concept demonstrator was built around the business scenario of a distributed aircraft engine maintenance environment, motivated by the needs of Rolls-Royce and its information system partner Data Systems and Solutions. This work has gone on to be very successfully applied in rail, power generation and transport by Cybula Ltd., the University spin off set up by Professor Jim Austin, from the Department of Computer Science.
The review will also look at work in the White Rose Grid and eScience centre, a collaboration between York, Sheffield and Leeds supporting grid and distributed computing. For more information about the Review on e-Science, please visit www.allhands.org.uk and for more information about the DAME project, please visit www.cs.york.ac.uk/dame. For information about Cybula, please visit www.cybula.com.