Innovation & Technology Research Laboratory

The Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory is a new Research Space in the Faculty of Information Technology at UTS. We engineer research prototype systems, intelligent software agents, teaching tools, and a wide range of dynamic web applications from Electronic Commerce systems to a National Youth Week microsite, which went live on February 2 and was awarded Second Place in the National Competition.

We like to build things that think! One of our current research projects is Business Robotics. We have several AIBO Robots and recently established a new Robot Soccer Team.

Our other main interests are in Innovation, eBusiness Models and Strategies, eBusiness Agent Technologies, Belief Revision, Knowledge Integration, Interactive Marketing, The Semantic Web, and Software Engineering in complex business environments.

Research Community Websites

We built and host two important research communities websites:

Visitors

We have derived enormous benefit from numerous visiting researchers including:

Who are we?

The lab is home to Mary-Anne Williams, Christopher Stanton and Dallas Marchant. It is also frequented by a number of our Robot Soccer Team Members as well as Alankar Karol, Suku Sinna, and Numi Tran.

Main Software Tools

Java
JavaServer Pages
JACK Intelligent Agents
FLASH (for multimedia web stuff)
XML
Oracle, MiniSQL and MySQL

Research Prototype Software

SATEN the Sagacious Agent for Theory Extraction and revisioN a Java-based Belief Revision Engine implemented with a object-oriented data structure for full first order logic.

ArounD Sat (ADS) a flexible Intelligent Java-based Toolkit driven by a highly efficient SATisfiability engine!

VADER the World's first Java-based Object-Oriented First Order Theorem Prover.

Teaching Software Systems and Tools

Belief Revision Animation- its waycool! Try it!
VADER an Object-Oriented First Order Theorem Prover System
SATEN a Belief Revision System
HADES a Default Logic System

Establishment

The Innovation and Technology Research Labortory recently moved from The University of Newcastle. It was established in July, 1999. It has provided and continues to provide the necessary infrastructure for a number of projects including four funded by Australian Research Council Large Discovery Grants, Industry Grants, and a National Teaching Development Grant.

Location

Location: Building 10 Level 5 Room 285.
Faculty of Information Technology
The University of Technology, Sydney Australia