QMUL is one of the four large Colleges of the federal University of London, and its Department of Electronic Engineering has achieved prominence in research and teaching. The department is divided into several research groups including the Networks and MultiMedia and Vision (MMV) groups. The Networks Group focuses on intelligent telecommunication services and network performance and has been very active in a range of RACE, ACTS and EU IST FP5 and FP6 and UK science (EPSRC) projects. Recent EU projects include TORRENT, which built a test-bed to demonstrate intelligence in domestic access networks. Other EU projects, such as CRUMPET, SHUFFLE, ADAMANT and SAFEGUARD, have looked at applying agent technology to telecommunications networks and EU projects such as EDEN-IW and AgentCities.RTD have applied agent technology to information system integration problems. QMUL is playing a leading role in directing the IEEE FIPA standards activity on Agents. The Multimedia and Vision (MMV) Research Group at QMUL was formed in September 2000 to conduct research in image, video processing and computer vision. Currently, the MMV Group is coordinating the IST Network of Excellence K-Space and the European COST292 action. The MMV-Group is one of the main contributors and steering member of the FP6 IP projects aceMedia and MESH. The group is also involved in the MPEG-4/7/21 activities and participates in EPSRC supported MMKM network. The MMV Group has been involved in many other related projects in the past few years including the FP5 NoE SCHEMA and the IST projects SAVANT, SAMBITS and BUSMAN

Relevant research activities of Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)

QMUL, with its expertise in intelligent networks, agent technology, semantics and web services and multimedia, will lead the work package W5 on User Access and Personalisation. QMUL will be closely involved in designing, implementing and evaluating a personalised service oriented architecture that can be utilised across a multimedia broadcast network in the My-e-Director 2012 project.