ITA (Project)
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| International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science | |
| type | Sponsored Project |
| status | active |
| homepage | http://www.usukita.org/ |
| Management | |
| sponsor | US Army Research Laboratory,UK Ministry of Defence |
| team | Tetherless World Constellation |
| investigator | James A. Hendler |
| participant | Jie Bao |
| Tags | |
| Internal | |
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Overview
The International Technology Alliance (ITA) is a research program initiated by the UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) (MoD) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The research program is intended to run for 10 years. Its full name is United States/United Kingdom International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences.
The program is a combination of country-specific research programs that were run by ARL and MoD respectively. The ARL ran several programs called Collaborative Technology Alliances (CTAs) and the MoD ran equivalent programs. The CTAs programs are run for the duration of 3-5 years, and usually involved a consortium of industrial research laboratories and Universities to team together to solve research problems in a specific domain.
The International Technology Alliance differs from the CTAs primarily in the fact that its scope is international, and spans two countries, the United States and the United Kingdom. Thus, the alliance consists of researchers from ARL and MoD working together with several UK and US based industries and Universities to solve several fundamental research problems.
ITA is focused on performing research in four technical areas (i) network theory focusing on wireless and sensor networks (ii) security across systems of systems focusing of solving security issues that arise when two different networks need to interoperate (iii) sensor information processing and delivery focusing on issues involving sensor network information management and (iv) distributed decision making and coalition planning focusing on how humans from different countries use the network to make informed decisions.
The research work in ITA is fundamental in nature, and the goal is to perform public domain research by means of published papers. The restriction of research to fundamental research was done in order to avoid running into any issues related to ITAR which often arise in work focused on or sponsored by the armed forces of a country.
The ITA group established in 2006 consists of 24 members from US and UK industries and Universities (in addition to the ARL and MoD), and is led by IBM Research.
For more information about ITA, please refer to
- Alun D. Preece,Winston R. Sieck. (2007) The International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences. In IEEE Intelligent Systems, 22(5):18-19, 2007. (Download)
- Greg Cirincione,Jay Gowens. (2007) The International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science A U.S.-U.K. Collaborative Venture. In IEEE Communications Magazine, 45(3):14-18, 2007. (Download)
Recent Activities
BPP 09 (May 2009- May 2011)
BPP 07 (May 2007- May 2009)
- RPI Visit, UK partners, Jan 5-9
TW Publication Related to ITA
- Jie Bao,Paul R. Smart,Dave Braines,Gareth Jones,Nigel R. Shadbolt. (2009) A Controlled Natural Language Interface for Semantic Media Wiki. In 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance, pp. (Electronic Publication), 2009. (Download)
- Jie Bao,Paul R. Smart,Dave Braines,Nigel R. Shadbolt. (2009) A Controlled Natural Language Interface for Semantic Media Wiki Using the Rabbit Language. In CNL, pp. In Process, 2009. (Download)
- Dave Braines,Yannis Kalfoglou,Paul R. Smart,Nigel R. Shadbolt,Jie Bao. (2008) A Data-Intensive Lightweight Semantic Wrapper Approach to Aid Information Integration. In Fourth International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies (C&O-2008), , 2008. (Download)
- Dave Braines,Yannis Kalfoglou,Paul R. Smart,Jie Bao,Nigel R. Shadbolt,James A. Hendler. (2008) Semantic Web techniques to support Interoperability in Distributed Networked Environments. In Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance, pp. 223-230, 2008. (Download)
- Paul R. Smart,Alistair Russell,Dave Braines,Yannis Kalfoglou,Jie Bao,Nigel R. Shadbolt. (2008) A Visual Approach to Semantic Query Design Using a Web-Based Graphical Query Designer. In EKAW, pp. 275-291, 2008. (Download)
