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Research and Knowledge Transfer Priority Areas
   
   
 

Computers are all around us supporting every aspect of our lives. They have transformed the ways in which we work, shop, travel, learn, socialise and play. They help us plan, schedule and manage many aspects of modern living. How computers are used to help us live in an increasingly digital world is a fundamental challenge for the 21st century.

Operations in a Digital World is a University-wide multidisciplinary Priority Area exploring how computers can be used to improve:

  • how we live
  • how we might understand and experience an increasing digital world

It combines research groupings in the areas of:

  • scheduling and optimisation
  • ubiquitous computing
  • intelligent modelling, sensing, and positioning
  • geospatial science

The span of researchers allows us to reason all the way from sensors to society in our digital age.

Many of the members of this Priority Area are directly involved in critical mass research initiatives at Nottingham including the LANCS initiative and the Horizon Institute.

The LANCS initiative

The LANCS initiative is a £13 million enterprise, involving the University of Nottingham, to build and maintain national research capacity in foundational Operational Research.

Horizon

Horizon is a £45M initiative focusing on digital economy research at the University of Nottingham.

Key academic leads

 

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