[Nets-seminars] Talk this friday -- note different time GS/302 10th Dec -- 11:30

[Richard G. Clegg]

This friday the talk is not at the usual time but instead between 11:30 
and 12:30.  The speakers are Detlef Nauck and Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan 
from BT.

Self-learning processes and predictive network management

Running BT’s network requires coordinating a large number of processes 
to deliver and maintain services. In BT Research we are looking at how 
we can make these processes as autonomous as possible. In order to do 
this, it is necessary to be able to predict process problems or automate 
network management and pre-empt customer affecting issues before they 
occur. In our research team we are applying different types of machine 
learning methods to discover patterns in data that can help us to 
pre-empt service issues or support decision making. We will present a 
number of projects to illustrate this research.

Detlef Nauck – Short Biography

Professor Dr. Detlef Nauck is a Chief Research Scientist with BT's 
Research and Technology Division located at Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK. 
He is leading a group of international scientists working on Business 
Intelligence, Intelligent Data Analysis and Computational Intelligence. 
He is a Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University and a Private 
Docent at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany. Detlef 
holds a Masters degree in Computer Science (1990) and a PhD in Computer 
Science (1994) both from the University of Braunschweig, Germany.  He 
also holds a Habilitation (post-doctoral degree) in Computer Science 
from the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (2000).

Detlef is an internationally renowned scientist in Computational 
Intelligence and Intelligent Data Analysis and has published eight books 
and more than 110 papers. He has won two BCS medals and he is an 
inventor on 12 patent applications.

Detlef’s current research focuses on deriving intelligence from vast 
amounts of data and applying predictive analytics in different areas of 
business intelligence to support decision making and the automation of 
business processes.

Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan

Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan has graduated with a Distinction from UCL in 
2009 with an MSc in Telecommunications, preceding which she completed 
her BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the same 
university. Vidhya joined BT’s graduate programme in 2009 and is now 
working in BT’s Research and Technology Division. She runs a research 
project on autonomous network management systems and is an inventor on 4 
patent applications.
-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/