Defence Academic Pathways - Validation and verification of intelligent systems

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PraxisUnico is working with the Defence Academic Pathways (DAP) group on this free event for the research community to explore research needs in the validation and verification of intelligent systems.

 

This event is currently full, if you would like to be added to the waiting list please contact nicky.warnock@praxisunico.org.uk

Intelligent systems may offer great benefits in being able to adapt to a changing environment and offer complex, rapid decision making made beyond human reach. Research into intelligent systems is needed to enable and improve confidence in their safe and secure employment in the public space. There is a clear need to ensure that intelligent systems will operate as expected, exhibit desirable behaviours and deliver the required outcomes in rapidly changing environments.

This workshop hopes to identify those future research themes required for the correct validation and verification of intelligent systems whilst ensuring that potentially autonomous behaviour remains under human control, and will employ a number of scenarios where the use of an intelligent system or groups of intelligent systems would provide value. Breakout groups will explore each scenario to determine the evidence required to sufficiently validate and verify safe and secure intelligent systems. 

The workshop aims and objectives are;

  • To understand the validation and verification challenges raised by each scenario.
  • To determine the research themes required to meet these validation and verification challenges.  
  • To inform legislative bodies on any necessary verification and validation solutions to ensure safe and secure employment of intelligent systems.
  • To provide a forum that can be used to strengthen research applications submitted to the EPSRC via the Standard Mode.

DAP is a partnership directed by Dstl and includes major industrial partners BAE Systems, GE, MBDA, Leonardo UK, NPL, QinetiQ and Thales, together with representatives from EPSRC, Innovate UK and a University liaison advisor. 

The DAP partnership represents a significant number of the 15 most frequently cited companies from the Research Excellence Framework (REF) impact case study analysis and the data on collaborative projects compiled by the Dowling Review. The companies represented by DAP have a proven track record for effective university-business collaboration; DAP was created to facilitate this process through e.g. assigning IP rights arising from collaborations to the university partner as standard.

This event, supported by DAP, is free of charge, and will feature workshops to explore research needs in the validation and verification of intelligent systems. The event will take place at the UK's technology and innovation centre for intelligent mobility, the Transport Systems Catapult on Thursday 8 September 2016.

Who should attend and why:

The workshop should be attended by research professionals involved with intelligent systems, machine learning, robotics, or the validation and verification of software systems. The intention of this workshop is to scrutinise potential exploitation paths to support the definition of future research themes. For further information please contact DAP@mail.dstl.gov.uk

Event details

Registration: 09.30 – 10:00
Welcome: 10.00
Close: 17.00

Venue and car parking

For further details about, and directions to the Transport Systems Catapult click here

Address: The Pinnacle, 170 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes, MK9 1BP.  Telephone 01908 359999.

The venue is a short walk (approx. 10 minutes) from Milton Keynes Central railway station.

Please note that there is no car parking at the venue, all surrounding areas are pay and display - please allow adequate time to find a car parking space.  Please click here for further details of parking charges.

Accommodation

For details of accommodation in the local area click here.

When
8 September 2016 from  9:30 AM to  5:00 PM
Location
170 Midsummer Boulevard
Milton Keynes, MK9-1NE
United Kingdom
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Phone: 01223 659958
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