Robert Kukla
Robert Kukla

Dr Robert Kukla

Senior Research Fellow

Biography

Dr. Robert Kukla has considerable experience in developing database and knowledge base technologies on EPSRC and EU grants. He was a Research Fellow on SEEK and developer of the taxonomic concept schema (TCS) which has been ratified as a TDWG standard. He undertook a feasibility study for TDWG on the development of a core ontology for taxonomic data and investigated issues in converting an existing taxonomic data resource to employ the ontology and LSIDS.

In addition to his research activities, he maintains and further develops the University’s Research Management system and related web site where he has gained significant hands-on experience with the day-to-day running of production systems and implementing state-of-the–art web technology including visualization tools.

In 2007-2009, he worked on a Proof of Concept project “MATSE: Information Visualisation of Microarray Time-course Data”, to develop high quality interactive visualisation software for the analysis of microarray time-course data. The results of which were published widely.

He is actively engaging with small and medium sized companies in knowledge transfer projects (KTP and SFC IV). Recent examples include working with Scottish Woodlands, Plansafe Ltd and Highland Archaeology Services Ltd as well as NHS Lothian and Standard Life.

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A standard data model representation for taxonomic information.

Journal Article
Kennedy, J., Hyam, R., Kukla, R., & Paterson, T. (2006)
A standard data model representation for taxonomic information. OMICS, 10, 220-230. doi:10.1089/omi.2006.10.220
The names used by biologists to label the observations they make are imprecise. This is an issue as workers increasingly seek to exploit data gathered from multiple, unrelated...

A comparison of video and infrared based tracking of pedestrian movements.

Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J., Kukla, R., Willis, A., Armitage, A., Binnie, D., & Lei, L. (2005)
A comparison of video and infrared based tracking of pedestrian movements. In S. P. Hoogendoom, S. Luding, P. H. L. Bovy, M. Schreckenberg, & D. E. Wolf (Eds.), Traffic and granular flow 03, 383-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28091-X_37
We provide a comparison of the relative merits of video and infrared based methods for collecting pedestrian movements from the real world and also from experimental environme...

Scientific names are ambiguous as identifiers for biological taxa: their context and definition are required for accurate data integration

Conference Proceeding
Kennedy, J., Kukla, R., & Paterson, T. (2005)
Scientific names are ambiguous as identifiers for biological taxa: their context and definition are required for accurate data integration. In B. Ludaescher, & L. Raschid (Eds.), Data Integration in the Life Sciences, 80-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/11530084_8
Biologists use scientific names to label the organisms described in their data; however, these names are not unique identifiers for taxonomic entities. Alternative taxonomic c...

Human movement behaviour in urban spaces: Implications for the design and modelling of effective pedestrian environments.

Journal Article
Willis, A., Gjersoe, N., Havard, C., Kerridge, J. & Kukla, R. (2004)
Human movement behaviour in urban spaces: Implications for the design and modelling of effective pedestrian environments. Environment and planning. B, Planning & design. 31, 805-828. doi:10.1068/b3060. ISSN 1472-3417
Despite a burgeoning research effort directed at the design and modelling of effective urban spaces for pedestrians, remarkably little is known about how pedestrians actually ...

Laying the foundations: the use of video footage to explore pedestrian dynamics in PEDFLOW

Book Chapter
Willis, A., Kukla, R., Kerridge, J., & Hine, J. (2002)
Laying the foundations: the use of video footage to explore pedestrian dynamics in PEDFLOW. In M. Schreckenberg, & S. Sharma (Eds.), Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (181-186). Springer
This paper is concerned with how video footage of pedestrian activity in various urban environments can be used to inform the development of PEDFLOW - a microscopic, agent-bas...

PEDFLOW: development of an autonomous agent model of pedestrian flow.

Journal Article
Kukla, R., Kerridge, J., Willis, A. & Hine, J. (2001)
PEDFLOW: development of an autonomous agent model of pedestrian flow. Transportation research record. 1774, 11-17. doi:10.3141/1774-02. ISSN 0361-1981
The paper discusses the need for an autonomous agent approach for the modeling of pedestrians in urban environments and places PEDFLOW in the context of existing models. PEDFL...

Developing the behavioural rules for an agent-based model of pedestrian movement.

Presentation / Conference
Willis, A., Kukla, R., & Kerridge, J. (2000, September)
Developing the behavioural rules for an agent-based model of pedestrian movement. Paper presented at 25th European Transport Congress, Cambridge, UK
The PEDFLOW project aims to develop a realistic and flexible planning tool capable of simulating the effects of microscopic environmental layout on various aspects of pedestri...

Intelligent storage devices for scalable information management systems

Journal Article
Kukla, R., & Kerridge, J. (1997)
Intelligent storage devices for scalable information management systems. Future Generation Computer Systems, 12(5), 335-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-739X%2896%2900020-9
For most large commercial organisations the ability to store and manipulate massive volumes of data is a key operational requirement. Database systems are fundamental to the e...

Intelligent storage devices for scalable information management systems.

Conference Proceeding
Kukla, R., & Kerridge, J. (1996)
Intelligent storage devices for scalable information management systems. In H. Liddell, A. Colebrook, B. Hertzberger, & P. Sloot (Eds.), High-Performance Computing and Networking. , (683-688). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_614
For most large commercial organisations the ability to store and manipulate massive volumes of data is a key operational requirement. Database systems are now fundamental to t...

A plug-in disk-Interface-process for the WSQL data access controller.

Conference Proceeding
Kerridge, J., & Kukla, R. (1995)
A plug-in disk-Interface-process for the WSQL data access controller. In B. C. O'Neill (Ed.), Proceeding WoTUG '96 Proceedings of the 19th world occam and transputer user group technical meeting on Parallel processing developments, 75-88
As part of the development of a disk based storage subsystem for a database machine, a disk interface process has been designed, exploiting parallel processing features of the...

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