Two heads are better than one.

Proverb.

There have been a large number of partners, both companies and individuals, with whom I have had an undeniable pleasure to work and collaborate both formally and informally on a number of projects over the years.

Our research group has a strategy of establishing long term collaborative research relationships with major international companies which currently include British Telecommunications plc (telecommunications industry, UK), Lufthansa Systems Berlin GmbH (airline industry, Germany) and Degussa AG (process industry, Germany) who are the main industrial co-sponsors of a number of our research projects.

The group has also collaborated with many other companies which within such large European projects as EUNITE and NiSIS include the co-ordinator of these projects and another of our partners, ELITE Foundation from Germany.

Another aspect of our activities are the Knowledge Transfer projects with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) the example of which are the industrial collaborations within DTI and industry funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership programmes with QGate Software Ltd or Next Control Systems Ltd.

One of my personal and our group's major undertakings in terms of promoting research in Knowledge-based and Intelligent Systems, facilitating fruitful interaction between researchers and establishing research links between CIRG and various centres worldwide is our joint leadership, together with Dr Robert Howlett from the Brighton University and Prof Lakhmi Jain from the University of South Australia, of KES International Research Organisation. KES International is a non-profit organisation which has around 500 members worldwide, and with its organisation of very successful series of conferences regularly attracting over 500 participants (recent KES'2006 conference was hosted in Bournemouth and jointly chaired by Prof Gabrys and Dr Howlett), associated KES journal published by IOS Press and a vibrant international research community have been a source of many collaborative activities.

The list below, which by no means is complete, is just an acknowledgement of the people with whom I have had pleasure to be involved in various research, business and academic activities.

I like the ones who have and continue to argue with me about some obscure detail on regular basis almost as much as those who are prepared to sponsor my curiosity called research without too much of an argument.

So if you are interested in collaborating with us either because you are curious about the things we do or it could greatly benefit your company or business we are always happy to talk and constantly looking for new inspirations and challenges.

Industrial collaborators

Academic collaborators