David Glasspool

I'm a senior research fellow in the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. My research interests are in the computational architecture of cognitive systems - both intelligent computational systems and human cognition. My current work is in cognitive systems applied in healthcare domains, with particular interests in process modelling and reasoning about consequences of planned actions.

I manage Edinburgh University's collaboration in the COSSAC consortium, a three site cross-disciplinary collaboration in medical applications of cognitive systems research. The research programme is motivated by the need to make medical computer systems more robust and reliable in the face of unpredictable or changing situations, while simultaneously making them easier for people to understand. This implies imbuing them with a degree of intelligence, and two lines of cognitive systems research are particularly relevant to clinical medicine: the flexible, intelligent execution of plans, and the understanding, processing and effective communication of information about uncertainty. I carry out basic and applied research in both of these areas.

Current Projects

COSSAC	COSSAC: An interdisciplinary research collaboration in cognitive science and systems engineering with clinical and biomedical applications. Based in Edinburgh and Oxford Universities and University College London Medical School. COSSAC is funded by
	Safe and Sound: Ensuring that widely distributed knowledge of "best clinical practice" and relevant patient data is available, integrated and focused in a timely, correct, safe and accessible way at the point of care for a patient. A project under the EPSRC "Exploration Studies for Grand Challenges within the Information-Driven Health Initiative" scheme, in collaboration with Oxford University Department of Engineering Science and the Centre for Patient Safety & Service Quality at Imperial College London.
The Domino	The Domino agent architecture proposes a small set of essential building blocks for intelligent behaviour and an outline computational framework for integrating them together.
PROforma II	Flexible object-oriented workflow language. Developing a successor to the PROforma clinical knowledge representation and workflow language. Work with Oxford University Engineering Science Department.
REACT: Decision support for plan manipulation	Developing a care plan for a patient is difficult even for experienced clinicians, but increasingly patients are expected (and expect) to participate. REACT is an argumentation-based planning support system designed to ameliorate the cognitive load imposed by the planning and communication elements of such tasks.

Other projects I'm involved in:

COGENT

A graphical environment for cognitive modelling. COGENT is a flexible computational modelling system within which to develop and explore symbolic and hybrid models of cognitive processes. Work led by Birkbeck, University of London.

I'm a member of:

• Edinburgh University Centre For Intelligent Systems and their Applications
• Edinburgh University Informatics Life-Sciences Institute
• Edinburgh University Agents Group
• University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience