Dr Robert Kukla
Senior Research Fellow
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.
More recently he created a knowledge base system for the Framework 6 REORIENT project and worked on the MATSE project to visualize large micro-array datasets.
Areas of Expertise 
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Data and information are key assets for modern business. Large complex and incomplete datasets are common in industry. Exploiting that data successfully can give a major competitive advantage while, if it is not managed successfully, its value is often lost.
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The institute's expertise in software engineering encompasses the entire development lifecycle, and we focus on the approaches and tools to improve the engineering process of both emerging and widely used software systems. Increasing the productivity and improving the quality of software remains a...
Contact
r.kukla@napier.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 455 2738
Room C51
Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Recent Projects
Scottish Woodlands Ltd is Scotland's leading independent full-service forest management company. It is also the second largest operator in the UK, with a network of 17 offices operating throughout Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
VDS holds data of varying quality on volunteering opportunities, volunteer involving organisations, research, services and learning using a variety of different systems. The aim of this project is to help develop an integrated, future-proof solution.
Recent Publications
Craig, P., Cannon, A., Kukla, R., Kennedy, J. (2013). MaTSE: the gene expression time-series explorer. BMC Bioinformatics.
Craig, P., Cannon, A., Kukla, R., Kennedy, J. (2012). MaTSE: The Microarray Time-Series Explorer. In: Roerdink, J., Hibbs, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis), 2012 . (pp. 41-48). IEEE.
Craig, P., Kennedy, J., Kukla, R., Cannon, A. (2010). Pattern Browsing and Query Adjustment for the Exploratory Analysis and Cooperative Visualisation of Microarray Time-course Data. In: Luo, Y. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualisation and Engineering, 6240/2010. (pp. 199-206). Mallorca, Spain: Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
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