Bio-renewable Formulation Information and Knowledge Management System

创新的信息和通信技术可以在许多创新过程中发挥关键作用，但它的潜力并不总是在许多行业得到开发。在化学品使用行业中，创新的一条途径是开发材料，否则这些材料将被当前制造过程中的废物流所损失。这不仅在实现制造的额外价值方面很有趣，而且在减少对不可持续的材料来源的利用以及开发具有新应用效益的新型功能材料的新原料方面也是有趣的。该项目将开发一个基于高度创新的信息技术的信息系统，能够快速识别原料和功能材料的机会，并展示其在快速发现生物衍生表面活性物质方面的价值。取得的关键进展将是大规模信息分析和挖掘的自动化，以及多标准优化算法的开发，以从非常大量的可能选择中确定创新的候选材料

Innovative ICT can play a crucial role in many innovation processes, but its potential is not always exploited in many industries. A route to innovation in chemical using industries is the exploitation of materials in what would otherwise be lost to waste streams from current manufacturing processes. This is interesting both in terms of realising additional value from manufacturing, but also in reduced utilisation of unsustainable material sources and exploitation of novel feedstocks for novel functional materials with new application benefits. This project will develop an information system based on highly innovative information technologies with the capability to rapidly identify the feedstock and functional material opportunities, and demonstrate its value in rapid bio-derived surfactant discovery. The key advances made will be in automation of large scale information analysis and mining, and in development of many-criteria optimisation algorithms to pin point innovative candidate materials from the very large numbers of possible options